I love Papa, I really do; but I also hate who he is.

A little girl's letter to her dad, praying he just might see it.

"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."

They say that being able to say goodbye is supposed to make everything better. But for Ivy and Lucas, it was the one thing that tore them apart years ago. Years later and in the city of love, the unlikely couple meet again and memories of the past and present come rushing back as the couple have one moment, one night, to finally give their final goodbye and show what love is. In this short story, you find out what saying goodbye means and what it's like to feel again.

Words are very powerful. Whether you make it rhyme or accompany a melody to it, as long as it is heartfelt and true, nothing can stand in its way. Not even Xavier and Alice.

He just wanted to find the key to the door she was hiding behind.

❝for me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. it gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.❞ [[ eight short stories based on eight songs by eight different artists. ]] http://8tracks.com/yourgirlbeth/eight-track

I wasn't best friends with him. I wasn't in love with him. We weren't related. But a part of me will always miss him, and I wish he could have seen that. I wish he could have seen how much he was truly loved and although life wasn't always easy, he did have people on his side. If only he had given us the chance.

Ophelia Morgan was always viewing herself in parallels. While she thought she was the ‘bigger’ girl and could be spotted miles away, she also thought she was invisible in the eyes of those around her. Her self-conscience nature made it hard for her to look at herself in the mirror. And if she couldn’t love herself…who else could?