[FREE Novel with PAID bonus content] After an awful night out, social worker-Skylar Leighton-believes her life will always be vanilla. Learning to navigate the real world with only her sister by her side, she's made the most out of what she has. But between her string of failed relationships and busy day job, she's resigned to being the forever single sister. Just when her life has reached a steady plateau, someone from her past reappears and throws everything off track. A deviously handsome, brooding man who she only knows as Blondie. As much as she tries avoiding Blondie, something is lurking in his past and she's the only one who can help. Suddenly, Skylar's life is much more than vanilla. Will Blondie choose his past over Skylar, or will he let the past consume him? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE Novel. PAID bonus content. PSA: My book is not 9999 coins, that is a glitch, the bonus chapter should only be 15 coins total. WORDCOUNT: 75-80k words Copyright of Anna Steffey © -- All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Among the salt-licked tombstones and the blood-red roses, my mother's fragile sanity shatters and she is slowly driven to madness. My mother believes I, her only living child, is a ghost haunting her. But I am flesh and blood...am I not? A bereft mother believes her only living child is a ghost haunting her. In the gloom and solitude of her tower, the mother is slowly driven to madness. Gothic Gloom top 10 finalist! Featured on @fright 's Gloom and Doom Gothic Tales. 2nd place winner in the category Short Story in the One Million Project Awards. Part of the Wattpad Bookshelves family. Featured in @StoriesUndiscovered and @WattpadShortStory . Now a graphic novel! Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/938326 Comixology: http://bit.ly/2OuSH5U Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/shop/christine-bottas/the-maggies-a-gothic-graphic-novel/ebook/product-24098361.html This is powerful. Loved it! Your style is so lovely and dark at the same time. My favorite part was of the little minnows. It painted such an eerie vision. Enchanting. Well done! @Pixee_Styx I'd be lying if I say this book did not take my breath away. The writing is just elegantly morose and each paragraphs are punctuated with a poetic feel. It's beauty is almost dizzying. @fraulein_elle The Maggies is such a brilliant book that I went to the comment section to write something but I was so speechless after reading this that I couldn't find words. I haven't read such a good book for a long time! Thanks for writing this masterpiece. @MFOshin I read this and already kind of guessed what's happening but when I read the explanation. Oh. My. God. My heart died. And tears in my eyes. This is such a beautifully written short story that I can't fathom how such a story can hit your feels so hard. But this did. This is amazingly haunting and chilling and yet depressing and sad at the same time. I'm in love with everything about it. This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. @KrystalM

A loyal dog wanders the realm of an apocalyptic world in search of food. To his surprise, he finds his owners, but it isn't the happy reunion he expected. TW: gore, death