Aliana thought her family would always be together, but her life comes tearing apart when her mother leaves her brother, father, and her. Ever since then, it has only been the three of them, trying to put the family back together piece by piece. Unfortunately, there are things they can't fix on their own. While each of them tries to heal their own wounds, Aliana struggles with who she is as a person and how she fits in the world when she is constantly be compared to her mother. Aliana soon questions everything that has happened before and after her mother's absence. One of the questions she tries to answer along her journey is the meaning of family love, but will Aliana learn the true meaning of family when her father decides to re-start his life with another woman? Will Aliana accept her new family and understand the true meaning of family love?

✨First Place + Grand Winner of ONC 2025✨ (thank you!) In the wake of her estranged mother's death, Maricel Ferrer returns to her childhood home to confront the dark secrets she left behind. 🪞 Maricel has spent years trying to forget the house she grew up in - the house where her mother's mental health slowly unraveled. But after receiving unexpected news, she has no choice but to return. The old fears should be gone, just like her childhood "imaginary friend" who liked to appear in her reflection. At first, it's easy to dismiss the strange occurrences: a flicker in the glass, a movement that doesn't quite match hers. But then the reflection smiles when she doesn't. Moves when she's still. Whispers things she doesn't want to hear. By the time Maricel realizes the truth - that the thing in the mirror has been waiting for her return - it's too late. Because now, it wants out. And it wants to take her place. ONC 2025 | Exclusively on Wattpad Prompt 55: What if the person you see in the mirror isn't really you, but something that's been watching you this whole time? Prompt 105: Your childhood imaginary friend, who disappeared years ago, suddenly returns - only this time, they're real. © 2025 Darly Jamison. All Rights Reserved. This work is protected under international copyright laws.

In an indefinite year, at a time still filled with war and destruction, in the darkest sector of the Aetheria galaxy, the Genesis-X Corporation reigned unchallenged; not a mere corporation, but a technocratic empire that believed in a single dogma: forced evolution. Genesis-X was not trying to explore the universe, it was trying to rewrite its genetic code. Their secret project, the 'Code 07', aimed to create the Singularity Human: a being capable of manipulating dark energy without the aid of mechanical interfaces. For years they had failed, leaving behind barren planets and lifeless guinea pigs; then, they found her. A universe ruled by fear, a girl rediscovering what the word "home" meant, and a feeling in her chest whose meaning she didn't know. How will it all end?