(A personal piece chosen to be in the top 10 for the Mind Over Matter Contest) Please don't hesitate to view my other works as well as request a cover from my cover book! :) The world thrives on pain. It is never about the happy ending, the prize, reward or the success. Life is about the journey. How we got there, what we had to endure. It's about the pain we all feel. The pain that pushes us forward but can also throw us so far back in our progress. At least, that's how I see it. You can't have happiness without sadness or success without failure. I thought my life was perfect, glorious, spotless. I was content with myself and the future that I was producing. That was all before everything changed. I became tired, confused, lonely and the only thing I could truly blame was my own head, my own thoughts. I had to learn the true meaning of being myself and how to want to live again. The thoughts in my head, constantly manipulating me, insulting me, tearing me apart slowly and fading out all of my originality, were relentless. This 500 word piece shows my struggle, my failure, my regret but also, describes my success, my future, and my happiness. I could not be where I am now without this hardship, without learning how to make the voices hush.

"You're not mad?" "You just kissed me, Foster. I don't think that's a reason to be angry." ------ This is a Sokeefe story! Sophie is captured by the Neverseen and given a drug that makes her tell Keefe everything. Ship: Sokeefe, background other ships Disclaimer: All characters come from the Keeper of the Lost Cities books and therefore belong to Shannon Messenger

in which two incredibly stubborn people try not to fall in love OR Keefe likes Biana. Sophie likes Fitz. But when Fitz gets together with someone else and Keefe sees how jealous Sophie is, he offers to pretend to be Sophie's "boyfriend" and make Fitz jealous. It starts out well at first but when Sophie and Keefe start falling for each other (which was NOT part of the plan) it gets complicated :(:

seven friends. two overprotective goblins. one road trip. what could go wrong? Winter in the lost cities is making Sophie homesick, so to cheer her up, the crew decides to take her on a road trip across the human world. Supervised only by Sandor and Grizel, the forbidden cities are about to get a lot more elvin...

A series of paranormal Activity has been happening in the small town of Newport. Children have started to go missing and there seems to be a sort of pattern to the disappearances. Four kids: Tailor, Lucas, Dean, and Sammy have been trying to find the answer to what is the cause of the disappearances after loosing on of their friends to to this mysterious being. Will they find the answer, or perhaps find their doom?