The Root Beer Rush.

She's still seventeen, so she'll drown her newest boy issues in a can of root beer rather than in cheap brandy. © Candy Cigarettes.

Living In The Past

a girl that sacrificed her love for everyone else but her. a boy that still loves her madly. and a disease she can't escape. is it time to move on with a new life, a new boy, a new perception? or is the past sometimes haunting you for a reason? © 2016 Virgo Rose Edwards.

Starstruck

humor #01 & teen fic #02 Alyssa Taylor is famous, well famous on Youtube, that is. Doing covers of popular songs and her sassy personality has gotten her from a small town in Northern California to the big city in Southern California. That isn't enough though, for Alyssa is striving for one thing: to make it in the m...

4am

In which two insomniacs bond over mutual dark eye circles and that feeling of emptiness that occurs right around the 4am point. [#34 short story]

How to Fall in Love ✔

They're worlds apart, and this isn't high school, so how the hell did a homeless female writer end up renting a billionaire's mansion? And - hold your breath - becoming his fake girlfriend? ➳ full blurb inside ➳ first reached #1 in humor on july 6, 2015 ➳ first reached #1 in business on a...

The Potato Nation

Five teenagers, five stories. All yearning to be told. [ temporary cover; credits for style used for the cover go to @hepburnettes ] #weneeddiversebooks #FreeMentalIllness #youngadultreads

Twenty-Five

Eleanor Bolivia is full of what-if's.

Jovie & Bash

He's a would-be college student stacking books in the local library. She's a high school senior nearing graduation. He leads a life of organized chaos and she's living by the book. He's free but all she can see are consequences. You can't control who you fall in love with.

Catnip

Caleb Diaz is not an animal lover. At all. So when his friend Marnie shows up on his doorstep with a birthday card and a kitten for his big 1-8, he's more than a little peeved. Cats stink, no questions about it. And with graduation less than a year away, Caleb's hardly got the time (or patience) to cope with running...

Crash And Burn

Annie Scott and James Cantor are new to the whole “relationship” thing. They’re used to hook-ups instead of relationships, casual dating instead of commitment. Despite the fact that neither of them knows much about keeping a serious relationship, they try their best to keep theirs as stable as possible – but it’s gett...

Umbrellas

Because umbrellas are reliable, and reliable (unlike the capricious, loud, and volatile Aspen McKinley) is just what Hudson Parks likes.

As I Am

"Do you want to talk? You know, about everything?" Evan asks. He's staring up at the star-covered sky as he holds our brown bag of French fries. I finish my sip of my vanilla milkshake despite not wanting to stop and follow his gaze. The stars twinkle against the black and wish I had brought my camera. Somehow I thou...

Just Drive [old version]

OLD VERSION Self-proclaimed pathetic being Sam Anderson is shocked when her ex-almost-boyfriend, Austin, comes up to her and asks her to drive him all the way across the country to California just so he can see his girlfriend. Thinking she was only getting into a quick, scenic car ride across America, she finds hersel...

Lennon

Lennon Carter is a newly eighteen year old that's ready to get away from all she's ever known. She doesn't want to think about what happened, or even acknowledge the fact that it ever happened. Packing up the essentials and her credit card, she heads for the big open road without a plan insight. The plan...

Eleven O'Clock Number

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ALLISON REED: THE MUSICAL - release date, SEPT 2013. STARRING: Allison Reed, Lydia Huntington II, and the renowned Toby Martin. LOGLINE: A bitter, intelligent teenage girl (Reed) is paired with a musical aficionado (Martin) to complete an English assignment on musicals. With the help of her strik...

Coffees with Luke & Audrey

"We're all looking for the same things in the end." She thinks people are mundane. He thinks people are fascinating. Somehow, they fall in love.

Bright Before Sunrise

When Jonah is forced to move from Hamilton to Cross Pointe for the second half of his senior year, "miserable" doesn't even begin to cover it. He feels like the doggy-bag from his mother's first marriage and everything else about her new life with a new husband, new home and a new baby is an upgrade. The people at Cro...

Nights with Wyatt (Updating Soon)

It was an unspoken agreement between us. Some nights he would show up at my window and I let him in, no questions asked. And the next day, it was forgotten; we just continued on as the strangers we were to each other.

Compositions of Us

Olivia Harris has one dream: to become a professional photographer. She’s determined and even went out of her way to intern at a well known photography company. Olivia knows that doing so may give her an opportunity to pursue her dream a step further. What she doesn't know is that, sometimes, expectations don't go as...

The Quirky Tale of April Hale (Quirky Series #1)

Self-proclaimed weirdo April Hale and the notorious troublemaker Ryder Black have been living side by side for more than ten years. Both never attempted to communicate with each other, but on the night Ryder Black is thrown out by his own father, he asks her a question that might change both of their lives: "March...

Red, Blue & Yellow

❝If life were a palette of colors, which color would best simulate you?❞ Red; The glow of intensity. Red is the color of burning fire, capable of massive destructions. Red is the blood circulating in our body. Red is what keeps us alive. Although red is often misunderstood as a deadly color, red is the color of roses...

Saving Lila (cancelled)

Lila Carlton is a normal, happy girl. At least that's what everyone thinks. Underneath all that fake happiness, she is a broken, depressed girl. She is drowning in her insecurities. She thought she had everyone fooled till a new kid arrives in town, Ryder Jenkins. He is the definition of bad boy, wearing his leather j...

The Seaside Café

Emma Jacobs is like any other Californian girl who is only trying to survive high school. She’s happy with her group of friends, her brother and his wife, Caroline, and her secret talent. Emma can sing, and every Friday, she does just that. However, Emma is too shy to sing in front of anybody that may recognize her fr...

The Camera Chronicles: Picture Perfect (ON HOLD DUE TO WRITER'S BLOCK!)

“I get it. I have cancer. No need to cry about it.” Carrie Harwood is your average teen with average friends and an average life. Okay that was a complete lie. She has leukemia and everyone else would pity themselves and cry about it. They would push themselves away from everyone and be all depressed. Carrie is any...

11:11

dear stray eyelashes, ladybugs, dark tunnels, wishbones, dandelions, pennies, shooting stars, 11:11, and birthday candles, when will you do your job?

Wayfaring Companions

"We could fly to Berlin, Tokyo or Jamaica. We can go where you want, say the word and I'll take ya. But I'd rather stay on the sofa, with you." Summer time means vacation; three months of new discoveries, thrilling adventures, wrinkled maps to be pried open, and gorgeous foreign countries to explore. When Kira Walke...

A Sandwich Situation :: UNDER HEAVY EDITING ::

"S-sorry?" I choked out, rapidly paling. Its amazing how three words can affect someone so badly. He's GOT to be kidding me. Its just... impossible. I refuse to believe it. He didn't say that. He couldn't have. He wouldn't. "We are partners," he repeated in his sarcastically slow voice. He did...

Bottle it Up

“I’m Mason,” he said. I nodded, and clicked the X in the corner of the computer screen so that it would go back to the home page. “And you?” he asked, and I looked at him, a questioning look on my face. “Your name,” he added, cocking his head to the side, “you do have one right?” “Hazel.” He looked at me for a moment...

Seven Days

What if fate gave you a second chance? Would you take it? Wendy dies moments after she confesses her love to Ian Ryder. Distraught and grief stricken, Ian manages to be consumed by sleep only to wake up the next morning to none other than Wendy, his best friend. Confused and disoriented he concludes that it was all a...