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Responses to AC Benus' Zero to Hero: a Guide / Forty step-by-step do-it-yourself prompts.

Poems for Brian

The Easiest Thing in the World, and other poems to mark third anniversary of the Pulse attack

**Warning: I don't think these should be read by anyone**

Forced to grow up quicker than most teenagers at eighteen Joshua is far more independent that anyone else his age. What if there is an irreparable rift between the one person who is supposed to understand you the most...your twin? Josh and Joe are completely identical but are different in every way possible. Joe is on a football scholarship and very popular with an amazing girlfriend. Josh is more reserved, throws himself into work to avoid his twin and the growing anxiety that he will never fill this void that's weighing him down.

When Jake’s brother dies, his mother is convinced that Jake killed him, and he ends up in a foster care institution. The worst part is that Jake can’t remember what happened the night his brother died. The only cure for his nightmares and anxiety appears to be his roommate Alex, but Alex has demons of his own.

On their nineteenth birthday, Declan returns to Jason's resting place for the first time in a whole year and speaks from the heart.

(Monologue)

Sometimes life isn’t fair. Fifteen-year-old Richie Ferguson must learn this lesson the hard way when his mother dies of cancer and he is forced to live with a father who left the family two years earlier for another woman. Richie’s life becomes a storm, whirling around with no sense of purpose or direction. Will the tumultuous winds destroy him, or will he find a calm sea in time to save his own life?

Eric is a shattered man, and this group session is his first step toward healing. Will it help him, or hurt him? Only time knows.

After losing his father and best friend, watch what happens when newly single Nick Davis finds himself in the arms of new boy Elliott Guinn. Will his ex get the best of him and lure Nick back into his arms, will the sweet heart win him over? Not even I know, and I’m the sassiest queen you’ll ever meet, mmm!

Hope you find out with us. See ya!

With sass,

Sienna Jones