Nanowrimo2021 Stories

TW: Kidnapping --------- For well over a decade, people have been vanishing. It started on a beach. Then went further throughout the city. There was never a trace of any of the city-people, no matter how far and hard the police searched. The Umbers have just moved in, unaware of this fact. What they discover about the disappearances may be horrifying. ----- Cover design made by @JABrownOfficial #161 in #disappearance on May 21, 2021 #81 in #disappearance on May 28, 2021

Being 16 sucks. Being 16 and running away after you burn down a library with flames you shoot from your hands, trying to carve out a place in the world for yourself while understanding this strange curse double sucks. Getting interrupted from figuring out magic completely on your own by an evil witch with plans to take over the world by doing *extremely* gross things to dead bodies triple sucks. Add in a pet mouse, a hot boy who shows up halfway through and amounts of emotional suppression never before known to mankind and you get a rough approximation of Max's life.

The Alchemist's Apprentice has a host of responsibilities: passing the annual alchemical examinations, protecting the town, keeping her Master sober, wooing her love interest, and providing lackluster advice to villagers...to name a few. Keeping Marsh's Master in check is the least of her problems, but trying to keep Marsh's identity a secret from her crush, The Alchemists' PTA, and a government that wants her dead? Not the best way to spend her agonizing teenage years. Everything about Marsh is a lie and the only truth is that she shouldn't be alive- yet by some miracle of chance and accident she still breathes. What's one more deception to keep her alive?

An aspiring eighteen-year-old author realizes she is a character in an unwritten horror novel and must use her storytelling knowledge to survive. ***** Eighteen-year-old romance writer, Ima Jean Paige, questions the afterlife following the recent death of her brother, leading her and her friends Zeke Garble, Felicity Weiland, and Atem Tahir to the remote Ayahuasca forests for a private spiritual retreat. Although her search is for the meaning of life and beyond, she discovers an odd story outline in her notebook detailing and predicting the night's unsettling and bizarre happenings. Realizing they are characters in an unwritten horror novel, she must rely on the notebook and her storytelling abilities to not only gain control of her life but somehow steer the narrative toward a happily ever after. For fans of The Cabin in the Woods, Midsommar, and The Babadook! ***** TRIGGER & CONTENT WARNING: For references of suicide, drugs and alcohol, and mild sexual content ***** || Wattys Awards 2022 Wattpad WEBTOON Studios Entertainment Prize Winner (for film and/or television adaptation) || || Wattys Awards 2022 Horror Winner || || Wattys Shortlist 2022 || || AmbyAwards Horror Winner 2022 || || Editor's Pick 2022 || || NaNoWriMo Winner 2021 || - - Copyright © 2021 by L.L. Sanders

This is a spinoff of the original Goblin's Trilogy. In the aftermath of Matilda's death, the new goblin queen, her granddaughter Hella, is left with the overwelming task of meeting her own expectations. Struggling with grief and the feeling that she is failing to match her grandmother's greatness, she commits the worst sin a goblin ever could in the Underground. She shows weakness. Odd's son, Fenrir, and his siblings are quick to snap at her bared throat and rip everything Hella has ever loved and wanted from her. Only six months into her queenship, Hella is left with nothing. She flees the Underground in shame, seeking the refuge of the Autumn branches with her two lovers, the elf Lias, and Snorri's daughter, Kara, at her heels. However, in the Autumn Branches, she does not find the peace she wanted, but a creature with a terrible power filling the void Athane's death left behind as the god of memory. The young god offers to let Hella wade through the river of time to stop her cousins from tearing apart the empire, but this bargain will carry a great and deadly price. A price that will pit her against the very grandmother she idolized.

Vera is your average small town farmer who loves her life. That love is why she was chosen by a rag tag group of dimension hopping commandos looking to save their world from a grisly end. Vera is just what they need to right the wrongs in their world. Will Vera survive the trip through the "rabbit hole" or will she lose herself to what could be?

