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 😊)

In 1600s Virginia, a small colonial village sprang up unceremoniously on the sacred burial grounds of the Native American people it was taken from, the Nottoway. Now, an ancient evil has been awakened in the form of Elementals known as The Bird People and it is suspected that the Nottoway Tribe has cursed the ground in revenge for being encroached upon by colonial settlers. After failed crops, still births, deaths, burnt homes and facing starvation, superstitions run rampant and the townspeople do the only thing they can think of in the late 1600s to appease these angry and destructive spirits. Give them an offering. It is quietly decided by the elders of the community, in an effort to keep these spirits of the bird people at bay, that every woman should give up her first born infant daughter to them. One such young mother cannot bear this resolution much less imagine giving up her only child. In order to keep her only child, a daughter, she makes a baby out of straw and gives that instead, bringing chaos to their puritan village. A cursed girl. The man who loves her. A questionable death. Native American Lore. Elemental Guardians. A village built on sacred burial grounds. What could go wrong? -An ONC Shortlisted Winner- -ONC Ambassadors Pick- MAIN PROMPT No. 56 In a world where humans and magical creatures coexist a detective must solve a murder case that threatens to plunge the two communities into war. **My twist of the prompt is that the 'other community' are Wendigos. Wendigos are similar in effect to Skin-Walkers. Ⓜ️𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Will include: Paranormal Activity, Ritual Activity, Superstitions, Early American Colonial Life, Native American Lore/Subjects, Descriptions of child birth and death. Maybe some difficult situations.

What happens when the healer of an oppressive, tiny village helps her younger brother learn magic, giving him a chance at living a decent life? Nothing good.

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