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Everyone's heard a picture is worth a thousand words, but when you only have a few months to live it can be worth so much more. Noah Prescott wanted nothing more than to be your everyday typical 15-year-old boy, but with stage 4 melanoma, he was anything but normal. Depressed and completely ready to give up on life, he has lost all interest in the world around him. That is until he meets Glenn Green, the dying boy with a sunny disposition. Unable to accept Noah's pessimistic outlook on life, Glenn sets out to show the younger teen that life might not turn out how he pictured it, but it can still hold so much beauty. That is, if you know where to look. Highest Ranking in Short Story #50 *Featured Story*

| WATTPAD EDITOR'S CHOICE | Major Aula Reed is a Canadian fighter pilot, veteran astronaut, and closeted bisexual. She's stationed on the second International Lunar Base or ILUB-2 with seven other crewmates. To be separated from Earth means facing radiation, meteorites, and equipment failure while under constant public scrutiny. For Aula, it also means struggling with memories of ILUB-1: the worst disaster in space exploration since the shuttle era. While she tries not to let her first mission overshadow her second, the Moon is an unforgiving place. It only takes one mistake, no matter how small, for history to repeat itself. This is a story of the near future informed by the lives of today's astronauts, whose triumphs and tragedies are immortalized in the public eye.

'our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry. women of colour - rupi kaur' The harsher way at looking at what its like to be woman of colour, not just in 21st century western society but all around the world. #WomenOfColour #ProjectWomanUp #TalkThePOC

Former street rat, Elijah Clifton finds himself at a crossroad in his life. Continue surviving inside the dangerous world he's known his entire life until letting it run its course or leave to find a better tomorrow. Unfortunately for him, that choice only becomes more dire after crossing paths with a boy who holds the key to his freedom as well as the key to his worst nightmare: His troubled past. Given an opportunity to finally live a normal life instead of a criminal, Elijah takes this deal. Though the long journey will be anything but easy. Cover by @kia13AS Critiqued by @Addie_Belle

in which a girl is forced to leave her friends behind to protect them and find her family

I firmly believe that graduation instills in everyone a feeling of nostalgia. Which is why, as I attempt to find my seat at graduation rehearsal, I find myself stumbling into hidden pockets of memories that had long been shoved into the back of my mind by the stress of high school. Faces will forever be the bookmarks of our lives. Different people take us back to different moments that we would love to relive or rather forget. As we view everyone, we are reminded of who we once were and who we will strive to be. They stir up emotions of love, jealousy,hatred, thankfulness, helplessness as we view how others have grown and often compare their progress to ourselves. Welcome to graduation, the last moments of juvenility, as we look back on our past selves and strive to see the future. ** She has regrets when she looks back at her high school years. She regrets the person she turned into. She regrets that she didn't realize that she didn't want to be that person sooner. She regrets that she didn't become her own person until later. But she doesn't regret the people she met. She doesn't regret the true friends she made. And she can't say that she regrets the memories, however hard they are to relive because in the end, they helped compose the person she is as she walks across the graduation stage. So on the true final day of her high school years, she sees and she remembers. *continuously being updated

In the near future, the human race has been forced to quarantine an entire country after the Known Virus, also known as the K-Virus, spread throughout their lands, killing millions and mutating thousands. The Alliance, the supreme government of the world, have imprisoned them all in specially designed jail cells, more than 200 million innocent citizens. Every time the virus emerges from within a person, soldiers haul them away, never to be seen again. Now, Audra, herself a victim of the K-Virus outbreak, has begun to show symptoms. The soldiers come, and Audra finds herself in a new world, and realizes what really happens beyond the cell doors... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover credits to @RebellionOfALifetime

What does it mean to go beyond the box?

