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The Hunt by SebJenkins
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How much is a life worth? Or a death? In the near future, there's a brand new reality TV show. Played on every television screen across the planet, live streamed and binge watched, is The Hunt. In a world gripped by poverty and over population, The Hunt disguises its predatory nature as choice. You can choose. Volunteer. You could be rich! Have a new start away from the despair of your life! Or you could die. Hunting takes on a whole new meaning, and it's all for the cheering masses. Dare you take part? A brand new story brought to you by @SebJenkins and @ShaunAllan, with various featuring guest writer chapters along the way. Cover by @Abyss-of-crazy
ARC10 by LLMontez
LLMontez
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[Book 1 of the ARC10 Trilogy] **Winner of the 2017 Watty Storysmith award** The President created an underground safe-haven for the survivors of the alien invasion. He built it to save them all from total annihilation. He protects them, feeds them, keeps them under his ever-watchful gaze so they can live. All he asks is that they obey. Captain Janika Lorn doesn't want to obey. Not if it means spreading her legs and contributing to the President's precious eugenics program. As a perfect candidate for the Human Hope Project, she is obligated by law to make more citizens for the dying society. But all she wants is her freedom to fight the Invaders and protect the people who already exist. If the mandated program wasn't bad enough, the worst part is trying to fulfill it with Captain Dean Freyer, her scientifically matched partner and best friend of sixteen years. Just as Captain Lorn is about to succumb to her fate, another opportunity arises. A mysterious commanding officer asks her to lead a human refugee ship--to save humanity by evacuating the destroyed Earth and shuttling the remaining population to a new habitable exoplanet 400 light years away. The mission is perilous. Especially because now, standing between her and her freedom is the hostile alien hosts of her ship, the ARC10, a sister returned from the dead, an array of impossibly confusing alien tech, a rekindled heat between her and Dean, and a sexy militia chief she can't seem to keep her hands off of. ARC10 is a romance-heavy sci-fi with the speculative horror of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the military action of Battle: Los Angeles. Cover art by @FayLane Copyright © 2016 by LL Montez
Life After Death (#1) by SebJenkins
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*HIGHEST #31 IN HORROR* FEATURED + WINNER OF NINETEEN AWARDS + NBR SPOTLIGHTED! Max is in his late thirties, stuck in a dead end job, no wife, no girlfriend and no friends. In the midst of depression, and contemplating ending it all, he is plunged into an apocalyptic world of the undead, but it is in this hopeless world that he may finally find a meaning to life, after he meets loud-mouth teenager Lizzie. ******Reviews******** " It's like i'm watching a movie in my head" @jinxCM "Oh my goodness SO AWESOME! It hooks me instantly and i am DEFINITELY reading more!" @accountisabandoned "An amazing ending and an awesome book" @leannew94 NBR SPOTLIGHTED! BEST HORROR AT THE WATTPAD OSCARS! BEST HORROR IN THE MYSTICAL AWARDS HORROR OCT 2017! BEST PLOT WINNER- SPARKILING AWARDS! BEST HORROR IN THE RED CRYSTAL AWARDS 2017! BEST IN HORROR IN THE BLUE ROSE AWARDS 2017! 2ND PLACE IN THE RISING STAR AWARDS 2017 HORROR! 2ND PLACE IN THE DISCOURSE AWARDS! 2ND PLACE IN THE MAJESTIC AWARDS 2017 IN HORROR! 2ND PLACE IN HORROR AT THE GEM AWARDS 2017! 2ND PLACE IN MYSTICAL AWARDS HORROR! 2ND PLACE IN BIBLIOPHILE AWARDS 2017 HORROR! 2ND PLACE IN SPRING AWARDS 2017 2ND PLACE IN GLIMMER AWARDS 2017 2ND PLACE IN THE UNDISCOVERED WRITERS AWARDS 2017. 3RD PLACE IN 2017 MOONLIGHT HORROR AWARDS! 3RD PLACE IN THE APOLLO 2017 AWARDS HORROR! 3RD PLACE IN THE GOLD AWARDS HORROR 2017! 3RD PLACE IN THE HIDDEN AUTHORS AWARDS 2017 HORROR! BEST TITLE IN MOONLIGHT HORROR AWARDS!
