-Editor's Choice! Dec 2019 - 17-year-old Lucille Monteith wants nothing else to find her brother, who, despite what everyone says, she refuses to believe is dead. She'll do anything to locate him, to bring him back home safe, though it begins to dawn on her that she's hopeless in her investigation. After a tragic accident, brothers Cian and Vincent Horne were torn from their normal lives. Vinny stuck as an earthbound spirit and Cian becoming an angel of death, the two roam the earth together, unafraid of death and its meaning. When Vinny discovers that Lucie can see him, however, it changes everyone in the trio's lives, and Lucie finds she may not be so hopeless after all. Embark on this journey as an angel, a ghost, and a teenage girl search for a loved one, battle their demons, and fight to keep pulses beating.

My short stories began to build up, so I thought I'd collect them all together here, and have a space for future shorts. A Kindred's Embrace: An ethereal look at a special winter's night, seen from the perspective of an unusual protagonist - in just 500 words! This was written for submission to the Adventure Community's Holiday Spirit contest. https://www.wattpad.com/192490132-adventure-community-contests-holiday-spirit The Selfie: A 100 word scary story. Dare you read? This was written for the Paranormal Community's #100WordScream collection. https://www.wattpad.com/229391971-100wordscream-it-begins Daddy's Home: A mystery/sci-fi horror, with a 2000 character limit! Written for the @AdventureCommunity's Micro Adventure contest and @su-SPEC-t's coinciding Contest Numero Dos contest. Mr Big Stuff: This was my contribution in the Decameron 2.0 anthology, which featured 110 Wattpad authors. My team of 10 members had the 'Tragic Love' theme, and this is the story I created for it. https://www.wattpad.com/story/21836767-the-decameron-2-0 Cutie Pie: This was a fun little 500 word short I made for @Wattvampires contest, 'Rock a Bye... What?!?!' The prompt was an image of a baby vampire. And this is what I came up with: https://www.wattpad.com/709760977-contests-and-blood-march-29-rock-a-bye-what-closed Singhoul Hearts Club: This was my contribution to @TheCRYPTIC_ 's The Laughing Crow anthology. It was my attempt at a dark humor short story, and I had a lot of fun writing it :) https://www.wattpad.com/story/125024374-the-laughing-crow-a-cryptic-anthology __________ Side note: I originally described this collection by writing 'My shorts began to build up', before I realised that didn't sound quite right... :/

All of our experiences as LGBTQ+ people are different, informed by religion, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, etc. so an important part of being in a community is sharing with one another how we're navigating being queer in this world. Of course, you don't have to be queer to share in this space with us. Being an ally brings many of its own challenges, and we're stronger together. Sharing our stories is uplifting for people in darker places, and comforting to those who can relate. I'd like to thank T-Mobile and Wattpad for giving me the opportunity to bring you this short story! Hopefully, it'll inspire you to write your own stories for T-Mobile's #UnlimitedPride write-a-thon. For submission guidelines, follow the link below: https://www.wattpad.com/740501938-unlimitedpride-write-a-thon-submission-guidelines