Wattywinner Stories

🏆 Watty Award Winner (2022) This updated edition includes revised chapters and new scenes. Trans guy Collin makes a bet with his coworker that he can land a date with the hot new barista across the street. It should be easy. Except the more time he spends with her, the more the bet starts to feel like the worst idea he's ever had. ### It's 2003 in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Collin thought transitioning would be the hard part. But now that he's on hormones and passing with ease, he's still stuck wondering who he is and where he belongs. It doesn't help that his girlfriend of six years just dumped him. So when his coworker challenges him to prove he's still got game, Collin agrees to a stupid bet: get a date with Heather, the cute new barista who just started working at the café across the street. With some unexpected help from his roommate Sam, getting close to her might be easier than Collin expected. But what starts as a harmless distraction quickly turns into something real. And when the truth behind the bet finally comes out, Collin will have to decide whether risking his heart again is worth it... or if he's about to lose the best thing that's happened to him since the breakup. A nostalgic beach-town rom-com about bets, baristas, and what happens when pretending turns into something real. ☕ Tropes: friends-to-lovers vibes, a very bad bet, coffee shop flirting, early-2000s nostalgia, and learning who you are while falling in love. NEW CHAPTERS EVERY TUESAY & FRIDAY

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[Wattys 2021 Winner - Sci-Fi Category] Clara only wanted to reach her interview on time. Now she finds herself lost in time, space and reality with only an impeccably dressed six-foot tall lemur for company. Dragged through Breaches to alternative realities, timelines, alien worlds and a filthy diner off the I95, all she wants is to return home. Preferably before tea-time. Trigger Warnings: Severe shoe damage, references to drug taking (Bloody Linda!), oh, and minor foul language. Unsuitable for hydroelectric citizens of Vardak V (Citizens of Vardak IV and VI have shown no signs of explosive side-effects. So far). Gluten free. #1 in #Bonkers (2nd Sept. 2020) - Achievement unlocked! 🥇 1st place Winner of the Sci-Fi category of the "Starlight Awards"! Woohoo! 🥇 1st place Winner of the General Fiction category of the "Dream Heart Awards"! Cover by @LynaForge

Insight is a compilation of 5 poems based on my individual mind state and feelings plus experiences. It depicts what runs through my mind in random situations and the feelings that are left unsaid/ not spoken because of my introverted characteristics.

Lisa Ritter has developed a very special talent for getting herself into trouble. One foggy evening she has to climb onto the roof of her neighbor's carport to hide from a pushy admirer. Paul Darrer, on the other hand, seeks the peace and seclusion of his suburban home to contemplate the future of his fencing career. Uninvited, his new neighbor brings more excitement to his doorstep than expected. Nevertheless, the man with strong nerves must admit to himself that this troublemaker fascinates him more than a little. This is the translation from my Watty-Winner 2020 Book "Mit Herz and Degen"

Her eyes fluttered open and a smile spread across her face. Once her vision came into focus, her smile only got wider. She watched as his chest rose and fell, a serene look on his face. His lips were parted slightly and his eyes were shut tight.He looked so much younger when he was asleep. She reached out and lightly traced his features until his eyes shot open. She had been caught. "Can I help you, Mrs. Rose?"He asked with a smirk on his face."Why yes you can. You can go back to sleep so I can continue what I was doing." "And what were you doing?" He asked again, his smirk growing wider. "That is none of your business." Only he wasn't letting her off that easy. He flung his arm around her waist and began to tickle her until she was kicking off the blanket whilst laughing hysterically. A young girls journey through life trying to figure it out.

From the palace what we called earth there something under it that we can't define in one word. There's a disease that can swallow your whole body even your gold soul. And lastly, there's no cure for that pain that can own your body wholeheartedly. Can you risk your own life just to save someone? Can you run faster than flash so you can escape the earth's vengeance? Can you fight even you need to take some life so you can breathe and hide? Are you ready to die miserably? And plan to make an escape but in the end you've just split and break your soul.

