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  • The Famoux by famouxx
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    Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death. ***** Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly... Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence. [[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]
  • I Raised His Son... Then He Married Someone Else by Sandra949393
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    Eight years ago, I fell in love with a widower and the little boy who needed a mother. While everyone else saw Daniel rebuilding his life, I was the one holding it together. I dried Noah's tears, celebrated his birthdays, sat through his fevers, and loved him as if he had been born to me. Every time I asked about marriage, Daniel promised, "Soon." I believed him. Until the day I discovered he wasn't planning our wedding. He was planning his wedding to another woman. To make matters worse, the woman he was marrying had no idea I existed. She believed she was marrying a devoted single father, while the little boy who called me "Mom" had no idea his family was about to fall apart. Walking away should have been easy. Except Noah refused to let me go. And Daniel only realized what he'd lost after someone else started seeing my worth. A heartbreaking psychological romance about love, sacrifice, betrayal, healing, and discovering that sometimes the greatest love story begins the moment you stop begging someone else to choose you.
  • Confessions About Colton by colourlessness
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    WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
  • All the things we lost.  by YourNeverGonnaKnow18
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    Freya and Malachi used to be inseparable. They were best friends for over nine years, growing up side by side through primary school and everything after. But somewhere along the way, things fell apart badly, and now, in Year 11, they act like strangers. Malachi became popular without even trying. Girls are always around him, but he is not the player everyone assumes he is losing her hit him harder than anyone thinks too. Freya, on the other hand, changed completely after losing him. She became quiet, anxious, and withdrawn, carrying more pain than anyone realised. Her dad, her only living parent, died. And Malachi had no idea.
  • RIOT by moji222
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    " I heard about guys like you ? But I hate to break it to you baby this won't end how you think it will ." Yamaria said confidently eyeing the man in front of her " you think I'm doing this for sport ? Yea you have me mistaken ma but you peaked my interest so wassup ?" Getting straight to his point he wasn't the type of man to bullshit anyways .. " Carmelo you got plenty girls would happily let you mind fuck them I'm not her tho ." Yamaria said dismissively Was she attracted to the man of course but she knew better than to think a man like Carmelo would be anything aside from a good time .. " you're scared ." " bullshit I ain't be been scare for shit since my parents died ." Yamaria spat defensively " prove it .. one date you not feeling it I won't even look ya way again :" "one date carmelo .." What happens when yamaria ahmed and melo sands meet in passing accidentally .. It was like a force of its own when the two locked eyes .. maybe it was the way her caramel tatted skin illuminated in the summer night .. or maybe it was his chocolate skin and strong build and dangerous smile .. Carmelo was everything your mother told you to stay away from .. but for that matter so was yamaria .. she had a hard exterior from her being conditioned to survive in this cold world .. That and the life lessons given to her by her older brother turned guardian, yusef .. yuself Ahmed really came from nothing but he had no choice but to make something shake when they lost their parents in a tragic car crash leaving the two orphans .. In yusefs mind no one was good enough for his mari and he would continue to bully and wed out the weak niggas who claimed they wanted her, on her behalf until a nigga was bold enough to go toe to toe with him about her .. And what if yusef finally met his match ? How will everything unfold when yusef feels he's losing the last of the family he has ? Find out in Riot ...
  • Hey Neighbor by LadyLoveLT
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    After losing the love of her life unexpectedly, Jessica finds herself pregnant and in a horrible situation with her former mother in law, whose mission seems like nothing more than to irritate her. Jessica, a caterer turned restaurateur, misses a catering gig with a sorority arranged by Kamala Harris due to the unexpected death of her husband. Years later, after finally coming to terms that being around her manipulative ex mother in law is doing her more harm than good, she sells the house, takes her baby, and begins a new life. When she discovers who her new neighbor is, her world is turned upside down.
  • Hold on - Evan Buckley Fanfic by authorgrande
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    At Station 118, Aurora Russo and Evan Buckley have been inseparable for years - partners in chaos, confidants in quiet moments, and the kind of best friends who speak fluent sarcasm and shared glances. From the outside, it's all jokes and banter. But inside, something deeper has been growing. Aurora, who once only has her father Francesco Russo to call family, never imagined she'd find a second home in a firehouse. But with Bobby, Hen, Chimney, Eddie - and Buck - she finally understands what it means to belong. To be seen. To be understood. And Love? That's not a word she trusts. Not after watching her mother walk out at sixteen. Not after years of building walls to protect herself and her dad. But Buck? He's relentless in the softest way. He shows up. He listens. He stays. And no matter how hard Aurora tries to convince herself it's nothing, her heart keeps proving her wrong. He's not just trying to win her over. He's trying to show her that maybe - just maybe - love isn't a fairytale. It's real. And it's standing right in front of her.
