MASTERPIECE COLLECTION ~ My Top Recommendations
16 stories
#FreakshowFriday | ✔ by bigfivedonaldduckfan
#FreakshowFriday | ✔
bigfivedonaldduckfan
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After a wild adventure involving a powerful magic book, former drug dealer Nathan has turned his life around: having abandoned his criminal ways, he now works a minimum wage job and is learning video editing on the side. But even though everything seems to be going smoothly, it's hard to truly leave the past behind, and his feelings for a certain YouTube star may have become more than strictly platonic. Not to mention that magic doesn't seem to be done with him yet... Meanwhile, disgraced Internet celebrity Jamie is working her hardest to salvage her reputation and restore her YouTube channel Witchcraft Wednesday to its former glory. When a golden opportunity in the form of one of the world's most haunted islands crosses her path, the only thing she can do is take it with both hands. But it comes at a price: enduring her family on a two-week trip to Europe. Even with Nathan by her side, that may prove one of her toughest challenges to date. And the haunted island might just house plenty of mysteries and dangers as well. ~Sequel to #WitchcraftWednesday~
Paper Masks by kae-ruby
Paper Masks
kae-ruby
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When Essa sees their villainous future, they use the prophecy as a ploy to defeat their three brothers and force each one into a better work-life balance. Their first so-called battle restarts an old tradition for family dinner, leading Essa to bond with their brothers, all while struggling to balance their guilt and their alter-ego, Muse, whose name comes with a reputation of its own. **** Written for the Open Novella Contest 2024 (ONC), using prompt 87. Cover by @Nicoismysenpai !!
#WitchcraftWednesday | ✔ by bigfivedonaldduckfan
#WitchcraftWednesday | ✔
bigfivedonaldduckfan
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[ONC 2023 and Wattys 2024 winner!] Drug dealer Nathan just can't be bothered to care about some of the stranger things in his life. Like the spellbook he found, complete with working magic and all. Okay, fine, maybe he tried one spell, and maybe that ended with his curtains on fire. Lesson learned: leave forces you don't understand alone. Powerful magic or not - for Nathan, this is just another Wednesday. Not everyone shares his opinion. When YouTube sensation Jamie insists on making a video about his discovery and said video goes viral, Nathan finds himself in a spotlight he completely failed to foresee. While he struggles to adjust to his newfound fame, Jamie and her oddly charming eccentricities drag him into a wacky investigation of his magical tome's origins and true nature. Finding answers shouldn't be that hard. But Nathan's criminal associates want his spellbook for themselves. And they'll stop at nothing to get it.
The Dead Don't Speak | Open Novella Contest 2020 | ✔ by bigfivedonaldduckfan
The Dead Don't Speak | Open Novella Contest 2020 | ✔
bigfivedonaldduckfan
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Surviving in juvenile prison? Tough. Surviving in juvenile prison with the added bonus of seeing ghosts? Tougher. Bailey has a sixth sense, a criminal record and no appetite for trouble; serving a year-long prison sentence already sucks enough in and of itself. If only the spirits would leave her in peace. A strange warning, an inexplicable injury, a disturbing message written on her cell's wall in blood: Bailey has no choice but to conclude a ghost is out to get her. To save her life, she must find out why. But in a place where restriction is everything and escape impossible, that may be harder than it seems. ~ONC 2020 shortlister and honourable mention~ ~Featured on 'Die Young, Stay Pretty' reading list on @Horror~ -Featured on 'Horror/Paranormal' reading list on @CommunityTeam~ ~Featured on 'Life after death' reading list on @Paranormal~ ~Featured on 'Wicked little creatures' reading list on @TeenFiction~ ~Featured on 'I see dead people' on @fright~ ~Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered, may 2022~ ~Featured on 'The Rebels' reading list on @Badassreads~ ~Amby Awards 2023 Top Pick~ Written for ONC 2020. Cover by @agraveyardhag
Blend by addison_sweet
Blend
addison_sweet
