Being-yourself Stories

When Zoe hits eleventh grade, she's not at all excited. With all the pressure of being class president and captain of three different clubs, she is stressed about the new year. When she goes to relieve some pressure in her back yard, she finds a portal to another world, where she thinks it's the best place in the universe. Meanwhile, Quinn has her life ran for her. With her royal fairy duties down to filing her nails, Quinn's royal fairies in waiting do everything for her. When Zoe and Quinn find each other, they realize that they have each other's dream lives. They decide to switch places, just to have a change for once, but can it work? Can they really pull off being each other? Find out in this incredible story about friendship, magic and being yourself.

Aurora Wright is the popular girl that everyone wants to be but unlike most typical popular girls she isn't mean or stuck-up or anything she's just 'perfect' as people would say but what people don't know is that Aurora hates being popular she hates the spotlight on her everyday at school and she hates people calling her 'perfect' when she knows she isn't perfect like they think she is. Logan Daniels a boy who transfers in a week after school starts and the only person in the school that thinks of Aurora as 'Klutzy', 'Immature', 'Stupid', and most of all 'Annoying' and most possibly the person who will teach Aurora how it feels to actually Be herself. Will Aurora show her true self around Everyone else or Will she want to continue to act fake?

Wendy looked out the window at the pine trees and log cabins and worried - what if the other kids made fun of her for what she brought?

This was a personal piece that I had to write for a Religion assignment last year. It has some mention of mature subjects-such as depression and eating disorders-but only in passing, not in detail.

I honestly couldn't give one less sh*t about what my parents think, one less sh*t about what anyone thinks. I'm me, myself, I mean, it's my f*cking life, not theirs, so who gives them the right to control it?