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

[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

Eshe has always been able to read the ground. Skeletons, buried ruins, precious metals and gems. Everything was laid bare to her mind. The problem is, it's impossible to unsee something, and dangerous when someone would kill for what you know, but devastatingly lethal when that person is someone you thought you could trust. Cover by @Ellen_Reese Passed Round 1 in the 2020 Open Novella Contest: Prompt 54

500 passengers. Only 1 can survive. 7 years ago, Cora's mother died and her cowardly father disowned her to a ship for abandoned children, Station 457, to float through the stars forever. The disintegration of her relationship with her boyfriend, Evan was the last straw. She wants off, but she has no money and no means. Her only option is to stow away onto a prison ship heading for Ameatos. The Captain, who most unsettlingly has a strange fascination with her, announces a game for 1 million effos. She might've been tempted to ride it out, except Evan - who always manages to find his way back into her heart - is on board, and she may be the only one in any position to stop the slaughter before everyone on board dies. With her past still haunting her, it's not as simple as pulling the trigger. The one thing she can't do is admit her father was right.

𝕊𝕐ℕ𝕆ℙ𝕊𝕀𝕊 All A+s in classes? Check. Top student? Check. Aces training at Study Camp? Triple Check. After years of hard work, Michiko Watanabe finally got what she had long for: being a part of the coveted American Chemistry Olympiad Team that will be competing in Monaco that year. For now, Michiko is setting her eyes right on the very best, and everything else, like boys and romance, is just a distraction to her. But how would she react when a boy her age suddenly got added into her life's formula? 𝔹𝔸𝕊𝔼𝔻 𝕆ℕ ℙℝ𝕆𝕄ℙ𝕋 𝕏𝕀 "We woke up and had breakfast out on the deck; like we did every morning. And long story short, we are no longer welcome in Monaco." 𝔸ℂℍ𝕀𝔼𝕍𝔼𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕋𝕊 Chemistry: #34 [05.02.20] Comedy-Romance: #100 [05.02.20] Competition: #144 [15.02.20] Japanese: #77 [15.02.20] Korean: #468 [15.02.20] OpenNovellaContest2020: #4 [06.02.20] ONC2020: #18 [15.02.20] Monaco: #11 [15.02.20] Science: #268 [05.02.20] YoungAdult: #823 [05.02.20] (TBA) ℂ𝕆ℙ𝕐ℝ𝕀𝔾ℍ𝕋 | 𝕃𝔼𝔸 𝕂𝔸𝕃𝔼𝕊

Find the new version on my profile, titled Seacliff! :) In 2019, Aidan is a kilt-wearing tour guide on the cobblestone streets of Edinburgh. In 1919, Saoirse is a Great War nurse who's got nothing left to live for - until the sea brings a naked, unconscious man to her feet. Not one easily shocked after caring for the most broken of men in France, Saoirse takes the stranger in and tends to his wounds. Except the man is all kinds of unusual and she begins to question whether he even is a man at all. Is the grief driving her mad or is there more to the world than she ever thought possible? Saoirse hopes to find answers in her Aunt Aoife's diaries, since the gentle giant she rescued from the sea has no recollection of how he ended up there in the first place. * Editors' Choice, December 2020 * an open novella contest entry which grew into a ~75k-word novel completed * prompt: "When something tragic happens, it's often said we lose a piece of ourselves. How far would you go to find these lost parts of yourself in order to be whole again?" * featured on: @WattpadHistoricalRomance - 'Traveling Through Time' @talesofthedeep - 'Fintastic Reads - Sea Creatures'

Harold is a professional and talented fifteen-year-old dancer who disappeared from the dancing world after 2nd October 2010, causing his name to be left forgotten and his father's beloved dance academy to fall under the hands of their opponent. His father's passing made him succumb to a mundane life of computers and paper works that were slowly eating him up alive. Since then, he locked himself away from the world of music and dance that once had been his way to relax and escape from his problems. With each passing day, he loses himself in between his sanctuary, his fallen dreams, and an aunt and two cousins who keep mocking his career choices. After ten long years of living a boring life, Tiberius, Harold's best friend, and dance competitor decides to drag Harold back into the dancing game. Harold finds it infuriating because it sparks old, unwanted memories, but upon knowing whom his mother had sold his father's dance academy to and the encouragement he had gotten from her and Tiberius, Harold decides to step up. Even with a scar on his cheeks that live and breathe with him, he determines to claw his ways back to his dreams. They often fade in and out of his mind, sometimes the cause of disappointment, but he fights with every breathe he has to obtain the pieces of himself that he lost a decade ago. 💎Featured on the Wattpad ESL: Thrilling and Risky Venture | Action & Adventure & Mystery (5 November 2021) 💎Featured on the General Fiction Reading List: Live Life While You Can | Action/Adventure (20 August 2020) 💎2nd place in The Millennial Awards | Action/Adventure Category (12 September 2020) 💎3rd place in The Halcyon Awards 2020 | Action Category (16 November 2020) [[Open Novella Contest 2020]]

While visiting a local charity shop, Dominic Ashworth is taken by surprise when his friend, Miguel Guerrero comes across a book with an interesting title: Confessions of Serial Killer by Dominic Ashworth. Finding this book starts a chain of events filled with murder, suspicion and blackmail.

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-Draconian hybrid, sees her plight and offers his unconventional services. The two find more trouble than they ever bargained for with wrongfully imprisoned Shape Shifters, military battleship chases, and needy lovers. Lustral: rite of purification. ✨ ONC 2020 Shortlister! ✨ ✨ Featured on: ✨ @ScienceFiction ~ Intergalactic Reads (Space Opera). @YAMystery ~ Can Somebody Get This Walking Carpet Out of My Way. @SpeculativeFiction ~ Breaking the Space Time Continuum. @BeyondSol ~ Andromeda Action/adventure @Readers Choice Awards 2020 winner. @Winter Rose awards 2nd place winner. @PrettyInPunkBC 2022 third place winner. @TheAmbys ~ Space Opera winner '22. 👽 Lustral is the type of SciFi I adore. Strong characters, creative worlds and species, and a plot that keeps you at the edge of the seat and so many twists that will leave you dizzy. ~ @SallyMason1

BOOK ONE - Scarlet's perfect world gets turned upside down when life begins to drain of color. After losing her parents, Scarlet realizes she has the power to see things no one else can. Struggling to bring it all back to normal, she finds herself on a hunt with her best friend in order to learn the truth about her family. With the world crumbling quickly, they begin to run out of time. Racing against the clock, Scarlet can only hope she'll find them, until she learns who is behind everything falling apart.