I’m not religious. I don’t believe in a God. But I certainly respect people who do. I live my life respecting every person and their beliefs. Going to church with dad and Sandra has really taught me a lot though. I still don’t believe in a God, but I’ve been taught to be more open minded. Because as much as I respect people’s beliefs, I didn’t really accept them as what I considered ‘believable’ and now I do. Now I see that they are just living their lives as I am trying to do as well, with their own set of beliefs. So thank you dad, Sandra, and Pastor Sean for opening my mind.

Chapter 1 It was a bright sunny day the day Alice Winshaw’s mother took her own life. Nobody could have known. Nobody saw it coming. She was a happy woman, who always had a bright smile to light up her face. So when her fourteen year old daughter found her mother hanging from her ceiling fan by a rope, the devastation sent a shock-wave throughout the whole community. Hundreds of people from the close-knit community of Bath, New York came to her funeral. Alice’s step-brothers flew in from Houston where they’d lived with their father, and Alice’s step-father, before he had died of cancer. The whole affair was a huge thing. But nobody stopped to ask Alice how she was handling it. A month later, Alice was lying in her new room in Houston reading a book about the paranormal and wondering when her oldest step-brother Brody was going to…

If you’ve ever played any MMORPG, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, then you have experienced the addiction factor that usually comes with it. Whether it’s a large addiction, like canceling plans and not leaving your house just to finish those few quests that will level your disproportioned cartoon character, or a smaller addiction, like thinking it about every time you are away from your computer, it can affect and unbalance your life in horrible ways. Video games can be categorized as one of the main causes of sleep loss and deprivation in teenagers and young adults. The sleep deprivation then affects the quality of work you can do and the amount of time you can focus. Playing these addicting games such as World of Warcraft, Rift, Guild Wars, and many others, affects your entire day. So why are they so addicting? When playing any game like that, I…