Change is important, and it happens everywhere. At some point a caterpillar has to turn into a butterfly. Candy Ross has discovered that it's time for a change. After some less-than-pleasurable experiences at her old school, Candy packs up and moves from California to Maryland to live with her uncle. But will she embrace her new life and change for the better, or will she crawl back into her shell? Hopefully, with the help of some new friends, this caterpillar will finally turn into a butterfly.

When Jessica returns to her hometown for her sister's wedding, the memories of her seventeenth summer come flooding back, reminding her why she left in the first place-and the reason why she can't stay. All Rights Reserved

She hums the disco hit 'Rasputin' in class. She has an obsession with turtles. She's mildly allergic to her favorite food. She pinches people with her toes. She dances by herself. She wears her grandma's clothes. She regularly sings Disney songs, when she's tone deaf. She's smarter than everyone else. Her solution to everything is Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey Ice Cream and a Harry Potter marathon. She named her cat Frodo Baggins. Her laugh is repulsive but oddly infectious. She's just...awkward. Yet Stevie Jade manages to attract the attention of the hottest baseball player in school. This is the story of an awkward individual who comes across many life changing events while struggling to remain true to her awkward self. This is a story for many who struggle to belong to somewhere while finding solace in fandoms and the internet. This one is for all the Awkwards.

→ finished ← Claustrophobic and agoraphobic, Alaska Gouramie doesn't leave the house much. She whiles her days away nurturing her goldfish, Gordon. Her life is passing her by. Elver Harrison James is scared of fish. He won't go near the pond at the bottom of his garden. He will do anything to stay away from those water-loving freaks. Alaska's mother forces her to leave the house. It's just a trip to the park, no big deal. Until Alaska falls in the pond. And Elver is the only one around. Teen Fiction #118

Plan A might have been just as dangerous as the police insisted it was safe. It involved being locked away, out of sight and communication, and didn't solve the problem that Fran's stalkers seemed to have access to police files and data. Plan B the police didn't know about, and while the stalkers were at least temporarily out of the picture, it posed other problems. The police are now searching for her. Her stalkers are still looking for her. Her roommate doesn't know she's not a boy and a depressed teen movie star wants to be her friend. Being found out would blow her safety. Not to mention that the country thinks she might just be the victim -- or the cause -- of a spate of murders in the surrounding towns. Going to Darkwood private school was a risk, but not as risky as Plan A. The worry of trying to keep herself hidden from her schoolmates might become her main problem, but it still doesn't answer the most worrying question of all: just who were those stalkers, and what did they want? -- (Just so you all know, I've entered this book for the Hotkey Young Writers Prize. It would mean the world to me if you could support Plan B by voting for the first chapter (only votes on the first chapter count) before September 13th and then encouraging as many people as possible to read and vote as well. Thank you all so much!)

Kalen Mercer's Rules of Survival Rule #1: Don't get caught. Rule #2: Always get even. Rule #3: Trust Nobody. Survival isn't just a word to Ioney Mercer; it's a way of life. Having grown up in poverty in Chicago where some of the most ruthless gangs in the country preside, Ioney knows better than anyone what it takes to stay in the game. Or so she thought. When her older brother Kalen is brutally murdered and Ioney is left to take care of her younger siblings, she doesn't think things can get any worse. That is until in a cataclysmic turn of events, Ioney is thrown into a pit of danger her brother has left behind. Sinister people have suddenly developed an interest in her, she unwittingly falls into the middle of growing gang rivalries, and unfortunately manages to land herself under the scrutiny of Chicago Blood Kings Enforcer Justice Montoya. As things escalate rapidly, Ioney finds herself at a crossroads. Can she trust notoriously ruthless gangster Justice Montoya, or is he just another enemy she has to conquer in order to survive.

While in the E.R. at Mercy Hospital, Noah meets a strange boy by the name of Tyson, who seems to be a walking contradiction. On the outside he seems cold and distant, yet when he sees Noah in the waiting room with her hand bleeding, he comes over to help her and stays by her side the whole time. When they part that night, both think they'll never see each other again. But, when Noah goes back to school after summer break she finds out that Tyson is the new student. And more surprising still, he acts like he's never seen her before and treats her coldy. Confused, Noah tries to figure out what his deal is, and it does't help that they've been paired together for a class assignment that will take the whole year to complete. ((INITIAL DRAFT))

What do you get when you mix a nerdy cynic, a jock, two angels, an outcast, and a man bent on raising hell? You get what is now the life of Jasper Gonzalez. Jasper doesn't like to involve himself in much. Chess club, sure. His homework, most definitely. Even the occasional prolonged stare at his long-time crush. But angels, warlocks, and goblins? He DID NOT sign up for that. Despite his objections, he's now a key part of this. But what happens when a quick fix-me-up turns into saving the entire civilized world? Jasper knows, and he doesn't like the answer. Can his new-found friends help him set the world right again?

** A 2015 Wattpad-Featured Novel ** Parker Jennings moved to Los Angeles with only one goal: fulfilling his dream of becoming a director. When he finds his junior year of college unexpectedly derailed, Parker takes an internship at a talent agency, hoping to get his foot in the door with the industry's elite. It isn't until he meets Sophie Winters, once the biggest up-and-coming star in Hollywood, that he realizes how little he knows about the world he's trying to enter. The two need each other more than they know, but is what they have real, or an illusion created by the city of make believe?

This is actually a bit of an experiment. There is a lot of talk about cliches floating around-- most notably, how bad they are. The idea is: fit as many as possible into one story and see what happens if the main character can respond to them appropriately. If you can get through this, cheers.