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**WATTYS 2025 HONOURABLE MENTION** Cas and Vish are best friends whose feelings run deep. Whilst Cas is clever, sporty, and on the brink of a bright future at university, Vish has no such prospects. A painfully shy artist, Vish's horizons end at his daily routine of pills, sensory issues and panicking parents. When they celebrate what could be their final summer together by painting wildlife and swimming at a secret wooded wetland hidden in the Fens, the lads awaken something ancient and sinister lurking in the water. A voice in Vish's head -- Charlie -- tempts him to spend longer and longer in the woods. When villagers begin to disappear and Vish becomes increasingly secretive and distant, Cas is convinced that Charlie intends to claim Vish, body and soul. Lies, heartbreak and obsession push their friendship to breaking point, but nothing will stop Cas from protecting Vish from Charlie's onslaught, not even a fight to the death. --- This book started life as an ONC 2025 prompt: 105. Your childhood imaginary friend who disappeared years ago returns - only this time they're real.

Uzi, N and V are on a mission to help Uzi as the solver slowly devours Uzi from the inside, seeing new faces and old along the way. Can our heroes stop the solver before it takes control of its new host? My take on a season 2 of MD Thank you! Cover By Nexusmonstrum Thank you so much Nexusmonstrum for drawing such a phenomenal immaculate cover. Check them out! : https://www.instagram.com/nexusmonstrum?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

In 12 billion years, somewhere in Antarctica, the Gates of Shadows fell and were destroyed, awakening the 12 Billion-Year-Old Ancient God, also known as "The God of Curses," named Shadow Mind, who was stronger than both Satoru and Sukuna himself. Until he saw the boy who was in danger from a cursed spirit. He saved the 7 Years Old Boy named Isshin. Now, Isshin is going to become the strongest sorcerer ever. At this time, Isshin, along with his juniors of the 1st Year JJK School, Fushiguro Megumi, Kugisaki Nobara, and lastly, his favorite and his only successor ofthe Sorcerer of all time, the one and only, Wakura Yuuki, the Vessel of his destiny to be his duel to duel, Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses, the King of all Demon Gods, and Former King of all Demon Gods Satan's Successor.

What would happen if you were born into a world filled with bizarre races wielding even stranger powers, as a species whose sole purpose is to evolve by devouring every other race? Chaos. That's exactly what happens when the universe's one and only true Apex Predator is born into Marvel. This is the story of how the Xenomorph tears apart the cosmic food chain and reshapes the hierarchy of life itself.

She didn't just survive the disaster- she became it. After fusing with an entire city, Kawaiia turns into something impossible: a living anomaly capable of reshaping reality itself. But power like that doesn't come quietly. As beings known as witches begin to appear-each one embodying absolute concepts like knowledge, severity, and creation-Kawaiia is forced into battles that go far beyond strength. She doesn't destroy her enemies. She understands them. And with every encounter, she changes. But there's a limit. When her power spirals out of control and collapses an entire timeline, Kawaiia is forced to confront a terrifying truth: Infinite power without control doesn't make you a god. It breaks everything. Now, standing at the edge of godhood, she faces a final choice- Rule everything... or remain human. Zero Over Heaven is a long-form, character-driven epic about overwhelming power, emotional truth, and the discipline to choose humanity over divinity. ARC 5: THE WITCH OF KNOWLEDGE IS BEING RELEASED + UPDATED VISUALS ARE ROLLING OUT across August Arc OVA: Discovery Is being Remastered across August aswell as the ongoing Arc 5 releases. Update: WE HIT 300 READS! WOOOO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! Thank you for all the support that comes this way, wouldn't have gotten this far without you I am the author of Zero Over Heaven. I will also be posting this story on Royal Road under the account MaukutheGo@t.

Hetalia x Monument Mythos crossover. Some divergence from canon The loop begins again, but Nixon wants to play. What if the land above the horned serpent had a personification? America has always had a feeling he was different from other countries. Did other countries get thrown in a Giza glass box when they spoke out? Nope, just Alfred. Now he seeks answers to what really lives within his monuments. But how do you learn that there is an eldritch monster inside you? How do you cope with the result of your pyramid invention? How do you live with a gestalt of 17 soldiers who perceive lucky charms as a threat? (Comments and specific feedback are appreciated!) All credit goes to Hidekaze Himaruya and Alex Canasas

In the heart of the Imperium's darkest hour, the Plague Wars have shattered the boundary between the living and the dead. When the Demon Primarch Mortarion's ritual to break reality pulls an enigmatic, cosmic entity from the void into the rotting heart of Ultramar, the galaxy's broken cycle of souls is forever changed. Lady Death-an outsider of absolute power and terrifying stillness-arrives in a realm where even death is not an escape. But her presence is not left unchecked. Saint Celestine, the Emperor's Living Saint, is sent to destroy what the Imperium deems a blasphemous anomaly. What begins as a clash between the holy fire of a dying empire and the cold inevitability of the Reaper evolves into a dangerous, forbidden alliance. As they fight back-to-back against the relentless corruption of Nurgle, the boundaries between faith and oblivion blur. Caught in a slow-burn romance that defies the fundamental laws of existence, the two must choose between the roles the universe has forced upon them and the terrifying, beautiful freedom of a love that can only survive in the shadows of war. In a grimdark universe defined by eternal agony, they have discovered the most dangerous heresy of all: mercy.

