Lewis Grant was never the ambitious sort. He enjoyed an average education, a menial job, and a supportive friend group. What more did he need? He never expected the janitorial position at a small independent art museum to amount to anything. He never expected that the exclusive assignment to the new exhibit wing would turn into a discovery of a lifetime. He never expected that the fantasy art exhibits he was only assigned to clean would in fact be living creatures imprisoned by a cruel and power-hungry artist. What's a lackluster fellow to do when the fate of another world hangs in the balance? Does he even have what it might take to free the fairies under glass?

THE SUNDOWNERS Callahan and The Breath of the Serpent ❝𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒚...❞ Long before the SunDisk was forged, before dynasties rose and fell, there was only the Serpent. Not a beast. Not a god. A process. The Serpent was Time coiling in on itself to protect what it could not bear to lose. The sigil ⛎ was carved onto the first scroll by an ancient order known only as The Holders of Breath. It appears in early papyri, temple walls, pottery shards- Two mirrored crescents, back-to-back. One for the motion of time. One for its stillness. A hinge. A lock. A warning. When the sigil appears unbidden, drawn by a trembling hand or revealed in the sand... ...it means the Serpent has inhaled. And once the Serpent exhales? Nothing forgotten stays dead.

Levon Datevar never wanted to be a legend. He only wanted to survive. When tragedy tears his life apart, Lev is thrust into a world forged from stone, storm, and ancient law. A people who distrust him. Trials that test him. Secrets in the mountains older than memory. And a disputed prophecy that clings to his name. Some whisper he's chosen. Others insist he's a threat. Most wish he'd never arrived. Now Lev faces an action-packed fight for survival-one that challenges everything he believes about courage, belonging, and justice. In a land where destiny is dangerous, Lev must decide who he is... before the world decides for him. Welcome to A GRIFFIN'S CHOICE - a deeply immersive tale of resilience, mystery, and the first steps toward a legend no one saw coming.

Two princes set out to rescue a princess-each for their own reasons. But when her curse begins to unravel, so do they. What if saving her means losing themselves? And when wills collide... who truly deserves to wake her?

Action Adventure Series Book 5 When the light forgets its own name, who will remember it for the world? In a land where echoes keep their own histories, five wanderers carry a relic born of sacrifice-the Chalice that drinks memory and returns miracles at a terrible cost. Among them walks Valli, the quiet knight whose courage is measured not in battle but in the mercy she refuses to lose. Beside her stands Callahan, the weary vessel of the Chalice's past, sworn to guard the Sunbound flame. Together the Sunbound will cross the Glass Sea, hear the Hymn of Returning, and face Verrin Karthos-the mirror that hungers for every song ever sung. Each act of light will demand forgetting. Each miracle will rewrite their souls. But if one remembers for another, perhaps even the oldest silence can be forgiven. Part myth, part elegy, and all heart, The Sundowners and the Knight of the Chalice is a tale of sacrifice, song, and the fierce hope that memory itself is sacred. ━━━━━━━━━━━

Action Adventure Series • Book 4 Every relic is a doorway. Every shadow hides a name. And every Sunbound heart must learn the price of carrying legends too long. From the desert's whispers to the catacombs' bells, the story does not end, it deepens. The Tiger led them to the Dagger, and the Rose waits with thorns still wet with blood." 🌹 When something evil and ancient plunders the tomb of Sainte-Rosamonde, a convent where shadows once moved like assassins, the Sunbound are pulled into a legend older than they can fathom. The artifact is no mere treasure- it is the key to binding or unleashing a power buried in blood and silence. For Callahan, it is more than a mission. It is a vow. Once, in a hidden cloister of France, a woman named Rosamonde Ducos; nun, resistance fighter, assassin, saint, called him The Dagger. He called her The Rose. Before her death, she bound him to a promise: to guard the relic with his life. Now her ghost cries out to him, and he knows what it means-her trust has been betrayed, and her sorrow is not at rest. 🌹 But as the Sunbound race time itself across catacombs and castles, they discover something more chilling: The relic is not just tied to Rosamonde. It is knotted into the very curse that took Tatyana, the woman Callahan lost to his own stubborn silence. And if they cannot recover it, both women's ghosts- and Callahan himself- may be consumed. Together, Kaida, Noey, Atlas, and Valli must face the labyrinth of Callahan's past, where assassins wore habits, where lovers became legends, and where shadows still hunger for flesh. Because the relic is not only a prize. It is a mirror. And when the Sunbound look into it, they will see the truth: This time, the fight is not to save a relic. It is to save him. It was beautiful. It was damning. It was his. 🌹 The Dagger and the Rose.

Action Adventure Series • Book 3 The dream comes first. Kaida runs barefoot through a forest that should not exist in Morocco. 'That's funny," she thought in the dream, 'because I know we made it back to Callahan's...' Leaves glisten as though still dripping from India's rains, yet the desert wind sighs through the branches. She looks down and sees prints in the earth-not her own. Large, feline, padded. A tiger's path. The shadows pulse gold. Out from between the palm trees strides the beast-its eyes burning like twin suns, its body striped in black fire. But the strangest thing isn't its form-it's the girl astride its back. The Girl of the Gazelles, veiled in starlight, her lips whispering in a language Kaida almost understands. The tiger growls, and the whole forest trembles. Kaida's heart slams against her ribs-because she realizes the tiger isn't chasing her. It's circling her. Claiming her. Then, with a thunderclap, the forest dissolves into snow and ice. Kaida stumbles in the frigid blowing drifts, the tiger's golden outline shimmering as though it lives in both realms at once. Its voice- not a roar, but a command- sears through her dream: "You are mine...Kaida. Enter now the dark side..." ━━━━━━━━━━━ Amid the whiplash of bitter cold and snow, The Sundowners follow The Golden Tiger Relic to Russia and are greeted by the ghostly guardian of an ancient, crumbling Monastery hidden in the snowdrifts of Siberia. It is in this dark and foreboding land that Kaida faces herself, and the war between the darkness of her shadow and light is fought. ━━━━━━━━━━━

𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑶𝑵𝑺 𝑾𝑬 𝑺𝑳𝑨𝒀 A dark fantasy tale steeped in Gothic dread and strange redemption. Shadowfen is a kingdom where whispers never cease, ruled by the iron hand of Lord Sylvain Baudelaire, a knight carved from cruelty. But when a beggar's relentless wailing unmasks a secret-his daughter, Augethia, lost in the lairs of fire breathing dragons, Sylvain is forced into an oath that drives him to the very heart of the dragons flame. There he finds not a legendary maiden in chains but a scarred and unyielding girl who sees through his hollow mask. Their clash becomes a trial by truth, as brutal as any blade. Returning together to Shadowfen, they bring with them not triumph but something far more dangerous to a tyrant's reign: the stirrings of hope. Written exclusively for TheShortys2025, 4094 words. ©WendyyWolfe

[Needs heavy editing] Two planets have been at War for 300 years. Half the time they've been fighting, both kingdoms have been trying to get Lucent Apollo on their side, but Apollo, who just wanted peace, got tired of all the fighting and turned everyone on both planets into dragons. Not only that, but he also linked everyone's lives together so if one person dies they all die. After Lucent's little attempt at peace he went to Earth to complete the curse and has been living his best life away from the other planets. Now a couple of people sent from both kingdoms have come to Earth looking for Apollo to break the curse and while they may not find Apollo, they might just come across the only girl who has what they're looking for. Also, she may not be fully human. •• I got the cover photo from google and credit goes to the rightful owner.

My entries for the Panhellenic Games 2025