THE DAY CATE ACCIDENTALLY BROUGHT A DEAD CHEERLEADER BACK TO LIFE EVERYTHING CHANGED... Fifteen year old Cate is seeing things. A ridiculously charismatic boy just appeared out of thin air, disarmed a bomb at a busy bus stop and then vanished again. Everyone around her was oblivious because they were frozen like stat...
[SAMPLE ONLY. PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2016] - LINK TO PURCHASE E-BOOK ON MY MESSAGE BOARD! "Why are you being nice to me? I'm a freak, I'm blind," Riley had once asked her, but Ellie could never answer that question, and she would never be able to. Ellie Burke is just this simple town girl, who will never look at the wr...
For Cadence Myers, you're not a true friend unless you're a book. To her, all people did was lie to you and waste your time. And by her sixteenth birthday, she had had enough of it. With a workaholic as a mom and a dad who is behind bars, she wonders why she has no social skills. Not that she's lonely or anything. Sh...
Most football team captains bully little children like me. Thirteen-year-old geniuses that shouldn't be sophomores in high school. But this one's different. He wants to help the outcasts. But what if I don't want help? What if even a simple smile adds to the punishment? Charlie doesn't know about that. And he never wi...
#1 Humor P A U S E 'Moments of hesitation make us human.' ~ Aqueela Lawson 'Moments of hesitation make us weak.' ~ Jay Taylor *~**~* ...
One of the winners of the OnceUponNow contest! Of Sirens and Beasts will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster on October 11th in the Once Upon Now Anthology! Football uniforms and tutus do not make a pretty picture. That is what Cal's football team, the Beasts, strongly believe. So when thei...
Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care, which for him meant ending up in an abusive home with an alcoholic adoptive father. Gavin’s only escape is in taking and...
Every time a child is born, they receive a locket. No one knows where it comes from, but they know what it does. It’s not a locket of great powers, or of great strength. But it is a locket that changes lives, and it will help you decide your fate.
A suicide note leads this hot headed reporter hot on trail of an exciting story that will lead her to more surprises. Jessica was a nobody struggling to make it as a reporter. Something felt odd about the suicide story she read on newspaper and she being the ever reckless and rash Jessi, took it as a chance to reviv...
The princess. The liar. The thief. The bully. The wuss. Five troubled teens from all over the globe, plus their inexperienced driver and elderly chaperone, have unexpectedly been stranded in the exotic-bizarre rainforest world of Borneo. It was supposed to be a year-end leadership seminar. It was supposed to he...
"I ready my finger on the trigger and pull. The shot sends shock waves through my body and I am slammed against the doors. His head slowly falls back on the chair. It is at this precise moment that everything inside of me breaks. All I can think of is my first kill. All I can think of is the guilt. The sharp pierce...
[wattys 2018 shortlisted] Humans see her as a dangerous threat -a witch that must be executed. With the uncontrollable ability to form ice at her fingertips, Ravenna is forced into hiding amongst the humans, stealing to survive. That is, until she hears of an ancient dragon with the ability to breathe ice instead of f...
[FREE STORY with paid bonus content] "Life is a series of choices, kiddo. You either choose to trust me or you don't." Sam Grant had always wanted to become an archaeologist and live a life of adventure. But once he leaves for a study camp in the jungle of Yucatan to get him started on a dream career, he finds that h...
Rebecca Moon just wants to play her video games, but with scary noises and odd flashes of light coming from her back yard, she is a little distracted. When her cat escapes to her backyard and she sees a group of monsters ready to kill a young boy stuck in a bottle, she is suddenly thrust into a world that she could ne...
In a time after a terrible plague came an era of peace and harmony among the six thousand, five hundred and forty three survivors. Sixty five years later there were still six thousand, five hundred and forty three survivors, who resided in a town called Mount Wescott, jagged peaks and forests surrounding it in every...
#Wattys2017 Christina Matthews is an entitled 17 year old girl with a brilliant tech wiz for a father and an inexplicably fashionable art mogul for a mother. She can't stand her parents or their ideals, and often finds herself wishing to be someone else. They press her about her work, her social life, and even her...
The smartest children never remain in Johnson City Middle School. Why? It's not because they drop out, get removed, or can't deal with the educational modules. It's because the teachers do not allow smart kids. The Rules: 1: No asking questions. Just do as we say. 2: Never state your opinion. It doesn't matter. 3: Don...
Amber Garrett, the newest BLINK agent, is forced to prove herself when her first mission involves an alien threat that could destroy all of humanity. ***** Amber Garrett can blink teleporting herself to anywhere she wants to go which means she's a natural recruit for the galaxy-spanning BLINK organisation. Fresh out...