This is a poetry/journal book about my experience in the Psych Ward. It's all true accounts with names changed for privacy. I wrote this while in the ward, except for the last day. Please take care in reading. If topics of suicide, depression, rape, molestation, and other possible topics are triggering for you, this may not be suitable to be read. [This poetry book is completed ✔] Ranking: #1 in poetry #4 in poem #10 in nonfiction #16 in Short story

بسم الله Islam is like a rose. The farther the petals are from the center, the easier it is for them to be plagued with infestation and crinkle up and die. Petals close to the center receive layers of protection and the best nutrients. Muslims that aren't close to Islam fall prey to their peers and environment so easily versus the Muslim's closer to Islam who are the last one's to be victimized to the surrounding world. Meet Layana Ansari. She is what you would call an outsider petal, for she had fallen prey to infestation. Wearing miniskirts and eyeliner, she rules her high school along with her best friend Aurora Kingston and her perfect boyfriend Cameron Evans. She has even given up her Muslim name and taken to being called 'Lana'. No one would ever put 'Lana' and Islam in the same sentence because it just wasn't possible. Meet Seyfullah Ansar. He would be considered an insider petal; his life revolving around Islam. It was his sanctuary from the evil world filled with evil people. He is truly put to the test when his family moves and has to attend a new school. Layana and Seyfullah were two people with no relation to each other before Allah (SWT) destined for them to meet. With a path full of turns and thorns, there is no telling what might happen. (Not your traditional love story) (This story was started 5/1/15)

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.