[BEING PUBLISHED -- sample and more info inside] One girl. One camp for delinquents. One hell of a summer. Falice Winters has always been the goody-two shoes. Her twin Arabelle . . . not so much. So what happens when their dad plans to ship Arabelle off to a camp to clean up her act? Well, naturally, Arabelle would find a way out. Her solution? Falice! It was a simple plan: Falice would pretend to be Arabelle and go to the delinquent camp while Arabelle got to have the time of her life with her boyfriend in London. Falice thought her summer was going to consist of sitting on the couch reading novels all day or hanging out with her friends. Never did it cross her mind that she would be pretending to be her sister in a camp of delinquents. But now she's stuck at a camp all summer where being rude is the new "in." And everything turns for the worse when someone figures out her secret. Will Falice survive the summer? Or will everyone learn that she's faking delinquency?

a look inside group therapy and the people in it.

"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love." A collection of short stories. Copyright 2012 © peculiariah

❝we are all searching for someone whose demons will play well with ours.❞ quiet rituals and even quieter conversations; a collectanea. (© promethean 2013; cover by promethean)

Our memories do not always serve us correctly. But they do serve us kindly.

Suicide. It's a harsh term, don't you think? Winter Kingswood is a snarky introverted musician and artist, Autumn Brooks is a bookworm and nerd, Summer Sommers is the badass chick with sarcasm as a first language, and Spring Garcia is the popular, preppy all-around nice girl. Four different lives, four different personalities. Four different stories. After the shocking suicide of Isabelle Nicks, a girl who all four of the girls once knew, their stories intertwine when they try to find out the reason beyond the sudden death. Stuck with the clues behind her death that she left, the four girls reluctantly combine forces to find the answers they desperately seek. And what they find shakes their worlds for good.

[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 rejected and worse of all, afraid to end their friendship. Before Kyle can change his mind, he lost his chance when something tragically happened to Clo. Told in Kyle's point of view, this book unfolds the love story between Kyle and Clo, starting all the way back in their childhood.

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021