|| ONC2023 SHORTLISTER x 5 FEATURED || "𝙰 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎." Denizen is Blank Slate, the number one villain in the region-except he doesn't remember it. With only a cryptic note telling him his eight rules, he sets out to discover just exactly who he is and what he did to become the number one villain. When his first lead takes him straight into the heroes' hands, Denizen struggles to keep his villain alias secret and play the confused and innocent citizen, all the while digging deeper for answers. But as he gets closer to the truth-and the heroes get hotter on his tail--two questions become painfully loud: Is he good? And should he let the heroes catch him? [][][01000101001101100-01101100][][] An ONC 2023 Novella || Round 2 Winner 25/04/2023 || ONC's Ambassadors' Pick 25/04/2023 || ONC 2023 Longlister 19/05/2023 || ONC 2023 Shortlister 31/05/2023 || Featured by Mystery on Curiouser & Curiouser 25/08/2023 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Parallel Worlds 31/10/2023 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Sci-Fantasy 7/9/2024 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Ambassadors' Pick 25/3/2025 || Featured by Science Fiction on Superheroes 25/9/2025 ***Exclusively on W A T T P A D. If you are reading this elsewhere, your device is liable to malware.***

|| 2024 AMBY FANTASY FAVOURITE | ×5 FEATURED || When the ever-skittish, homesick, twelve-year old Fralith accidentally-on-purpose stops a kidnapping, no one knows what to think--especially Fralith. Newly stranded on a planet not his own through a misdirected HomeKin portal, where MetalEaters roar and people stand around staring at rectangles, Fralith struggles to puzzle out rules of the world before he gets eaten. But not all things in this new world are out to get him, and some are even trying to save him. When a flame--haired man begins to teach him the ways of the new world, Fralith starts to realize that there might be hope, healing, and home on this planet. A Fallen HomeKin is a heart-warming, hunger-inducing, adorable story about grief, home, and encountering an entirely alien world. ❗NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK❗ | | 2024 Ambys Fantasy Top Pick 20/1/2025 | | Featured on Fantasy, Middle Grade and Children's Fantasy 8/4/2023 | | Featured on StoriesUndiscovered, Tales of Adventure 5/2/2023 | | Featured on Fantasy, Magical Realism 24/6/2024 | | Featured on Fantasy, Fantasy Spotlight 25/3/2025 | | Featured on Wattpad Ambassadors, Speculative Fiction 30/5/2025 | #1 in the Maddy's awards | #1 in Fantasy in Gloria Regali | #2 in contemporary/teen in Lunar Paragons | And many more! ***This draft is exclusively published on W A T T P A D. If you are reading this elsewhere, your device is liable to malware.***

||WRITTEN FOR TEGSA2025|| ❀ ❀ ❀ Ash Kincaid lived by three truths: 1. Family was a conditional, temporary arrangement. 2. Trust demanded wilful blindness. 3. Ash was what remained following an incineration of life. He'd perfected the art of tolerance. After a lifetime of abandonment, first by blood and then by those who promised to keep him, his survival depended on one thing. No attachment. No promises. No hope. However, when the college dorms close for Christmas, he's forced into the chaotic Rossi household where encroaching is the norm, solitude is next to impossible and there's Lala- the Rossi sister who just sketches in furious silence. The quiet is a sanctuary, their coexistence effortless. He doesn't ask about her paintings and she doesn't pry behind his walls. Until a silver SUV pulls into the driveway and the woman Ash once called "mother" steps out. Rundown: chapters 1 and 2 - major chapters 3 and 4 - minor chapters 5 and 6 - minor chapters 7 and 8 - minor chapters 9 and 10 - major

This book talks of dark trials - low days, mind storms, hurtful bonds, and trust lost. But it also holds light: joy, bold will, strong roots, and loyal souls. This submission work is for TEGSA2025 (I know this is both first and final turn I talk of that lost symbol - but I must stay loyal to this constraint.) Hi! I am Aurora! Although most call tags as Aura or A. Now, you may ask - what's so distinct about my story or this book, that you'd want to flip through it? Truth is, you must find out for your own mind. But I can vow this - you'll spot a thing or two worth your focus. And if not? I still think you'll dig how it's told, as this book follows a bold constraint. Yup - this is a lipogram. So, try it as a fun trial: scan for any word with that symbol that lands just aft of "a, b, c, d..." No, I won't say it. Not now, not at all.

