🏆 Watty Award Winner (2022) This updated edition includes revised chapters and new scenes. Trans guy Collin makes a bet with his coworker that he can land a date with the hot new barista across the street. It should be easy. Except the more time he spends with her, the more the bet starts to feel like the worst idea he's ever had. ### It's 2003 in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Collin thought transitioning would be the hard part. But now that he's on hormones and passing with ease, he's still stuck wondering who he is and where he belongs. It doesn't help that his girlfriend of six years just dumped him. So when his coworker challenges him to prove he's still got game, Collin agrees to a stupid bet: get a date with Heather, the cute new barista who just started working at the café across the street. With some unexpected help from his roommate Sam, getting close to her might be easier than Collin expected. But what starts as a harmless distraction quickly turns into something real. And when the truth behind the bet finally comes out, Collin will have to decide whether risking his heart again is worth it... or if he's about to lose the best thing that's happened to him since the breakup. A nostalgic beach-town rom-com about bets, baristas, and what happens when pretending turns into something real. ☕ Tropes: friends-to-lovers vibes, a very bad bet, coffee shop flirting, early-2000s nostalgia, and learning who you are while falling in love. NEW CHAPTERS EVERY TUESAY & FRIDAY

Seventeen-year-old Brielle Thompson never really had a normal life. She started hearing voices in her head and other people's thoughts when she was thirteen, and her neglectful parents thought she was insane. Being forced to take medications that silenced the voices, she was rendered weak and useless, and indefinitely- alone. After one blurry year filled with psychiatrists and medications, Brielle couldn't live that way anymore. She learned to pretend not to hear the voices and after a while, they faded away. Until three years later. Brielle was sent to an all girls boarding school for troubled teenagers. Throwing her into a world of discipline and harsh punishments, she struggled to fit in to a place she didn't belong. After spending two years there she just mixed in with everyone else, she was just another face in a crowd of students that didn't want to be there. Her life was turning back to normal, until she is visited by an Incubus in her dreams-or so she thought. Being thrown into the world of supernatural, Brielle is left with more questions than answers on how a dark and handsome stranger changed her life forever. She craved his lethal, forbidden love. • Incubus • A male demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women. Complete.

High school isn't safe... and love might just kill you. When a mysterious Pink Slip starts appearing at Rosewood High, it brings something more worse than a detention..it brings..DEATH!. Seven students are drawn into a terrifying game where every secret, every fear, and every heartbeat is tracked. Noah, Maya, and Ethan are caught in a love triangle, between survival and a horrifying fate. But no one is safe, each death is more shocking than the last, leaving the school drenched in fear and blood. Rosewood high school now has become a place where every corner hides shadows, the line between love, fear, and death disappears... and the Pink Slip always wins. © This story is an original work by Hazma Razak. Please do not copy or repost!.

You're untamed. He's a vampire, the King of Monsters. What happens when you're mated to literal death? +16

This is a stand-alone horror short. It contains psychological horror and disturbing themes. If you hear something after reading... don't look behind the doors. Some houses don't protect children. They keep secrets for the adults inside them. Every night, eleven-year-old Mira hears something behind her cupboard doors. Her mother says it's just fear. The house says otherwise. As thunder rips through the sky and the doors slowly open, Mira learns the truth too late- the thing in the dark isn't a monster. It's what the house was built to hide. This is a stand-alone psychological horror short about inherited guilt, locked doors, and the price children pay for adult sins. Read with the lights on. Sleep is not guaranteed.

Kara is training to become a superhero, but she's stuck with a snobby sidekick, boring missions, and too many rules. Craving adventure, she jumps at the chance to work for a mysterious organization off the books. Zadia's hidden her powers for years so she doesn't have to become a superhero. She has bigger plans: to stop the pollution choking her city-planet, and she joins the same secretive organization to start taking things into her own hands. The only thing Kara and Zadia have in common is that they have superpowers. But for better or worse, they're stuck with each other as their missions get deadlier and the web of secrets about supers gets tangled deeper. Cover by @Ferret-bird.

A true story about a girl who tried to take her life and almost succeeded. CAUTION: EVERYTHING IN THIS STORY IS TRUE. WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ MAY BE TRIGGERING! WARNING ⚠️: Contains scenes not suitable for some people. Scenes may include suicide, Death, drugs, alcohol, inappropriate sexual references and actions, controversial topics, dark role-play, physical, psychological, and mental abuse, torture, strong profanity, repugnant descriptions, and violence. 17+ ONC PROMPT: 95: I'll become as monstrous as I must...

There's a set of rules that Arianne needs to follow in order to be an exchange student. How hard can that be? She thought That's until she meets her host family and realizes their son isn't going make this experience easy. Now Aaron Kingston may not be able to remember names, and also may not know how to hug and clearly in his feelings he finds Arianne helping him in a way he never knew could happen. •started March 11th 2023 •ended December 17th 2024

"Look, man, I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean to rob the bank but I'm broke and I need the money." "If you need money, go get a job!" "I have a job!" "A real job, not blowing up the city -" "This is a real job, Stormy. It keeps you employed. I don't have to pay TAXES." ... Super Storm is your typical superhero with stunning blonde hair and high morale. Gravel is your typical supervillain with a slight obsession over a certain someone's beautiful blonde hair and a mission he doesn't want to complete. Now let's say Gravel meets someone who uses the same shampoo as Super Storm. Let's say they bond over tennis. Let's say Gravel's crime-partner isn't particularly fond of what's unfolding. Let's say this three-playered tennis match has more balls in the court than expected. Who'll win? Who'll lose? ~~~ a story told by a Super Villain ---- cover art : littleskrib on Twitter