[ A COMPLETED 2020 ONE-SHOT SHORT STORY ] Miles was a runaway boy with another story no one would know, left to lose itself in the thousand others in the world. But he believed it had ended. That it was over. But we never know where one ends and another begins. Because somewhere, a new one was beginning to blossom. •:° A C H I E V E M E N T S *Featured in Wattpad official short story reading list, 'Realistic Fiction' *Second place in The Royalty Awards

(FEATURED) It's been months since the unceremonious fall of Kimie Sato's older sister. The whole of Ridgerock High knows it, and by now, the majority have moved on. But Kimie still watches those who had a hand in it continue to walk free, and the more she observes, the angrier she gets. Fueled by a thirst for revenge, she decides she's had enough and goes after them, one by one. Her plan is simple: Revive her sister's old blog, spy on the culprits for their juiciest secrets, and air them out. Give them a taste of their own medicine. But then one of her targets turns up dead, and fellow animation club member (and longtime crush), West, gets in on her plan. As she struggles to see her plan through to the end, remain anonymous, and fight her growing affection for multiple boys, she realizes she's not the only player in the game she's created. And her opponent may not mind her being dead. CW: violence, mental illness, brief mention of cancer.

Lucy Schraan isn't just nervous about dating someone - she's positively datephobic. When she comes out to her over-involved nerd friends, though, they convince her that her time has come: Lucy Schraan is going to find a partner. (Probably.) *** When Lucy comes out as pansexual to her close friends - a group of AP-taking, theatre-loving nerds - they're not surprised. (Surprisingly.) In fact, they want to help her find a partner. There are a plethora of cute girls in her arts school, like Ash Kagawa in her APUSH class and thespian queen Lia LaFollette, and Gene Mann from her required gym credit has weirdly nice forearms. (Like, nice-nice.) Lucy is terrified of dating, though. She's comfortable playing other people, experimenting with different parts and different lives. Living her own life? Absolutely terrifying. *** Picture "YOU DON'T LIVE HERE" by Robyn Schneider meets "THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED" by Becky Albertalli. ***UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY. PROBABLY.

Nora Blake repels ordinary. Adam Clarke is constructed entirely of ordinary. ● ● ● "I don't want to share you with the galaxy, Nora Blake," he says quietly, and all at once, all the stars inside my chest are being flung across the universe at full speed and for that particular moment, I am untethered. Unrooted. Flowing. Floating. Something. He doesn't have to, I think, instantly. I am vaguely aware of the fact that I am a kind of traitor: but there is no heavy stone of betrayal in my chest. The galaxy will wait. It will wait until this beautiful boy flings my fragile heart across the universe at full-speed, but right now, I'm so full of it that I don't even care. Look at that. Nora Blake gives up the galaxy. I look at him, then, and there's so much color oozing out of his perfect, jagged cracks that I feel like I'm in one of Nadia's Leonid Afremov paintings and there's a supernova in my chest. "You don't have to," I tell him, so quietly that I don't think he hears. His delicate rose-pink mouth is curved into a kind of frown and his baby-blue gray-flecked gaze is lost somewhere far, far away from the devoid town of Enfield. I recognize that much, and I wonder momentarily if he has his own galaxy somewhere. I don't want to share him either, I think.

Five things Jun and Yen each know - and one thing they know together.

Mia Evian has to piece together the mystery of Zack Maddox, the bad boy whose life she saved, while simultaneously keeping her own crumbling life together before Zack ends up in trouble again - or worse yet, dead. ***** This is a love story. When Zack Maddox, a notorious bad boy, meets Mia Evian, a nobody with a disdain for arrogant pretty boys, the two teenagers' lives are thrown into chaos. Zack is a mystery Mia can't unravel, and as her family is torn apart by her father's infidelity, her newfound thrill-seeking attitude is the only thing keeping her head above water. As Mia's behaviour turns increasingly reckless, Zack becomes the lifeboat keeping her afloat. Mia thought she had a good grasp of the world, but she's beginning to realise the people around her are far more complex than she could have ever imagined. Worse still, she may not be the only one who needs a lifeboat. This is a love story - just not the kind you might expect. ***** Content warning: This story contains mild drug and alcohol use and themes of mental health, self-harm, and suicide. Cover designed by Lucas Fisher

Freya Liu-Hampton isn't much of a romantic but that doesn't stop her best friend, Dale Sampson, from asking her to help him find his soulmate. Dale wants life to be like a romantic comedy but Freya knows that's not how it works. Because no matter how many happy endings there are in the movies, sometimes what you're looking for isn't what you find.

2020 WATTYS WINNER in NEW ADULT! Oliver Ausman has been given a second chance at life, but it's hard to feel grateful when he was the one trying to end it in the first place. Returning to his normal life after being released from the hospital is hard, especially since his parent's idea of normal is made up of dinner parties, prep school, fancy suits, and fake manners-- all paired with a complete disregard for the mental health of their firstborn. He's long been fed up with it, but the final straw is when he finds out that his "father" isn't actually his father at all. Oliver decides he's had enough of the perfect facade, so he packs a suitcase and grabs his younger brother, "borrowing" his mother's car to sneak off on a trip to find his biological father. But he never expected to pick up a girl with her own similar set of problems, to be followed across the country by a money-hungry pair of criminals, or most of all, to find out that maybe this life thing isn't as bad as he thought. 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝) - 𝟏/𝟐𝟐/𝟐𝟎