Icuawards2018 Stories

Two teenage inventors find themselves in over their heads against deadly creatures that lurk in the shadows. Trapped in a laboratory haunted by its own past, they find that it's more than just their lives at stake. The battle against insanity may be more difficult than the battle to make it out alive. First in the Insanity series but can be read as a standalone. Credit to @-Judy- for the cover. Credit to @_peach_bunny for editing it up to chapter five.

Words are used everyday, by millions of people, in different languages, by use of verbal communication, which is primarily used. Being able to say a poem, a joke, even singing, as well as many other things are ways of communication to others expressing how you feel about things. It seems like it is taken for granted, by everyone everyday. You speak to our friends, parents, family, teachers, people in authority, strangers, workers, ect, and you have no worries about speaking. The only real worry is thinking before you speak, which we all haven't done at least once in our life. For Son Mailee, words are something she types into her tablet, or writes on paper, to show others how she feels and what she wants to say. Unlike us, she is unable to use her voice, since losing it by an unknown reason as a young child. She has to use things to speak for her, and she often gets not heard, due to not having her own voice. Life is difficult when you can't verbally express how you feel, that you rely on electronics to voice it or people taking time to read what you wrote on your paper. It is far from easy and in most cases she is the center of everyone's jokes and bullying as well. Things take a turn when she moves to South Korea, her comfy American life gets turned upside down as she realizes no one truly understands how she feels and what she has to deal with. Come along for this young girl's journey and see whether she makes it or not, and we can always hope for the best, right? ** This book is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. INFRINGEMENT NOT INTENDED ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT 2018 © by Me * Beta reading done by: @-Xazh-

What do you do when your mother is a witch? Submit? Fight? Run? The Witch Dagan wants nothing more than her three children to accept her dark life. Her first daughter Sara is a natural at magic and has been obedient so far, but when Sara meets someone who shows her what it's like to be kind, she rebels against her mother and escapes from the woods. The Witch's younger children Henry and Gertrude are twins, lucky for witchcraft, but Gertrude is timid and Henry is stubborn. The Witch thinks she can change them by sending Gertrude through a terrifying witch's trial in the Bog of Spooks and forcing Henry into submission by threatening everyone he cares about. With such a mother, can Gertrude learn to be brave? Can Henry protect his friends? And can Sara become an entirely different person than what the Witch wants her to be?