✨First Place + Grand Winner of ONC 2025✨ (thank you!) 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 choice but to return. The old fears should be gone, just like her childhood "imaginary friend" who liked to appear in her reflection. At first, it's easy to dismiss the strange occurrences: a flicker in the glass, a movement that doesn't quite match hers. But then the reflection smiles when she doesn't. Moves when she's still. Whispers things she doesn't want to hear. By the time Maricel realizes the truth - that the thing in the mirror has been waiting for her return - it's too late. Because now, it wants out. And it wants to take her place. ONC 2025 | Exclusively on Wattpad Prompt 55: What if the person you see in the mirror isn't really you, but something that's been watching you this whole time? Prompt 105: Your childhood imaginary friend, who disappeared years ago, suddenly returns - only this time, they're real. © 2025 Darly Jamison. All Rights Reserved. This work is protected under international copyright laws.

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

Some loves don't end. They just wait. Cloe Black's life is everything it's supposed to be-demanding classes at Columbia, a dream internship, friends, ambition, momentum. She's moving forward, winning, building something solid and impressive. Then Jimmy Hernandez calls. Years ago, they loved each other the way you only do once: deeply, gently, without armor. Distance and timing pulled them apart before they were ready-but the connection never quite faded. When they begin talking again, it's easy in all the ways that matter and dangerous in all the ones that don't. What follows isn't a whirlwind. It's something quieter. Phone calls that linger. Laughter that feels like coming home. A love that asks them to be braver than before-not louder, not faster, but more certain. Everyday Magic is a tender, slow-burn romance about choosing each other through fear, distance, and growth. It's about the joy of ordinary moments, the courage to try again, and the kind of love that doesn't demand perfection-only honesty. Because sometimes magic isn't found in grand gestures. It lives in the everyday choices.

Both a book club and a form of discovery for those just looking for a good book. So, no, you don't have to use this place as a book club!

A Steamy Love story between a arrogant police officer and a curvy intern doctor :)

Skylar pledged her life to protect her homeland, but she didn't expect that she would have to resort to marrying the king's brother and using her wits instead of a sword. ***** Skylar is not a typical noble lady. Captain to her own company, she feels more at home with a sword in hand than in the ballroom. Her whole life gets turned upside down when she is forced to marry Lord General Gawyn Gryphonheart for the alliance. The vicious political machinations will be the least of her problems because a far darker threat is looming in the east. Skylar, with her fighting experience, might be the only one who sees it coming. If only her husband trusted her enough to heed her advice. Can she fulfil her role as a graceful and obedient wife at the royal court and convince the noble families to unite against the monsters believed to be merely a legend? (Book One of Till Death Do Us Part series) [[The Wattys 2021 Award winner in the Fantasy category]] [[Word count: 70 000 - 75 000]] Content warning: This story contains violence, bloodshed and occasional crude language.

Emylin is a human. Her best friend, Damien, is not. He's the mysterious, handsome King of the Underworld. A social outcast, shunned by her peers, Emmy never felt like she belonged. She'd lose her mind if it wasn't for Damien. Damien is the ruthless, other-worldly ruler of the Dark Faerie Kingdom. Meeting as children, they have had an unlikely friendship that is kept secret from everyone in both worlds. Fearing an uprising after his father's untimely death, the newly crowned King Damien must find a Queen quickly before the next Blood Moon. He sets his eyes on Leah, Emmy's classmate and bully, as the ideal candidate. Emmy must now play matchmaker for her life-long best friend in order to save a secret, ancient kingdom mankind has never known existed. She also has to juggle Damien's crazy requests (like setting up his dates), Leah in her new life, work, her own college workload and the unraveling of a secret murderous plot that will endanger Damien and Emmy herself. No one ever said being friends with the King of the Underworld was easy. The Underworld Series #1 Fiction Awards 2019 Best Fantasy Winner Watty's 2018 Longlist Second Place @CommunityHub Award 2019- Fantasy Wattpad Featured Story Highest Ranking #3 in Fantasy [4/29/18] #4 in Fantasy [2/17/18] #5 in Fantasy [1/30/18] #11 in Paranormal Edited by: @jgfairytales Cover by: @_luvlee_ If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to Wattpad.

"I taught you that rage is your best weapon." Artemis Avenell has returned to Waehan after six years in exile. But she's not the girl most remember - especially not to a certain tortured prince. Bastien Devereux, crown prince of Waehan, is betrothed to another, resigned to living in his father's shadow. But everything changes when Artemis reappears, unraveling the fragile life he's built in her absence. With her return, dark secrets surface, past emotions ignite, and the delicate balance of the kingdom begins to fracture. As forces beyond their control close in, Artemis and Bastien must decide how far they're willing to go - for their kingdom, for the truth, and for each other. Will they rise above the chaos, or will fate tear them apart once again? "If anything happens to you, I will shatter this world."

She was a queen for a single night... and a captive by dawn. On the eve of her marriage, Selene's world was ablaze with joy, love, and hope for the future. But when a brutal ambush shatters her kingdom, she is torn from her crown and thrown in chains at the feet of her husband's killer. Kalen Arathis-ruthless conqueror, feared by kings, a beast on the battlefield-recognizes her instantly. To him, Selene is more than another prisoner. She is a symbol of his greatest victory. A queen broken, her defiance turned into his triumph. But Selene refuses to bow. Even in captivity, her spirit burns brighter than the torches that consumed her home. Every insult, every punishment only steels her will to survive. In a palace where power is carved from cruelty, a dangerous game begins between conqueror and captive. Will Selene be destroyed by Kalen's darkness-or will her strength kindle something he thought long buried? A tale of love born from ashes, betrayal twisted into desire, and a queen who must decide if survival means surrender... or the courage to fight for her heart.

Trevor Lewis has built his life on control. Numbers obey him. People bendiled into neat columns. Secrets stay buried exactly where he puts them. He is the man powerful people call when they want problems erased-and the man no one ever truly knows. Madeline Voss believes she has found safety in him. A whirlwind engagement. A perfect gentleman. A love story that arrives fast enough to outrun doubt. She steps willingly into his world, unaware that devotion, once claimed, does not loosen its grip. Tess Miller never means to be noticed. Soft-spoken, observant, and achingly young, she has spent her life trying not to take up space. When Trevor enters her orbit, nothing about him feels loud or cruel-only precise, attentive, inevitable. He sees her in ways no one ever has. And once seen, she cannot be unseen. What begins as protection becomes possession. What feels like safety becomes a cage lined in silk. And love-real or imagined-proves to be the most dangerous currency of all. Kept is a dark psychological romance about power disguised as care, devotion mistaken for destiny, and the quiet horror of being chosen by the wrong man. Some people are taken. Some people are saved. And some are simply... kept.