What would you give up to dive into your favourite story? Romantic, sharp-tongued, with a tendency to fall in love with tall, dark-haired, brooding men--Leah is the archetype of the "Pride and Prejudice" fan. TV series, movies, comics, musicals: she has seen and read them all. For her birthday, Leah's friends and family pool together to get her the ultimate Janeite gift: the Bridge, a virtual-reality gaming device. By granting access to her five senses, she can live her favourite novel as the iconic Elizabeth Bennet! As she explores Regency England and quarrels with the infamous Darcy, Leah cannot help but digress from the original plot to suit her modern-woman convictions. The longer she plays, the weirder her beloved characters act, until the lines between fiction and reality blur. ⚠️ Content and/or trigger warning ⚠️ This story contains one scene of (unsuccessful) sexual coercion, and mentions domestic violence and death by domestic violence, which may be triggering for some readers. 📖 Featured 19 times! Seen on: 📖 @beauty @SpeculativeFiction @Humor @ContemporaryLit @retold @WattRevenge @ScienceFiction @mystery @StoriesUndiscovered @WattpadGaming @ChickLit @Fanfic @NA @generalfiction @classicauthors @WattpadHistoricalRomance @HistoricalFiction

[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 delicious pomegranates. ---------- Contemporary Romance inspired by the myth of Hades & Persephone. ******** THIS IS ONLY A SAMPLE - READ THE FULL STORY ON GALATEA

It's 1980 in a small town named Ostton. Only the millionaires can afford one of the big mansions that form the town, so young people leave to come back years later when they have already made a fortune. It was clear from a start that the town wasn't normal. People who don't know their neighbors, cover their windows and isolate in their own gigantic houses. Almost empty streets, only an ocasional butler going out to buy some food at the almost abandoned grocery store. Grace Dawson has decided to change that. A normal work most teenagers had at the time. Babysitting. She started by watching her little brother when her parents were too busy, and it all went great. But now, it's her first day babysitting for another family. What could go wrong? --------- Prompt #48

Denise Webster thought her life was perfect. Until the man she was supposed to marry fails to show up for their wedding. Broke, distraught and heartbroken, Denise has no choice but to move back to her childhood home with her eccentric mother and stepfather to lick her wounds. Hell-bent on avoiding as much human contact as possible, the only person who seems to see past the nonchalant veneer behind which she hides her pain is her childhood best friend, Mateo Ramiro. But with a history of self-destructive behavior and a knack for making the wrong choice, will she ever let him in? FIVE FEET APART meets 13 GOING ON 30 in this lighthearted chick-lit about heartbreak, discovering oneself and the thin line between friendship and love. * * * Written for the Open Novella Contest 2020. Highest Rankings: #2 in saveblackcharacters out of 516 books on 24/02/2022 #26 in realistic fiction out of 6.75K books on 24/02/2022 | Featured in Wattpad's FreshReads Spotlight on Black Writers! |

Six young adults with severe sleeping disorders go to a holistic sleep camp called Camp Hypnos. The bond developing between these ordinary heroes will be the start of a memorable summer in 1996, one that will put them at odds with an extraordinary killer. Prompts: #15, #56, #60, #40, #26 #4 #41 #43 #9 #63-ONC Entry 2020 Cover by @Amaboo *2nd Place in Short Story in The Hypergraphia Awards 2020 *1st Place in Paranormal in the Sassy Awards 2020 *1st Place Winner in Horror/Paranormal in The Mind-Blowing Awards 2020

Two people. One minute. One unforgettable kiss. These were the only things present in Avery Grace Hernandez's life at that time when she accidentally kissed her long time crush, Clyde Harrison, the hottest jock in her school, on New Year's Eve. Although she's never made a move on him and doesn't plan to be his girlfriend anytime soon, she yearns to have another kiss like that again. ~This story is now no longer an entry for the ONC 2020.~ #OpenNovellaContest2020 #7 in #newyearseve [27/02/20] #113 in opennovellacontest2020 [15/02/20]

She hadn't meant for it to happen. One moment Harper Holloway was out In the beer garden to get some fresh air and the next moment she was in James Wittig's body embrace, his mouth against hers in reality rather than just the fantasy she'd been living in for the last ten plus years. James is more than off limits. Not only is he her older brother's best friend and had been since kindergarten, but he's also her older sister's ex-fiancée, who has been trying desperately to win back his heart after breaking it last year. When the clock strikes midnight, all bets are off, but when daylight approaches Harper knows her horses must turn back to mice, her carriage must turn back into a pumpkin and she must turn back into the baby sister in the background. Because if that other glass slipper drops, everything in their lives will shatter.

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity - Henry David Thoreau When six likely teenagers take a camping trip just outside of their small town Northcliffe, Western Australia, in the 1960s, everything seems to be normal. That is, until they wake up the next day in a completely different timezone, 50 years in the future. The hunt is on. Can they get back to their old life and loved ones? Or will time catch up with them? Meanwhile, their family and friends are searching for them as well. But with the challenges the new century faces, will they ever find their way home alive? "A story based on love, loss and finding your way in a World that changes, for one way or another, we all become lost in life." This story is created for the Open Novella Contest 2020. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Darkling Academy only has two rules. Number one; don't die on the first day. Number two; try not to die over the next three hundred and sixty five days. Hayden Mikkelsen, a seventeen year old, already had enough to deal with as a teenager with a supernatural gift that she knows nothing about, but after she finds a mysterious app on her phone, her world is thrown into chaos as she stumbles across a hidden academy full of elves, witches and vampires. You know, just all the things that could kill you without even trying. And to top it all off, people from her home town, including her one of her best friends, have gone missing without any trace of where they could be. Will Hayden be able to find them, whilst also trying to survive at her new school? ------------ ~ My entry for The Open Novella Contest 2020 ~ ~ Prompt used is number 55 ~ WARNING - This contains mild mature themes related to violence and gore