Overly cautious and hopelessly single Julie Kendrick is finally getting over her one failed attempt at love. But now she has to join her serendipitously paired off siblings for their annual family Christmas gathering in Quebec City. Alone. Unless her mother has her way and manages to pair her off with a local who, to hear her tell it, could solve Julie's man drought. Desperate to avoid the family matchmaking game, Julie enlists her friend Christian Xie to help her run interference, but he only agrees on the condition that they tell their families they are dating. And with her options looking thinner than a cookie sheet, Julie sees no other choice but to settle into a routine with Christian. But just as she's ready to take the fake part out of dating Christian, her first and only love, Ronan Tremblay, comes waltzing back into her life. Torn between a residual love for both men, Julie tries to keep up appearances with her family while allowing Ronan a chance to redeem himself. But going from dating no one to juggling two men at once might prove to be more than Julie can handle. Especially with her family still trying to set her up with that local gentleman. ~*~ Featured in @romance 's Hot for the Holidays reading list: July, 2022 ~*~ This story is now complete! Feel free to binge read at your leisure.

Hogwarts Founders left behind a secret that was never meant to be cracked, for it could bring about the end of the school. Merlin needs to deal with his dragon emergency without hurting his mission to protect Harry Potter from the murderous Sirius Black. The twins need to face the fallout of past choices to heal their relationship, but their future plans seem to lead them on different paths. Remus Lupin wants to prove that werewolves can coexist with wizards peacefully, that he can be a teacher despite the beast within him. But curses are not in the habit of making plans easy to execute. Ever wondered where the Hogwarts castle's magic came from? The gravity of what the Founders had done will finally be revealed. Merlin had no idea just how far they went. ~~~ Welcome to Book 2 of The NOOM. If you didn't read Book 1 yet, you should get on it or you will get a bunch of spoilers. We're in Prisoner of Azkaban timeline. Merlin, Jack, and Elsa are now in their second year while Harry, Ron and Hermione are in their third year. The idea of Cursed Vaults comes from the game Hogwarts Mystery, but I'm using it loosely, spinning it my own way. I dare say, my Vaults are cooler, but I might be biased. How about you tell me? Surprise, I don't own the characters or the world of Harry Potter, or Hogwarts Mystery game, or BBC Merlin, or Rise of the Guardians, or Frozen. Phew. The list is growing. Enjoy!

Whitney Brooks compares herself to Robin Hood. She steals from the rich to gives to the poor. But she only takes money from bad people. However, after she is crippled in a carriage accident, she must change her ways. Now, she is righting the wrongs in her life, and she ends up in Fort Benton, Montana. When she recognizes a man from her past, she fears U.S. Marshal Jake Sterling might just arrest her. Although Jake Sterling is not a hero, he takes his job seriously and follows an outlaw to Fort Benton. Jake has a gut feeling that the outlaw is going to steal the rubies coming on one of the steamboats. But the more he gets to know the woman who is lovelier than a desert rose, the more he believes she is a thief and working side-by-side with the outlaw. How can he tell his heart that Whitney isn't the woman for him, when her passionate kisses tell him differently?

Aurora Bailey has had a hard life, and the horizon is only looking harder. She's finally had enough of her abusive partner and decides to leave him, but finds she can't when he keeps pulling her back, sometimes even physically. After many attempts to leave him she manages to slip away and finds a new slew of problems. She's a girl alone, and right after she sees Gharet, her ex-abusive partner, with another girl, Aurora is attacked in an alley. Just when she thinks she's about to be murdered in a grimy alley, a man comes to her rescue, and who better than the friend of the prince and princess? Lord Evander has her attacker arrested and takes Aurora to his home, a large estate. Aurora settles in comfort in a safe new world and believes being on the other side everything is perfect, but again, she's wrong, and Gharet isn't finished with her. He goes as far to rope the church in and have her returned to him. She battles a tiring fight struggling to just have a peaceful life. Can she, or will she be trapped by Gharet forever? [Total 60,000 words] 🏅2 in Nanowrimo21 12.3.21 🏅9 Peasant 12.7.21 🏅27 Nobles 12.4.21 🏅35 Fantasyworld 12.7.21

Promises are meant to be broken. But hearts are not. Why, then, do Nicholas and Lydia have a difficult time mending theirs? Book 6 in my Runaway Brides Series.

