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Swaying By The Odds by rubamaheen1
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❝In which an event planner's endurance and forbearance capacities are put to trial when she is forced to plan a caliginous client's wedding, who threatens to topple her life upside down if she doesn't act per his illogical behests.❞
Winter Love ✔ by rubaiakhatun
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#Started: 26th January. #Completed: 2nd April. [7/04/2019] Suspense Fiction: 2 We all have at least one past which we want to forget, anyhow. But can we really run away from its shadow? Iris Black is living the most happiest times of her life with her loving husband, Elroy Black; an adorable but at the same time a mature adoptive daughter, Ciana Black and Iris herself is 8 months pregnant. Such a sweet and perfect family, right? But a storm hit the most when everything is calm. She doesn't know, that the past which she has forgotten long back, will haunt her again. So, this winter, the lurking shadows of the past will crawl onto the surface and embrace not only her but also her family. What will she do now? How will she protect her family? Will she be able to? Time is running... Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
The Dark Heir (SHORTLIST - Open Novella Contest 2019) by HM_Braverman
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**Featured on DARK FANTASY and ADULT FICTION reading lists** WARNING: EATING OR DRINKING WHILE READING THIS STORY IS HIGHLY INADVISABLE. Once Upon A Time, Good Omens, Monty Python, and Arrested Development had a back-alley three-way and birthed a fairytale. Gerald wasn't supposed to be stuck living seven centuries in the future. He definitely wasn't supposed to be "mentoring" The Dark Lord's progeny in the hopes that she would decide to save the world rather than destroy it. In fact, he wasn't even supposed to be named Gerald (the name of every other male in his family for three hundred years), because everyone assumed a weak-chinned, balding, forgettable man, who was just a magician, could never be who Geraldo The Foreshadower prophesied. But that's what assuming gets you, and here he was saddled with a fate he never asked for, in a time he didn't know, surrounded by people he didn't want to like, and he was out of Firewine AGAIN! The Dark Heir is a darkly satirical tale of assumptions, anti-heroes, and apocalypses, where the road to hell is actually a themed water-park slide covered in slightly less urine than a real one. It drops literary and film references faster than an NYC socialite drops names, and promises endless laughs - including, but not limited to, sad chuckles, guffaws, uncontrollable giggles at inappropriate moments, brays, barks, cackles, snorts, cachinnations, and the occasional howl (though that may be the Welsh Werewolves showing up unannounced). Consider yourself warned... Reviews: "Completely and adorably bonkers," says @floranocturna "Hilarious in every way. Even when I cringed, I laughed," says @LadySapphire2018 Winner of The Trident Awards
Red Shoes {DISCONTINUED} by sslushie_stars
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Raven has woken up from a two-year coma. Upon waking up, she remembered very little of her past; she couldn't even remember the faces of her family members. Five months pass and Raven starts to get up to speed with her past life. She goes back to the daily grind: school work, cleaning the house, talking to friends, and most important...taking care of her younger sister. Though Raven didn't remember her family, they treated her with kindness. Raven grew close with her sister, the two of them became inseparable. That is, until one day, her sister goes missing. Due to the coma, Raven forgot her memories, but there was a certain vision she couldn't get rid of. First, the vision shows a little girl standing in front of a tree. However, the vision changes when a woman appears, back facing Raven just as the little girl did. They shared similar appearances. Will the vision help Raven locate her missing sister? The problem is Raven doesn't know who has taken her. {Cover made with canva.com} -Best Ranks- #9 in Shoes #332 in Suspense #170 in OpenNovellaContest2019 #2 in FunToWrite #130 in Petals #802 in Roses
The 17 Cards [COMPLETE] by alien9998
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[MADE IT TO ROUND 3] Every year in his birthday, Theodore Roosvelt has been getting a present from an anonymous and it all came with a card alonged with it. The strange thing, non of the cards say anything and that really made him wonder for years about who this mysterious sender might be. Until he turned 17 and what seemed like the last present had arrived. This time, it had a letter. What might be in that letter? Will he finally know who has been sending him these presents or will this letter have not much to say like all the other letters he received? "'It's unlocked.' The stranger said, and Theodore hopped in. 'I'm breaking a rule here.' The stranger got in and turned the engine on. 'Yeah? Which one?' 'The one that says not to ride with strangers.' " I usually update on Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday #13th hottest at the #opennovellacontest2019