You’re filming a Hollywood movie when an accident threatens your safety. Can your new bodyguard protect you and your heart?
Genre: Steamy Romance
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You’re filming a Hollywood movie when an accident threatens your safety. Can your new bodyguard protect you and your heart?
Genre: Steamy Romance
Role: Writing Lead
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After your triumph against the Dreadlord, you’re taken prisoner by a new foe who’s hell-bent on using your blood to conquer the Realm of Light!
Genre: Fantasy
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As the daughter of a powerful crime family, loyalty is everything. But when you fall for the heir of a rival family, you must fight for love and life.
Genre: Mobster Romance
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Claimed by the dark and alluring ruler of the Moon Court, will you find a way to escape the world of Fae… or let yourself fall under its spell?
Genre: Dark Fantasy
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21 years ago, a plague of zombies brought the world to ruin. Now you and your companions must battle for survival against enemies both alive and dead.
Genre: Horror
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Genre: Romance
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Genre: Fantasy
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A look at the many complicated lives in a city, with Regina Spektor’s song “Eet”
It’s like forgetting the words to your favorite song.
You can’t believe it; you were always singing along.
It was so easy and the words so sweet.
You can’t remember; you try to feel the beat.
Vacant eyes stare out a window fogged by grit and grime. A woman’s hand rests on her stomach, rubbing circles in cotton fabric. She hums softly to herself, a melody of old that has yet to age. She sways to the dulcet tones, lips turned up. One salty bead is the first of many, leaving a roadmap on beige flesh. The woman opens her mouth to sing, but chokes on a sob, lyrics forgotten. She squeezes her eyes shut and clenches cotton fabric between her fingers as she sucks in shaky breaths.
Then she sees it: cold, white walls, and flashing, lifeless metal that keeps one alive. The beeping of each monitor matches each breath, each beat of the heart, her life around her. The women come and go, squeezing her hand and whispering words of comfort, with no lasting effect. She sees men in matching white that shatter hearts the way car accidents shatter the bones they mend. The wail that leaves her is the same the heart-breakers in white had heard not long ago.
It is followed by one of a much higher pitch. The woman jerks, head snapping back to the room the sound came from. She rips the blanket off and stumbles to the back room, painted pale pink. The small room holds a large wicker cradle, pressed against the far wall. She quickly wipes the remaining tears from her eyes, letting them stain her sleeve. She jumps as another wail echoes around the room before she hurries to the cradle’s side.
She peers down into the cradle, where there rests a baby, swaddled in a blanket. The woman smiles softly, tender coos slipping from supple lips. She pours warm words into waiting ears. She brushes her fingers over the baby’s doughy forehead then down to its hand. Small fingers curl around the giant’s, chestnut and alabaster together.
I started writing for Her Campus in Fall 2015 to try my hand at the more journalistic side of creative writing, which I hadn’t done since high school. The organization aimed to provide a space to female writers who might not feel comfortable writing in other, often male-dominated, venues. I quickly found my interest field, which was writing reviews for anything I could get my hands on, whether movies, videogames, books, or even theatrical productions. I did an entire series reviewing the big movies of Summer 2016: Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory, Star Trek Beyond, Suicide Squad, and Kubo and the Two Strings. I’ve looked at the indie game Undertale and Naomi Novik’s book Uprooted, as well as the recent theatre production put on by Davidson College: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Skin.
Outside of reviews, my writing often took a political stance, commenting on representation of certain minorities in media or on issues that effect minorities. I wrote a short series of articles regarding how women get presented in major media, looking specifically at Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time, Nyota Uhura from the Star Trek reboots, and Black Widow from the Marvel film franchise. I also looked at positive queer representation in television shows. Outside of media, I addressed discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in my article on North Carolina’s controversial HB2 and the treatment of LGBTQ+ athletes during the Rio Olympics.
In addition to writing weekly articles, after my first semester as a writer, I joined the leadership board of the organization as secretary. This role required me to take organized notes, send out weekly reminder emails to members of Her Campus, and facilitate communication between the board and members.