"Ano ba'ng ginagawa natin dito, Kyve?" Iritang sinabi ko. Hindi ko alam sa sarili ko kung bakit basta-basta nalang ako nagpahila sa lalaking 'to. Sabi ko naman sa sarili ko na iiwasan ko na siya! Pero anong ginagawa ko ngayon?! Sino ba naman kasing hindi maiirita, hinila ba naman ako papasok sa room na wala tao. O_O T-teka.... W-walang tao?! Kyve has been my enemy simula pa lang nung punasok ako dito sa Falcon High. Nakakairita lang talaga, bwiset na Franco 'yon! Pinagtutulakan ba naman ako sa lalaking 'to. Sinabi ko na sa sarili ko na magfo-focus ako ng pag-aaral at ayoko makisalamuha ang mga sikat na kagaya nila para walang distractions sa pag-aaral ko. Argh! "Kehlani.." usal nito. "Ano?!" Naiinip na sinabi ko. Ganun parin naman ang mukha niya, walang emosyon. Hindi ko alam kung tao pa ba 'to o robot? "Be mine, stupid." O_O Ha? Bakit biglaan? "Naka-shabu kaba? Alam mo, baka inaasar mo lang ako." Sabi ko at akmang bubuksan na 'yung pinto para lumabas nang may humila sa isa pang kamay ko-at si Kyve 'yon. >O< Anong ginagawa niyaaa?! Para akong nabibigla na para ewan, 'di ko alam kung anong nangyayari sa mokong 'yon. At ang mas malala, hindi pa nag fa-function ang utak ko. Baka pinagtitripan lang talaga ako 'nun!

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Deputy Mildred Berry has her hands full protecting the town she loves from beasts and outlaws. When she steals bullets to keep the town fed, Millie accidentally robs the man she's been hiding from for years. Fred Rousseau wants Millie dead and will stop at nothing to have her head. With her violent past bearing down on the life she's built for herself, Millie has to decide how far she'll be willing to go to keep her town safe. NOTE: This story is the rewritten (and much improved!) version of "Hungry Skies", a 2019 Wattys Fantasy Winner.

Who knew meeting at a bus stop could change your life?

The sequel to HUMAN SPINES, a 2016 Wattys winner! It's been seven months since the Opaque struck the desert and ravaged the Demon's caverns. Seven months since the Reaper-Mother gave up. Seven month since Dumaine last spoke to Emmeline. Seven months since Hans died. Huddled in a house perched on the crest of a mountain so remote only Demon's come to visit, Dumaine has come to learn a simple lifestyle. Expect nothing (except the daily drop ins from rampaging gangs of bloodthirsty Translucent), and accept everything (especially the learning opportunities provided by the aforementioned Translucent's resulting corpses). But while time seems to have frozen for Dumaine as he waits for Emmeline, it lurks forward beyond their snowy alps, creeping toward the shadow of the Opaque's threats until one evening they find five human strangers hidden in their home. And one of them is dead.

Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is. ***** A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche? *2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller* [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

4 best friends travel the city of sins and hope to find a mate in their life's.

Haley has been trying to uncover her past, not knowing the secrets that begin to pour out as she uncovers every brick. Her parents were murder when she was five years old, thereafter, she and her brother went to live with their Uncle. There she met Justin Stars, a celebrity in the making and a voice like an angel. She always believed in him, and he made her forget the haunted past she tried to run from. Now, so many years later Hayley is forced to re-unite with the boy she once loved, the boy who is now the biggest name in Hollywood, and the Boy who broke her heart.

Hevan Arlock is a young elf adopted still as a baby by a human couple, and his origin story is a mistery. After loose his foster father in a tragic way, he decides, along his two only friends, to go search for answers about his past. However, during his journey, Hevan will end up envolved in an epic adventure full of revelations, fantastic beings and dangers beyond his imagination, where a mystical nocturn event will force him to face not only his own fears and uncertanties, but also a fate that can put at stake the future of Arche's kingdom and the whole world of Ellora. Arlock - a tale from Ellora is a fantasy book based on role-playing games, replete of magic, action, mesmerizing places and mystical elements that will carry the reader to a new and extraordinary world. *** Arlock - a tale from Ellora is a Wattys 2018 winner in portuguese language, now being (slowly) translated to english ***

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place. She sees no escape from her existence under the sorceress Bebinn, until one day her music lures Owen who, at age 16, is supposed to be too old to succumb to its spell. Imprisoned alongside Lira and desperate to find a way back home, Owen vows to find a way to free them both. The only problem: no one has ever escaped Bebinn and the Spirit World alive. 1st Place Winner in Fantasy for the Undiscovered Writer Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hidden Author Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hot Dog Awards! Winner of @EventualElites "Hypnotized and Hooked" Award! 3rd Place in Fantasy for the Book Center's Summer Awards! Cover by: @Baneen121

Living with this curse she's been given has started to effect her. The Sprit Within she prefers to call it, is beginning to strip her away from who she really is..

***2019 Watty Award Winner - Science Fiction*** Charlie has always been the one left behind. It isn't because there's something special about him; in fact, there is nothing special about him at all. As one of the few unlucky members of Terran society to be born without powers, Charlie's luck has never looked worse. After a visit to his brother's school ends in an international disaster, Charlie finds himself stranded on an alien planet with no idea where he is, how he got there, or why he is even awake. Why did his captors let him go? How will Charlie get home? And more importantly, what in the world is Trial 017? [Book One of the Scion series]