The Burdens She Carries

a book of poems based on my raw and honest thoughts and feelings

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The Curse-breakers of Avondor || ONC 2022 || ✔

For two months, the Avondorian Mountains have been a safe haven. Now, that's about to change. When a scout returns to Anahill with a disturbing message, Audren, the freshly-inaugurated Lord of the Mountains, finds himself faced with a challenge: The Cursed will reach the city within days. Undead, highly dangerous and...

The Dead Don't Speak | Open Novella Contest 2020 | ✔

Surviving in juvenile prison? Tough. Surviving in juvenile prison with the added bonus of seeing ghosts? Tougher. Bailey has a sixth sense, a criminal record and no appetite for trouble; serving a year-long prison sentence already sucks enough in and of itself. If only the spirits would leave her in peace. A strange w...

Infamous Last Words | ONC 2021 Honourable Mention | ✔

When your boss shows up angry at your door, you know your day is going to suck. When said boss happens to be the local crime lord, it's going to suck even more. And when an omen of death comes to pay you a visit as well, your morning is officially the suckiest. Jack isn't having a very good day. At least the problem w...

Castle of the Damned | ✔

Three estranged friends reunite in a mysterious castle in France, where darkness awaits and nothing is as it seems. ~~~~ There's something wrong with the castle. Perhaps the problem is the young owner, whose odd behaviour arouses suspicion in those around him. Perhaps it's the girl with the secrets and the voice in he...

#WitchcraftWednesday || ONC 2023 | ✔

There's always that one thing you just can't be bothered to care about. For drug dealer Nathan Devereaux, it's the grimoire he found, complete with working magic and all. Okay, fine, maybe he tried one spell, and maybe that ended with his curtains on fire. Lesson learned. Leave forces you don't understand alone. Magi...

More Time (ONC 2021)

This novella is set in the 'More to Life' series universe and will contain major spoilers if you plan to read the series, but haven't read to the end of book 2. This can also be read as a stand-alone novella. When a tragic death turns a trio of childhood friends into a duo, Shawn must cope while ensuring his best fri...

Escape - Short Story Collection

This collection is comprised of a series of short stories, some written based on photo prompts and others for contests. Each chapter can be read independently. 1- Scream (Horror) : A woman loses her boyfriend in a traumatic kidnapping in the woods. She returns two years later to mourn his passing. 2- Burn Bright: Elli...

Adventures in South East Asia

After spending a year teaching in Thailand, I longed to travel with only my quirky self to keep me company. My journey started in Myanmar where temple cycles and village treks exposed me to the past and present of this intriguing nation. I returned to Northern Thailand for a volunteer experience and some of the most i...

Into Ruin

Sequel to Survival. With the knowledge that civilization shattering natural disasters were orchestrated by a network of brash individuals, a community of survivors bands together to fight their power and influence over what is left of society. The deeper they dig, the further and stronger they find the connection exte...

Survival

Violent disasters rage across America and society collapses. The living fight against the clutches of natural disasters and disease in a post-apocalyptic world. A militaristic group gathers survivors by any means to rebuild a functional society with the shards of the last, but its intentions are not as they seem. Surv...

Remember Me (ONC2020) ✔

A poor farmer enlists the help of a memory snatcher to discover the truth about his sister's suspicious death. *** Upper-Caldozzans have access to everything: wealth, power, advanced technology, even memories of things their overindulged bodies could never achieve. Lower-Caldozza's creators feed themselves and their f...

Travel Drabbles

After quitting our jobs, my partner and I hopped on a one-way flight to Asia to spend six months exploring. Come along for the ride! Journey through historic and busy China, beachy and rural Thailand, temple-tastic Myanmar, delicious and sleek Malaysia, the stunning and surprising Philippines, jaw-dropping, adventure...

Watched (ONC 2021)

Fitness-trainer Winston settled in Corbeau Woods for a quiet life with his husband, free of the superstition and madness of his childhood. When a mysterious statue of an eye circulates the town, people go missing and he and his husband make a shocking discovery about their neighbour's inexplicable fate. After the stat...

More to You ✔

As Maria accepts being a newly single expat teacher in Thailand, she can't forget the passionate kiss she shared with her hot neighbour. Mitch, who would sooner move back to his boring tiny American hometown than commit to a relationship, is drawn to his friendship with Maria. Tom shares her dream of finding love and...

