in which a girl slowly crumbles under the weight of her dysfunctional family. [ five chapters updated everyday ]

Things like time spent apart or distance become too trivial when dealing with a familiar soul. Like it or not friendship is forever, when you know someone's soul, there is no going back. #108 SS | 11.09.2016 Featured by @literasia Copyright © 2016 by Penelope Crawford All Rights Reserved

Emma Taylor's summer wasn't filled with parties or beaches as she'd hoped. Instead life slams her into a dark reality that seems to be drowning her. And she doesn't let anyone in to save her, neither her family or her friends. But life is full of unexpected twists, bad and good. Emma begins to connect with Austin Moore, her brothers best friend, who just might be able to save her from the cold water's clutches and show her that sometimes you just need to take a leap of faith.

You whore, they called. She's so ugly, they whispered. No one will ever love you, they said. She's gone, they were told. All she left behind was a note. But the words she scribbled on paper will hurt them - just like their words hurt her. [a short story about Emily Roberts] "The lost map of insanity" Copyright © 2013 by Taylor C. Arthur, All Rights Reserved (summary by awesome4evah) cover by weeknder

an abundance of space metaphors and you. #1 in poetry 6/7/16

the doctors said that after the accident, nothing could bring back all of caroline's memories. there were times and places that she would never remember and that pained him. so no matter what the doctors said, he tried. he left her letters in hopes that those moments would come rushing back to her. in hopes that she could remember him. [a story in verse]

* * * Maya Smith is a girl living in a sea of trouble. She feels like there's nothing for her in this life, no way that she'll ever become normal again. Conrad Wilkins is a boy who's been bred from darkness and misfortune. He sees himself as one who isn't worthy of love; someone who women would always run away from. Together, they make a pair destined on not looks, but circumstantial similarities. And together, they will overcome the plague of flicker pain - the pain ready to knock you back into the world of indecisiveness and fear as soon as you learn to smile... [short chapters]

bal-co-nee-al ; of or referring to a balcony \\ in which a cynical girl and a disastrously (self-characterized) aromantic psychology student have daily discussions between neighbouring balconies \\ #1 in short story june & july 2k15 \\ book 1

BOOK 1 // Human Error (COMPLETE) BOOK 2 // Human Instinct (IN PROGRESS) *NOW OPTIONED FOR A TV SHOW* "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness engineered right into their DNA." - William Shakespeare, 1602 (adapted for BioPlus) Astrid Oxford is not normal. Two hundred years into the future, society is recovering from global collapse, and genetic modification has saved the remaining population from a hunger crisis. The alteration of human DNA has been illegal since the technology was developed, but in the heart of New London, a sinister trend has emerged among society's elite. Designer children have been the city's best-kept secret for years, but strange side effects are now appearing as they hit adolescence. When a freak suicide forces modification into the public eye, eighteen-year-old Astrid is about to learn how difficult it is to stay under the radar when you really were born to stand out.