TheVillageScribe

Ayden Sheer stays awake until the early hours of the morning waiting for the sound of a tapping on the window and a familiar face on the other side. The fire escape leading up to her bedroom is like Rapunzel's hair leading to the castle, in her eyes. Ayden lost her mother at a very young age and hasbeen living in a noisy area of Manhattan with her father, a sheriff with one eye always on his little girl. Holland Ambrock made a promise to Ayden that he wouldn't forget about her after he graduated, and he navigates his way up the fire escape every night to drink in the love he needs to keep going. Holland gave up going to his dream college and studying music to keep his family together, and he works full-time at night and sets himself up with a guitar in a dirty subway station for a few extra bucks. One more night will never be enough for Holland and Ayden, no matter the effort it takes. It takes a lot to keep love strong against the odds, and through the challenges and setbacks, they need each other more than they will ever know.…

TheVillageScribe

Matt Els is a first-year Emergency Room resident who is faced with the scariest aspect of being a doctor: being affected by his patients. There's also the scariest aspect of adult life looming over him: being in love with his fellow resident and best friend Liz. It's been 261 days since Matt received his medical license, but the job doesn't get easier. Matt is learning that being a doctor is more than wearing a white coat and an MD.…

TheVillageScribe

“Don’t worry, it’s just temporary.”Two years later, Felix Everett is finding those words hard to believe. In the time since he and his father were evicted, Felix has been living a nomadic lifestyle, bouncing from one shelter to the next in hopes for a solid meal and warm bed. He’s a Rubix Cube, struggling to balance out a passionate temper, one that often causes him problems wherever he falls, and a quiet disposition. Since he was seventeen years old, Felix has been paying the price for his father’s failed employment and is trying to blend into a scene where he doesn’t belong: the streets of New York. When Felix stumbles into the soup kitchen she works at, Lydia Ingram is consumed with a desire to poke at the mysterious young man’s past. Without a second thought, she takes a skeptical Felix under her wing and provides him a meal and a couch for what she only intends to be one night. However, as she begins learning more about the handsome, broken boy, she finds it difficult to cut him loose. Has Felix finally found the safe haven he’s been searching for, or will he find himself back behind a dark alleyway at night?…

TheVillageScribe

Eight-year-old Peri, grieving over her grandfather's death, feels like she's drowning in the big, bad world. That is until she finds something incredible.…

TheVillageScribe

Sometimes I write poetry. Sometimes I try to put my experiences into short pieces. Sometimes it works. Enjoy!…

TheVillageScribe

This was a challenge I had at fine arts camp: the character sticks a shovel in the ground and finds something detrimental. Oliver confronts his own horrors with a shovel and something unexpected.…

TheVillageScribe

This short story introduces a young father who has just lost his wife to cancer. This story follows a camping trip he takes with his daughter as he figures out what he's going to do next.…

TheVillageScribe

Sitting in a neurosurgeon's office, I stared blankly at an MRI of what was supposed to be my brain. What was I supposed to be looking at? Then I saw it, the little white part, like a ghost who's really bad at Hide and Seek. I was told there was a 1 in 100 chance. This happens 1% of the time. This series is a personal narrative relating to the first brain surgery I had on July 17, 2014. I wrote it for those times when I feel down and unlucky. Enjoy hearing about the ins and outs of my less-than-cooperative brain.…

TheVillageScribe

“And then, finally, they unlocked the cuffs for the last time.”It has been three years since Holden Riley was sent to prison after breaking into the city’s largest bank on a mission: escape with enough money to take care of his struggling family. He was the most promising young man in one of New York’s poorest districts, with luck far from his side. He cut himself off from the world, holed up in his cell and tried to forget what he had cost his family.Now, at twenty years old, his sentence has come to an end and he’s beginning to get back on his feet. His struggles are far from over though. With a mother driven psychotic from grief and three siblings in foster care, Holden has a long road ahead of him.This former prisoner is trying to assimilate back into the role of a big brother. Struggling for redemption while trying to win over the foster care system won’t be easy, and Holden won’t be able to do it alone. He’ll need to hand over his trust to a few new faces, along with some old ones, and open his heart to something he’s always run from.The road is uphill from here, and getting the cuffs off is only the beginning.…

