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Sever - A Wattpad Featured Story by onlywayforward
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Society has become reliant upon the government birthing scheme to conceive. Fertility medication is scarce and entry onto the programme is both competitive and selective. Amidst a high profile heist of Fertility, Blue is caught running from the scene. Maintaining his innocence, Blue sets out to recover the stolen medication. But his trail for the loot brings him face to face with Jade; the young wife of a pharmaceutical heir. She is under the age threshold for the birthing scheme, and pregnant. And Blue's ex-girlfriend. To exonerate themselves, Blue and Jade must turn each other in. But when events leading to their split come to light, they realise all is not as it first seemed.
Apartment 239 by elfordalley
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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]]
Goats from Lambs by PaulKingston
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Headless bodies start appearing in the streets, so cunning Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner have to stop the killer to prevent the apocalypse ***** After bodies start appearing in the middle of the streets, hollowed and headless, Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner, Travis Virgil, are given the case. However, once they dig deeper, meeting the emotionally broken Victor Eccelstone, and realize how heavily the church is involved, Rashida has to acknowledge that this case might be bigger than she had ever imagined. These crimes aren't the act of one man - they're the beginning of the end of the world [[Winner of the 2017 Wattys Storysmith Award]] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
Blaire's Body by woodlandic
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"The world is a bitter, bitter place, Greyson. There's nothing to do now except get over it." In the sleepy town of Avensgrove, everyone hides their secrets like jewels. They bury it behind fake smiles and pleasantries, and for the longest time - it has worked. And then Blaire DuMonte's body is found at the bottom of the lake. And a year later, her best friend holds five hostages captive in the abandoned DuMonte household. The secrets they've kept have began to resurface - and it all started with Blaire's body. Highest Rank: #19 in Mystery/Thriller & a Wattpad Featured Story
The Realms [Watty 2017 Shortlist] by RElizabethM
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One mistake changes Hannah's life forever, exiling her from her realm and isolating her from the man who loves her. Now, Hannah must find a way to restore Ryan's memories and get them both back home before she loses everything forever. After threatening Ryan's father, the Ruler of the Realms, Hannah is transplanted into a new life in the Second Realm. Unable to get through to Ryan or to find her way back to her birth realm, Hannah enlists the help of Maizie, another banished soul who has some secrets of her own. Hannah knows that Ryan's father is abusing his power on the Third Realm and she intends to stop him, no matter the cost. Seeking out the Keepers of the Realms, Hannah and Maizie are drawn into a web of deception that leaves Hannah struggling to find the right path for herself and Ryan. Hannah's choices could save Ryan and the Third Realm but may leave her facing an uncertain future. What have people been saying about The Realms? *This book is awesome. I wish I could erase my memory of it and start it all over again - alubenlanretni *I loved this book - a3griffin32 *This is so amazing. You are truly talented - collettekozuchlepley *Love love loved this book! - shantelle721 *Loved the book! I was anxious to see what was coming next and was not disappointed when it did! - nicoleblakebontaine #5 in Adventure - January 26th, 2017 Third Place - 2016 Undiscovered Writers Awards in Adventure Featured story December 2016 - July 2017. Watty Awards Shortlist 2017 Cover by @pipo_here_
Snow by jule009
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After an apocalyptic event that thrusts the world into a new ice age, Calestia - a 17-year-old girl with a strong will - must learn to survive on a land infested with gangs, guns, and distrust. ***** Nobody knows what day it is anymore. Nobody knows the month, the day of the week...and the only way to tell time is by the slight change in the color of the sky from grey to black every twenty-four hours. If a day even is twenty-four hours anymore. The planet is dead. The people are dead. Snow falls down upon piles of bodies like the ash of a volcanic eruption. Except, the snow doesn't stop. It never does. It continues to fall and fall until you wonder if it is even possible for another flake to come down and land silently in your hair. But it does. They do. There are few survivors of what the remaining have started to call the end of the world. The Apocalypse. Few who are still brave or scared of death enough to face the torture that is living. I am one of those survivors. Book One of the Snow Series Highest ranking: #3 in Sci-Fi Watty's Shortlisted
