"What are you doing!?" She asks, her eyes fixed on me as I watch her react to my presence like she's contracting a disease. Her skin grows paler. Her breathing becomes heavier. Her lips quiver. Her body trembles, breaking out in goosebumps. Her eyes portray the terror she feels as tears pool, almost rolling down. "So now you're scared," I say, taking in all the signs, though not fully understanding why. "Please don't come any closer," she says with a pleading tone and a breathy voice, and if I'm reading the signs right, she looks as though she's about to pass out. "Why? Do you think I'll hurt you?" I ask curiously, studying her reaction, but still moving closer to her as she backs away. Such intense reactions when I've done nothing out of the ordinary. I'm positive she didn't see me materialize a moment ago, yet she's staring at me as though I'm some vile, abnormal creature. "Please don't - " she begs desperately, stopping mid-sentence when her back touches the gate and she realizes she's backed into a corner. At my mercy. Then the tears fall. *** A cursed immortal King and a lowly peasant, bound by prophecy and tethered by pain. Lily Field is a naïve scarred woman who was brutally assaulted at eighteen and developed a phobia of being touched by men. Ashton Vale is the King of Alveron who was cursed by a vengeful witch at twenty-eight and has been tortured for being touched by women. Fate shouldn't have brought these two together, but it did. Damaged, broken and hopelessly paired for love but destined for damnation. He is punished by her touch. She is terrified of his. There is only one logical outcome of this union - catastrophe; but logic is irrelevant, especially when the King of Alveron is one year from transforming into a rabid beast.

Meet Maya - a girl from Mumbai with one goal: to become one of the city's best journalists and give her family the life they deserve. As the backbone of her household, she knows there's no shortcut - just hard work, day after day. But luck doesn't always favor the deserving, and Maya is about to learn just how true that is. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Inspector Aryaman Sehgal - and suddenly, long-buried truths begin to surface, truths that confuse even her, because some of them... are her own.

Ever since his grandmother's and father's obsession with the supernatural ended in tragedy, eighteen-year-old Michael has tried to convince himself that monsters live only in dreams. Then winter arrives. A mysterious creature with crimson wings begins appearing in his dreams. Flies gather wherever she goes. People start dying in cruel ways. And the deeper Michael digs into his family's past, the more he uncovers a centuries-old curse tied to forgotten memories, reincarnated souls, and a spell binding him to the Fae of Flies. With only his best friend, Lizzy, by his side, Michael must uncover the truth before history repeats itself. But every answer drags him closer to a darkness that has haunted his bloodline for generations. Some monsters aren't born. Some are created by an evil spell. ⚠️: This story contains themes of death, substance abuse, psychological distress, gore, and references to non-consensual sex. Copyright ©2026 K.G. Noble Book Cover Design: K.G. Noble All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder, except as permitted by applicable copyright law. Fae of Flies, first edition, 2026, was written exclusively for Wattpad. If you see this novel published elsewhere, please note that it was uploaded without the author's consent.

Copyright © 2026 by Darkrai_X When the world ends, survival begins with ordinary people. Tomorrow never comes. As a mysterious outbreak tears through the city, everything they love vanishes in a single terrifying day. Thrust together by chance, five strangers must learn to trust one another while navigating a world where the dead no longer stay dead, and the living can be even more dangerous. But as fragments of the truth begin to emerge, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Was the end of the world really an accident? Day Zero is the gripping first installment of a post-apocalyptic trilogy about survival, sacrifice, found family, and the hope that refuses to die, even when civilization .

#ambys2026 Saint Angela's Academy was supposed to be a place of faith, discipline, and learning. Instead, it became a pit full of secrets. When private investigator and former student, Theolinda Brady begins asking questions about the death of a student, she uncovers a trail leading back decades-through suspicious accidents, buried evidence, and the powerful women who rule the academy from the shadows. As more bodies are linked to Saint Angela's, detective Ryley and police trainee Scarlett race to uncover the truth before another life is lost. But every answer reveals a darker secret, and every witness seems bound by the same unbreakable vow: silence. At the center of it all stands Reverend Mother Bernadette Moreau, a woman haunted by guilt, and Sister Agnes, whose devotion may hide something far more dangerous. Some sins can be forgiven. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some vows were never meant to be kept.

In a future where humanity lives on foreign planets and corporations control the air, people's bodies, and their destinies, Noa Kurogane grows up in the domed city of Noryx. Veydras, his homeworld, is poisoned, exploited, and scarred by a past that no one wants to talk about. But deep beneath the surface, something has awakened. As Noa begins to uncover the truth behind his mark, the corporations, and the mysterious fragments, he becomes entangled in a story that changes more than just his own life. Eight human aspects have been created. Eight hosts are connected to one another. And somewhere between fear, strength, greed, and grief lies the answer to a question that should never have been asked: What remains of a human being when even their soul can be shattered? - I'm a German author. I'm writing this story as a novel because I originally wanted to turn it into a manga, but I have absolutely no talent for drawing.. *The images i use are all created using KI. I hope you enjoy it*

Dominic St. Claire never expected to fall in love. Melody Harrington never expected a chance encounter at a bar to change her life. But in a town haunted by fear and secrets, some people are not who they seem - and some shades of red mean more than love.

Seven children. One forbidden door. A secret hidden in orbit for decades. Gus Mercy has never seen the sky move. He's never felt real rain. He's spent his whole life inside the walls of Mercy Orphanage, following the same rules as the six other children raised alongside him: pray at dawn, obey Miss Sasha Kruger, and never - under any circumstance - go near the red door at the end of the hall. > > He doesn't remember his mother's face. He doesn't remember anything before Mercy. None of them do. > > Then the door opens. > > What Gus finds on the other side unravels everything he thought he knew about his home, his faith, and himself. Mercy Orphanage was never a building on Earth - it's a station in orbit, built and operated by a Church that answers to no government and hides from the world above the clouds. And Gus isn't just an orphan. He's part of an experiment that started before he could walk. > > As Gus and the others - the strange, silent May; the Koch twins, one of them more machine than boy; the counselor-AI called Muller; and little Lia, the newest arrival - start piecing together the truth, they realize the people who raised them were never protecting them. > > They were containing them. > > Now there's no going back to the life they knew. Only forward, into a truth the Orbital Vatican has kept buried for generations - and a war that was never supposed to include children. > > **THE RED DOOR OF MERCY ORPHANAGE** - a sci-fi thriller about faith, control, and what happens when the truth finally opens the door.

First attempt to write Haiku . Hope you will enjoy :-)

SNAKE; to creep, sneak. A person or thing resembling a snake in any of various ways; specifically, a treacherous or deceitful person.