Not Acting My Age

As a kid I told my mom I wanted to be a bird when I grew up. She never said I couldn't. So for years I bird-sang my words. And...

Susan and her family have immigrated to Canada from Saudi Arabia, but the family tie is strained by her father's decision to stay back...

Sarah Anne has never really thought much about her dedication to the Nightshade series.   But  when she stumbles across a contest to i...

When Spindrift washed ashore after the sinking of her parents’ ship, she was found with a defective crystal ball.   Unlike the balls in ...

How much thought have you ever given to Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters?   The ones who (in the original version of the story) chopped up ...

With her mother working in California this year, Lucy and her father have their hands full taking care of her little brothers back in Chic...

Louisa and her little brother Theo get dropped off on a remote island to stay with their grandparents while Mom and Dad go off on a birdwa...

A year ago, Kennedy saw her brother Elliott fleeing their house.  Inside, her mother and her boyfriend were dead.  The evidence against hi...

Fictional, but based heavily on the author's own experience being institutionalized at the age of sixteen, this novel traces Tamar...

A year ago Brooke’s brother killed his best friend.   In their small town, whoever didn’t judge the family by that heinous act was event...

There’s always been something odd about the way Danny's parents behave.   From the way they abruptly moved from Texas to California ...

Shortly after her younger sister Mattie is murdered, Sadie skips out of town.  She's looking for a man, one of the ex-boyfriends of he...

After Flor and Zach broke up, Flor's friend Willa took it on herself to make sure that the Girl Code was upheld, warning their friends...

At a party, Eden and Will almost kissed.  A short time afterwards, he was dead.   Will’s grieving mother, misunderstanding the seriousn...

Everyone knows that the prince must find and slay the dragon and rescue the damsel.  Everyone knows that then the prince will become the k...

Strickland County is a poisonous place, whether it's the soil damaged by mining and chemicals or the spread of opioids among the popul...

While exploring a deserted house in a mining ghost town, Sonnet finds is transported back in time to 1895. In a similar fashion, Emma, t...

Seventeen historical short stories that share in common the idea that the protagonists are gender queer.  It's a concept that could ha...

Elle is bright and used to getting good grades, but with her Mom in jail after a long descent into addiction and dealing, Elle’s life ha...

The day finally arrived when Southern California’s taps went dry.   The great “Tap-Out” they called it.   After years of using up more w...