Diverse Stories

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris? ***** 24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) ) In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes... "Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ ***** On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other. As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going? [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by Ray Gardener

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . . After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed-new apartment, new school, new family dynamic-and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself-even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Life can be overwhelming for teens. Especially at Cambridge City Secondary School. Episodes are releasing every Saturday at 7 p.m. GMT, starting from Saturday 12 of September until Saturday 3rd of April 2027. This will give us 30 episodes in total. This isn't ongoing forever like most soap operas because I am still in school doing my own GCSEs, and it'll get way too stressful for me to continue this story into year eleven. I tried to cover the time that most holidays happen, so we can see the characters at Christmas and Halloween and New Year's Day, and it ends when they break up for the Easter half term. Bidects is heavily different than my other projects like Drama Room. I wanted to write something fast paced and easy to read, mostly lighthearted, centred around relatable people my age, mostly going through relatable things that we all struggle with. Okay, maybe not all of it is relatable... That being said, this (kind of) soap opera still touches on lots of difficult and dark themes. There are storylines including abuse, trauma, assault, addiction and terrorism. I am currently doing my GCSEs so I won't be able to update this as much as I would like to. Please feel free to give me any feedback you like in the Wattpad comments, my writing is open to all interpretations and I am open to all opinions and storyline suggestions. Fetauring some Bidects characters, and centred around the school play, Drama Room is also available on my page, episodes every other Wednesday. Thanks so much for taking time to read this enormous description. It means a lot that you'd care about my writing. I am very open to feed

In limbo where gods and angels reign, an old evil emerges. Something echos in the depths of the verse and an angel prays her training is enough to save her sanity and family as war finds their little piece of the heavens. Alexia was raised by a single mother, sheltered, the only thing she knows is she doesn't want to be married off to some arrogant, demanding, man. As she is raised to peerage as one of the realms last demon slayers she wonders if she will own her power or will it enslave her? Read along as Alexia and her classmates travel the realm battling demons, fighting ninjas, and finding true love.

Heritage: The Unravelling Book 2 In a world that eats people, you either become teeth... or you find someone who refuses to let you be on the menu. Lena isn't broken. She's messy, dyslexic, ADHD, and tired of being edited out. School wants her proper. Home wants her small. The world wants her gone. Then the darkness offers her a deal. She falls into the cartel. Not because she's naive. Because she's desperate. And the only person who sees her clearly is the son of the man who built it. Rowan was made to be a king. He's spent his life performing for his father. Until Lena. Now he has a choice: burn the world down, or learn to guard it. This is a story about a voice. About who gets to have it. About two people learning that strength isn't berserk. Sometimes it's quiet. Sometimes it's tea. Sometimes it's checking every 3 days. Reader discretion: abuse, mental health crises, addiction, cartel violence.

Basma Alami just wants to survive senior year, get through her chem test, and maybe get a decent night's sleep, none of which is possible when Julian Vance's bedroom window faces hers. He's the middle Vance brother: soccer star, effortlessly charming with everyone except her, and apparently allergic to turning his music down before midnight. She's sworn she's over him, not obsessed, completely fine, she just can't stop noticing him. Or being noticed back. Between chaotic best friends, a beach town full of gossip, and two sets of curtains that keep getting pulled back at exactly the wrong moment, Basma is about to learn that some things are a lot harder to ignore once you've seen them up close.

Imani is turning eighteen with no path in mind. Born into the poverty of Substris, she expects to fail the upcoming Inspection as all those from Substis do. But the life has other plans. Soon Imani is faced with her new daunting reality. In a place of violence, where everyone is shaped into the weapons the Empire needs them to be, Imani feels lost. Now the question is, can she survive and if she does, will she still be Imani or something completely different?

A young first year, Harvey Goldshaw, has three expectations for the year: find his sister's cheating fiancé, break the engagement, and study. What he did not expect was finding a soft spoken, people pleasing boy who might or might not have been corresponding with his to-be-engaged sister. Too bad Harvey wants the boy to be his. Copyright © 2020 anudvega. All rights reserved.

𝒋𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒕? 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆.

This book is a collection of all my Writer's Workshop stories and poems for my senior year of high school. Just a fun little collection to look over as I advance with my writing and reading skills! These are posted in order of creation but they will alter as we did short-fiction first then poetry. So, I will have my first-ever short-fiction story assignment first then my first-ever poetry assignment ever.

"He's the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded." **** It has been two years since Emmett and his buddies ran Easton Grey, the notorious bad boy, off the cliff and into a coma. The boys never confessed to doing it and they got away, peacefully. They all vowed to never speak about it again. But Emmett can't help but discuss the incident when Delilah Rose, Easton Grey's partner in crime, made a grand entrance back into town two years after her friends accident. And to make matters worse the boys begin receiving life-threatening messages. Someone wanted revenge on the five boys. And all fingers were pointed directly at Lila Rose.

Everyone thinks that madi has a perfect life. A rich family, a hot boyfriend, and lives in the greatest city (New York). But do you think you know what she is going through?

I love WTNV and Cecilos so I thought I'd write some of these! Can't promise anything in regards to the content, but I do my best.

< Photography is the story I fail to put into words ~ Destin Sparks > Blurb Jasmine Jamieson has always wanted her broken family to return back to how they all were before an unfortunate event happened which changed everything. What happens when she's finally given the opportunity in the form of her Dad's election. ____________________ 1𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕟 9𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕟 𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕤 5𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕟 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕤 _____________________ Timeline: Ongoing Started: 22nd October,2020 Finished: ?? Copyright©️ All rights reserved ©️ Melissa Etinosa. No part of this work can be reproduced, published or used without the authors written permission. Disclaimer Some of the pictures, videos and a few of the quotes used in this book do not belong to me.

Typical story where the guitarist and the drummer fall in love with each other. MLM

This story follows a lil boy who just moved into a new area with his people. He battles trying to fit in and make friends, with trying to keep his nose out of trouble. Lil bro got a good head on his shoulders, but sometimes it don't show. Give 'em time though, he learnin' as he go.

In which Akshara Zim, the owner of too many heartbreaks, finds her soulmate only to realize his name could ruin her final chance at love. ~ [extended description inside] ~ a novella [25,000 - 30,000 words]