A collection of true, amusing stories from the past.

This story is about a group of teenagers with something remarkable, something they have in common yet each of them has a different one. First, there is April, she is suffering from anxiousness. Her best friend Ryan, who she has known for years, has got anger issues. Beside that, he has started to act a bit vaguely towards April which leaves her with confusing thoughts. And then there is James: A guy who has caught April's attention lately. He acts and looks mysterious, but there is something that nobody, not even James himself, knows. The other friends, Stella and Alyssa, have got their own problems too. Stella overthinks and this brings her (according to herself) in the worst situations of her life. And Alyssa struggles with her feelings towards her ex-boyfriend and Ryan who is her current boyfriend. Not only that, but she seems to get sick quite often suddenly. It's a drama story about five High School teenagers and their problems in life. This doesn't mean that they live their life with just negativity, though. The story brings you romance, true friendship and you will also see that everyone walks with his or her own story. Remember, we all have our own problems, so don't think you have it better or worse than someone else. Everyone has experienced bad luck, whether you believe it or not. So has this group of five teens and they are waiting for their second chance on luck, love, friendship and not to forget health. Will they get their second chance? And if they do, will they deserve it? ! Autor's note: Please vote and comment on this story. Your opinion is what motivates me and keeps me writing :) !! Every comment that I think is funny, cute, or a good review (critism also), will get a dedication on the next chapter PLUS a shout out ༼ つ ◕⌣◕ ༽つ I will choose one person per chapter ;) SO COMMENT AND REVIEW SOMETHING UNIQUE ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ!!

When the Hemmingway's go into debt, their only hope out of their dilemma is their daughter, Rhea. Rhea realizes the situation and immediately agrees to help her parents. But marriage? Not what she hoped for, especially when she had become known to the ton as a Wallflower. When it comes time for Rhea to meet her future beloved, she's shocked at how intense their bond is. Although Hadrian Vale abruptly refuses to marry the girl, he immediately has a change of heart when he meets her. But somebody has held a grudge against the Vale's, and soon Hadrian finds that his wife is being victimized for it. Can he protect the woman that he promised to cherish, in sickness and health? And maybe even the woman he's come to love?

The daughters of Jeff the Killer and Iris, his wife, are living with their parents in harmony. It's quiet, Jeff seems to be managing his desire for blood by going on killing sprees, and motherhood comes very easily to Iris. But, when Jeff gets an odd warning from Zalgo, he realizes that for one of his daughters, history is going to repeat itself. When the girls grow up, disaster after disaster, blow after blow, they still survive. But, when the two of them begin falling in love with people they least likely expected, all hell is unleashed. Jeff is furious. Now, all they have to do is keep their relationships stable and under control, and their But, with parents like theirs, it may not be very easy.

Iris Morerose is a girl living with her at home father, her little brother who has too big of an imagination to the point of where it worries Iris, and her working mother who works from seven to twelve every day. She has a hatred for her father, who is having an affair with a slutty woman, but other than that, has a very happy life. Jeffrey Philips, better known as Jeff the Killer, lives in an abandoned city that is hidden using Slender Man's powers. One day, BEN, Masky, Hoody, and Jeff are walking down the streets of Iris's home town when he sees her. He plans on killing her when his life is saved by the girl. What follows is him falling for her, and taking her to be his beautiful lover. She, being her sassy self, has quite a few things to say about this. Will she escape him and his friends and go back home, or will she become the killer's girl?

Aurelia, a Noble Roman woman, had heard of the savage British tribes, their mystic Celtic ways, and the battles the Roman army was fighting against them on their shores. The battles her soon-to-be Husband, Quintus Acquilla, was fighting in the name of the Eagle. But she could not have predicted that, when she crossed the ocean to be with him and fulfil the marriage contract between their families, she would be captured by a Barbarian War Lord and made to be his War Prize...

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"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

************************************************************************************** An outcast rogue must break a curse put on his fate, or die on his nineteenth birthday. To survive, he'll need the sword of a maiden, the aid of an immortal, and the power of forbidden magic that could cost him the only girl he ever loved. ************************************************************************************ *** THE JACK OF SOULS won a Silver IPPY this year! *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the PNWA Competition in Fantasy! * *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the Southwest Writers competition! * *** A "Featured Book" on Wattpad! * *** Now a "Staff Pick" on Kickstarter! * *** Available on Amazon in paper, hardback, and ebook ! * *** My contract with Kindle Select won't allow me to post more than 3 chapters here, but... *** Sign up for my newsletter on stephenmerlino.com for alerts when it's free on Amazon! * MY INSPIRATION I wrote this out of pure love of trickster rogues; I love the wit over brawn motif -- Odysseus over Achilles, Raven over Eagle -- so I like to play with it in my stories. In JOS I set the rogue and con-artist Harric against a foil of warriors in a land threatened by magic and civil war. Whenever possible I turn familiar tropes on their heads: instead of a handsome young Lancelot, I cast a broken-down ex-champion addicted to pain-killing herbs; instead of a dashing Squire Brian, the old knight reluctantly takes an ambitious young woman as squire. Similarly, I re-imagine the standard medieval milieu by infusing aspects of two of my favorite historical periods, Elizabethan England, and The American Frontier. Both eras boast a kind of nationalistic arrogance that borders on hubris, and a magnificent spirit of resourcefulness and re-invention that is fun to play with. SERIES The Jack of Souls is first in a series. I am posting parts of the sequel here now (The Knave of Souls), to help me refine the story.

Russian heiress Tatiana Rostova thought that her 'happily ever after' would be with her beloved fiance. However, the people she cared about most betrayed her and left her dying. Saved by a handsome Italian duke, a plan of revenge blooms. ******* Tatiana Rostova took upon herself to seek revenge on the two people she loved the most after their betrayal left her half-dead, even if it meant she had to sell herself to the devil-especially since the devil is in the form of the handsome six-foot-two, silver-eyed Italian duke named Lucca Cavelli. This wallflower vowed to take everything that is rightfully hers. But in the process of her revenge, will she be willing to risk her heart again? Cover designed by Ren Tachibana