Litfic Stories

Kenji had a simple life: Lift heavy, game hard, binge anime watch wrestling and ignore cardio. Then he got hit by a truck. He expected to wake up in heaven. Instead, he woke up in a crib... as Princess Lily, the daintiest, frill-wearing noble daughter in a fantasy kingdom. Now, trapped in a body built for tea parties, Kenji is determined to grind his way back to being an apex predator. But the path to becoming an S-Rank adventurer isn't easy when: Your mom wants you to marry a Duke. Your "party" consists of a Goth Mage who can't cast, an Elf Archer who can't aim, and a Catgirl who sleeps on your face. You have a confusing crush on your own Nanny. Watch Princess Lily trade her tiara for a greatsword and prove that you don't need testosterone to be the strongest bro in the dungeon. Expect: 💪 OP Protagonist (who is a girl) ⚔️ Wrestling Moves & Swords 🔥 A disaster Harem 🤣 Pure Chaos "Verification for Royal Road: am cross-posting this to my RR profile: [FightingNerdyStudios]."

Welcome to The Relic Awards - a celebration of the stories, writers, and their worlds that have left a mark on Wattpad. Hidden within the vault are honours waiting to be claimed: ancient artifacts of storytelling, each representing a different kind of literary magic. Whether your tale is a sweeping fantasy, a heart-wrenching romance, a chilling horror, dystopian future or comedy that can even make old Nestor laugh - There's a relic of recognition here for you to claim. What are you waiting for? Polish your pages, gather your courage and bring forth your story to the vault. THE RELICS ARE EAGER FOR THEIR NEXT LEGEND.

A simple country woman. A country torn apart by a coming Civil War. A stranger who gives her love as she has never known. A historical romance set in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in the days leading up to the Civil War, Songs of the Night is a romantic tale of passion and surrender. Swept off her feet by Bachelor Hawes, Belle settles down to married life and a family, only to have her mother's love tested by tragedy. Love hurts when Bachelor heeds the call to war. Abandoned and struggling to keep her family alive, Belle is at her wits end, until a stranger arrives in her yard. Porcher Riley seems to be the answer to her prayers. But is he?

In the fall of 1921, Valerie Sigrid flees to the isolated city of Nastrond with nothing but a guilty conscious, a drinking problem, and a secret. She spends her days there achingly alone until she meets Lance and Lila Hundingsbane, two immigrant siblings struggling to make ends meet in a city growing both more expensive and more hostile to outsiders. Through them, she discovers a sense of purpose and belonging unlike anything she has ever felt before. However, Valerie's past is becoming harder and harder to outrun. Investigators back home search for answers about her disappearance. Political tensions become unavoidable. Rumors spread, all of them half baked. Suddenly, all anyone seems to know about Valerie Sigrid is the depravities they think she has committed. Would anyone ever see her as more than that? Genres: Literary/genre fiction blend, upmarket fiction, speculative fiction, drama, coming of age, alternate historical, romance Themes: Moral superiority complexes + Moral absolutism, The importance of nuance, Forgiveness and understanding, Human complexity, Trauma and coping, Propaganda Note: Although not particularly spicy, this story does contain mature themes and moderate sexual content

Bits and pieces of love stories that could be in a novel - but aren't.

A girl must choose between the future she'd envisioned for herself and the beautiful reality of a secondhand bookstore her first love calls home in this heartfelt contemporary romance that explores the power of love, literature, and community when it comes to changing and saving lives. Only three things stand in the way of the life Nell had always envisioned for herself: a bookstore, its book club, and the boy of her dreams. When Nell's brother-in-law walks out on her pregnant sister, it falls on Nell's shoulders to cover their mountain of bills. To do so, she must convince the owner of a secondhand bookstore to sell his property so she can earn a commission. But when she visits the store, two unexpected things happen: the owner offers her a job sorting the shelves-extra income!-and her childhood crush, Thomas Whelan, turns out to be the only other employee there. Only a fool would turn that opportunity down. When Thomas reveals he needs help with his love life, it seems all too perfect: get an in with Tom by helping him prepare for his dates, recruit him towards her cause of convincing their boss to sell, get paid, and live happily ever after. Except the more time she spends with Tom, the more she gets attached: to him, to the bookstore that soon might not even exist, and its customers. Set in a small town in the throes of gentrification, Second Chance Books is a novel that explores the power of love, literature, and community when it comes to changing and saving lives. * * * ""Second Chance Books" is a heartwarming romance novel that explores the power of forgiveness, selflessness and faith in Love. With its endearing characters and narrative depth, this book captivated me from beginning to end. [...] The author does a commendable job of crafting complex and relatable characters." - Clay (5-star Goodreads review)

