[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

Criminal necromancer & vampire private eye team up to solve the case of the missing barista. *** When a client drops dead in her fortune telling parlor, 'reformed' necromancer Isla has no choice but to illegally resurrect the poor gal. Your girl's got priors, alright? Hiding a corpse will send Isla back to the slammer. The client's just a Tourist, so Isla is certain nobody will notice. But you know what they say: The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and a handsome vampire poking his fangs where they don't belong. Gregor, a vampire private detective, has been hired to find another vamp's misplaced favorite bloodbag-- I mean, barista. Greg knows the fraudulent and distractingly attractive psychic, Isla, is the key to the barista's whereabouts, but he just can't put his fangs on what it is she's hiding from him. If her little whoopsie is discovered, Isla fears both the otherworldly authorities and an ancient vampire will have her throat. So she does what any girl would do in her situation. She hires Greg to find the risen barista for her first so that she can undo the resurrection. Sparks fly and blood splatters as Greg and Isla investigate Philadelphia's secret paranormal society, throw literal bones at the werewolf mafia, commune with the spirits of dead vampire-brides, dodge arrest by the magic fuzz, and occasionally pop off for late night cheesesteaks. The Vampire Always Bites Twice is the Wattys 2022 Grand Prize Winner! The "Bites Twice" Mysteries 1 - The Vampire Always Bites Twice 1.5 - Doubull Indemnity [revised version coming soon) 2 - Shadow of a Curse (Coming Fall 2025) This book contains explicit sexual content, paranormal violence, animal harm, and gore.

The empire has fallen, the war seems to be over. But from the ruins of the old reign, a new order rises from the shadows. In the infamous Academy of Arkanis, four teenagers face difficult obstacles to one day earn fame, power and respect in the new order. The universe, as well as some characters in the story, are the property of George Lucas/Lucasfilm/Disney. This story is a translation from our original story. Therefore we can not guarantee for grammatical correctness :)

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Após resistir às garras da morte em Exegol, Ben Solo foi levando a julgamento pela Resistência, disposto a aceitar com resignação qualquer destino que lhe coubesse. Redimido pela Luz, Ben terá que conhecer a si mesmo em sua verdadeira personalidade, enquanto descobre junto a Rey como vivenciar a realidade de serem uma díade na Força, sobrepujando antigas leis e traçando para eles mesmos um novo caminho onde o amor seja possível. -- Não apenas um final alternativo para Episódio IX - A Ascensão Skywalker, mas uma versão cheia de romance e aventura da vida que Ben e Rey teriam tido após descobrirem que completavam um ao outro.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATTY AWARDS* and also a *2022 AMBY AWARD WINNER*! This story is a new hope for Ben Solo, after the end of Kylo Ren... Unbalanced without the other half of the dyad, Rey hopes for a way to reach Ben Solo after his disappearance on Exegol. The discovery of a strange book takes her back to Tatooine and other familiar locations, and soon Ben returns to a world that is working hard to rebuild itself in the wake of the Final Order's destruction. But Ben Solo has returned with the aim of fulfilling one final destiny -- one that even Rey cannot sense in him -- and when most people see him only for who he was, not who he is, he thinks that destiny will be easy to fulfil. But defenders can come from the most unexpected places... Especially when Ben Solo could be crucial when it comes to Rey's intentions for the new Jedi Order. The Force demands balance, and he was, after all, the son of a princess and a scoundrel before he was anything else... **CONTAINS SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE - all such chapters are clearly marked** --- Characters, names, places, historical events are the property of Disney/LucasFilm and are used here in a fan-created story in honour of the inspiration Star Wars gives to us all. I have tried to be as consistent with the movies, TV shows, canon books and comics as I can. However, there are gaps in my knowledge and I have used some artistic licence. -- Listen to the Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nMLQmdtaG3FZndG5yf69F or search for "BEN SOLO: THE WAY HOME". I would love to hear what you think of the story; I respond to all comments! Thank you for reading! -- Bespoke cover art © Kaylerinarts. Not to be copied, replicated or edited in any way, but may be shared exactly as designed with tags for the artist (@Kaylerinarts) and author (@jessicafisherwriter).

Padme believed there was no hope for her and Anakin, when he turned his back on her and became a follower of the Dark Side. When he recants and comes back into her life, how will she react? Is there yet a future for them and their children? Can they mend the broken relationship they had before? Will darkness prevail in ruling the galaxy in the end or will truth and justice win?

*CURRENTLY BEING REWRITTEN W/ EXTENDED CHAPTERS, GRAMMAR AND SPELLING CORRECTIONS, AND PLOT HOLE FILLERS (ONLY CH 1-15 COMPLETED)* The war against the Empire is finally over...however, young Luke Skywalker's journey isn't over yet. What happens when the Force decides to send Luke back in time to stop his father's fall to the dark side? Will he succeed? Or will he alter too many details of the past and change the future for the worst? DISCLAIMER : STAR WARS DOES NOT BELONG TO ME, IT BELONGS TO GEORGE LUCAS, LUCASFILM, AND DISNEY. THANK YOU.