  • Kion's Sacrifice (A KionxRani Story) by lionguardfan_203
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    The Pride Lands, a land known for its peace, harmony, and determination to uphold the teachings and practices of the Circle of Life. However, in order to protect and maintain such peace, someone must carry the burden of the Pride Lands' dirty work...
  • Rejection on the Alpha #1 by BlondeDecember1
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    Rejection is not natural. Neither is being wolf-born, but that one I had to live with. It began with a rejection, and not one that was taken lightly. I knew the meaning of dominance before I was forced to kneel before him. The orphanage taught submission, but Alpha Martin Julius wanted far more. Submission. Power. Obedience. Abduction. And the one thing that I could never forgive...the belief that he could hit me and get away with it. The belief that men in this world are the only ones made to rule every continent, every country, every being and object...women were treated like those objects. Power danced in this dirty, entitled fingers and women were whacked and beaten into obedience. Power. Submission. Loyalty. Power belongs to the men and only the men. Submission is the only thing that must be taken seriously in a woman. Loyalty...stay loyal to the death. Rejection wouldn't have been possible if there was equality. There is nothing equal about the man who won't let me reject him.
  • Big Hero 6 Plus One by itz-xskyex
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    ❝Someone has to help.❞ ❝I'm not giving up on you.❞ - - - - - Teen genius brother-sister duo Hiro and Ariyana Hamada -- prodigies of robotics and figure skating, respectively -- live in the high-tech futuristic city of San Fransokyo. Next to their older brother Tadashi, their closest companion is Baymax, a nurse robot whose sole purpose is to take care of people. When tragedy strikes and a devastating turn of events launches Hiro and Ariyana into the middle of a dangerous plot, the pair transform Baymax and their college nerd friends -- anxious neat freak physicist Wasabi, energetic optimistic chemistry whiz Honey Lemon, sardonic daredevil mechanical engineer Go Go, and eccentric comic book fanboy Fred -- into a band of high-tech heroes to face the threat. - - - - - ♡ Hamada sister alternate universe (AU) ♡ Book 1 of the Big Hero 7 Duology ♡ Status | Draft 2, final revisions ♡ Started | January 2021 ♡ Draft 1 | January-June 2021 ♡ Draft 2 | August 2022-TBA ♡ Published | August 2022 ♡ Completed | To Be Announced... ♡ Total time | To Be Determined... ♡ Word count | 66,000-67,000 | Most Impressive Rankings | #184 in #sisterandbrother (8/14/2022) #1 in #bighero7 (2/21/2023) #1 in #danielhenney (3/13/2023) #233 in #undiscoveredjems (12/3/2023) #1 in #sanfransokyo (5/19/2024) #1 in #bighero6fanfiction (9/9/2024) #1 in #ryanpotter (3/3/2025) #1 in #tadashihamada (3/16/2025) #1 in #hirohamada (4/27/2025) #1 in #lossofalovedone (5/28/2025) #866 in #brothers (11/13/2025) #1 in #bighero6 (12/3/2025) #1 in #sanfransokyo (2/12/2026) #1 in #deathofalovedone (5/15/2026) #1 in #baymax (5/15/2026) #29 in #loss (7/8/2026) #33 in #grief (7/8/2026) #40 in #brotherandsister (7/8/2026) #46 in #depression (8/14/2026) - - - - - Cover, original character, storyline alterations: ©Skye Hamada ©Big Hero 6 Plus One™ Big Hero 6: ©Walt Disney Animation Studios™
  • Living in a Mirage by ahajnal
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    Manik Malhotra, Nandini's soulmate & Cabir's best friend, has been missing for the past 4 years, presumed dead in a car accident he had been involved in, yet the circumstances of his disappearance were strange. For the past 4 years, the two had teamed up to search for Manik, but remained empty-handed, encountering dead ends. While Nandini was believed to be living in a mirage by refusing to accept Manik's death, Cabir was accused of encouraging her delusional behavior. Just when all hope seemed lost, Nandini supposedly found him. "I know I have been proven wrong before, but it was him..." Nandini recounted vividly. Battling with the fear of Nandini losing her sanity and the hope of finding Manik, Cabir, along with Nandini, embarks on a journey to find him that changed the course of their lives. *** Manik Malhotra had been on the brink of losing his sanity for years now, torn between reality and imagination, confusing one with the other; he had thought he had been running behind a mirage. He was told there was no Nandini, yet right before him was standing the girl