Therese has a problem. Everyone at the ballet academy where she teaches is thrilled to have Luca Durante, the reigning star of the ballet world, as their guest artist for the school's performance of The Nutcracker. There's one difficulty: Therese has a history with Luca, and though she hasn't seen him for seven years, she still remembers every moment from when they danced with each other. Will Therese be able to maintain a professional distance until the season is over? Or will Luca remind her why they moved so well together all those years before?

Genevieve Glass is a shoemaker. In her small village, she hides an unknown talent behind the face of Madame Claudia's Shoe Emporium. Genevieve's employer hates her, and treats her like a workhorse, but the job is all she has to support herself. But when a request is hand delivered to Genny, the only one left at the shop one night, her life has a chance to change for the better. This request is for the fair Princess Selena, who needs the best set of shoes for an upcoming ball. Seeing her chance to find a better future, Genevieve works in secret for weeks to make the best pair of shoes in the whole kingdom. But when she goes to deliver the shoes, she finds more at the Palace than just an just an employer. In a debacle over glass shoes, Genny heads to the ball to talk to the Princess herself. After some confusion, they become fast friends. Putting a twist on the classic Cinderella tale, Genevieve puts her career, her reputation, and most of all- her heart -on the line. Everything rests upon a pair of shoes.

"My beautiful Puppet Boy and my beautiful Puppet Girl." A teenage boy and girl find themselves trapped in the lair of a crazy man obsessed with human puppetry. __________________ #1 in horror - 12/6/15 [featured - 12/30/15] IMPORTANT NOTICE - if you're reading this story on a site that is not www.wattpad.com then you could be at risk of a malware attack. Furthermore, please go to this link: www.wattpad.com/user/z0mbies, and report to me where you are reading this story. Thank you. WARNING: This story contains distressing material. Reader discretion advised. The characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Brooklyn Rose. Colton Smith. Polar opposites...Almost like the sun and the moon. But have you ever heard the story about how the sun loved the moon so much, he gave up his life every night so that she could live?

Quinn Travis has been a foster child all her life. From one foster home to another, each one is worst than the last, despite the positive promises of her social worker. This time, Quinn has had enough. After her 7th abusive foster father, Quinn's only option is to run away and never look back. All alone in the streets of California, she meets the elusive Gigi, who leads her (supposedly) to a tight knit group of runaways who always have each others backs. Sucked into a life of crime and violence for the sake of survival, Quinn must gain what it takes to battle fellow criminals on the street, deal with backstabbing fake friends and allies, and juggle a romantic relationship that could shine a new light on her world, or burn it to the ground.

WATTY 2016 WINNER of the HQ Love Award! Strange Yarns is a ball of tangled tales. Twisted, knotted, and intertwined. Like Tales of the Crypt, the Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. Strange Yarns is not just a collection of ghastly tales, these are yarns, and yarns are sewed together. Follow the yarns and see the grand design... think of this as an evil quilt. Ghost, ghouls, and cannibals being studied for nutrition research, Strange Yarns has got it all. ALL EXCEPT HAPPY ENDINGS!!! (The Author's Lawyer's retain the rights to define happy endings.) I'd love it if you'd vote. And if you really like them please share with a friend. And if you hated them, please share with an enemy. *Josh Saltzman is a Canadian Comedy Award winning writer and director. Recently he was the head writer of season 2 and 3 of Inspector Gadget on Netflix. His other credits include Fangbone! (Disney XD), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Animated Series (Sony/DHX), and in live action Call Me Fitz (HBO Canada). Josh has also made lots of weird videos you can find on youtube.

A Supernatural Thriller A young girl discovers she is manifesting terrifying powers, especially the ability to enter and manipulate the minds of others. Targeted by an ancient family whose own powers are waning, she finds herself ripped from her normal life and imprisoned in a stone catacombs under an abandoned quarry. There, she must confront the unknowable intentions of a creature whose own powers seem limitless, the deadly battle waged by his children for their father's affections, and the very real danger not only to her but to schoolmate swept into this conflict. The worst part is, more frightening even than her circumstances, Maggie Stuart no longer feels human herself. What is she becoming, will she ever escape -- and when she can, will she still want to?

In a world where humans live alongside their gods and other magical creatures, spells and powers are an everyday thing. After Raiden Anders loses his parents to a storm at sea, he can't seem to control his own powers anymore; His cousin, Nami , doesn't have any powers of her own making the pair odd in their town. People of different shapes and sizes pass through every day but one pair of travelers change the cousins lives forever. When a creature attacks the town, two strangers save them from defeat but not before Raiden's powers reveal he has something lurking within him. After this encounter Raiden and Nami are invited on a journey to help discover their strengths and save their country. --NOTE-- This is still a Work in Progress. Writings are subject to change at any time, critiques on the works are encouraged and welcome! I want this story to be the best it could possibly be. Author will announce when chapters are changed and edited. Thank you for your patience!

This is for all of you who prides themselves in being strange, weird, awkward, nerdy, geeky, an outcast, Divergent, not average, and crazy. Step inside, and allow yourself to be immersed in a community with weirdos like you!

Sage is what her mother calls a dreamer: she believes in magic, true love, and happy endings. Unfortunately for Sage, her mother is determined to crush her dreams. Sage's father died suddenly six months prior to her 18th birthday. Her family struggling financially, her Mother surprises Sage with a ball to celebrate her birthday. But she also receives the unwanted present of a courtship to a very rich and vain man. Sage becomes upset because she thought she'd marry a man she loves. The problem is: she could never love a man as horrid as her betrothed. Just when Sage is about to give up all hope, a hidden world reveals itself to her. It offers her a temporary escape from the her life, and she meets a man who feels just as trapped as she is. As she learns more about him and his fate, she discovers that her life has always been full of secrets and magic, and in the end, she might just save herself.