"How are we going to get out of this town?" Sleep filled Maple's voice. Her head lay in Staton's lap; slowly his fingers laced every red strand cascading down his thigh. A shallow sigh and a couple breaths later she sat up sitting on his lap leaning her head on his shoulder. Wrapping his arms around her. Cuddling into him the three girls two guys watched the sky. Night slowly turning in to day. Stars fading drifting back into their sleep. "I'm freezing my ass off." Aria snapped leaning against the cab of the GMC truck talking to no one specifically. "Well here's how, we get in the 80, we stop at a gas station and give her a full gulp; buy some chips and we just drive until she runs out," Julia remarked turning to look at Breygan. Breygan threw a wink in her direction. There was a slight rattle from his keys since he spun them around his finger. "Well, what the hell are we waiting for?" Breygan chuckled before hopping up and heading for the driver's seat. "Are we really doing this?" "Damn live a little, hell yeah we are!" Staton yelped before pushing Maple from his lap and running for the truck. Cover Credit to @stella_vigo

{FEATURED ON WATTPAD UNDISCOVERED LIST} Sometimes, things can happen in your life that change everything. Moving to a new town. Your parents going through a divorce. Dating someone new. Those sorts of things. Good, bad, easy, hard. Normal. But sometimes strange things happen to people. Ask Chris. He might tell you about when someone started blowing up his phone, telling him to go places in his town. In the middle of the night. Which would be weird enough, except this person - if it is a person - seems to know more about his and his friends' new reality than they do. Than anyone does. Now Chris, Ava, Taylor, and Mike need to find out what's going on. Before they all go insane.

"I never asked for friendship, yet you gave it to me." An introvert who likes to go outdoors. An extrovert who's friends with one person at a time. Summer's daytime lasts longer than the night, inviting everyone out to play. Sabito, a child who's lived through tragedy and neglect for his seven years of life, enjoys spending time in the playground built within his apartment complex. An orphaned child who lives with an aunt who can't be bothered to take care of him. Despite having a lazy aunt who can do nothing but suck the life out of a lit cigarette, Sabito's independence is greater than the typical seven-year-old child. Thanks to his father's teachings before that disaster, he can scrape by each day --alone. Unable to let go of the past and his deceased parents, Sabito becomes absorbed into his own mind, survivors guilt weighing down his small shoulders. As a prisoner of his own thoughts, he sits on the swings and tries to forget about the responsibilities he faces when the clock reads 'home time'. Squeals and shouts from other children make his hands move to his ears, but he can't block out the happiness in the air. Happiness comes looking for him. Valerie, the polar opposite of Sabito's reserved, sophisticated demeanour, comes along to unlock the naive side of a matured brain. As she begins to show him the world in colour, a friendship develops between the two. Best friends forever are what they say. Keyword: Forever. Content: Mentions of death/suicide

Twelve-year-old Sarah Lee longs to remain in the golden fields under a starry sky forever, but life has other plans for her. After the bleak spring of 1816 yields meager crops, Sarah's family flees its home in the English countryside to labor at a textile factory in newly industrial London. A factory accident several months later leaves Sarah's father out of work and her family desperate for money. Despite the worries of her older brother Thomas, Sarah disguises herself and ventures into a dangerous new job. Sarah soon learns that life in London is not as simple as it seems. She meets Jamie, a sullen, aggressive boy who helps her adjust to the new conditions. But Jamie has dark secrets of his own, and his reluctance to trust strangers clashes with Sarah's burning curiosity about his past. As the city creeps towards winter, Sarah and her friends stand face-to-face with the horrors of London poverty-rising prices, rampant crime, disease, and hopelessness-and it becomes clear that not everyone will make it out alive. Everyone has a secret, and the consequences can be more devastating than any of them can imagine. "Dark, emotionally gripping, highly researched... very impressive." "Deeply moving and heart-wrenching, it will forever leave a mark on my heart." - anonymous readers WARNINGS: This excerpt contains descriptions of physical injury and child abuse. There is a more detailed content warning in the published book. Sweepings of the Street is now available for purchase! Enjoy the first 4 chapters, then consider getting a paperback or ebook version of the full book! Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and more, or upon request at your local independent bookstore.

Jules Jones, a fourteen years old orphan is an apprentice to a grumpy hunter - a mage warrior whose profession is to fight demons and monsters. When they are hired to repel the curse hanging over Arvene Feud, Jules discovers the Lord's dark secret: he buried alive Melissa, the healer that wasn't able to cure his granddaughter. Soon Melissa turns into a bloodthirsty wraith - an undead whose only purpose is revenge, and Jules finds himself in the middle of an uneven fight. The hunter tries to keep Jules safe, but at the final battle it turns out the fate of the whole feud is in the boy's hands. He must fight Melissa aided only by a ghost girl, and if he fails, they all will be damned. Will Jules resist her, or will he be the tool of the wraith's victory?

