Bella Swan never could catch a break. After their mother died, the state decided she wasn't fit to take care of her little brother, Emmett. They thought he was better off without her, and his jerk of a foster father, Edward Cullen, seemed to agree. We're all one misstep away from disaster.

A terrible, frightening storm seemed fitting to mark the end of his marriage to the love of his life. As the sky turns black and thunder crashes, Edward and Bella weather one last storm together.

Look, it's hard to ignore an attractive man when he's traipsing around your own backyard. There's nothing wrong with looking as long as you don't stare.

Edward left Bella's best friend humiliated and broken. Bella was livid. Too bad she'd just signed a three-year contract to continue the cult-hit TV show she starred in with the creep. In an industry that thrived on rumor and speculation, with overzealous fans dissecting every word and gesture, red hot rage looked a lot like white hot passion.

He was the boy next door. Well. He was the owner of the fancy wine bar next door to the tattoo parlor Bella owned. He was classy, she was scrappy. There was no way they were a match, right? A merry Valentine's Day gift for aurgasm.

Carlisle should have known Edward Masen was trouble. He was smart, beautiful, cheeky, and a sub in need of a dom with a firm hand, which Carlisle just happened to be. He was also very young, an intern and Carlisle was his attending. Trouble indeed.

Missing scene from 10x03 Soul Survivor - What happened after Cas dragged Dean back to the dungeon? Destiel

The Twilight Twenty-Five. The challenge is to write twenty-five mini stories based on prompts and a central character. This is going to be fun.

The Madonna-whore complex. The idea that women's sexual expression is limited to being virginal or being degraded. Or lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets? Pffft. Where's the fun in that?

Times change. People change. What does it take to strip away the last bit of an old impression? What would it take to see someone you thought you knew not as who they had been, but who they could become to you?

Because her own life was so devoid of it, Bella always wanted to protect sweetness and innocence in other people. Maybe that was what drew her to Edward, a strange, socially awkward, but very sweet man. She couldn't know the secret he held-that he wasn't what he seemed, and she was the one being protected.

Everyone knows about the dangers of the Internet, the liars and the creepers. But friendship can spark there and so can love. Edward and Bella met and fell despite the distance, but though his feelings were true, not everything he said was. A collab with myonlyheroin.

Juggling two jobs and a full-time schedule of classes, college student Bella didn't have time to figure out just how sexy she could be. Her boss, Edward knew. She was going to figure it out sometime-why not with him? A woman in full possession of her wiles is a force to be reckoned with.

When Edward's son died, he took Edward's heart and soul with him. Even a decade of mourning didn't seem good enough. But then, Edward met college student Bella who thrived despite her own tragedy. Can Edward's cold, dead heart beat again?

Alice Brandon Whitlock is twenty-two years old and the story of her life already read like a tragedy- a tragedy worthy of the Jerry Springer show in its twists and turns. Charlie Swan's life was more sedate, but it hadn't always been. You never can tell how or when two souls will connect or what they can do for each other.