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Playing With Matches

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Reads 29,754
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Parts 38
Time 10h 3m

Chuck Colt, a cowardly and highly neurotic ghost, must find a way to reunite his soul to his newly zombified body before dawn, lest his (un)death becomes permanent. 

                                                                 *****

When Chuck Colt, a neurotic Movie Critic, inexplicably sees his own corpse hanging from a ceiling fan, he comes to the sudden realization that he is somehow a ghost. To make matters worse, his body seems to be moving on its own, and it doesn't like to follow Chuck's instructions.

Now, both Ghost and Zombie Chuck must work together in order to find a cure for their undead curse before sundown, lest they get stuck like that for eternity - if one of the city's weird assortment of characters doesn't get to them first. 

The pair must comb through the magical city of New Orleans, facing multiple obstacles along the way - including but not limited to: werepugs, suicidal vampires, and trigger-happy priests - but the biggest obstacle they face is time.

Can Chuck Colt beat the clock to be whole again, or will the Big Easy prove to be too hard to handle?

For what is Tragedy, but Comedy - Time?

TW: Mentions of self-harm, suicide.

Cover by @IAmRodneyVSmithAll Rights Reserved

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Ghostly. by GerardsFlower

Alicia and Chloe were two best friends with a weird past. Two seventeen year olds kicking a soccer ball around. As happy as they could be. The silence had killed them, almost literally. Standing opposite street ends and facing towards they froze immediately. Their trapped screams weren't heard by anyone as they were dragged out of their home. They awoke on a large beach, just the two of them. At least that's what they thought until they realised they weren't alone. Finding yourself standing above two familiar looking bodies isn't easy. Especially when those bodies are yours. Apart of the after life, these two girls roam. Earth has changed. Monsters lurking in dark alley ways and killers at every street. Vampires as friends? Good idea or not? They're whole world is gone and the last thing they can do is find out who killed them and why. Being a ghost is interesting but man, being immortal is complicated.

Unfinished Business by papercutsunset

Eve didn't mean to die. She was just trying to stay away from her brother and his girlfriend while absolutely despising herself. Then the monster tore her apart. After waking up in what looks like a DMV, Eve is given the choice of doing public service, going to Hell for a while, or killing the monster that killed her. (Guess which one she chose!) With the help of Willa (her brother's girlfriend and, incidentally, the only living person who has been able to see her so far) and Ethan (a real incel-type that Eve can't stand), Eve races against the clock to kill the monster before it kills her and everyone else in the school. In this novel inspired by works like Beetlejuice and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, an undead teen comes to terms with the world around her, the afterlife, and the reality of herself-- all while trying to stay alive. "A novel about killing the thing that killed you. What does it mean to grieve a life you never got to live? Who do we leave behind? Why is Ethan such a sleazebag?" (The Mature rating is for violence and swearing. There, most likely, won't be smut in this.)

Getting kidnapped sucks. But then you fall in love. by voiceless

Stellar is a vampire who's already seen his own brother die of not getting the specific blood he needs. Stellar has the same problem. If he doesn't get the blood that he needs he'll die too. Desprete, Stellar finds just who he is looking for and kidnaps a teenage girl named Jasmine who's father is a ghost and mother is a human making her a sweetblood. But Jasmine refuses to let him drink her blood. If he doesn't, he'll only get weaker and weaker and eventually die. So Stellar forces her to let him, hating every second of it. Are her tears worth living as the undead? Especially since he's already fallen in love with her?

H y b r i d s | Book one- Darkness by r_flaska_707

There is a room. A room deep within in a supposedly haunted mansion, deep within the bayous of New Orleans. In that room laid a secret, a secret that led to other secrets. Secrets that wanted to be kept. Secrets that shouldn't be touched. There laid a woman, a sister... The one who starts this story and ends it. In this old Victorian-like mansion lives six brothers, and with them lives their guardian that was instructed to watch over them. These cold-hearted beasts who were incapable of feelings of love after their sister was out under a sleeping curse, put on empty masks. Conniving and manipulative they are, but a girl who has lived with them for some time was able to warm at least one of their hearts, and unknowingly open the door to the room with a dark secret. ＨＹＢＲＩＤＳ | The Beginning |

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Bloodlines, Bleeding Heart's 2. by Art-write-love-game

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Ghostly.

Alicia and Chloe were two best friends with a weird past. Two seventeen year olds kicking a soccer ball around. As happy as they could be. The silence had killed them, almost literally. Standing opposite street ends and facing towards they froze immediately. Their trapped screams weren't heard by anyone as they were dragged out of their home. They awoke on a large beach, just the two of them. At least that's what they thought until they realised they weren't alone. Finding yourself standing above two familiar looking bodies isn't easy. Especially when those bodies are yours. Apart of the after life, these two girls roam. Earth has changed. Monsters lurking in dark alley ways and killers at every street. Vampires as friends? Good idea or not? They're whole world is gone and the last thing they can do is find out who killed them and why. Being a ghost is interesting but man, being immortal is complicated.