When Edi Nakamura draws a girl she's never seen before but feels like she should know, it leads her to confront the other strange drawings she's created, the history of her sleepy town, and the abandoned railway carriage that holds the key to both love and destruction―once she opens its doors. *** Behind Langdale High, there is a forest, and in that forest are a set of railroad tracks with a railway carriage wrought with twisted vines and greenery devouring it slowly. Edi Nakamura draws this carriage whenever she puts pencil to paper―which isn't very often, after she knew the gravity of the power her drawings possess, what her art represents. But in the throes of school on the verge of summer break, she is forced to draw for her art final, and the resulting work was as puzzling as it was concerning. Not a carriage, like she expected, but a girl. While her friends tease her about crushes and pretty girls, Edi stares at her drawing, rooted to her seat. She's never seen this girl before, but deep down Edi knows she exists―and that she means more to her than words can express. She's willing to try any way to find out who she is. Even if it means facing the carriage in her drawings, the one behind her school; the one that radiates unsettling mystery, and figuring out what lies inside. What she finds, however, is more than just a girl with her own darkness surrounding her, relating to the trees; she finds an unforgiving forest and an uncanny carriage rotting away slowly amid the surrounding nature; she finds a dangerous desire that culminates in a risk taken madly. She finds an unexpected prospect of love in the form of Bea Rinaldi, the girl of her drawings; but at a price―just like with all her art. Now it's up to the two unlikely soulmates from different lives, different dimensions even, to stop the vengeful trees from inching closer and closer to the rest of Langdale and reverse the mayhem that had struck from opening that carriage door.

🏆 ONC 2026 Rounds 1 & 2 Qualifier 🏆 ONC 2026 Round 2 Winner 🏆 🏆 ONC 2026 Round 2 Ambassadors Pick 🏆 Where magic intersects with life, Ren is an unwilling planter whose magnificent garden is full of his failures. When his attempt at confessing to his crush leads to the sight of an unexpected guest hidden in the flowers he was going to give, Ren is tugged along on a fantastical quest to an odd little village that only exists on rainy days to not just break the curse of the finger-sized prince who's deemed Ren his friend, but to also break free from Ren's own wretched connection to mistakes. Along the way, he may just come to realize the power of not just unbridled love, but also love for oneself and just how beautifully it can blossom into something worth saving. Amidst secrets, ticking time, tall tales with hints of truth, and a forest worth dying in, perhaps this time around, Ren won't add to his flowers of failures. Not if he can help it. Love can bloom, too, after all, right?

In the woods of Oakridge, hikers are disappearing left and right―even more so than usual. After much careful deducing, Evan Novak is positive that the locations where the vanishings occur follow a pattern, but when he sets out one night to see for himself, he doesn't return from those woods. The last thing he does before seemingly blipping from existence is send a garbled voicemail to his best friend-his emergency contact. Day Jha wants to get through high school with minimal mayhem. From elementary school, he's been a wallflower, blending in with the crowd-and he prefers it that way. In a town like Oakridge, where strange things are the norm, Day prides himself on being truly mundane. But when his best friend goes missing, and his only lead is a voicemail with nary a voice, the beginning of his freshman year is made up of poking into the odd history of his small town and unearthing disconcerting instances from its places, its people, and even himself. Day wants to be a typical high schooler. He wants to be on the swim team, even if one of its co-captains has a big head. He wants to go out with the new girl, Artie. He wants to slip by as he had in middle school―but mostly, he wants to do all that with his best friend by his side. But where on Earth is Evan, and what really is lurking in those woods? There's only one thing to do: see for himself. They're just trees; it's not like the legends, the tales, the monsters that have always surrounded their town are real, right? BOOK 1 of the Monsters series

𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧: people who were abandoned grow up to love people who abandon them || Justin thought he was hallucinating when he saw him for the first time on the streets. But no, his drug-addled mind hadn't been fucking with him. He'd actually seen a boy with glowing eyes--a boy who'd saved his life by taking away something that shouldn't be taken away: his pain. When they meet again, his eyes aren't glowing but that doesn't stop Justin's life from becoming more complicated. For each encounter to bring more pieces to connect. For everything to become harder than it had been before. For him to realize that there are different types of addiction, different forms of monsters, different types of pain--the kind from the outside, and the kind that's inherited. It doesn't stop him from having a foot in two worlds, both dangerous for him in different ways for the same reasons. It doesn't stop him from hoping he doesn't fuck things up like last time. ( teen wolf : s4 - s6 ) ( 13rw : s2 - post-s4 )

❝𝑻𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐'𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒕, 𝑰𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒘; 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈. ❞ ( male oc x will herondale ) ✹ ☀ Charlie Starkweather was a wanderer with blood on his hands. For probation, he's taken to the London Institute; the sentencing for what he had done would have been more brutal had it not been for his age and family influence. Though he would rather have suffered death at the hands of the Clave than suffer painstakingly in his current state-a ghost to the world around him; smoke of the flames in his soul, surging out of his lungs. In his bitter spite, against the people who refused to believe his innocence, Charlie Starkweather was killing himself slowly. Unintentionally deliberate. All he wanted to do was fly, to be free, but even someone as bright and fiery as him needs to drown in the deadly blue waves of his inevitable demise. As flashing, jagged, and so blue as pansies. As alluring and dangerously wicked as the gaze of William Herondale. ( the infernal devices; clockwork angel - clockwork princess ) ( crossposted: quotev ) ( creds to @CASTIKLINE for the gorgeous cover! )

❝ 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉... 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊'𝒎 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔... 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒔 ❞ ( male oc x lance mcclain ) ⭒✶⭒ Trent was born on Mars in the Red Planet's first-ever human community (funded personally by the Galaxy Garrison). Everyone on Mars knew about the Garrison and, when it was Trent's turn at the age of 18 to be called to Earth for an ambassador's meeting, he was surprised to see that they were famous too---the first successful mission, the one people brought up especially when the Kerberos Mission went sideways. Sure he's a tad distant from Earthen happenings, but Trent's content strutting his strut on the Blue Planet before going back to living among his small community on Mars. Unfortunately, his life nosedives when his first night on Earth is disrupted by several teenagers and he's dragged along for the ride. One thing leads to another and Toto, they're definitely not in Kansas anymore. Or the Milky Way galaxy for that matter. ( season one - season eight ) ( crossposted: quotev )