Short Stories

This is a compilation of short stories that I wrote for @Pic-A-Story's monthly contest. Each one of these is a piece (800 words maximum) inspired by a picture given by the creators of this contest. I hope you enjoy.

Atlantis: The King's Return

Ambrose. The name is not only feared, but shunned and reviled. He's a monster sentenced to a life of desolation and loneliness, and no one but his tormentor knows his whereabouts - at the bottom of the ocean. A creature of the sea cursed because of one simple mistake... Mari. Her life was a small happy bubble until it...

The Robber Knight's Secret

The final battle for love, life and liberty has begun! Ayla has had to defend her people in the past, but this time, it is no mercenary rabble outside the gates of her castle: it is the army of the Margrave von Falkenstein himself. Her people are outnumbered and have nowhere to run. But they do have one last, desperat...

The Robber Knight

When you are fighting for the freedom of your people, falling in love with your enemy is not a great idea. Or is it? Ayla has to defend her castle and her people all on her own, with nobody to help her but a dark warrior she hates with all her heart.

The Robber Knight's Love

Ayla has uncovered a terrible secret: the man she loves is in fact her worst enemy. As a mighty army gathers to destroy her and her people, she must ask herself: will he join them to destroy her? Must she cut him out of her heart to survive? Or is there another way – a way to forgiveness and... love? Sequel to Robert...

The Fates (Book II)

The SECOND book of the award-winning series THE FATES: a saga of three mortal girls who also happen to be mythical goddesses... and the all-powerful directors of human destiny. The series alternates between their modern-day drama and their epic adventures across world history! ** SPOILERS ahead – please proceed only i...

The Fates (Book I) - 2014 Watty Award Winner!

They walk among us. All three, living normal mortal lives. Cloe is graduating college; Lacey is getting married; Atria is bar-hopping and breaking hearts. Today, they are human. But they are also the three Fates—the all-powerful directors of human destiny. And they don't even know it. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos did...

Dragon Rider (#Wattys2016)

Under the rule of a Dragon Riders and Magicians, young 14 year old Thea finds herself pulled into the Dragon Riders world. After her brother dies she finds a dragon and looks after it, but it was the Dragon Riders who killed him. When she finds herself becoming a Dragon Rider, she fights them off however she is captur...

Legends from the Warlock's Chair - Book Three - Helven

The Warlock's Chair. A place of magic and adventure. Long ago when the world was young the Faerie races ruled far and wide across the lands of the Earth. With the Empire in chaos following the war with Ravengaard and the return of the Chained. The Elves hoped for a time of peace and tranq...

Monsters Under The Bed

Sophia finds her self lost after her Best friend Rose unexpectedly commits suicide. Ridden with guilt and sadness Sophia is nothing of the girl she use to. She and Rose use to rule the school now she can barely get out of bed. She stumbles upon her brother and his friends and finds a group of misfits that help her fig...

The Blue Feather {COMPLETED}

Chitundu is a 17 year old boy who lives with his mother and sister, Bishara. He is entrusted with a precious heirloom; a feather from a blue macaw. He guards it well, not wanting to face his mother's wrath. However, when it falls into the wrong hands, Chitundu must do everything it takes to get it back. Cover creds...

Ember and Lilia: A Pool of Flames (Wattys 2016) The School for Good and Evil

Fear. Hatred. Sorrow. Those emotions were like a thousand splinters of glass piercing her heart, leaving behind nought but a mask devoid of emotions. But all that changed when Lilia was enrolled in The School for Good and Evil, a place where she could finally be who she really was. Known for a sanctuary to some, she t...

A Mile In Her Shoes #wattys2015

Darcy grace steller is a 14year old girl stuck taking care of her two younger siblings lilly and hogan. Pushed to her limits, she packs up her things and her siblings and hits the rode on foot in hopes of escaping her drug addicted mother and finding a better life. Along the way darcy is faced with many dangerous and...

The Red Mark

This world has become an eradicated wasteland, it got destroyed by a disease called "The red mark", called that because anyone that gets infected seems to get a huge red cross down the center of their body. This disease seems to make them very aggressive and much stronger over the stages of turning. Arron, a 15 year o...

