They said it would be a relaxing week in the woods with friends. Graham thought returning home for the first time in eight years would be the hardest thing he'd have to do. Surrounded by whispers and gossip, he was more than eager to exchange the quiet a Pennsylvanian town for a luxury cabin in the woods. The group of college students had planned a celebration of sorts to send off two of their friends who would be leaving the continent on a research mission. At least, that's all it was meant to be, until someone went missing. Now, they'll deal with the whispers and shadows of the forest.

||WATTY WINNER 2023🌟|| Two strangers pretend to be a couple to win a dumb bet. The wager: they must enrol in couples therapy and fool their counselor. _________ Six non-refundable couples counseling sessions. That's how many Clementine booked for him and his girlfriend to sort out their relationship problems. What he didn't see coming was getting dumped as soon as he informed her of it. Enter Everett, a chaotic, curly-haired boy who barges into Clementine's life. He offers to fake date and attend the counseling sessions with Clementine. Unfortunately, they are both idiots. Did they really believe they could safely fake-date in a Wattpad book and NOT fall in love? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Might bring to mind: "Heartstopper" but with a ton more baking and fake dating 🌈 🎼🎶 This book has a Spotify playlist with a song for each chapter. To download it you can search me on Spotify @itsmeimthevampire - the playlist name is "Idiots To Lovers." 🏅🏅🏅 Watty Winner 2023. Shortlisted in the Open Novella Contest 2023. Featured on Wattpad profiles: @Lgbtq @FreeTheLgbt @Romance 🏆🏆🏆 #2 lgbt #2 lgbtq 📆 10/5/23 #4 gay 21/5/23 #4 bxb 14/5/23 #5 boyxboy 13/5/23 #1 gayromance 5/5/23 #1 gayshipsareyayships 14/5/23 Written for ONC2023 using prompt 39: On a blind date with a complete mismatch, you're increasingly uncomfortable but too polite to leave. Then an attractive stranger comes over and gives you an out.

Grimhelde didn't choose to hunt the creatures of the night. Even though her family had been hunters for generations, she chose to leave and lead a normal life. But, as it often happens, she found love and it destroyed her plans. Young Grimhelde finds herself longing for the king in the castle she chooses to work in, but there's something strange about his wife. She knows the signs, blood red lips, pale skin, an aversion to sunlight. The signs of a vampire. To save the man she loves and his daughter, Heldie slays the evil monster. Happily ever after isn't the next step for her, and now she'll have to decide what to do with the child. A Snow White retelling...with vampires. ONC Shortlist 2023

prompt 52: There is someone you dream about every night, but you never imagine meeting them in real life. Daniel Faith didn't know himself all that well, existing with the bad boys, at least a good kid at home, and a homicidal rage against the friend who kept dragging him back down. Perhaps he wouldn't be as upset if he didn't have warning dreams unsettling his conscience every night. Fantastic things, dreams that couldn't be real, kept pointing towards how toxic his life was becoming. That is, until the day he meet the monster in his dreams, and found out exactly how evil his own nature could be. But the task given to him is heavy: root out the worst evil in his school and neighborhood, atone for what he had become. Trigger Warning: I'm not sure how far I'm going to let violence go in this story, as of yet. Too much and I'll go over the 20K mark, so hopefully not too much. But still, this is supposed to be a disturbed story.

Jade Snow by day, Sapphire Bullseye by night. Sandshore. A place of beauty and disaster. She is one of the top assassins in the underworld. Sent out to kill and steal. Nothing is too challenging for this woman but what happens when she is sent on a mission to Frostbourne to assassinate the Prince. Secrets will be revealed. Fights will break out and those they loved will die in the crossfire. Cover by @-DeeIsDead--

Melanie Daniels has had a hard time meeting people since her previous boyfriend passed away. As a result, she goes out less and less, and has even had trouble making friends. Her younger sister Lyla decided it was time to force her out of her shell and send her on a blind date. Little did she know that this date would turn out to be so terrible that Melanie would rather never speak to new people again. Lucky for Melanie, a sweet young guy working the cafe helped her out of that terrible date. What happens when she sees cafe guy walking around campus the next day? Is fate in their favor? Most importantly, is fate in HER favor?

Hanari Raven Wilson thinks that everything she experiences in her dreams is just a figment of her imagination and whims. But how could she explain when a man starts showing up in her dream when she craves company? There was him when everything started to spiral out of control. When things get better, will there still be "them"? What can they do about their faith, which is supposed to be written in a different book? ∞∞∞ ONC 2023 entry Prompt #52 is the main prompt written with prompt #6 ∞∞∞ DATE STARTED : 02/06/2023

Nikki Valentine is a smart, successful boudoir photographer with a curvy body and passion for empowerment. Despite this, she has spent years in a relationship so full of red flags she should have run a mile. Whilst on their eighth relationship break, she agrees to go on a date to a football match as a last-ditch attempt to salvage things. Evan Griffin knows he's approaching the end of his football career and is beginning to think about what he wants next from life. When pitch issues at a game lead to the commentators trying a "Kiss Cam" like American sporting events often use, something catches his eye and Evan can't resist stepping in. The unexpected encounter between the pair sets sparks flying and when they find themselves working together just a week later, the chemistry is intense! What happens when they both realise they don't have to settle for relationships or careers that don't fulfil them? Will their 'unsettling' cause them to collide or tear them apart? Based on prompt 51 for @OpenNovellaContest The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them. ✨️ ONC 2023 Longlister ✨️

A twisted take on Bloody Mary Mary LaRue is a crime writer for The Daily Word--a newspaper company in Nashville, TN. When her boss insists she finds a big case by the end of the month, Mary becomes desperate. Life at home has been rough with her mother on hospice. When a friend tips Mary off on a huge case developing, she quickly hurries to the crime scene to get the scoop. She gets more than she bargained for when she slips past the police tape and finds a horrific crime scene waiting for her. Someone--or something--followed her home, and it won't leave until Mary is dead.