WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE -- SEPTEMBER 2021 EXCLUSIVE CHAPTERS AND WRITER'S REVEAL CONTENT AVAILABLE - NOT A PAID STORY Appearances can be deceiving. What if the Bad Boy wasn't so bad and the good girl wasn't quite so good? Kelly Wankum has an unfortunate last name and even worse luck. By the tender age of twenty-three, she's broken her tailbone, thumb, her nose, hip, and now her rib. It wouldn't be so bad if she could say something funny like, "I broke myself on a stripper pole" or "I was mugged in a Walmart parking lot." That would actually be believable, right? Instead, she breaks her rib reaching for a ball of yarn. Even worse, everyone knows she's so accident prone, she could sneeze and lose a tooth. They'd probably bet on her swallowing it in a pancake. Oh wait, she's done that too. Another trip to the Urgent Care has the doctors shaking their heads, offering to pray for her health while new, sexy Doctor Blake Cole immediately gets off on the wrong foot. Months after their first encounter, Blake and Kelly meet again by chance. After inadvertantly humiliating her, Blake tries to set things straight and make it up to her. The problem is, Blake's lifestyle is painfully different, and Kelly can't help imagining him like every bad boy she's ever read about online. Can Blake convince her to give him a chance and prove he's actually a good guy? **This story is set in the present and the pandemic is part of the narrative.** --Cover by AnnieRosebud-- ©2020, 2022

Bad boys: people view them as unfit fathers. Why? Well, their bad boy lifestyle of course. That's where Asher Cain comes in. Throughout his whole high school life, he was that mysterious bad boy player. Drugs, underage drinking, sleeping around.. That's what he got into. And then we have the innocent one: Juliet Harp. Juliet falls for his charm and ends up falling into bed with him too. It wasn't like a high school fling, it was more of a I've-just-got-out-of-a-relationship and I-want-to-have-a-one-night-stand sort of fling. That's essentially what it was, fresh out of high school and fresh out of a relationship. Juliet found herself in bed with Asher and then, a few months down the line, finds herself pregnant with his baby. They weren't ever really friends, just acquaintances. Well, Juliet dies when her daughter, Victoria, was only four. And you'll never guess which doorstep Victoria finds herself at? - Highest ranks in Short Story: #22 (21st December 2018) COVER CREDIT: peakybooo (so amazing, I cri)

Unknown Number: Well you gotta give me something! Hell, anything! You can't just dangle this in front of me for the rest of my life! Me: I wasn't planning on it... Unknown Number: Blackmail is a crime, you know! Me: I'M NOT BLACKMAILING YOU! Unknown Number: WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF ADVENTURE! YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS AND YOU SEIZE IT!! JEEZE!!! AND HERE I WAS HOPING YOU'D DO SOMETHING!!! Me: ...you want me to...blackmail you??

An extra large girl with an extra large heart and the guy who loved her imperfections Genre: slice of life | romance

When her younger sister dares Gianna to kiss notorious playboy Marcus Samaniego, she thought that was the end of it. But with one playboy, one dare, and one kiss, Gianna is in trouble, and everyone knows that falling for a playboy is a one-way ticket to heartbreak. *** Marcus Caden Samaniego is a notorious playboy--a playboy who doesn't let anyone kiss him on the lips. Except for Gianna. When Gianna Arellano transfers to her new school with her younger sister, she meets Marcus not through a 'hello', but through a kiss. A dare. It was supposed to be just once, what with the many girls fighting for his attention, but Marcus doesn't stop until he's claimed not just her lips...but her heart. Will she be able to stop herself from falling for him? Or will she just give in and trust that he'll be there to catch her? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Pzalm Franzenne Fama Begasin

She's poor and his rich! Vanellope Von Santiago, a very simple woman with a simple dream. She has a simple life, simple family all around her was just so simple not until Troy Murphy Hemsworth came to her life. All the simplest things turned to an extraordinary journey. What would happen if two different life clash each other, what would be the outcome? A true Love story never ends.

Lianne Macy Mendoza. 21 years old. 34-24-34. Heiress of M-industries. □ single. □ taken. ✔ Depends on who's asking. Join her as she takes a big leap from her perfect life to this sweet disaster. "MOMMY! MOMMY MACY KO!"

Ikaw po si Cassie di'ba? At ikaw naman po si Zacaree. Kayo po ang mommy at daddy ko! Tahimik lang silang nagaalmusal nang dumating ang batang lalaki na 'to at sabihing sila ang parents nya! Anyaree?

Anong gagawin mo kung may biglang lumapit sa'yo at sasabihing, "I want a BABY."? Are you gonna say YES because he is a goddamn ALMOST-PERFECT creature? Or a NO because he's very different from a man you want? But how can you even decide if he already did something ridiculous to you. Aside from that... he is a boss. A boss of something you don't wanna be involved with. Until your whole life started to change. And it is because THE BOSS WANTS A BABY. --- Ranks: 1- husband (June 2018) 2- romance (August 2018) 9- husband (September 2018) 5- husband (September 2018) 4- husband (September 2018) 3- husband (November 2018) 9- mafia (November 2018)

When job cuts at Chloe Saddler’s London communications firm result in an unexpected transfer to Paris, she finds herself leaving behind her friends, family, and boyfriend Scott to start a new life in the City of Light. Getting to grips with La Vie Parisienne and keeping a long-distance relationship afloat is not made any easier by the culture shock. Committing the odd French faux pas and inadvertently indulging in a few too many flirtations with her very sexy (and very taken) boss, Jean-Luc, is just the start of it. Factor in her bridezilla of a sister’s wedding (the hottest event of the year in the Saddler family’s social calendar), an unexpected session of hot, naked yoga, a slightly psychotic stalker, and one incredible kiss at an infamous Montmartre nightspot, and Chloe can say au revoir to her old, safe London life and bonjour to the romance, splendour, and glamour of Paris. A delightful debut that harks back to the early days of Chick Lit when heroines were flawed, funny, and forever battling for love and happiness. With quirky characters and classic comedic charm, Cocktails at Le Carmen is pure fun from page one.