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Outrunning the Past

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Can you leave your past behind?
Can changing your name, your hair, your history help you leave it all behind?
Can you make a new life when your past haunts you?

Carson Andrews wants a life back. He wants to settle down with his new fiance, Jenna. He thinks he has it all, until the nightmares return. Now they are infecting both his sleeping and waking hours.  Can he out run his past or the people who are still hunting him down? Will the shabby Brooklyn apartment provide the safety he is seeking?All Rights Reserved

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Lucid by Dana92941

"Some worlds are real and some we create, but I will love you in every one." Years into the future advances in sleep technology allows people to control their dreams. Further advancements make it possible to even enter each others dreams. Theo wakes one day to find his crush / best friend has gone missing. He breaks into her apartment and finds clues that maybe she's been taken. He needs her to wake up and find her in the real world, but when he maneuvers his way and hacks himself into her current dream; it's way more than he bargained for. Maddie is trapped. In. Her. Own. Dreams. Can he rescue her and bring her back to reality? The deeper he goes trying to save her the more mysterious it gets. Time is running out and Theo needs to get the answers and get them out of there alive!

The Lost Castaway by heartsxkisses

[WENT THROUGH REWRITE] Two girls with different lives, living in separate worlds with their own problems to figure out. But what happens when both worlds meet and become one? Alexa Carter is your average teenager. She lives with her parents and has a brother who dorms in college. She struggles with admitting her feelings for her best friend. She afraid that is she does say something their friendship will never be the same again. She is given a chance to finally confess but the timing is all wrong. Her family goes on a vacation full of surprises. But not all surprises are good. Maddie Alvarez is struggles with knowing who she really is. The Alvarez family found her beat up and took her in giving her name, a house, and a family to stay with. Living in a house with 6 boys there are can complicate things when a young girl is trying to find herself. She ends up thinking maybe it was meant to be that this is her situation and maybe it's a second chance at life. Both girls face their problems and through their obstacles they discover what really matters to them most. But does that mean things will be right again?

I Don't Mix Business with Pleasure by connieebabyy

Florence, a 22-year-old fashion graduate, has just landed her dream internship at a prestigious Fashion Design Company in New York. Armed with a passion for style and journalism, she's ready to take on the fashion world and make her mark. She believed she was about to chase her wildest dreams, until she crossed paths with Landon-quite handsome but narcissistic 26-year-old who quickly turns her life into a nightmare. To make matters worse, he's her boss's son! What was supposed to be a year of chasing dreams soon becomes a nightmare as Landon's relentless torment and cutting remarks turn Florence's life upside down. Can she survive her internship without losing her confidence, or will Landon's cruel games push her to the edge?

The Turing Test - [Open Novella Contest 2019 Shortlist] by its_artemis_actually

Ronnie Gold only has one dream. Every night for the past two years, flickering images of a bloody battlefield have haunted her sleep, and every night, she's the only survivor. She's never told anyone about it, because combined with the dissociative emotional disorder that renders empathy out of her reach, she'd be labeled dangerous. But amid rising public tensions over an artificial intelligence project she's spearheading, Ronnie's dreams begin to infect her waking life, too. With the visions starting to take on an ominous, almost prophetic quality, Ronnie must sort through the blurred lines of reality before the bloodiest nightmare finally comes true. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ #RedefineHumanity - An Open Novella Contest Shortlister! CONTENT WARNING for manipulative relationships [[Completed]]

WAKE ME UP by DTurnerHubbard

It's 2040, and 18-year-old Tiana admits to sleeping through most of her life. But Ben woke her up. How could he not? All those scars intrigued her. They may be an odd couple, but being cast as some sort of Romeo and Juliet never made much sense. They weren't bothering anyone. They were just having fun and saving the world for each other. Unfortunately, a car accident has a way of putting an end to fun and big dreams. When Tiana wakes up in the hospital, she finds herself separated from Ben by lost memories and strange circumstances. And the mysterious world is just about to get more mysterious. Without warning, the human race suddenly faces extinction when an inexplicable affliction takes the life of anyone who falls asleep (you sleep, you die). With the clock ticking, Tiana and Ben fight to reunite, desperate to seize as much life and love as time will allow. But these two are about to face an even bigger existential challenge. If love conquers all, it has one hell of a fight on its hands.