everyone claimed had been only a figment of his imagination... --- Awarded:- #Featured Stories - Best of Outreach Hidden Gems - November 2022 - by Wattpad Outreach Team #"Top performance", 5.5 ⭐ - "one of top performance" - reviewed by "The Mystical Awards - June edition 2020" #1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" - Judging round - Star and Moon PaNi/MaNan awards #1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" Judging round - SILVER AQUA AWARD 2020 #2nd Place in the category of "General Fiction" - THE CRYSTAL ROSE AWARDS #3rd place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction - Indian" - Tricolor Triennial Awards #3rd Place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction" - The 10 Awards 2020 Book cover made by @monu2525 If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, please read this story in its original, safe form, on Wattpad (Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/185935493-living-in-a-mi
  • The Trade We Made by MyBayBeBlue
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    Trying to cope with the loss of his parents and older brother after a horrific car crash is the hardest thing Bhodi Phelps has ever done. It doesn't help that he's autistic, struggles to read people, and often asks the wrong questions at the worst possible time. Bhodi is convinced he can survive on his own, he's nineteen after all, but he isn't really surviving. He's drowning in grief. Then he sees his brother's face staring back at him from a stranger. Firefighter Jayco Brennan may look exactly like Clayton, but he is his own person, and he isn't prepared for the road Bhodi is about to pull him down. When Bhodi's uncle Reid arrives and realizes how badly his nephew is struggling, he strong-arms his way into Bhodi's life and starts trying to fix everything. Bhodi sees it as one more person taking away his choices. Jayco steps between them, hoping to bridge the growing divide. What he doesn't realize is that while he's trying to save Bhodi and Reid from losing each other, they may be exactly what he never knew he needed. Through chess games, terrible jokes, and a series of unexpected trades, three stubborn men discover that family doesn't always come from blood. Sometimes, it's something you build one trade at a time.
  • 3 Days by FMClements
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    3 Days SF Thriller For struggling filmmaker Andie McKenna, life could be better. Her fledgling film company is on the rocks. She's seventy-two hours away from being kicked out of her rent-by-the-week shoe box of an apartment in the dodgiest part of San Francisco, and her marriage is on life support. And if things couldn't get worse, she receives a cryptic telegram from the Mexican orphanage where she grew up: "Come quick, your father is dying." Interesting, since she's an orphan. Andie rushes to the orphanage where she grew up to find Father Pakal Ramirez, the priest who raised her, alive and well. He's going into the jungle after a lethal parasite, and he wants to see her one last time in case he doesn't return. When Andie is accidentally exposed to the parasite, Pakal draws her blood and gives her an anti-parasitic. She reacts to the medication and passes out. When she wakes, Pakal is gone. Furious beyond words, Andie returns to San Francisco to find the Bay Area plunged into chaos. Something fell from the sky and crashed north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Something not made by humans. And then there's the frozen, long-forgotten vial of blood, padlocked in a metal box and buried in the orphanage's freezer. Blood that will impact Andie's life irrevocably and shatter the illusion that we are alone in the universe.
  • Unfinished Vows ❤️‍🩹 by Khwab__Verse
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    Some promises are meant to last forever, even when the people who made them are gone. Kavya never imagined that love and loss could exist so close to each other. Just when life begins to feel impossible to hold together, she finds herself tied to a future she never planned, with a man she barely understands. Krishav appears distant, controlled, and impossible to read, yet beneath the silence lie truths that slowly begin to change everything she believed about moving on. Haunted by memories and bound by a promise, Kavya must decide whether holding on is the same as living... or if sometimes the hardest part of love is allowing life to continue. Some stories are not about forgetting the past, but about finding the courage to face what comes after.
