The year is 1988, and Finn, Ronan, Becca and Jasper are spending the summer at a reformatory camp located deep in the Alaskan wilderness. The camp, named Lightlake, is the last chance the teens have to get their lives back on track, but changing for the better isn't easy - and especially not at a place like Lightlake...
[WATTYS 2018 LONGLIST | WATTPAD FEATURED STORY] Sam Sterling is the lone commander of a risky space mission. Her task: to take six prisoners to a remote asteroid, Externo, for a life sentence. But Sam's careful plan is disrupted when a meteoroid storm cripples her ship, and requires more than one person to repair...
***Wattpad Editors' Choice & 2022 Watty Awards Shortlist*** Nesta is different. And in Empress Sapphira's kingdom, different is dangerous. After accidentally revealing the truth about herself, Nesta runs away to join the Wise Women who live in hiding in the forest, and learn their secret craft. But with the threat of...
In a world overcome with Infected, Em sets out on a difficult journey to find safety. With only the determination to live to guide her, she navigates through ruined neighbourhoods. As she struggles to survive in a world gone mad, she discovers her strength and resilience in the face of unimaginable threats. On her jou...
What happens when the planet you are from no longer sustains life because of the generations that lived before you. The blue marble that shines so brightly like a Gem in our solar system has gone, replaced with a dark and poisonous planet. Ten years ago the earth had a major Exodus, evacuating as many humans as possib...
Android's are the must have item for every household. They cook, they clean and above all else, they make life easy. Built as a mirror image of humans, the only defining quality that separates an android from a living being is the fact that androids cannot experience emotions. Nora is one of those androids, and altho...
Based on the Prompt List for Whumptober, 15-year-old Lorna has been waiting for her uncle's return for a month. She lives alone and isolated inside a small cabin to hide from the terrifying Merged creatures. Alex stumbles upon her little cabin, and he falls unconscious from bloodless are a battle with a Merged mountai...
England during 17th-century bubonic plague epidemic. Young herbalist Rosalynn Seward lives her peaceful life in a small cottage on the skirts of Eyam. Her life changes drastically when a plague doctor appears in the village looking for an apprentice who would help him stop the spread of the disease. Together, Rosalyn...
In a world stricken and ravaged by an ultra deadly virus, Jordan Matthews must figure out how to survive to the best of her abilities. Her life is full of sorrow and pain, but things take an unexpected turn when the man she had learned to fear enters her life.
2074, the world has been ravaged by relentless global warming, causing an unprecedented catastrophe. Billions of human and animal lives have been swept away, while the Earth has become a hellish place. Glaciers have melted, leaving behind desolate landscapes and extreme temperatures. The daily average exceeds 50 degre...
[2022 WATTYS WINNER] | Tracey Higgenbottom, Mr. Porter's witty assistant, finds herself at a dead-end when constables dismiss a case of his possible kidnapping. With the unexpected help of a spunky adventurer, a chimney sweep boy and his sister, and a reluctant records keeper, she suddenly finds herself on the hunt fo...
An extraordinarily lucky man is blasted into space and killed in a freak accident, only to be revived nine apocalypses later to find himself one half of the last remnants of humanity. Now he and a woman from this strange future must travel through time in order to escape from an intergalactic zoo run by shapeshifting...
January 1, 2015. The day that the world changed forever. Following the aftermath of a deadly nuclear war between the United States and China, an odd airborne pathogen is discovered. Scientist scramble to uncover what this virus does and find that it is a virus like no other. Once the virus starts to attack your body...
A collection of short stories and descriptive pieces in a range of genres all under 3,000 words. Welcome to the chaotic space of my brain. January is a month filled with both beginnings and endings and sometimes it all happens a little quickly. So, here are the beginnings of stories that end in the same space they be...
Finally deciding to leave his home after an EMP hits, Daryn heads west from mid state to the mountains of North Carolina. On his way he faces some strange and scary, to him at least, things that will change his life.
If you told me when I was 14 that the last birthday party I was going to have was at a local pizza hut, I never would have believed you. Looking back, before the infection ripped apart mine and billions of others families, I probably should have acknowledged those moments I shared with friends and family with more lov...
The blinding flash came first, so intense that it blinded even through closed eyes. The deafening thunder followed very shortly after, as the burning light began to subside. The cloud appeared as a silhouette at first against the whiteout, but as the sky returned to normal colour the iconic mushroom could be seen r...
Chris is losing his battle against the panic-fueled obsessive thoughts that are leading him to the brink. But when a mysterious series of EMPs plunges the industrialized world into darkness, he has to put his put his own demise on hold and get his pregnant wife to safety. Along the way, Chris meets Rita Luevano, a jad...
We have finally done what no other human has ever done before; set foot on another planet. Four astronauts have landed and lived on Mars for three months. The mission is a huge success, and just before they head home they are asked to go and investigate a water source in a deep cave. What they find could explain the o...
Following a nuclear holocaust, Nathan Taylor and his family face grim choices in order to stay alive. Fleeing deadly radiation, plague and desperate men, Nathan, an army officer, leads his wife and their two teenage sons away from chaos and madness toward his ancestral home in Kentucky. Horrors lie in their path. Fro...
"Trust you? Are you kidding? I think it should be pretty evident to you that we don't trust you." "Henry, I would like to speak to you alone." Cyrus says, now ignoring Nolan. My father shakes his head slowly, "if you want to talk say it here. I'm not going anywhere alone with you. Not until we have some answers." Cyr...
