A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a cold and controlling uncle is the only family she has left. Ripping away everything she's ever known, he takes her far from her home in the big city to live on the rural family estate. With a spoiled and stuck up older cousin the only other young person in the home, Jess struggles to adjust to her new life of loneliness and quiet isolation. While exploring the woods surrounding her home one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy. Desperate for a friend, she's instantly drawn to him, but he's deeply distrustful and wants nothing to do with her. Sneaking away to see him, she works hard to break through his walls and slowly gains his trust. As time passes, their bond grows from forbidden friendship into something more, but the threat they'll be caught looms closer. How far will Jess have to go to protect the boy she's fallen in love with? Or will her uncle find out about them before she can escape his control? The Boy in the Woods is a mysterious and poignant coming of age novel set in the late 1950's, with the same classic feel as A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. As one of the top ten most read historical fiction stories on the popular reading website Wattpad.com, it's already loved by tens of thousands of readers. This compelling story is twice the length of the average young adult novel, and is appropriate for ages 14 to adult. By the same author as Wattys finalists Stolen Hearts and Love You Forever! Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #1 General Fiction #3 Warning: This story contains occasional language and mild violence.

Fen Rolec is a female Ust, a recent Kelumar majikian graduate, on a planet called Absynterra who had learned to play music through colored stones she found as a young girl and calls it cisum. She is tasked by the Kelusora at graduation to find the Kelujun medallion that can reactivate the Kel, an interplanetary transport system that "broke" when the medallion was lost. First she has to learn about the medallion, her planet's history, and somehow locate the Kelujun in the universe. Her curiosity leads her to become Whiteloc, The Kel's safeguard. She learns that the medallion was lost to prevent the Deadheart from coming to Absynterra. But he's coming anyway. Through parallel tasks of her friends and what she learns of her heart and how fragile it really is, she finds the way through her cisum. "The writing is beautiful, and it brings music along as if you can hear the sound of the cisum." @angelapoppe Author "The Moonlight Boy"

Nobody knows what is really happening in the Howlin' Woods, but almost every new moon terrible screams, shrieks, and ghastly noises are heard by the whole town of Burns, Florida. Anyone who has dared venture in there at night never returns. It has been known as a place of evil clear back to when the Seminole Indians inhabited the area. Where there is great evil, there is great good. The Whistlin' Salamander grants the wishes of desperate people. The legend says that if you could catch him and kiss him on the head you would be stone lucky for the rest of your life, but no one has ever accomplished it. Just hearing the whistle though, would bring a measure of luck. Two friends, Wishes and Freck, both motherless are desperate enough to brave the woods. What they found there was more amazing than monsters or salamanders. Their discovery was probably the greatest secret ever known to man.

WATTYS 2016 WINNER Untouchable. Stone. Jewel - these are some of the names used for people who are born with a gemstone at the centre of their forehead. This unfortunate phenomenon cannot be detected before birth, it cannot be prevented, if a family has a Jewelled child, there is only one outcome: Before they're sixteen, they will have to leave human society forever and serve "the Zephyr". Among the Jewels there are those who have it worse. Those who sport clear diamonds on their foreheads, the Undefined. The downtrodden, the unlucky - the doomed. Cello Riles and Syianne Locke are both Undefined. On their sixteenth birthday, they each leave their homes and travel across the country to the Zephyr, attempting to go into service. Though aside from the place, or thing, that will take them from human society forever - what IS the Zephyr? There are only questions promised, only shadowy riddles guaranteed. Yet faced with no other choice they must venture forth and plunge into the unknown - the Zephyr. [A big thanks to @stpolishook for being a wonderful friend and helping me figure out how to write a better synopsis] COVER BY Abyss-of-Crazy

I wrote this short story for FAE magazine ( http://www.faemagazine.com/ ). The story, titled "Oaken Mead" is featured in the Spring 2015 issue . The cover artwork of the same title, by my wife ©Jasmine Becket-Griffith, is also featured in the Spring 2015 issue. The story is innocent and playful. The melody and the canter of the story displays my childish side. In essence, it is very much a fable. I hope you enjoy!

Willow Kingswell has been listening to her Nana's tales of enchanted kingdoms for as long as she can remember. But when she is transported to the realm of Mistolear, she is stunned to learn that the stories were true. Suddenly, Willow has to fit into a royal family she didn't know she had, deal with customs she doesn't understand, and sort out her feelings for Brand, the knight who has sworn to protect her. Willow may also be the key to saving Mistolear from a terrifying spell that has trapped two kingdoms in a life-or-death chess match. Could she, a meager pawn, really be the most powerful piece on the board?

A Wattpad Featured story! (Note: UNHEEDED is the second story in the Undone Realms Series. However, this story can be read first as it has a stand-alone storyline.) Meet new characters...explore the Dual Realms...discover how Clara became unseen. When the impossible is made possible, Avie, the stepdaughter of a realm worker, finds herself transported to an apple orchard on a world that is not her own. There she stumbles upon Oliver, a migrant laborer who assumes Avie is from the city. Only years later when Avie is able to return to Oliver's realm does he realize she's learned to stepped through the Fold separating their dual realities. Oliver can't stop thinking about Avie or the world she comes from. Together they carry out a plan to bring him through the Fold so that they can be together. But this plan is not without serious risks. In Avie's world, people from other realities are not welcome. While the threat of persecution threatens them from the outside, an internal struggle grows within Oliver as well. When this struggle intensifies, the two must decide whether sanity and freedom are too high a price to pay in order to be together.

They come from two different worlds. She’s a fairy princess forced from her secluded and secret home and he is an alpha within a powerful pack. What happens when he realizes that she is his mate? And will a little fairy dust change the course of their relationship? May 24, 2013: Short Story #10 Copyright 2013 by Mo Hastings. All Rights Reserved.