the pain never really disappears, does it? it just becomes a dull throb in your heart. - a collection of negative & positive poetry. after all, life consists of both pain and happiness highest rank: #45POE cover: @oceanwaved

there is a warrior in you. © y, 2016.

COMPLETED "I think you're hiding something," he said accusingly, his voice low and dangerous. "I think you're crazy," I retorted. My heart was beating rapidly. ~ When you lead a life kept to the shadows- metaphorically and physically- it can be hard to make friends. I'm not going to say I was a loser, a complete outcast at my school. In fact, there was no one that I shared a hatred with. My life, which was more or less secretive, was completely shaken when Emmett Dean rocked himself into my world. Completely uninvited, might I add. And all he did was spill his spaghetti on me. ~ Coves are encouraged! Highest Ranking: #14 - 9/27/17 *UNEDITED featured by Teen Fiction

Donna is a photography student; the best in her class. She has an eye for detail, and the ability to make a picture say not just a thousand words, but a million. When travelling through London with her sarcastic side-kick for school break, Donna meets a group of like-minded souls. Among them, a boy possessing beauty she has never seen in the real world before. But Donna is secretly timid, and the demons of her past, and present, she must face are on a high shelf. Maybe, someone might be tall enough to lend a hand. 。。。。 [cast + more inside] [warning - self harm, swearing] First Place Winner of the Teen Fiction Genre at The 2017 Tick Tock Awards. Second Place Winner of the Teen Fiction Genre at The 2017 Discourse Awards.

Sometimes I'd catch him looking at me, and other times he'd catch me first. Neither of us would say a word, but even a stranger could tell that we wanted to. [A Valentine's Day/Black History Month one shot for the @taygetsthegay and @diversityinlit competition.]