It should have been easy as "1.2.3". 1- turn 18 2 - find your mate 3 - be happily mated together for ever. What isn't easy is fate. It can be kind. It can be cruel. And sometimes, it can be both at the same time. A locket, A warning, a liar and a prophecy - Can Aspen uncover the truth or will she get lost in all the chaos? **Strong language used at times! ** ©MadnessReverie *******❤**********❤******* *I do not own any of the pictures I use. I got them off of google* but the story is mine, so please don't steal it.

→ finished ← Claustrophobic and agoraphobic, Alaska Gouramie doesn't leave the house much. She whiles her days away nurturing her goldfish, Gordon. Her life is passing her by. Elver Harrison James is scared of fish. He won't go near the pond at the bottom of his garden. He will do anything to stay away from those water-loving freaks. Alaska's mother forces her to leave the house. It's just a trip to the park, no big deal. Until Alaska falls in the pond. And Elver is the only one around. Teen Fiction #118

This is a another prequel short story to The Cloud Roads, the first novel in the Books of the Raksura series, which is available from Night Shade Books in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. This one is about the main character Moon, when he was a young boy and still traveling alone.

"We could fly to Berlin, Tokyo or Jamaica. We can go where you want, say the word and I'll take ya. But I'd rather stay on the sofa, with you." Summer time means vacation; three months of new discoveries, thrilling adventures, wrinkled maps to be pried open, and gorgeous foreign countries to explore. When Kira Walker is left defeated by the fact that she won't be going anywhere extravagant for her summer vacation for the umpteenth time out of her seventeen years of existence, her best friend, Xander Harrison and his remarkable talent with words just might save the day. Through Xander's beautifully crafted tales, the pair embark on adventures which evolve around unique encounters and quite a few mishaps. Kira and Xander find solace with each other’s company as they voyage the world through the remarkable power of words from a faded old sofa. Cover credit; morstan

There was once an oppressed member of the proletariat who’d become so sick of his miserable life that he wanted to die. Until he was granted three wishes. But as so often happens in fairy tales, things don’t go entirely to plan . . .

This woman could have been a spy, a duchess and the lover of a young cameraman all at once. She was a conjurer of a thousand stories, each unique to every observer; the elusive face behind any tale you put to her. {Written 2013.}

They met in December.