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JITTER by GiovanniDarkling
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Everyone's addicted to coffee. It's the one thing keeping us from losing our minds in traffic, at work, in line behind the person who can't decide between oat milk or almond milk. I'm Jessica Perez. My family literally built their empire on the stuff. And up until recently, I thought the worst thing our coffee could do was keep you up at night. I was wrong. Something is in the beans. Something that turns your average, overcaffeinated, mildly-irritable person into something... feral. Bloodshot eyes. Popping veins. Zero impulse control. And a really strong urge to kill everyone around them. It started with my brother. Then a truck driver. Then a 'Karen'. Then a rooftop full of people in Miami. Now it's everywhere. Why? And how do I stop it?
CHOSEN Volume One by ninjadude983389
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When God grows bored of humanity, He changed the rules. Ten thousand people are granted unimaginable power. Some become heroes. Others become monsters. Three teenagers: Max, Oscar, and Lebron, are caught in the middle. Labelled "Godborn", hunted as EPs, and worshipped as Heralds, they start as reckless vigilantes and grow into the world's last defenders. Because power doesn't make you chosen. What you do with it does. 🏅Awards🏅 #105 in superhero (22 Feb 2026) #73 in superpowers (9 March 2026)
Blueprints of Love by Lil_Miss
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Nyx had her future mapped out success, ambition, and no room for love. Especially not for him. Everything changes when she's assigned to a project tied to a haunted past. Forced to confront her deepest fears, she finds an unlikely ally in the very man she's been avoiding, the one determined to stay by her side no matter how much she resists. But in a place where not everything is what it seems... can she trust her heart, or will it lead her somewhere she can't escape?
How the Night found his Moon by SupaTheWriter9765
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A fairy-tale-esque short story, which deliberately adopts folklore-like writing, using personified cosmic forces to explore love as mutual illumination rather than possession. No placement, but this tale has gotten a 95/100 in the Triquetra Awards Short Story category!
Aether by DotVVarlock
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Dark/Gaslamp Fantasy. Character-Driven, Atmospheric, Mythic Horror The Wode was ment to protect them. That ancient forest with its deep hunger. Yet somewhere beneath its roots, something has begun to finally wake. Camilla survived the destruction of her home, but survival has a way of changing a person. Now hunted by the Emperor's living writs and haunted by the thing that inhabitants the blade at her side, she is dragged deeper into a world of ancient gates, starving forests, and old powers that refuse to stay buried. In the hidden refuge, whispers of war spread like rot through the dark. The Children stir beneath the trees. The dead walk wearing borrowed flesh. Storms gather over kingdoms already breaking apart. And within Camilla, something wild is learning to claw its way free. To survive, she will have to become more than what the world made her. Even if it leaves nothing human behind.
The Night Estraline Broke by shanalockham
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Estraline "Esta" Vale is a rising star coming undone-buried under fame, haunted by her past, and spiraling through nights she won't remember in the morning. But on the night she finally cracks, something impossible finds her. Cael isn't human. He isn't from here. And he sees her in a way no one ever has. As Estraline drowns in chaos-substances, pressure, the weight of her own name-Cael becomes the silent force pulling her back. But his presence comes with shadows of another realm, and loving him might cost Esta more than her sanity. Dark, raw, and seductive, The Night Estraline Broke follows a girl unraveling-and the stranger who steps out of the impossible to change everything.
Key of Dreams by Wowoah
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📕 Blurb: 100 years ago, the Lunarians and Solarians lost their home. Banished from paradise after generations of war, both peoples now live together in exile within the Varee, waiting for the one person capable of opening the path back: the Key. Dawn was never supposed to survive long enough to become that person. Born as an impossible child between light and darkness, Dawn grows up caught between gods who play games with lives, heroes haunted by their sins, and a world still struggling to forgive itself. To become Key, he must survive impossible trials and discover what he truly is-before old hatreds buried by war claw their way back from the dead. To save the world, Dawn must first survive becoming the thing everyone else needs him to be. But can he forgive them? 🔆 Similar Inspirations: Kingdom Hearts, Full Metal Alchemist, Made In Abyss, Attack On Titan, Hunter x Hunter. ❗️Content warnings: Bullying, ableism, mild innuendo, crude humor, infrequent profanity, racism, fantasy violence, graphic injury, slavery, emotional abuse, none explicit nudity, and passive suicidal ideation. 🧮 Current word count: 90,050
Rudolph Saves Christmas by ShaunAllan
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Rudolph, that very famous red-nosed reindeer, has been accused of blowing up Santa's sleigh! Join him as he, with the help of a very special squirrel called Flop, try to escape from prison and find the real culprit! Then meet a spider on your present and a mouse who took a stroll through a deep dark wood, in a wacky collection of poetry!