[2018 WATTYS WINNER] Louise Johnson was an African American teen living on the brink of the Space Race. Her hobbies included studying the twinkling night sky, ignoring her racist classmates, equally fantasizing about both killing and kissing Patricia Morris--and oh, using quantum teleportation to her own advantage by the means of a perplexing silver Ring. That was, until she found herself knee-deep in a heap of files revealing that the newly-formed NASA was hiding inconceivable research from Project Vanguard that should've destroyed the entire planet worse the than progressing Cold War. Now obviously, the forty-eight states of America are still intact, and so is our beloved Earth. But why? Fortunately for humanity, Louise Johnson and her diverse team of science-loving geeks turned the imminent apocalypse into just another facet of American history. And this is the entirely illegal story of how. [©2017-2018. All rights reserved.]

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[wattys shortlist 2018] Colton has always hated Alexis. It's as simple as that. Alexis has never hated Colton though, not even after the night havoc was let loose: chaos caused by him. This summer, Alexis doesn't expect to be reunited with her tormentor. She assumed that after that night, all those years ago, he wouldn't dare show face again. After all, what he did was unforgivable and definitely not fixable; not this time. Regardless, he's back and a counsellor too. Now Alexis has to figure out if she's going to let him walk all over her again or if she's going stand up to him? With her loyal group of friends armed with many 'pranks' she surely has the weapons to do so. But she's not so sure she wants to use them against her bully. *i'm not great at blurbs, but please give my story a go, i promise it's better than it sounds!* __________________________________ » watty's shortlist 2018. » featured story on chicklit's trending list. » #10 in chicklit, #1 in camp, #1 in summer camp. [COPYRIGHT © 2017, 123itsmeee, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED TO ME.]

✨2018 Watty Winner✨ Two men in love torn apart by war. Yuri Karamov's existence is like Schrödinger's cat, simultaneously both dead and alive. In Ru Konstantin's mind, Yuri's still the same vibrant young man he was when their lives diverged. But the question, the one Ru is too afraid to acknowledge, is whether his best friend turned first love is still alive. In the span of eighteen years, their hometown of Dronesk goes from a quiet, humdrum town to a besieged territory of the BKA; a radical militia group who wants to eradicate the Arash--people like Ru--from Rujga Province. Yuri Karamov is one of the recruits fighting for a Brommian liberation. After years of lost contact, Ru returns to Dronesk in search of his best friend, confronting not only the ruins of his ancestral home and the new realities of a post-liberation movement, but questions about love, freedom, and the price of self-governance. If We Exist, is a coming-of-age story that examines friendship, sexuality, class struggles and ethnic tensions through the lens of Ru Konstantin; desperate, anxiety-ridden, and awfully nostalgic.

Over the course of their first year of residency, five surgical interns are drawn into the ever-evolving world of medicine; in an attempt to disregard their personal insecurities and engross themselves in the passion they've grown to love. However, when the five like-minded individuals are all recruited onto the exclusive team-known as the "Golden Five"- of one of the hospitals best neurosurgeons, their world's collide; and some of them find that their secrets cut just as deep as their surgical instruments... *ON THE WATTYS SHORTLIST 2018*

{Part of the wattys 2018 shortlist} *First draft novel- any critique is appreciated* Theres a fabled city that exists above both land and water, that is the whispered lands of the gods. The city of Arimine... A place where it is said that humans and gods can meet, to worship, to pray, to ask for miracles... the island has long since been missing, now only an ancient legend, told to children before bed and sought after by many advanced adventurers in the land beneath and shunned by the sceptical. The land beneath is filled with many religious people. It is a land ruled by the laws of make believe and fantasy... and because of this, many people are superstitious. They say that if you can find the island of Arimine once more then each person to find it can have one miracle granted each... So what is it that will be wished for, by our four unlikely heroes... A young girl who can never show her face... A boy warrior who was cursed with blindness... A witchiling who sold her heart to demons who can no longer love and a noblemen who lost all he had in a fire... What awaits for them on this treacherous adventure, no adventurer would dare take, is both hope and despair... each being carried by a deep resolve and a prayer...

He just wants her booty, but she'll end up stealing his heart. ***** After pirates kidnap seventeen-year-old Ana in a case of mistaken identity, the orphaned housemaid prepares for the worst. Instead, between a shipwreck, mutiny, and her growing feelings for her captor -- the dashing Pirate King of the Caribbean, Alestair Kincade -- Ana soon realizes the secret she keeps is far from the most dangerous part of her new life. But playing the wholesome daughter of a Spanish admiral among rag-tag buccaneers isn't easy either, and to avoid both discovery and the gallows she'll have to learn to rely on more than just her wits and her charm. But is Alestair Kincade really on her side? Or will his protection and his love both disappear the moment he learns the truth? Book Two of The Pirate King Series is called SCUTTLE (formerly The Reluctant Pirate Queen) [Now an audiobook from Hachette, Powered by Wattpad] [word count: 90,000-100,000 words] PLUNDER (Book One in The Pirate King Series) © 2014 by R.S. Kovach. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced without the author's written permission. Cover designed by Ren T

TNT Horror Contest - Top 100 Finalist !!! Hope you enjoy this short story about a young boy who discovers bad things in the night. Here's an excerpt: "I was only nine when Momma let a devil move in. Not the Devil, but a devil... a demon. Not that there's much difference to a nine year old. Now don't get me wrong, she didn't do it a purpose on account she didn't know he was a devil. But then, she was a grown up and everyone knows grown ups can't tell about these here things."

High school basketball star Markus is black and Sammy is as white as they come. They hated each other even before Sammy's beautiful daughter caught Markus's eye. Will their animosity and deep-seated prejudice drive them to an ugly confrontation of violence and murder? Or will tragedy teach them another way to live together in peace? Markus and Sammy, caught together in the cultural and social upheaval of the 1960's, regard each other with suspicion and hatred. Yet each has a choice. They can learn respect and forgiveness or continue in the bitterness and spite threatening to destroy them.

(COMPLETED/Re-EDITING) For Elliot, life after graduation meant a doomed existence -- surviving a post-apocalyptic world besieged with mutant animals -- until he awakens Alessandro, a supernatural youth, from a centuries-long sleep. Together, the two teens -- along with Elliot's friend Mimi and others -- must stop Gevaudan the Wolf King and his army of canines from waging an all-out species war. Is peace really possible for the Creatures of God? Cover art by Casparita