Lester's Keeper by Ghauthor
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*FEATURED STORY* *Highest Position #21 in Horror* *2017 Rebel Awards Winner* *2017 Horror Awards Runner Up* *2017Emerald Awards Runner Up* Lester is ready to call quits on his relationship. It's been going on too long - six whole months. Lester isn't the type of guy who wastes an opportunity though. Before he walks away there is one last thing he wants from his girlfriend. Something he hasn't told her about. Something that takes them to a strange and exclusive club, deep in the heart of the picturesque countryside, where nothing is as it seems. In this place, everyone carries a secret, and before tonight ends someone is going to get a surprise. Lester's Keeper will keep you guessing as it immerses you in sights you have never before seen and will never forget.
Artistic Insanity by Dae_Bear
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A 30 year old artist loses his wife in a fiery car crash. A week after the funeral on her birthday he receives a package with a beautiful silver paint brush. What happens when he mindlessly paints her out of grief? New Star Award Winner!!!
You Get What You Wish For by ScreamingTumbleweed
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** Winner** (New Star Award )- 2017 Horror Contest "You made a deal with the devil now you're gonna get what you wished for" Harry is just an average 24-year old guy who got dropped out of College and is currently jobless. He and his 19-year old brother Peter are living peacefully together in an old and almost-rundown house. Their trust for each other was immeasurable, but little did one of them know about the gruesome secret that tore their family apart. Once the secret was out, he couldn't get away. So he revealed his true form for he knew he could never escape the chains that kept him. Nobody can save him, even death. Some parts of this story is based on my experience a year ago... Cover Credits to @warmtoescoldwater Completed: 07/23/17
In Memoriam ✔️ by ChristopherOpyr
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Kyle Ingham, a father grieved by the death of his daughter, will do anything to speak with her again. Anita Shaw only wants to bring peace to those that cannot let go. When their paths cross their journey will bring them to a cemetery in the middle of the night, each with their own plans. *** Winner - 1st Place - Horror/Mystery category The Mystical Awards (August 9, 2017) *** *** Winner - 1st Place - Horror/Paranormal category The Crayon Awards (August 8, 2017) *** *** Winner - 2nd Place - Specialty Awards, Best Supporting Character, The Discourse Awards *** *** Winner - 2nd Place - Horror, Blue Rose Awards (October 2017) *** *** Winner - 1st Runner-up - Horror, Jo Awards 2017 (Mar 2, 2017) *** *** Winner - 3rd Place - Horror, Rose Quartz Awards *** *** Winner - New Star Award - 2017 Horror Contest by @XInsanelyCreepyX (July 30, 2017) *** *** 5th Place / Finalist - Elimination Awards (August 2017) *** *** Highest Rating - #312 in Horror (September 05, 2017) ***
Ghosts of Culloden by she1209
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This is an excerpt from one of 40 short stories in the OMP (One Million Project) Fiction Anthology. Historical fiction based around the Battle of Culloden -the last battle to be fought on Scottish soil.
Hidden Treasures Awards (OPEN) by LostAndFoundAwards
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If you're a small writer looking for recognition The Hidden Treasure Awards are for you!
LILY by DreamsDarkly
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Byron King is a reclusive author trying to find the strength to write again after the death of his fiancee, but a haunting woman enters his life setting the pace for a tale of alcoholism, loneliness, and obsession. Is she a woman hellbent on wrecking him mentally and physically or a supernatural figure trying to free him from the shackles he's carefully placed upon himself? Her name will make him question everything he's ever known or written.... LILY.