Flowing silk dresses. Structured suits. Empty, forced vows. Soft, sweet nothings. Whispered caresses. Bittersweet kisses. Blue, blue eyes. This is not a love story. This is ruination. 🥀 Rosaline Beaumont. A name that once graced every tabloid, a face that used to be plastered all over social media. A girl that had all but disappeared. But now, four years after everything had turned to ashes in her grasp, she was back under the ever greedy gaze of the cameras, the watchful eyes of high society thirsting to watch their darling unravel. Standing at a wedding altar not of her choice, Rose was on the precipice of vowing to spend the rest of her life with a man she hardly knew. A deadly gamble. A hopeful new start. But could something new truly blossom, when the clutches of the past were dug so deep? Could she ever truly move on, when she couldn't close her eyes without dreaming of him? And could a marriage really last, when her heart would forever beat for another? 🥀 Completed on July 5, 2025.

Lyra Malfoy has always known her place: elegant daughter of a powerful family, composed Slytherin, keeper of the Malfoy name. But when whispers of the Heir of Slytherin ignite fear at Hogwarts, Lyra finds herself pulled into a mystery that even her father's warnings cannot silence. Determined to protect her brother, her best friend, and her family's name, she begins to watch more closely. Each secret she uncovers sharpens her suspicion, and every step forward tangles her deeper in the danger she hoped to avoid. Between each unsettling revelation, Lyra must now decide how close to stand to the fire, and whether it will burn down or illuminate her life.

Thirties, horrid love life, debt, and an obsession with 2005 Pride and Prejudice. Emma really doesn't have much excitement in her life... Well, outside of sitting on her back porch and heckling a handsome superhero as he defeats villains in her empty neighborhood, that is. Having signed a lease in the otherwise deserted "Villain District", Emma finds the only upside to the danger and constant damage to her apartment is getting to see the face of the handsome "Arsenal" as he fights villains up close and personal... that is, until one crashes and breaks both her arms. Now the Arsenal has finally taken notice of Emma, but will catching the eye of a superhero keep her protected...Or will Emma find herself in more danger than ever before? (Rated M: mature language) ******************************************************************************************* Based on Prompt 135. "She really fell from the sky and landed right into my arms, I'm not even lying!" ~Book One in the SUPER Series~

🏆 Ambys 2025 Round Three Qualifier 🏆 3RD PLACE IN THE STRAWBERRY ICE AWARDS (SHORT STORY CATEGORY) Sometimes, the person you love is the one who hurts you most. And you would do anything - absolutely anything - to hurt them back.

✨ONC 2025 SHORTLISTER✨ What happens when something that wasn't supposed to exist starts existing? ****** Swara's passion of writing takes a backseat when she suddenly becomes the sole breadwinner of the family. Her story put on hold for many months as her love for writing cannot fill their stomachs. Just when she thinks she would never get to finish her story, she gets a call. A call for a job at a library. A Library that wasn't supposed to exist. A Library that was cursed. A Library that was only meant for pages of Swara's diary. A Library, whose Story Swara had left unfinished. A story which was a mess, with no clear plot or ending. A story whose characters were bearing the brunt of the library's curse without knowing the reason or cure. A story that was supposed to remain a story. What will happen when the characters of that story come alive? What will happen when Swara realises that her characters were living people, who were facing the backlash of her messy story? What will happen when the characters find out who Swara is? What will happen when the characters end up meeting their creator? ****** Dive inside the story to find out What happens when Fiction Meets Reality. ~~~~~~ Awards: 🥇Grand Winner in The Author's Vault Awards.

| | Wattys 2025 Shortlist | | Ambys 2025 Grand Favorite | | Iris is the oldest of a group of orphans, working hard and without complaint to help bring in money to feed and clothe the younger children. Everybody knows and loves her. She wants nothing more than a normal, safe life―but war looms on the horizon, threatening her plans. Char is a dragon and a certified troublemaker. He and his brother are a pain in their commanding officer's side and a favorite at parties, especially among the girls. But when Char's familiarity with humans earns him a routine scouting mission, he meets Iris―and finds more trouble than he ever expected. She's suddenly at the center of a war, shackled with a magical amulet she doesn't understand and can't control. He's too impulsive to stay out of the tangled web tightening around her, even if that means lying to his brother and risking his life to keep her out of the hands of a psychotic mage. Nowhere is safe. Nothing is normal. And Iris may hold the power to end the war and save them all. ***** A Song and a Storm: Book One

| | Ambys 2025 Favorite | | All Ivetta wants is a steady paycheck and consistent hours. Her mother's health is failing fast, and she has to earn enough money to keep paying the mounting doctor's bills. Getting a job as a palace maid seems like the answer she needs, even if she has a long commute. Prince Chevalier, the Second Prince of Rhodolite, has a reputation for being a cruel, heartless monster. This is the man Ivetta now works for, and if it weren't for her circumstances, she would have quit after the first day. She never expects him to come to her rescue when disaster strikes. Suddenly, he's the only person with whom she truly feels safe, allowing the roots of an unlikely and impossible romance to take hold. Threats force them closer together, and the mysteries of the past come to bear. A glimmer of hope for a brighter future blossoms in the darkness. Maybe, on the other side of pain and heartbreak, is the fairytale ending Ivetta never dreamed was possible. ***** Estimated reading times: Act 1: The Maid (14 hours, 44 minutes) Act 2: The Intermission (4 hours, 53 minutes) Act 3: The Princess (11 hours, 57 minutes) Act 4: The Queen (7 hours, 29 minutes)

AS DANGERS UNRAVEL, WITH LIVES IN PERIL, FOUR-LEGGED SLEUTHS DIG UP THE CLUES. WILL THEY UNEARTH THE SECRETS HIDDEN AND BRING FORTH THE VILLAIN UNBIDDEN. A series of mysterious deaths and mishaps plague Centurion Heights, an antique building older than its oldest resident. The police attribute these seemingly random deaths to freak accidents and suicides. Determined to uncover the truth, Mitzi, her frenemy Mrs. Martha Williams, and an overly curious yet annoying kid, Violet "V," decide to investigate. Can Mitzi save her best friend Annie from a similar fate? Copyright Disclaimer © Ana_Miga, 2025. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. No part of this story may be reproduced, distributed, or mirrored without the author's written permission. Unauthorized copying, reposting, or scraping-including automated mirroring on third-party websites-is a violation of copyright law and the spirit of creative integrity. Submitted for Kahani Kalakar Awards 2025