TheVillageScribe

These are little pieces of several works of mine that will go into a portfolio. Posted together so people can critique them and help me make them marvelous. Four different works are included.…

TheVillageScribe

Swallow a pill, take a swig of vodka, lay back and float through the clouds. The pain is gone in a cloud of smoke. What if addiction was deleted from society? Or better yet, what if the causes of addiction were no longer allowed to exist? When Congress approved the passing of the Substance Ban of 2015, that is exactly what happened. Everything from alcoholic beverages to the simple pain killers was made illegal, sending the United States in complete uproar.Ten years after the ban was first passed, seventeen-year-old Andrei Novikov has been living in New York City for five years. His family made the transition from Engels, Russia, the only home Andrei had ever known, so Andrei and his sister Ilia could have a better life. For a family coming from a country without a legal drinking age or many restrictions on smoking, the ban was a foreign nature that they were not willing to embrace. For the past five years, after the family restaurant closes at night, Andrei’s family makes and sells their own version of home-brewed vodka and pills used as pain or illness remedies.The police in New York begin to notice the presence of illegal substances, and the authorities, led by Chief Todd Anderson, are prepared to take down the source behind the business. But when Andrei falls in love with Nae, the chief’s daughter, he is forced to chose between the law and the good of the people. Nae, haunted by her own memories from the days of drugs and alcohol, is forced to make the choice between her father’s wishes and the motives behind the family of the Russian boy she loves. Can Andrei keep his family from meeting the cruel and unforgiving justice system, or will the law take down a family with the best intentions?…

TheVillageScribe

The actual Outdoor Classroom is an area buried within the woods behind our school, where classes used to be taught years ago. It's the one place we've always escaped to when the world wouldn't leave us alone, and as he's leaving for college soon, it will always be the place where some of our finest memories were created. Enjoy this little short piece.…

TheVillageScribe

…

TheVillageScribe

If you asked me four years ago about love I would have said that I'd never find someone, it would be just myself and my books. If you asked me about it today, I would reply by saying that love is something that should be cherished, and although it is extremely difficult sometimes, it's the most wonderful experience known to humans.When I was twelve years old, I craned my neck to the side and gazed down the street at an unknown boy headed home with young sister in tow. I didn't know who he was, but I also didn't know that he would be the boy to change my life forever and take me on a whirlwind ride. His name is Devin, he's two years older than me, and he says we're polar opposites. We have everything in common, and everything contrasting, and years later, we've got enough history to write an entire textbook and teach hours of lectures. This story is an autobiography about our lives together for almost four years, from being pulled into the foreign world of a preteen's first crush, to the sensation of a first caress on the lips, to the tears and the turmoil behind them. Love is an experience, and every experience has its own story. This is mine, and I'm here to tell it.…

TheVillageScribe

There was a time when these woods were filled with bliss and laughter. There was a time without regrets or consequences, and there was a time when these woods engulfed her in security. However, after he left, the whistle of the wind is sorrowful, the leaves are dull, and her eyes are filled with tears. The memories will always remain, and the love still clouds the air.…

TheVillageScribe

We all change over time, especially over the course of years. Even though three years have passed, I still remember the day specifically. This is how I commemorate that cold January Day.…

TheVillageScribe

This is the synopsis and the prologue to "Broken Glass" which is my finished novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2011. I'm not posting the entire thing because I'm currently trying to market this novel and I'm going crazy sending query letters to agents so they'll represent the novel. I'm posting this because I want to know if you guys would read this since the genre is Young Adult/Romance, and I really need some opinions on the first scene. Does it draw you in? Tell me what you think, please.…