"When you get to a thousand" I whispered to him, bending over and folding the paper. "You get to make a wish." *** Samuel Jones is the only openly gay teen at Doverhall school for boys. But that doesn't matter to him. He's focused on school and trying to win back his mother's trust, boys are the least of his worries. That all changes when the new kid Eliam Dale stumbles into Sam's somewhat okay life. Anxiety and fear of rejection riddle his mind and the only solace he gets is when he makes his paper cranes. When you get to one thousand you get to make a wish. But what will he wish for? //this book is under revision at the moment. I'm planning on publishing the edited version when I've finished it. Keep this in mind while reading.//

Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Pretty hair and pretty eyes. Pretty face and pretty body. Pretty laugh and pretty smile. Everyone knows Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Everyone loves Brooklyn Quinn. Except Brooklyn Quinn. {Trigger Warning: This story will have strong mentions of anorexia, self-destruction, and briefly suicide at times.}

❝Never knew loving could hurt this good.❞ When ordinary and boring Sebastian Faze meets Niko Salinger, a boy set on burning his lungs and ruining his future, Sebastian knows his whole life is bound to go somewhere different. This is a tale about two haphazardly irrelevant fucked-up teenage boys in the middle of suburbia trying to make the best of their adolescent angst-ridden years and attempting to navigate through the monotony of their dead-end lives, hoping for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at meaning something. warning: MATURE SCENES.

17 year old Scarlet Redmond has a secret, and that secret is the beautiful, smart, goody-goody popular girl Jacqueline Hunter. Living in Deep Wood, a rural farming town in Idaho that hasn't changed much since the 1800s, Scarlet has to keep her relationship with Hunter a secret lest they fall prey to the homophobic bullying of their classmates. One day, on her way to visit her grandmother, Scarlet meets the enigmatic social pariah known as Mara Wolf, a mysterious girl surrounded by infamy and damning rumors. Wolf doesn't seem to want to leave Scarlet alone, and there's something about her infuriating smile that makes it seem as though Wolf knows everyone's secret... even Scarlet's. **** This story was written as an entry for the @lgbtq 'Once Upon A Time' contest.

an insight on the jerk's mind.

"How do you stand your ground when everyone you know wants to bury you beneath it?" -Shane Koyczan #280 in Short Story WARNING: This story deals with issues like depression and self-harm.

about a girl who could never believe in herself Highest ranking: #52 in Short Story- 4/4/17 Cover by @indecsion9

In which an Asian girl struggles with mental disorders and might end up losing the fight. An attempt to write the story that no one tells. *trigger warning: mental illness, eating disorders, bullying* to be :: volume I #asiansinlit #freementalillness #projectyou #literasia #nomorebullying

Growing up, learning everything that comes along with it, including the varying perspectives in life, death and everything in between. A story told by two boys trying to figure out their fleeting youth, in a coming-of-age story of their own. Copyright © 2016 Zen. All Rights Reserved.

❝She was too busy to realize that he did see everything in her − too busy to realize that he still does.❞ All rights reserved @ o p t i c a l i t y | 2017