she was tired of watching you not love her the way she loved you. wait, hold on a minute. see the past tense? [ thepeopleofsociety ] [ short story] [ all rights reserved ] © AUGUST 2016 - FEBRUARY 2017

❝The truth hurts but secrets kill.❞ Everyone has a secret. Scarlett Hill kept many secrets, but her death was not one of them. Scarlett's death rocks the small town of Stonewalls, Virginia, and everyone involved, including her seven best friends. © Miranda/ Dreaminghly 2018-2020 [cover by @worldcry ]

[SPONSORED BY TELUS] Eva Shaw's junior year falls apart when she sees a website dedicated to making fun of Cathy, a reclusive student, and does nothing about it. Eva watches the posts pop up every night and doesn't speak a word. But when she accidentally gets closer to Cathy, it slowly gets tougher to keep quiet about the bullying she witnesses each day. Cathy seems to be pulling further away from everyone and has no desire to bring a teacher into her mess and make things complicated. But Eva is finding it harder to keep quiet with all the guilt building up around her and when she finds out the creator of the website is much closer to her than she thought, doing the right thing seems almost impossible. With her 'friends' telling her to keep quiet, Cathy falling away and her own guilt pulling at her, Eva has to decide if speaking out is really worth it or if she should just listen to everyone and stay a simple bystander.

In which a guy dared to make friends with a girl finds out that nothing can be swept under the rug. [extended synopsis inside] © Birdcrowns 2018 #11 | SS

❝She was my dream girl − but I knew eventually I had to wake up.❞ Sequel to, u n r e q u i t e d All rights reserved @ o p t i c a l i t y | 2017

A pack of thieves ransack a witch's home, stealing her deck of tarot cards. Unbeknownst to them, these tarot cards hold the most infamous criminals ever known. And little do they know what they've unleashed onto the world when these prisoners escape their binds to the cards and scatter across the stars. It'll take a powerful kind of magic and a special kind of witch to find them. Cage is NOT that witch. In fact, she's not exactly a witch at all. She's a Lavender and lives in a world where women are the only ones with magic. With flowers that grow in amongst her curly hair, Cage is dragged into the hunt for the prisoners and must travel across the cosmos with a band of unlikely heroes. A witch of the winds and another of the stars. A boy who has magic when he shouldn't and another with the sun in his blood. Cage learns that the lines between heroes and villains can blur on their journey to stopping something far more evil than any of them could have ever imagined.

"You live on an island and you don't know how to swim?" Poppy Raider doesn't know how to swim. With sucks for her because you have to take a swimming test in order to graduate. So, she has to have private swim lessons with the swim team captain. Also known as the rudest boy in school.

Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the help of the mute boy next door, Lilith must unravel the secrets behind the mysterious estate, all while her family remains gloriously unaware that they are about to be devoured.

nerd: /nərd/ noun A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious. That's me... nerdproof: /nərdpro͞of/ adjective Able to withstand any person or thing falling into the above mentioned nerd category That's Harry. And I was doomed to love him like the rest of the female population. Until I found backup, a fix-all recipe that was bound to remove my Nerd stamp and make Harry finally see me, possibly even like me. If only I knew what I was signing up for when I asked for help.

"they told us that we needed therapy, as if medication and tainted words could fix broken toys."