"People die every day. Yet the folk only seem to care when people die at the hands of a villain or of a superior and darker power." ~ ~ ~ Heather Hawthorne enjoys her peaceful life as a medical herbalist in the city of Sedmion - Until one of her patient dies under inexplicable circumstances. Crops slowly begin to wilt, people grow ill and some descend into madness. Curious - and maybe a little reckless - Heather sneaks away to investigate the scene of the death, letting her indiscreet curiosity get the best of her. There, she crosses paths with Cassius Servodax, the second Prince of Delaryr, who's investigating the same case. Unfortunately for her, he's cold, arrogant and determined to make her life miserable. A sliver of Fate - and a series of poor decisions - land her with the Black Crest Company, a team tasked with finding the link between the illness and The Hollows - an ancient legend buried deep out of fear. However, always keep an eye on your surroundings. You never know what lurks within the shadows. ~ ~ ~ Total Scrivener Wordcount: 74,631 ~ ~ ~ Wonderful book cover by @-DeeIsDead- !! Please check them out, they're amazing! ~ ~ ~ 2ND place in BEST BLURBS - Bewitching Awards by @NerdyPhoenix07

In 2012, when Dora finds a gorgeous desk in her best friend David's antique store, she decides she has to have it, until someone else buys it from under her nose. After finding the desk, strange things begin to happen to her. Dreams? Visions? Are they real? Dora doesn't know. But when she has a chance to get alone with the desk at a party, that unrest bubbling up inside her disappears when she finds something hidden in a secret compartment. A beautiful, but sad love letter from 1912 -- along with a mysterious VHS tape that proves all the strange visions she's been experiencing are real. And the strangest thing of all? The heartbreaking letter is addressed to her.

The Lilah Bloom Tapes Some disappearances are accidents. Others are invitations. Lilah Bloom wasn't supposed to vanish-at least, not like this. One moment, she was drifting through an ordinary life. The next, she wakes in a seaside town that doesn't exist on any map. The people seem distant. The clocks don't tick. And something about the way the ocean moves feels... wrong. The town is called Celestia Bay. It's beautiful. Isolated. Timeless. And it's hiding something. As Lilah searches for answers, she begins to uncover pieces of another story-one that feels strangely like her own. There are memories that don't belong to her. Faces she almost recognizes. A name no one's called her in years. The deeper she goes, the more the lines blur: between past and present, memory and reality, Lilah and the girl she used to be. Someone left the Bay behind. Someone never made it out. And someone is trying to be remembered. Approx. 18.4k words

Matilda thinks too much. Eve worries too quietly. Adam speaks just loud enough to ruin the group project. When three irregular college students end up entangled in a class report about mental health, the last thing they expect is to unpack their own. Group tensions, unsent messages, unfair praise, invisible labor, and an apple-related incident they can't stop mentioning. It's a story about academic burnout, social friction, and the quiet chaos of friendship-told with a sharp tongue and soft insides. The apple isn't just a fruit. Chew safely. All rights in this work are reserved for purposes of laws in all jurisdictions pertaining to AI training or data mining. This work will not, and never will be, used to train AI.

CRIMSON DIVIDE has made it to round 3 of the 2025 Amby's! "𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ." The year is 398 of the Ninth Era (or more accurately, 7700 AD). The Twenty Years War has ended, giving rise to a new age of mass surveillance, paranoia, and doubt. Angela, a Frame pilot fighting her way through her trauma, slowly becomes disillusioned with the authoritarian system in which she exists. The Knife, a mob fixer with the ability to bend states of matter, tries to crawl out from under what she's done only to get sucked right back in. Grey, a goofy and loyal friend with modest ambitions, is driven to act and save Angela, only to find himself embroiled in a deadly conflict he doesn't understand. And finally, Davis, an esteemed investigator, learns that the ideals he fought for were never real in the first place. As shadowy players make their move, these four lives collide violently. Frames drop, guns are drawn - and there won't be a winner, only more devastation. At the center of it all lies the Vessel, a reality-warping implant with unimaginable destructive capability. The Federation will kill without hesitation to get it back - and Angela just merged with it.