Lake Stories

[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

Lakefall City, 1984. A small mountain town where nothing ever happens... until a boy vanishes in the dark during a simple sleepover. No trace. No sound. Only an impossible shadow. Jake and Finn, his best friends, begin receiving strange signals from the lake: distorted voices, words rising from the water, and messages that should not exist. The police find nothing. The adults don't believe them. But the boys know one thing for sure: Mick is still out there. Somewhere. Something moves in the forest. Something watches from the water. Something calls from below. And Lakefall will never be the same again.

For the past eleven years Lacey Collins has spent every summer helping out at the Henderson family's boat rental business in Rosewood Cove, a small town on a beautiful lake - and she's had a crush on Nick, the Hendersons' son, for just as long. Since this summer will most likely be the last one she can work this job, Lacey wants to enjoy her time in Rosewood Cove to the fullest. But that's not so easy because her feelings for Nick are stronger than ever, yet a future together with him is impossible... "Something Like This" is a cozy slow-burn summer romance story set in a small lakeside town with a comfy vibe, stunning nature and lots of sparks in the air.

Podczas wakacji cztery dziewczyny wyjeżdżają na dwutygodniowy obóz nad jeziorem. Miejsce wydaje się idealne: drewniane domki, ogniska, kąpiele i wycieczki po okolicy. Już pierwszej nocy zaczynają dziać się dziwne rzeczy. Niektórzy uczestnicy słyszą w lesie tajemnicze wycie. Inni twierdzą, że widzieli między drzewami wysoką postać o świecących oczach. Kierownictwo obozu zabrania oddalania się od ośrodka po zmroku. Tłumaczą to bezpieczeństwem, ale unikają odpowiedzi na pytania. Dziewczyny odkrywają, że pobliski las od dziesięcioleci owiany jest złą sławą. Mieszkańcy pobliskiej wioski opowiadają legendę o potworze zwanym Leśnym Cieniem. Według podań stworzenie pojawia się nocą i poluje na tych, którzy zapuszczą się zbyt głęboko między drzewa.

A group of people goes to a camp along with the rest of their classes, next year's seniors, juniors, and two straight A sophomores. The long months of June and July seem like they'll be torture to the people who get paired with people they can't stand. But they start to realize maybe they aren't really all that bad. -trust the process -collab Kaelynn, Carlos, Joon, Joseph/Josephina, Gabriela, and Michael's povs - @Im_hiding_on_Mercury Mackenzie, Issac, Astrid, Micheal, Joseph/Josephina, Arizona, and Jamal's povs- @metallicaisshawty :)

Cami works at her parents resort/ hotel on Mackinac Island for the summer after a disastrous year of college. She loves painting the walls and making pretty murals for the guests to see. Maybe she does around all the hotels/ resorts and paints. He's a landscaper that works at all the hotels/ resorts over the summer. They meet when Rhett accidentally mistakes her for a tourist and flirts with her, then her dad interrupts and Rhett realizes he's the owner of one of the Inn he landscapes.

Annalise and her best friend Mia are staying at the Reynolds family cottage. As the summer goes on, she develops feelings for her best friend's brother. She fights her way through sailing lessons because she could never act on those feelings, right?

When Ivy runs away, she isn't looking for magic-she's looking for escape. But the forest she finds is anything but ordinary. The Enchanted Forest breathes, shifts, and remembers. Trees whisper secrets only she can hear, rivers glow under moonlight, and shadows move like they're alive. At its heart lives an old woman who gifts Ivy a mysterious necklace-and a warning she can't forget: Once you enter, the forest decides what you become. As Ivy ventures deeper, she uncovers forgotten magic, dangerous creatures, and a truth buried beneath the roots of the world itself. But the deeper she goes, the more the forest feels... familiar. Like it's been waiting for her. And it doesn't plan to let her go.

Based on Owen Dennis's "Infinity Train", this story is a possible outcome for Lake's escape from the Infinity Train. Following her escape from the enigmatic Infinity Train with best friend Jesse Cosay, Lake tries to find her place in the real world as a girl made of solid metal. However, misfortune strikes when Lake is spotted in public and the secret organization known as R.I.S.E. sends two of its detectives after the former denizen.

They're not heroes. They're not villains. They're just a group of teens carrying secrets too big for their age-laughing through the cracks, fighting through the pressure, and standing their ground when the world tries to break them apart. When loyalty is tested and revenge starts whispering, staying together may cost more than walking away. This is the the story of three girls who just wanted to complete their assignment but ended up in a death game.

„I should be mad about the ignorance, but I'm kind of happy about it" _-_-_-_-_ Spending the summer with the Hughes brothers sounded like a dream. Until she became invisible. Overshadowed by her best friend, she learned what it felt like to be the one no one chose. No one noticed. No one...except Trevor. And sometimes, being seen by just one person changes everything.

By now, we all know the story. A family remains cursed by a gypsy for over 100 years until the curse is broken by an act of kindness. "If only, if only," the woodpecker sighed. "The bark on the trees was as soft As the sky." The wolf waits below, Hungry and lonely. He cries to the moon, "if only, if only." We are the Zeroni women and this is our story. ||Desperado Book #2||

Elenor, with her best friends, Kyla and Iris, rent out a lake house for the whole of summer, however unexpectedly Kyla brings her older brother along without telling the girls and even worse the neighbouring house is what Kyla's brother rented out for his friends. What none of them were expecting was a sizzling summer with unexpected love and friendships. TW: contains mature content

"The gray sparrow struggling for the light will be suffocated by a bloodthirsty daisy. The stars and the darkness will clash, and the daisy might conquer all..." The four Clans have been at peace for a moon. Prey is plentiful, and water is near. But oncoming darkness hangs over WindClan like a dark cloud and Flintpaw must have the courage to fight it... or be consumed.

this is a short romantic story about Beca and Chloe. They go to a lake for a walk together, it ends up at very romantic moment. it's an extended version of a scene out of a longer story that i wrote. if you want to read the rest, please leave a comment.

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Short live stories that will make your heart melt. Heartbreaking, intense but so readable stories dedicated to lovers. For those who trusted love and got broken, for those who still believe in the ghosts of the past. These stories will for sure stay in your memory as heavenly!

A classic tale of Odette, a beautiful woman cursed to be a swan during the day, as she falls in love with Prince Siegfried. Her twisted and hideous sister, Odile, however, isn't content to let that be. Everything falls apart as black magic runs rampant through the kingdom...

They always have said "There's no way! You can't love her! It's impossible!" Well, guess what? It's possible.

Nicky just a regular high school student has never been kissed, never had a boyfriend and the worst thing is that her best friend ditched for all the snobs 'populars' of the school. Nicky is alone through out her entire high school career. Her ex-best friend Cassidy has been spreading rumors about her behind her back ever since 6th grade and Nicky gets sick of it. So Nicky plans to take revenge on Cassidy, but it doesn't help when her high school crush, Kole Nickels starts liking her and her only friend Matt Davidson tells her his true feelings for her and now she's stuck on a love triangle. She has all these distractions while she tries to seek revenge on Cassidy. Does Nicky give Cassidy what she deserves and gets the guys she always wanted?