breathe in, breathe out: the story of ellie and beck going to asthma camp for the fifth year in a row was not how ellie wither wanted to spend her last summer as a high schooler. beck collins needed somewhere he could fit in--and get his oxygen tank through. the two meet when ellie is asked to be his nurse for the camp session. this young adult short story follows two teens who don't leave each other breathless, but rather full of oxygen. (even if neither of them want to be around each other at first.) but when the worst circumstances occur simultaneously, both will have to fight for each other in order to save themselves. *new chapters on mondays!*

"They say a death warrant is more deadly when it's signed with blood from your heart on the tissue thin paper of your skin, in a cursive crimson scrawl of love and agony and flowering faith that never wilts no matter how many times it's betrayed." • • • Belle and Maxine write. They twist and warp pain into beauty and build towering metaphors so potent they would live them. They are medically insane, but what does that mean? And can they write it into something beautiful?

There was nothing left in his wallet except for the bloodied twenty dollar bill, and that could never be used. I mean, there was blood on it. Unless... - mini-short story -