Night of the Crane | By @WendyyWolfe
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WendyyWolfe
Complete, First published Oct 02, 2022
Mature
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Complete || Grand WinnerNanoWatt2024 || A SciFi Lite Adventure in small town America. 

Blurb:

Lacy just wished she hadn't seen what she did in the distant night sky over the small country town she called home. 

But she had seen it. 

In her mind she relived the events she had witnessed tonight, and yet all explanations fled except for the one that made the most sense to her. 

They were being invaded.


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𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻

Not far from the Gulf Coast the small, very ordinary town of Brew Town, Alabama was established around the only industry that existed there in 1879. The local brewery. 

If you lived in Brew Town your job was bottling beer and then after work, you imbibed what you bottled. 

Macallan Crete has lived here his entire life. But he hasn't let that little fact disrupt his perfect little life. Sarcasm and bar fights rule the day for Macallan and that was a normal reality for him. Until it wasn't. 

Lacy Thibodaux. The sweetheart of Brew Town. Daughter of Deputy Storey Thibodaux. Also a life long resident of Brew Town with a true love/hate relationship for Macallan Crete because she just never needed his kind of drama making her look bad all over town. 

But what would happen when the normalcy of Brew Town was suddenly invaded by strange flying objects, leaving it's quaint landscape riddled with fear and loss. Could Macallan save the day? Could Lacy depend on him? Could she even trust him? 

As Brew Town devolves into anything but normal, thrusting these life long frenemies together for better or worse the whole town stumbles along with them to fight an unseen terror that threatens life on earth in ways none of them could have ever imagined. 

About Brew Town
Loosely based around the real live town of Brewton, Alabama, a quaint and beautiful town in South Central Alabama about 100 miles from the panhandle of Florida and the Gulf Coast. 

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The Neighbor (18+) [COMPLETED]

29 parts Complete Mature

"Don't look at me like that...I will tear your clothes off if you try me" The last thing Skyler Blake wants is a man in her life. Not after the last one, at least. After a whole year of investigation that led to nothing, Sky couldn't handle her home town any longer, and decides to leave everything behind and start from bottom zero. Six months of perfect oblivion. That is until the Army veteran shows up at the bar she works at. When Hunter Dawson finally lands his dream job after leaving the FBI academy he did not expect a move to be part of the deal. And certainly not to Tennessee. Clouded with PTSD, he deals with it the best he can, but he wont let anything get in the way of his success in his investigation. Specially not the petite, brunette from the bar. Then Skyler realizes she's Hunter's neighbor. But neighbors can have a casual, and convenient nonetheless, no strings attached relationship, right? Two single, needy people, twenty feet away from each other 24/7. Some things are bound to happen. Like Hunter's secret leaking....oh, he has the mother of secrets...and it's something that may break em. So might as well take advantage of the situation, till time runs out. ROMANCE/SUSPENSE/ACTION #Wattys2018 MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY FOR SEXUAL CONTENT/ LANGUAGE/ DRUG AFFILIATION. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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