Jessi Albright needs a vacation. With few clients for her life makeover business, it's hard to justify getting away, even for a weekend. But when she finally gets away to a much-needed retreat in Saltport, her vacation is undermined by a misplaced credit card. Desperate for some cash, she makes an emergency stop at the local ATM. It was supposed to be a short detour, five minutes max. She got far more than she swiped her bank card for. Prince Tewen, a merman, kidnaps her and the $70 million dollars the ATM mysteriously gave her. The only way out is for Jessi to transform the prince into a human in twenty-four hours and get him into a gala in thirty-six. Even if such a makeover is feasible, it's certain to cost a fortune, a $70 million dollar fortune. From yachts to New York to sea urchin extract, this part-comedy part-absurd tail is sure to make you question your life choices as much as Jessi. #ONC2023 74. You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day. How you spend it is your choice. Today you are given $70,000,000. ONC 2023 Shortlister Open Door Awards 2024 - Best Blurb The NaNo Watt 2024 - Novella Grand Winner ONC Milestone Road Map: Chapter One: 2,321 words (2k) Chapter Four: 9,184 (8k) Chapter Nine: 20,241 (20k) Word Count: 25,310

𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒚𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 2024 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 2024 6× 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒂𝒅 🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ Norabel and her mother are forced to move out of their neighborhood due to insecurity caused by gang members expanding their territory in many cities of Haiti. Her mother's colleague has kindly offered them shelter, and Norabel spends most of her days brooding in her bedroom. Leaving her hometown to live with strangers was definitely not how Norabel expected her senior year at university to go. During this stay in her temporary home, Norabel meets Ethan, the son of her mother's colleague. An unlikely friendship begins to bloom between the two of them. Norabel hates this country with a burning passion for what it has put her through, whereas Ethan still finds Haiti beautiful despite the chaos that has set in. After nursing a broken heart, Norabel had closed the door to love for almost a year. However, unexpected feelings start to rise when she begins to spend time with Ethan, and he seems to make it a mission to care for her well-being. Ethan has a secret burden of his own, but he's determined to make Norabel shed her pessimism during the short time they'll be cohabiting. He's an incurable romantic, and Norabel has definitely caught his attention. Can a mutual journey of hope bring them love in a country torn apart by violence? ꨄ︎𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈ఌ︎ #1 ɪɴ ʜᴀɪᴛɪ 𝙼𝚊𝚢 2023

♡I was shocked to see whose still bewitching eyes had just accidentally met with mine. Giovanni! A boy, a crush, and one fantastic kiss. I thought I'd never see him again. ♡Dual POV ♡ It's the mid-90s on the West Coast: grunge music, mix tapes, pagers, skateboarding and baggy clothes. Lauren, an ordinarily shy 8th-grade girl, risks the first move to approach her long-time elusive crush, Gio, a gorgeous and mysterious outsider who has a secret crush of his own. The night of the school dance, they get exactly what they dreamed of: a first dance, a first kiss...but the timing isn't on their side, and the budding relationship slips through their fingers. Fast-forward to her junior year-the worst year of her life so far-and Lauren feels anything but confident. Gio reemerges at school after a three-year absence, and the unexpected encounter sends tremors through both of their lives. But their attraction to each other is as intense as ever, and interactions between them heat up quickly. However, Gio's school life is a disaster, and he harbors a secret he won't share, but it's the truth that Lauren keeps from him that really threatens to tear their young romance apart. "This is a great teen romance with angst, humor, and two incredible main characters. Ren is the friend I would have loved to have growing up, and Gio . . . well, he is just teen crush perfection! Also, it's set in the late nineteen nineties, which was my own teenage era, so I love revisiting the nostalgia of that time! " -Polly Ford. "This is a heartwarming and nostalgic read that will take you back to the late nineties, where we follow Ren, who is so relatable, as she comes of age on her journey with the swoon-worthy Giovanni, who will make your heart melt several times! Their journey is emotional, passionate, and both heart-wrenching and heart-warming-such a beautiful book! " - Heidi Carroll.

One year ago, the children of Hamelin disappeared in the middle of the night. With no clues about their whereabouts save a trail of footprints leading to the riverbank, their families believed them to be lost to the raging current. On the day of their memorial, the children return as suddenly as they left, but they are no longer the sweet kids the town lost. As the youngest person who was left behind, fourteen-year-old William is equal parts overjoyed and terrified to have his little sister back. With his father's temper as hot as his forge, William must protect Emma from the cruel treatment he has faced, but it soon becomes apparent that even greater horrors plague the children. Haunted by an alluring song that echoes in his nightmares, William must unravel the secrets of the Pied Piper's music before the rest of Hamelin falls victim to the same fate as the children. Trigger warning: This story contains physical and emotional abuse, animal abuse and death, child endangerment, suicidal thoughts, and mentions of a failed suicide attempt. Cover by @AriaOfStorms

