Tbpa2016 Stories

The Book Party Awards 2016 Summer Edition You may not win the Wattys or whatever tight competition out there due to being Undiscovered, but you'll surely be able to get an honorable award here!

In the morning a few hours after Evelyn and her girlfriend, Kaylee, left for Paris, Evelyn's parents, brother, best friend, and ex-boyfriend found letters for each and every one of them explaining why she's in love with a girl. • completed • inspired by the song Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko • Bronze prize for TBPA2016 Summer Edition by The Book Party

Back in 2015 there was an accident that rocked Aurora Brahm's world. No, it wasn't a skydiving accident like she always joked she would die from. It wasn't from swimming with stingrays or sharks. It wasn't from jumping off a cliff with her husband, Jude. It was a lapse in concentration and incoming traffic. It took her world. Jude has been in a coma ever since, and the doctors have very little hope that he will recover from his vegetative state. But Aurora won't give up. This is the fight for Jude Brahm. ~ ~ ~ "The most bizarre mix of emotions twisting my stomach. Seriously, this book is amazing. I have never, and I read A LOT so I mean NEVER, read something that made me so happy and excited yet sad and completely devastated at the same time. . ." - Michelle from @KaraMichelleBooks , coauthor of Breeder Nation "This is so emotional and, at the same time, very cute! I'm in love with your story." - @amethystnebula "I am seriously in love with your story. It's probably one of the sweetest I've read in a long time. And the idea is ingenious!" - @QuixoticHearts "I love this story! The time jumps work because of the letter/journal format, and the memories/scenes you've picked to show are perfect, like the highlights of what made their relationship what it was. I absolutely love their relationship and you have created these characters so vividly." - @CCrawfordWriting gorgeous cover by @pasteldevil- ^-^

A story (playwright script) about a six-teen year old, who is struggling to make new friends in a new school at Romeoville, Illinois.

Sometimes no one can save you... Madeleine Kingston is dead. They tried to save her but it was to late. Grace Jacobs isn't dead, but she might as well be. Madeleine was her best friend, yet she couldn't see the signs. James Kingston is broken. Madeleine was his twin sister and now half of himself is gone. When Madeleine died she took a piece of both Grace and James with her. Both Grace and James are left devastated,but they find a box full of letters from Madeleine. Twenty for Grace,twenty for James, forty letters total. And all these letters lead up to the day Madeleine died. Highest Ranking: #29 in Short Story Readers Choice SummerSunAwards #1 Summer Time Sadness Award WritersStruggle #1 Short Story in the Contemporary Reads Awards Amazing cover by @Burningbrightfire

Not all's fair. cover by: vectorious

If the chance to change you into someone more attractive came knocking on your door, would you accept it? _______________ Amber Corinne Evans has been living in a world where everyone is insecure about their beauty-the society we live in now. However, there is the Inner City and the Outer City-and the Inner City's houses float over a giant gaping hole called The Black Hole. Edit is their escape. It gives them a façade, one that can hide them from their "ugly" selves, from the judging people of the world. But when Amber falls into The Black Hole, she finds out all of Edit's secrets...and not all of them are pleasant. Beautiful cover by @ExpeliamusMuggle

Most people -- if they invented a story-creating computer program -- would stop at nothing to make it work somehow. If twenty-five year old Charlotte Lang wasn't so held back by her past and her tedious job as a computer animation artist, she'd probably do that, too. But after years of being overwhelmed by guilt as a result of something that happened to her beloved sister, she has lost the will to fight for her invention. Charlotte's half-hearted attempts to get her story-building program to work have been less-than-successful for the last seven years. When she gives the main character on her latest attempt a fatal flaw, she doesn't expect it to make a difference one way or the other. It probably won't work anyway, right? Unfortunately for this flawed character, the program does work. Paris Verloren, a mechanic in a dirty, gray-skied city doesn't belong in the white side of town or the black. He has some problems of his own. Aside from his inability to love-thanks to Charlotte Lang-he doesn't relate with his elder half-brother, the business at his mechanic shop is slow, life is hard, and there's a girl who has attached herself to him. Femi, a colorless, mute painter whose name means "love me", has nothing if not her painting, and no one to speak of who cares about her. When Paris comes upon the scene of her painting an alley, she seizes the opportunity to love someone. With Paris' inability to love, and Femi's clear need for love in her lonely existence, what will become of the two? Will their creator, Charlotte Lang, do anything to counteract the impending misfortune written in the form of fact? #678 General Fiction 3/30/16 ©2015 Alyssa Tidmore All rights reserved