Death and Reincarnation. Kuroe Makoto, the tomboyish ace of her high school track and field club, never spared a thought for these things before. However, when she falls asleep in her Tokyo home after an exhausting marathon and wakes up in a fantasy world, those concepts become her reality. And unlike in the common light novel setting, she isn't reincarnated as the naturally good-looking and talented human hero who gathers a harem effortlessly. In fact, she isn't reincarnated as a human at all. She is reborn as 'Chaos', child of the demon queen and heir to a kingdom at war with humanity. Maou Shoujo Magical Chaos puts the Japanese high school girl in a tentacle monster, in this strange tale of a sound human mind possessing a horrifying creature's body. Join Chaos on her oftentimes humorous but also perilous journey through a world of sword and sorcery, as she discovers a newfound appetite for life, terror, and rare species. ____________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: The entire rewritten series is available in digital and print formats on Amazon and in audio book format on Podium Entertainment! It has a lot more story, brand new characters, and a different ending, so don't miss the definitive version of Chaos!

Ava Cooper has been deaf her whole life. She's fifteen, broke, and navigating the world through vibration. When a medical grant gives her an experimental cochlear implant, she expects sound. What she gets is something else entirely: something no one was supposed to hear. A signal buried in the walls of the world, older than language, older than civilization. Ava's mother, Racheal, has spent fifteen years removing every obstacle between her daughter and a normal life. She can't remove this one. She doesn't even know it's there. An ancient evil is waking. The silence was never empty... and what's listening has been waiting a very long time.

The City of Brass arrives without thunder, without prophecy, and without mercy. It simply appears above the world every tenth year, gleaming with impossible towers and silent gates, inviting humanity to reach for it-then vanishing before anyone can. This time, someone intends to change that.

For generations, the noble and ancient Schwan family kept a secret and silent watch over the city of Tacoma. Then, in one night of bloodshed and fire at the dawn of the new millennium, they were gone. Thirteen years later, nobody knows whom is responsible, how it was done, or why. The year is 2013. In the Schwans absence, the delicate tapestry of polite lies and political compromises that has held their supernatural world together is fraying at the seams. The remaining six houses royal jockey for position. Revolution simmers beneath the thin surface, and the adults are too attached to how things used to be to recognize the darkness coming. Amidst this conflict, five lives are drawn slowly together. A Prince's daughter struggles to find her own destiny within the web of power surrounding her father. One retainer searches for answers whilst another, long retired, protects her charges from royal and commoner alike. A regent-in-exile hunts a forgotten monster through the city's back-alleys and dark shadows. And in a farm-house outside the city, long occluded from sight, a power stirs, its bearer abruptly forced into a world that will hunger to control him, or destroy him entirely. *** Glassblade is a fantasy novel, the first in the Wielder Saga, and updating every other week on Fridays. To get the most recent chapter early, subscribe to my newsletter at the following link: https://josephs-newsletter-41aee1.beehiiv.com/

THE SILENT BIRTH OF DIVINITY You are not reading this novel. This novel is reading you. Qin Xiao was never the chosen one. In L1, he is just human. No system, no cheat, no fate. Same frail biology, same real-world science, same limits as you. He doesn't fight. He doesn't hunt. He doesn't argue. He builds invisible walls. He designs the choice, controls affordance and constraint, plays second-order games. He makes his targets self-destruct believing it was free will. No pattern to profile. No OODA loop to enter. That's his First Form. His Second Form is CROWN FOOL. L4 Crown of Creation. 24 Pathways from 9 to 0, where Higher holds Lower as fiction. To a Sequence 0, your whole life is just a novel they already finished. And Qin Xiao? Smarter than the concept of intelligence itself. Even the Author is a character to Her. He lives by two truths the TRUE ORIGINAL CREATOR never made: For Me Is Truth: What I believe, becomes real. For You Is Lie: What you believe, becomes my joke. Above him, Evil Spirits hold infinite abysses, each holding infinite L1s as fiction. Gray Fog erases them with a breath. Celestials, High Heaven Gods, Endless Origin, Absolute Void with no logic or narrative, Boundless Law Gods, Library Gods, Author Sea Gods with infinite authors writing infinite stories. And at L13, beyond omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient... EYA. The Velvet Matriarch, Supreme Mistress of the Unwritten. Lovely beyond creation, deadly beyond apocalypse. She sits infinite x infinite layers above any God and kills absolute canvas creators automatically. She looks at no one. Except him. And Qin Xiao True Form, Self-Born, Ever-Auspicious, beyond words, beyond math, only looks at her. But even they need a Page. And the Page belongs to Seven. Arora, who is Permission to Appear. Wang Xuan, who WAS BEFORE I AM WAS. The Page itself. RESTRICTION: Beneath L14 cannot gaze upon Seven. Look = die.

