Contemporaryfantasy Stories

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION You do magic once, and it sticks to you like glitter glue... When Johnny and his best friend, Alison, pass their summer holidays dabbling in magic, they never expect it to have consequences. Sure, it'd be great if they could banish bullies or change their lives for the better, and what harm could come from lighting a few candles and chanting a few spells? They get their answer in the form of an earthquake unleashed at their behest, which draws the attention of the Marduk Institute, an age-old organization dedicated to fostering the talents of young wizards. Whisked away to the institute and told they can never return to their old lives, Johnny and Alison must quickly adapt to a new world shimmering with monsters, fraternities, and cute boys like Hunter and Blake. But when they're pulled into a dark, supernatural fight that could cost them their lives, they'll have to find strength they never knew they had as they battle for love, acceptance, and their own happy endings -- all with the help of a little bit of magic.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION The nightmare continues when Ryan, the gay wizard, comes face to face with the most unexpected nemeses yet. He will have to figure out if love truly is the most powerful magic of all. ***** After the events of I'M A GAY WIZARD, Ryan wakes up to a startling scene--his father is driving him to begin a brand new life in a small, idyllic town called Misthaven. The dream-like memory of being trapped at the Marduk Institute relentlessly haunts Ryan's new life. In the night, Ryan comes face to face with a nightmarish force who warns him that he and his friends are, in fact, trapped in a magical dream prison created by the Institute to quell its most troublesome wizards. Ryan and his friends must immediately escape this prison for a chance at survival. Little do they know that this is only the beginning of a harrowing adventure where the limits of love and friendship will be tested and the age-old question will return--is love truly the greatest magic of all? [This is the sequel to I'm A Gay Wizard, the Wattpad Original edition.] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This book contains scenes depicting self-harm and violence, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

To all the children with mommy issues, but still wish them the best. ------------------- Liora Vale died the same way she lived-unwanted. After a bitter fight with the mother who never truly loved her, Liora's life ends in a brutal car accident, leaving behind a world where she was always second to a perfect younger brother and a lifetime of resentment. But death was not the end. At a lonely crossroads in the afterlife, Liora is given a choice: One path grants her mother the life she always dreamed of-success, happiness, everything she ever wanted. The other is never fully heard. Without hesitation Liora chooses the first. When she always, she's no longer dead-but she's no longer herself either. Thrown back in time to when her mother was her age, Liora finds herself in a world where she has yet to be born...and may never exist at all. Warned not to interfere, she is forced to watch the life her mother might have had without her. But as old wounds resurface and impossible truths come to light, Liora must decide: Was she really the reason her mother's life fell apart? And if she changes the past, will she erase herself for good? ------------------- Highest Rankings #1 - Light Fantasy #3 - Contemporary Fantasy #93 - Time Travel #479 - Family #715 - Drama

A gift from the past. A flame that cannot be extinguished. For Noah Johnson, turning sixteen should have been nothing more than a fresh start in a new city. But when his grandmother hands him a mysterious inheritance left by a grandfather he never knew, Noah's destiny is changed forever. In the town of Talland, the halls of his new school hide more than just bullies and teenage secrets. While trying to protect a new friend, Noah ends up shattering the only link to his past: an iron bracelet set with a red diamond. What he didn't know was that some things must be broken to be set free. Now, with a crystal fused to his soul and a Flame Guardian named Moto by his side, Noah discovers he is the Heir to an ancient power. But in a world where light awakens shadows, he must learn fast: the fire that warms can also consume everything he loves.

​Description: "I didn't just find a story; I accidentally brought one to life." ​Ardin thought he was just doing his duty as a temporary librarian. He thought the legends of the century-old library were just bedtime stories for children. But when the clock struck midnight, the ink began to bleed into reality, and the characters he once read about were suddenly breathing the same air as him. ​After a chaotic night of magic and mayhem, Ardin manages to seal the book characters back into their world-or so he thought. ​Standing in the moonlight is a girl in a vibrant yellow dress. She is beautiful, mysterious, and completely lost. Unlike the others, she didn't disappear when the book closed. There's just one problem: she has no idea who she is, what story she came from, or why she's the only one left behind. ​Now, Ardin must protect a girl with no memory from a world she doesn't belong to, all while trying to figure out if she's the heroine of a fairy tale... or the villain of a tragedy.