Fairest - Chapter 1

Deceitful, Depraved, Despicable . . . Evil has never looked this good. New York Times–bestselling author Marissa Meyer reveals the story behind her fascinating villain, Queen Levana, a vicious ruler who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and is wicked and powerful enough to fool and destroy all who stand i...

The Dragondain

The Dragondain / Book 2 / A Moon Realm Novel It's the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won't wake up. So you improvise. . . . When a confused Jasper awakes, he's convinced he's dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, p...

Darkened Angel

"Secondly-" he was cut off abruptly by a knock on the door. "Damn imbiciles don't listen. COME IN!" he yelled, seething with anger. The door opened as a young woman walked in. Her thin body was dressed in a maid outfit that had all sorts of dark stains and blotches on the apron. "Excuse me, sir. May I have a word?" s...

The Dark Descendant

Humans are not alone in this world. The media portrays supernatural beings to be appealing, romantic, even some type of role model. Humans make movies, shows, write novels about us. They praise us, want to be us. It's sickening to watch. If they only knew the truth about the world. What actually lurks in the shadows...

Dragon's Enigma (Old version)

The old version of my story, Dragon's Enigma.

Queen

They call me Angel, although I am anything but. I had a target named Zachary Anderson and I was going to break his heart.

The Moon Coin

"Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip. Would you like to hear one?" --Lord Autumn When Lily's Uncle Ebb disappears, she must search for him in the most unlikely of places: the fading realms of her childhood bedtime tales.

Cataindar

#1 for a month on the Fantasy-Action Hotlist. Wattys2015 Winner. Fourteen-year-old Luisa is focused on staying under the radar at her rough London school, relieved that the summer holidays are soon to begin. Exploring the ruin of an abbey at night, Luisa falls into the underground land of Cataindar. The catains a...

Our Darkest Deeds (Lesbian Story)

"Girls liking girls is an abomination," they say. Well, so should clubbing, doing drugs and selling your daughter to prostitution just to pay off debts ... Which is what Hannah's, Mia's best friend, father did. Now it's up to her to free Hannah from this mess before it is too late. Problem is, the club owner is not gi...

Akiles - Winds and Water (In Progress)

Falling... The sound of the wind passing him bursts his eardrums, but there was nothing to hear anyways. Varsha was sure his friends were dead anyways, and how he survived an insane air-plane explosion like that was beyond him. Hundreds of feet away from the surface of the ocean, he began to accept his rather lame fat...

The Golden Child

Peaceful, Serene, Tranquil, Blissful and Warming. These are words that describe Ziconia. Far from it. In the past, those words would have sufficed. The present Ziconia is strife ridden and threatens to choke the life out of its citizens- most especially those of the lower caste. And to make matters worse, there are h...

Madness At Noon {COMPLETED}

Noon is your average, everyday psychopath who fell in love with her hero. She knows when he tries to kill her, it's just his special way of saying how much he cares. She knows every time he throws her in the insane asylum, it's just his overprotective side wanting to keep her close. She knows when he stabbed her in th...

The Elemental Claws

Elemental Island consists of five cat tribes, each with it's own ability and attribute. There is relative peace between the tribes, until an unknown force comes back for revenge, for what the cat tribes' ancestors did so long ago. Follow Firestorm, Lightningstruck, Moonbeam, and Snowpaw as they journey through the u...

Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles #1)

Check out this exclusive for Wattpad readers – an excerpt from Frostfire, the first book in the Kanin Chronicles by New York Times Bestselling author Amanda Hocking Hidden deep in the heart of a snow-covered wilderness lies the secret kingdom of the Kanin—a magical realm as beautiful as it is treacherous… Bryn Aven ha...

Illusions

It has been years since the Fantastic Four saved the world with the help of Silver Surfer and defeated Victor Von Doom. Since then they have moved on with their lives, still fighting crime of course, but now they had the help of their children. Meet Ben Grimm's adopted daughter Grace Waters, she isn't the one with pow...

Summoner: The Novice (Book 1) SAMPLE OF NOW PUBLISHED BOOK

SAMPLE OF PUBLISHED BOOK THAT WAS FIRST WRITTEN ON WATTPAD. Fletcher was nothing more than a humble blacksmith's apprentice, when a chance encounter leads to the discovery that he has the ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, he must travel with his demon t...