When restless spirits begin targeting her loved ones, a reluctant witch turns to her late mother's grimoire and awakens an ancient, charming spirit whose protection comes at a deadly cost, forcing her to untangle a family curse before it consumes them both. ❦ ❦ ❦ Olivia Dubois didn't wanted magic, and she definitely didn't want him. For years, Olivia has shied away from her late mother's craft and has been determined to ignore the spirits that stalk her every step, convinced they'd disappear with time. But the dead don't simply fade away. And now, they've begun targeting the people she loves. Prodded by guilt, Olivia turns to her mother's grimoire - only to awaken something far more dangerous than the ghosts she hoped to escape. Caecus is ancient, dangerous, and far too charming for something that shouldn't exist. He offers her an enticing deal: peace and protection in exchange for time. But time, Olivia quickly learns, is something she has very little of. The more she learns from Caecus, the more entangled Olivia becomes in his games - drawn by his charisma, unnerved by his power, and tempted by the promise of freedom from the curse that has plagued her bloodline for centuries. But with every step she takes into the world of the occult, the barrier between the living and the dead wears thinner. Spirits grow restless. Secrets buried by her ancestors claw to the surface. And Olivia begins to suspect that Caecus's interest in her is not simply a coincidence. With shadowy forces closing in and her own power awakening, Olivia must confront the truth: the magic she has always avoided may be the only thing keeping her alive. To survive, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to give to her new power, the past, and to the cunning spirit who may be her ruin... or her salvation. Content/trigger warning: contains mature themes, some violence, and strong language

SLEEPY Pandemic: Worldwide phenomena in which certain people are falling into comas and/or dying in their sleep. Informally known as Sleepy, the pandemic has two sides, but only few know both. *** "It picks us off one by one. But as the entities get stronger so do the Sleepy waves. Soon nobody will be awake. Or alive." *** If they survive, they wake to a normal day, dreams forgotten. Die once, and they fall Comatose, stuck in the Zone. Die twice, and they become the very things they once ran from. *** What happens when the whole world falls asleep? 16 year old Dakota Winsely is an insomniac teen juggling school life and strange things. She lives with her mother and her one-year-old little brother, struggling at night to keep her hallucinatons at bay. The insomnia drugs never work, and she's given up trying. When the SSS pandemic hits the U.S and her mother falls Comatose, she is forced to move in with her aunt and uncle to the bigger city and Sleepy waves are only getting stronger. New school. New enemies. Chaos swarms the streets as more people fall each day and the citizens don't remember why. Then the impossible happens. Dakota sleeps a full night. And the things she sees don't feel like a dream... This is the Zone. Entities. Encounters. Deaths here correspond to deaths in real life. Comatose remain trapped. The rest wake up and just continue to believe in an airborne virus. But there are others who remember both sides: the waking world and the Zone; The knowledge threatening to put them in more danger than the effects of the pandemic itself. Dakota is just one of them. .-- .... . -. .-- .. .-.. .-.. .-- . . ...- . .-. .-- .- -.- . ..- .--. ..--.. ***

For the Open Novella Contest, based on Prompt 65: On the way to collect a soul, the Grim Reaper is distracted by a stray puppy. Instead of completing the task, he decides to find the puppy's owner, much to the frustration of his assistant. ***** The Grim Reaper has seen everything, really. From the beginning of humans living in caves, all the way to modern-day humanity. These days, he's mostly a figurehead, going through a handful of cases a week that no other reaper wants. While floating through the mortal world, unseen by anyone, he comes across a dog that seems to be able to see him. Despite his over-achieving assistant begging him to return to his duties, Grim decides to seek out the puppy's owner, and in doing so meets Jeremiah. Miah is an accountant who loves numbers but hates the monotonous tone his life is taking. The rescuer of Miss Trixie, his dog, is an unusual but interesting man that he decides to strike up a friendship with... although is it just him, or is Grim a bizarre name for a person?

