#Wattys2014 Award Winner: This candid, heartfelt collection of essays addresses many of life's thorniest challenges. Whether you struggle with a perennially messy house, run away worrying, depression, an unhappy relationship, mega-stress or even the devastating loss of a loved one, give yourself the gift of The Power Of Rest. You'll find comfort, encouragement and inspiration here, and come away with a renewed appreciation of your own inner wisdom and innate desire for peace, gratitude and simplicity.

When seventeen year-old Runner was sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread in MegaCity One, his dreams were literally at an end. But then he opts to sign up for the Remnants of Men, a government sanctioned search for a rumoured fresh water lake beyond a radiated wasteland. At first, it seemed like a second chance to a new life, the transformation from zero to hero. But after an encounter with a rabid gang of men suffering an acute insanity, he soon comes to understand that he is one of many discarded into the wasteland to study the cannibalistic effects of a new drug called the Sixth Sense. Olivia Patterson has had one too many doses of the Sixth Sense and owes a massive debt to a shadowy rebel and loan shark called Death-Throe. Being the daughter of the City's dictator, she knows too well that the gallows awaits any who associates with the rebel. In an attempt to free herself, she acquires an asset in the form of Runner and finds herself always at the edge, for if he survives it means freedom for both, but if he dies...

For Jessalyn and her mom, moving to the small town of Avondale, California seemed like the perfect decision; they wanted the new scenery but what they really needed was a new start. Jessalyn Hartley had always been shy and one to keep to herself, but now, as she enters her final year of high school at Crestview High, she's more determined than ever to stay hidden in the shadows. However, all of that may change when she crosses paths with the supposed bad boy; Cason Michaels, and figures out that maybe she just had to meet the right person to break her out of her shell.

Shattered. Broken. Destroyed. If you took a look inside of Kanya Alizes' heart, this is what you would see: a city, it's remnants nothing but rubble. This city, once so bright, so hopeful, lays in ruins. Abused at school, abused at home, there is nowhere safe for Kanya. She has no one. Will she able to struggle on, bearing the burden and grief of a much older person, or will she finally give in and end her life? Because, in her mind, real Hell is better than her own personal one. But one fateful night, Kanya stumbles into a karaoke bar, where "stars learn to shine". She takes a chance... and steps up to that stage. Suddenly, at night, she becomes a hometown rockstar, someone who matters, someone who other people care if she lives or dies. Can she take her newfound confidence, and find herself in her city of rubble, and make it whole again? This is a touching tale of how you can rise to the top, over the people who hurt you. And that somebody always has it worse than you, and there are ways to handle it.

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Another one-off festive short story from me! Hope you guys enjoy it, and Merry Christmas :) xo

A collection of my daughters poems.

Earth places Mars under martial law, after a group of Martian colonists launch a revolution against the distant Earth government. For decades, the people of Mars have worked to terraform the planet for a future generation of elite Earth citizens, but now they are claiming it for themselves.