I was 13 when they took my brother away. They took him away because he was Changed. Unnatural. Dangerous. And now it's my turn. 7 years ago, humanity changed. 7 years ago, some males aged 16 to 21 started to change. 7 years ago, they developed strange abilities that no one could explain. So they were thrown into the Citadel, the prison for the Changed. Scientists couldn't explain why they were mutating, why the tumor that grew in each of the Changed didn't kill them. So they left it. The public didn't really talk about it much, each year one in twenty teenagers tested positive so it wasn't that big a problem. Until now. When Roycelin Sanders tests positive, she's thrown into the Citadel, the place where her own brother was imprisoned 3 years ago. No one's heard of a female Changed---and no one expects the Captain of the Guard's daughter to be the first. Roycelin doesn't understand it herself, at first she refuses to accept her situation. Both old and new faces await her in the Citadel, and with them come new experiences and strange abilities she never imagined. Together with the other Changed, she struggles to unravel the mystery of her condition, and what she discovers may shake the very foundations of the Empire.

A possible future in less than 500 words, if plastic wins. This was my entry for the WattPad/National Geographic #PlanetOrPlastic competition back in late 2018. It reached their Top 10 Submissions which, given that there appeared to be well over 5000 entries, was a very pleasant surprise! The competition itself had a limit of 500 words so, for those who keep asking if I intend continuing the story, the answer (for now!) is no - unless I can find a very good reason for adding any more. Many thanks to everyone reading and voting on this story and getting it to number 1 in the #sciencefiction category in May/June 2020! I did try to thank the voters individually on their pages but Wattpad have a daily limit on the number of times I'm allowed to do that and there are now too many of you (not that I'm complaining)! Here's the top 10 submissions page: https://www.wattpad.com/list/738243473-planetorplastic-top-10-submissions If you want to read the story in Polish please head over to https://www.wattpad.com/story/236405960-m%C4%85dro%C5%9B%C4%87-staro%C5%BCytnych-t%C5%82umaczenie-pl where @juliatlumaczy has done a fine job - thank you, Julia! @juliatlumaczy has now sent me a version of the cover she used for her Polish translation - thanks again, Julia! @alex_sokolova has also translated the story into Russian as well. You can read that here: https://www.wattpad.com/976002417-мудрость-древних - many thanks, Alex! We now have a third translation! @AlfonsoLucassen has kindly translated it into Spanish and you can find it here: https://www.wattpad.com/1063634347-la-sabidur%C3%ADa-de-los-antiguos

A storm in the sea, a storm in the skies, so many storms in your beautiful eyes. A short story by yours truly.

Winner of the Wattpad Dark Fantasy Dark Tournament, August 2021. Prompt: It's the beginning of the darkest day of the decade. A day where the evil roams free and destroys anything in sight. What do you do to survive this day?

A short, mystery story inspired by the TV series 'DIG'

A post apocalyptic world. With an immortal girl and her AI companion.