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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]]

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 . . .

brief synopsis: Ricky and Noah soon become rivals when Noah joins the school kid year, being a queer kid in the fifties and in a new environment then he's used to proves to be challenging. Ricky finds every way to test Noah's boundaries, leaving Noah to despise him.. but lost in thought maybe hate and annoyance isn't all he feels for Ricky.. their relationship as peers is extremely complicated but he feels something else bubbling under the surface that he can't quite pin point.

After Flora makes a terrible mistake on her eighteenth birthday, she loses everything, but when her father dies, she meets someone who could just save her from herself, and the girl she though was just an imaginary friend in her dreams as a child during the Second World War.

Lacy was your average fifties style house wife and would have done anything for her husband. A husband she doesnt love all to please her Mother. But what Lacy's mom doesnt know is that her husband is a psycopath and kills Lacy! Now Lacy is in between the worlds not quite here or there and when a skeptical detective pulls into the haunted houses lane things get interesting. Bodies start popping up with no souls and demons start showing up by the handful, though not all are what you might think...

My entry for JDWesson's Strings of Fancy Writing Competition. :) Enjoy. ........... Jolene Detective Sydney, Australia 1950s

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[2018 WATTYS WINNER] Louise Johnson was an African American teen living on the brink of the Space Race. Her hobbies included studying the twinkling night sky, ignoring her racist classmates, equally fantasizing about both killing and kissing Patricia Morris--and oh, using quantum teleportation to her own advantage by the means of a perplexing silver Ring. That was, until she found herself knee-deep in a heap of files revealing that the newly-formed NASA was hiding inconceivable research from Project Vanguard that should've destroyed the entire planet worse the than progressing Cold War. Now obviously, the forty-eight states of America are still intact, and so is our beloved Earth. But why? Fortunately for humanity, Louise Johnson and her diverse team of science-loving geeks turned the imminent apocalypse into just another facet of American history. And this is the entirely illegal story of how. [©2017-2018. All rights reserved.]

An older man and woman have worked in the same building for many years. He is Franklin G. Forsythe, the CEO: built the company with his own hands, is the epitome of success. He has never forgotten where he came from. However, he is also a widower. It has been some years since his amazing late wife Sammy has passed. They had raised two grown kids who are now struggling with life a bit but are otherwise good. He's warm, charming, friendly, etc. A wily silver fox, but the years of hard work and the loss of the love of his life have worn on him and retirement is just starting to loom in the far distance. His son is eager to take the reins, but Franklin fears he's not ready. Weary, he thinks, "What now?" She is Kathleen "Kitty" Hoffman, a cleaning lady, now head of the crew, knows the ins and outs of everybody on every floor, including romances and a few other secrets. Easygoing but introverted, unobtrusive, but brutally honest, goodnatured, respectful but sarcastic; she takes no crap from anyone regardless of rank. Fancy things never impressed her. Never truly found "the one." Well, and how could she? Kitty is a workhorse, often working 7 nights a week, the majority of her paycheck going to care for her ailing mother. Now her mother's physical and mental health have deteriorated to where she can no longer live independently. After having to live paycheck to paycheck for most of her adult life, Kitty now has something called free time, but fears the best years are behind her. What to do? Both have noticed the other in passing. Sort of. And one, if not both, may have a tiny soft spot for the other but never acted upon it. Until now.

A trip to the local coffee shop turned out to bring a man more than just a shot of caffeine in his system. It changed his life in ways he never thought could. Whe had found across the room- opened something in him.

Some short, song based stories...

Charleston, South Carolina 1952 PI Sam Bentley didn't like his newest client the moment he walked in the door, but Sam needs money so being picky isn't really an option. The client wants to find his wife who's been missing for two years. He can provide no other information, and Sam knows there's something shifty about the guy, something he just can't put his finger on. Kate Masters has been hiding out from a Russian jewel thief for two years, already suspecting that the man killed her father. Keeping her company is her mother and a large bag of expensive diamonds. Sam's client wants his jewels, and when Sam finds Kate and her mother, he's led the thief right to them. Now, he's got to use every single trick in his PI handbook to save Kate and her mother's life...as well as his own.

Read the the story to find out (*evil twittery laugh* I'm so evil aren't I?) But I will tell you that it involves - you'll never guess what - immigration, and journals!

Some time ago, I decided to write a novel about a hapless singer who was granted the chance wipe 10 songs from history and claim them as his own. They only downside was that he would have to face the consequences of the lyrics of the songs he chose. The idea was you could wander in anywhere and it would all come together. It didn't work. I wrote the intro and a few stand alone stories that had no way of being crowbarred into the attempted novel. One of them was 'Waterloo Sunset' this is another. Sometimes my personal favourite. A luckless singer would be actor in NYC in 1955 stumbles across the love of his life. This is their joyous life together, or is it?

The small town that is known for being one of the safest places to start and raise a family, is not so safe after all. Numerous children have gone missing in the course of just one month. As the police continue to claim that they have everything under control, four teenagers can't seem to believe them. Join the adventure of these teenagers on a mission to solve the mystery of Goldburd.

It's been over a decade since Jane has seen Peter Pan and she is now a reporter/source gatherer for the New York Times in the fifties. She wants to help people unite while she's a lonely woman who's unable to speak on controversial topics publicly. She's basically done with life and then Peter Pan walks into the picture, all grown up? What happened? Might he be able to help her get on her feet and change lives for good? Or will their story end the same way they departed from each other thirteen years ago? Will they finally allow themselves to express the emotions at the bottom of their souls for each other?

Fifties roleplay~ What could go wrong? Really, what could go wrong? :3

A 18-year-old Teddy Boy, James Anderson, become a pupil of the Whitwood Institute after the death of his mother, obliged by his aunt who hopes that the strict rules of the boarding school will put him back on the right path. But James' hatred of authority only amplifies when his freedom get restricted. So he comes up with the idea of a game, a secret game that would draw him out of this new dreary life and force his new friends to break the rules of the school. The Big Hunt. But soon, intoxicated by the wind of freedom that the game gives them, the Hunt becomes powerful, violent, unstopable. This is no longer a game. It's their life. ____ (I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad too)