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Aunt Mabel is dead, found lying amongst her daisies in her garden. Two eyes anxiously watch over her. The police arrive, but questions soon crop up. Is it actually Aunt Mabel? And who or what did it? A wild animal? A person? A baby dragon? Something strange is afoot in the Auntie's garden and it's up to Officer Holt Martinez, Estelle, and her cousin Julia, to figure it all out before it's too late. Little does she know that an unplanned trip to the Dragon's Lair Bookshop will upend everything she thought she knew about life, this world, and those beyond. *The Novella Version was a Open Novella Contest ONC 2026 Long List Winner!

*New chapters every Wednesday at 3:30 PM (GMT/BST)!* Experience the magic of Constance M. Burge's Charmed as you've only imagined! Join the third iteration of the Charmed Ones as they struggle with the loss of their sister and the implications of her untimely death, and continue their destined battle against the forces of evil. The Halliwell sisters' destiny has been rewritten, and life as they know it has changed-more than they realize. After the tragic loss of their younger sister, Phoebe, Piper wants nothing more than to put her life as a witch behind her, while Prue is consumed with vengeance. However, when the Source of All Evil surfaces, they discover the existence of half-sister, Paige Matthews. As reluctant as they are to accept Paige, Prue and Piper must put aside their feelings to protect her and reconstitute the Power of Three; only then can they begin to uncover the truth about their sister's death and the larger mystery surrounding it. I͏N͏F͏O͏R͏M͏A͏T͏I͏O͏N͏ Genre: Fantasy/Mystery/Drama. Style: Novel format retelling/reimagining, third-person omniscient perspective, American-Style English. Word count: ~1.5-3.5K per chapter (~230K total once completed). Continuation publishing dates: Relaunched 03/03/26. Novella publishing dates: Started 05/08/24, completed 30/08/24, edited 30/08/25.

Li Xin sketches the boy she was never supposed to want. Zhou Yan-sharp-tongued, untouchable, and cruel enough to notice. He exposes her obsession in front of everyone... and then whispers that it's not enough. Now he's in her space. In her head. And maybe, under her skin-where the bruises don't always show. And the more he breaks her, the more she draws him. She sketched him in silence. He answers with destruction. #1 at Moonflower Mini Awards 🏆 Best Ongoing Book #2 at the Vortex Time Awards: 🏆 Best Fluff/Romance Scene 🏆 Best Pick-Up/Flirty Line #1 in #dominantmalelead 09/06/2025 #1 in #loventerestfallsinlovefirst 2/07/2026 #2 in #intenseemotions 09/06/2025 #4 in crush 09/06/2025

Egy fiatalember megörökli elhunyt nagyanyja hatalmas házát. Amit alatta talál, attól nem csak a családjáról alkotott képét vonja kétségbe, de még az ismert valóságát is megkérdőjelezi. Vajon mi bújik meg a mélyben? S mit őriztek olyan féltve eddig odalent?

The elders promised Violet, a self-described "scrappy" wolfling, that her metamorphosis into a full-fledged werewolf would reveal her purpose within monstrum society's strict hierarchy. Little did they know, that purpose would be to tear the whole thing apart, one bite at a time. Bite is a humorous and raw exploration of shame, exploitation, and feminine rage. Trigger warning: This story deals with mature themes, including sexual violence, corporal punishment, discrimination, and child abuse.

Ian Deavor thinks he's having a usual blind date, but instead he has a strange encounter with a woman who does not seem all quite normal. And she never speaks once during the whole meeting. Instead she gives him a mysterious message that just might change his whole life, and it all starts by being given a key and an address. Playlist for story is on Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkn3Qm_wfzKHEhzX3dVdaCrbSobXqpPpm&si=TqgKO5yu8H_1U-We

【 Psychological Mystery, Adventure, Science Fiction 】 "I was the only one who woke up that morning." Recently, a strange phenomenon known as Dead Sleep has begun spreading among children. Though their bodies remain alive, they are unable to wake up, as if their minds have become trapped somewhere beyond reality. Lucy, a fourteen years old girl with heterochromia, is taken from a poor orphanage to a secret laboratory hidden deep within the forest. There, scientists discover that she possesses a rare ability: Lucid Dreaming, the power to consciously control and navigate her dreams. Tasked with helping the researchers, Lucy ventures into the depths of the sleeping mind to search for the children lost to Dead Sleep and uncover a way to bring them back. Yet with every step she takes, the line between dreams and reality begins to blur. Can Lucy save the children before they are lost forever? ▶ Previous Title: Dream Catcher Girl in the Backrooms ▶ SLOW UPDATE‼️ INA version start: 05/07/2024 ENG version start: 25/06/2026 Finish: ㅡ ? © 2024-2026 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗜𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗘. All Rights Reserved.

