Temo McCarthy works in the call center for Passion Financial. He spends his days "dialing deadbeats", convincing broke, desperate customers to pay their overdue credit card bills. Every year, Passion's CEO gives $100,000 to the top earner in the call center. Temo sees the award as a chance to give his new family the l...
*Watty Winner* & *Featured Story* WITCHES - NECROMANCERS - INAPPROPRIATE TABLE MANNERS. The three-hundred-year-old town of Loon Lake looks calm as a pond, but below the surface, clans of witches and wizards clash like hungry sharks. First-year student Tonya isn't privy to her family's darkest secrets, but when campus...
Winner of a Watty Award, 2015! In Serrador, your name is your greatest vulnerability. Those with one suffer under a regime of magic and absolute control, while those without are forced to live on the fringes of society. When four unlikely rebels manage to sneak into the Citadel and assassinate the King, his tyrannical...
Going down ... way down. Trying to have a transcendental experience, sixteen-year-old Ann is shocked at the sudden appearance of a dirty moleman from the underworld. Through a stirring object lesson involving a half-eaten Ho Ho (and a bit of trickery), the moleman persuades Ann to follow him to an underground fantasy...
[EXCERPT - FIRST 5 CHAPTERS] THE FULL BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN STORES AND ONLINE! Never trust a guy in spandex. In Abby Hamilton's world, superheroes do more than just stop crime and save cats stuck in trees - they also drink milk straight from the carton and hog the television remote. Abby's older brother mo...
*2014 WATTY AWARD WINNER* In order to solve the mystery surrounding her father's death, eighteen-year-old Naomi Noble is forced to move back to her hometown of Harbor Village. But her arrival creates more questions than answers, not to mention more problems. Encouraged by her deceptively charming grandfather, Naomi is...
'I know enough of the world, enough of men, To know that what’s beyond’s beyond our ken.' - Faust Goethe. Gee is a short story that I sincerely hope you enjoy. Highly appreciate feedback! :)
Mother's Day At The Orphanage is collection of semi-autobiographical short stories about odd jobs, fake businesses, mistaken identities, close shaves, and near misses, written by David Leigh Abts and Michael Shattuck, edited by Leslie Blodgett, and with the Foreword by Courtney Taylor-Taylor (Frontman of The Dandy War...
POST REICHENBACH/JOHNLOCK AU. Two years after watching the love of his life commit suicide, John Watson has faded out. Balancing between sleepless nights or facing the nightmares to see Sherlock’s face again; he knows the game is over. But he never had closure. And so, on a bleak Christmas Eve, he visits Sherlock’s...
The rumored curse of the 6th section is real, and the students of St. Venille High's current senior batch are paying for their ignorance with their lives. Can anyone find a way to break the curse before it's too late--or will history repeat itself once more? *** When St. Venille High's principal decidedly reopens the...
My heart pulsated through my chest and I didn't think I could hold on for much longer. The frightening, terrorising feeling of his fingers slipping through mine was causing the arm that was gripping to the edge of the cliff to shake. "Hold on, Harry! I've got you, I swear! Please, just hold on!" my voice held a shrill...
When life gives you lemons, wait....what's next? Oh well, moving on. My name is Sarah and I have ADHD. I forget things. This is a look into my crazy, hectic, and very forgetful life.
I finished this story in nanowrimo, 2015, and I haven't looked back since. Sorry to the one person (maybe?) who may have been holding up hope for a sequel or an edit No, you aren't getting one. ----- "Of course I don't. I'm just stating the obvious." He stood up from the stool and flicked his eyes over his sho...
Shiloh Quinn and her sisters loose their only guardian, forcing them to move across country into a strangers home. Their world is quickly changing, and not everyone sees eye to eye. Will Shiloh be able to find her footing, or will Benjamin Miller become the bane of her existence? "Sometimes your heart is looking for...
"Go ahead," I said, backing up against the pink wall of the shop. "Do something other than glare at me." I waited. One, two, three seconds... and nothing. I raised my chin at him. "You're boring me, mute boy." He stepped closer. Leaned toward me as his gaze burned into mine. Then... ❀ ❀ ❀ After three months in juve...
Sixteen year old witch Chloe Brooks has been living with her best friend Shelby Rachel for the past three years after a mysterious new leader Balhim of the supernatural realm took over. Chloe and Shelby were sent to be the guardians of the gates to Aaru and had a sworn duty to keep the peace between worlds. That all...
A bitter-sweet tragi-comedy recalling the first year of a gay couple in a Muslim land. Polari First Book Prize 2011: Top Ten Perking the Pansies, Jack Scott's award winning, best-selling debut book is available in paperback and as an ebook from all usual retailers. Signed copies are available direct from the author. S...
Cherry blossom lipstick: check Smokey eyes: check Skinny jeans: check Dead kid in the mirror: check For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she ca...
What if Matt and Mello didn't start off as friends? Perhaps it was Near and Matt who were friends, leaving Mello alone. Maybe a chance encounter in the computer room could change things...
When Cassandra William's boyfriend of 6 months ditches her, she is set up on blind date after blind date after blind date. What happens when one mystery man leaves her banging her head against the wall? What happens when they meet again? Join Cass on her journey of awkward dates, parties and late night cuddling. Th...
"TO BE A MURDERER CAN BE QUITE SIMPLE WHEN NO ONE SUSPECTS THE PERSON THAT HAS AMNESIA." mystery/thriller | horror | twisted romance description inside... *Current cover by @aciddaisies_
Definition: Girls Only - noun. Girls only means.. Girls only. It also means NO BOYS ALLOWED. 13+ please :) twitter: catietempleman instagram: catetempleman
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
"It's one night where people become their demons and the gateway to hell is thrust open." ---- The Purge is a known American Tradition where crime, even murder, is annually legalised for twelve hours. "Some people do it for revenge. Others do it for fun. Which one are you?" ---- NEED AN EDITOR ! [Contains explicit...
Humanity’s desire to be immortal is finally fulfilled when Stuart and Nick, two mischievous yet brilliant young men, figure out a way to reverse age. Over the next few years, they sell life to the aging population and build Phoenix Corporation: one of the biggest companies in the world. With Life Centers across the gl...
Meghan has been having strange visions. Visions of dead people, visions of killing the people she cares most about, visions of herself laughing down at her mother's corpse...They're not really something she wants to share with anyone either. They'd lock her up in a crazy house she's certain she doesn't belong in... Bu...
A BOY. A CAT. A NIGHTMARE IN TWO WORLDS! (A Wattpad FEATURED Story) * *Voted 'TOP 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime' by GOODREADS.COM users!** ***Raves from The Guardian (UK), KIRKUS, Midwest Book Reviews, AMAZON, and more!!!*** In the sleepy town of Appleton, a young loner follows a stray cat onto the road...
Serenity Falls is one of the best, most exclusive and most expensive schools in the entire country - and Olivia Webb has just been offered a scholarship. On the outside, the school is perfect. Brand new, perfect students, perfect results. But on the inside, much more drama goes down than anyone could ever imagine...
