“Like the howl of an accordion—half sorrow and half joy, wondrous and exquisite—these stories squeezed my heart.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of "The House on Mango Street" * In "Once More to the River," Erasmo Guerra writes a moving account of his boyhood on the Texas-Mexico border. An award-winning novelist and journalist, Guerra explores present-day political and cultural realities, and recounts the shattering loss his family suffered when his teenage sister was murdered. Told with lyrical prose and a reporter’s ear for the “Tex-Mex” language of the region, these stories capture the voices of South Texas. By turns humorous and haunting, powerful and tender, this collection is an intensely personal chronicle of tragedy and the triumph of survival.

Back in Wisconsin after a drama filled summer with her brother, sister, and Owen, Suzanne is ready to start over. After a month of living in her brother's bachelor pad she's finally found a place to call her own. School has started back up and she's already kicking ass and acing tests. Her boss at the bookstore has finally seen all of her potential and promoted her to store supervisor. Suzanne has never felt more confident, and after almost three months of pining over Owen she's finally feeling better, mostly back to her old self. But what happens when she's forced to see him again?

Meet Charlie Rae. Charlie is a photographer, she's the type of girl who doesn't let her past define her. Well... she tries. Now meet Cameron Fraser, a successful, young business man who's face is all over every magazine. Like Charlie, lets just say his past hasn't been the best. So what happens when one night on a bridge they meet? Like this: ''What the fuck are you actually doing dude?!' I screeched whilst getting out of my car, the cold instantly nipped at my skin. This guy was just standing on the other side of the bridge as if he was going to jump off! Who does that? Well I guess... suicidal people and maybe mentally instable people, but who does that?!" Will they be able to make each other forget about their past? Or will their pasts come knocking on their doors to seperate them from one another? ღOne Smile Please Achievements: #400 Humour and #661 Romance - 09/11/2014 #110 General Fiction - 16/01/15

In Love with my dad's best friend? Sure I have loved him from the time I was a 7 year old. But now, every touch or look from him makes me feel hot and tingly all over But in love or lust ... With a man I call Uncle??????

Full editing mode, this means changing of chapters, changing characters names etc, just changing it all. If you don't want to read until it is completely edited and changed, then you don't have to. This is your warning. ~ "I'm afraid to live and I'm afraid to die. What a way to exist. This is the way 17 year old Freya has always lived. Between her abusive family members and the bullying at her school, she had never been known as anything less than the worthless child she believes she is. Just as her final year is about to start, she meets Alex, causing her world to make a 180 twist into a spiral staircase of emotions; and at first it's perfect. But obviously perfect is just an illusion; a figment of Freya's imagination because before she knows it, Alex is standing at the front of her classroom on the first day of school. . . as her teacher. Can Freya fight her way through her last year of highschool or will she always be the worthless child?

Martin Manil is the only son of Mr Baskl Manil who has everything health, wealth, look and every woman hope she could be with him for even one day, every woman gets crazy if he looks at her.. But only one woman that made him mad, took his heart & mind, the doctor's daughter, Ariana Rea.. Their past relationship is opened again. Martin's reappeared in her life after two years of parting. Let's see how Martin Manil will steal her heart again. Completed By; Roniiaa

Georgia Dawson had a secret, a secret that involved a broken promise. Working for the sister of one of the wealthiest men in the world had proven to be challenge, a challenge that left her extremely lonely, but one night a layover in Dublin changed everything. It was a night where promises were made and broken. Ewan Mailler was cold and ruthless, his life was shrouded in secrecy, and everyone was intimidated in his presence; everyone that is except Georgia.

Mia Cooper is deeply in love with her boyfriend James Shaw. But when he tells her he's leaving before they start their senior year, her heart is crushed. Mia faces further hurt when James fails to keep his promises to her and she finds comfort in the schools "bad boy" Ryan Valentine. Ryan is no good for Mia, her friends and family know it but Mia refuses to see it. She suffers in silence for four years with her violent husband. When James returns to California, he is suprised to discover he's a father. Can this family have a happy ending.....