Everyone's heard a picture is worth a thousand words, but when you only have a few months to live it can be worth so much more. Noah Prescott wanted nothing more than to be your everyday typical 15-year-old boy, but with stage 4 melanoma, he was anything but normal. Depressed and completely ready to give up on life, he has lost all interest in the world around him. That is until he meets Glenn Green, the dying boy with a sunny disposition. Unable to accept Noah's pessimistic outlook on life, Glenn sets out to show the younger teen that life might not turn out how he pictured it, but it can still hold so much beauty. That is, if you know where to look.
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*Featured Story*
The world around her was in flames.
But she didn't care. She was too engulfed in her own brand of fire. The heat of the fight, the taste of blood on her lips, the excitement of metal hitting metal or penetrating flesh - these were the things that made her feel alive. This is what she was designed for, this is why Alanis was created: to fight, to kill and to revel in it.