|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever they don't have. All they have is August, and they try to make it enough. [Features a commissioned bonus chapter for the JCPenny #DreamPromposal contest] __________________________ Alex Light © All rights reserved 2018

(Watty Awards 2016) A football player struggles to uphold his unspeakable reputation when he chances upon a girl who reminds him of sunshine and flowers.

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a run in with Death himself and is offered the chance to go back in time to stop Archer from ending his life. The catch? She only has twenty-seven days to do it. And if Hadley doesn't succeed? Well, she doesn't want to think about that.

*** THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO "ALL TOO WELL" *** "You destroyed her," he shouted before he covered his face with both of his hands. I nodded slowly while closing my eyes for a brief moment. "That's right. I did. I destroyed her and guess what? That destroyed me even more." "You broke a perfectly good heart," he stated the obvious. "And that broke me completely." - What if someone truly loved you despite everything you put them through? What if someone was there for you during your darkest times? What if someone would've taken a bullet for you? And what if you were the one pulling the trigger? What if you were the one who destroyed them, broke them, hurt them? How would you be able to deal with that? How would you be able to deal with the fact that you didn't just ruin someone else's life, but also made them lose who they were before you?