Fitness-trainer Winston settled in Corbeau Woods for a quiet life with his husband, free of the superstition and madness of his childhood. When a mysterious statue of an eye circulates the town, people go missing and he and his husband make a shocking discovery about their neighbour's inexplicable fate. After the statue lands on his doorstep, Winston must wrestle with his denial of the paranormal to avoid losing his husband and his life. 2nd place and Best Cover Horror Category The Berry Pancake Awards (2023) ONC Shortlister and Round 3 Ambassador's Pick (2021) 1st Place Winner Mystery/Thriller 'The Level Up Awards' 2021 WattpadDarkFantasy's 'Dark Arts' reading list (May 2022) PsychologicalNovel's 'Terrible Speculation' reading list (Sept 2021) Paranormal 'Chills and Thrills' reading list (Sept 2021) StoriesUndiscovered 'Can You See Me Now' reading list (Sept 2021) Ghost's 'Featured Ghostly Tales reading list (August 2021) Cover image credit: Perchek Industrie on Unsplash Story copyright 2021 Sarah Paradis

It would be fun, she said. A great way to blow off some steam, she said. Con should have known better. One look at the inn and he could have told anyone it was going to end poorly. But his sister had already spent the money and he already had enough people questioning the state of his mind. Supposed hauntings. Strange guests. Shadows and warnings around every corner. He wasn't going to last the week. At least the room service is good. (Though this started as an ONC project, it is now a full-length novel) Beautiful cover by @StormRidden Copyright © 2021

Still a work in progress... Keith Solomon and his friends thought it will be fun to play a game of Truth or Dare. Keith's dare leads him to find his right match on one of the world's most famous dating apps, called Magical Match. It's a strange dating app that doesn't pair you with another human but with supernatural lore and magical creatures. Still, the guys think it's an excellent initiation for the new guy, even though Vivienne, Keith's new girlfriend, warns him. Keith gets paired up with Death-called Freya. All is good fun until Freya shows up and all of Keith's friends started to disappear.

❝ MAYBE THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS ANYMORE. ❞ Mere weeks after the start of sophomore year, Angelina Jung awakens in the middle of the wilderness, stranded with no explanation. When she finds three other college students in the same predicament as her, she isn't sure what to believe. With all their recent memories erased, the four must set aside their uncertainty in order to survive. From enduring the harsh conditions to facing their inner demons, it'll take all their resilience to overcome this true test of their strength. However, the forest will soon become the least of their worries as a ghost from their past surfaces, enmeshing them in a ploy more sinister than they could imagine. Some secrets are meant to be buried. → Open Novella Contest Prompt #1 → cover by @demonologies → banners by @wintermoxie

Gracie cracks an unsolved math problem. The only catch is, she is an undergrad and found the problem while snooping around her dangerously hot professor's office. Knowing this could change her life, she refuses to lose this breakthrough and plans to get closer to her austere yet devilishly handsome professor, Spencer Wright. Earn his trust and through him, announce her achievement to the world. Easy, right? But the plan doesn't move as smoothly as she wanted, so she executes Plan B. Become more than just a student for Spencer with the help of innocent seduction. But as the days go on, their smoldering attraction sets the barriers ablaze, turning Gracie's plan into nothing but ash. Emotions get tangled. Her past turns her life upside down once more. The demons in her head and heart battle. The greed to become famous burns stronger and brighter. Will she choose her growing affection towards her professor? Or the chance to have her name written next to the other groundbreaking mathematicians? ⚠️ProfessorxStudent (mature contents include: language, sex scenes, death/suicide) 🌟Highest Ranking: #1 in Drama #1 in Slow burn #1 in age gap #1 in Professor #3 in College #11 in New adult romance #6 in ONC2021 #1 in mathematics

When the Ke'aelon race set out to explore the depths of space, a new world was founded thriving with life. Planet Earth. An alliance was formed with the Ke'aela and the native Human race. Both Kingdoms lived in peace alongside each other. All was well until the invading Grocit race attacked the planet in a bid to take over the galaxy. Years later after a war left Earth in devastation, Princess Aurelia, heir of the Ke'aelon Kingdom is threatened. The remaining Grocit had come out of hiding. Attempting to assassinate Aurelia, the Grocit attacked the Ke'aelon Kingdom during her coming-of-age ceremony. In a struggle to save Aurelia's life she and some allies escape the Kingdom. But in a series of unfortunate events, Aurelia finds herself alone in an apocalyptic world. Can she survive long enough in the wilderness to once again see peace in the Kingdoms?

Despite the fact their hearts no longer beat, vampires really aren't all that different from human counterparts. Some are kind, some are vile, and most are stuck trying to navigate the muddy middle. Enter our two vampires: One would never manage to fit all the candles on her birthday cake even if she desired to celebrate it. Armed with her fangs, centuries of knowledge, and ferocious desire for justice, she will do whatever she deems necessary to achieve her goals. The other is modern vampire who before being turned enjoyed life's simple pleasures: video games, surfing, and flirting.

Duchess Andreya Marivatan was murdered at the age of twenty-two. It was during the hours the pool of night was deepest, Andreya soundlessly asleep in silk sheets behind the curtains of her elegant canopy bed. By the time she awoke to a noise, the deed had already been done and her sheets dripped with a deep vermillion stain. That was the first time Andreya met death, and it would not be the last. The death that knew everyone did not know Andreya - not even so much as her name - and because of it Andreya could not die. So she survived and forgot, the stains on her bedsheets becoming naught but a dream. It took many years for Andreya to realize she had not grown a day older since she had died, however, and that in a society where status is dictated by age, it would not be long before she had visitors on her doorstep asking questions she did not know how to answer. The reason behind her youthful features. The explanation behind her lack of scars. Andreya Marivatan was an impossible woman who wanted nothing more than to have died the night she was killed, and Andreya Marivatan was determined to get her wish. ❉ ❉ ❉ - First draft: COMPLETE & EDITING (all suggestions welcome :>) - Shortlister in the Open Novella Contest 2021: prompts 22, 57, 62, 66, 71, and 87. Main prompt 66. - Featured Ambassador's pick: @WattpadDarkFantasy "Dark Desires" list - Highest ranking: 64 in #darkfantasy, 4/26/2021 - 1st place in Historical Fiction, Coral Awards 2021

Posey Jensen is a friend collector, boyfriend avoider, and thrill seeker. When someone posts in a group chat looking for a wedding date to Bermuda, Posey jumps on the chance to prove to a new friend that she's the reigning queen of adventure. But even she's not prepared for Brent Faulkner: Olympic swimmer, Northern University star, and the only guy she's ever thirsted after. Brent Faulkner has a +1 for his friend's wedding he can't fill-and zero desire for another relationship. He's married to his sport, and girlfriends are never happy mistresses. When he posts in Northern University's group chat seeking a seat filler, someone named Jensen replies, and Brent figures a bros weekend will be just what he needs. Little does he know, Jensen is Posey Jensen, and she's diving into his life to change his priorities forever. ONC - Prompt #73 - In a group chat, you reply to a message that was not aimed at you, and yet inadvertently start something new with your crush. 2021 ONC Ambassador's Pick Previously titled: Olympic Crown Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

It hadn't occurred to Esme that she should be suspicious of her parents, they were just ordinary people after all. But when an unknown number won't stop texting her, the questions start coming. Was the accident really the cause of her amnesia? Why did her parents speak five languages suddenly? How was it that Esme could suddenly assemble and disassemble guns? Who exactly was Agent 23? Maybe one of these days she could get back to her sappy daydreams of her incredible coworker. That itself seemed like a dream.