[Coming-of-age, Romance, Existential, Japan] Seiji and Aoi have been inseparable childhood friends and eventually, high school sweethearts. Believing in naive dreams and love, all seems well until a tragedy separates them with a chasm of frozen time. As one struggles with the aftermath, the world moves on, while the other remains still. Battered by temptation and the pressure to grow up, he discovers that life is more complicated than he thought - and that the heart and mind is quite vulnerable to change. Secondhand Memories is an emotional young adult coming-of-age story: a journey about the meaning of growing up, love, loss and sacrifice. --- Originally serialized online in 2008 (Textnovel), Secondhand Memories pioneered the Japanese cell phone novel phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a moment in history of a new literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally. The remarkably unique fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique and prose narrative has re-envisioned technology, youth culture, community and literature. This is the Wattpad version of the first draft, where each chapter is originally on separate pages, it is now compiled together for technical reasons. The pioneer English cell phone novel from 2008 is finally published in print and released as a beautiful 6" x 9" 558 page book with stunning illustrations, interior formatting and graphic design on Valentine's Day 2015 by Sakura Publishing, eagerly anticipated by fans and fellow cell phone novelists as a keepsake, fond memories, collector's item and inspirational reading pleasure. Order online via Amazon, Sakura Publishing, and more locations coming soon. More info, links, products, events and previews: http://secondhandmemories.net - From the early writing days of the featured award-winning author of visionary literary novel, "Espresso Love".

Abbie Tuck, she's a cool fun-loving girl and she lives with her messed up family in an all boys boarding school. She's faced everyday by boys and even more boys. Her life changed when Noah Carrow, the new kid arrives at school. She's lumbered with him as a roommate while a spare room is being made up for him. Noah is an emo and a troubled teen, he slowly falls in love with Abbie but then shortly after realises their love is forbidden. He and Abbie face challenges with their love and their school life and they're forced to face their fears when they are placed in a life or death situation. In this book everyone belongs to someone and the feeling of being loyal and true to everyone around you is strongly felt here.

After surviving a war to end all wars the world is in shambles, knocked back into a pre-modern age. Matt Harris is just a simple farm boy, trying to help his family carve out a living in the desolate wastes. When his sister is kidnapped by men with technologically advanced gear, he sets out on a journey to rescue her and is soon wrapped up in events that will decide the fate of the world and its people.

Set in the future, where the government controls everything, up to the day you die. They have your 'expiration date' tattooed on your foot the day you are born. So the minutes are ticking in your head, as you get closer and closer to your final breath. This is a story of Ellie; a girl who lives her life the government has given her with no complaints; this is the way things have always been, right? But then she meets Peter; a boy who questions athority, a boy that knows far more than he should. And he teaches Ellie of many extinct thing, including the one extinct emotion; Love.

Have you ever felt that your world was crashing all around you? Have you ever felt completely out of control? Have you ever just wanted something, anything, to go right just once? That's how these fourteen teenagers feel. Lost, abandoned, forgotten. It's their life story. Each and everyone of them just want this summer to be perfect- they need it to be perfect.