On Elena Chen's fortieth birthday, a number appears on her palm: [30]. Thirty chances. Thirty memories. Thirty opportunities to understand why every relationship she's ever had has ended the same way-with her running. A mysterious painting arrives showing six panels across six centuries. All with her face. And a man named Adrian who claims he's been waiting six hundred years for her to wake up. Each memory costs her. Each time she chooses fear over love, the countdown drops. When it reaches zero, she'll forget everything and repeat the cycle. Forever. But if she chooses to remember-if she faces every moment of cowardice across six lifetimes-the price isn't hers to pay. It's his. *Kintsugi: the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold.* *Some scars aren't meant to be hidden.* *Some scars are meant to shine.* 🏆 Entry for Open Novella Contest 2026 | Prompt #53 Content Warning: Mature themes including death across timelines, emotional patterns, LGBTQ+ relationships (historical period), war trauma (WWII), and discussions of obsessive behavior. Recommended for readers 16+.

In Unit 404, time doesn't pass-it bleeds. ​Julian Thorne lives in the 6:00 AM chill of a Seattle morning, surrounded by blue mist and unfinished music. Elara Vance lives in the 6:00 PM glow of a golden sunset, surrounded by digital archives and the scent of jasmine tea. They share the same loft and the same mahogany desk, but they are exactly twelve hours apart. ​What begins as a cold ink-stain and a flickering shadow soon becomes a desperate race across a three-year gap. In a world where every touch creates a glitch, they must decide if a love born in the silence is worth breaking time itself. When the Blue Hour meets the Golden Glow, will they find a way to stay, or will they become just another glitch in the archives?

Shaloh Cassidy is about to get out of juvie. That's the least of her problems. Her father has a secret he's been keeping her entire life - one that explains the strange things that keep happening around them, and why something called the Headhunter has just started looking for her specifically. The truth is simple and impossible: he is the son of a god. Which makes her one too. Now Shaloh, her father, and a boy named Cast are crossing through the Gateway Arch into a mirror world where the gods never left after the Iron Age. Their destination is Athens - the original city, still standing, still watched over by the gods who built it. And at its center, an academy where kids like Shaloh are trained for a world they never knew existed. But something is wrong. Zeus and Marduk are moving toward a war that could pull every pantheon on earth into the wreckage. And Shaloh is running out of time to figure out why before it starts. She didn't ask for any of this. She just has a trident that keeps coming back to her hand, a father full of secrets, and a very bad feeling about what comes next.

Seventeen-year-old Kimmy Addai lives her best life as an Obayifo-the original vampires who rule over vampire society. But when a series of familial disappointments culminates in a tragic incident, her parents ship her off to the Bathory School in Colorado to integrate with lesser vampires called Halfers-those with a mix of human and vampire blood. She's determined to keep her head down and do her time so that she can return to her former life. Then a dangerous encounter threatens to expose her secret gift; quiet and down-to-earth, Tristan, a Halfer in the guard program, steps in to save her. Despite the differences in their class, a friendship develops as Tristan offers to teach Kimmy self-defense. But when forbidden feelings develop, their worlds collide Kimmy and Tristan can't have the best of both worlds-even if their choice means sacrificing their lives.

No one has ever gotten close enough to discover the secrets of Corbin White's troubling past. Not until he finds a group of other teens hiding supernatural abilities. They teach him how to see and manipulate the Rudin, the uncharted world of unseen energy, and how to fend off the terrifying beings that live there. But they don't have the answers he's seeking. What they do have is a deadly secret of their own. Now Corbin must confront the living nightmares of his past, survive the betrayal of the friends he trusted, and face his role in the earth-shattering events of the future. Anyone can save the world, but Corbin is the only one destined to destroy it.

On the same night that she gets kicked out of her home, Amanda finds a poster advertising something called The Midnight Circus. With nowhere else to go, she attends the performance and what she experiences changes her life forever.

**SCRAPPED; will be rewritten/rebooted*** What if...Sarv never ran a church and instead lives in a mansion with her family? What if...Sarv was the DAUGHTER of the devil rather than THE devil herself? What if...Sarv and Ruv got married? What if...Rsch, Krus, Selever, and Rasazy got into the canon world? What if...Sarv and Ruv had an additional child? What if...Sarv pulled some strings and managed to get Ruv's criminal record clear? What if...Rsch and Krus were resurrected from the dead and were both trans? What if...the interesting, kinda (though "kinda" is a bit of an understatement) effed up, and occasionally homoerotic pile of lore that is Greek mythology and the diverse, rhythmic world of FNF (specifically the MFM and PIT mods) crossed over? What if...all of these ideas and concepts ended up mushing into one AU? Here's your answer. **A collab with a friend of mine. Czarina and Aleksandr belong to her***

When Life and Death come to collect Kenneth Smith's soul, they are met by a man who, even in death, is not ready to part ways with his Mortal Possessions...