  • If You Were Still Here by achicleoss
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    love was a deadline, spend my life fucking missing it. beau maxwell x oc
  • A Love decreed: calm after the storm  {editing} by purlyplum
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    Nabeel Maigori has perfected the art of appearing whole, a man whose life seems untouched by hardship. But behind closed doors, he is still living in the shadow of a loss that altered the course of his life, a man haunted by a tragedy he had never escaped. Then Nooriyyah, Gentle yet quietly resilient, never expected her life to become intertwined with a man carrying so much pain. What begins as an unexpected connection soon challenges everything they thought they knew about healing, trust, and love. As old scars reopen, Nabeel must confront the past he has spent years running from, while Nooriyyah must decide whether loving someone broken is worth the cost. 🌱 🌱 🌱 A Love Decreed is a heartfelt Muslim romance about grief, healing, second chances, and discovering that love is not always the cure but sometimes it is the reason we finally choose to heal. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 A/N: wrote this book as a teenager with no clue as to what it'll become , my first ever book here🥹 I'm so grateful to every single one of you that gave me a chance to share my super cliche story. I'm currently editing it to hopefully give it a more refined feel, direction and less cringey😂 Thank you so much for your love & support. Love , Maryam❤ Also Check out my new book : beyond the surface 💕 I'll continue writing it once i'm done fully editing and complete this book🍃 Find me on ig: @marymm.balaa
  • Before Tomorrow Comes by HoneyLemon_7
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    "If someone forgot every memory of loving you... would they still fall in love with you?" Every morning, Lee Sanghyeok wakes up to a stranger. Not because he wants to. But because his brain erases every memory he made the day before. The first thing he sees each morning is a worn black notebook with three simple words written across the cover: Read me first. Inside, he learns about the woman waiting outside his bedroom door. Her name is Amelia. She isn't a stranger. She's his wife. For years, Amelia has lived the same heartbreaking routine. Every sunrise, she watches the man she loves forget her all over again. Every morning, she introduces herself with a smile she has practiced thousands of times. "Hi. My name is Amelia." What begins as a story about memory slowly becomes a story about choice. But loving someone with a disappearing memory comes at a cost. Amelia quietly loses herself while carrying enough memories for both of them, until one ordinary grocery trip forces everyone-including Sanghyeok-to realize that even the strongest hearts eventually grow tired. Together, they learn that love isn't measured by what we remember. It's measured by what we choose. Because sometimes... The brain forgets. But the heart remembers. And every morning is another chance to fall in love all over again.
  • Superman: For The Man of Steel by Von_Revas2
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    What does it truly mean to be a hero in a world that breaks good people? Clark Kent, Krypton's last son and Smallville's golden boy. Raised on love, loss, and Kansas sunsets, becomes Superman, the symbol of hope. But every symbol has a cost While Superman fights for Metropolis in the skies, Lois Lane fights on the ground with only one weapon: the truth. When a grieving, broken man named Marcus Grant rises with devastating power, fueled by the same system that failed him, Metropolis is torn between two saviors. One believes in mercy. The other demands justice through blood. As Lois untangles the dangerous mystery of Marcus's past, she uncovers a conspiracy reaching into the darkest shadows of Lex Luthor's empire. In this adventure, Clark must face the hardest truth of all. Sometimes the real battle isn't against the villain in front of you, it's against the darkness threatening to swallow the hero inside. A story of love, sacrifice, rage, and redemption. Of a journalist who refuses to look away, and a hero who chooses to be kind when the world tries to break him. What happens when hope itself is put on trial? For the dreamers. For the broken. For everyone still reaching for the stars.
  • The Guide(DISCONTINUED) by VentiIsTheBest111
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    {A Cookie Run Kingdom OC story} Very few would know of him, well, even a few isn't very accurate, as only a couple cookies on Earthbread ever got to meet the Guide; who was as mysterious as they were kind... but, despair is a part of life, and every cookie is bound to face it eventually. -Oc centric -Does not really follow the lore/story but also kind of? -Slow Burn, like extremely slow -Comments and feedback are welcome! -First fic!!! Some characters belong to DEVSISTERS; so does the lower half of the cover (I was lazy). Art on/ upper half of the cover is by me :). Btw if you see this on AO3 under PureVanilla_Venti then that's me! Felt like posting it there too cuz why not.
  • Origins of the "Parents of the Cosmos." (Rosalina x Oc) by AlsterGalaxy
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    Have you ever wondered the origins of the wise, powerful, and occasionally lighthearted cosmic couple? The guardians of the universe. The adoptive parents of the Lumas. Here's their origins story. A story of friendship, family, happiness, expectations, and class divides. Which eventually spirals into crisis and dependence. Loss, pain, and depression. Even the threat of human extinction. But we all know how the story ultimately ends. Everyone's familiar with Mario, Luigi, and Peach. The Mushroom Kingdom lives on today, bustling with Toads. Though, there aren't many humans... I wonder why? (Rosalina, The Mushroom Kingdom, and all other Mario references are owned by Nintendo. I have no rights or ownership of any characters, locations, and power-ups except for my own.)