Nanowrimo2020 Stories

NANOWRIMO 2020 Haĝiēn, an alien scientifically collaborating with a group of extraterrestrials to collect different earth samples, sees a human, Bree, on the monitor on his spaceship observing his craft as a bright light in the sky. Intrigued by the way she looks and her reaction to the strange object in the sky, he works his way into venturing to meet her. Once they meet, will Bree be as interested in knowing Haĝiēn as he is interested in getting to know her? And if she is, will the stars align for them regardless if they live galaxies apart?

[Book Four of the "Patrons' World" series. Part one of the Ankūro Trilogy.] Life in Kaima village was always slow and difficult. Rice would be planted, the rains come, then the harvest, then the bandit raids. For Ka house owner Ajo, his daughter Tiima and village Headwoman, Apē, the seasons passed in a never-ending, constant cycle. Nothing changed. Nothing happened. Until the arrival of a strange, old woman threatens to to bring everything crashing down. With lies, secrets and hidden passions revealed in the woman's wake, can the village survive? Or will Ajo, Tiima and Apē regret the day Ankūro came to Kaima? A fantasy story, set in "Patrons' World". Inspired by the samurai movies of Akira Kurosawa and written, in it's entirety, during NaNoWriMo, November 2020. See also the sequels: 'Siinji' and 'Kaguta'. 🥈2nd Place in "One In A Million Awards" - Fantasy Category (23rd Sep 2021)🥈 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

Katie is the ultimate planner, with a carefully created life plan, when she grows up she'll have it all: law career, husband, house and kids. On her boyfriend Mark's thirtieth birthday, he proposes. Except he drops a bombshell, he's bored and leaves on a gap year, without her. Katie wonders if she can plan zest into her life without going abroad, after all, she's on the Partner Track Program at a top-notch law firm and can't just leave. Yet she's always wanted to go skydiving, enter a karaoke competition and she surely could squeeze excitement in as well as achieve her law ambitions. But Dan, a work colleague who lives life by the seat of his pants, believes she's going about things all wrong. It's spontaneity she's missing. Even the greatest plan can go fundamentally wrong in love and at work. Katie can plan to love someone forever, but sometimes that someone doesn't plan to love you back. Sometimes careers can become derailed and even go off track. Can Katie learn to let go because sometimes life needs to be lived in the moment? #NaNoWriMo2020

Continuation of the NaNoWrimo 2019 project

Lucius finds himself on a mission with his wife's youngest cousin, yet he finds himself wondering what use the Dark Lord could see in the child. Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter.

One day in the 26th year of Halloween, 1993, something strange happened. Two sisters named Sol and Luna had gone out for Halloween Trick-Or-Treats when Luna rose into the sky. The next day when the family, missing Luna, went for their daily walk. Then Sol had risen into the sky just like Luna. They were spotted rising by two detectives. They wrote down their findings quickly, and are now found in the history books as a "paranormal event." What happened to Luna and Sol soon later? Read and find out!

A group of mercenaries must escort a mysterious woman through the dangerous lands of Nordlund, where she must reunite with her people in a battle against time.

The forgotten history tells the story of the Goddess of Night. The first Vampire/Werewolf hybrid. She was the true bringer of peace amongst the supernaturals until a jealous god cast an unruly spell filling both sides with hate. The spell severed the Goddess from her wolf form, creating a strain between the two. With the last bit of power she possessed, she willed the impossible. One day a new hybrid will be born with the hopes of bringing the two sides back together. For millions of years, Werewolves and Vampires could never coexist. One species hates the other far more than they should. No one ever knew the true nature behind the feud. Now living amongst humans they have to learn to coexist. Dion Silus Nixon, lived in the Estera Pack, on the northern outskirts of a small town called Brighton. The next in line for the Beta position, he finds himself stuck between doing right by his pack and doing right by his heart. Azaria Jewelle Shaw lived on the southern outskirts of Brighton. Her coven did all they could to ignore the wolves. They kept the peace for the sake of humanity. Azaria wanted to show she was a great leader, yet it was hard to stay away from the wolves when her best friend was one. The fates of these two species change during one eventful night.

Lied to by her magical family, human Siggi must betray them and bind herself to a man she thought was her enemy to save her people and uncover her magic. ***** Living with eternals, beings who survive off human blood, is all human Siggi has known.On the night of her transition she is betrayed by her adoptive family, the royal family of Luxtera. To stop them, she binds herself to Eirik, a man from the opposing land of Myrkria. Her family only wanted her for the power that's dormant in her blood. Escaping Luxtera, Eirik helps her open her eyes to her powers, which are as terrifying as the magic binding them. She must learn to trust herself and decipher whether or not what she feels toward Eirik is from the bond or something more. She has to, or else she'll never be able to stop her family's dark plans. If she isn't careful, the slightest mistake could have irrevocable impact on what she holds dear.

