"I don't think he's a member; he must be the new personal trainer." Bursting with humor and emotion, The Fat Bitch Diet tells the light-hearted story of a heavy, witty, twenty-something female who challenges herself to lose weight after she becomes a victim of a viral video. A.R. Khan skillfully entertains with witty banter, while educating the reader on weight loss and touching on themes of self-worth, sexuality, social media, love, loss and family. Viola is twenty-nine years old, heavy, and counting down the days to an inevitable marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Franklin. After hearing his true intentions and being humiliated over a radio call-in show, Viola becomes a viral sensation. With a desperate desire to win Franklin's heart, lose weight, and become his bride, Viola quickly realizes that fate has other plans for her.

"A weed is but an unloved flower." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox Iris was a flower in every sense of the word, beautiful, delicate, loved by everyone in her school. Thale was a weed, reserved, prickly, destroying anything that got in his way. He was the one person she shouldn't have asked to help find the admirer who was putting a flower in her locker every day. She was the one person he knew that he shouldn't have been around. After all, weeds kill, obliterate, suck the lives out of plants, don't they? But if that were the case, then why did it feel like he was the one nourishing her life instead of destroying it?

Life is a metaphor, as I state to myself. Ones' soul stands for something. There is more the your soul that you haven't even discovered yet. I write these poems not to impress, but to express. It reminds me of my nuance and others' as well. It may be about death, mourning, or being audacious. Life is about taking risk, but like all risks, there are specific consequences that you have to face.

In which a young girl with a terminal illness spends her days in a made up world before she dies. //Beauty and the Beast retelling of sorts. (GxG) but very mild.