She got the guy, the fairytale. But when complications of his new life come to light will she be strong enough to keep him?

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She was only a debt to him... or so she thought.

Sometimes the best things in life aren't real

Kassidy is a Senior at Summerville High School in Southern Florida. She has an overbearing mother who is only interested in Kassidy becoming the next olympic gold medalist in Track and Field. Akira has had a crush on Kassidy since they met 3 years ago. Will he be able to break through Kassidy's personal barriers to help her find her real self and finally have enough courage to tell her how he feels.

In a world built on blood and violence, where the merciless thrive, falling in love carries with it its own special set of risks.  Never was that truer than for Carter Gerring, an electronics expert with a unique skill-set.  Carter is hired by Larry Hooks, a ruthless underworld kingpin with a number of potential legal problems he wants to disappear.  While eliminating the various forms of incrimination Hooks and his men create, Carter finds himself falling for the boss’s daughter.

 Tamryn Hooks is the much-loved daughter Larry Hooks would gladly kill to protect.  For most of her life, she’s been shielded from many of the harsh realities of her father’s business.  Then, a seemingly innocent favor for her doting father places her in the middle of an impossible situation she sees no way out of.  As Tamryn searches for a solution and an escape, her dilemma is further complicated by an ongoing feud with her sister and her deepening feelings for Carter, the unassuming intellectual with a dark reputation.   

 When Carter and Tamryn find themselves entrenched in the mire of her father’s criminal enterprise, the secrets they and others keep, and their need for one another, will their forbidden love be their saving grace?  Or will it be the Achilles’ heel that ultimately leads to their demise? 

Elise is a struggling college student that can barely pay tuition. With a lousy job and is on the verge of getting kicked out of med school she has to find a way to pay. So with no only choice she looks in the personals and looks for a sugar daddy.

Jameson is a successful man that does not have time to date. With the pressure of his family to wed and women using him he just wants to experience a relationship without the drama. So he makes an ad to find a sugar baby.

What happens when both of these two get together?

Zoey Vance woke up in the hospital with no memory of her life before that moment. She doesn't even know her own name. Now she has to try and put the pieces of her life back together with the help of the man who hit her with his car that fateful night. As her memories start to return she wonders if she is better off not knowing who she really is. 

Brian Preston is consumed with guilt, the woman just ran out into the street with no warning. He coudln't avoid hitting her. He feels it is his personal responsibility to care for her until she can care for herself and moves her in with him and his fiance, Macy. As time wears on he starts to wonder if he wants her around to ease his guilt or if there aren't bigger emotions at play.

"Why do you wear those wings all of the time?"

"What wings?"

August 1, 2007. A week before the start of sophomore year. Virginia Nez was murdered in cold blood and everyone totally thinks Solomon Dinétsfósí, the school's pariah, did it. It's so easy to blame the boy for it, too. He's tall, wears black all of the time, and always seems to be stuck in his head. Always. Weird daydreams and visions have plagued him since his dad's accident and they only seem to increase as he ages. He's in love with Emily Davis who is the opposite of him and what he's known; blonde, blue-eyed, and all around perfect in his eyes, who's never even spoken to him. Outside of Spanish class, of course.

Life, at the very least, is grim to the Navajo boy in black who's only friend is his ball python, Smiley. When a young stranger pops in and literally crashlands into his life and the life of everyone else in his Arizona town, he can't help but notice those wings that only he can see.

Strange things begin to happen. His visions become prophecies. People die. People rise from the dead. People turn into fox spirits and other scary spirtual things. And all of this starts right after she shows up. And with her, he's going to have to get to the bottom of the strangeness that seems to glower over his hometown like a rain cloud.

"So, why do you have those wings?"

They thought she would take it lying down. They thought they had defeated her. They were so very wrong.

Torukia: Still I Rise is a original work by CM and is intended for publication so please do not upload, distort, edit, or remove and place on any other site. Respectfully yours, thank you. 

The trials we survive, the endurance, the scars that we bare both mentally and physically is what makes us survivors. Enduring one tragedy after the other, moving past the pain to reach a higher existence. To go beyond our statutory limitation, to go beyond our self and reveal the being beyond the flesh. This is what survival is all about. 

However this is easier said than done. Nonetheless she will endure, she will feel agony, pain, loss, devastation. She will be wronged, abused, and hated. She will be loved, cherished, and abandoned. She will fight. She will maim. She will kill. Then and only then can she call herself a Survivor.

Jonah Ace gets a bright idea and offers to tutor Chanel Birladeanu in AP Calculus one afternoon. But there's a catch; for two months, Chanel has to 'fake date'  Jonah. This deal will get Chanel the grade she needs and give Jonah the girl he yearns for and the popularity he can only dream about.

But this isn't so bad. A full school year of tutoring for only a two month relationship? Easy. Plus, Jonah Ace might just be a real hottie underneath his nerdy exterior.

My submission for the grindhouse challenge. Jessa has been living for a year in the Masion inherited to her by her now dead parents whom she never met. Finding her new gated community disturbing at first, it has grown to become her home. Jessa is about to discover how and why, herself and the two handsome brothers that live across the street, Ren and Garrett are bonded to each other. With their help, she will learn her true calling.

Banner by: Siennna Gray

Croy Martin left her hometown in Texas for her dream job in a small town in Missouri. She falls into a seductive web that is weaved in front of her. Not afraid to fall in love, she dives in head first. Torn between three men, what's a girl to do?

Joss just knows this summer will change her life... If she can manage to tolerate her bunk leader 

Avery "Hades" Jones is the number one producer in the metal and hardcore music game. She's more talented with any instrument she lays her hands on than most of the popular bands and every record she touches turns to gold.

Then why doesn't she have the respect she so rightfully deserves?

When her good friend Adam Nuro invites her to tour with his number one band to play with his band while featuring some of her songs, she hops at the chance.

But the opportunity presents more challenges than she was ready for, obstacles that threaten to break her.

Will Avery make her dreams come true? Will her adoptive band support her?

And what has been following them since day one?

Shout Out to Elizablu for the Banner