## TRUE BLACK LOVE ### By Ilianna Binoche Africa Kenyatta Anderson has spent her entire life proving people wrong. Too dark. Too curvy. Too outspoken. Too ambitious. Now she is the brilliant construction powerhouse behind more than two hundred million dollars in contracts-and the woman powerful men depend on while refusing to give her the respect, recognition, or ownership she deserves. Professionally, they call her **Kee** because Africa is apparently too Black, too bold, and too unforgettable for the rooms she dominates. But success has not silenced the voices that taught her to question her beauty. Money cannot heal the wounds left by colorism, family betrayal, workplace obsession, and men who desired her body without knowing how to cherish her heart. Then she meets Israel Nathaniel King. Israel is a devoted father, reformed player, healthcare professional, and man of faith still carrying the damage of a marriage he tried to force into perfection. His former wife abandoned him and their children-but Israel is not innocent. He ignored her truth because he believed love could change what she never wanted. When Africa challenges him over her mother's failing care, Israel does something no man has ever done. He listens. What begins as a professional confrontation becomes a slow-burning connection between two wounded people learning that love is not rescue, possession, sacrifice, or fear. But when Africa walks away from the company that exploited her, launches a construction empire under her full name, and becomes entangled in Israel's complicated family, she must decide whether she can build a future without disappearing inside it. Israel may love her. His children may trust her. The world may finally learn her name. But Africa must answer the one question no man can answer for her: **Can she love herself without needing anyone else to prove she is worthy?** **TRUE BLACK LOVE** is a powerful contemporary Black romance about colorism, body acceptance

A novella (20,000-40,000 words) Twenty-two-year-old Ira leaves behind her dysfunctional, abusive family after years of chaos and a recent breakup with her boyfriend Reyan, whom she thought was her soulmate. Broken and alone, she turns to Nihar, her ex-best friend who confessed his love for her when she was in high school but went his separate way when she chose Reyan. Though they are no longer friends, Nihar welcomes her in, providing protection and comfort. As they reunite, they face past hurts, forgive one another, and begin to heal from their wounds. They establish a new life together, discovering love and hope.

One morning, the ocean sends a message. One she can't ignore. Once a radiant daughter of the sea, Naia now lives in exile, her once-majestic tail destroyed by a merciless human ship. Rescued through a forbidden alliance between a human and a shaman of her kind, she survives with a formidable bionic prosthetic, forever torn between the world that cast her aside and the one that nearly claimed her life. But when a mysterious trench threatens to tear apart the very fabric of the ocean, Naia is thrust back into a perilous political game as a reluctant pawn. Teaming up with Luan, the formidable King of the Hadal Deep, she must don the guise of his fiancée, knowing their journey into the abyss will reveal truths buried beneath greed and ancient power. As the ocean begins to fracture and treachery looms on the horizon, Naia and Luan find strength in their defiance against exile. In these shadowy depths, survival hinges not just on might, but on trust and the sacrifices they're willing to make to save their beloved sea. #1 in exile

In darker not so distant times, monsters ruled the land. They hunted the dark. They swallowed villages whole. No village was safe. No traveler dared walk after dusk. Humanity lived in the shadow of fear-until the Colossus appeared, giants among the land who rose and drove the horrors back with their strength and shimmering magic. In gratitude, The Choosing was born, a ritual of service and submission for the Colossus. Each year, a handful of names are called. Most return home. Some do not. Much depends on which Colossus family presides-some take out of greed, others for duty alone. One thing is known, and it is the ancient Amdir, known for mercy above all, almost always return those they select, never bringing them away from the borders of the towns. Galen, a quiet apothecary with a bad leg and a talent for calming brews, has lived a peaceful, unnoticed life, preferring to remain overlooked, and has always trusted in the mercy of the Colossus. He tends herbs, minds his work, and raises his ward, Lira-a girl prone to nightmares and fainting spells, one he would protect with his last breath. With his young ward, Lira, he dwells at the forest's edge, rising early to gather herbs and hoping each day passes as quietly as the last. That is until The Choosing. When Galen's name is called at The Choosing, he steels himself for sacrifice. When Lira's is called moments later, his world unravels. Reasons as to why they were chosen arise, and long kept secrets are soon revealed.

ONC2026 Long List/ Round 1 Embassadors Pick Summer Peterson and her best friend Whitney are both pulled into her unfinished script, a romanticized 1932 crime noir. All she wants is to find Whitney and escape, but instead she accidentally becomes the boss of a fledgling syndicate, adopts three loyal misfits, and starts bootlegging modern movies in a rundown theater to get her friend's attention. Unfortunately, her rising fame catches the eye of two dangerous men: Sebastian Lorenzo, the feared mob boss she once dragged unconscious into an abandoned house (long story), and Henry Glover, the city's most upright federal agent, who sees Summer as the key to bringing down every syndicate in town. Both men are drawn to the mysterious "White Tiger Lady." Summer just wants to find her friend and go home. But what happens when the script's villain isn't as heartless as he seems, and the world starts rewriting itself around her? Romantic Comedy / Crime Noir / Meta‑Fiction

