Carrie Slaytor has never had the easiest life. Her dad asked for a divorce from her mother when Carrie was seven, so for the last ten years she has been living in a consistent battle of whether she should be team mom or team dad. Add that on top of her social anxiety and having the talent of not being invisible. So, when Carrie is moved cross country from a quiet, little town in Maine to the loud and boisterous city of Los Angeles, she is met by a boy, who everybody wants to know. Tobias Lawrence. Dark, tall and deliciously handsome, Carrie is blown away when he approaches her. Carrie is pulled into a whirlwind of a relationship, and she loses her view of the rest of the world, getting lost in her own storm. But you know what they say; everything is fine when you're standing in the eye of the hurricane

"There were three things about which I was absolutely certain. First, I didn't have my cell phone. Second, my hands hurt from gripping the trunk lid closed. They would probably be useless to put up a fight. And, third—I'd made peace with myself. I already found out what had happened to Charlotte Jones…. I did the best I could do. I felt accomplished and, even though I was scared sh*tless, I felt… complete. The car turned off. The door opened and slammed shut. I'd made peace with myself… but I couldn't stop my body from trembling like a leaf. I was still scared I was going to die. Was I going to die?" *** Please comment about anything. Errors, you liked it, hated it (explain yourself), not your cup of tea, whatever.

A billion-dollar clone, bought and raised as an extremely dangerous weapon, strikes out against those who manufacture and harvest clones for spare parts. ***** Duplicates are used for one thing: spare parts. Kept in Emulation Facilities, brain-dead and hooked to machines, duplicates never open their eyes. As a transplant nurse, Evette Ashford knows this better than anyone -- until a living, breathing duplicate shatters her life. Merely knowing he exists drags Evette into a deep, dark world of manipulation, danger, and control. Evette knows he just wants to find himself, but the corporation that created him are furious he's broken their control. So Evette must decide who to trust: the monster who forced her into this chaos or the monster who created him. [[IC Universe People's Choice]] [[1st Place, Writers' Olympics Dystopian Award]] [[1st Place, Oscar Sci-fi Award]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story is rated PG-13 for violence, language, and sexual content. This story will become free on January 31st!