**Received Honorable Mention** Contest entry for #Mysteryfriday Prompt: Someone is running. Night time. 1000 word limit.

A tale in which a thief with a double life grudgingly becomes a hero. ➳ Liana Mason has a life anyone would envy. Nobody suspects that the once orphaned girl grew up to be the city's notorious vigilante. She has been fine walking on the edge of morality for much of her life, but when an assassin arrives in her city she's forced to play a role she never imagined she'd choose: hero. A Robin Hood retelling. Trigger Warning: This contains themes that may be triggering for some readers (violence, sexual assault, etc). Cover designed by Ray Gardener

A young man and his mother move halfway across the country to escape his abusive step-father. With his mother's new dream-job at a tech firm, their new life together is off to a great start... But they soon learn that dreams are often too good to be true. Isolated in a new town with no one to trust, they must dig up the past to escape the far-reaching grasp of the hand that feeds them. #Wattys2016 #Writing-Contest

"In which a young Earnest Watts drives strangers around New York, only to find that a beautiful Madelyn Moore becomes less of one." Earnest Watts has decided that there are only ten types of people in the world - that is, until the day he meets the exception. After dropping out of his sophomore year of college, Earnest becomes a taxi driver in an attempt to figure out his life's direction. There he encounters a variety of colorful personalities, all of whom prove his theory correct. However, when he unexpectedly meets rising Broadway starlet Madelyn Moore, Earnest begins to question everything he knows - especially when it comes to matters of the heart. Ranked 127 in General Fiction - 6/27/16 Second Place in @breakthecliches Metaphor Heavy Category - 8/19/2016 Full novella available for purchase on Amazon Aug 1st, 2022. © by Sydney Druckman 2022. Early matters subject to change.

In which a disastrous date kept two soulmates seven years apart from each other. //completed

(The Forgotten Passages Book Two) After almost nineteen years, I was used to life - used to the parties, galas, and benefits, used to keeping secrets, and used to the dangers my life with the Brotherhood of Time brought me. It's been two months - two months since Drake Garner came back into my life after four years of silence, two months since he trusted me with the secrets he kept, two months since we started our own adventure his great-grandparents had gone on before us...but only two weeks since that adventure came to a halt when one of my best friends was dumped at our doorstep, broken, unconscious, and bleeding. It wasn't just Drake's reappearance that changed everything. Vince Peters was set on getting his hands on me, but there was no way it was happening. Not only could I protect myself, but I had the strength of the Brotherhood and the Knights behind me. He thought he could break me by hurting those I love, but he didn't know what was coming for him. Because I was and there was no stopping me. But some secrets are meant to stay hidden...even when you become one yourself.

There are cities where rain, grief, and love all coexist. . . . Ezra Banks' stays in towns across the continental United States always seem to have a short shelf life, his stays never exceeding three months. It would seem apparent that he has commitment issues and wishes to never settle down, but it's not that, he's just searching for home. The sleepless town of Seattle (and a spontaneous waitress) perhaps being the home he's been longing for since childhood.

It's the same thing each summer. Two weeks of physical attraction and obsessiveness over "A Guy." The Same guy each and every summer. Five years in a row. Playful banter and some common interests and laughs; then it just vanishes. Just like summer - the crush is just gone - and it's back to GPA's, Dances, Homework assignments; and much more. We all have crushes. There is no doubt about that. Some turn into something else; while others don't. Have you heard of the summer crush? Sort of like a summer fling, but not even that. Kind of how you like them and they know it - but you don't act on it and it happens at the same time every year. That's how it is for me. Everly Hoffman. No, I was not the "IT" girl or the "Nerdy" girl at South Laguna High - although I was Prom Queen. Nope, I'm just the girl lost in a never-ending daydream. Now I attend SKU. Anyways, every year around the same time frame I go to my resort - and my feelings for Bobby Tomlinson reemerge...but only for like three weeks. Then it's on to liking the guy in my class. That's how it was until now. This summer was going to be different. My friends think I am borderline delusional and I admit - this is probably the craziest idea I have had - but I just have to do it. This year is different. This year I wanted him to notice me. This would be the year it would change. This summer it won't just be a crush. All Rights Reserved. © 2017 by Emily Matis © That Summer Crush 2017

❝ how far would you go to protect him? ❞ ❝ how far wouldn't I go? ❞ in which a bodyguard and the son of a billionaire try to balance staying alive and falling in love. ➳ extended summary inside #122 in chicklit best storyline in the writer's awards winner of the blank sheets contest first place in the dream book awards first place in the storyteller awards first place in the book centre's summer awards first place in the purple star awards first place in the malibu awards cover by the talented @dysanic