Intuitions | ✓ by rosenkissed

Anna wakes up, Lars nowhere in sight. She is told that she has been in a coma from trying to end her life two weeks prior. After recovering, she is sent to The Mariposa Rehabilitation Ranch in Mariposa, California. There, ghosts emerge from her past life. Or is it the man from her dreams? Started: 07 August, 2020 Ended: 15 April, 2023 Word Count: 63,500 *hea guaranteed | friends-to-lovers trope | plus-sized/curvy mc | mental health awareness* [Trigger warning/Content warning: This book contains sexual intentions, adult language, and discussions of self-harm and suicide.] top reviews: "oh my god this is so good" "I just love that way that you write their relationship, it's so sweet and tender 🥰" "sorry I need a moment because that was so AMAZING" "the dialogue is immaculate" -er_oconnor

Framed Connections (Revised) by Lilys_fate

Roxanna finds herself struggling with keeping up with her life partially due to have an insistent boss that she believes has it in for her and deal with a case of insomnia for a couple of months. Not only that but she also feels herself disconnected by everything and everyone around her. She is now tasked with an article to write about a anonymous artist who has never been seen in the public eye before and has a scandal surrounding him. Meanwhile Marcel an artist on the other side of the city has trouble with getting himself to paint again. It's not because he refuses but it's just something is holding him back and he doesn't quite understand why. Or should I say he doesn't remember why. Now he's task with trying to get his gallery up and running again or he'll have to give it all up in three months to work in his family business. Both will come to meet in a dreamy way. Learning about each other and seeing a brighter more colourful view on life. Maybe even help each other in more aspects than one. Who knows, why not step into the gallery and find out.

✨Only In My Imagination✨ (Alastor x fem! reader love story) ✓ by ValerieWinks777

Ever since Y/N was a little girl, she would dream of a strange man, always dressed in a red suit, with a frightening smile, who closely resembled a deer... Growing up, her family's pressured her to therapy when she begins to believe that these..."dreams" are more then just dreams. But what if all along...they were never dreams? But instead, manifestations of a reality Y/N could have never predicted? Later in Y/N's adult hood, she will find out the deeper meaning to these dreams, but trouble will arise when she does... Will Y/N live a normal, ordinary life that she/her family always wanted? Or will a certain man put an end to any thoughts of an ORDINARY life, and make Y/N want to give it all up, just to be with him? WARNING: Mild swear words, mentions of abuse. PG/PG-13 (A story of angst, fluff, romance, and fantasy) ✨Highest Rankings!✨ #2 in Lucifer #1 in Alastor #1 in Charliemorningstar #1 in darkfluff #2 in Alastorxreader #1 in roses #1 in demons #1 in deerdemon #1 in darkromance #2 in hazbinhotelxreader #1 in theradiodemon #1 in USA #1 in hell #1 in therapy

In Maria Annadea's Dreams (Dream Duology #1) by LjKizakiri

When you dreamed about someone you don't know that means, they are the ones who watching you every 3 am. •~•~•~• When Maria Annadea Morales became 18 years old, she begins to dream about someone that she doesn't know. She never met that someone in her entire life. She begins to ask about her dreams but she can't get any answers. But when she told her friend and parents about those dreams, her friend told her everything that she wants to know according to her perspectives. What if one day, she'll meet someone who looks exactly the person in her dreams? Will she know that person better or will she just avoid it? Will that person be the reason why everything around her feels so different? Date Created: July 9, 2016 Date Published: February 27, 2021 Date Finished: January 17, 2022 Genre: Romance, Drama, and Teen Fiction

Love Beyond Memories by Binibini_Rea

What happens when you wake up from a coma and your whole world turns upside down? That's the question that plagues Shane as she discovers that everything she knew about her life after the accident is a lie. Her boyfriend, who she has come to love, is not who he seems, and her past is full of secrets she never could have imagined. As she struggles to unravel the truth and find her place in a world that has betrayed her, she must confront the ultimate question: what is true love, and who is worthy of it? With heart-pounding twists and turns, this gripping tale will keep you guessing until the very end. Will love conquer all, or will the past destroy everything in its wake?

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The Turing Test - [Open Novella Contest 2019 Shortlist] cover

WAKE ME UP cover

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Lucid

"Some worlds are real and some we create, but I will love you in every one." Years into the future advances in sleep technology allows people to control their dreams. Further advancements make it possible to even enter each others dreams. Theo wakes one day to find his crush / best friend has gone missing. He breaks into her apartment and finds clues that maybe she's been taken. He needs her to wake up and find her in the real world, but when he maneuvers his way and hacks himself into her current dream; it's way more than he bargained for. Maddie is trapped. In. Her. Own. Dreams. Can he rescue her and bring her back to reality? The deeper he goes trying to save her the more mysterious it gets. Time is running out and Theo needs to get the answers and get them out of there alive!