"So this is the end?" "Never." ~cover by @MulanJiang~ Updated whenever I complete a chapter. :P

Every living thing is dying on earth. Organisms, plants, insects, birds, man and, everything else that's a living thing, is dead or dying. An ancient disease has waken in our bodies that has been around since the beginning of earth. Anything that breaths in earth's air or, drinks the water or even has been born on earth were all doomed. So, the last of the humans have sent a time capsule into space, hoping and praying that anyone would find the capsule and find the heart to help the living things on earth. Maybe even give them Another Way to live... ~~~ "It's ok to show that your upset, Jillian. Deep down we're all suffering, just that some people show it more than others." Aavet tells me. She's right. We're all suffering, but when we're forced to abandon our only home we've known for so long and leave all our love ones to die, kills apart of you that you'll never get back. FROM CHAPTER 6/PART 2 Beautiful Cover made by @stardust24601 Highest Ranking in Science Fiction #51

You're real friends are the ones who do the dirty work... The story continues as Isaac, Floyd, Hillary, Adam, and Claire struggle to maintain a working friendship in their personal lives as they deal with a mysterious newcomer Hunter and continue to face off against the troublesome Stephen and his rapidly growing wendigo powers. The worst part is that he has to eat innocent humans just to survive and the more he eats, the more unstoppable he becomes. However, there is one way to purge himself of this terrorizing curse: he must kill the alpha wendigo that turned him in the first place during his reckless ski trip in Canada last semester. But he could never do it alone. He must turn to his very enemies for assistance to join him on a treacherous mission to hunt an alpha supernatural creature that is known to be the most deadly hunter on the planet who may or may not be on the verge of creating an army of supernatural wendigo killers. Can the pack put all their differences aside for the greater good or will secrets and betrayal threaten to tear then apart forever?

Ever since I was young, I believed in mermaids. In fact, I have seen one before. Not any of that fake stuff you see on the internet, I saw her swimming in the ocean. No one believed me though. But I knew they were real. As I grew older, my family and I went on a trip across the ocean for a year. When we got back, I got my own place on the beach in the Caribbean. Living on my own was so exciting, but about to get much more interesting. I didn't just see a mermaid. I met one. Beneath the Waves. Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Turning into a bear had never been on Marcus Bay's bucket list. And when a series of (rather unusual) events leave him trapped in the body of a teddy bear, he has no option but to give his everything in order to turn back human. Add a little pinch of family drama, a dollop of humor and we have the perfect recipe for disaster. One thing is for certain, it is going to be one hairy adventure. ---

"I can't do this anymore," he whispered. "I have to go." When Max leaves Claire unexpectedly, she is shocked. They had grown up together, and grown to love each other. Claire knows about Max's dark times, although he refuses to talk about it to anyone else. But when Claire is notified that Max has gone missing.. Can Claire's inside knowledge help discover Max's whereabouts? And if she can, will she be too late? --- This story mentions underage drug abuse, mature themes and contains graphic content. Copyright © 2016 by @clouhdiest All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

❛ In which Johnathan is given a second chance to love and to lose her again. ❜ Ranked #393 in General Fiction 【I Survived The Most Brutal Review】 【Winner of The Brigade Choice Awards for SS】 【Winner of Star Writing Awards for GF】 【Winner of The Undiscovered Awards for GF, Original At Its Core and Straight From The Heart】 【Winner of Rose Awards for GF】

Fifteen year old Isaac Locke has lost his way because of a gruesome wolf attack on his parents when he was ten and finally recovering, he lived five home-schooled years with his adopted parents and is now beginning to go back to public school. But it will all change in a way that rocks the cradle of Isaac's already fragile reality maybe for the better...but mostly worse. After meeting all of Oak Meadow's key players, he is bitten by a red-eyed werewolf and all of his new friends discover that they are deeply connected to the supernatural corners of the planet, realizing that the world is bigger than anyone could have imagined. His journey through freshman year will tell you keep your enemies close, but your true friends are what keep you alive. Are you prepared to believe in the impossible?

"Some things in this world cannot be unsaid, Athella - and my love for you, irrefutably, is one of them." In which Rhys pens out her feelings for the illustriously broken Athella Halle. Cover made by @HailPerseusJackson © Makenna Collette (@mack-collette) 2016 All Rights Reserved

The Order is a group out to find one child. One child that isn't human like the rest, and Cecelia is that child. * * * How special is your life? Cecelia often questioned this in her young life as an orphan. She had no idea what the future could hold, or how it felt to have someone to love. She had planned out what to do, and how to act, but then that changed the day she found it. A camera of some kind, one completely special . . . One with a power to traverse time through the photos that it made. Cecelia never knew her life could take such a drastic turn, but it did. From making a new friend, to realizing the world was not what it seemed. There was more out there, more depth to explore. And she was the special one. |Chapter Four will be posted soon!| |Edited by @Andicook|