Despite still being an emotional mess from his breakup, losing his car to an abomination made of multiple deer, and injuries from both the car accidents he was in. Travis refuses to die in this backwater town as the dead stitch themselves into fresh horrors. Miss Della spent decades building her diner and sewing herself into the fabric of Red Oak Valley. Seams tore to shreds, the patchwork monsters ripped them asunder and mended them into their disturbing embroidery within her business. Kendra wanted a change, but got it in the worst way. She and the few survivors of the diner turned slaughterhouse are now looking for help, but is there anyone left to save them? Burdened with the knowledge of what will befall Red Oak Valley, Tiffany needs to return to her radio station for what's coming. As these abominations overtake the town and their numbers grow, can anyone survive this town turned hell on earth?

(Entry for TEGSA 2025) Alejandro is a man. However, his mother can not see that. Nor has he ever met his "father" ("sperm donor" is a more accurate term). But a summer full of moving boxes, annoying siblings, and an unopened letter finally gives him the chance the meet the man he spent his life without. But how trustworthy is a man that was imprisoned for a felony-murder? Potential triggers: Panic attacks Violence (at least implicitly) Transphobia Anorexia

"What she is hiding could change their world. What he is hiding could destroy it." Lyra Winslet is anything but normal. Since she was a child, she has been able to feel what others are feeling. It's only when she inherits her parents' beaten-down record shop that she can put her empath powers to good use. She counts on her appearance to be deceiving to hide what she can do. But when a drunken customer stumbles into her shop one sunny afternoon, she finds herself entwined in a story beyond her control. Everett Williams used to have it all - a well-paid job, an expansive home and even a fiancée. But one mistake turned his world upside down and forced him to return to Marigold Trek. Spending most of his days in his cramped childhood home, his mother sends him out to find a record. He finds himself in Lyra's record shop, but can his well-crafted sense of self hide the truth? Join Lyra and Everett on a personal journey of healing, while finding a place where you can belong no matter what happened in your past. (Written for TEGSA 2025)

She's seventeen-finally free from a mother who never loved her. But instead of staying in the dark, she chooses to imagine a better world. One filled with light, love, and small miracles. Because deep down, she still believes in kindness, true love, and happy endings. He's twenty-one-born from betrayal, and carrying a curse that was never his to bear. After heartbreak, his mother turned to black magic... and accidentally trapped his spirit inside a black rose-one that feeds on the pain of those he loves. When they meet, the curse wakes up. The past unravels. And the barrier between love and destruction disappears. (Written for TEGSA2025)

This is my entry for TEGSA 2025. --- Melissa is the only one who knows her dad didn't kill her mom. She knows a monster did it. She saw it herself when she was nine years old. Or so she thinks. Now, being twenty-three and fresh out of college, she knows there is no such thing as monsters. There weren't any voices to hide from under her blanket, there weren't any shadows chasing her in the halls, those were all fantasies of a kid with too much imagination. Yet, she is still determined to find out what really happened to her parents, and most of all, why. Because the one thing she does know, is that people have lied to her. All of them. All the time. --- 🥇First place in the Hollowed Verse Awards (min 1k reads category) 🥇First place in the Enchanted Grave Awards (Best first chapter) 🥉 Third place in the Moonlight Trove | Astania Awards 2025 (Mystery) 🏅Honorable mention in The Ink Games (Most mindblowing concept)