Humorous Stories

When aliens invade, four baristas are forced to become the saviours of the world. Grab your double-shot of java and strap in - it's going to be a bumpy ride! ***** In the Earth's darkest hour, unexpected heroes are stirring... their coffee, that is. Four baristas on a camping trip are under-qualified to save the world from an alien invasion. But thanks to a hologram with no fashion sense, newly developed superpowers and an alien with a guilty conscience, they've landed the job anyway! So grab your double-shot of java, your blueberry muffin and strap in - Hasta barista, baby. [[2018 Wattys winner and twice featured]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Please note this is a sample of the book, which has been published and is available for purchase: Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKFVKQJ Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1644342154

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld. ***** When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying! [[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]] [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

In a penthouse in the Lust Ring lived a succubus named Verosika. After the unexpected events of spring break, she just wanted to put it all behind her and avoid any further mishaps... Images created with AI or sourced online.

Three stars fell from the sky. They split one continent into three empires. They gave magic to three bloodlines. For a thousand years, the balance held. Now it's breaking. THE GAME Fifteen teenagers from enemy empires were thrown together by a magical mirror. They didn't choose each other. Half of them were raised to kill the other half. But when you step into the Caraval, you don't get to walk away. "Welcome to the greatest game. Dreams that come true can be beautiful. If you don't wake up, they become nightmares." Now they're hunting twenty-five Divine Keys before the wrong people find them first. The three empires want the keys. A shadow council called the Kurotsuki Zetsubō wants them-twenty-five faces no one has ever seen. THE PLAYERS She stabbed an Emperor. He caught her. Now they're fake-dating. A princess whose empire forgot her, a curse sleeps inside her, and an immortal magician follows her everywhere, whether she likes it or not. Three broken souls who chose darkness because the light abandoned them first. Her parents sold her to a monster. Some love stories start with a kiss. Hers started with a knife. She builds Floating mechs with minds of their own. Weapons that think. She's the smartest person in any room. She was born to save people. She's learning she can't save everyone.She doubts herself constantly. But she never runs. She used to control six elements. Now she has two.Then someone stole four of them.She's going to get her powers back or destroy everything trying. A blade in her hand before she could write her name. She laughs, she teases, she pulls pranks-until a fight starts. Then she goes cold. Their clans have been enemies for centuries. They're starting to think their clans were wrong. Twenty-five Divine Keys. Three empires hunting them. One shadow council pulling strings. Fifteen teenagers who didn't sign up for any of this. The stars gave magic to three empires. They forgot to mention the curse. [START READING]

COMPLETED Highest ranking: #27 in humor! #2 in #womanpower❣ Second place in the Runaway Awards!! Once, there was a sweet and shy girl whose life gets in trouble. The bad boy steps in and saves the day. But what if for once, it's the bad boy who needs the protection? And what if its the girl who can provide it? Read on to find out. *New chapters coming soon!*

remember remember the 5th of November the gunpowder treason and plot I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot this story follows 23 yr old y/n and a masked vigilante will they tear one another to bits or put eachother together again

For years, a weak skeleton NPC trash mob dreamed of becoming a difficult raid boss, and in the newest update of 'Principality Online', he finally gets that wish.

Reagan Belrose has been dreaming about this one man. Vividly. In her dreams, he knows her, teases her, calls her wife with an ease that feels less fictional and more... remembered. She tells herself it's harmless, just an overactive imagination stitched together from late nights, rom-com addiction and romantic novels. Until she walks straight into him on campus. That same face.....those same eyes and an infuriatingly steady presence. Except this version doesn't look at her like he knows her or soften at the edges when she speaks. If anything, he looks mildly annoyed she exists. The resemblance ends at appearance. His charm is replaced with cool detachment. His warmth with cutting restraint. And whatever dream-version tenderness she'd grown embarrassingly used to? Completely absent. But then they keep running into each other, and every encounter sharpens the tension.... irritation laced with something dangerously familiar. Because the more she watches him, the more certain she becomes of one thing: He moves like the man in her dreams. And sometimes, just sometimes... he looks at her like he's trying not to recognise something too. Is it a coincidence? Psychological projection? Or a trick of an exhausted mind?

