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The story follows Annie, a young girl struggling with bullying and body image issues. Constantly tormented for her weight, Annie finds comfort in a mysterious book titled Night Readers, a gripping collection of strange short stories that she can't seem to put down. As she delves deeper into the pages, the book begins to take a strange hold over her. The more she reads, the more her reality starts to blur with the fictional world of Night Readers, changing her in unexpected and troubling ways.As Annie becomes immersed in the pages, she is unable to ignore the torment from her peers any longer. Annie begins to stick up for herself, she starts eating more and more and she becomes an angry person. Her sense of self gets distorted by the dark themes and characters within its pages. The once-escape that the book offered her begins to morph into an unhealthy obsession, and Annie's obsession with its world deepens her internal struggles and affects her decisions and reality. Who will Annie become by the end of the book? How will things end?…

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First, they fall is a brutally honest memoir of survival, resilience, transformation, and an at once chaotic family, who thrived in an unconventional and colorful life. When clean, Sierra's creative and nifty stepfather showed his children how to put their brains to use, squeeze pennies and stretch dollars, find beauty in all the ugly, and that any place can be a home, even if it's a boat anchored in the Chesapeake Bay. But when he was on drugs, and drinking, he was unstable and a thief.Her mother wasn't the nurturing type and thought she'd been cursed by her own mother to have to raise five kids with no money, so she taught her children how to raise themselves and to not rely on any parent. Since they were mixed kids, half-black and half-white, growing up in the south where the swamp roses bloomed, she showed them how to stick up for one another because sissies didn't last, especially colored ones.Sierra and her four brothers were thrown into a completely new world when their mother began a relationship with someone else after their stepfather was captured by the staties. They referred to him as Lucifer, because he also brought the wicked out of their mother. When he wasn't taking his bipolar medication, he was manic, abusive, racist, and paranoid, fueling it all with beer. When he was on his pills, he was brilliant. He'd teach them how to build motors from scratch, he'd give them history lessons about things you wouldn't learn in the schoolbooks, and he taught them how to live unapologetically.When the children got older and everything came crumbling down, they moved away from the chaos and rewrote their lives. First, they had to fall to learn how to survive, then all that was left was to fly.…

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Kellen Merritt never expected that being pulled back to his hometown, which he was now a tourist in, seven years after happily leaving it behind, would lead to him falling in love with a stranger he stumbled on by accident, screaming angrily from an old teetering water tower, in the middle of the woods.She stood on the edge against the rusty railing, her hair tangled in the wind, her body rigid with emotion, and she screamed into the sky, raw and unrestrained, like she was daring the world to listen. Kellen having a love for Art, couldn't help but pull out his sketchpad and capture her-this moment of wildness, of pain, of freedom.Who was this girl?But then something shifted in the air. Her body leaned forward; her eyes focused downward. For a heartbeat, Kellen wondered if she might jump. After an unconventional meeting, Kellen couldn't get her out of his mind, but he had no way of talking to her again, he didn't even know her name. So, he walked around town with his sketch of her, hoping that someone will recognize her. But the deeper he digs; the more complicated things get. What starts as a search for a girl he can't forget soon becomes a journey into secrets, heartbreak, and a kind of love he never saw coming."Bury the Moon" is a heart-wrenching New Adult romance about a boy who learns that some loves are too beautiful to last. Kellen's search for the girl in his sketchbook is only the beginning-and what he finds will change him forever. Full of vulnerability, hope, and the quiet beauty of moments that slip away, this is the story of a love that was always meant to be fleeting-but unforgettable all the same.Get ready to fall in love with something impossible.…

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A Short Story based on true events about a boy and his dog.…