Twelve of the most dynamic and engaging YA authors writing today team up for this one-of-a-kind collection of he said/she said stories - he tells it from the guy's point of view and she tells it from the girl's. These stories of love and heartbreak teach us that relationships become complicated because there are two s...
"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." ~1 Peter 3:3-4 "Tu es belle, ma chère, tant à l'intérieu...
"Thanks..." I mumbled. "For what?" Lucas asked, staring at me; with his eyebrows furrowed. "For being a good person. There are not a lot of people out there like that." I told him, referring to mostly everyone at school. "Of course there are, Macey. You're just not looking in the right place." ---- Macey Owens isn't...
"alice?" he whispered, his voice nervous. "yeah?" she replied absent mindedly, stirring the coffee in the dark red cup with her spoon. "i love you," he said. an uncomfortable silence filled the air. "i love you, alice," he repeated, looking at her. her head was bent as she spooned the cream and only strands of her gin...
"I had never thought in a million years that a boy who used to hate me, who used to make me cry, who used to play tricks on me could possibly make me fall in love with him.." Saydie was only four when Ethan started playing tricks on her: purposely spilling his chocolate drink on her white dress, giving her a slimy liz...
A girl trapped in a basement for 10 years after being kidnapped. When she finally makes her great escape, she looks for her family. Clueless of where she is, only knowing where she came from. She finds Jesse on the way, some type of bad boy, Gypsy type. A great adventure is on it's way. Especially with her chicken, C...
With summer just around the corner, Coraline's prepared for another busy tourist season at her family's hotel. What she's not expecting, however, is England's hottest up-and-coming music sensation, Leon McCarthy, showing up at the check-in desk.
After recovering from a recent breakup, like any other teenager, Lena wishes with her whole heart that anything (or everything) would change. They always say to watch what to you wish for because suddenly, Lena is thrust into Andrew's world. Andrew, who is your typical bad boy - you know the type - he's the kind of bo...
❝oh, to go to london and fall in love with an english boy.❞ [the name amelia + red hair] x certain cities + [english names / romance] = 31 days of amelia written in participation of the [im]perfection dare, by beyoutiful1D may twenty sixth; short story number seven (that's on the bottom of the first page); romance num...
In an effort to live a bolder and braver life, Everly Rowan begins following the "10 Easy Steps of the Morris Method of Creative Risk-taking". Over the next few weeks she visits a karaoke bar, a punk hairstylist, a bible-thumping church, and a skydiving drop zone. She breaks off her engagement to her fiance, clobbers...
"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." Meet Anabelle, an inept overachiever. She's got the rest of her life carefully planned out. Get a high school diploma, get enough money from The Smokestall to go to college, and finally - get out of Milwaukee. Everything was going faultlessly, until he came into to...
Madeline had one purpose that day. Go into Hale Industries, speak to hot shot billionaire Blaine Hale, and get her scholarship back. Her plans went downhill fast after she sneaks into his office and gets kicked out by Blaine Hale himself, who doesn't plan to deal with a problem as insignificant as hers. Blaine Hale in...
She was always in love with the boy across the street. [OLD VERSION. Currently editing.]
Brookelyn Winters and Ashton Patterson are two people that should not be together, but yet they're perfect for each other. They become the deadliest couple in school Follow them and their crazy antics with slime, creepy dolls, jelly beans, and much more.
WILL BE TAKEN DOWN Harmony Adler has finally entered grade 12 but in a new school, in a new area. She moved all the way from West Virginia to Pennsylvania with her dad after her parent’s divorce. Harmony was an outcast; a shy and typical girl was what everyone thought of her. She didn’t have interests in making new fr...
An old piano, a guitar named Nigel, a run away girl and a flame haired singer/songwriter meet unexpectedly in a music shop one chilly December evening.
{Watty Awards 2013 Winner} This is simply a story about a lonely girl who finds love. I was inspired to write this because I wanted to know that there are good things that happen to invisible girls like me. I wanted to write Hope for those who seem hopeless. • • • In March of 2013, Letters was #1 in the short story ca...
"Do you want to talk? You know, about everything?" Evan asks. He's staring up at the star-covered sky as he holds our brown bag of French fries. I finish my sip of my vanilla milkshake despite not wanting to stop and follow his gaze. The stars twinkle against the black and wish I had brought my camera. Somehow I thou...
For Spencer, the rain changes things. It changes your mood, it mix up your feelings and possibly, your future. Maybe that’s why she just loves taking a long walk under the rain—hoping it would bring her father back. But when a stranger hits her bike while she's delivering milks to every household, things change...
“Her voice was the soundtrack of my summer.” Singer and song-writer, Troy Brooks only has two months to create a new album. So he goes to the place his inspiration peaked for his first album; Amber City. He just didn't expect his motivation to be a girl that lived there rather than the city itself. Cover by @IsaSecret
As her senior year begins, Leah has changed, but no one is sure if it is for the better. According to their loved ones, her relationship with her boyfriend is apparently unhealthy. The only thing that their friends and family can do is force them to stay apart. But you can't keep these two away from each other that ea...
Whether it's at home or at school, Eva Lynch is an outcast. Between her abusive and alcoholic mother and dealing with the typical problems of a teenage girl, Eva struggles with adopting her personality and sexuality too - suicide seems like the only option left, but things don't end the way she plans and soon her pers...
[slow updates] Kyle Collins and Cloelia (preferably be called Clo) Bennett have been best friends ever since Kyle gave Clo a purple crayon in kindergarten. And just like any girl and guy that ended up as best friends, Kyle falls in love with her in their sophomore year. But Kyle never confessed to Clo, afraid of being...
aposiopesis [pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; classical greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent"] is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue. james attello is very good at r...
It's no secret that high school is a challenge, especially when you're a misfit like Miley Walker was. For Miley those school days were spent in a sea of bullying and teasing - nothing out of the ordinary for such an unusual girl. Until he showed up. Lucas Wilson was never the most popular guy in school, or the most...
for as long as anna can remember, every song she has listened to has been overlaid with the voice of boy next door, tobias. in the car, if katy perry was singing firework, toby was too. if the fray was blasting from anna's headphones, she could see toby mouthing the words. but when toby disappears one day without a t...
Aria has always laid low in school with her tight-knit group of friends. When she meets Nash at a party, he's rude, he's blunt, and he's got more baggage than he can carry. Aria immediately dislikes him. But the line between hate and love is very thin, and a continuous game of Never Have I Ever may change everything.
Avery Quinton is a rebel. So when she gets expelled from her fourth boarding school her parents decide it's time to fly her home. Trent Ashton isn't normal. He's rude, conceited and selfish. And according to Avery, he has one too many secrets. They both get on a plane to Manhattan, only, the flight never makes it. No...
