Here, you have two options: To search, or to settle. When random marks appear on your skin, would you read into it, or pray it goes away? When purple flowers bloom on your wrist, do you watch or fill it in? And when your soulmate is searching for you, do you search or settle? Levee Diaz, a settling, gender fluid teenager is just hoping to skid past high school and into college, so when the marks appear on his skin, he ignores them. But Olive Kelley won't give up. So he keeps drawing the carnations, over and over, from his arm to Levee's. When Levee finds strange, searing marks on their leg, they're suddenly very interested in finding Olive, hoping to get to the bottom of his self harm. But Olive is now focused on very different things; His favourite place in the world is now being destroyed, the beauty ripped up and replaced with cobble drives and plaster walls. Now separated by states and situations, Levee and Olive wonder if they'll ever meet, and solve the problems that continue to get worse.

Jack Hansard is the man who can sell you anything. Luck in a bottle, fame in a box, dreams on a leash, you name it: if he doesn't have it, he'll convince you he has something better. He's a trader on what's known as the Black Market - the occult Black Market, that is. If you're in need of that extra special something to curse your ex-lover or win your fortune, Hansard's the man to go to. Just make sure you check the 'best before' date on anything you buy. This is Season 1 of the Jack Hansard short story series - each Episode is a separate story, but follows an overarching plot much like a TV series. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! Please do not copy or distribute this work without the author's permission. Cover art by Dominique Lane: http://domlane.weebly.com/

"I'm a pain killer..." Haunted by the suicide of her mother, Cici tries to put together the pieces of her life. This is a challenge when you have the ability to heal with only a touch. Is her dream of wanting to be a professional dancer strong enough to keep her from taking her own life? Or should she give up and become like her mother? Someone else knows she can heal and threats to tear down the only hope she has left. Now Cici must decide whether to become like her mother and give up or fight for a freedom she's never had.

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

It was my birthday. We were just walking down the street. And it ended with my sister being murdered in front of my eyes. The reason she died? Batman. The reason I'm alive? The Joker. **BOOKS 1 AND 2!** When Meredith's sister is brutally murdered before her eyes, she vows revenge on Batman for allowing it to happen. So, she teams up with the one that saved her - The Joker - and becomes The Aster; an avenging fury fixated on destroying the Dark Knight. Before she would have given anything to change her imperfetly regular life of cheerleading, divorcing parents and always feeling second to her flawless sister. But now that's all gone and she's double-crossing and playing the two most powerful and dangerous men in Gotham against each other. But as she starts to find out dark things about her past she starts to realise - who's side is she really on? Maybe it doesn't really matter, because one thing is becoming increasingly clear: she may not make it out alive.

(Continuation of 1st book, 'Yeah, Sure') "It all went to shit.. What now? He was my all, my everything. And I screwed it all up." Two boys, two altering perceptions, but one truth. Will Harrison and Levi ever realise their feelings for each other? Or are they destined to forever float in the void of 'What If?' This is an exploration of sexuality, the blurred lines between friendship and affection, being too scared to confess and sometimes, just sometimes, birds of a feather don't flock together.

A warning from a nightmare future. Ten years after the UK fragmented, the emergency mandate of the Consensus goverment is coming to an end. At long last a General Election is due. World-weary journalist Richard Davies becomes reluctantly drawn into the aspiring National Renewal Party's campaign. But as long suppressed social tensions erupt on to the streets of a nation so much like - yet so different from - our own, he stumbles across a conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the relaunched democracy. With his options for doing the right thing in a world gone wrong narrowing and time running out, somehow Richard has to survive long enough to expose the greatest scoop of his career. A 151,000 word novel written between 2012-14. The 'future' I imagined has diverged from our current timeline, but many of the book's themes are still sadly only too relevant. For more information and a plot overview I recommend the companion Readers' Guide. https://www.wattpad.com/story/51378045-the-blurt-of-richard-davies-reading-guide This novel contains mature, unsettling, and dark themes. The Blurt was previously voluntarily listed as Mature, but if Wattpad won't play fair by their hiding works so listed from being seen by the general audience, I see no reason to abide by such a ridiculous policy. Just be aware of what it is you are getting into.

2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.

Sassy parkour runner Scarlett Banks, is mysteriously exiled from Mars. Arriving she collides with Dante Tyrell the Earth's resident gorgeous bad boy. A man so impenitent he doesn't hesitate to share his public dislike for Martians. Scarlett gives as good as she gets and isn't interested in someone who can't even say where he has been for the last year. However, Scarlett is now in a future Earth, where robots do all the work. The machines paying people to do, well nothing but look for the next party, the next drink and the next kiss. The robots think this sounds like a recipe for paradise but Scarlett isn't so sure. It would also be so much easier if she didn't keep running into the infuriating Dante. Into this Scarlett meets Io, a girl who was raised by robots in space. So much so that she might fail the test for being human and be sold off as a 'flesh bot'. This can't be good. With only her sharp wit, sarcastic earrings, and skills at parkour. Scarlett and her robot Kentro set out to stop her friend Io's 'reprocessing'. As for Dante, well that's a different matter. There was a note next to the bed. "YOUR DINNER IS IN THE OVEN" it began followed by PTO on the other side, it had "THE OVEN IS IN THE PIZZA SHOP DOWN THE ROAD." Oh right. Think 'Jeeves and Wooster' meets 'The Martian' Highest #9 in Science Fiction A Kickass book from the authors of the popular #1 SciFi hit 'I'm a cyborg's pet'. Think of it as Cyborg's pet's Darker, funnier, more evil twin. ( look at the accolades, 3 of which are real ) @Crazy_Awesome I like badass Scar. xD @Pixielala I'm laughing too hard right now.... just so you know.... @SaroofHassan Everyone's looking at me weird for laughing out loud @RealDonaldTrump - this is absolutely the greatest book ever written, believe me. PG 13 - contains humour, swearing, loud music, flashing lights & nuts but is Gluten-free.

After receiving a distress signal from the mining colony on AF-235-B, a rogue planet also known as Nyx, a sole survivor is brought back to the ship. While the second rescue party is dispatched on the search for the hundred and fifty-seven colonists, which seem to have vanished into nowhere, the atmosphere aboard Syracusae gets more tense with every passing moment as crew members start to go missing. Rebecca Porter, a medical officer, tries to solve the mysterious disappearances and is forced to face the horrors that are now lurking aboard the spaceship.