Evan was twenty-one when he received a most unusual calling: as Guardian to a teenager with a load of emotional baggage and a frightening disposition. However, Taren is not just any typical, troubled teen; he is one of the Kindred, and newly-awakened into his clan's dangerous, powerful legacy. Evan soon realizes that his "babysitting" efforts might just be seriously tested by his charge's uncontrollable tendency to break things, including the very world around them. Can Evan withstand the heavy chains of the Guardian's geas to gain the power that is his birthright, and become the shield that Taren so desperately needs? ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ "Geas of the Guardian" is a prequel to "A Memory of Starfires", set three years before the events of the novel, a precarious time when a young Kindred and his Guardian struggle to define their emerging identities amidst the challenges of their intertwined destinies. ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ Cover design by Aravis Brightspell ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack and reading a plagiarized copy of my work. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/Aravis-Brightspell.

🏆 ONC 2026 Honorable Mention 🏆 ''Nothing is what it seems in dreams.'' In the depths of a dark and twisted forest, Aris, crown prince of Lancaster, is tormented by recurring nightmares of the Tainted--monstrous creations of the black fae, a corrupting force that seeps into all who live within its woods. Relentlessly hunted in the dreams, he finds unexpected aid from a mysterious girl named Elara, and with her help he is able to elude the creatures each time, breaking free from the nightmare's clutches. But when Aris is wounded by one of the Tainted, the line between dream and reality begins to blur. When a weapon deadly to the black fae appears in his grasp from the dream, Aris and his sisters--Tamryn, Maeve, Maeril, and Aine--must race against time and his failing health to uncover the ancient truth behind the forest's curse, or face the imminent threat of the black fae and its vengeful master, the guardian of the dark forest, Erebus Nocturne. ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ Cover design by Aravis Brightspell ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack and reading a plagiarized copy of my work. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/Aravis-Brightspell.

Dear reader, She never meant for you to see this. But now you're here. Reading the letters she wrote to the people who made her and broke her. This isn't healing. This is remembering. I'm not trying to be the victim. I'm not trying to be forgiven. I am, just. This is a collection of memories, grief, and half-forgotten truths - told by someone still learning how to carry them. I hope you don't see all of yourself in these words, but if you do, I hope you rewrite the ending.

Awards × 6 Book 02 of "The Human Ache Series" A series of poetry collections "Blood runs thicker than water but it all looks the same when your eyes are closed. But even so, when you feel it, It's still blood, isn't it?" To love is to lose To be is to stay regardless To miss is to cry To live is to run that mess Even if the world says society's just a mirror, But doesn't blood still run thicker than water? - Aro "Oceans too deep, hills too jerk, I just wish I was never alert" - From 'The Girl with no Dreams' "Life's the metal of the key, But my rusty metal already reeks" - From 'Bleeding' "Do you ever wonder if you weren't meant to be born? Do you ever realize your smile was meant to be torn?" - From 'Dear Misery' "You'd love criminals but treat us like Rats" - From 'Hostage' "I was wrong for being born, for existing and loving I'm the devil on this planet, came here to have a feast" - The Beauty & the Beast Winner 🏆 - Versification 2026 (Day 3 - Memory) - Lost First Place 🥇- Poesis Awards (Soul & Society) - The Beauty & the Beast First Place 🥇- Summer Poetry Awards (Most Memorable Poem) - The Beauty & the Beast Third Place 🥉- Summer Poetry Awards (Best Break-up Poem) - Deserve Third Place 🥉- 2026 Monthly Writing Contest (May) - The Beauty & the Beast Third Place 🥉- Slam Dunk Poetry Contest (Villanelle) - Lost

Not all wars are loud. Some unfold in silence; within thoughts, within memories, within the spaces we never speak of. A Thousand Quiet Wars is a collection of poems that traces the unseen conflicts of existence: the tension between who we are and who we are expected to be, between what we feel and what we hide. Each piece holds a moment of resistance, a fracture, or a fleeting understanding, small battles that shape us in ways the world rarely notices. These poems do not seek resolution. They sit with the chaos, the quiet, and everything in between where the loudest wars are the ones no one hears. ____________________________________________ "The Old Widow grieves the mystery of an unlived history." -From The Old Widow "Memories have left lesions in their stead." -From Bane "How can you ever find those eyes and eat away your bread?" -From Lads of The Moors ______________________________________________