SmokeAndOranges
[COMPLETE ON PATREON] In the daytime, Stephanie-Ann is the quiet girl in her grade five classroom, keeping her head down to avoid drawing attention. She passes the hours daydreaming, imagining fabulous worlds and wishing that reality was a little more like her dreams.
At night, that changes.
A cozy forest frequents Stephanie-Ann's dreamland: a place of her own, free of other people and full of small, magical creatures that love her more than her family's cat does. She has treasured it as her closest-kept secret for years.
This year, though, something has begun haunting the Candle Forest. A frightening encounter with it gives Stephanie-Ann her first nightmare in years, but she wakes to a bigger surprise: she accidentally brought a magical creature she rescued into the waking world. The line between the two begins to blur as she tries to get it home again. She might not be the only person in the forest after all. And she might need other people's help to save it.
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Entry in Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest. Shortlisted. Honorable Mention: Stunning Worlds. Complete.
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