In the late nineties asexuality is all but ignored as an orientation. Jess doesn't understand her complex array of emotions or why she finds it so hard to relate to her fellow classmates. Catholic high schools and churches simply don't address the issue, and the internet is still nascent. Jess can't tell anyone the truth. Not even her best friend Care. Instead, she hides behind the guise of faith. Behind a mask of celibacy. Until she meets Eric, that is. He lets slip that he's asexual, and Jess wants to learn more. --- Watty Winner 2021 for best cover, best YA, and the Wattpad Books prize! --- Status: completed and unedited Rating: PG-15 for moderate language and frank discussions about sexuality Genre: teen fiction romance featuring two heteroromantic ace characters --- Cover designed using Canva Pro August 2020 --- Please note: This work is a teen fiction novelization of my multimedia novella "Mask of Celibacy".

Nina felt a pair of eyes watching her. Warm, gilded brown, like the whiskey in her glass. That was how she met Roman Conway for the first time. Three years later, she meets him again, and she is pulled back into a past that cracks the surface of the seemingly perfect life she curated. ***** As Nina Jordan admires New York City from a rooftop, she seems content. She is surrounded by her closest friends, and Cameron - the man she is marrying. But when Nina goes to get a drink at the bar, she bumps into Roman Conway. To Roman, Nina looks different. Her signature curls have been pulled straight, and cut into a blunt bob, and there is a dark melancholy about her. The biggest change he is struck by is that she no longer looks at him the way she used to. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

The thoughts and ponderings of a twenty something that wants to make sense of this big bad world. Lots of the poems and descriptions focus on mental health and depression.

#2- foreverinyourmind #5-beststoryever #10-bestbookever #3-badass **** Sixteen-year-old Audrey Martin has her life all sorted until she meets Chris Scott and her life changes unexpectedly. He becomes her most cherished and unforgettable memory. **** Audrey is a simple girl who is too afraid to acknowledge her feelings. She is confident and loved by many at school yet she is lonely. One day at P.E. class when she has an encounter with Chris Scott her life embarks on a new journey for her. Blissful unaware of the future she finally starts realizing her strong emotional connection with Chris. You can find the perfect person for yourself but that doesn't mean your life will be perfect with him. **** The best thing to do was to sleep over it. That always helps. I convinced myself that the feeling will recede. After all, it was just a perfectly sculpted, chiseled guy whose dimples made him look divine, a guy who ran really well with hazel eyes. I could definitely get over him, just a regular guy I told myself. Nothing special. Sleeping didn't help much. When I checked my phone in the morning I realized that the guy I was trying to get over was trying to get over me. He had sent me a follow request. I immediately panicked even though there was no need to. ***************** Read the story to learn more about her unforgettable journey.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.

In an attempt to move on from his past mistakes, a young man finds solace in writing poems to his lost muse. As time goes by, the boy learns of new love and befriends someone that finally helps him heal his heart. However, good feelings do not last forever as he discovers his affection is deft and unrequited, and his friend is no longer there for him. With deception and angst filling the boy's heart, hope seems eternally lost, and as he descends into a spiral of negative thoughts, love is no longer his light but his damnation in a vicious cycle of Heart's Betrayal.

After a brutal act of police brutality, the most important figure in Kendra Lyon's life is ripped away from her. Consumed by grief Kendra has channeled all of her anger towards her peers not trusting those who don't look like her. She's built up a strong wall of emotions against them in order to protect herself that no one can seem to tear down. That is until she meets the one boy who could possibly see her beyond her rage. He's willing to endure her smart remarks and sassy attitude just to catch a glimpse of the real Kendra Lyon. Kendra vows to never fall for him because after all he's just another white boy and to her, that's an insult to her father's memory.

When you're young, everything little thing feels like its the end of the world. But in Kisha's case, it literally is. A pandemic quickly turns her South bronx fairytale quickly turns into a dystopian novella as she is plagued by heartbreak, Hennessy, and the remnants of the unknown.

Collection of poems. [Poem] - A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.