Leo Mateo is a social media specialist for Digital Utopia, a company who has secured a spot within a new, people-focused metaverse. After months of sharing the Utopia's new focus on real life, Leo takes the chance to try it out himself. **

When May Alana's wish on a star brings a stranger to her remote island home, the pair must survive a deadly magical conflict in order to be together. ***** When May Alana, a scorned and anxiety-ridden young woman, finds a stranger on the beach of her remote island home, she wonders if this is the adventurous, accepting, and loving answer to her otherwise cloistered life. But as the pair grow closer, the stranger entrusts May with her brilliant secret: that she is half-Star in possession of otherworldly powers, and that a violent group of Star worshippers are out to destroy her. So if they want any chance of being together, they'll have to survive a deadly conflict between humans and mythological creatures first. THE STAR AND THE OCEAN is Book 1 in the Starborn Series Book 2: THE WIND AND THE HORIZON Book 3: THE FIRE AND THE SKY Cover illustration by Brittany Willows (@BrittanyMWillows) [[Watty Winner]] [[Wattpad LGBT Book of the Month]] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

After a sudden hiatus from social media, popular YouTuber Belinda Quincy feels like she has her mojo back and attempts to do something to make it up to her fans. But that's when a mystery girl's music video goes viral. Jealousy creeps in at all the attention the girl starts getting, and in a bid to do something that puts her back as the center of attention, she exposes herself to a cyberbully. Her secrets and personal life take no time in appearing on social media, and her life begins to fall apart. Despite having the boy that's been sending her flirtatious winks by her side, it still feels like everything is over. But what if she's keeping the cyberbully close and doesn't realize it until it's too late? Editors' Pick, July/September 2021. Featured by the Community Team. (Cover by @goldenways)