“Hey,” Paige grumbles as I plop down beside her at the kitchen table. “Rough morning?” I keep the chuckle in check when I see how wrecked my little sister looks. “My head hurts,” she says, hunched over a steaming mug of coffee. “Also, I’m pretty sure I caught you necking with my best friend of fifteen years in your car last night.” That’s it. I’m done for. I don’t breathe, don’t move, waiting for the fallout. But Paige ju...

Their apartment was spotless, except for the silence thick as blood. The TV was dark, the window cracked for air, and Livy stood there like a loaded gun, arms crossed, a tremble under her skin that wasn’t illness anymore—it was fury. “Do you even remember their names?” she spat, a bitter lilt curling her words into a knife. Her face—Sadie's face—twisted in disgust, eyes burning from across the room. Sadie sat hunched on t...

Chapter One – Five Hot Girls To be honest, it had been a truly revolting day. “Mum! I’m home!” Things had actually started out well. Amazingly well, in fact. Not only had Katherine’s school been closed all day, and on a Friday too, but the sun had decided to come out for once and treat the little British town of Woking to some long-awaited heat. So it came as no surprise that Yolanda, one of Katherine’s particularly speci...

I’m not surprised to find Paige and Maddie sprawled on the lakehouse’s living room couch as I leave the bathroom. They’re munching on cereals, watching cartoons, still in their PJs. “Going for a run?” Paige asks as soon as she notices my clothes. She barely finishes the sentence before half-chewed Cheerios escape her mouth. She claps a hand over her lips, eyes wide, and then bursts into laughter. “Yup,” I smirk and head f...

The sound of the water filling the glass felt deafening in the surrounding silence. As I closed the faucet and turned around, I jumped in surprise and saw Kent's dad standing at the kitchen's entryway. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he smirked. "It's okay," I answered. My heart throbbed as I tried to calm down. I was unaware anyone else was in the house, which made me blush hard. I was wearing booty shorts and a loo...

“Hey, Rom!” Dad’s voice booms as he waves me over from the grill all the way to the back of the garden. “Mind taking over for a while?” “Sure,” I say, wiping my hands on my shorts. Not like I have anything better to do. He hands me the tongs, but more importantly, his old apron, scarred with grease stains and burn marks from years of cookouts. “The Johnsons should be here any minute,” he explains. “I’d like to clean up an...

You really hurt my feelings, you know. That first time you invited me over to your mom’s house. It was Christmas time. Real Christmas time, not the endless, unnatural jingle hell that you and I live in every day, working for Winter Wonderland. You’d think after three years of shoveling reindeer shit to a steady soundtrack of Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey, I’d be relieved to go home to an empty apartment and a dinner of fuc...

On the Sunday before Labor Day, I stood at my living room window and stared out at the line of cars parked in front of Myles's house. I'd wanted to avoid being one of the first guests at the party, forced to make small talk with Dana while she waited for others to arrive. But it looked like I couldn't put off going any longer. Though Myles had insisted I didn't need to bring anything, I knew better than to show up emptyha...

Intro Arising Siren travels across time through memories and enters the minds and imaginations of different people with the help of her mysterious counterpart, Dr. Bunny Sanguine. Armed with seductive powers and unclothed in remarkable beauty, Siren immerses the lives of others in descriptive sex, love, and conflict with hopes of making their wildest erotic dreams come true. *** Episode one A bright light flashed from a d...