After Humanity by stpolishook
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* 2017 WATTY WINNER!* Blurb: Humans are at the top of the food chain and always have been. But what if they weren't? What if another took our place and decided to raise and exploit us as we have every other animal on earth? Welcome to a world after humanity... No one is exactly certain where the sibla came from. Some say they evolved from humans long ago, slowly taking power as their numbers increased. Taller, stronger, and longer-lived, than homo sapiens it isn't too hard to imagine. Now humans must face a reality in which they are no more than animals, domesticated beasts bred for their master's various needs and hungers. Rachel Turner is only eight years old. Born in Demin, one of the last remaining free human settlements on earth, she has never been forced to face the reality of life under a sibla Master, living a carefree existence in her hidden village. Magnus Kendrick is a sibla farmer with a sizable estate on which he raises all manner of livestock, from chickens, to sheep, to...humans. He is also the man destined to purchase Rachel's life. *Warning: This book contains a certain degree of gore and disturbing themes Beautiful cover by @my_fairytale 2016 Fright Fest Gold Winner Cryptic's Choice 2017 WATTY Winner ( Story Smiths category) *All Rights Reserved
Dissolution by EricaChanWrites
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WATTY'S 2017 NEWCOMER AWARD WINNER: What would you sell yourself for? Madeline knows. She's spent the last eighteen years impatiently waiting for her Auctioning so she can sell herself to MERCE Solutions Limited for a hundred thousand credits. But when the Auctioneer fails to call her and two suits show up at her doorstep, Madeline discovers there are far worse bargains to be made. So when your loved ones are in danger, there's a bounty on your head and your entire city might turn out to be a lie... what would you sell yourself for? "An action-packed cyberpunk thriller in the vein of Phillip K. Dick." ~ KISA WHIPKEY, REUTS PUBLICATIONS "A book that shakes you to the core and makes you take a close look at the world around you." - A DROP OF INK REVIEWS Updated every Wednesday and Saturday (Australian Time). Published under the pen name Lee S. Hawke and available in full on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo and Nook.
Bonedead by prose-punk
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A Watty Award Winner, Trailblazer Category 2016 In 1896, dinosaurs started the infection that ended the world. Carmen has lived her entire life in New York City, a city of opium and invention, of rotting tenements and marble mansions; a divided metropolis built on the backs of the dinosaurs that never died out, kept safe by the rivers surrounding it. When a mysterious illness spreads from the deinos to the humans, Carmen must start surviving, trapped on an island that's no longer home, where the dead won't stay buried, and the people are more dangerous than the dinosaurs themselves. Where were you when it all began? +++ Selected by the creators of The Walking Dead, courtesy of The Walking Dead: Road to Survival game. Selected by the creators of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, courtesy of @PPZmovie "Community Recommendation" pick in @Ooorah Tevun-Krus #34 - Goth Punk: All Hallows Special
5:25 by DarklyCosmos
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When his uncle's "good friend", Mr. Zedler, asked him to watch over his house during vacation, Dalton Aldaine thought his spring break couldn't get any more worse. First he had to do yard work, second he had to babysit the neighbor's annoying little girls, and third, he had to study for his latest exams - while at the same time trying to keep his social status from going down the drain. But when Dalton pulled up to the house he was supposed to watch for a week, all his doubts vanished. Because it's not everyday you get to watch a mansion and get paid one grand per day, right? Dalton's spring break is off to a hoot - hanging at the Zedler residence, admiring the view, and chilling with his hot girlfriend. Life couldn't be any sweeter. Until, one night, at exactly 5:25, Dalton's phone rang. And when he picked up his phone, all he heard was screaming. And then one friend was dead. It's not until twelve hours later, at 5:25 again, Dalton's phone rang again. And more screaming, and another friend dead. As the town police investigates into the brutal murders of his friends, Dalton knows that he is at the middle of this fiasco. And everyday at 5:25, morning and evening, he has to do something or else one day, at 5:25, it's going to be him screaming on the other line. Cover by @LiamZee