One likes to fight. One hides the truth. One keeps them all in line. Nadia, Jax, and Angelo are triplets from the imaginary city of New Canton. Their parents have been selling drugs for years, absent from their lives. As a result, the teenagers have learned to sell, fight, and keep everything afloat. Almost eighteen and high school dropouts, the siblings are suddenly faced with a question: how far will you go to find yourself? Written in the POV of each triplet, find out what it takes to fight your demons and put the past behind you. [ONC prompt #4] #perdurableawards

Ailith has had a secret crush on popular girl Holly since high school. When vampires kill everyone they ever knew, will Ailith finally get a chance to tell Holly how she feels? Who is the little boy who keeps appearing in Ailith's dreams? More importantly, will Ailith survive the rainstorm that is turning the entire world into blood-drinking monsters? *** Editor's Choice November 2020, August 2021 | Watty Paranormal Winner 2020 *** Ailith Ying is a college student whose family is turned into vampires during a toxic rainstorm. Her only hope of saving them is to find an elusive and rare medicine known as a Lumin pill. Unfortunately, she is kidnapped and taken to Miami by two of her friends who are on the run from the vampire horde. Soon, as the infection spreads across America, Ailith must find her way back to her family and save the world. **** Our world is dying. We thought the end of times would come from the plague, from disease, from war - it came from beneath the Black Waters. Cover designed by Frances Louise De Ramos

Delena is determined to have a good time at summer camp and forget about her backstabbing ex-best-friend Mei. But when Mei shows up at camp too, suddenly revenge looks a lot more appealing than forgetting. * * * * * As far as 17-year-old Delena Torres is concerned, friendship is nothing more than a quick way to get hurt. This has been her mindset for the past two months anyway, ever since her best friend Mei ditched her and started hanging out with her arch enemy. She's more than ready to spend summer vacation alone-- then her parents surprise her by signing her up for a photography course at Camp Create It, the summer camp she and Mei always dreamed of attending. Still, even if she has to be surrounded by other campers, Del's determined not to get attached to anyone. She'll spend the summer by herself, honing her photography skills and forgetting about Mei. Easy, right? Maybe, if it wasn't for the fact that her quirky cabin-mate seems deadset on becoming friends. Or if she could stop running into the cute guy from the kitchen staff. Oh, and if she wasn't in the middle of a prank war after one stupid attempt at revenge, since Mei just happened to show up at camp, too. Yeah, this "lone wolf" thing might be harder than she thought. 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝) - 𝟏𝟎/𝟏𝟓/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎

Neve, a lonely girl surrounded by people, but no one knew the truth. The truth people have died to protect. It's too dangerous for them to know, and for her to get too close. So, she keeps everyone at a distance, never getting close enough to hurt them. Literally. The truth is that she is a monster. She can't touch a person without freezing them from the inside out. After indirectly hurting the one person who cared for her, she made a vow to never get close with anyone ever again. Throw Ember into the picture, a gang leader who can start a fire with the twitch of her fingers. She uses her powers to create chaos, and enjoys it. Leading a group of people with similar gifts as herself, she notices something odd going on with the girl at school who never got close. She decides to investigate the lonely girl, determined to find out what she is hiding. What will Neve do when someone tries to get closer than anyone has before? Will Ember be able to burn down the ice walls that Neve has put up, or will she be left alone all over again?

After the suicide of her best friend, Temi struggles with mourning and effectively healing. All the while, she's juggling a college career and an emotionally unavailable, politician-mom. As if things couldn't get worse, Temi's mom hires a bodyguard to watch over Temi while she grieves to prevent her from doing anything "stupid". Isa's presence at every moment of Temi's day is the last thing both of them want. But what happens when this initially outrageous situation blooms to be something unexpected? A story of grief, healing, and hope.

An introverted mage. An isolated warrior. Their adventures are epic. Their friendship is legendary.