Calem Decker was on the fast track to success, soon to be promoted as editor and chief of World Star Magazine, the most famous tabloid in New York. That was until he finds himself the subject of his own gossip column when chef extraordinaire, Evelyn Quinn, chooses him randomly from a passing crowd to kiss in order to...
#1Nonfiction: Will Ceci be seduced by ax crimes, buried girls & mushy poems? Will she fall head-over-ass into a forbidden affair or continue down an entirely prudent and reasonable path? Everything is real. Everything is true. The Authors: Ceci is a peach from Detroit, who directs documentaries, runs a video product...
When hostile townsfolk imprison a transient teen girl accused of murder, her best friend struggles against a stacked legal system to protect her from being railroaded.--- Local law enforcers eager to solve the case rush to judgment and arrest Cozbi Miraslova, a pretty teenager of Roma heritage working with a traveling...
The poetry collection In the Kaleidoscopic World of Feelings is a window into my inner world, open to those willing to take a glimpse inside. Here, works written years ago intertwine with new pieces that capture echoes of events that stirred deep emotions in my soul. While reading them, you may feel a connection and s...
The Open Novella Contest is back for 2025! Join a society of writers and take on the challenge to create a timeless 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2025 - so mark your calendars with this date!
**Title: Shadows of the Past** **Synopsis:** In the secluded wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains, Nathan Kane, a retired assassin, seeks solace from a life steeped in violence. His only companion is Lila, a young girl he saved from the clutches of The Syndicate, a shadowy organization that once controlled his life...
This book is a collection of numerous short stories I have created, both mini and midi ones, written in the period of the past twenty years. Some of them are award-winning entries in various micronarrative competitions. Others were adapted with the usage of audio and video stimuli thus creating something akin to hype...
A stormy night shattered Dawson Sanders's life when she was only sixteen. Ten years later, she returns to her sleepy town in Maine, still reeling from the scars of her past. Settling into the home of her late great aunt, she discovers a secret that could hold the key to redemption, or it could trap her in everlasting...
It's been more than twenty years since Dwayne last saw his childhood imaginary friend. But in a sudden hail of bullets, explosions, and car chases, Mr. Foo Foo comes roaring back into his life in a major way with trouble hot on his tail. Dwayne's boring and mundane life is about to get upended in a serious way, and...
When Rosalin arrives in the imperial capital, Livia, she carries with her a burden of secrets. Her purpose is not what she says aloud. But Rosalin is not the only one shrouded in lies: there is no sign of Empress Cassyna's twin sister, Servina, and everyone speaks of her as if she is a ghost. What Rosalin hoped wou...
ONC 2025 A sci-fi thriller with a thread of gay romance. Jiro wanted to be a pilot for as long as he could remember. Flying through the stars, what could be more thrilling? He worked hard for his dream, nothing was going to stop him, not even the debilitating illness which struck him down, just before his eighteenth...
You were once a character in a deleted story, now lost and memoryless in the library. All you recall is your former importance. To rewrite your own backstory, you must first outwit the ghost librarian, who won't stop offering unsolicited advice.
This is for the Wattpad 2025 open novella contest; I picked prompt 73: You predict an apocalypse, and it happens the next day. Now, you're the hero who must save the world - except you have no idea how. ** Yesterday, you were just a normal person. Today, the world has ended in the dumbest way possible-reality glitched...
Love and retaliation conspire to foil a billionaire land developer's attempt to bulldoze a family business. Heather Clayburn owns Nuance, a thriving upscale restaurant in a nineteenth-century house in Vancouver's West End. Her family has lived above the restaurant for generations, but after her divorce, only she and h...
Prompt 95: There's a university where, once someone dies on campus, they become a permanent ghostly resident. But one student may have the power to break the curse. Summerfield College is haunted, according to many students and locals. Prof. Ward Bresley advised the Coven, a school group for students interested in wit...
A professor and a detective must pair up to discover the secrets of the bog behind the former's new home. *** The Autopsy of Jane Doe meets Predatory Natures by Amy Goldsmith in this tale of folk terror. Following an incident at her workplace, professor of psychology Raisa Thorne decides to take a sabbatical at her...
Have you ever wondered what your friends really thought about you? Do they like you half as much as you think they do? Well, what if you didn't have to wonder? What if you could be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt? The pages of this book will give you the power to find out once and for all. All you need to do is sig...
In the wake of her estranged mother's death, Maricel Ferrer returns to her childhood home to confront the dark secrets she left behind. * Maricel has spent years trying to forget the house she grew up in - the house where her mother's mental health slowly unraveled. But after receiving unexpected news, she has no cho...
Jocelyn Jones' life has always been practical - maybe a little too practical. At 44, she has spent years worrying about everybody else, trapped in a marriage whose spark fizzled ages ago. A tomboy at heart, Joss has never been the type to swoon over fairy-tale romances, nor has she ever conformed to society's idea of...
Serena's life is about to take a dark turn. When her mother died suddenly, Serena didn't expect to discover she had kept a secret from her. She was a little girl when her mother became a famous actress and gave her a key necklace. Serena had worn it for as long as she could remember. While searching through her mot...
Not your average family vacation. Following an obscure clue to a century-old mystery, former adventurer-turned family man Skip Hutchins heads into the wilds of the Amazon Basin with wife Nusiri and son Zane. They are on the trail of Percy Fawcett, a hundred years after that famed explorer's disappearance. Seeking to s...
When Rexon, a Canadian, receives a panicked call from his girlfriend, an American, about anonymous hackers threatening to shut down the U.S. power grid, he tries to console her. It doesn't help that there are rumors of war brewing against the U.S., with speculations of an invasion flooding news outlets. Then an explos...
Quite frankly, I don't give a fuck about you or Christos. What I care about is that some Cartel punk has stepped onto my island, messing with my business, so we are going to use you as bait to draw him out. ~~~~ Five years ago, Solara Doukas escaped from a strip club in Tijuana, just to learn that her new husband is a...
Prompt 69: Corporations dominate the world, stifling creativity with the force of the sterile police to eliminate any source of unauthorized competition. Alma learned to read and write pre-Great Uprising of 2103, when WorldKOR restored order to its territories and eliminated literacy after the Lost War and the Punishm...
Haunted by the past, Rhiannon Carmichael returns to her hometown for her father's funeral, only to uncover a web of secrets and a possible murder, forcing her to confront the family she left behind. *** Victor Carmichael, the titan of local construction industry...
Twenty years ago, magic vanished from the world, presumed forever gone. Yet it still existed, tangled within its own domain, along with Naamah, its dark personification. Naamah schemes return to complete her desire for humanity's subjugation and to avenge her earlier defeat. But with a soul barren, Naamah needed anoth...
Giles is a 15th-century holy man. Raised by a religious order since the age of two, he was very surprised to be twenty-six, dead, and in the sixth level of Hell. No training could have prepared him for that! After centuries of torture-- and therapy! --Giles is granted twenty days of freedom on the mortal plane. He has...
Isabelle Holden, Gregory Jagger, and Ren Hawthorn. If high school were a kingdom, they would be royalty. Hailing from old money, everyone turns a blind eye to their crimes: drug dealing, abuse, and addiction. They are The Perfects of Rosewood High. Everyone wants to be like them. Everyone wants to be their friend. Bu...
