CeceD15

*****First place winner of General Fiction in the Undiscovered Writers Awards*****Joshua Berton comes from a broken home. He doesn't dare think of his father, his mother is beaten down and poor, he has no siblings and no family. He is an outcast at school, subject to teases and taunts from his fellow students. He doesn't have any friends, and the only person he is comfortable talking to is his mother.But what happens when your only hope is taken away from you? What happens when the light of your life goes out?On a starless night, Joshua is left alone, and on yet another one he decides to take his life. What is he worth, anyway? What does he have left to live for when the only person he can die for is himself? He wants to leave, he wants his life to be over.But sometimes we don't get what we want.…

CeceD15

Five year old Sofia Martin is getting excited for the first day of kindergarten. She simply can't wait to meet her new teacher, learn new things, and most of all, make new friends. Sofia and her single mother have just moved across the country from their tiny home in New York in the hopes that they can have a better life in the golden state, California. All Sofia wants is to have a friend to talk with, to giggle with, to have a play-date with, and most of all, to just be there with. But when she is immediately shunned and pushed away from her fellow peers, she starts to doubt that anyone will ever want to be her best friend. And she starts to lose hope…