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"I wanted to give this to you in person," Anubis said, taking a step closer to the girl who was evidently petrified. He handed her a crisp white envelope that had his name written in a cursive scrawl. With shaky hands, Zaina took the envelope. Not knowing what to do, she performed an awkward curtsy which was met with a hearty laugh from the god. He lifted her chin with a finger and grinned that heart-stopping grin once more. Anubis trailed the finger up her jaw and laid it beneath her ear. "I'll see you around," he whispered, ghosting his lips over the shell of her ear. He stood up and walked away as though he had not made a long lasting impact on the young girl before him. After taking a few breaths to calm herself, Zaina opened the envelope. ONC 2019 entry ➴ round one qualifier round two qualifier longlisted wattpad featured story

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Seventeen-year-old Winter Chu has seen it all. Shrivelling sleep schedules, diets, his picture perfect mentor's booger, a fat zero in maths. You name it, he has seen it. Or that's what he likes to believe. Exactly why Winter cannot fathom how he failed to see how he could go from walking shoulder to shoulder with his best friend - scratch that, his ex-best friend - on the busy streets of Seoul while playfully burlesquing their mentor to running away from said best friend in the span of a single day. Or, how on the same day, he ended up moving in with three other kids who were as confused as him in a dorm that was whipped out by the mentor he had just burlesqued. Fast forward two years and Winter has made countless decisions in the span of it, some good and some equally bad. Bad being: completely erasing Liu Xuejun, his ex-best friend and everything that had to do with him from his life. So when Xuejun, now a rising star, slips back into his messy life from the shadows of busking crowds and in old sauna rooms, Winter has no choice but to go with the slippery flow. Even when his own debut is right around the corner. Even when his heart beats the wrong way for Xuejun every single time. Even when he knows none of this is a good idea. Listen, dreams are tricky things. But you know what, so are friendships. - rankings - #36 nanowrimo 17.03.2022 #36 talkthepoc 17.03.2022

complete // We were there laughing and crying, hoping and dreaming, loving and losing. Growing up together, the five of us learned that the greatest love story of all time was about the love between friends and the saddest goodbye is the one to our youth. This is our story, this is us. ━ https://vivaldings.tumblr.com/TAOY cover: me ━ added to wattpad official account @YA 's reading list Love, Actually 26/08/2020 added to wattpad official account @storiesundiscovered 's reading list Tales of the Heart 04/01/2021

In a time where few can be trusted, a knight shall rise... Raquel Ophelia Knight was a doctor, an aspiring author, and a savvy business woman before she married what some would call the most powerful man in America, Matthew Leeds. Soon to be swept up in a runaway win in Congress, to winning the presidential election, Raquel is in for the ride of her life, both literally and figuratively. Welcome to her story.

home is almost never where the heart is

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙲𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚢 @𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝

serendipity; the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. Violet found a lot more then she bargained for when she met Harry, a man who was supposed to be dead.

❝Well, uh...My name is Mark Tuan, I'm 18, I also like dogs, my mom is my favorite person- and I like being in pain.❞ ❝Is that why you hurt yourself?❞ ❝No.❞ • • •

The Yuan Dynasty has fallen, and the Ming Dynasty begins. The concubines of the young Emperor Yu's harem are more than just pretty faces to decorate the halls. They are to be whatever he wishes of them; lovers, mothers, friends, advisers, toys. But most importantly, they are his pawns. cover by @lemvnade currently on hold for further research historical fic 96 ( 10.6.16 )

complete // One person. One person can make a difference. As cliché and overused the phrase is, it's true. One person can make a difference. For me, that one person was Amelia Marsh. ━ previously posted on @vivaldings https://vivaldings.tumblr.com/caa cover: me ━ added to wattpad official account @storiesundiscovered 's reading list 01/03/2021

