How did Norman Bates become THE Norman Bates? That's what the first season of ambitious, fog drenched, highly. Continue reading

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Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeat - from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind.

The best thing about reading a YA novel is imagining the characters any way you like, to look a certain way, perhaps reminding you of someone in your real life.

I walk through the forest against my own free will. I search for Morel mushrooms, which my mother loves but makes me fetch as part of my chores.

My name is Kim. And I am a teen mother.

They say that hindsight is 20/20, which I totally understand now.

Original author: Cathy JonesRead Part One || Read Part Two “I wasn't ready to leave yet.  That was. Continue reading

Though it was small enough, it was not the kind of small town where a regular group of locals met at a diner or pub every night to talk about the day

  It's truly refreshing—and extremely rare—to hear a story like Tobit Raphael's out in Hollywood.. Continue reading