Mystery love letters don't just end up in school lockers on their own. ⋆☆⋆ In which Elsey Dayton starts receiving paper planes in her school locker and seeks out to find who the sender is with the help of the shy boy who works at the local diner. ⋆☆⋆ #1 - ya [ 24/04/26] [ glassheart chronicles : #1.7 ] [© ataliass 2026 ]

【Written for the 8Letters June Writing Challenge】 Solaira "Soli" Saldarriega has come home three times. She never stayed. The first two times, she had reasons. This time, her lola is in the ground, the house is full of relatives who keep asking when she's going back to Manila, and the ache in her hands hasn't stopped since the bus climbed past Baguio. Aven "Ven" Ragasa is still here. Still rooted. Still the person the whole barangay calls when something needs fixing. She's watched Soli leave twice and she has no intention of watching it a third time. There is a three at the edge of the Saldarriega property. It's old, older than the town, older than the family that's tended it, and something is wrong with it. Soli knows exactly what it is. She has known since she was seven-years-old, in the same way she has always known what she feels when Ven is in the room. Two hundred years in a mountain town an hour past Baguio. Three generations of women who loved someone society said they couldn't. One debt that has been waiting a very long time to be paid, and only one way left to pay it. Some things you inherit. Some things you have to come home and claim.

Eraser crumbs swept onto her desk. Her name turned into the class punchline. Rumors that reach a room before she does. Teachers who see all of it and mark her present. For nineteen months, that is Fuuko's whole school life, and she survives it by counting. Fifty-six ceiling tiles. Ninety-one steps. A three-hundred-yen notebook that holds her weeks. Coco Sakurai is the girl behind it, and the girl the whole class watches. Every laugh is placed. Every kindness has an audience. Under all of it runs one engine: fear. Nobody steps in. Nothing changes. Then six days do. ··· Prologue + 16 chapters, updating Mon, Wed, Fri. The final seven chapters post daily, one each day, ending Sunday night. This one carries real weight. A note before you begin, and resources at the end, are part of the book. Sixteen and up.

ONGOING | "With sailing ships and sugar sweets, watch as they stumble upon the art of feigning bonds until it blossoms into an incandescent truth." As someone who grew up in as the only child and heiress of a rather large company, Serenity had always known that there will be times when she will have no say nor power over her life. That is chained with the comfort and privileges that she grew up with. So, when her parents decided to set her up in multiple blind dates, she had no choice but to oblige. At least, until she realized that the dates were going nowhere, and she was hit with a stupidly clever idea. Why not just find someone to play the role of her lover? Except, the only one who could fill in such a hectic shoes was someone whom she barely knew and was borderline annoying. She was the golden heir; the one who could never fail nor escape the confines of expectations and obligations. He was like a child; unrestrained by the rules as he savors the delight of the world of sweets, with a heart that's as free as the wind. The only thing they have in common? Their love for sweets and ships.

They never die. So they never learned how to remember. Sehl is a surveyor of the Iruveth, a deathless people who made a bargain long ago to survive forever: keep almost nothing, and the weight of it can never stop you where you stand. He crosses the dark cataloguing the graves of civilizations, confirming each ending, recording a number, moving on. Then a dead world reaches for him first, a small grey planet that flung a greeting past the edge of everything it knew, on the chance that someone would come. What Sehl finds there is a mortal species that spent its brief life building the one thing his kind spends eternity refusing to do. They died. And they would not be forgotten. An alien-perspective story of deep time and memory, told through the eyes of the immortal who arrived too late to save them, and far too late to forget them.

He is forgotten by everyone. She has forgotten everyone. Lost between the lines of dreams and reality, a film student no one remembers and an actress-in-the-making who remembers no one must find their way back. But as the line between dreams and reality begins to blur, they're forced to confront the memories they've buried while struggling to survive. Will they keep running from reality, or finally wake up to the people waiting for them back home? (Formerly known as Cupid in 2020) (updates every Tuesday and Saturday)

SOON | "Away from his labyrinth of intricate plans and cunning schemes, the unforgiven found his North Star." To be greeted by a stranger adorned in fluffy pink coat in her home after a tiring day was something Polaris did not expect. Turns out, the said male is currently on the run and her kind-hearted roommate decided to take him in without confiding in Polaris. Why? Because friends help each other in times of crisis. The problem? Well, let's just say that the silver-spooned, authoritarian stranger is not exactly the best new roommate. She was a soul who craved nothing but the gentle melody of solitude and tranquility, whose heart beats in rhythm with the whispers of solitude in the midst of a world of noise. His sanctuary lies in grandeur where rivalry and chaos reigns supreme; where every step is a calculated gambit in the high-stakes of success and ambition clashes with ambition. Now, they wait for the weight of the world to be lifted and to find recluse in the gentle lull of peaceful existence.

When Ana meets Levi on the set of their upcoming movie about Athena, she begins to feel an otherworldly entity nudging her toward the love she deserves-but will she follow it?