2nd place in the teen fiction category for The Waterfall Awards. Amazing banner by @Mysteriouswriter2006 "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston S. Churchill. Amelia Sanders, a 17-year old girl has always wanted to be a designer since she was little, inspired by her look-alike mom. When mom dies, dad becomes indifferent to her dreams, and she will need to prove that she can be successful. Her last year in Brookwood High School, Georgia, she gets a job in a famous industry, Fashionista and all she has to do is attend a three year program in Rome. All is going well but she learns that success is never easy especially with a bully from work, cultural clashes, love, betrayal and lies. "Amelia Sanders, you have been given a job in Fashionista. Your passion and enthusiasm for designing has earned you a place here." Copyright ©2018

💌💌💌💌 Four short poems Written by a girl Plagued with various ideas of beauty None of which depicts her own skin But a hope within Opens her eyes to the truth that Each shade of African skin Is beyond beautiful and complete 💌💌💌💌

[COMPLETED] "You're so beautiful." He whispers, his thumb brushing against my bottom lip. "It's a shame you won't be so much when I'm finished with you. I'm gonna play you like a piano, my precious girl." "We shouldn't be doing this Cyrus." I whisper staring up at him. His face hardens and he slips his thumb in between my lips. "Open your legs for me, pretty baby." In which a dominant, thirty year old man, who has never been in a serious relationship, becomes infatuated with a twenty-three year old black girl.