Reed and Shelly's partnership has begun to rebuild but must now deal with a strange series of people being paralyzed with fear without reason. An old standing supervillain has made her presence known and she appears to have a history with Celestial Calvary and Thomas himself. When Reed and Shelly become her latest victims, Thomas will have to break a promise if he hopes to have a chance at saving them. Can he control this power in time to overcome his fears or will he fall back into the shadows again?

||WATTYS 2021 SHORTLIST|| ||FREE STORY WITH PAID BONUS CONTENT|| Allison, the front woman of rising rock band Hell Flower, has been experiencing bizarre blackouts and other strange symptoms. In a fateful night after performing a show, she loses control and commits a crime she can't take back. On the run for her life and from the law, the race begins for Allison to find a cure for her curse before it takes her humanity, or worse, her life. The only ones who might know what is going on and be able to help are her parents. Too bad both of them are dead . . . or so she thought. *** This was my project for #NaNoWriMo2020 . The entire novel was written within a month, and I achieved my goal on November 30th. This is a spin-off to Make Them Scream. It can be read as a stand alone story; however, reading this before Make Them Scream will be a spoiler.

The death of a pharmaceutical mogul's wife brings a rising drug cartel, a compromised police force, and a depressed CEO in a collision course to control a deadly new opiate, DayDream, that makes you dream awake. The drug, the company, the streets of Boston, are all up for grabs. ***** It seemed like any other Boston obituary - Zizi Geber, the wife of pharmaceutical mogul Henry White, dead in a car accident. And still, there are too many questions and not enough answers, especially when the police come knocking at Henry's door saying they found signs of foul play. With his company's drug flodding the streets illegally, the police investigating his wife's death, and shady competitors trying to take him down, the only peace he can find is at the bottom of a pill bottle - or so he thinks. Corrupt detective Graham Dunne thought this was going to be an open and shut case. Accidents happen, after all. But every step he takes, he seems to be beaten to the punch by someone trying to cover up the truth, and the name of the crime family paying his bills keeps popping up. But above all, there seems to be something else, something macabre at play. And in the middle of all: DayDream, the drug that makes you dream awake. Follow a journey of grief, vengeance, murder, and surrealism, as a terrible conspiracy seizes control of a historic New England city, and discover how far a person is willing to go to achieve peace. For peace is only a DayDream away.

After the tragic and sudden death of her mother, Keeley is resolute on finding answers. But in order to do so, she must enlist the help of someone who has been excluded from her life for three years. This plunges her into a world she's not all too familiar with, a world where she has to perform tasks many have failed to, to retrieve an ancient relic that might just be her way out of this hell. But Keeley soon discovers doing so won't be as easy as she'd hoped it would.

"You think the air here is bad? Wait till we get to Akambé, a place known in the old Nigeria as Ajegunle." In the year 2089, the Eron virus struck Nigeria. Affecting people by the millions, fear made every other Nation prevent Nigerians from coming to their country. The government in fear of catching this built up the Nevite gate, gathering few of the unaffected and leaving the rest behind. Chidera, an eighteen year old girl from the Nevite land is in search of her sister, who had been missing for two years, she finds out secrets behind her sister's whereabouts and that of others who have been tagged missing. Secrets were discovered and she was pushed into the wild, along with a frenemy.

[Currently writing for NaNoWriMo2020] Kiera Arlington has been in love with Taylor Walker since her freshman year of college. So, when she receives a screenshot from an unknown number on New Year's Day 2020 of Taylor Walker asking her out a year in the future, she doesn't exactly know what to do with it. But the pictures keep coming, and on New Year's Day 2021, Taylor Walker asks her out. But the pictures become less inviting as the relationship presses on, until Kiera realizes they might mean that her perfect relationship with her perfect match will eventually come to an end. She is ready to do everything in her power to stop that from happening, but what if the future will come to pass no matter how we try to fix it? And what if our perfect relationships with our perfect matches are in fact the most toxic of all? A tale of love, loss, and finding yourself amidst terrible pain, 'A Thousand Words' asks if we are truly capable of changing the future to bend to our will, and if we could say that a picture is honestly worth a thousand words.

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Nanowrimo Project of 2020! The night was the worst part. The creatures of the fields and woods screamed out, some even cried in hopes of luring someone in. I was left alone in my room, clenching my eyes shut in hopes that the man in the corner would believe I was asleep. All I had to do was stay still until morning. Everything is harder to notice when the suns out.

Restart your life, but there's a catch

**Cover done by @LittleVee ** The fate of the world and all of humanity is at stake when Fate himself releases the Seven Deadly Sins from their captivity. While the human world is plunged into chaos, angels and demons must come together and figure out how to catch and contain the Sins. However, each individual, regardless of species, has a weakness that yearns to fall into the hands of the immortals they're chasing. And the longer the Sins walk among Heaven, Earth, and Hell, the more Fate realizes the devastation and consequences his actions have caused.

2011: It's been ten years since the sky literally came crashing down around Yael Malkah and upended her world. Now she's returned to New York to visit her ailing grandmother. With no other family, it's up to her to take care of the family business, even at the risk of her sobriety. Haustin Macauley is a firefighter struggling to come to terms with his survivor's guilt, and does whatever he can to drown out the event that still keeps him up at night, even taking reckless risks. The only thing that keeps him going is the people he saved when hell came crashing around him, the only proof he has that he isn't a complete failure. When Yael meets the man who saved her life that fateful day, she can't help but feel a connection in her grief. As Haustin and Yael grow closer, the two must find their way through the minefield of family problems and post-traumatic stress to the possibility of a life that might resemble normal again. Weekly Friday updates. Occasional Tuesday updates.