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In a world where people are followed by animals that reflect their personality, Taylor is devastated when she starts being followed by companions of the creepy crawly variety. As her passionate science teacher's annual companion showcase rapidly approaches, Taylor's mind is abuzz with anxiety about what her newfound companions mean about who she is.

Everyone at school knows Andrew Jennings. Missing an arm. Openly gay. But when he meets star athlete Ryan Sullivan in therapy, can friendship lead to more? ***** When Andrew 'Jacky' Jennings ends up in therapy after an English assignment gone wrong, he doesn't expect to find his high school's star athlete, Ryan Sullivan, sitting in the same waiting room. After all, he and Ryan couldn't be more different: football captain, future valedictorian, and all-around nice guy, Ryan is the school's golden boy, while Andrew is known for his permanent snarl, being openly gay, and losing his left arm (along with his father and sister) in a car accident. But when Andrew learns they actually have a lot in common, he's surprised to see past the enigma that is Ryan Sullivan and his seemingly perfect life. And as the two boys begin to connect over their shared grief, depression, and teenage angst, they might just discover a little pocket of happiness for themselves -- if they're willing to fight for it. [Word count: 100,000-150,000 words] Cover designed by Lily Taylor Please read the 'Introduction' for a full list of content/trigger warnings

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One storm can change the course of your life, just as one person can. Katrina was raised to be a nobleman's perfect little daughter but when a hurricane sinks her ship she is rescued by the most notorious pirate in the world. So, instead of growing up in a magnificent mansion with servants at her beck and call, she is raised at sea amidst cutthroats, learning how to wield a sword and fire a pistol. By the time she is 21 years old she is known as one of the most cunning pirates to sail the seas. Life on the high seas seems set for Katrina until she catches a thief trying to steal her most valuable possession. Now, she is wrapped up in a race to control the power of the ocean and should she lose, no one will ever be safe on the seas again. *ON HOLD* (Summary of the ending I imagined is in the last chapter) Trigger Warnings: Mentions of rape, abuse, violence

Rachel panted, trying to control herself as waves of pain spread through her collar bone. A tear streaked her cheek, but she viciously wiped it away before it could hit the ground. She wasn't going to cry. She pushed herself up, holding her bleeding shoulder as she looked off to where it had gone. Don't worry, she assured herself, you'll never have to see it again. ♦️ ♦️ ♦️ Other than the fact that her dad is a cryptid tracker for the government, Rachel's life is pretty normal. She goes to high school, has a friend, baby-sits every Saturday, plays the cello... Pretty normal. But one night when her dad gets attacked by two cryptids who have been known to kill, she swears to avenge him. She captures one of them, but in the end lets it go. Rachel's not too sure why, but she finds it and starts taking care of it, trying to nurse its broken leg back to health while also trying to find and appease the other. Now with two cryptids on her hands as well as a toxic relationship, her only friend that is drifting apart, and a strange bond with one of the creatures that just keeps growing, she must try to protect the cryptids as well as keep her sanity. Maybe they aren't as bad as everyone says. *THIS IS A REWRITE *COPYRIGHT NOTICE *This cover was made by @L-S-Willow. Go check them out! :D

Rescuing a human child from the wreckage of a car crash is the beginning of a strange and exciting adventure for Mawei, a yeti who lives in the wilderness of Northern California. But the little human is not just in danger from the cold. Mawei finds out that there are other yetis who would stop at nothing to keep their world secret from even the smallest of humans...

𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙨... Shiloh's best friend went into the woods, and disappeared. Every September in Black Lake, Washington, a few senior girls wake up in the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night. No one knows how or why. Shiloh always suspected her best friend Madelyn would wake up out there. Only the best wake up in the woods, and Madelyn shines a little brighter than other people. What is a surprise though, is that within a week of waking up alone in the dark, Madelyn is gone. Her car is found abandoned on an old logging road, but Madelyn herself has vanished. The police are convinced that she ran away to California to find herself, that she'll come home in a few weeks, a little tanner and wiser. But Shiloh knows better. Something happened to Maddie in those woods, and she's going to find out what, no matter the cost.

The deepest darkest prison on the planet is not where anyone would choose to start their day, particularly when they have a job to do. A princess and her personal guards fighting to stop a war, arrested for trespassing; an expert assassin stalking a merciless wizard, arrested for poaching; and a confused boy, utterly lost and severely concussed, arrested for failing to adequately explain who he was or how he came to be lying in a sizable crater. Together this unlikely, and somewhat unwilling, band of allies will perform daring escapes and battle an onslaught of mages, monsters, and malodorous thieves as they race across a continent to save two nations from mutual annihilation.

It's the 80s, the time of myths and legends is long past. There's no way a creature from a fairy tale could be real, right? Wrong. Very wrong, as Sarah and Stephanie Williams are about to find out. Will the two sisters be able to save their baby brother from the Goblin King, or will the tension from their strained relationship get in the way?