by Lauren Runow

 

After a devastating accident crushed my dreams, I ended up back in my hometown teaching kindergarten. I was trying to make the best of it. That is, until the world I had to leave behind, showed up in my classroom in the form of a five-year-old little girl. Her father living the exact life I almost had.

 

Adam Jacobson is known as the bad boy of rock. While he and his band tour the world, they leave a trail of mayhem. What no one knows is behind the music is a caring, straightedge man with a secret — a daughter who the world is about to discover.

 

 

 

by Whitley Cox

 

 

No marriage is perfect.

But I figured mine wasn’t so bad.

Until he told me it was over.

Until he ripped my heart out of my chest and stomped on it, with not an ounce of remorse in his eyes.

So I left.

I checked myself into a swanky hotel, and drowned my sorrows with top shelf bourbon until the remaining tatters of my soul were numb.

Maybe I’m just not meant to have that fairy tale ending.