In which a girl realizes family isn't by blood but by bond.

(ON HOLD) I turn around and face him. "Has anyone ever told you that you're an asshole?" His smirk continues to grow. "Everybody's got to be good at something. The question is, what are you good at?"

Because everything was bittersweet and strawberry flavoured.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

A quiet afternoon is infinitely more interesting when you add a young man who claims to be a time-traveler, a half-completed shopping list, and an unhealthy amount of sarcasm. {Written 2014}

Drive is racing to Prime Video! Coming out soon as a movie. He's an arrogant race car driver with an attitude. She's a stubborn tire mechanic out to prove herself in a man's world. When sparks fly, will their passion make it to the finish line? ***** Dante Annunziata's arrogant personality and Italian racing legacy are the reason he's a Formula World racing champion. His pit mechanic, Savannah Jenkins is no pushover herself. This headstrong southern belle has ambitions to take her father's auto business to a whole new level. When the paparazzi stage Dante and Savannah in a pre-kiss pose, they're forced to fake a relationship to keep their jobs. But as engines rev and the season heats up, the contrived couple's hearts start racing for all the wrong reasons. Will Dante and Savannah let love take the wheel, or will their butting heads cause them to crash and burn? Original Edition: [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

heartache has no cure. or, short poems about broken hearts and broken people. symptoms of a broken heart include: sadness, emptiness, exhaustion, loneliness, and pain in various forms. -broken hearts aren't always because of love. they can be caused by so many things. trigger warnings!! : depression, eating disorders, self-harm, and mental health in general. nothing ever named, but mentioned and described a lot so if you are easily triggered its probably best to avoid this. ©-ghostly, 2018 p.s. please do not take any of this, i write everything myself, so please respect that. highest ranking: #120 on august 4th, 2017

On depression, and recovery. ❝Perhaps this is our kingdom, perhaps our crowns are the green specks of light that fall into our hair. And perhaps this is our fantasy, and perhaps we have no crowns but collars, collars that bind us to our differences and drive away the threat of being alike. Or perhaps we have both crowns and collars. Perhaps these two are in a constant war against each other, just as we are all in a constant war against ideals.❞

Isaac Kirk's world comes to an abrupt halt when he finds out his Soulmate Mark isn't identical to that of Jamie Ryan's; his best friend and the guy he's been in love with all his life. Isaac's mark is also in COLOUR, which is an even worse fate, because it's rumoured that people with coloured marks don't even get to have soulmates at all. But fate has different plans for Isaac Kirk, and perhaps he might get a happy ending better than he could have ever imagined. - Roses are red, Violets are blue, Isaac thought he'd never get to have even one Soulmate, never mind two. - Copyright © 2018 Viano Oniomoh All rights reserved.

Adrian Montgomery is Kherson Reed's brother's best friend. When Kherson and Adrian get stuck together somewhere, you wouldn't understand how unbelievably awkward it could get. |160 in Short Story 6.4.17|