Months after retiring from the Riverton Precinct, a detective spends his days in a bar in order to amuse himself. Yet a call from an old boss enlightened him; however, the job that was offered was more than what he bargained for. After retiring from the police force, Detective Oswald Morris missed the company he had at work. As a widow, the retiree would spend his days with his canine companion, Enzo, in a quaint cottage. After getting a call from his former boss, Oswald's desires were answered, but not in the way he had hoped. A new investigator in town needed Morris' help in capturing elusive drug dealers in a crime spree, but in a shocking development, Oswald learned that an old flame and an energetic rookie were involved. The options for Oswald were quite baffling, but his boss was counting on him to come out of retirement. Written for TEGSA2025 (The Ever-Generating Story Awards 2025)

Rambling ruminations, words of wisdom and awesome alliteration from your favorite coyote. An experiment, not so much a story as a stream of consciousness focused on human folly. Please enjoy the silly similes and playful, philosophical, political, provocative, purposeful, and pensive prose, pontifications, parables, philippics and polemics. As with Schrodinger's cat, everything is uncertain until you take a peek. Spoiler, the cat is alive. What happens to the rest of us is the uncertainty.

Just your typical love story. Boy finds girl attractive and interesting. Girl finds boy obnoxious and bothersome. Smart aleck spirit animal finds couple naïve and slow to catch on. Vision quest ensues with humorous antics, thrilling car chases, and romantic interludes. Boy goes to war. Girl becomes renown research scientist. Numerous unexpected twists. Yada, yada, yada. Fifteen years pass. They run into each other at Beyond Van Gogh exhibit, the beginning of many more starry, starry nights together? Maybe not all that typical. The narration by the Coyote is maybe not so typical. Laugh, cry, enjoy!

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

What happens when Death falls in love with the paramour he is gifted? Cursed to kill everyone he touches, beastly Lord Damien Casteel lives in anger and loneliness. During a rare game of poker, he wins the final hand against a petty criminal named Luca. The prize is a pouch of twelve precious gemstones. But Luca is determined to get the stones back, no matter what. Breaking into Damien's mansion to exchange the real gems for fakes, he is captured and threatened with death. Begging for his life, he strikes a deal: his freedom in exchange for his adopted son, Jemison, who will serve the lord as his paramour for twelve days; one day for each stone. Although he is reluctant to let anyone into his life, Damien is desperate to keep Jem away from Luca's abuse, so he agrees. What he does not expect is to fall for the tormented young man. Prompt used is number 46. We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you. (Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid) My writing is AI-free. Any emdashes are here because I LIKE them. The poetic purply prose is here because I LIKE it. Computers don't write my stuff. The Muse inside my head who keeps me up till 3 AM and wants to drive me bonkers, does. Warning for: spicy situations, alcohol, some swearing, blood, abuse, and typical Christine darkness. There's no graphic sa, torture, gore, or animal abuse.

After the death of her husband, Edgar, Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights hoping to find the love she lost - hoping to find Heathcliff. This is my entry for The Wattpad "WutheringHeights" Movie Reimagined Contest. It is for all audiences. You will find a few cool quotes from the book. They belong to Ms. Brontë, I have just borrowed them and used them my way to highlight Cathy and Heathcliff's love.

✨️🥇First place - The Slowest Burning Romance Book in the Fabulation mini Awards🥇✨️ ✨️🏆 First place - Best original character in the Golden Ink Awards 🏆✨️ She wanted to save her favorite fairytale character, the derelict second male lead. To rescue the kidnapped princess, he went as far as sacrificing his one-of-a-kind magical companion. But at the end, she married the crown prince of the neighboring kingdom. Just because one was born as the king's son, he got the main lead position. The orphan stood at the second place, despite being a prodigy in swordsmanship. She could not bear to see the second male lead dying all alone and broken-hearted. So, I helped her change the fate of the second lead. *************************************************** Book cover by Lyuu @Lyuuxyv Thank you so much for your beautiful artwork, Lyuu! Dear readers, you can go check her amazing ongoing story: "ROYAL BONES - Shattering Tradition, Crowning Justice" Disclaimer: This story will contain depictions of child abuse, violence and death. Reader discretion is advised. I'm not a native English speaker. Please excuse the grammatical mistakes and do not hesitate to let me know if you find one! Best ranking: #1 second male lead syndrom (2025-11-06) #1 magical creatures (2025-11-11) #1 light novel (2026-01-07) #2 fantasy creatures (2025-11-06) #2 swordsman (2025-12-20) #5 phoenix (2025-12-20)

JennaBerry June is a mind-hacker living in a dystopian near future when all humans are obligated to become cyborgs, sidewalks in Los Angeles melt in the daytime, and inner city slums have been turned into penal colonies. Space elevators connect the Earth to the Moon, but all that technology may not be enough to save the world from a cataclysmic asteroid or the even more threatening solar storm activity flaring up from the Sun. When the solar system's most powerful MeglaCorp needs a solution they hope to recruit JennaBerry's rebellious creativity and freethinking innovative potential. She's recently been imprisoned for illegally growing three clones, primarily to help her work side-hustles, and a much harder life now awaits. She's offered her freedom in return for devising a plan to hack the underlying code of the universe itself, only she has much bigger plans to free all humanity. Only Hinka HellsPath, her corporate boss stands in the way, and possibly, one of her old clones, the one even smarter than herself. To defeat the all powerful mind-controlling cyborg networks, she'll have to reconnect with her outcast father and solicit the help of a super-sized human brain living in a giant fishbowl, and an AI consciousness cross-bred with the temperament of a canine pet.

Carried to a fantasy future by a dark-eyed, time-traveling stranger, can Leonor overcome the guilt that haunts her and fulfill her destiny... while navigating her growing attraction to her newfound protector? Leonor, a student at present-day Harvard, would do anything for the people she holds dear: her roommates, her beloved little brother - and the brilliant but eccentric Professor Mosey, the mentor to whom she faithfully delivers meals three times a day while he conducts secret chemistry experiments that have earned him the nickname The Batty Professor. One night, Leonor's world is shattered when mysterious and deadly spies arrive at Professor Mosey's office to steal the discovery he made just hours earlier: a chemical solution that, when consumed, allows humans to time-travel. When Leonor becomes the spies' next target, she has no escape - until a man with midnight-black eyes whisks her three hundred years into the future. There, she discovers a world whose most powerful figure harbors dark plans to use Professor Mosey's time-travel solution to transform all of reality: past, present, and future. Plans that can be stopped, if at all, only by a secret that Leonor possesses. To prevent her enemy's designs from taking shape, Leonor will need the help of the newfound protector who carried her to the future, a man defined by his rigidly disciplined nature. Together, the two must navigate a city of elites, servants, mysteries, and masquerade balls. Their quest will require them to confront painful secrets from their own pasts, but Leonor is determined to do whatever it takes to save the world from doom. To save her family and friends. And to save the man with whom she has begun to share an attraction as unexpected as it is undeniable and irresistible. *** The first few story parts are long, then the parts become shorter. Hope you enjoy it! ***