The stories in this collection vary in tone and subject matter, each being inspired by a prompt, quote, real life experience or picture. At various times these stories have been stuck in my head, many of them playing over and over and over again in my minds eye like a record player's needle getting caught in a groove. So I needed to write them down to get them out and resume my day. These are my Scarlett Thoughts, the words I just could no longer contain. And hopefully they stay with you as they did me. *1st Place Winner - Short Story - The Typers Awards* *1st Place Winner - Short Story - The Grand Dame Awards* *1st Place Winner - Short Story - The Grammar Awards 2019* *1st Place Winner - Short Story - Litwit Awards 2019*

**CURRENTLY A FEATURED STORY** highest ranking: #11 in Science fiction ❝true happiness is only achieved without freedom. There is a girl who wakes to a world that she was supposed to protect. Instead, she fights it. There is a man who is cursed with the ability to dream. A glass city is their cage, a city filled to the brim with unanimity and order, a paradise on an earth laid to waste by an artificial snowstorm. Sunlight filters through the glass buildings and through glass walls, pierces glass floors. It illuminates the city square when it is strongest at noon, surrounded by a huddled mass of citizens, all as perfect as the city they inhabit. And they all think: everything is as it should be. And it is. Or, it was. -- long live perfection.❞ (c)sarahgaier2016 #diverselit | #LoveEqualsLove | #helpfightcliches | #freethelgbtq | #badassreads check out my Science Fiction novella, Sector-33, here! https://www.wattpad.com/story/62174094-sector-33