Rowan is just an ordinary lesser fae, isn't she? Her magic seems strange only because she hasn't completed her elemental trials... right? So why does everyone keep calling her the Chosen One, the one destined to restore the seventh element?
🏆 Chosen as Sci-Fi Book of the Month by Wattpad's @ScienceFiction. 🏆 Featured on Wattpad's @ShortStory. 🏆 Awarded Best Science Fiction at the October 2024 Flames Awards. Shadow and Steel: A Short Story Series. In a time where mankind has reached the stars, the light of progress does not shine on all. In the shadow...
[WATTY'S 2024 SHORTLIST] Lucan Thurst, an alchemist shackled to his obsessions, seeks the unattainable: immortality. In the heart of Burnell Academy he toils away--pieces of himself lost until the line between human and other is blurred beyond recognition. Meanwhile, long-time friend and scientific rival, River Kim...
𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀... 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂. My job as a therapist is simple. I talk to my clients, find out what's bothering them, and make sure to listen when they open up to me. Then after a month or more of one-on-one sessions, they leave my office a reformed individ...
The return of David Williams, the smart-ass half cast causes a tremor to the foundation Oluchi has spent years building. Oluchi has only one goal in mind, beat David Williams fair and square and finally prove that she's the smartest student SGC has ever produced. With unplanned friendships, lies, more lies, and an ene...
𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐒 his whole life planned out from beginning to end, until the apocalypse washes it all away in a matter of hours. When an asteroid which has long been predicted to inevitably crash into Earth finally does, it crushes everything it touches, wiping out entire countries and sending reverber...
The aliens kill every human they catch, or in rare cases, put trackers on them to discover their hidden villages. When Natalie is caught in an ambush, she is unexpectedly released. But there is no tracker. The Saursunes have an entirely different motive this time. *** Run. Don't look back. When Natalie is trapped in a...
He walks on eggshells; she trips over them. He tackles things head on; she does whatever it takes to escape. Quinn swears her heart will never see the light of day. Instead of facing her fears, she hides them behind a quirky personality and her ability to talk her way out of anything. Cassius is healing from a heart...
Need a quick bite? Here are some short stories that might satisfy you. Some are sweet. Some are savory. And be forewarned... some are as spicy as ghost peppers. They are marked accordingly.
𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 like a straight-D report card and Sharpies on sneakers. Chester Kingston and his friends are the gutter dwellers of high school, misfit rulebreakers with no purpose and no future. Teen life is dull, especially if you're an orphan living alone in a garage, a neglected gh...
𝐌𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 long enough to be properly integrated into society, but not long enough for everyone to have accepted them. Outside of the United States, a hub for mutant immigrants fleeing the oppressive laws of their own countries, fear of mutant syndrome bleeds through the cracks in mysteriou...
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|| ONC2023 SHORTLISTER x 3 FEATURED || "𝙰 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎." Denizen is Blank Slate, the number one villain in the region-except he doesn't remember it. With only a cryptic note telling him his eight rules, he sets out to discover just exactly who he is and...
Secrets abound within the walls of the old Elburke mansion, where 16-year-old Kari Miyazaki works as a part-time gardener, unaware of the events that would soon entwine her fate with its not-so-ordinary occupants. For nothing is what it seems with her eccentric employer, or the elusive young master of the house, or fo...
🏆 WINNER (2ND PLACE) - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A misfit of an aristocratic family must find out who is behind the murder at his university before he is disowned and falls victim to the murderer. ⋯⋯⋯ Arlo Crowhaven, a student of the pre...
I broke my promise. He did not deserve it. I had not seen him in two years, now I was back. Everything was falling apart underneath my feet. Was God working against me? When I returned home from college I had never expected for my boyfriend to break up with me, my childhood best friend to maybe or maybe not be in lov...
When life becomes too hard to bear alone, someone comes along to bear it with you. A girl thriving on light and colour meets a boy trapped in darkness; their souls connect, and together they find love and healing... or something profound and corny like that. Excerpt: A girl wearing a rainbow is marching towards me fro...
{Featured ×4} In the heart-pounding world of 2082, where laws bend and twist like shadows in the night, seventeen-year-old Bryan Adams is thrust into a whirlwind of mystery and danger. Tormented by relentless nightmares of his father's tragic demise, Bryan embarks on a quest for truth, unaware that the very essence of...
To uncover the truth behind her parents' murder, a high school senior must journey back to where it all began, her kingdom. ♛ When Emerfield High gets three unusual new students, Karyn gets embroiled in their search for the long-lost princess of their magical realm...
Carey Hudson knew she should've left Jake Jayson unconscious on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. She could've just left him. She would've just left him. But she didn't. And now she's sucked into the dangerous world of street racing. *** 2nd place in the Nova Nexus Awards for NA and Adult 1st place in the Datu...
In what remains of the mortal world, the Van Blake's reign over life itself. At the hands of Alberich Van Blake, Lunaria was found and is now the focal point of both life and death. When the eldest sibling in a Moonborn family is of age, all siblings, regardless of age, are to use magic to battle their siblings to the...
𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · 27x FEATURED · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find...
Born a bastard of Echo, a haven occupied by savage conquerors, the Vrai, sixteen-year-old Hain is haunted by both the coward living within him, and the guilt of having spilled innocent blood. Loathed by his kin for his dark hair and mismatched eyes, Hain finds his purpose ranging beyond the haven walls as a spy for th...
Reyna Bishop, a twenty-one-year-old woman is convinced that one of the most powerful men in the city holds her mother hostage and to save her, she conscents to working alongside Axel Lawton, a rather unusual enemy... * * * Reyna Bishop should be in college, attending classes and making new friends. Instead, she's lead...
Sometimes the things of the past are best forgotten, but when the past is the only place you can go for answers, one must make do with the answers that the past gives, even when those answers are horrendous. In 1981, Samantha Carmichael attended the Atlanta Film Festival but never made it back home. Forty-one years la...
Sakura is your average 18 year old, having just graduated high school and about to enter her freshman year in college. The thing is... even if she herself is normal, her everyday life is anything but normal! "Mama? Sora wants a hug..." Starting from the fact that she has a 4 year old daughter to take care of! "Kyaaaa...
𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐀, where everything is happily ever after... until it isn't. Most people either loathe the idea of or don't believe in the legend of the Writer, a mysterious being in a faraway tower who writes the life story of every person who has ever lived with an enchanted pen. When...
𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Valerie Crescent once had a promising future. In the land of Maskamere, blessed by the magic of the silvertrees, she was ready to begin her training as a prieste...
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"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." -David Foster Wallace It's hard to believe that one night has the potential to change your entire life. For Sloane, that was the night that her father was murdered and her mother ran away without a trace. She and her brother are separated and placed...