Twenty-two Stories

Aren: single, mother, insecure, pisces. Michael: single, bold, blue-haired, scorpio. She had enough problems in her life being a struggling single mother. He came along and she wasn't expecting it. He's a hidden hurricane. But then again, so is she. She wasn't expecting that either.

15 year old Phoenix Aurora Sky thinks she has a supid name. Her parents don't seem to care about her anymore, until suddenly her friend Summer Evans goes missing. When she meets another unhumanily beautiful person such as herself, her name begins to make sense. What is she to do when she learns her and her friends aren't human? And what about Summer?

Cameo is an 18 year old living on her own and exploring life. She's usually a lucky, outgoing girl, until she meets the guy of her dreams, in the least likely place, Alex. They grow to have a strange friendship that even itself, has bumps in the road. They spring to an epic romance that comes with a lot more hate and emotional pain than what you hear normally. They have anything but a normal relationship. Alex is 22 years old, touring, and tries to make ends meet, but will everyone want ends to meet? Who gets left picking up every and all pieces after? Will age get in the way, will the nay sayers win? Or can something beautiful grow out of something tragic and hard? ((An ATL fanfiction.))

Lennox had been dancing since she was 5. But when you lose your spark for something you used to enjoy, will you ever get over it? When Lennox begins to crumble Niall Horan changes everything and helps her find a spark for something new. But will Niall always be there for her to help her when she loses her inspiration? [this was written in 2012, so you know what to expect...]

If it's not broken then don't fix it. But can the same be said about relationships? William has been living with his long term girlfriend for 5 years and at the brink of his 30th birthday, friends are beginning to wonder when he's going to pop the question. Stuck in his comfortable lifestyle in Los Angeles, he knows something is still missing. Distracted in pursuit of another job opportunity in Boston, William meets a young painter that not only challenges his views on happiness but makes him realize that in order to fix his state, something must be broken. What happens when his confidence and charm fail to persuade his new conquest? In order to ever have a chance, he must break himself from his old ways and accept the fact that sex won't win this inspiring girl's heart.

List of 22 things I achieved at age 22 !

'"At least you're not the girl who rejected Liam Payne 22 times." Except I was.' Everybody has that one guy; the one that got away. But not everybody can say that it's Liam Payne, and not everybody can say that he's back after three years, and that he hates you. It's complicated. - all rights reserved 2013 © cathartics

All kids go and grow up. Brooke is growing up and isn't stopping for anyone. Prequel to Bad Girls

An intimate journey into the bipolar mind of one woman struggling to cope with the symptoms of madness and the elation of mania. It chronicles the resulting hospitalization that led to a diagnosis that changed a young woman's life and resulted in a new way at looking at the division between sanity and the world of the insane. Chapters added regularly. Or read it whole at Amazon. Http://amazon.com/author/Melissa

"The Runt of the Litter" is a historical fiction novel about the mentally retarded in 1800s England. The large manor owned by controlling Sir Douglas Michaels is at breaking point, and all due to the shaming secret their attic holds. The one no one can speak of. While being historically accurate it looks into the lives of the head of the household, his wife, the eldest son, a man who could shape the future and of course... The eyes through the runt of the litter.

These are all the thoughts that stay cooped up inside my head, that I don't really tend to let out all that much, because when I do, I'm given oddly creeped out looks, and I get more than enough of those on a regular basis. This is not a work of fiction. It is however a work of HEAVY exaggeration, seeing as how this is not work. It is random crap. Good Day. Good Bye.

Hey, I'm a depressed, still-at-home-with-the-parents twenty something human and this is the story of my life. Strap yourself in kids it's going to be a incredibly underwhelming one. (I'm doing a great job at selling this..aren't I?)

Following her father's sudden death, Ellie with her mother left the family home in the city and moved to her mother's sister in the province to start anew. From that day on, she tried to leave the past behind her except for an unopened gift her father left her before his death. But she always didn't have the nerve to open it for according to him, it bears all his secrets. Ellie was starting to let go of everything by changing schools and making friends with a boy from her classroom with the same first name as hers. Ironically without her knowlegde, she gradually unravels her father's past that occured twenty-two years ago and discovers herself develop love and affection towards her classmate, Ely.

a hockey romance. slow burn, emotional, raw.