“I frowned and thought about how stupid people can be sometimes. They’re always asking me how does it feel not to have a father. How can I know the answer to that? I don’t have anything to compare it to. It feels the way it feels. Like if you were born blind. I hate...
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Romance
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
If I Tell
“…if only I hadn’t gone to that party. I never would’ve seen what I did. Jackson wouldn’t have driven me home. I wouldn’t have started falling for a guy just out of reform school. I could go back to pretending everything was normal. I wouldn’t be keeping a secret that could blow our family...
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Someone Like You
Hailey was quiet, shy, and her best friend was her mom. When a new neighbor arrived, Scarlet, she started drifting away from her and her mom’s relationship and that’s when Scarlet took over the best friend spot. Scarlet was a boy crazy, adventures, popular girl making Halley her sidekick. They did everything best friends...
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Pandemonium
“When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die.” After losing the love of her life to the police, Lena Hathoway, must fight to stay alive in “The Wilds”. Within days she has given up, she prepares herself to die, until...
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Looking For Alaska
Everything changes for Miles Halter the day he meets Alaska young. With nothing but his few belongings from home and the ability to memorize people’s last words, Miles, or “Pudge,” sets off to Culver Creek Boarding School, located in the so-hot-it’s-exhausting state of Alabama. It takes him a moment to look past her bodacious...
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The Hollow
Abbey lives in a town called Sleepy Hollow which is named after The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Abbey has lived in this town her whole life with her best friend Kristen at her side. They did everything together and even had special traditions. One of them was visiting Washington Irving’s grave...
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The Vampire Diaries: The Fury
Imagine waking up after drowning. You should be dead. Why are you here? This happened to Elena Gilbert. She wakes up disoriented, not knowing what is going on. She feels beckoned to a certain part of the woods, so instead of just lying under the tree were she first reopened her eyes, she travels...
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Scream
“Jeff’s voice was suddenly drowned by a hideous screaming. Not just one voice, but a multitude of voices mingling and colliding, merging and blending in a cacophony of wails and groans, grunts and cries. A million mouths weeping and howling in bone-crunching pain. Agony. As if their skin was being peeled off inch by...
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Dairy Queen
Hawley and Red Bend High Schools have been rivals since the day they were built. Instead of war, they sort out their issues on the football field. Two of Red Bend’s best football players, Win and Bill Schwenk, live on a small dairy farm with their parents, younger sister DJ, and brother Curtis. When...
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Going Bovine
For sixteen year old Cameron Smith, life is just a game, a game he very much does not enjoy. He is the less attractive and smart counterpart to his twin sister and has a crap job at a local restraint, The Buddha Burger. What he never expected, though, was to be diagnosed with the...
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