The Yuwanta was never meant to be a warship. It was built to carry hope-seven thousand colonists, bound for a new world. But deep in the silence between stars... something was waiting. An anomaly. A signal. A Hollow. When Captain Santiago Onye Drago and his crew encounter it, the mystery quickly becomes something far more dangerous-a fight for identity itself. Because the threat isn't to their ship- it's to who they are. As reality bends and a presence slips aboard, the crew must fight not with weapons... but with something far more fragile: their memories, their humanity, their voices. And the only way to resist- is to remember how to sound human.

SHADOWS OF FATE She studies suffering like a science. He was born to destroy worlds. The universe decided they were each other's problem. Wednesday Santora is Woe made flesh - a Child of Fate who catalogs misery with academic precision and a straight razor that opens doors between realities. Francesco is a Black Spiral Dancer who ate a Technocracy kill-squad for breakfast and called it a networking event. When a demon frames Wednesday for leveling Chicago, the only thing standing between her and the assembled wrath of every faction in the dark is a wolf who finds her professionally fascinating. That's the problem. Days of Fate, not Days of Choice. Every move they think they're making was already written. Every alliance, every betrayal, every impossible thing that shouldn't be able to happen between two people who are constitutionally incapable of it - already decided. The Loom doesn't explain itself. It just pulls. Content: Dark fantasy, World of Darkness setting, morally complex characters, slow burn that burns the whole building down, no redemption arcs because nobody here needs redeeming - they need to be exactly what they are. "All our days have come. All our days have gone."

Freedom is a generational wish. Love and power are, too. And a soul, chosen by God or something beyond our perception, will find itself crossing fields, enduring pain, and passing the dead while searching for what every soul longs to find: freedom. This is the report of the renowned slavery researcher Ema Wrights, whose investigation uncovers the forgotten truths history has tried to bury. As she delves deeper into the past, she encounters beings thought to exist only in myth, like demons, vampires, and unravels the conspiracy surrounding a powerful company whose influence reaches far beyond what the world suspects.

Kyuro, a young woman ventures one night in search of knowing more about the stories that her mother tells her since she was a child, discovering that the reality of her world is not as it seems, beginning to doubt what was the truth that her mother never told her. A story that begs for answers to questions you might ignore.

Arseniy Marinov made a pact with a being beyond reality. It kept him alive. It cost him everything else. Twelve years later, reality is cracking open. Impossible rifts bleed across the sky, and a marginalised people are being blamed for a disaster no one truly understands. At its heart is Hidayat--a privileged boy sheltered by a family that knows the truth: he shouldn't exist. Hidayat knows what he is, even if he doesn't deserve the consequences. The world remains oblivious. Marinov does not. As a healer, Marinov is sworn to protect life. But he lives on borrowed time, bound to carry out an order he cannot refuse: eliminate the boy whose existence is unravelling the world. Exposing the truth would doom Hidayat. Refusing the order would doom Marinov. And every day, the world breaks a little further. [ FIRST STABLE DRAFT ] [ WORD COUNT: 90K ]

⭐️ ONC 2026 Round 1 Winner ⭐️|| Once, he was the Morning Star. Now, he is the Abyss. Betrayed by his own clan and cast into a lightless void, Riven survived by becoming the very darkness that tried to crush him. Transformed into a living Singularity-a creature of dense dark matter and eternal hunger-he is convinced he is a hideous monster beyond redemption. Lyra fell from the sky with no memories and a volatile star, the Regulus Core, burning inside her chest. Protected by Asterion, the flawless and cold Silver High Fae she has grown to love, she lives a life of borrowed safety. But when she stumbles upon a broken, dying creature in a crystal cave, Lyra doesn't see a monster. She offers him her light, saving his life and unknowingly waking the heart of the Abyss. Riven would devour the world to protect her. Yet, believing himself too ugly and broken to stand beside her light-especially when she belongs to Asterion, the very man who once executed him-Riven makes a heartbreaking choice. Unaware that his abyssal metamorphosis has actually forged him into a breathtakingly lethal Prince of Darkness, Riven hides his face behind a silver mask and walks away to claim the throne of the Night Court. In a universe where light and gravity violently collide, can a fallen star ever reclaim the sun that saved him? Or will the shadows consume them both?

*I've written multiple chapters and plan to post one new chapter every day* Welcome to Oakhaven. It is a town trapped in time, choked by dense woods, and haunted by a murder that defies the laws of physics. Fresh out of the academy, a rookie officer is thrown straight into a nightmare: a body found in an impossible state, surrounded by gravity-defying blood spatter and cryptic, glowing symbols. Every local family is hiding a secret, every veteran cop is looking the other way, and every shadow seems to move on its own. Follow the breadcrumbs. Connect the dots. Watch a terrifying, supernatural puzzle snap perfectly into place as the final hour strikes. You will think you have solved it. You will think you see the whole picture. But in Oakhaven, the truth does not lie in what you are shown-it lies in how you choose to look at it.