**ONC 2024 Shortlister** Heems is an energy vampire, a parasite, draining xeir hosts' energy with a single touch. That is until xe meets Shiro, a wily thief who happens to be the only person immune to Heems's parasitism. ---- Working as a doctor on dwarf planet Eris, Heems drains the energy of xeir unknowing hosts...
**AMBYS 2022 WINNER** He'll never play piano again. That's what virtuoso pianist Zephyr has vowed to himself after escaping Sigma, the sprawling criminal organisation that once held him--and still holds his friends--captive in California's mega-city capital, Maria. After being forced to entertain Sigma's clients with...
Two childhood best friends. One accidental kiss. A summer that changes everything. *** Felipe Rivera has a problem. Several problems, really; as if his anxiety disorder and his strained relationship with his father weren't enough, he's also been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember. Now that it...
𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 For bipolar fifteen-year-old Aaron, growing up in '90s Dublin, being gay is a choice. It is a choice between risking alienation from his conservative Catholic family and close-minded friends or drowning under the weight of his secrets. So discovering he is falling in love with hi...
Imani was just supposed to make sure that the lost dog got home safely, come back, and pretend like the mere thought of the owner with doe eyes and an armful of tattoos didn't make her question her entire belief system. Sounds simple enough...right? It isn't. (onc prompt #69 | when music becomes a way to communicate n...
A recently out divorcee must explore his identity and how to not be the straight-acting man he's been his whole life. Just when he has found his footing, a flamboyant trans man jumbles up his ideas about what it means to be gay, to be masculine, to be a man. *** Edwin realises he's gay at the ripe age of 56. Coming-ou...
maybe Nate McGonagall has been reading too many vampire novels, but Remus Lupin is starting to seem very suspicious. He's always out late at night, he always looks tired, he's covered in scars and he always spends nights in the hospital wing at a time. There's something up with him and Nate is going to find out what i...
In a dingy karaoke bar, sparks fly. - Amirah Begum has always believed in happy endings. Even after everything she's been through, whether it be years ago when she lost her favourite pair of light-up sneakers or three days ago, when she got dumped by the girl she thought was the one of her dreams, she hasn't lost her...
[Wattys 2021 Shortlisted] In the ancient French perfume capital of Grasse, lives bohemian recluse Cassandra Ducasse, the last remaining member of a legendary family of perfumers. Trapped by her past, Cassandra is unwilling to take up the reins of her family business. When she is forced into an unlikely working partne...
Saturday, Midnight It's the weekly party at The Pearl. But Elise and her friends don't know yet that it will be the longest Saturday Night at The Pearl of their lives. 24 hours, 24 episodes Brace yourself for a very special season of For Centuries. Season 1 to 3 are also completed and can be read for free on Wattpad...
A vampire named Citlali receives an email from an old lover who broke her heart centuries ago. The message says the immortal is dead and she left a key for Citlali in a bank in New York. But the same message had been sent to two other persons whose identity Citlali ignores and the safe can only be opened if the three...
Mathematics doesn't lie, it doesn't cheat, it doesn't twist its words. It simply lays itself bare to you and that is why Leighton Gilmore loves it so much. Mathematics cannot hide from you. Not the way love can. Which is why she has denounced it once and for all. Time to focus on herself now that her divorce is fully...
you cannot kill a flower, for it will grow back stronger than before... caecilia tyrell shed her petals a long time ago and replaced them with thorns. no longer the daisy of highgarden, she brandishes a bow and arrow and devotes herself to the seven. and jaime lannister has just walked - or fallen, actually - back in...
Aidan and James. Two vampires, two drama queens, with a tragic past, clinging to each other to find their place in the world. The story of a tumultuous friendship through the centuries. This story is a prequel of For Centuries and can be read as a stand-alone. But if you want to respect the order of publication, check...
Felix smiles when Ares asks, "Do you like it?" Felix glances at him and Ares looks so excited to hear what he has to say, so happy, that Felix almost tells him right there and then. I like boys. Felix feels the words in his mouth. I like you. But writing about two girl dinosaurs falling in love and wanting to be frien...
[a two-part short story] ❛❛that's what keeps me awake at night, this thought that perhaps if I'd given myself the patience to redirect my love for you into understanding and comfort, a part of us wouldn't have broken like it did.❜❜ ... ofentse magoe and...
benedict bridgerton has been looking for a new muse, where better to look than the delicate fingers of the new harpist who he keeps seeing around town? if he is apollo, then maybe this time he will catch this falling icarus | benedict bridgerton x male! oc | | bridgerton season 1 onwards |
☆彡･:*:･ ────── 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀 | In which a dyslexic, skittish Hufflepuff named Gian Adams finds order in Remus Lupin, a boy who unwittingly invited chaos. [𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 @Hellmiina]
A soothsayer peaks through space and time to answer the question: is Frans Dahl dying or already dead? ---- Yashar Alizadeh wears many identities in the world. A professional dancer. A gay man. A perpetual expat. An adoptee. Most acutely, around Frans Dahl, he feels like his grandmother's charge. His grandmother--the...
One Midsummer night. Two girls. Seven flowers. Once the night is over, everything has changed. *** This is an entry for the 2024 Shortys Awards. Credit to @furusato_ for the lovely cover!