[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past.******On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school.Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future.*Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use*This story is complete at ~90,000 words.Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild CardShortlisted Wattys 2021Featured on @WattpadTimeTravelFeatured on @WattpadHistoricalRomanceFeatured on @TeenFictionEditor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023Cover by @eva3382
After posting three "Yo! Let's Talk!" chapters that are focused around my art in a row so I made this so I don't spam that book with my drawings.LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO LIDA'S RANDOM SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS! Wow, I forgot how weird I was.Anyways, I hope you enjoy!
Joanne Garcia Rodriguez Jo is a 28 year old with beautiful looks that turn heads, strong, independent, kind, innocent doctor and a mother to 3 year old, cute, understanding, little Nicholas Jonathan Rodriguez. She is a woman who has no time for love or men but has sacrificed a lot for her son. Struggling from morning through the night with her job, which is well paid, her baby boy and also grieving the loss of her late brother and his wife and also her missing parents. Her life is upside down. Will he turn it back right or add in more somersaults?Lucas Jerome SantiagoLucas is a 30 year old intelligent man with handsome looks that make ladies fall at his feet and men jealous, a body of a Greek God, technically he's the whole package. He owns chains of hotels and clubs and restaurants. Above everything, he is a family man. To the outside world, he is a cold and dangerous man. But if you look deeper, he is just an ordinary man with great family values, and a man only longing for his love. Will she be his or will he move away after knowing her baggage?They maybe be two different people with different baggage. But they are quite similar in a lot of ways unknown.Join the journey of laughter, love, mystery, and secrets to be unfolded.
Der Sommer steht an und meine beste Freundin macht jeden Tag eine stunde lang Sport während ich schokoladen esse. Wir verbringen leider (ich freu mich eh auf sie!) die Sommerferien größtenteils miteinander weshalb wir oft gemeinsam schwimmen gehen werden. Darum leider. Ich bin nicht fett aber unsportlich. (Höhö... Wer hätts gedacht.) In diesem Buch findet ihr einfach ein paar Sport Tipps und meine persönliche Erfahrung die ich sammle. Um euch ein besseres Bild davon zu machen lest gerne einfach das Buch- und warte- jetzt kommts- ACHTUNGGGG- DoN't LikE iT doNT ReaD IT(:))
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Fibromyalgia is a disorder that affects the muscles and soft tissues. Symptoms of fibromyalgia are severe body pains, mental distress, joint pains like arthritis, fatigue; sleep problems, which can be managed through proper medications and lifestyle changes.These symptoms accumulate over a period of time due to many reasons such as physical trauma, surgery, infection or psychological stress. There is no particular reason for this problem. No lab tests or X-rays shows up the problem. Doctors diagnose it based on the symptoms. Fibromyalgia does not damage your joints or organs.Symptoms:The main symptom of fibromyalgia is muscle pain throughout the body, sleep problems, stiffness in joints and muscles in early hours, headache, irritable bowel syndrome, painful menstrual cramps, sensitivity to cold and heat, restless leg syndrome (RLS), fatigue, anxiety or depression, numbness or tingling.Fibromyalgia often comes with other painful conditions such asMigraineInterstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndromepelvic and urinary problemsnauseajoint disordersproblem while urinationWho can get fibromyalgia?Women between 35 to 60 years of age have high chances of developing fibromyalgia. Women are more likely to get 10 times more than men. Even doctors aren't sure about this.Causes:The exact cause of fibromyalgia is not known. However, present thinking in the arena of Rheumatology advises that fibromyalgia is a problem with central pain processing in the brain, where there may be an enlarged sensitivity or perception of pain to a given trigger.There are many factors that are included:Physical trauma such as car accident or any other.Genetics- women whose close relative with fibromyalgia have higher risk of developing the disorder.Repetitive injuriesIt may occur due to Rheumatoid arthritis or other autoimmune diseases, such as lupusjoint disordersCentral nervous system (CNS) problems
Louise is a fourteen-year-old who has been constantly losing the contests she used to win because of one sole reason: the custom of voting in her new school. And then everything takes a turn when her jealousy drives her to follow the draft of a crime-thriller book. 'When jealousy, money and hatred dances naked, talent weeps in its grave'.A STORY THAT WILL DRIVE YOU THROUGH ALL YOU'VE FELT, A STORY OF JEALOUSY, HATRED, NUMBNESS, AND ALL ELSE YOU'VE CRIED ABOUT.
A story in which a boy from Daxam and a girl from Krypton go through the ups and downs of being in a forbidden relationship.
they love each other so much.Bea loves louisse so much, more than her life.Louisse loves bea so much, but with reservation. doubts.short story.