Submitted to a small competition with this prompt: When the glass broke, so did my dreams. Word limit: 1,000 If you tackle the prompt, link to your story in the comments! (Oh yeah, and this story won the competition btw 😊)

Stolen blood. A dead whistleblower. A threat beyond our imagination. FBI agent Laura Constantine is forced to grapple with the dagger's edge between myth and reality in this gripping vampiric short mystery. [This is a complete 1,500 word short story for a Halloween writing prompt. Hope you enjoy!]

It isn't easy being perfect.

Featured in Wattpad's Speculative Fiction Reading List. Featured in Wattpad's Science Fiction Reading List Cathy is the last person left in Sector 21 after her father contracted the virus that consumed half of the nation. She watches the planes flying past over her roof everyday. And even after firing a dozen signal flares, no one has responded to her cry for help. Day after day she spends staring up at the dark purple clouds through her window while her desolate neighborhood starts to seem more and more lifeless. But one day...something changes. There's a knock at the door. Is this Cathy's way out of her empty existence? Or maybe a passage into a life full of chaos? ---------------------------------- © 2023 ADBwrites. All rights reserved. This story, "When the Rains May Come," including all its characters and content, is the intellectual property of ADBwrites. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or public performance of this work is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of applicable copyright law

***2X WINNER OF @YAROMANCE'S 'BITE-SIZED LOVE BUFFET 2024'*** ❝ Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing. ❞ - Errol Flynn, 1941 A POST-WWII SHORT STORY COLLECTION.

***FIRST PLACE WINNER IN @ANTIHEROESGALORE 'GREAT ESCAPE' CONTEST*** Amid a world war ignited by her home country, Lieselotte Kühn is asked a favor that later proves to be of benefit to her in more ways than one. A WW2 SHORT STORY & A CONTEST ENTRY.

Rebecca Nurse is a video blogger who has earned her Internet fame tracking down the origin stories of urban legends. She heads into a town, scares up its folk-tale monsters, and documents their stories for her YouTube channel. Then she moves on to the next town and the next story. There's something different about Grover, a small town in America's Northeast. The town is home to a famous witch who starred in an even more famous encore. Rebecca goes in search of the Witch of Embers and discovers the story is more real than she ever could have predicted.

A bottle of whiskey. A lonely bridge. A decision, foolishly made. However miserable her life may have been, twenty-two year old Reagan did not want to put an end to it--not really. But in a drunken attempt of doing so, she creates an infinite loop in time and space, from which she can never escape. ✧✧✧✧ [A piece of flash fiction that ran for several pages and turned out to be a short story.] Word Count: 6K