Complete || Grand WinnerNanoWatt2024 || A SciFi Lite Adventure in small town America. Blurb: Lacy just wished she hadn't seen what she did in the distant night sky over the small country town she called home. But she had seen it. In her mind she relived the events she had witnessed tonight, and yet all explanations fled except for the one that made the most sense to her. They were being invaded. ━━━━━━ ◦🛸◦ ━━━━━━ 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 Not far from the Gulf Coast the small, very ordinary town of Brew Town, Alabama was established around the only industry that existed there in 1879. The local brewery. If you lived in Brew Town your job was bottling beer and then after work, you imbibed what you bottled. Macallan Crete has lived here his entire life. But he hasn't let that little fact disrupt his perfect little life. Sarcasm and bar fights rule the day for Macallan and that was a normal reality for him. Until it wasn't. Lacy Thibodaux. The sweetheart of Brew Town. Daughter of Deputy Storey Thibodaux. Also a life long resident of Brew Town with a true love/hate relationship for Macallan Crete because she just never needed his kind of drama making her look bad all over town. But what would happen when the normalcy of Brew Town was suddenly invaded by strange flying objects, leaving it's quaint landscape riddled with fear and loss. Could Macallan save the day? Could Lacy depend on him? Could she even trust him? As Brew Town devolves into anything but normal, thrusting these life long frenemies together for better or worse the whole town stumbles along with them to fight an unseen terror that threatens life on earth in ways none of them could have ever imagined. About Brew Town Loosely based around the real live town of Brewton, Alabama, a quaint and beautiful town in South Central Alabama about 100 miles from the panhandle of Florida and the Gulf Coast. WendyyWolfe

-REWRITING- Twenty years ago, the angels descended and revealed themselves to the world, delivering what they called God's Judgment Day. The war that followed reshaped the earth and shattered the balance between species. When the dust finally settled, humanity wasn't wiped out - but they weren't free, either. Humans became little more than pets and servants, bound to their celestial masters under the new world order. For Kye, an ordinary girl just trying to survive and care for the family that still depends on her, life in this broken world means keeping her head down and following the rules. Serving her angelic employer isn't easy - especially when her heart begins to blur the lines between duty and something far more dangerous. It isn't perfect, but it's manageable. At least, until her adoptive sister Ruby asks for one small favor - the kind of favor that could destroy everything... 🏆Grand Winner of the Fanfiction Category in the NanoWatt 2024 @TheNanoWatt 🏆Fanfiction Category Winner in the Milestone Awards 2024 @YuHuaCommunity 🥇1st place in Fanfiction 18+ category of the Hot and Bothered Awards 2024 @gremlinsbookstash 🥈2nd place in Fanfiction/Oneshots of the Cinepolis Awards ✓ 2024 @_BLACKSPADESZ 🌸 Runner-up in Endearing category of The Seasonal Contests [3rd Edition - 2022] 🌸 @seasonal_contests *All Supernatural characters belong to CW. Originally posted on AO3 under ChewieTheHouseElf username. Thank you all to those who have been reading up until this point. This is an alternative universe fanfiction that doesn't require knowledge of the show Supernatural to enjoy it. I wrote it in 2020 after the show ended. This is my very first writing project anywhere so the pacing, word choices, and grammar have a lot of room to improve. Cover by @sulkytae

Skye is dead. How she perished is a mystery. All she knows is that she is trapped in After, a makeshift city of souls surrounded by infinite darkness and terrifying monsters that tear ghosts apart. But while all other ghosts accept the eternity of darkness ahead of them, Skye refuses to spend her afterlife in a world without light. She knows there must be some way to escape the monsters that keep them all imprisoned and return to the realm of the living, and she's going to find it...even if she has to face the prince of monsters, himself. Skye risks her existence and escapes the walled city of After in search of the truth. Venturing into the black reveals untold perils, but that's not all. The Dark...and the dark prince, are hiding a terrible secret... 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 WATTYS SHORTLIST | 2021 WATTYS BEST COVER SHORTLIST | 2021 AMBYS FAVORITE - HORROR | 2024 Cover art drawn by me.

The heir to the throne struggles to stay alive and keep his birthright while a tracker is thrust into a brutal hunt for a girl who can save or destroy the kingdom of Daracka. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ A frail kingdom. A dangerous weapon. A lost soldier with the power to tip the balance. Out of his obsession for learning, Kazuri, a Maestro of knowledge, recreates a destructive machine used in the last catastrophic war in the kingdom of Daracka. This weapon's only fuel is an explosive energy inside the body of an experimental soldier. Kazuri must have it, and so the hunt for the soldier begins. Jiro, a boy with the ability to fly, is a Maharlika from Aradack who only wants to live ordinarily, staying on their island for the rest of his life. But when a tragedy strikes his family, his home becomes a constant torment of memories. He joins the hunt to escape his pain and sets out to find the soldier who would change his fate. Reiji is the Matu, next in line for the throne of Daracka. He quenches his ambition to rule, but when he learns that someone he trusts betrayed him, he lets the fire inside him burn. He plays his own game of secrecy, risking the peace of the kingdom. The Master ✧ The Flyer ✧ The Heir ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Heide Reynes gives you a world influenced by the culture of her own country, the Pearl of the Orient Seas. Inspired by the Igorot People (an ethnic group from the northern mountains), the Maharlika (the ancient feudal warrior class), and the traditional Tagalog in the Philippines. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Wattys 2023 Finalist Wattys 2023 Bootcamp Mentee Ambys 2024 (Winner) Favorite Fantasy Novel ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ First of two planned Volumes. ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖ Genre: Epic Fantasy High Fantasy Adult FantaSci ˖⁺‧₊˚ ✧ ˚₊‧⁺˖