"Make friends with my daughter, and I'll pay you a thousand dollars." Tara's junior year of high school is turned upside down after she collides into the life of Aurora Rosenberg, the autistic teenage heiress to Rosenberg Technologies. Mr. Rosenberg's offer feels wrong... but he says his daughter has no real friends, and Tara's family is desperate for cash. Now what? Tara needs to make this work. It doesn't matter that her best friend moved away. Or that she may lose her house. Or that her other friends no longer like her. Oh, yes: and there's a cute boy involved. And the mystery of why Aurora's dad is so desperate to buy her a friend, when Aurora is hardly a social pariah... As Tara watches pieces of her life fall apart, and new things come together, she must figure out what she values most. Notes: Rated mild PG-13. The discussion space is meant to be friendly and safe for minors. Hate towards people with disabilities, any letter in the LGBTQIAPN+ community, or other groups isn't welcome.

Book Two of the Unbroken series, in which disabled/autistic/neurodivergent people tell about our relationships from OUR point of view. This book will be essays. If you want to contribute, please email me at elizabethroderick [at] att [dot] net

There are a lot of stories out there about autistic people, mentally ill people, and disabled people...but very little of it is written from OUR point of view. We always hear from our parents and exes how unmanageable we are, how toxic, how annoying. They smirk over our oddities and delight in laying our private lives bare in a way that shows what martyrs they are for having to put up with us. There are very few romances about us, and even fewer that show the depth and joy of our relationships. These are true stories of our happily-ever-afters, of our loving families, of our complex friendships. These are windows into the difficulties we face trying to connect with others, express our feelings. This is our chance to tell these stories from OUR point of view-as the ones who are different, who don't know how to act "right", who do things that people see as odd and annoying. If you want to contribute to this anthology, please contact me at elizabethroderick [at] att [dot] net. We accept narrative nonfiction, essays, poetry, graphic novels...anything that shows our relationships from OUR point of view. I will I think be doing this as a series of different stories, so that each person can do more than one chapter if they like, and keep adding to it if they like. I think that will make it easier to read than making each person's piece a different chapter. So, this first book will be my own story.

Living in Justin Flaherty's mind has never been easy. Unfortunately, things are about to get much worse... At eighteen years old, most guys are chasing girls or dreams. Justin, on the other hand, wants to draw and be left alone. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but it's more than that. He's in tune with the Dark Energy that surrounds us all, and can see how it controls people's actions. Sometimes, the Dark Energy will give him visions, to help him on the road to enlightenment. When his mother hooks up with a Baptist preacher named David who believes Justin's schizophrenia can be cured with prayer, Justin knows he has to get out-or risk involuntary commitment in a religious facility. After a brush with incarceration, Justin takes off to San Francisco, where his drawings are not just noticed, but admired... Justin's bizarre and beautiful drawings create a stir in the art world. Meanwhile, he's homeless, couch surfing, and trapped in a continuous battle with his mental illness. His salvation is a girl named Liria Czetski with a shady past. They'd met a year ago, and she's appeared in his visions ever since. It turns out Liria has been sharing those visions, something that is a surprise to everyone but Justin... When secrets surface, Justin is forced to realize that being a genius has a downside. Surrounded by people who want to exploit his talent, he must fight not only for his career and freedom, but perhaps for his life... AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Other-Place-Elizabeth-Roderick-ebook/dp/B01HFH6WJ8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1467816567&sr=8-3&keywords=elizabeth+roderick

"Night, Forgotten" is available everywhere books are sold (W by Wattpad Books, 2022). As a Wattpad reader, you can access the Wattpad Original Edition for free and Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase. Thank you so much for your support! Go get your copy of "Night, Forgotten" anywhere books are sold and be sure to tell me whether you guessed the twist! No spoilers 🤫 ***** A desperate new mother can't remember the most violent night of her life - but she must confront the truth about the ghosts that have haunted her ever since. This is Version 2, with new characters and plot reveals inspired by Wattpad readers' comments and questions about Version 1 (posted during #NaNoWriMo 2017). The original version is still up on Wattpad, so if you're one of the folks who read it as I wrote it, you can compare how your feedback has changed the structure and content in this updated version.

