High School Drama

Dylan Glass, an 18-year-old high school dropout, has been kicked out of his mother and stepdad’s palatial house. Now homeless, he sleeps in his SUV behind an abandoned movie theater in an aging San Fernando Valley suburb. Although he has a job at a dollar store and support from the people he meets, he finds himself challenged by old temptations and a new woman, the alluring and enigmatic Pearl. Miles away in Orange County, his estranged father, Dr. Oliver Glass, struggles with demons of his own. A private practice and a beautiful girlfriend with children of her own can’t make up for a ...

An eighth grader dares to direct the school play. Can she handle her cast of peers? Aimi Wilby loves theater and writing. With the spring play coming up, the budding author is thrilled to be assigned as an assistant director. Diligent Aimi can’t believe it when her teacher abruptly quits, and she is chosen to write and direct the entire production. Aimi refuses to be deterred even when she loses her mentor, her cast members fight, the school administrators prove apathetic, and parents are constantly overbearing. However, what the intrepid teenager fears most is that she will disappoint ...

The Lost Soul Mike Williams is a town legend and Star athlete for the Norwood Indians. After sustaining a horrible injury. Mike now finds himself in full-blown addiction to painkillers. They are his newfound joy. But only weeks later, Mike finds himself on a rooftop in his hometown. His addiction has become life-threatening. Mike eventually finds himself in a gun battle with the local Police force. Will Mike give up before it is too late? Or will he fight to the death? ©2023 Zombie Media, LLC

Embark on an unforgettable adventure in Dangers of the FrizzleCore! Meet Oliver, a shy and curious thirteen-year-old boy who finds himself in a brand-new town. Struggling to make friends, he discovers comfort in his two passions: the great outdoors and technology. Little does he know that these interests will lead to an incredible journey beyond his wildest imagination! When Oliver joins a club at his new school, he finally meets a girl named Kat, who becomes an amazing friend. The pair, along with Oliver’s loyal and furry sidekick, Rusty the dog, set off on an extraordinary quest, ...

Allie's world is turned upside down when she's diagnosed with diabetes. Her overprotective parents are driving her crazy, and she's desperate to keep her condition a secret from her friends. But her secretive ways are awfully suspicious and soon the rumors are flying. Is Allie's reputation ruined for good?

Ryan Meyers is a teenage boy on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to find his place in the world while growing up in the American Heartland. As he navigates the challenges of rural life, he faces heartbreak, loss, and a life-changing accident that alters his future. With his cantankerous grandfather, his only living relative, slowly succumbing to illness, Ryan’s world is turned upside down. To make matters worse, his first love, Mary, abruptly ends their relationship without explanation. And when he thinks things can’t get worse, a horrifying event in the woods leaves him injured and ...

When Emma's diary is stolen from her locker, her world is shaken. A quiet and timid girl, will she find the strength to fight back? This is flash-fiction story of approximately 1200 words.

The truth will be published. Over his dead body. With a job a The Montgomery Times and her senior year ahead, Jodi Adams expects the best summer of her life—until her internship turns lethal. When a random homeless man gives Jodi a mysterious note, her first reporting assignment explodes into an expose worthy of the front page. His letter exposes a local doctor as a complete fraud and his clinic as a deadly factory. Across town, Jodi’s friend Stan Taylor deals with the horrific consequences of his actions and makes a startling discovery: His tragedy holds the key to Jodi’s ...

His time is short, but his will is mighty. Can a child with an incurable disease bring a gift of greatness to a struggling athlete? Maine. Billy Jacobs knows he’ll never see adulthood. Born with a terminal bone condition, the ten-year-old refuses to play it safe and explores the outdoors with a relentless zest for life. But when he falls from a tree and is paralyzed from the waist down, the youngster’s world shrinks down to a wheelchair and a broken family. Determined to turn the lowest point of his life into something positive, the courageous child embarks on a mental journey that ...

First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them - meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, it captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from one another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.

