At Letchworth Academy of Demon-Hunting, young warriors are trained until they are ready to serve the demonhunter's council, the Sunder. In his final year, Edgar Kelpheart's exams are looking much closer this side of Christmas, and he's hardly in his best shape. Part of a group of friends who foiled a desperate attempt to utilise one of the Sacred Sigils to gain eternal life, he has struggled since the battle, his ability to wield angelic magic waning. The magic of his runes has him leeching life from his best friend, his brother-in-arms. When more paranormal bodies are found in Portsmouth's streets, Edgar sees signs pointing to a familiar culprit. He just hopes he can find a way to face them... A slightly longer piece experimenting with many of Cassandra Clare's concepts (so credit to her, of course) and with @grinchly's characters (so credit to her, too). Sequel to A Raven's Wing. New chapter every Saturday!

Eighteen-year-old Emily is having a challenging first week at university. Her flatmates are into parties when it's not really her jam, there's a thief in the flat whose favourite target is her milk, and all in all she's rather homesick. In the spirit of new beginnings, she agrees to go to gardening club with a new friend, only to find herself trapped inside a shed with only one way out - a door into a land that shouldn't, and soon probably won't, exist. Emily's only chance of getting home is to set out on a quest to save the stolen prince from his tower, in the far reaches of Minaria, Land of the Small Folk. But the world is on the edge of hopelessness, and the clock is ticking. If Emily doesn't fancy falling into oblivion then she should get a wriggle on. Prompt 1: You stumble across a mysterious door made entirely of briars and thorns. As you step through, you're granted extraordinary powers. But with great power comes great responsibility - it's now your duty to save a crumbling kingdom. Title and related quotes are from 'The Greater Celandine Fairy' by Cicely Mary Barker. Original fiction partially inspired by Alice in Wonderland and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. ⭐️ ONC 2025 Short List

When a teenager with strange powers escapes the clutches of her scientist captor, she must learn to face the troubles of her past before the scientist returns and the cycle starts over again. *** September 2016. The North Sea. A storm rages while Eliza Whittle flees the laboratory that became her prison. Her ride? Her pet dog, implanted with seagull wings by Dr Magnus Reynolds against her will. When the sutures rip free, sending them tumbling into the vicious waters below, it's hardly a surprise. Waking up on a bleak Shetland beach, she meets a shadow from her past, and she has a decision to make. She can take her life back, or she can keep on running into oblivion. Her choice. The question is: will Reynolds ever let her go? *** Part of the Nowhere is Final series and sequel to The Ava Experiment. Also available on Inkitt. New update every Friday!

No matter where she goes, Eliza Whittle just can't shake the stalker scientist on her tail. He wants her special abilities for his own. For her, no destination is final. In The Birmingham Affair, Eliza and her trusty pet Ava are at the beginning of their journey, and are faced with the reality stretching before them. Dr. Magnus Reynolds is one step behind them, trying to box them in - and they have to escape. In Nothing Hurts Like Losing, Dr. Magnus Reynolds flees London following a disastrous attempt to capture Eliza. His return to Inverness results in both another devious plot and a fateful meeting with his old rival, Daphne Bligh. In Crossing the Line, Scarlett Murphy is a scientist in Daphne Bligh's laboratory, and she smells a rat. Suspecting that her boss is up to something nefarious, she decides to dig a little deeper - but can she handle what she finds? This is a short story collection that accompanies the Nowhere is Final series, available in full on Wattpad and in part on Inkitt.

The State experiments on Terra, painfully forcing her to grow wings, but when she escapes and joins the Rebellion, they start calling her "The Angel of Death." ***** Terra, like everyone else in Section D, suffers at the whims of "The State," the tyrannical government that rules over the Earth. Her brother was taken years ago, and only his body was brought back. Then Terra is taken. Soon she's suffering painful experimental procedures, before she's liberated by the Rebellion. Finishing her transformation, Terra grows wings and demands to fight. As her legend grows, the other Rebels start calling her "The Angel of Death." But Terra comes to learn that both sides of the war are using her in a greater game, and though she despises the State, Terra is determined to survive. She will do whatever it takes, kill whoever she has to, but Terra will not be caged again. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

With her father's memory failing and her mother gone, Soraya Thenayu enrolls in distant Darkwood Academy and immediately becomes enemies with the richest kid at school. Between hiding her father's gift of illegally harvested magic, befriending social outcasts, and juggling classes, Soraya's already stressful situation intensifies when an otherworldly foe threatens to possess her. Soraya must choose between keeping her magic a secret or saving herself and her new friends.

-- English & German versions -- A heist gone wrong. A young ex-sniper lying in the dark of the subway, her leg trapped in the wreckage. A thing sniffing around, searching. Searching for the box. The box she has stolen... Get into the night! Into the museum with its artifacts! Into the subway where the world and the past come crashing down-and hope is just one clever thought away... Hi guys, we're back, this time again with something more experimental-a storyline that backtracks through its timeline. Kind of curious whether this works for you-at least, it was quite some fun to write! Especially when the story suddenly switches to Syria, and I have absolutely no idea how that happened... :-) There is a brilliant review by @TaintedBloodBooks, check it out here: https://taintedbloodbookscom.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/book-review-hexenbox/ And another review by bookishbeam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DB_vkM8TYHn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Happy reading!

After her untimely death, Elizabeth has to get used to being the only normal human in a purgatorial academy of super-powered teenagers and avoid the attention of the council which threatens to end her existence. This story contains: foul language, sexual assault, violence, bullying Recommended age: 16+ 89,000+ words total (not including book 2 sneak peek. AI Transparency: All words in this work are my own and have NOT been generated or improved by AI. The cover was generated via AI provided through Canva, but I hope to create my own original cover when I get time.

-- English & German versions -- It was in the early morning hours of a bitter-cold January 31st that William Balthazar Armenstreed solved the Kopolsky puzzle. There was a sharp click in the otherwise absolute silence of the flat, the house, the narrow street with its seamless rows of old brickwork houses and ancient trees ... This is another story building on ideas from my ongoing worldbuilding project. It's not so much a "regular" short story and more like what a first chapter could be - like an opening window into the themes of the main project. There is a great review by @TaintedBloodBooks, check it out here: https://taintedbloodbookscom.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/book-review/ Btw, page 1 is the English version ("The King in Scarlet Black"), page 2 the German ("Der Fürst in Scharlachblau"). Happy reading! --- Es war in den frühen Morgenstunden eines bitterkalten 31. Januar, als William Balthazar Armenstreed das Kopolsky-Rätsel löste. Es gab einen scharfen Klick in der ansonst absoluten Stille der Wohnung, des Hauses, der engen Straße mit seinen nahtlosen Backsteinhäusern und alten Bäumen ... Dies hier ist eine weitere Geschichte, die auf Ideen aus meinem laufenden Worldbuilding-Projekt aufbaut. Es ist weniger eine „normale" Kurzgeschichte, sondern mehr ein erstes Kapitel - eine Art Fenster für Themen des Hauptprojekts. Es gibt eine großartige Rezension von @TaintedBloodBooks, schaut da mal rein: https://taintedbloodbookscom.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/book-review/ Btw, auf Seite 1 findet Ihr die englische Version ("The King in Scarlet Black"), auf Seite 2 die deutsche Version ("Der Fürst in Scharlachblau"). Happy reading!