Cadet Lara Lorensky has one goal: to win the Selection, the only way people on Earth can ascend to NovaTopia, a utopia-like space shuttle orbiting the planet. Unfortunately, her longtime rival, Morgan Sánchez, also has the same goal--and their almost undefeated record in practices is Lara's biggest obstacle to victory. When an unexpected terrorist attack destroys Morgan's cyber arm, Lara's chances to win are significantly increased. But... what is the point of winning if her rival is not in their top condition? Plagued by guilt and a feeling she does not quite understand yet, Lara decides to help Morgan find a cyberlimb mechanic. As she ventures outside her sheltered bubble, Lara realizes that everything she was taught was a lie, including her identity. Perhaps the utopia she was fighting for all her life was also an illusion. Together, Lara and Morgan have a new goal: to find out the truth of Lara's identity--and the truth behind NovaTopia. {Part I & II COMPLETED!} *** - 'The Hunger Games' X 'Arcane' X 'Fallout' - Queer rivals to lovers - Non-binary cyborg love interest - Cyberpunk earth vs Utopian space Current word count: 57,000 words Planned word count to hit: 120,000 words Beautiful cover by @yadsdom on Fiverr

A young graphic artist joins an aspiring valedictorian in her recklessly escalating schemes, from calculated late-night break-ins to launching borderline -legal homemade fireworks, for a chance at confession. Updates every Wednesday, 8 PM, Manila time.

There are a lot of stories about love. This isn't one of them. What I'm writing here sits somewhere else-somewhere less polished, less explainable. These are stories about people who don't need reasons to want what they want. People who don't justify their choices. People who understand exactly what they're doing-and do it anyway. Power matters here. Who has it. Who gives it up. Who pretends they don't want it. You'll see characters who: step into control without apology let themselves be controlled without pretending it's innocence blur lines they fully understand Nothing is accidental.

When life turns into horror, will you pray or will you prey? After five years of him asking, Karoliina Hautamäki relents and brings her boyfriend to Iron Lake, her deeply religious hometown in Finland's arctic circle. The midsummer visit is marred when her father passes from Covid, though it is the inexplicable deaths that follow that truly throw life off its path. A virus is what most consider it, but in Iron Lake, it is understood as the Sin. The only cure-confession. Karoliina's brother Aatami is heralded as their saviour, the one who has prayed people back from the edge of death. The internet crashes, phone service dies, society collapses. The government attempts to control the contamination by enforcing military quarantines across the country. What was intended as a brief visit turns into a year and a half with no end in sight. When Karoliina's childhood best friend asks for her help to discover the true cause of the deaths, Karoliina rejects it without consideration. But with her brother's glory grating on her, she might desire her own moment of recognition, even if it comes with the risk of all that is Isolde. In the vengeance of mid-winter, Iron Lake is crueller than ever. And amongst prayers is where predators most easily hide. GENRE: horror, dark romance MAY BRING TO MIND: Raw (2016), The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), Pearl (2022)

Dr. Kristina Hale has spent six months watching Earth's orbit unravel, and six months being told she's wrong. When the IceCube Observatory finally confirms what she's been seeing in the data, the world doesn't thank her. It turns on her. Branded a doomsayer, driven underground by media and ridicule, Kristina holds onto two things: her closest friend Jessie, and a truth too large to stay quiet. Because the Earth is drifting. And someone has to decide what comes next. What comes next is Haven, cities carved into the rock, lit by fusion, fed by hydroponic farms. A new world built in the bones of the old one. But survival is only the beginning. The harder question is what you carry with you into the dark - and what you finally let go. The Drift is a novel about grief and necessity, about science and faith, about the long patience required to be right before anyone is ready to believe you.

Annika came home, rejection letter left in ashes on the table. She didn't expect to find her big story in an escaped convict - the leader of the Blood Moon Cult. A killer. She definitely didn't expect him to take her. Deep in the wilderness of northern Sweden, the cult prepares for the Harvest. They don't just believe in Odin. They serve him. And they've chosen a bride for their god. Her. The man who took her is dangerous, controlled... and beginning to question everything he once believed. But as the Blood Moon approaches, Annika starts to see things she can't explain. A wolf with familiar eyes. A burning tree. A marking carved into her skin. And a prophecy that may just be about her...

Ronan Sullivan never thought that his homework essay would land him in the Advanced English class. Now stuck with three girls and an adolescent mind, he attempts to navigate the treacherous, murky-filled life of a teenager while trying to be ordinary. Read. Vote. Comment. This novel is unlike anything you would read and I promise it just gets better. [Inspired by Oregairu] Trying to post as much as I can possible.

When her estranged sister is involved in a near-fatal car accident, twenty-five-year-old Jordan Friedman finds herself the temporary guardian of her eight-year-old niece, Cory, who she has not seen since she was a toddler. To make things easier for everyone, Jordan moves Cory into the house she shares with her two eccentric and very opposite housemates. As the four girls navigate growing up together, Jordan struggles to balance caring for Cory, managing her comatose sister's affairs, and continuing to scrape by with her wedding photography business. The longer Cory stays with her, the more Jordan struggles to stay afloat. But Cory has nowhere else to go, and after six years of silence between them, Jordan is determined to do right by her sister, even if it means wedging a hesitant foot in a door that closed long ago. In the midst of tragedy, the four girls navigate growing up together and discover what being a woman truly means through heartache, a stray cat, and the unexpected truth behind the Womanhood Theory. *** Rated mature for recreational drug use, suicide, and passive suicidality. *** Main prompt: The door that closed to you many years ago has reopened, and now it's up to you to take a chance once more. (120) Additional prompts: You return home late one night only to find it's no longer your house. Nothing is as it seems. (56) A group of people wake up with no memory and find themselves adrift on an old steam passenger liner. The name? Titanic. (42) A famous singer and their pilot crash land on a tropical island. With no one else around, survival isn't their only challenge. (47) It's not a mystery - it's the walls. They hold secrets, but what are they hiding? (66) »You're wonderin' why half his clothes went missin'.« - Taste, Song by Sabrina Carpenter (124) »I've got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane.« (127)

𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭... Prince Adrian Varili of the Sylvermoon Vampires. Marked by magic, raised by the sword, his bloody reputation was well known by all who inhabited the forest. Most feared him, wisely so, and he liked it that way. Only a few could be so lucky as to catch a glimpse of who he really was. The most powerful vampire in the forest swore that he didn't need anyone else. Until the topic of soulmates became impossible to ignore. Faraline Reyes just wanted her life to be normal. As normal as it could be with a supernatural secret at least. Destiny had other plans. Her human life on the outskirts of the forest was uprooted the moment her fate aligned with his. Despite her efforts, she couldn't outrun the truth, and she was left with nowhere to turn but Sylvermoon. Watching from the shadows, beyond the ancient trees, was a wicked werewolf. Hellbent on revenge and victory, he would stop at nothing to prevent this union. It was his last chance to tip the scales in his favor... Part 1 of the Sylvermoon Series!