A girl immune to a world ending virus races to keep her sister alive after contracting it. Cover credits to @Azanthiel FEATURED ON: - @StoriesUndiscovered under "Lunch Hour Shorts" reading list - @AmbassadorUS under "Short Story" reading list

Evelyn Thompson has a secret power that no one even knows about. That happens to be controlling the weather. She uses her power to change the weather to her every whim. Everyone is miffed over how the weather changes so rapidly. But how long can Evelyn's secrets stay hidden? And what would happen if her parents found out?

⭐Book One of The Seralyn Legacy⭐ They called her an omega. A servant. A mistake. But the Moon never forgot her name. Daeira (Day-rah) *D* to her friends, doesn't remember the night her family was slaughtered. She doesn't know she's the last living heir of the Seralyn Pack, sacred white wolves blessed by the Moon Goddess Selene with healing magic, divine power, and moon fire in their blood. All she knows is cruelty, hunger, and survival in the most ruthless pack in existence. Raised by the wolves who killed her bloodline, Daeira has spent her life in the shadows, beaten, starved, silenced. She hides her strength. Hides her power. Hides the truth of what her wolf really is. Until the night she turns eighteen... and the Moon wakes her. Her wolf rises in a blaze of silver flame, and for the first time, Daeira sees what she really is, chosen, divine, and deadly. But when her fated mate, the Alpha's son, rejects her in front of the entire pack, everything shatters. She doesn't beg. She doesn't break. She runs. Because Daeira isn't the broken little thing they raised in a cage. She's the prophecy made flesh. And the world has no idea what's coming. An ancient evil is spreading through the wolf realm. The rift to the hell realm has cracked wide open. Demons walk the earth. Angels are falling from the skies to stop them. And Daeira? She's the only one who can close the breach. The wolves who cast her out are about to learn: The Moon doesn't bless without purpose. And She sure as hell doesn't forgive. ✅ Rejected mate ✅ Hidden goddess bloodline ✅ Dark prophecy & divine trials ✅ Alpha rise, fangs out ✅ Sacred rage, found power, and wolf vengeance These are sample chapters only! Full story is available on GoodNovel!!

"The gods are dead. The bloodlines remain. And she's about to bring it all down." Rowyn Vale grew up on the wrong side of the realm - poor, half-starved, and pissed off at the world. Her fae parents ran relics, sold shadows, and tried to sell her. She's used to surviving. Not exploding with ancient light and accidentally blinding a rich fae girl in the middle of high school. Now she's sentenced to death for a power she didn't ask for. But when a winged, arrogant disaster of a boy crashes through her prison ceiling and drags her into the sky, Rowyn learns the truth: she's not just some broken street fae. She's godblooded. Welcome to Eidolon Academy - a sentient university hidden in a pocket realm where every student is descended from a god, and each year ends in a deadly Trial that can kill you... or awaken something worse. Survive the Trials, and ascend. Fail, and vanish forever. And if the rumors are true? Rowyn isn't just another godblood. She might be the heir of the Godkiller - the one being powerful enough to raise the Pantheon. Let the Trials begin. Let the realm burn. This is a sample only! Thank you!

🔥 THE WILDER GAMES Book One of The Savage Surrender Series Condemned as a witch. Thrown into a bloodsport. Hunted by beasts who want to claim, break, or kill her. Branwen Mosswood spent her life serving pints and saving every copper to escape the Walled City's cruelty. She dreamed of a quiet cottage. Freedom. Peace. Instead, she stabbed a nobleman who got too handsy... and was sentenced to the Wilder Games, a brutal forest arena where thirty "criminals" are forced to survive thirty days while being hunted by five savage shifter Warlords: 🦁 Hadrian Ironpaw - the prideful Lion King 🐺 Fenrick Bloodhowl - the feral Wolf beast 🐻 Torren Brokenbone - the berserker Bear 🐆 Zarrk Shadowprowl - the stalking Panther 🐅 Nythor Frostbite - the northern White Tiger prince If they catch her, they can claim her, body, blood, and soul. Branwen has no intention of becoming anyone's prey. She'll fight. She'll bleed. She'll unleash every forbidden spell in her bones. Because she won't just survive the Games... She'll bend the beasts to their knees.

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