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Android by Alicia25M
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In the near future, society has been given advanced technology to help keep the innocent safe. Thus, creating an android named Detective Manning who helps solve crimes across the country. He's a brand new machine to the world to continue that promise. He is what you might call a "superhero" as he's programmed with a single task: find and catch the bad guy before massive destruction begins. But for his first case, that isn't what happened. ...... This is for the TravelBrilliantly contest! Contest entries are supposed to be 500-1,000 words long; this is just under 1,000 words.
Dark Sight by KinsleyWilde
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Sera's life is far from normal: Her adoptive father was a monster hunter, her current guardian is a TV psychic, and with one touch she can see and feel a person's death. When the TV crew gets an invitation to a town where people seem to be coming back from the dead, Sera wants this to be another hoax that will just be another ratings grab. But when she stops seeing people's deaths, she starts asking if it's a coincidence that they're even there. With everything from shapeshifters to unicorns out to get her, now added the creepy townspeople, will Sera be able to leave the town alive? ------------ Updates: 2 chapters a week
Masks by Alex79114
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The story of three friends who randomly find each other, each one dragging its own anchor of the past, tasked with the mission to find out what love truly means. A story that aims to give a new perspective to love, passion, friendship, sexual relationships, through the eyes of two generations of three very different families. "You say that illegal passion's vile. Lies! Its legal passion that's vile, because it has lost that mysterious, that sinful, that torment that tears you apart."
Glamour by azar_ereska
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A short story about gender, and society, and illusion, and dragons. ----- Or: Nathan is young, queer, and alone. Aris is fluid, 'sikar' and a dragon. Glamour is a short story about illusions, gender, self-expression, reclamation of slurs, and what it means to be queer.
Understanding Teenagers by JustinW11
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Newly college grad Liam was just hired to write the next great Young Adult Novel for the struggling company Mid Mills Publishing. The problem? He's hasn't written much in his life nor does he know a lot about teenagers. With this new job, he and his fiancee move to Pacific City and live with his old friend Jaxon and Jaxon's Sister Giselle. Giselle is getting ready to graduate high school. Through Giselle, he just might understand teenagers. New chapter every Saturday! Winner of 3 Awards The Grace Award, Teen Fiction, 1st Place The Icey Penguin Awards, Teen Fiction, Runner Up Cosmos Social Awards, Teen Fiction, 1st Place