Every teenager is an addict. Whether they're addicted to shopping, texting, sleeping, playing video games or simply just hanging out with their friends, every teen has that one thing that they can't get enough of. Elsa King was no exception. She would stay up all night chatting away with her new found friends across the pond, watching funny videos on Youtube and fangirling about celebrities in chatrooms. Nothing could keep her away from her laptop. Well, almost nothing. [Extended summary inside] © All Rights Reserved Artemis Holmes 2014. #breakstereotypes Top Ratings - Short Story: #66 Teen Fiction: #321

A BUNCH OF STUFF ELIZABETH ("please for the love of god call me El") THROPP DOESN'T EXPECT: 1. Her mom signing her up to be a counselor at her old summer camp ("I don't care if it's for extra credit, mom!"). 2. That children are this annoying ("no, you can't have another stupid cookie"). 3. Sharing a cabin with Grace Upland ("who's like, a total bitch"). 4. (Sure as hell) that she really doesn't mind it ("like, at all"). 5. Something else, but that's for later. [6. this story to be riddled with typos. seriously. it's blinding. read at ur own risk]

loose cannon - a person whose actions are unpredictable and uncontrollable - a person who plays by his own rules - - - Combine the right blend of witty and wild and you get Kaleb Winters. He's reckless, impulsive and a trouble maker. He does what he wants without thinking of the consequences. What do you get when you mix crazy and controlling? Julianne Lake, a control freak. She wants everything around her perfect and orderly, she wants nothing out of place. When a certain trip to a book store brings them together, it starts an unlikely friendship. But then again, what happens when someone uncontrollable meets a very controlling person?

A story about two girls who are best friends, lovers, and lobsters. All at once.

We look up at the same sky and we see the same thing and suddenly, it's not so lonely anymore.

❝Roses have thorns, my dear, but so do you. ❞ In which Jan falls into an existential crisis, and Pete is there for her, if only in the form of words on her screen.

a poem on bisexuality

"Go out with me." "Why?" I asked skeptically. He shrugged. "You're bad, I'm bad; we're meant to be together." I raised my brow. "I though bad boys fell for good girls?" "Myth." "How about we test that theory?" I proposed with a smirk.

❝Don't think for a minute that this was love. Signed, Jenna❞ This is the story of Conrad and Jenna. And these are Jenna's letters to him: her correspondence to a jerk. [highest ranking: short story # 56 (08/27/2016)] Sequel included. Three years later Jenna discovers several more letters that she never "sent" and takes it upon herself to read through them.