"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 thought that bringing it on our maybe-maybe-not date wasn't appropriate. "I don't know," I smile, "everything seems like a lot of talking." Alabama Reed has fooled herself into thinking that this could work and she knows it. With an accident she's trying to downplay and a loss she can't seem to forget, things aren't looking good. So Bam's parents do the only thing they can think of; they take their daughter and drive her halfway across the country to sleepy Mermaid Bay to live in an empty cottage for the summer. Things quickly start looking up when Bam realizes the newspapers don't cover news that happens hours away, but as soon as she starts making friends and secrets of her past start unraveling, Bam finds out that you can't always run from your past - even if you actually run away. Spiritual #18 May 16th, 2013

❝We shouldn't try to figure out every single thing in the world. Why does this happen, how does it happen? Why can't we just be content with being? Instead, the way our eye perceives color is explained, and how Earth was first formed, and everything. We fill ourselves with knowledge so much that something has to be emptied in order to make room for knowledge. So, our soul is poured out. Our appreciation for natural things are gone, thrown away. Our thirst for knowledge overcomes us. The world is a perplexity, let it stay like that. It's more beautiful that way.❞ We were made to live, not to observe. Marley Aspen knows first-hand what it's like to just get by, but to live, that's far out of her reach. Well, that is until befriending the new-girl, Sierra Ryder, shows her how to. But in unexpected twists and turns, Marley learns there is always more underneath the surface, and she gets more than she bargained for. Cover by: @leena-j

Rae Ellington is an average teenage girl, with outstanding grades, professional artists as parents and a loving home. Until one day in her junior year of high school, her whole world comes crashing down when her mom is diagnosed with breast cancer. Melissa's worst nightmare is for her daughter to see her suffering, so Rae is forced to leave her life in Washington behind to move across the States to live with her Uncle Rob, his wife, Claire and her obnoxious cousin, Liliana, in Atlanta. In the midst of her hectic life, Rae soon finds herself deeply infatuated with a guy she knows she can never be with and the hard exterior that she puts up rapidly begins to crumble. It's not long before she learns that twisted love is a rocky road. Cover by @MeowTheCatSays Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Copyright © Topsy Adams. Highest ranking: #17 teen fiction. #24 in teen humour.

Jennifer "Jenny" Russell never considered herself as special. She - and everybody else - considered as a nerd, outcast, nobody, and several other hurtful but true names. Then, as she keeps a journal, she slowly realizes that she is indeed truly special in her own unique way.

"When he first heard her, he knew. She was his bestseller." Before there were great stories, there were only words. Luke's were smart and eloquent but hollow. It was nothing like Emma's story, bleak and awkward, but honest to a fault. This is a coming-of-age journey of a writing prodigy in search of a story, his story, and a doe-eyed, homeless storyteller stifled by secrets, her secrets .

M., a college sophomore, is haunted by the events of a year ago that ended another girl's life. In an attempt to clear her conscience, she writes her confession down in a battered notebook addressed to a stranger. This search for redemption is far more painful than she ever imagined, and she struggles to cope with her grief and guilt. As M. spirals deeper into herself, she must ask what the cost of absolution is...and if she's still willing to pay it. [ Wattpad featured story | cover by MayTijssen ]

(Completed) Mary's always been a little odd. The type of odd that suffers from verbal diarrhea, perpetual lateness, and chooses to become a dental student instead of going into business like everyone else. Enter Oliver, the boy with the hipster glasses who works in a tech repair shop and never said enough to even be considered odd. One boy, one girl, and one crazy online campaign- so crazy, it might actually work. That is, until it starts to have a major impact on the rest of their lives, and everything sort of spirals out of control. Their goal? Just to change the face of the world. Literally. I own everything, all rights go to me blah blah blah you've heard it all before just don't take my story and everybody is happy, okay? Full playlist available on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/user/michaelaa742/playlist/0QIYOVE5C6eBh28x98tM4r or search michaelaa742 and it's titled TIOS

A life-long friendship. A blossoming romance. Instant fame. Pick one.

"You never know what you have until you lose it..." "Giving up destroys you." :c: ||Alysha was on the brink of destruction; she was about to explode. What she wanted was to leave the shrapnel behind; leaving scars for those that broke her heart, that drove her insane. Elyes tried his best to make sure that she understood that he wanted her in his life, in his future. But she didn't believe him. And she did the one thing that he hated... She gave up.||

No one stays the same forever. That's a lesson that Zoey Newman knew very well. After being falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit, Zoe comes out a different person. Someone who doesn't believe in happy endings and Prince Charming's. Forced to return to the place where it all started, Zoe must confront her past demons if she wants a chance to move on. Thomas Morgan was just a regular brown-haired boy with a hidden smile. Seemingly ordinary, no one looked past his brooding personality to see that he might just be suffering too. When Thomas and Zoey meet each other by chance, they learn things that could change their lives forever. With time, it may be possible for them to cure each others sadness. Maybe, just maybe, they'll realize that you don't have to fake happiness to survive. You just have to have the right person. highest rank- #148 (4/29/16) |Completed 12//30//16|