Green Eyes
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Last published Sat, Jul 30, 2016
He might have lived an ordinary life. If his family hadn't died in an accident due to a military-based experiment when he was four, he might have had a normal childhood, too.
That wasn't the only upset in his destiny, however. The government--in a hasty attempt to cover up the accident--sent him to a children's home for the mentally insane.
That wouldn't be such a problem now, if he wasn't overage, and if child protection hadn't recently dug up some information concerning his intact sanity.
So at the age of nineteen, Daniel Starr is being forced into a different prison--a counseling home for troubled young adults.
..................
She would never have lived an ordinary life. Having been impounded at age 15 for suspected murder, she never had much of a chance at a good one, either. And after being moved to the home a month ago--due to being diagnosed with bipolar syndrome, insomnia, and depression--that chance is dwindled even smaller.
In the middle of discovering what life is like, and the existence of a man named Jesus, Daniel is found to have something going wrong with his brain stem--possibly from complications of the accident in his childhood--he decides for the first time in his life, to have a friend.
He chooses Riley.
So will things work out? Or will her complicated problems send Daniel and his illness up in a cloud of smoke?
Copyright Alyssa Tidmore 2015
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