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Nineteen-year-old Stella must overcome her fear of horses to save her reputation as a Grove Station Farms riding instructor.

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Stella does not believe she will return to the saddle, but that doesn't mean she still feels connected with the farm where she teaches. To save her reputation and regain her confidence, she has to get on the farm's newest steed, Monkey.

Monkey, a horse like none other, senses Stella's fear and does everything he can to help her regain her confidence, even though he occasionally acts out and bites. That does not mean he wants to hurt the birthday girl. The greatest gift he can give her is a lesson that changes everything she knows about riding.

While Stella wishes to win her battle, she can't do it alone and fears she'll fall again. Curses will become blessings, but that's after she puts enough work into her goal.

With Monkey's help, Stella needs to open the door to the life she once had, even if it means putting up with her sarcastic student, Maise, and learning that sometimes the best way to overcome fear is to fight fear itself.

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*Moral: The best way to overcome fear is to fight fear itself.*

Word Count: 5,000-6,000

There's resources for you 24hrs after assault, even a week after. But there isn't much for hey it's been 7 years and I'm just now realizing what happened when I was a teenager. So I wrote down a few of the things google couldn't tell me.

Yorré Barren was born into an endless war in a world that feared her(or, rather, feared her warlord of a father). After years of training, she and her brother, Axel, are sent on a mission. Little does she know, opposing forces beyond her control plot to take advantage of this opportunity, tasked to hunt down and kill. What will happen when Yorré is split from the group in a panic? Who will she meet? What will she learn?

There's a depression cloud over my head. Sometimes it's flooding, sometimes it's storming, sometimes it's drizzling. It's never not raining. I try to escape it. No matter how fast I run, it chases after me endlessly.

───── ❝ inspired by gabby tye's run, hide, seek ❞ ─────

A classic tale of the undead taking over the world.

In modern-day Singapore, the Nightwalkers have risen and are wreaking havoc everywhere on the small island Iris calls home. Stuck in a public library overrun by zombified schoolmates and teachers, a motley crew of teenagers and adults have to do whatever it takes to reach their Safe Haven before humanity falls.

≿ thiswas hell. and they made it through alive. but there was another level they still had to face≾

In the year 2181, Russia began human experiments. Kidnapped or sold off by their own families, the kids of the Compound know only one thing: They belong to the Whitecoats.

Hendrix 'Trick' Sanchez and his little sister, Elle, have been in captivity for seven years. Trick plays by the rules, flying under the radar with two goals in mind; survive, and keep Elle safe. But the rules are thrown to the bears when a mysterious attack blows the compound wide open, and Trick doesn't know how to play this new game.

He can only hope that his superhuman strength and his pain medication will be enough to escape brutal annihilation.

Neurotic mess Ariel Goodman moves from her tiny apartment in St. Paul to a sprawling estate in the hills of North Carolina, in order to treat the invisible wounds of PTSD on John O'Connor, a veteran from the Afghanistan war. When he proves to be much warmer towards her than initially thought, can they both take their steps closer to recovery?