Talentawards2018 Stories

*Completed* Abigail "Abbie" Duke learnt to depend on only one person. Herself. Growing up to always being second choice to her older sister, Abbie watched her mom give up her marriage to focus only on her sister's eventual rise to stardom. As a grown woman, Abbie keeps her family at arm's length and puts her career as a priority; not paying attention to her dwindling love life. Her life takes an unforeseen turn when her work pulls her back to her mother's vibrant town. While writing an article on Christmas, Abbie finds herself getting attached to the town's people and its festive traditions, unexpectedly finding love along the way Awards 🏅1st place - University of best books Awards (Chicklit category) 🏅2nd place - The Creative Minds Awards (Chicklit category) 🏅2nd place - Holiday Writers Awards (Chicklit category) 🏅2nd place - The Wattpaders Awards (Chicklit category) 🏅3rd place - Rising Stars Awards (Chicklit category) ★★★UNEDITED BOOK VERSION★★★ A Nigerian Christmas romance/chicklit featured novel

she was popular. he was new. he was her way out. ✧ second place in the Chaos Awards! ✧ Kendra Ross is popular. Everyone knows that, and she makes sure of it. She's your stereotypical popular girl; lip gloss, crushes, drama, heels, crop tops, and fake pep. And she hates it. She's not what you'd think. But she doesn't want to leave the A-squad. She'd never live it down. Hell, she might not even make it out of high school alive to begin with. So when a new guy comes to school, she sees him as a second chance. Maybe he can help her discover who she really is, without her fake friends and whatever mess she's currently gotten herself into. Maybe he can be a real friend. Or maybe, by the end of it all, he could be more. |STARTED: 5/29/18| - |FINISHED: 11/1/18| just a little note: I wrote this in seventh grade so it may be a little cringey because I've barely edited it, but I'm too attached to my own characters to take it down so I hope you enjoy anyway :D

Margo Grisby just became the next victim of her small town's chilling disappearances. She awakens in the alternate world and vivacious paradise of Jamyria. But the beauty of the world masks an unsettling secret: it's been created by a Mark-a person who bears a symbol on their skin which grants them unlimited power. Unlike the other occupants of Jamyria, Margo is destined to enter. Every fifty years a man is gifted with a mark of power in hopes of destroying the gateway between worlds and freeing its people. This time, fate chose her: a sixteen-year-old girl. But regardless of gender or age, the people trapped in the world see Margo as their only hope for the next fifty years. The creator and queen of Jamyria, on the other hand, sees Margo as her latest threat and has ordered to have her hunted down. And Margo? She sees Jamyria as an escape from the nightmares she left behind in the real world, and deep down she's beginning to question if she wants to leave this world at all. *** WITHIN GOLD AND GLASS is fully published on Amazon (available in paperback and on Kindle)

Notes from the Heart is a collection of different emotions, like insecurities, pain of love, loss and loneliness. *S.S.P.R Awards 2018 Winner for POETRY *Majestic Awards 2018 Best Male Author for NOTES FROM THE HEART #1 on Chapbook for 2 days after one year of it's release. Reviews: "Amaranthine poetry writes of love and loss, of light and dark, of rising in flight and falling into depression. His work explores the landscape of his personal experience through a variety of poetic forms that are raw, honest and always from the heart." - David Thomas ( The Mumbling Hermit) "Amaranthine Poetry writes with brevity infused with passion. The collection is made up of short poems that take a long journey through the reader's mind. This work is not easily forgotten. It is a collection of poetry destined to empower the reader." - ReadersFavourite.com (5 Stars)

love. let's talk about love. all kinds of love.

There is an old proverb says: "the fault of the best is the worst of all." That was the case for Brendon Urie, the dangerous art thief who, by a simple mistake, lost one of his most valuable possessions to his arch nemesis. In order to take back what's his, Urie must join forces with his old partner in crime, who happened to be as dangerous and arrogant as he is, re-kindling an old flame he thought it died a long time ago. That was, until a twisted turn of events got them both into a battle for their lives. At that point, striking a deal with the devil didn't seem like a bad idea. Awards: -Third Place Winner in the Fanfiction Category of the 2018 Belle Ame Awards. -Honorable Mention Winner in the Fanfiction Category of The 2018 Victory Awards.

In the year 2073, a young girl is walking the seashore, where the oceans had dried up and what was left are the seabed with the late corals. (Entry for the #PlanetorPlastic contest of NatGeo)

A collection of poems that I suddenly happened to spark up, each piece being fueled with an emotion. With meanings sadistic(as expected) and sometimes cheesy, there are also moments when it dives into darkness. I hope you enjoy! Started:08/11/2018 Ended:13/11/2019 Status: Completed Highest rankings: #1 in deepermeaning #3 in wanderer #361 in poet #170 in frustration #136 in ethereal

Random poems made by me in my free time. !!!WARNING!!! They may not be good. I'm a beginner.

Magic is a force of nature. And in the country of Mednagora, it can be studied, understood, and even harnessed into strange and wondrous technology. But every new advancement comes at a price: magic must be harvested as "artifacts" from The Zone: one of many hotspots of wild magic, where fireballs and lightning bolts surge forth from the very ground, where wildlife is mutated into grotesque, hideous monsters, where even the dead sometimes rise from their slumber. The Zone must be explored by vedmaks, pathfinders and daredevils that wander it in search of viable sources of artifacts. Two of these vedmaks, Misha Sorokina and her protege, Drazhek Sventoslavichi, embark on a quest into The Bald Mountains, in search of an underground cache of artifacts. But if such grave peril marks the surface of The Zone, then what trials await beneath The Earth?