{ NOT A BTS FIC } "What's the one thing you can't live without?" Taz looked at me, brown irises steadily holding my gaze, eyes endearing. The faintest of smiles ghosted his lips, but there was no joy behind it. I almost didn't hear him say, "I think you already know the answer," before he finished his drink and slipped back inside. Almost. * * * In which an ordinary girl finds her peace through an unusually named boy. * * * {Highest Rankings} 7/19/18 - #1 in Asian American 8/11/18 - #8 in AMBW AN: she's unedited and very much a work in progress but she is my baby and we live for growth in this house

Nora Blake repels ordinary. Adam Clarke is constructed entirely of ordinary. ● ● ● "I don't want to share you with the galaxy, Nora Blake," he says quietly, and all at once, all the stars inside my chest are being flung across the universe at full speed and for that particular moment, I am untethered. Unrooted. Flowing. Floating. Something. He doesn't have to, I think, instantly. I am vaguely aware of the fact that I am a kind of traitor: but there is no heavy stone of betrayal in my chest. The galaxy will wait. It will wait until this beautiful boy flings my fragile heart across the universe at full-speed, but right now, I'm so full of it that I don't even care. Look at that. Nora Blake gives up the galaxy. I look at him, then, and there's so much color oozing out of his perfect, jagged cracks that I feel like I'm in one of Nadia's Leonid Afremov paintings and there's a supernova in my chest. "You don't have to," I tell him, so quietly that I don't think he hears. His delicate rose-pink mouth is curved into a kind of frown and his baby-blue gray-flecked gaze is lost somewhere far, far away from the devoid town of Enfield. I recognize that much, and I wonder momentarily if he has his own galaxy somewhere. I don't want to share him either, I think.

Lisa Johnson finds herself in a trying predicament after visiting the childhood home of her mother in Southern California. Amidst the harsh reality of life on the Reservation she meets John Hatathli, a young stubborn Doctor who's returned for good to uproot the stagnant conditions of his birthplace. He's decided to stay put during this endeavor, adamant that no power on earth - or woman - will move him.

[ON HOLD] Helena Nowak and Anita Singh aren't an ordinary detective duo--they solve cases with the help of the dead. After the continuous success of closing cases, a new challenge emerges--reexamine a 1980s unsolved case of a couple's death who went missing for two months from an accident scene. Armed with confidence, an old walkie-talkie, and a secret gift of talking to the dead, the duo has this sorted, right? After all, the dead know secrets unknown to the living. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is a co-written novella (with @Iveyn-Adler) for Open Novella Contest 2023 | Prompt #10 Copyright © CrownedMadness | Maddy Alson & Iveyn-Adler 2023

Director in the making Ryan Ellis is determined to making sure her junior year of college is as positive as her sophomore year was, but before she can start the school year she takes small blows that leave her wrong footed. Ryan can't remember ever feeling as unbalanced as she does before the start of Junior year. These changes leave her questioning herself more than ever.

Years of competing made it easy for Alinna to resent Mason. As they decide to push their hatred aside and work together, they realize that their booksmarts won't come in handy any time soon. ***** Social butterfly Alinna Windham was exactly what you'd imagine as the stereotypical teen girl. She loved everything drowned in glitter and all shades of pink. As girly as she was, she despised being underestimated. Fighting stereotypes all of her life, Alinna never thought the one person who truly accepted her, would walk out when she needed him most. Time flies as Senior Year rolls around. An opportunity of a lifetime opens up for one lucky student-to be accepted into a prestigious university, far far away. Ironically both Alinna and Mason are more than qualified. Tensions arise, adding fuel to the already existing fire between Alinna and Mason. Their lives revolved around a few things. Schoolwork, books, getting into college, and repeat. Soon they come to realize that books couldn't prepare them for this next chapter in their lives. tw//mentions of eating disorders, other mental illnesses, and self-destructive behavior est. February 04, 2021

Liyah Hamilton was-in summery- stubborn, pretentious, and stuck up. Chance West was definitely obnoxious and had one heck of a smoking problem. There was absolutely no way at all these two could even formulate anything beyond a friendship. Right? Wrong. Chance already loved Liyah. And Liyah was coming to love him too. And turns out, they worked just right together. - sweetlly