Bibliophile - a person who collects or has a great love of books. * * * * Nicholas loves to read. It is his passion, his source of air, his world. He'd lose himself among the pages of an alternate reality. It is his daily routine, so getting a job at the library is the next best thing. The problem? Well, Nicholas doesn't know except for the fact that he's never happy. Without books, he'd never feel anything. That is until one fateful day he meets a girl who is willing to show him what it really feels like to be happy. Not just any girl, but a fandom obsessed Muslim girl. (Book One in the Bookworms Duology, but can be read as a stand alone) •Cover made by @soundthealarm• [Highest ranking: #2 in Spiritual]

When Aaliyah meets a handsome stranger at a coffee shop, the two go out for dinner and have a lovely time. Fast forward few months later, Aaliyah is in a happy relationship with Min-Joon. She believes she knows everything about him until an unfortunate event occurs where he is forced to reveal a part of himself he was trying to keep from her. He was an assassin Follow the two as they try to survive a hidden attacker focused on taking away Min's main source of happiness, Aaliyah, while trying to make their relationship work.

Ri is faced with an impossible demand- to get a thousand gold pieces before summer's end. It won't be easy but luckily he meets a mysterious huntress named Jolana- who is in fact a banished princess- and others like five killing machine brothers, a man stuck in a deer's body, and a master thief with an untrained mage- set out to kill a blabber mouth Dragon and take all its gold. Their tale is far from original, however, also far from typical. *** Under rewrite. Updates every Sunday. Start:feb.2018. Highest rank: #7 malemaincharacter ☆ RUNNER UP on The Creativity Awards 2019 ☆ THIRD PLACE on The Talent Awards 2019

❛ A BLACK WIDOW DOES NOT FAIL. ❜ | How does one find a balance between finding yourself and being who everyone wants you to be at the same time? Freya Knight, one of the infamous girls from the Red Room, was about to figure that out. UNEDITED/VERY OLD. ® LOKIDYINGINSIDE 2017. FEATURED IN FANFICTION 05/12/17.

🏆Wattys 2019 Winner for Mystery & Thriller🏆 Sister Mary has lost her way, or so people think. Kicked out of her convent and sent away to be reformed, this jolly nun discovers her gift of glee is perfect for solving murders and the occasional naughty peek. ________________________________________ Merry Sister Mary is the world's most happy-go-lucky nun, and where the nuns are concerned, possibly the worst. She has none of the qualities reserved for a traditional lady of the cloth: a fear of water, an odd relationship with an umbrella, and no talent in teaching or nursing, yet Sister Mary believes she has a special God given power, laughter. Such a belief has led her to be kicked out of her convent in Chicago for accidentally flashing a group of churchgoers and deemed in desperate need of reform. She is sent on a bus to a stricter convent in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in a drama fueled twist, God has different plans for the joyous nun. She is to solve a murder. After missing the bus Sister Mary is forced to seek refuge with a Catholic family in the small town of St. Francisville. A horrific murder occurs sending the town into a frenzy of bittersweet joy. The person killed has long been despised and so named the Stanton Witch for the mystery surrounding her husband's death and the decades of misfortune since her arrival. In an effort to expose the truth, Sister Mary finds herself in the middle of one family's terrible and insidious secret. As the bodies pile up she uses her gift of glee to uncover the clues missed by the police and hopefully stop the killer from claiming another innocent victim. Her goal-- prove to the world once and for all that one does not need to be traditional to make a difference. Comedy ■ Mystery ■ Thriller [COMPLETED] Copyright © Jules Haigler No parts of this book may be distributed, copied, or sold on any media without permission of the author. All names, places, and themes are a work of fiction.