Rebecca Hawkshot is a skilled archer at her magic academy, but has a hard time getting comfortable with people. Her best and only friend is a girl named Wind that can turn into a wolf, and aspires to be a spy. During a session of unwarranted sneaking around, Wind learns that one of the school's students isn't as innocent as they seem. Rebecca and Wind realize the danger of the situation, and need to form a plan fast. Rebecca's social troubles begin to become a real problem, and danger draws closer every second. Can she overcome her past? Can she stop the threat before it's too late? (Art by Anakoluth on DA, character is mine!)

Lori is beyond confused. She has been thrown, literally thrown, into a house with strange teenagers who can do even stranger things, deadly things. And soon, Lori learns she can do deadly things too. Josh has spent so long trying to maintain balance. He is trying to prove the conceptions about him wrong while also stuck as the government's personal torture weapon. Grappling with the leadership role he has been given in a house he has been stuck in since he was ten, Josh is desperately trying to maintain peace in the family he has been forced into. Everyone seems to have their own agenda from the Triplets who enjoy their mind-control powers a little too much to the mysterious death-boy lurking in the corner. Each armed with their own secrets, Lori must figure out how to escape this magically-enclosed house and get back to the life she has worked so hard to create, and the person no one can know about. ----------------------------------------- Author's note: I am the person on Wattpad who looks at the number of chapters when deciding whether or not to read a book so I am gonna put this out there: My chapters are long. Like really long. The shortest chapter is over 2000 words. I'm not sure how long the longest one is. There may not be a lot right now, but even with that, my google doc is sitting at well over 150 pages. Have fun. :) ----------------------------------------- Author's note: *******MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING******** A key theme throughout this book is trauma. These situations are discussed in heavy detail and a few are shown. These include but are not limited to death, suicide, abuse, and s.a. This book is to be read at your own risk. In efforts to keep the emersion, I do not plan on having Author's Notes and therefore will not be leaving a warning in the chapters. This is your warning.

In a modern-day world teeming with marauding dragons, there is only one solution: The Wild Hunt. The United States government has decided to hold a tournament called The Wild Hunt to determine who will be responsible for the capture of wild dragons by the Knight Division. The four challengers Noah Wilson, Charlie Howard, Su Jin Han, and Beowulf have to catch five deadly dragons alive if they want to win the tournament and become the new Knight Division dragon hunters. Their journey will take them through the mountains of South Carolina, the seas of Key West, the caverns of Ruby Falls, the Redwood forest, and finally, the murky bayous of Louisiana. Will they succeed against their competition, or will the dragons of the Wild Hunt be too wild to tame? Of Wings and Shadows is the sixth book in the Of Cinder and Bone series. It takes place in medias res of Book Five, Of Claws and Inferno. It follows Of Cinder and Bone, Of Blood and Ashes, Of Dawn and Embers, and Of Fury and Fangs.

[ Winner for the Freshman Fifteens Common Room Teen Mentoring Contest. ] Fire, fire, a thirst to slake, all my fair ladies have drowned in the lake. A curse and a girl with a destiny too knotted for words. [ Complete story available here: https://www.wattpad.com/98702566-common-room-a-short-story-anthology-destinata-by ]

​In the football-obsessed town of North Shore, Elias Thorne is a god. As the star quarterback for the Patriots, he never misses a pass and never loses a game. But Elias has a terrifying secret: he's living his life by a literal script. Since he was a child, glowing text has hovered over every person he meets, telling him exactly what they'll say and what he must do to maintain his "perfect" life. To Elias, the world is a stage, and he's a prisoner to the lines. ​He's grown cold and dismissive, blowing off every girl in school because he's already read their hearts and their dialogue. He's bored, lonely, and trapped-until the night practice where the ink begins to run. ​On the sidelines, he spots Ava, a cheerleader whose presence causes the glowing text in his vision to smudge and fade. For the first time in seventeen years, Elias is looking at a blank page. Ava is the "glitch" in his pre-determined world-the only person who is truly real. ​But as Elias goes off-script to be with her, the world begins to push back. The "Script" starts dripping off the page, and the winning plays he once saw clearly are becoming a blurred mess of red and blue ink. To win the girl who changed his world, Elias might have to lose the game that defines him. In North Shore, the lights are bright, the hits are hard, and the script is finally being rewritten.