the ghost of you keeps me awake [editor's choice 2021 | poetry] [cover by @qixing]

Two worlds with one link - Lisa's phone. A raider from another darker Earth takes over Calen's body after a weird explosion. No-one knows about the swap, so Lisa's astonished when the recovering school heart-throb suddenly comes onto her. But she can't forget another Calen, one that she glimpsed... terrified, vulnerable and somehow in her phone.

Ferann is at war. Nathan, a Manipulator in the Royal Guard, fights to end the forty-year-old feud between Ferann and its neighbour, Agaith. Elaine's greatest fear has come to Ferann. Any outbreak is difficult to contain, and the Fade... even Healers cannot heal everything. Callum has no wish to fight, but a Wild mage is everyone's enemy. All he wants is to be himself, but the battle may be too difficult to win. At 16, Eban is on the brink of adulthood. He alone wields all three gifts: those magics of the Wild, Manipulation and Healing. He may be the best chance for peace. But holding a battle on three fronts is complicated, especially when a fourth calls you from your dreams. For every choice, there is a consequence. And when your decision affects the lives of thousands, what do you choose?

An almost death experience can change a person. Lexington Grant felt that change the day of the incident. But how do you deal with change when you can't explain what's happening to you or why? Time doesn't seem to help. And four years later that feeling of something missing is still there, and it's not just her memory of that day. Trying to ignore the lost feeling, Lexington focuses on enjoying her time as a college freshmen. But her world comes crashing down again when her past incident finally catches up to her. Now, finding out everything that she didn't think was possible is possible, everything is changing. Vampires exist. But finding out that she's something special and yet an abomination is a scarier thought. And what's worse is that vampires want her dead. Except the man with dashing good looks, who she can't help but slowly fall for. With the help of her protector she will have to show that she belongs in this world, by his side. But staying alive might be even harder.