Rover, a chatty but reserved cat has taken a job as a tour guide at a big island called Cat Park, along with his chaotic and extremely stupid helper Kat. Everything seems normal about this new town, except for two things: the villagers and the island's past. After many villager disappearances and kidnappings, Kat and Rover are framed for a crime that they hadn't done, and it could lead up to everything they've worked for being ruined. Will Kat and Rover find out who framed them and fix everything? Find out now in Cat Park Chaos... read at your own risk. (All characters except for Kat and Mr. McLeafington owned by Nintendo!)

Music student life with a twist

What happens when your fictional boyfriend becomes your real boyfriend? Soon I see some new kids walk into the classroom when my eyes get caught on the back of this one guy's head. I quickly turn my face away and look at my desk. I hear someone sit next to me and I glance over to see who it is. He was looking at me. My eyes widened. No way. This isn't possible.The boy holds his hand out to shake. "Hello, My name is Tristen. And you are?" Skylar thinks she is crazy when her favourite fictional character from her favourite book series walks into her class room. She tries making up excuses and just thinks it's a coincidence. She didn't think it was possible. But as she starts to get to know Tristen more and as she starts to fall with him, she soon realizes that he could really be fictional. Is he fictional or is it just a coincidence? And if he's fictional, What would happen to their relationship? And what else could possibly be going on? ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! PLEASE DO NOT TAKE, STEAL, OR ADAPT MY IDEA OR BOOK WITHOUT PERMISSION AS THE CHARACTERS AND IDEA IS MINE AND BELONGS TO ME

So I thought "I'm a pretty stupid person" So I might as well write about it

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Madeline Goode is devastated when her husband dies in a car accident. After moving back in with her parents with her two year old son, Max, she attempts to put the pieces of her life back together. But she didn’t plan on meeting Jake Hart, the star NBA player that she keeps bumping into at her new job as a charity coordinator for the Racers. And she certainly didn’t plan on learning that her husband’s accident may have been no accident at all. Will Jake stick around while her life gets complicated? And if she gives in to her heart, will she just be making another mistake? Rushing to the Altar may be the most daring and risky move of her life.

When a plane crash kills her abusive mother and stepfather, 12-year-old Sky Rossi is ripped from years of neglect and thrown into the guarded world of the Rossi mafia empire. Stolen at two. Forgotten. Starved. Scarred. She returns tiny, malnourished, with jagged short hair she cut herself and clothes that scream "stay away." Her eight older brothers rule New York's ruthless Italian mafia - cold, powerful, and deadly. They expected a fragile little sister they could shield and pamper. They got Sky - a stubborn, hot-tempered tomboy who glares instead of speaking, pushes everyone away, and would rather sleep on the floor than accept their luxury. She trusts no one, flinches at loud noises, and hides her terror behind icy silence or sudden outbursts. The Rossi brothers have faced every enemy in the underworld. But this short, rebellious girl might be the one who finally breaks through their armor... or forces them to face the family they failed.

THE USEFUL IDIOTS. At least in the military, the enemy wore uniforms. In civil service, they wear three-piece suits, carry clipboards, and ask you to fill out triplicate forms to request permission to breathe. Meet the veteran who traded a real combat zone for seventeen years behind enemy lines in the windowless, fluorescent-lit asylum of federal bureaucracy. Surrounded by a rotating cast of bobbleheads, empire-building morons, and GS-14 professional online shoppers, he lived to tell the tale. From the 50-year employee shuffle and the 30-day phantom training deadlines to the infinite loop of meetings to plan meetings about meetings, this is a gritty, laugh-out-loud, finger-pointing dispatch from the corporate escalator to nowhere. Strap in, hold onto your lukewarm coffee, and welcome to the greatest 2,000-hour-a-year comedy hour on earth.

just those regular..................................not regular......moments

This is so all readers can ask me any questions they like about me or how I play into the flash or Arrow.

"Love sucks. Love isn't real. It's one of life's greatest lies, that and 'Yes, I have read and agree to these Terms and Conditions.'" Well, so she thought. When Elli- the girl who everyone calls Mrs. Hermit, given the circumstances- meets two guys in one day (both stunningly attractive) and starts to fall for both. Both boys have similar qualities, like nice hair, beautiful eyes, and experience in dating, while Elli has read a few romance novels. But, it's the differences that really count. With lack of love affecting Elli her whole life, will either boy be able to get to her?