"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese Proverb

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

I'm Jase.
Heroes: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Hayley Williams, Sidney Daniel Rosenthal.
Music: Everything - screamo - all rap Eminem = my iTunes.
Books: Jessica Darling Series, Harry Potter Series, Sherlock Holmes, and more.
Movies: Harry Potter Series, Disney, 1776, Avengers, Maze Runner, Fast and the Furious series.

22. Single. Mother. Sister. Daughter. Writer. Photographer.
Dreamer.

"Sanity is a one trick pony -- all you have is rational thought. But when you're good and loony, the sky's the limit!"
-The Tick

"My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time."
-Linda Sunshine

Of All The Love Stories: Denise lives life the only way she knows how: headphones in ears, a dog named Ears by her side, talking to and occasionally seeing her friends from home, and living with her almost brother without a care in the world. Or so she would believe. Peter is an almost runaway who is drawn in by Dee's wit and cynicism. But can Dee, a tough girl, be charmed by Peter's hopeless romantic ways. Will love be lost or found on California beaches and gelato booth benches? (Complete)

Summer of 1946: (I started writing this story in the summer a few years ago.) Sydney can't wait to have a summer in North Carolina acting like nothing is wrong. Her twin sister, Levy, her brothers, Michael and Davy, are all along for the ride of the Summer of 1946.

Poems: When my feelings can't be expressed over a period of time, I write a poem, in that second. In the moment. In the feeling.

My Life in Somerville: Mica was a character created from one of my multiple personalities. She's the extreme of everything I am minor. She's punk. She's attitudinal. She's opposite of me: only child, divorced parents, moves, has a car. Zander is a guy from my daydreams. Tara is the reinvention of one of my best friends. Check it. Please.

Chicks of Mass Destruction: Cassie Turner is already notorious at her school. Starting out young, she made name for herself. Now, while she's continuing her career in the social scandals around high school and bringing them to light, will her life be ruined or saved when someone turns the tables?(Being rewritten because of bad continuity. Back soon, hopefully. JR.)

Full Circle: A story that began because of a dream I had. Denise is just the average girl. She has a steady group of friends: Daniel, Chance, Tyson, Jake, Sabrina, Skye, Ashley. They spend days in the water and nights on the sand with a bonfire and a some sodas. But when a dream sends most of the group to a new building on the outskirts of town. Average gets a whole new definition.

A Completely Fictional Story: Mark Kingston is not the same guy he used to be, on the outside. Denise Henley has grown up and grown out of the teenager she used to be. The two reunite away from their hometown different from before but the same in the other's eyes. Time is the only one who knows how the reunion will go. (Complete)

Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Sophie Harris isn't the most popular girl in school, isn't the smartest, but her life has made her the most well known to everyone, except for newcomer Daniel Robinson. To Daniel, she's just a pretty girl with the best defense line the high school football team can provide. Sophie needs people to lean on she just wished her support group consisted of more than her Italian grandfather, equally-damaged older sister, and the neighboring family that consists of her ex-boyfriend.

She Died Without Her iPod: Jamie Bryant is the hopeless romantic, everyone's good friend with a dark self-esteem, but a good set of morals. One mistake lands her in the worst possible position: dead. Her family and friends are left to figure out the last moments. Something that is hard to do when Jamie leaves nothing behind. (The only thing I've written that isn't up here. It's in the process of revision.)

Shorts: Some short stories or unfinished novel ideas. "Happy" came from a phrase that I was repeating in my head for about a month before writing the story: "Have you found your happy yet?". "HouseSitting" came from an internal debate over the term house sitting.