❝some things you can't put into words... so you make them into poems.❞ ➢ a WattPad Poetry featured collection Words have power. Power to explain emotions, to make you feel, to make you believe. They tell of every tear and every smile. They show you love and hurt. This is everything I couldn't find the words for. What I wanted to tell you but what didn't leave my lips. When I couldn't find an explanation and just kept quiet. Everything you made me feel, everything we had. The things that kept circling in my mind after our conversations, the things I wanted to scream when I nodded instead, the things I eventually had to let go of. This is everything I wanted to say but never did. * * * #99 in poetry (October 18, 2018) #35 in collection (October 8, 2018) 1st place in wallflower_r weekly writing contest #27 2nd place in wallflower_r weekly writing contest #28 2nd place in The Coffee and Cake Awards "This is so so so beautiful and amazing I can't even explain! You really have talent!" - she_made_echoes "This is gorgeous. So poetic: gave me the shivers" - iamnotanastronaut "This poetry piece made me cry you're so great!" - itisdangerouss

"The sound of glass shattering. The screams of terror and pain. All hell breaks loose." Cara lives in a world where she is deemed lesser because she isn't an Aurelian. Aurelians dominate the kingdom of Serola - and the world. They are the only ones able to wield powers and therefore claim their place as the rulers. Cara's questionable and uncertain past causes her to harbor a deep resentment for them, and she is determined never to fall into their grasp. However, she finds herself in the lion's den when a tragedy causes her to reveal secrets she herself didn't know she kept. Cara ends up in a place that forces her to relive some of her most traumatizing memories. With each passing day, she is given more than one reason to sleep with one eye open. As Cara spends more time surrounded by her enemies, she unearths shocking information about everything she knows, and everything she is. ~ 1st Place Unknown Author in The Blue Rose Awards August 2018 ~ ~ Fantasy Judge's Pick in The Magic Awards 2018 ~ ~ 2nd Place Fantasy in Net Monthly Awards September 2018 ~ ~ Best Plot Fantasy in Net Monthly Awards September 2018 ~ #BurningAwards #BurningPassionAwards

❝What brings you to Rome?❞ ❝A broken heart. You?❞ ❝I have three months to live. And I've heard gelato is pretty good.❞ I traveled to Rome thinking I'd never be able to love again, only to find that home was in a whimsical boy who could speak to the wind. I traveled to Rome because I needed change, only to find an entirely new world inside ethereal emerald eyes. I traveled to Rome with a broken heart, only to leave it somewhere underneath a thunderstorm behind the Vatican. This is the story of my trip to Rome-a trip that filled my life with colors I didn't know existed and songs that could only be heard by my heart. All in a matter of seven days. ~ book one of the "A Week in..." series ~ cover by @TheGreatSphinx | 1st place winner of 2018 Zodiac Summer Awards |