"Nothing charming is ever lost, for pain causes beauty" This book is a collection of poems that follow one story line. Every poem is from a different point of view. These poems can be from the: Past = ❀ Present= ✾ or Future= ⋆ ▐ 2nd Place in poetry for The Rising Star Awards 2018 Cover by the amazing: skycxrter |=Disclaimer=| This story doesn't really have many triggering items. But this book does have... -A dead person [No blood or anything, they died peacefully] |_Double Wammy_| I wrote the first poem on a typewriter. I was on a field trip to a writers museum, it was my first time. And fun!!! Which inspired me to write this collection.

Mysterious mist hangs over Central Billion and is slowly spreading to the other regions in the state. It drives people mad, and those who enter the affected region never come out. Mankind has built windmills across the state of Billion to blow away the mist, but it proves to be a temporary solution: a dragon destroys them and then returns to the depths of the mist. When the authorities set a bounty on the dragon's head, eighteen-year-old Mika Asagi sees it as a free entry to the prestigious Metaslica Faculty of Science and accepts the challenge. Despite knowing the infamous tale about the mist and Central Billion, Mika goes on a journey to slay the dragon with her one-eyed undead guardian. === Cover is made by using Gungrave GORE (Winter 2019) promotional pics from gematsu.com

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. -Rumi

Cecile was an ordinary high school senior trying to finish her last year in Sauran High, but all that falls to shambles with the appearance of a book and a marking. Suddenly, she was thrown into a pool of fear and agony as the girls in her class start disappearing one by one. No one had time to prepare, they are thrown into a world of unnatural beings and they must fight to protect themselves and humanity. Or so they thought. Instinct must uncover secret intentions. Cecile journeys to uncover right from wrong as an encounter makes her question the true cause of this battle, but she must wield her weapons and overcome her weaknesses before it's too late. The land of Escrade has many mysteries waiting to be revealed, she must take a leap of faith and plunge into its depths. With a book, a necklace and a king being her only guide, Cecile must work hard to wield her weapons for the right cause. Cover Done By: @PiscesPerfectionist

When she finally got rid of the fog that involved her, she woke up in a completely unfamiliar place. She had no idea how she had gotten there, and worst of all, she could not remember her name. All the information she had come from people she did not recognize. They said she was attacked and then saved by one of the combatants. But why? Although she could not remember anything about herself, she kept only one memory: the man in black who was watching her that night. Even with the shadows wrapped around his face, covered by the hood, she knew he was watching her. She had that feeling before... but when? She knew that who saved her could know a small part of the answers, but she was not prepared for what would happen when she found those black eyes, eyes that kept a secret. Lost in the midst of a war between the Exiled and the Government Troops, in a world desolate by a large plague that has killed almost all population, she tries to understand her role in all that situation. Which side would she be on? Doubt, lies, betrayal, revenge, love, friendship and many revelations in an intense sequence of plot twists while she searches for answers in this story where romance and dystopia complement each other. Where had she been until she got there? Cover by @dpmello

Crystallin is corrupting the earth. Kingdoms fall, cities are only shells of what they were previously. Only one group of people are brave enough to stand up to her rule. They are the Saviors. A Warrior, the Stealth, the Healer, Mage and the Inventors. Will they be able to confront and destroy the pestilence that is the Empire?

*I kept running as they followed behind me. "Will I ever outrun them and be free?!" ~ Silhouettes: the story of 2 souls, finding love and themselves in the shadows of their pasts. ~'The past shall haunt you forever. To all the people in my life that inspired this story (My real life Janu, Niko, & all the other characters). I dedicate this story to you. I write this for you and about you. And to all my fellow friends and readers I hope you enjoy it as well. This will be a long story. So buckle up and enjoy!

-Credits to @stiles24stilinskiXD for making the cover!- Ethereal meant something that was out of this world, something that was odd to a mere human. Welcome to Ethereal, a book filled with poems that describes any emotion. If its sadness or happiness, all of those emotions are put into each poem. Now what are you waiting for? Come see the beauty of the mystifying stories located deep within the archives of Ethereal.

In revision. ----------- 25/09/18

(This is the sequel of The Badass Diaries. It can be read as a stand alone) "Imagination will often carry us to worlds we thought never were. But without it, we would go nowhere." -Carl Sagan. Three friends never imagined that they'd be in their current positions today. As Carl Sagan says, our imagination will often carry us to worlds we thought never were. But without it, we'd go nowhere. Their imaginations can carry them to some pretty interesting worlds. But, the worlds they carry them to are not always what they desire..... #butterflyawards2k19 #theinfinites19 Milestones: 100 reads (8/8/18) 500 reads (10/7/18) 1,000 reads (10/30/18) 5,000 reads (7/25/19) Highest rankings: #3 in the tag #firstperson #8 in the tag #senior #296 in the tag #drama #60 in the tag #bestfriends #117 in the tag #youngadult #1 in the tag #imagination #333 in the tag #highschool #1 in the tag #threefriends Awards and Honors: 2nd place in the Rising Star Awards under the Romance category (1/10/19) 2nd place in the DYT's People's Choice Awards, under Romance (2/11/19) 1st place in the 2019 Moon Phase Awards in the Romance category (2/24/19) 1st place in the Blue Rose Awards, under the Rookie category (3/3/19) Added to the Newly Written Writer's Reading List, Roses are Red; Romance (3/7/19) 2nd place in the Jelsa Awards in the Romance category (4/8/19) 3rd place in the Hot Chocolate Awards, overall (4/30/19)