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Scaling Moss and Stone ✔️ || #ONC2022 by AriaOfStorms
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Sealed within Kealie Gothalis are the secrets of a magic destined to flood her kingdom. Trading her Mortality to disguise the heritage her mother fears most, Kealie is gifted with a blessing. She need only do one thing; keep her kingdom in the dark until the dusk of her twentieth birthday. But her control over the ancient magic is slipping... ...Along with her Willpower. || Open Novella Contest 2022 || || Complete 4/30/22 ||
Surviving planet Earth by macineskar
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Life's a beach. And just like a beach, we occasionally get stuck in the sand. When that time comes you may want to refer to this book. Alternatively, please feel free to use it as a shovel.
Only my drawings, No stories by TRWright1
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These are just a collection of drawings I've done, many inspired by the Tundra Wolf stories I've written. I hope you like looking at them as much as I liked making them, enjoy!
Inyanga's Star and Other Constellations by EscritoraMia
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EDITORS PICK 2020. A new student doesn't think her mother understands how magic works. Inyanga Numbia will be the first in her family to go to Magicians' College, and she's going to find out. "Why doesn't Magicians' College just let anyone in?" "Won't they make more money if they accept everyone?" "If magicians get better jobs, why not send everyone?" These are the kinds of questions one would expect a bright young applicant to ask - but maybe not the second after receiving her acceptance letter. The Constellations stories are infinite, with infinite possibilities: Immortal girls at Magicians' College learn the laws of magic are built on a lie. The inventor of time travel wanted more hours in a day in which to read books. A mother chooses to bring a baby into the world, even though it will drain her immortality. Magician scientists discover the secrets of the universe to make the future brighter. Apartment hunting to get out of the Shade, Cielo and her esposa find the dream flat, but when they turn up to move in, the unit they signed has vanished. When transitioning spells become free, Chiara transitions to female and watches all of Soliara try out the gender with her. A server at a cafe rebels when the boss magician always fails to pay back pay. Bay steals from the till to save up for magic school, but she's addicted to Story, an immersive experience drug, and she'll spend all her solidae to get it. And more. Cover by @blackhazex Highest Rankings: #2 in Contemporary Fantasy 03/19/2020 #2 in YA Fantasy 09/16/2020 #15 in Magicians 09/03/2020 #41 in science-fantasy 09/29/2020 #80 in Urban Fantasy 09/29/2020 #459 in Paranormal 09/16/2020 Fantasy - somewhere over the rainbow. If you love this story, help me rank in the Fantasy category by givin' me a star at each chapter's end!
Integers, Parabolas, and Jivika by gideoneaston
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A girl in Delhi has a brilliant mind and secrets darker than the nights that won't let her eyes close. She lives in the Labyrinth, a place that always seems dim, even in the middle of the day. There, customers flock in their dozens, and there, the girl is exploited for profit in unthinkable, irreversible ways. Her traffickers change her name regularly to throw off authorities, and survival seems only a flicker in the pool of murky water she must bathe in each morning. Though she has known little more than this life of poverty and forced prostitution, when she meets an elderly woman named Ucchal, everything could change. Ucchal works for an anti-trafficking unit, and her questions lead the girl to question herself and her surroundings. If there is a path to freedom, how dangerous is that path, and what hopeful or harrowing discoveries wait at the end?