Wattys 2019 Winner! "So when is it a problem? Oh, when you're in love." ----- Simon St. John is a liar, a cheater, a fraud -- but only because he has to be. Born with the ability to shape shift, his childhood was mostly spent learning to control his many faces in a world where most people only wear one. In fact, it w...
Three months after the death of her childhood friend and first love, Lea Martinez moves to New York to live with her older brother. Desperate to escape the trauma of 'that night' and fight her lingering insomnia, she drowns herself in the impending changes of a fresh start. Living in a new state, going to a new school...
Rabid is what they are. The Scott family are as powerful as they are rich. They have more money than most could count too, and enough fame to place their names in the history books. In an unfortunate circumstance, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, gave birth to a son; Ezra Scott. He's the definition of spoiled. With life's luxuries...
Inanis Messor is The Bone Cutter. He's America's most fierce and cursed celebrity. He's America's modern prophet. He's America's very own murderous darling. Inanis's job is to broadcast a live death on public television once a month, as a sacrifice to the public. Every month on the 15th, Inanis steps on a large, vibr...
On January ninth, 1996, a boy with an odd skeleton was unfortunately born into existence. With his homeless mother in need of cash, and too terrified to look at the child she gave birth too, she sold him to 'Mr. Father's Family of Freaks'; a popular circus show that obsesses over real-born monsters. This boy, born wit...
What if Cinderella had a stepbrother instead of stepsisters? What difference would it make? Well, try not to imagine. That's how Orchidella's story was told. Orchidella once thought she had a perfect family. Her mother, her father and her twin, Calla Lily were her happiness and joy and she wouldn't wish for more. Howe...
Nevaeh Grammar was as feisty, bold, and head strong as they come. Finally getting to work at her dream job at St. Andrews hospital her first day is nothing she imagined. Noah Ambrose was a notorious player heir to the Ambrose fortune. Groomed for perfection at the age of five and never hearing the word no. He knew th...
"He was the type of person people would write sad poems about." HIGHEST RANKING #1 in Depression-awareness HIGHEST RANKING #1 in sadstuck HIGHEST RANKING #1 in creative writing
Death was a cocoon. Inside it, he became something else. It was a shield that enveloped him, blotting out the pain and the fear. Then they brought him back, and the cocoon dissipated. Gone. Evaporated, like a drop of water on the scalding metal slats of the heating vent in his cell. But dying was always easy. Comi...