[2023 Wattys Shortlist, 2023 Amby Awards winner, Featured 4 times in Wattpad Picks lists] Kaleth has worked as an agent of Luxarx for years. What the average person might see as an exciting, dangerous job has become the routine, and the only thing that fazes Kaleth now is that his habit of wearing suits everywhere is somehow still a thing his teammates tease him over. But that's all about to change. An encounter with one unexpectedly peaceful (and cute) terrorist soldier brings everything he thought he knew into question. If not all Umbra are dangerous criminals, what else does Luxarx get wrong? As he investigates, Kaleth stumbles onto a conspiracy that doesn't just concern the agency, but also his government, and the whole world. There are monsters hiding in plain sight, secretly in charge of everything since the very beginning - the long-forgotten dragon-gods with supernatural abilities. And they are definitely not as mythological as everyone thought. Now branded traitors, can Kaleth and his team fight back against the government they once served, and stop a world war before it can start? --------------------------- [word count: ≈ 90 000 words] [Featured in Wattpad Picks lists: 'Extraordinary Realms ✨' in December 2023, 'Reading Radar' in January 2024, 'Celebrating Wattpad Hits' in February 2024, and Valiant Heroes 🏰✨🏔 in June 2024, and also on the @fantasy profile]

[ONC 2024 Longlisted] Marek has worked for the Society of Powereds in Service of Community (SOPISOC) for as long as he can remember. He's got a great superhero team, his best friends, fighting supervillains by his side. But there is one supervillain he just can't bring himself to fight anymore-the love of his life, Varen. Unable to handle things as they are anymore, Marek decides to escape from the SOPISOC HQ and run away with his lover and join him in his life of crime. Being a superhero was getting boring anyways. As it turns out, though, his choice is the right one for more than one reason when they are faced with a high level conspiracy in need of untangling. The heroic organization's leadership might not be so heroic itself, and it's up to Marek and Varen to save the day.

***A Wattpad Featured Collection of Short Sci-Fi Stories*** Strange sentinels, forgotten Gods, regenerated aliens, frozen predators, tele- kinetic chess sets - all this and more in this collection of short SciFi stories. Each tale carries a devilish little twist at its end. Like a box of chocolates some are sweet ,some sour and some dark. All perhaps little allegories on the vagaries of human nature... From Readers on various stories- "WOW! I know its my second comment but it's the forth time I have visited it." "It's very sad to see this end, all be it an extraordinary end." "Bravo for such an uplifting, optimistic Finale" "This was awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed it, didn't want it to end." "Great twist, from a sinister beginning to a cheerful ending. It echoes the style of HG Wells." "Dude... just holy... !"

By 2600 the world has come to ruin. Flooded seas cover most land, forcing humans into massive airship colonies called Arks, though it's only for those that had the means to afford the arks or important status. As if that isn't bad enough, the constant pollution of earth has led the ozone layer to be replaced by a massive sea of smog and toxicity called the Veil covers the entire planet, blocking all light and plunging those below into a constant darkness. When Ren falls from his university ark in the stratosphere and through the Veil he expects to find a world of savage monsters and fiends. Instead, he discovers thriving communities between the sunless seas of the Veil. Making a bond with an injured bird, he journeys into uncertainty at a nearby port town before falling further into a world of pirates and criminals called the Parade . Ren will meet holy men, assassins, very angry cooks, and a captain with a mysterious past while trying to learn what life above the Veil never taught him, in the process finding a world of humanity under the cut throat survival and greed of the corporatized world above. Falling in with the crew of the airship Pigeon, Ren becomes embroiled in a scheme to free one of their crew-mates from a corporate labor ark while learning that the companies running things above the Veil might not be the paragons of morality they claim.