Wattys 2019 Winner! "So when is it a problem? Oh, when you're in love." ----- Simon St. John is a liar, a cheater, a fraud -- but only because he has to be. Born with the ability to shape shift, his childhood was mostly spent learning to control his many faces in a world where most people only wear one. In fact, it was almost fun, in a way, until he met Valerie Love. Valerie Love is a college student fresh out of luck. For years she has watched her friends fall in and out of love, test the waters of relationships, earn their stripes in the wondrous field of romance. Valerie, however, has watched from the sidelines, passing face after face, meeting person after person without forming many connections. She has mostly given up on the idea of searching for love, until Simon lends her a new hope. Follow the strange story of college students Simon St. John and Valerie Love as one finally discovers the true definition of identity, and the other questions what it really is to be known.

Three months after the death of her childhood friend and first love, Lea Martinez moves to New York to live with her older brother. Desperate to escape the trauma of 'that night' and fight her lingering insomnia, she drowns herself in the impending changes of a fresh start. Living in a new state, going to a new school and making new friends relieves her from the vicious demons that crawl into her bed at night. Until she meets a boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her former best friend. .・。.・゜❅ Callum Wright has no interest in making new friends. Especially not with a girl who's constantly staring at him as if she's seen a ghost. As he maintains a relationship with a destructive girlfriend, he tries to cope with his parent's divorce and help his mother make ends meet. At school, he wears a cold reputation over his shoulders and is used to the distant stares and cruel whispers of his classmates. The last thing he expects is to meet someone who has an undying desire for his companionship. Until he meets a girl with a bubbly laugh and vibrant smile that conceals more demons than she'd like to admit. .・。.・゜ first draft; unedited Registered with the United States Copyright Office Frost © 2020 | All Rights Reserved This book or any portion thereof, may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever, without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Rabid is what they are. The Scott family are as powerful as they are rich. They have more money than most could count too, and enough fame to place their names in the history books. In an unfortunate circumstance, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, gave birth to a son; Ezra Scott. He's the definition of spoiled. With life's luxuries handed to him on a silver platter, he's never been told he can't have what he wants. He's dated more than a dozen women at a time, despite being fresh out of his teen years. He's irresponsible, he's reckless, and he believes he lives to have fun. Ezra's family's fame depends on him to pass university and take over the family business. That's fine. He is certain university would be just as easy to graduate as highschool was -when he'd pay other students to do his work for him. So, what happens when Ezra locks eyes with none other than Olivia Brooks; a girl just lucky to have been accepted to a prestige school along with Ezra, and soon finds himself falling in love with her despite all the times he has publicly humiliated, and bullied her before? Will she accept him, or for the first time in his life will he work for something he wants, after being told the word he's never been told before; 'no'.

Inanis Messor is The Bone Cutter. He's America's most fierce and cursed celebrity. He's America's modern prophet. He's America's very own murderous darling. Inanis's job is to broadcast a live death on public television once a month, as a sacrifice to the public. Every month on the 15th, Inanis steps on a large, vibrant stage, in front of dozens of cameras, and executes a living political individual as repentance for the sins of America's government. It keeps the public satisfied. It keeps the government from having to own up to their mistakes. Mirea Dhalmi is the daughter of a famous state governor; a man who involves himself in every political discussion the media has to offer. But when he's chosen to be Inanis's next victim, Mirea desperately pleads with The Bone Cutter to spare his life. Inanis agrees, but at a price. Mirea must now become his bride, his public display. She becomes The Bone Harvester, the woman who stands beside The Bone Cutter on the bloody stage that is broadcasted throughout public television. The unfortunate woman who stands beside the celebrity who kills in front of the nation.

On January ninth, 1996, a boy with an odd skeleton was unfortunately born into existence. With his homeless mother in need of cash, and too terrified to look at the child she gave birth too, she sold him to 'Mr. Father's Family of Freaks'; a popular circus show that obsesses over real-born monsters. This boy, born with no worth, sold into labor, and raised as a show, was taught that he was the mis-creation of man. He gives children nightmares, and make women scream, and never once was he told that it wasn't his fault. His name, is Cousin Ignominy. The clown with a deformed body. Bexley Valentino, an innocent seventeen year old, who doesn't believe in monsters, realizes just how important of a man Cousin Ignominy is. After seeing his show, and wallowing in her broken heart for the clown, she soon finds herself trying to break him out. She wants to show him how important it is to feel. How important it is to admire the world, but it doesn't take long for her to realize maybe he was locked up for a reason. ~~~ "You don't kill. You don't kill. You don't kill. If you learn that, you will remember where your morals stand. Hit them, bite them, burn them alive, but don't kill. Don't you ever go that low."

What if Cinderella had a stepbrother instead of stepsisters? What difference would it make? Well, try not to imagine. That's how Orchidella's story was told. Orchidella once thought she had a perfect family. Her mother, her father and her twin, Calla Lily were her happiness and joy and she wouldn't wish for more. However, days weren't always shone with lights and chirps of birds. Storms and thunders would always rid the peace away. Orchid never expected for her happy little family to fall apart, though, what she wished to stay was what she lost forever. She didn't understand why his father brought her away from her Mama and Calla but growing up, she had finally learnt that her family had broken and separated forever. Her father thought that her daughter missed a mother's care and love so he remarried for the sake of Orchid. However, Venda wasn't the one Orchid would want to call a mother. Losing her father, the only person she got to hold onto, Orchidella's life started to take turn. She had then to live with her mean stepmother, who happened to bring a son with her into the house. How could Orchidella's life change from having a sister to having a stepbrother? He had looks but she knew better than that. They said good look seldom comes with kindness. Years passed and Orchidella had become used to her new fate. But perhaps, a royal ball invitation could somehow chase the storm away and bring the light back into her dull life?

Nevaeh Grammar was as feisty, bold, and head strong as they come. Finally getting to work at her dream job at St. Andrews hospital her first day is nothing she imagined. Noah Ambrose was a notorious player heir to the Ambrose fortune. Groomed for perfection at the age of five and never hearing the word no. He knew that when he wanted something he got it no questions asked. So how does the richest man in New York end up with a broken leg, cracked rib, and amnesia only to believe his doctor is his girlfriend.

"He was the type of person people would write sad poems about." HIGHEST RANKING #1 in Depression-awareness HIGHEST RANKING #1 in sadstuck HIGHEST RANKING #1 in creative writing

Death was a cocoon. Inside it, he became something else. It was a shield that enveloped him, blotting out the pain and the fear. Then they brought him back, and the cocoon dissipated. Gone. Evaporated, like a drop of water on the scalding metal slats of the heating vent in his cell. But dying was always easy. Coming back tore him to pieces. Copyright 2018 All Rights Reserved Please don't steal this, y'all. Let me keep my faith in humanity.