"A naïve girl's innocence shatters on a church ski trip when she's manipulated into losing her virginity, revealing a web of exploitation that haunts her through high school."
I remember that youth group ski trip like it was etched into my soul with a hot iron—every flake of snow, every whisper of wind through the pines, every bubble in that damned hot tub. I was a sophomore, just...
"Pamela left home a girl, but Vegas made her a woman – and then a legend."
Pamela eased into the porch rocker, its familiar creak offering a lullaby for her newborn son, Kaden. She inhaled deeply, savoring the warmth of the ceramic mug against her palm and the spiced aroma of apple cider mingling with the...
You lied to me, spinning tales so grandYou treated me badly, leaving scars on my handsYou promised me things you hadn't the right toYou let me love, hate you and told me we're throughYou made plans time and again and...
"The ache and fear of emotion"
It seethes inside me, this desire. Hot, it roils and churns, This need! Emotion, so dark and terrifying, Writhing for release, aching for freedom, Threatening to undo my life. But I trap it, I hold it back, Scared and afraid of what...
