you are born and then you die. but it's the things in between that they don't tell you about. it's the monsters and the demons they don't arm you against. the people with their smiles and careful words who turn out to be the ones with the sharpest knives. the shadows in your mind that manifest into your deepest, darkest fears. the in between is where you want to flatline, but you are given a reason not to.

| a true story about a boy who hides his pain behind his smile and a girl determined to see it | - FREE story with paid Exclusive Chapters and Writer Reveals - Twice Featured - Taylor Ming is trying to cope with the aftermath of her twin brother's suicide, and her depressed mother and avoidant father aren't really helping. With one of her friends' self-harming while another deals with a chronically ill boyfriend, being diagnosed with Diabetes and forced to use insulin thrice a day is Taylor's worst nightmare. When she catches the school's golden boy Shane Gray popping pills in a bathroom, then, Taylor is sure she's in a living hell. Is he depressed? Is he using drugs? She's afraid of losing more people and strikes a deal with Shane. He'll tell her if he ever has the urge to hurt himself and she'll keep his secret. What neither of them knows, however, is that he's already hurting himself without knowing it. And Shane's life is falling apart quicker than Taylor's. Because life isn't black and white and, sometimes, seeing gray can make all the difference. Warning: The story talks about suicide, self-harm, drug use, and mental health problems which may be triggering for some readers.

• Highest Ranking #1 in Bulimia • •Highest Ranking #1 in Free Mental Illness • He's a quarterback struggling with a secret eating disorder that's destroying his life. She's a food-fanatic who loves every curve in her beautiful body. When their school is entered into Food Networks, "Chew With Schools" television cooking competition- Cira and Will are teamed up, and the crazy thing is. They might actually win.

••• Jonah Mchale's junior year of High school was supposed to be different. Life changing. He was supposed to win his football championships, get scouted by a first division college team, ace his SATs, go to prom with his long-time girlfriend Nicole. He never meant to get injured. To get a concussion during a game. To get prescribed opioids, to buy heroin in a dark alley at 3 am. Jonah Mchale wasn't supposed to spend his junior year chasing his next high. He was never supposed to stop living. •••

*Highest rank #10 in Short Story* (Featured By Wattpad) By the end of the night two teenagers were dead. Mason Dale was killed. His throat slit by a beers broken glass. He was found in his friends basement. Some say his death was an accident, others say it was murder. Alice O'Conner committed suicide. She jumped off a bridge and drowned. She didn't leave a note. There was only one thing that connected their deaths that night. A party, one that would change the town Allenwood forever, and unleash its most hidden secrets. ••• Follow Alex and Elizabeth as they begin to unravel a secret, a secret so knotted it's begging to escape. •••COMPLETED••• This beautiful cover was created by @peachspit

Told between before the dark and after Morgan Amy recounts the trauma and loss she experiences after a tragic school shooting. Morgan never thought she'd ever be affected by gun violence. But now the aftermath of what was supposed to be a normal school day is everywhere. Loss is laced in every word she speaks, blood is stained permanently on her hands. She was supposed to be safe. But she wasn't. And now nothing would ever be the same. And the worst part is, she feels at blame. ...

A high school wrestler finds his life spiraling out of his control. Liam García never meant to let cutting weight consume him. He never meant to find solace in the starving or the purging. He loved the sport more than anything. Until it started to destroy.

Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Pretty hair and pretty eyes. Pretty face and pretty body. Pretty laugh and pretty smile. Everyone knows Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Everyone loves Brooklyn Quinn. Except Brooklyn Quinn. {Trigger Warning: This story will have strong mentions of anorexia, self-destruction, and briefly suicide at times.}

Life doesn't abide by the rules of a child. Sixteen-year-old Ramona knows this. She's seen it throughout her entire life, from the way she was treated by her birth parents to the way she was thrown around the foster system with nothing but her little brother, Mason, to hold onto. Every bruised cheek and broken bone has slowly shattered Ramona's trust in the system and any foster parent she's ever met. In the end, it's only Mason she can trust. Her life is dedicated to making his better, and focused solely on sheltering him from the pain of feeling as lonely as she is. That is, until Ramona gets news one day that may just uproot everything she's ever believed about her and Mason's situation. Everything is about change for Mason, all because of a man named Owen Parker. He wants to take the only thing that Ramona has ever truly loved. He wants to adopt her brother, and there is nothing she can do to stop him. Though after years of running and years of pain, Ramona knows just how badly Mason needs a home. It's a breath of fresh air for him, a family filled with love, and everything that Mason has never had. But then, what about Ramona? She's brotherless, parentless, and alone in a city that has never cared about her. She has to find a way to cope, and she has to find a way to forgive the man who took her little boy from her. But she can't cope, she can't forgive, and she can only bend so many times before she breaks. - - Warning: This story deals with mature content that may be difficult for some to read, such as self-harm, suicide, drug use, abuse, depression, anxiety, and sexual harassment. - - Highest Ranks: |#1| - adopted |#1| - fosterkid |#1| - fostercare |#1| - foster |#1| - suicideawareness |#1| - recovery |#1| - comingofage |#1| - mentalillness |#1| - strength |#2| - adoption

Boys don't have eating disorders. Those are only for vain, teenage girls. Not for Alex. Alex Rivera doesn't know why he started counting calories or why he's addicted to stepping on the scale. He just knows it's what he needs to do. His parents don't understand, and neither does his twin brother - the hotshot player of the school. His little sister doesn't get it. His fucking pet lizard doesn't get it. None of them understand how, a family so happy and so healthy, could've festered this disorder. A disorder that's taken everything from Alex. As the heartbreaking secrets unfold and Alex's disorder is brought under the microscope, the Riveras must find a way to get by, even through the impossibility of Alex's eating disorder, a molestation charge, and the realization that pain isn't always clear-cut and obvious. Told through multiple point of views, The Way We Get By shines a light on the often ignored side of mental health and eating disorders, and it shows that with a little love, humor, and sacrifice, absolutely anything is possible. - - Highest Ranks: |#1| - ednos |#1| - disorder |#1| - mentalillness |#2| - eating |#3| - recovery