A Deserted Cabin… A Mysterious Stranger… A Fading memory… A Girl Alone… Time keeps shifting, but will Grace be enough to save herself? “There had been some kind of accident, Grace thought suddenly. She didn’t know how she knew that, but she did. She didn’t want to think about it. She didn’t want to think about anything. Because there was a part of her, way down deep, that knew everything had been her fault.” Grace Meyer is a normal seventeen-year-old high school student who has mostly everything she ever wanted— popular friends, an awesome boyfriend and plenty of money. ...

It’s the first day of freshman year. These are supposed to be the best days of your life, right? Kara is ready begin this new chapter with her best friend full of hope and with her heart set on a finding a boyfriend. Kara is about to learn firsthand what life is about while dealing with the age old dilemmas presented to teenagers everywhere. Nothing ever goes according to plan. No matter how bad you think it could be it’s usually worse. Follow Kara and her crew as they traverse adolescence and high school in this new series. There’s no limit to the trouble they can get into by just ...

Marlowe Meadows understands a lot of things. She understands that calculus isn’t overwhelmingly beautiful to everyone and that it typically kills the mood when you try to talk Python coding over beer pong. She understands that people were surprised when golden boy Josh asked her out and she went from weird math-obsessed Marlowe to half of their school’s couple goals. Unfortunately, Marlowe was the one surprised when Josh dumped her because he’d prefer a girlfriend who's more romantic. One with emotional depth. But Marlowe has never failed anything in her life, and she isn’t about to start now.

Sometimes the deepest burns are hidden from view... All 20 year old Holly ever wanted to do was escape the boring Colorado mountain town where she was born. However, when she arrived at college, she found herself having too many wild nights. Worse yet, she had one too many mornings of waking up in an unfamiliar bed, and she couldn't keep her scholarship. Now that's she's back in Conifer, she has no idea what she is going to do with her life and no hope for the future. Andrew's father died a couple years ago in an electrical accident, and while Andrew wants nothing more than to leave town, ...

When Gus LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of "Spirit Me Away", a '60s-style musical he wrote in college, he doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée, Camille, and the drama club. Who's sabotaging the show? And what do they have against Camille? Is it sex-crazed Armand, the Latino teen infatuated with her? Something happened last year that Camille won't talk about, and it has to do with Armand. Gus wants to know what happened, but she's not talking.

Secrets are like a spider’s web, impossible to untangle…. My older sister Cadence has just embarked on a clandestine life, and no matter the questions I ask, she refuses to let me in. Now that her ex-boyfriend is dead, it’s time for me to discover the truth--even if I have to go behind her back. Luckily, her new friend Elliott has been willing to reveal pieces of this secret world, one inquiry at a time. But the more he discloses, the harder it is to believe any of this could possibly be real. Vampires exist? There are other creatures whose sole purpose is to destroy them? Which side ...

One life begins with a careless mistake . . . another ends in coldblooded murder.After losing his father in a tragic accident, 16-year-old Zachary Miller finds a brief escape from his pain in a one-night stand with Karissa—a perfect stranger. Four months later, she shows up at his door, pregnant with his baby. Zachary promises Karissa that he'll take responsibility and even allows her to move in, much to his mother's displeasure, but Karissa is not satisfied. The beyond clingy teenager starts to take control of every aspect of Zachary's life, driving a wedge between him and the people ...

Bailey I’ve been invisible my whole life. Only one year left of high school and I will be free to shine. Free of my oldest brother and his best friend. A new beginning. One without Ethan. Ethan Two things I look forward to each day—basketball and Bailey. Both will be gone when I graduate. My senior year is supposed to be the year I make my mark. Win the championship and get the girl. Both are impossible. A standalone small town forbidden love sports romance and a guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.. Adult contents included.

The race to find the headmaster’s vault is on! But no one knows where he’s hidden it. What is certain is that the vault holds the key to the gate machine technology, and whoever controls the vault will have access to a door that leads to other worlds. Not-Earth’s military wants it. So does a gang of superpowered criminals who will stop at nothing to possess it. Only Brendan and his fellow students of Dutchman Springs Academy stand in their way. Can they discover the vault’s secrets and rescue the students kidnapped to Not-Earth by the headmaster? But the vault’s technology leaves ...

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