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✨A WATTYS 2022 PARANORMAL & "BEST CHARACTERS" WINNER✨ A college basketball star risks everything to prove his innocence with a girl who can communicate with ghosts. *** Ace Jones isn't certain about a lot of things in life, but basketball has always come easy. This is until he finds himself as the prime suspect of a murder he knows he didn't commit. Lucky for him, Devyn Brooks knows he didn't commit it either. But not because she witnessed it--she simply sees the victim as plain as day and even endures her incessant talking. Though Devyn usually does everything in her power to hide her supernatural ability, she'll have to start embracing it in order to save Ace from a common fate. And Ace will discover a deeper part of his identity that challenges his notions of the world. Will they be able to solve a case that America is so eager to pin on another Black man? ✨| FEATURED ON WATTPAD READING LISTS | ✨ 💕 Wattpad Editor's Choice Dec. 2022 💕 @StoriesUndiscovered, Thrills N Spills 2022 @SpeculativeFiction, The Crypt 2022 ⛈ A Stormy Nights Challenge Participant 2022 ⛈
The Curse-breakers of Avondor || ONC 2022 || ✔ by bigfivedonaldduckfan
The Curse-breakers of Avondor || ONC 2022 || ✔
bigfivedonaldduckfan
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For two months, the Avondorian Mountains have been a safe haven. Now, that's about to change. When a scout returns to Anahill with a disturbing message, Audren, the freshly-inaugurated Lord of the Mountains, finds himself faced with a challenge: The Cursed will reach the city within days. Undead, highly dangerous and hungry for human flesh, the Cursed are creatures not to be messed with. Audren refuses to let them slaughter his people and turn them into monsters. He sees only one way to save his home: Breaking the curse that started this terror. Teaming up with a grumpy student mage, Audren ventures into hostile territory. But can this curse even be broken?
Coldest Welcome (Watt-a-decade Winner) by bigfivedonaldduckfan
Coldest Welcome (Watt-a-decade Winner)
bigfivedonaldduckfan
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~Winner of the Watt-a-decade writing contest~ ~Genre runner-up (horror) Ambys 2021~ As a gifted student, Oliver is delighted when he receives a chance to attend WU, one of the most prestigious universities in the country. But he soon learns that his new life in the town of Woolford isn't all that fantastic: why do people talk about him behind his back? Why do they look at him like they've seen a ghost? Could something be wrong with his university?
Adam | Short Story by addison_sweet
Adam | Short Story
addison_sweet
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After selecting a perfectly engineered man, Victoria Scott discovers that being in a relationship with a bot is hard. Especially when he can't even get your name right. ✨Featured on the @WattpadShortStory profile under Another Time, Another Place ✨ 🥇First Place in The Autumn Harvest Awards 2021
Iridium || The Amby's 2021 Grand Runner-Up  by popcornknight
Iridium || The Amby's 2021 Grand Runner-Up
popcornknight
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A tale from New Rhodenium #1 What if Pinocchio were a boy made of metal in a futuristic world? A sci-fi retelling of Pinnochio. 🏅The Amby's 2021 Grand Runner-Up and Genre Winner in the Science Fiction category 🥇First place in the Short Story category of Rewind the Classics 2021 🏅 Featured as The Book of the Month, October by @retold
𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐦 by MarCafeWrites
𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐦
MarCafeWrites
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☆ 2022 ᴡᴀᴛᴛʏꜱ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀ!! ☆ "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." On the cusp of the 20th century, blue blood heiress Lucy Penn has lost everything: her betrothed, her family and home, and even her ability to walk in the sunlight. As she struggles to acclimate to her new nocturnal existence, she makes the acquaintance of Dr. Thomas Reed: an intelligent and tortured immortal, still haunted by the horrors of his past. As the pair grow closer, Lucy becomes privy to a frightening world far below the surface of polite society, in which beings of ancient and unfathomable power live outside the confines of humanity. Carpe Noctem (or "Seize the Night") follows Lucy on her journey through the shrouded streets, eerie hospitals, and aristocratic parlors of nighttime London. As she seeks to exhume the insidious and terrifying purpose behind her transformation, Lucy finds herself drawn deeper into a dark nocturne world of unimaginable folklore and intrigue, begging the question: can love be found after death? HIGHEST RANKINGS ~ #1 Carpe Noctem #1 Period Fiction #1 Nocturnal #1 Gothic Romance #1 Gothic Horror #3 Dracula #3 Shakespeare #8 Vampire #17 Victorian #46 Historical Fiction