THE SHORTYS

Welcome to The Shortys, a bite-sized writing challenge for poets and short story writers, brought to you by the ShortStory and Poetry profiles!

Mad Dogs and English Women

After nineteen-year-old Jilly Peterson meets dashing Italian, Jack Firenze, life throws everything it's got her way. She swaps Manchester for beautiful Bergamo Alta in Italy. However, her new situation may not be as 'idyllic' as the setting. A family drama running from 2004 to 2020. Trigger/content warning: This stor...

𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚖

Beneath the brooding walls of Phillips Exeter Academy, a man draped in sinister intent dons the guise of a librarian. His true motives lurk unseen behind a facade of mystery. Driven by a twisted vendetta, he dabbles in forbidden rituals, plotting to unleash an apocalyptic force upon the unsuspecting city of Exeter. Hi...

Read these Gems - Book Promotions

A book of story recommendations by the FBE community.

Wabi-Sabi: Poems of Imperfection and Transience

In this collection of evocative verses, the timeless beauty of wabi-sabi comes to life. Through the delicate interplay of words, the poems explore the profound wisdom found in imperfection, the fleeting nature of existence, and the elegance of simplicity. Each poem invites you to embrace the imperfect, to find solace...

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Of Blood and Roses

The Queen of Hearts meets the gilded world of Marie Antoinette. A princess with a holy Gift. A kingdom hiding a dangerous secret. And a marriage meant to bring peace to a land with a violent history of war. Eighteen-year-old Ophelia Rosiers is a princess of Rosailles, and also the heir to a holy Gift that determined t...

The Spirit Walker (BOOK ONE): The Ripple

After Rae Campbell is murdered by her abductor, she wakes in a world that exists parallel to ours- one which diverged in 1761, when a band of Scottish Highlanders joined with the Skin-Walking Kituwah tribe to oust the British from Appalachia. Rae becomes a Spirit-Walker; she walks in the skin of the leader's mate, Ce...

The Bone-Setter's Daughter

Blood-magic was once as much a part of Egypt as the sands or the Nile, but no longer. Magic is weak, now, an echo of what it once was. The pharaohs have married brother to sister to preserve their abilities, but all it has done is corrupted them, and made them even weaker. Mayet is the daughter of a physician, whose...

🌸The 2023 Flower Awards!🌸 [CLOSED]

[CLOSED] 🌸Founded on Feb. 22, 2023 - Hosted by, ME! Want your book added to reading lists? Want more publicity on your work? Submit your book to the Flower Awards! SPECIAL COVERS MADE BY ME! More information inside! READ DIRECTIONS VERY CAREFULLY Guys I honestly have no idea what is taking so long for Bhanusangini (@...

At the Twilight of Mankind

In the near future, the world and planet Earth have changed a lot, but not quite as we imagined. Professor Tempéra Akheeli is an artificial birth and genetic engineering specialist but, his passion for his research takes him beyond everything he never believed in as a learned man of his time in the early 2080's. "At...

And you ask why.

Tie a ribbon between the index finger of your right hand, slot it around the wrist of your left. Take a breath. "Why are you so dramatic?" The smash of the glass interrupts the pockets of laughter. Huh. And you ask why. A collection of stories from my experiences. If you're going through a hard time, don't worry, it'...

Headspace (Book 1) ✓

6x featured | When his crush kills herself in front of him, Diego ends up back in time in order to confess his love for her. A second chance, a possibility to start their love story all over again. But will he be able to save her from the clutches of death this time? --- They were always meant to be like the X and...

Under the Stars

Highest Rankings! #1 cosmopolitan #3 european #3 demise #5 sinful #6 eerie #13 immigrant #25 german #25 liars #28 bloodlines #28 intimate #42 asylum #72 elite #77 wealth #112 smalltowns ༺༻༺༻༺༻ 🥇 Gloria Regali A...

The Mysterious Disappearance of Devi Dhungel

WATTYS2024 SHORTLIST | 6 x FEATURED When a brash, rich woman, washes ashore, in a quiet country town, with a knife sticking out of her back, she promises something. A darn good story, and a chance to get out of dodge for the young inspector. But will he solve his first crime, or will he mix business with pleasure and...

Bedtime Scenarios

Out of bedtime scenarios? Well, you've stumbled on the right side of Wattpad. This, here is a collection of short stories 'scenarios' to help you on your way to dreamland. They are formatted in the first person and as a short story. Each night, you'll read about a different character in a different world with a compl...

Magic

Little short stories, full of emotions, and the things that are still not solved today. Every chapter is a new story. There might be a story of a mouse and a horse. An article about freedom. A love story in between. Read to find out, what stories come out. ________________ Cover made by me _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...

Flytrap | WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST

When men vanish around the city, a young, paraplegic detective takes it upon herself to uncover the truth and soon realizes the culprit might be a lot closer to home than she imagined. **** Barbara Gordon thought her career as a promising young detective ended after she was left crippled in a tragic accident. But whe...

Coffee Shop [WILL BE TAKEN DOWN 2/15]

When Kay leaves home to discover herself and meets Brian, the handsome scarred owner of a coffee shop that shares her name, she must decide if she has enough heart for more than just herself. *** Kay Ruiz leaves home to prove that she can live on her own, that she's an...

Angel Mythology (Angelology)

Angels and Archangels and other creatures of the heavenly hierarchy. 2022

Carnival Souls

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place...

The Trouble with Women

A woman suspects that her government-imposed birth control implant is controlling her. As reports of uncharacteristically violent female behaviour begin to surge, it becomes evident that the mandatory implant is wreaking havoc on women's impulse control. Is the rage she feels bubbling within a natural reaction to an u...

Lustral || Complete

Two aliens on the run, manage to bump into each other on a distant planet at just the right time. ✨~✨~✨ Liri Delaney, the only child of Dubrovn planetary moguls, is accused of murder. Scouring several solar systems to find the true murderer, she runs into trouble in New Seattle. Ardon Rowe, a sweet-talking High-Dracon...

Deep in the Forest (Wattpad Editor's Pick, June '22)

Ste ye hah mah, "Spirits hidden by woods." ~ Yakama Native American. ~*~*~*~ Future Entomologist, Zoe Thornton, loves horseback riding through Rimrock Forest. It gives her peace of mind and lots of insects to study. When she and her best friend, Takota Sohappy, come across a strange-looking hemlock, something ancien...

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Sub Terra: Metae

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN THE SUB TERRA TRILOGY Daniel Sterling has gone through a lot. Just as one challenge ends, another appears. But the greatest has made itself known to him, a being thousands of years old that just so happens to be deeply connected to him. If Daniel wants to save his remaining loved ones, he must...

Untie the Knot

[WATTYS SHORTLIST - 2021] Penny Lane, a young florist with a dislike of weddings and a dream of opening her own flower shop, has to overcome her insecurities to find love with Haze Delacroix, the charismatic owner of Underworld Delicacies, who charms his way into her heart by means of culinary delights, namely delicio...

Dates, Duds & Mistletoe

With the holidays fast approaching and her love life severely lacking, Hailey Miller decides to take the latest dating app, Mixr, up on their invitation to attend their monthly Manhattan get together. There she meets Elliott, who she wasn't matched with, but soon realizes is someone she has more chemistry with than an...

Creative Ramblings

A collection of short stories, poems, and other bits and pieces I've written for my creative writing classes or just for fun.

Sunflower Book Club

In the Sunflower Book Club, members and their books are randomly assigned weekly pairings to read two chapters a week. New assignments are posted Sundays EST. All books and people are welcome, apply inside!