🌟2020 Watty's Winner🌟 A sixteen-year-old orphan, hoping to find a new family, joins a faction of Rogues and becomes vital in their conflict with a rival faction. *** For as long as she can remember, Valeria Torres has always been the girl no one cared about. Having immigrated to the United States as a child after her parents' deaths, she tried to play by the rules as she navigated orphanages, homelessness, and a juvenile detention center. But her luck is about to change. Valeria discovers the Rogue Faction; a group of outlaws who use real world and mystical talents to steal from the wicked and give to the poor. Things seem to click into place as she joins a new family in New York City, goes back to school, trains as a Rogue, and makes new friends. But when Valeria discovers that two of her new friends are teenagers from a rival faction, she finds herself thrust into the middle of a conflict that could determine the fate of the world. ------------------ A story that combines elements of Harry Potter, Batman, and Robin Hood with a unique female protagonist in a GxBxG love triangle. Winner of a 2020 Watty Award, with the following review: "It's super original, and dang, it's got so much heart. We love all the characters and their relationships. The plot covers difficult topics, but handles everything so well. You can't not fall in love with this story. We love the LGTBQ2+ and Hispanic main character as well!" [Updates] *3rd place in Adventure Category for the 2020 Ocean Pearl Awards! *Selected for the @BootcampMentors program by TeaNHeartache! *1rst place in Fantasy and honorable mention for the 2020 Rose gold awards! *1rst Place in Adventure for the 2020 Diluculum Awards *1rst Place in Adventure for the 2020 Red Cloak Awards *2020 Watty Award Winner for Science Fiction! (Even though I entered it as more of Urban Fantasy ;)

The uncontrollable power lurking beneath Princess Alethia's skin can either be the savior of the Four Kingdoms or its destruction. Princess Alethia was raised on three principles: (1) Mercy is for the weak, (2) Emotions are an unwanted distraction, and (3) The penalty for weakness is death. But even her mother's ruthless training cannot strip away Alethia's humanity buried deep within her. When her mother, Queen Liliana, breaks a Peace Treaty with the Gera Kingdom and begins a deadly war, Alethia must do the one thing she thought was impossible: stop her mother. An action-packed story about friendship, love, loyalty, power, and how far one princess is willing to go to save everything she cares about. {Word count: ~130,000} Highest achievements/Impressive rankings #3 in warriors out of 34.7K stories #1 in gemstones out of 2K stories #5 in tyrant out of 491 stories #48 in darkfantasy out 5.1K stories Previously featured in wattpad community creator reading list Awards 1st Place in fantasy: The Cerulean Awards (2020)

Soulless, heartless, selfish. She's heard it all before. Sometimes, you must take matters into your own hands to forge your freedom. Astra knows this. She's known for seventeen years. Still, it's not an easy feat for her to successfully escape Varaly, decide to seek passage through Auxerre, and leave behind everything she's ever known for the distant and isolated Beaukarou Basin, where she hopes to find peace and solace from her past. But fate has other plans, and sometimes, the harder you try, the farther you fall... Winner of Fantasy Genre in The Pink Awards [2018] Winner of Best Protagonist in The Lunar Awards [April 2018] Winner of Fantasy Genre in The Stella Luna Awards [2018] Winner of Fantasy Genre in The Flavored Awards [2018] Winner in the X-Factor Awards [2018] Winner of Best Story Setting in the X-Factor Awards [2018] Runner-Up of Fantasy Genre in The Albina Awards [2018] Winner of From Magical Elves and Other Fantastical Creatures in Winter Wonderland War [2019]

A young archeologist is launched on the adventure of her life when she joins a mixed crew of humans and aliens on a mission to atone for the failings of Earth. *** The Terra Prospect Mission offered humanity a chance at space travel, technological advancement, and enlightenment courtesy of its alien benefactors who made first contact thirty years ago. Daran Chree brought that mission to a fiery end when he crashed the Terra Prospect spaceship into Gate Delta Eleven. Now, it's humanity's second and final chance to prove they're ready to journey into the stars. Nineteen-year-old studying archeologist Sofeta Prenares finds herself not only drawn to the mission, but on a collision course with the fate of the galaxy. 2019 Watty Awards Winner For Sci-Fi! Content warning: This story contains reference to self harm and intense combat scenes.

In a world where people are followed by animals that reflect their personality, Taylor is devastated when she starts being followed by companions of the creepy crawly variety. As her passionate science teacher's annual companion showcase rapidly approaches, Taylor's mind is abuzz with anxiety about what her newfound companions mean about who she is.