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Beverly Carter's fate is in YOUR hands. Vote below. You decide Beverly Carter's fate Your input is essential. Read the short story that follows. At the end, cast your vote by navigating to a page that either "keeps" or "deletes" Beverly from my next book.  You decide Beverly Carter's fate. The Origin Story of Beverly Carter Beverly Carter was seventeen when the court assigned her father to a long prison sentence. Death, disease and the healthcare system held her mother's health hostage with a hefty ransom. Her father tried what he could to pay the medical bills, and the cops stopped him, but not before the disease took her mother's life. Rain hid Beverly's tears at the funeral. Her mother lay in front of her. Her father lay in a cell nearly three hours away. Social services stood by Beverly's side, ready to escort her into a prison of her own called the foster system. Beverly waited just six months before she r

You get to Choose Whether this Character Lives or Dies Read the paragraphs that follow. If you like the character, if you don't like the character, either way, you decide whether the character and storyline survive to the pages of my next book. The Hacking of Federal Servers It's 2 o'clock in the morning. All good children are asleep, but Rose Lewis clicks and clacks on a keyboard in her bedroom. Her 5th grade vocabulary book provides a comfortable table that separates the burning battery from her bare legs under the covers of her twin-sized mattress that sits on the floor in the corner of her bedroom. The book is more useful as a table; Rose far surpassed that vocabulary level before the end of 3rd grade. A cat poster hangs on her wall. The fuzzy, fluffy feline stretches upside down. Text on the poster reads "I'm fine. Really." Mom gave her that poster at Christmas. Rose had a habit of saying that exact phrase to her mother when he

Story from Jordan's Perspective I don't understand why people take on such large debts to go to college. 27% of graduates don't even work in the field of their degree   (Plumber, 2013) . That means that 73% of people take on $150,000 in debt to work in a field unrelated to their major   (Bridgestock, 2018) . So, why should I take that risk? Life is simple. I show up at Applebee's. I check the schedule to see if I am working in the Front of the House or the Back of the House. Then I work, and I go home. It's simple. It's predictable. It's safe. Predictable and safe, I like it that way. The day that I found the note. That was an interesting and unpredictable day. I arrived at work for a double shift in the front of the house (That means I was waiting tables). We have all kinds of customers, but table 14 was unusual. They talked in whispers and hushes, and every time I approached the table, they became quiet. They covered