Four siblings go up against an expert thief who isn't afraid to get a little blood on his hands to get what he wants. The kids don't quite know what they're doing and can never get along even in the simplest situations, so they might not have what it takes to defeat such a villain.

Eden's Gate Orphanage and School was established over 100 years ago as a place for psychic children to safely learn and understand their powers in a world that often cannot or will not help them. Indeed, the world is a dangerous place for people who can't control their powers and will fear them for it. Kaitlyn Edenchild and her friends have largely been there since before they remember, and have grown up at the school and are some of its star students. But strange things are happening. When one of her friends disappears, the children have to find out who is behind it, and why, before something truly and utterly terrifying comes... if it isn't already here. Cover Art by http://www.wendywhite13.tumblr.com

[IN PROGRESS] After his rebellion failed, Patrick and his team escaped to another world, thinking to be safe there, and live out what remained of their broken lives in whatever peace they might find. But the world he found wasn't the one he expected, and that remainder of his life threatened to become very short, unless he found a way to survive in this monster-ridden hostile environment. To make matters worse, more refugees started to come in, falling through portals, disturbing the balance. With them they brought tales of war and chaos, the horrors of those who were left behind, and the ravenous hunger for blood of the Tyrant they thought they left behind. Unable to leave the new settlers to their fate, Patrick and his team take on the roles that are pushed onto them, some with enthusiasm, some with reluctance, all striving to build a better world than the one they left behind. They should have realized that portals that open once, can be opened again, and that what they thought they left behind, might one day catch up. ** This story is also being published on Royal Road. **

|| ✨ 2022 WATTYS WINNER ✨ || || x8 FEATURED || Kill the monsters. Claim the bounty. Escape to Alaska. ------------ Ten years ago, an event known as The Turning upset the balance of Earth's ecosystems. Demons emerged from the depths of Hell, dragging along with them obscure creatures from old myths and legends. In the midst of all this chaos, eighteen-year-old Raine Barlow makes a living by hunting monsters. No price is too high, no monster is too deadly. Her goal is simple: to make enough money to escape to Alaska -- where her parents are rumored to be held. And Raine just might be able to do it: the mayor of Eureka has agreed to pay her $10,000 to escort his young daughter to the City of Dust -- a former metropolis surrounded by walls and secrets. Armed with poison-tipped crossbow bolts, her own brand of small magic, and an aging battle-elk named Winston, Raine and her charge must trek across the dust-covered and desolate stretches of a California highway, all the while trying to avoid the monsters and demons who are trying to take over the world. Cover created by @Shreya_VA

In 1979 Regulus put his past behind him and started a new life with his new family - his Muggle family. Outside of one day in the summer of 1992, he avoided stepping foot into the wizarding world. But then, in June of 1995, a snake raised its ugly head. Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter. This story works with the headcanon of Regulus being on the spectrum and also the biological father of Hermione Granger. It's also one of my major NaNoWriMo projects for this year along with a lot of shorter stories over the course of this month such as ones written for Froday Flash Fiction challenge which won't be added to my NaNoWriMo series.

Courtney Torres is a liar. Pretending for months she's been seeing someone, she's finally forced to find a fake date to bring to her family's Christmas celebration - a task that gets ultimately even harder when she convinces her coworker Liv to play the part. Liv, who not only hates Christmas, but Courtney as well. For NaNoWriMo 2021.

Eda has never seen life outside of Asterism, a haven to most but a prison to her. Closely watched by her mother and her assigned Guardian, Alstroe, she lives a perfect, protected life, until all she knows is destroyed by Aries, a man who will stop at nothing to fulfil a century's old betrothal to Eda. Forced to leave the only home she has known, Eda must face the dangers of High Court, the dangerous affections of a wild prince, and her own fate.