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

In 1984, 6-year-old Alexander Sedona walks into an old-fashioned schoolhouse in the quaint rural town of Oaksbury, Pennsylvania, situated in the heart of the Old Amish Country. In one of the country's safest places, the small boy never leaves the old schoolhouse. An inexplicable phenomenon, his disappearance rocks the community to the core. Believing the boy's disappearance to be the result of witchcraft, devil worship, or even worse, the town of Oaksbury quickly deteriorates. Three decades pass, and as the memory of Alexander Sedona's disappearance fades, so does what is left of the once-beautiful town. Those who remain live simple, quiet lives. Little disturbs the peace until Rosalie Andrews, the former apprentice in charge of the children that haunted night, comes across a body. The corpse is that of a stunning young woman, lying beneath the azaleas that still bloom in the yard of the abandoned school house. A black cat anxiously circles her body, a mysterious note tucked in his collar. The young woman's body is pristine, except for one perplexing fact. The crime lab discovers she is covered in the blood of Alexander Sedona, the schoolboy who disappeared before she was even born. Determined to put a lifetime of guilt behind her and lay the ghosts of her childhood to rest, Rosalie makes it her mission to find justice for Alexander Sedona--and the angelic young woman who tells his secrets from beyond the grave. Cover credit to @TheTigerWriter and her Magic Fox. They've done a number of my covers, and have an intuitive gift of understanding my personal aesthetic. Thank you!

A missing teenage girl, a boy dying with cancer, a man clinging to life on a hospital bed ... At the center of the freewheeling catastrophe is Yinka, who's just trying to get through his week without blowing up over his ex-partner's bullshit

This is the story of Julian Douglas Voorhees, in his own voice, of how he came to be a passenger on an interplanetary space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the planet Terra Nova, his trials and tribulations, and his eventual demise at the hands of the greatest silence of all - the expanse of space. The story is told in a non-linear style, following the disparate thoughts of Julian as he reminisces about the past. Status: On-Hold

{WATTY'S 2020 WINNER & EDITOR'S PICK.} Hopeless romantic and aspiring writer Mare Atwood has fallen madly in love with her childhood correspondent. There's only one catch-she doesn't know who he is. When the beaus of Star's Crossing return from boarding school to begin the courting season, Mare is determined to uncover the identity of her writer, flout her family's intentions of orchestrating an advantageous marriage, and procure the life of writing and romance she's always sought. But as in the tales she so adores, it won't be easy. Galas, masquerades, picnics, and hunts-alongside an old friend, a former teacher, and an unlikely ally, Mare delves into an investigation that leaves her torn between three clever, deceptive, and wealthy young bachelors. If Mare can confirm which is her writer and claim his hand before the courting season ends, she'll have her wish: the love of her life, a valuable marriage, and a future of writing romance. But with the eyes of Star's Crossing upon her, a business plot forcing invisible hands, and the unwillingness of her writer to come forward-Mare's future may not end in triumph, but tragedy. Set against the gilded Victorian backdrop of coastal Connecticut and lush with pre-war luxury, fans of Jane Austen, Margaret Mitchell, and Louisa May Alcott are sure to enjoy this lighthearted, lyrical novel of young love, independence, and identity. #1 Literary #1 YA Romance #1 Victorian #1 Lyrical #8 General Fiction

Stream of thought about a robot lady from dram12's world of Common. I hope dram enjoys my little attempt to join in his storyverse!

Des rumeurs courent par delà les terres d'Amanil, racontant que l'Écureuil Noir, l'un des plus célèbres voleurs du pays, est parti à la recherche de l'Orbe du Cerf. Un objet mystique qui alimente les légendes de la sombre forêt de Doemort. Laérra est une jeune chausseuse de prime. Fière et désireuse de prouver sa valeur, elle est désignée pour pister le brigand et rapporter son butin. Ainsi, elle s'enfonce dans le bois ténébreux qui coupe en deux le pays, ignorant tout de ce qui l'attend. Entre sentiers sinueux et plantes venimeuses, la chasseuse découvre un lieu tout aussi désolé que le décrivent les histoires. Son chemin finit par croiser celui du Voleur et du précieux Orbe, une rencontre fracassante qui les mène dans une aventure inattendue. Désignés par les légendaires esprits du cerf et de la biche, grands sages des bois, pour en devenir les protecteurs, ces deux ennemis vont devoir collaborer pour échapper à cette tâche. Leur quête pour se défaire des deux esprits leur apprendra bien des vérités, mais une seule les guidera dans l'adversité : l'amour. C'est histoire est un 4 mains écrit en collaboration avec chaton @Hedgye Couverture réalisée par Dana Blue Pensina's Graphic

It was a love that came into my life so quickly and I could not stop you from stepping into my life like a mist. / A Lin Thit (Light) There are not many reasons to like you. This is because you are my light. / Myu (Mist) This is my own work of fiction and just my imagination. Enjoy it !

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

The house is safe. The hills outside are not. The basement is out of the question. Joel has been trapped in the house for what has felt like an eternity; all hope of escaping lost after the first few years. Without the company of the eight strangers who arrived with him, he would have gone mad long ago. But while living in the decrepit building is taxing, nothing could be worse than the thing downstairs. Everyone is content to just live in the six rooms that they know are safe until Joel learns that there may be something below. Something other than the creature that torments them. The house goes deeper, further down into the darkness. And while travelling through the unknown halls may be dangerous, and the thing downstairs is always following close behind, Joel is determined to find a way out of the nightmare he's found himself in; for his own sake, but more importantly, the sake of the people he loves. Watty 2022 shortlister Gloria Regali Awards 2023 winner