Contrary to what her friends may think, Piper Eaton hasn't always been an entity of sass and snarky comebacks, but when she meets Reed, their assumptions seem a little truer. © syre venn

"The fuck do you want?" Riddle hesitated. "What's your name?" "None of your fucking business." © 2021 syre venn

It should've been simple: Mitchell, my husband, Ellis, my best friend, like in teen comedies where the girl ends up with her best friend's brother or her brother's best friend or some other variation, but I'm not a teenager, and this isn't a fairytale. Real world decisions are too damn hard. --- In this emotionally-charged tale of love, family and the complexities of relationships, Olivia Bennett a strong-willed entrepreneur rewrites a known tale of a bride jilted on her wedding day, instead leaving her groom Mitchell King at the altar and shocking everyone in attendance. Mitchell's older brother, Ellis King is torn between his loyalty to Mitchell and unraveling the reasons behind Olivia's sudden change in heart. He offers her a listening ear leading to an unexpected night that forever changes the trajectory of their lives. Their connection grows, waxing and waning as hasty decisions and misunderstandings get in the way. As Olivia struggles to keep her head above water despite her inner turmoil and the pressures from her family, she's confronted with a health scare that leaves her with no choice but to face her feelings head on. Ellis and Olivia, now facing the challenges of an impending parenthood, must navigate the complex situation while battling the hurdles of life as well as the consequences of their choices. As their now strained family dynamics threaten to push their relationship to the brink, they remain unshaken and determined to create a loving and stable home for their child, seeking hope and holding on to what they now share amidst the conflicts that surround them

ONC Prompt #71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the world begins to end on July 31st, best friends August and Juliet drop everything to try to stop it. They fail. The world ends. They wake up on July 31st as if nothing ever happened. Stuck in a time loop with no clear way out, August and Juliet must save the world and ask themselves if they really want to save the world, or if they just want to save each other. [ Featured in the Open Novella Contest Shortlist ]

A family shrouded in secrets. A cousin who's fallen prey to a mysterious, unexplainable illness. A newly hired caretaker with a curious disposition. In this modern take on classic Gothic Romantic mystery, Abigail Thatcher, a live-in caretaker, has been hired by the wealthy Huxley family to care for their quickly ailing cousin, Victor Blackwell.

As the saying goes, 'Not all heroes wear capes,' and in the case of Chloé Godoy, the statement had never been more true. The promiscuous, twenty four year old intern finds herself with supernatural abilities one morning after a night out and she thinks why not try to put them to good use and fight crime? There's one problem though. Her powers only work when she's drunk off her ass. ** That only turns out to be the tip of the iceberg when roped into a mugging case, Chloé's life is catapulted into chaos after every turn; there's conspiracies within the police, she's caught in the crossfire of warring mob groups and headhunted by a cult. To make matters worse, her only means of help is her psychotic childhood frenemy who's sex on a stick, and a shifty private detective with ties to the underworld who constantly gets under Chloé's skin. And her skirt. On second thought, she probably might be better off not doing this sober.

❝Bay Baxtor wants her last summer of high school to be adventurous. Keaton Ocean just wants to cope with his first breakup. They've known each other for practically all their lives but they don't exactly know each other. Not like that. So when they find each other in an almost empty blue bus, riding the roads of a town where everyone fantasised about big cities that didn't exist, they decide to take a breath and go with the flow. Sometimes, a rickety old bus, a typical playlist, summer afternoons and two teenagers --one with thoughts suffocating her head but not letting them out and another who just wants to be loved the way he loves-- were all it took to find friendship. Or maybe, even more.❞ . People who know me know how I suck at writing descriptions. So I hope you read the content inside and judge if this story is worth supporting x'D . genre: humour . All rights reserved. copyright © 2019-

[gxg] When the enigmatic, whirlwind-of-a-girl Astrid shows up at Cira's school at the end of September, Cira isn't quite sure what she expects. Say hi? Probably. Make friends? Maybe. Fall in love? No. But when a drunken misadventure leads to a night neither of them are quite willing to forget, Cira realizes that she's falling hard. And fast. But Astrid doesn't seem that into her, and she's moving away in November. Cira has one month to make it happen. Will they manage to fall in love in October? *** ONC 2021 Prompt #40: If only you knew you'd meet them, you'd have dressed a bit better. Especially since the only thing you can think of since you've seen their smile is "oh shit!"

Prudence Mackey's best friend is dead, and she's not been grieving well.

Jiuli Szeto hasn't spoken to her older sister, Bridgette, since she packed her bags, left their industrial Rust Belt town for college in New York, and never looked back, leaving Jiuli to nurse their mom ailing with lung cancer alone. After the spread of a deadly airborne virus that turns organs purple, the sisters are reunited when Bridgette arrives at Jiuli's doorstep--laid off from her Wall Street job and in desperate need of a place to stay. No running electricity. Innocent causalities. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years molding into one endless stream of suffering. This is their new normal. Together, they must learn how to protect themselves from the infection, scavenge resources, understand the difference between surviving and living, and turn the ruins of their town into a thriving community once more. But most importantly, they must repair their strained relationship...if it can be fixed at all.