Vanished (ONC 2023)

Until recently, Mia's biggest challenge was attracting visitors to a province whose unsolved crime rate keeps climbing. After her Bear Claw Lake ice fishing tourism campaign gets axed because a body was discovered, an unusual stranger offers her unconventional help to catch a potential serial killer. Even with his he...

A Different Slice

What's better than sex? To Naomi, it's going out with friends for delicious food, winning softball games, and having a whirlwind romance with her close friend. The only problem: despite a decade of friendship, she has yet to come out to him as asexual, and she's unsure if romance with an allosexual guy is even possibl...

Complete Without You (ONC 2022)

Sadie takes her dream trip to Australia where she embraces solo travel life until she crosses paths with quirky Irish traveller Neil. The two discover they share more than their love for adorable Aussie animals as they complete bucket lists they'd planned with their exes. As their connection strengthens, Sadie conside...

More to Life ✔

When her first love falls apart, a Filipina-Canadian foodie is devastated. To salvage their relationship, Maria joins a social-media cooking contest despite her family's advice to move on. Her efforts draw him back until he reveals his loyalty to his new girlfriend. Crushed, Maria uproots her life to move to Thailand...

Flight Risk

When returning to Canada for a friend's wedding, a dive instructor must face her judgmental mother and her ex, whose heart she never wanted to break, so she agrees to a fake relationship with an environmental scientist as she tries to minimize the stress on herself and others, further complicating her romantic life. *...

Forget It (ONC 2024)

Inventor Selene Mintz and her partner Arch Kenton are on the cusp of breaking into the upper levels of Inno-Tech with their latest inventions when she is rocked by a devastating betrayal. Unsure who to trust but hellbent on making the person pay, she fights for control of her idea before the materialistic tech company...

The Girl Within The Woman

Cyra Leclerc, a stunning tattoo artist meets the handsome Levi, the owner of a new occult shop. Everything seems to go well for them, until Levi leaves town to visit family. Strange things start happening to a bemused Cyra, who soon finds herself betrayed and hunting her new beau. Levi has left her with nothing but t...

Love me well or Love me not

Kahina Orlov, a small illustrator living under a false identity is having a contract marriage to Aurelio Russo, head of the Italian mob. Such a strange marriage was suposedly brought on by Aurelio Russo's need for a mother figure for his 14 year old son. Kahina asks only for two things in this marriage. Will Aurelio f...

Open Mind

I've never trusted those who close their minds. Mini collection of amateur, lyrical and original poems 𝄞₊ ⊹ from a very personal point of view about life and other disasters. 🥉Third place in Hallow's Eve Astania Awards by @AstaniaCommunity 🥉Third place in Hall of Fame 2023 Awards by @YearlyAwards

Life in Micro fiction

A collection of 100-word micro fiction.

Snowbound Serendipity and Other Short stories

'Snowbound Serendipity' is a chicklit/romance short story, and winner in the Once Upon a December contest. It's accompanied by a variety of other short writing pieces in romance, paranormal/horror, and general fiction. As this is a collection, new stories will be added when written. Enjoy!

Audrey & Aislinn: Reset [EDITING]

After splitting from her husband a year ago, forty-something Audrey grapples with the strained relationship left behind, between herself, and their 15-year old daughter, Aislinn. Single motherhood is challenging for Audrey, who's determined to mend the bond between herself and Aislinn. Together, the mother-daughter du...

Audrey & Aislinn: Rapprochement (ONC2024)

This is the sequel to 'Audrey & Aislinn: Reset', where we follow the lives of Audrey, Aislinn, and now Jake as he joins their little family, in Lakeview Hollow. Following Aislinn's sweet sixteen, she comes to grips with the challenges of starting as a senior, and at a new school. While Jake and Audrey continue working...

Hide Seek Kill - A Thriller Novel || Draft One

***beta readers copy | final draft coming 2024*** What happens when some of the world's most dangerous young adults end up stuck together in an old Victorian Mansion? A lot. Hide: Everyone has their secrets and these people are quick to flee to the shadows to keep their darkest desires and secrets safe... Seek: The...