Give Me Space

A poem.

He's with Her

I'm not in love with Nick. I'm not. Do I like Nick? Of course! He's Sam's boyfriend. Why wouldn't I like my best friend's boyfriend? Do I like him in an inappropriate way? Ugh. No! Stop. That would make me a horrible friend. Oh god. That would make me a horrible friend.

Love & Monsters

Love & Monsters is a story I worked on when I took my first novel writing class at UCLA. Since I lost my sister to suicide, I've been fascinated with exploring mental illness and providing any insight I can to eradicate the stigma. Love & Monsters follows Heather Bateman, a girl who has suffered from schizophrenia all...

The Little Things

Twenty-two year old Grace McCaffrey is humiliated when she can't find a job after graduating college and has to move back in with her parents. She always assumed she'd do something big with her life-create change or do something that matters-not work at the Banner Market as a cashier. Soon, Grace gets roped into be...

Pain and Beauty

This story is about a horrifying lab experiment and the consequences of it. It is a love story. It is tragic story. It is warning story. It comes with a happy ending. Hope you Enjoy!

The Slip

Iris and her two friends Runa and Lee are road tripping around America. Half way through Wyoming they take a wrong turn that will change their lives forever.

TB & Me

TB&ME is a collaborative blogging project by patients being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in locations all around the world by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). They are writing about their experiences of living with MDR-TB and the treatment that they receive. This treatme...

God's Island

No one would describe Gina Lawrence as a sweet and blushing girl-next-door. But even Gina, so worldly and street-wise, had to admit God's Island went way beyond anything she could have imagined. It existed at a time long before the dawning of Club Med and the free-loving hippie anything goes movement--a time when gl...

Queen of Thieves

A tale in which a thief with a double life grudgingly becomes a hero. ➳ Liana Mason has a life anyone would envy. Nobody suspects that the once orphaned girl grew up to be the city's notorious vigilante. She has been fine walking on the edge of morality for much of her life, but when an assassin arrives in her city sh...

I Swear I Saw a Red Gown

The ocean of black gowns twisting and twirling with the blurry faced people moving them surrounded me. Just a lone human standing in the middle of a corrupt dance. But then I saw it just a glimpse of color. That color was red. Terrible, Extraordinary red. or so I thought.

Shores of Sorcery #Wattys2017

In the sleepy town of Benton, Massachusetts, nothing extraordinary has ever happened to put it on the map, or make it on to the six o'clock news. A former resident of the town, Jolene is back when called on by friend Clare, who's in need after the death of her husband. Not thrilled with the arrangement, Jo makes the b...

The Casanovas (2)

What should have been a liberating last year at school for teenage Michael Wilton and Samuel Hanz ends in disaster. A year of teenage angst, friendship, love and the worst of betrayals leads two teen boys on a tragic, downward journey of discovery in the final instalment of "The Asylum Trilogy" and gives a heart-stopp...

Ashley's Asylum (3)

Two Serial killers, one captive, chances of survival? Student psychologist Ashley is on a journey that will shake the foundations of her existence as she fights to stay alive whilst trapped between the enigmatic Michael Wilton and insatiable (extremely unstable) Samuel Hanz. Having escaped from the Dale-Creek Hill in...

Dale-Creek Hill Asylum (1) | ✓

'Ashley looked forward to her new role as a moth looks forward to an electric light, drawn-in inexplicably and equally doomed upon contact.' Seventeen-year-old Ashley has her life mapped out as an aspiring psychologist. Bright and brilliant, with a particular fascination for warped and extraordinary minds, she leaps a...