[Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner] The Redding takes you if it knows your name. That's the rule that's kept Meg alive --- or awake, rather --- since the night the world went to hell. Nobody knows where the red stuff came from, but it acts like water, it's in the water, and it falls as rain every night. The people it captures drop like puppets with their strings cut. They're asleep, not dead, and they can be reawoken. But then they just try to kill you. Meg and the other survivors she's befriended think they've found a stable equilibrium, six weeks after the catastrophe began. In an empty town, there's not much to do except innovate new survival methods. Meg's crush is the one to discover that Morse Code, like writing, is a safe means of communication. That's all fine and good until the nightly rain begins. Raindrops, as it turns out, can make dots and dashes, too. The Redding can talk. And it's telling her to run. ❖❖❖ Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner. Featured on: @Wattpad - Embrace the Fear: Horror Stories @WattpadExplorer - Embrace the Fear: Scary Stories @Creators - Scary Stories to Read in the Dark @Wattpad Explorer - From Our Creators @dystopianapocalypse - Featured D&A Stories @Wattpad Explorer - Why Not Buy Some Flowers @Fright - Featured Stories Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Irene needs the world to change. As she starts her third year of college, she's realized that she can't keep living the same way anymore. After being broken up with her boyfriend, she starts to realize that something is off. Her over-thinking habits have gotten her into trouble before, but she's learning that they're leading her toward something new. Something that she's never dared to think of before, and something that's encouraging her to reach out to Lucia, a recent transfer student who's able to change Irene's perspective on everything - including her sexuality. She knew that her third year of college would be difficult, but her awful luck is ruining everything. Balancing imposter syndrome, work, and life in general is already hard enough, the last thing she needs is an identity crisis. But, like her luck, she doesn't have power over anything that's coming at her. It turns out that she's the one that needs to change, not the world. If she wants any chance at changing her luck, she must learn how to control it. Read this story to see how Irene breaks free from her family's standards, her own fears, and the past.

Four years of pain, regret, and disappointment have consumed Priscilla who was left behind to cope with Delilah's disappearance. Delilah was everything to Priscilla. She was her best friend (and more), the champion of playing messy games, and the master of creating problems for Priscilla to fix. Priscilla never complained though, in fact, she wishes that she could just have her back, complications and all. Well, what happens when one day she finds Delilah and she refuses to talk to her? How is Priscilla supposed to get the closure and answers that she's always been begging for? Things have changed. Clearly, Delilah has changed. Read to find out how Priscilla and Delilah's story plays out in this exciting tale full of secrets from a complicated town, unspoken love between two people, and the process of coping with a person's reappearance.

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It would be fair to say that Celeste Patel's life is ruined. She's been forced to enter college- the time where she wanted to reinvent herself, as the person she was in high school. Closeted, dating a fake boyfriend, and seemingly alone midst the chaos she's going through. What makes it worse is her roommate Aria. The girl who can't take a hint and won't stop bothering Celeste. Soon enough, Celeste realizes that there's much more to Aria than she had thought. And it changes everything. One thing that they forget is that like all illicit affairs, they will eventually fall. See how Celeste and Aria's relationship plays out in this story full of romance and self-discovery.

Violet Green is starting university. Her roommate is Aria. Will these girls fall in love? I don't do descriptions. P.s. they do fall in love

Say hello to the perfection of Cybele- tall, gorgeous, millionaire. She's a supermodel by day and a kidnapper extraordinaire at night. When she took Princess Talia from the castle one night, the whole country was sent into chaos. Princess Talia was the only successor to the throne, and her absence baffled the kingdom. Nobody knew that Cybele was the culprit, and no one would be able to guess her reason for it. Only she knew. Watch Cybele, both our hero and villain for the story as she struggles to fulfill her wishes while trying to keep her feelings for the Princess in check.

After becoming best friends on Tumblr and exchanging posts, Idalia finds out that the girl she's been crushing on goes to her school. Who is it? Queen bee Elise? Bad girl Zara? What she never sees is the shy girl, Marina, behind her. She begins to get closer with her, building a relationship far more powerful than their Tumblr conservations. Soon enough, everything starts to unravel and when Idalia finds out that the girl she's in love with has been hiding something, the results are unpleasant. Read to find out how Idalia and her Marina's story plays out in this exciting story full of love, shock, and betrayal.

What happens when, in a drunken stupor, you manage to handcuff your best friend to your bed? There is no way to get her out? Or when she has to sleep next to you and you wake up to find her curled up to you? How do you keep your feelings out of the mix? What if you can't stop them? Or worse...What if you don't want to? And when her past comes back to haunt her, would you help her or save yourself?

❝What made you get into this business?❞ ❝I love Christmas and I especially love getting to serenade cute girls like yourself,❞ she sharply responded. ❝Hm, cute girls?❞ ❝Yes,❞ she says and then she connects her lips to mine, giving me the best Christmas gift I had ever received. ************** Scarlet had always hated the Christmas carolers that came to sing at her house every year but when a new caroler is recruited, Scarlet is determined to learn everything she can about her.