[COMPLETE ON PATREON] Fear preys on people's minds when the living no longer outnumber the dead. The city of Old Saint Boniface has a ghost problem. The ghosts have never harmed anyone, but paranoia's economic toll has brought the city to its knees and gotten a succession of mayors elected on promises to control the spread. Janine lives in a part of town more abandoned than inhabited, and has worked a waitressing job at a derelict restaurant for the better part of a decade. Her will to reach for more is gone: each day is reduced to a blur broken only by the fresh air of the street, the old woman who dances beneath the bell tower, and the silent company of the ghosts that walk to and fro, just as they did when living. Janine is not the only one who can see them. But she is one of the few who doesn't care. Janine is there the day the police take the dancing old woman away. But that night, that same woman shows up at her door. She claims to know things about the city's ghosts, and why no one can stop their spread. She asks Janine for a hand in figuring out why Old Saint Boniface's dead can't seem to find rest - before those that have been wandering for too long turn dangerous. ❖❖❖ Trigger Warning: This book contains strong themes and experiences of depression. Complete on Patreon. Entry in Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest. Round II Winner (second place). Round II Ambassador Pick. Longlisted. Complete. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Something about Lena makes me remember twisted, shredded truths like slivers of starlight shooting across a midnight sky. There one moment then gone the next. I brush my thumb across her chin and my hand finds sudden nostalgia. If all this did not seem like a smoke screen I would have allowed myself to be swept up by the sunlight in her eyes... This is why I know I cannot start over as a human. I remember the sunlight in her eyes even with her eyes shut.

It’s springtime 1985. Ricardo Mendez loves clove ciggies, street fights, and Steve’s dimples. And oh, his God-crazy aunt damns him with sermons and tamarind candy. His neighborhood lights abuzz with tales of him and Steve k-i-s-s-i-n-g. But before Ricardo has a chance to explain to his family, rumors and circumstances blow out of control. In response, his parents kicks him out of his house. Alone and afraid, Ricardo has to navigate hoodlums, night stalkers, his God-crazy aunt. He may have to shed his prejudices to survive. But he may just lose his heart or life before he can find his way back home again.

‘Death is very likely the greatest invention of life.’ STEVE JOBS, THE APPLE CORPORATION. For millennia mankind has searched for the elixir of eternal youth. Science has now brought us to the very brink of this search. Advances already predict that babies born today could live to well over 100 and very shortly to 140 and beyond. This could be the biggest threat to humanity… ever. Imagine this world if only a few select individuals were invited to benefit from this utopian world of eternal youth, wealth and power. This is the world of Primogeniture. – A world where The Firstborn holds power absolute. – A world where the banishment of death becomes the ultimate prize. However, one unlikely individual holds the key. But will he part with his secret? It is said that every man has his price… As the stakes rise – the very future of mankind waivers in the balance.

In the spring of 1900, ten teams set out by canoe on a government-sponsored expedition to survey the wilds of Northern Canada. Their four-month mission: to record an inventory of the resource potential of the Province of Ontario's untouched frontier. Renowned athlete and lumberman George Reginald Gray commands Expedition Party No. 3, a team of scientists, surveyors, canoe men and a Native guide. Following the lead of the enigmatic Cree elder, the party delves deep into the heart of the Temagami wilderness where they awaken the true spirit of the land. "The Line in the Sand" draws upon primary source and archival documents to reveal the untold story of the odyssey of Expedition No. 3 and imagines what lies beneath the few surviving records of the journey. This novella originally was published to Wattpad as part of the anthology "Nine Lies of BG Davies."

"I ink the purest, darkest fathoms of my soul in hopes of being yours truly, even if it may be just my stupid dreams..." The evolution of an infatuation to a prospective teenage love that might evolve to true love though not without the many stops it has along the way; would they transcend to such eternal devotion or crumble in failure? Highest achieved in #7 Free Mental Illness #11 Break Stereotypes #31 Wattpad for Poetry

Set in the mid-2000's, a young man tries to make sense of his surroundings while simultaneously doing everything he can to escape them. Fueled by drugs, his friends, his car and his desire to maintain constant mobility, he unknowingly subjects himself to a series of rigorous tests to establish exactly where he belongs in the dysfunctional society around him.

When you're dreaming, you feel alive. - Ministry // Dream Song There have been many things written about dreams. Honestly, there can't be enough. This is a story about dreams. All rights reserved.

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order. The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music. [Dystopia, Magical Realism, Philosophy, Literary] #1 Sci-Fi, Spiritual; #Wattys2014 Award Winner; Featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, @DIGonUSA "Struck me to the very core of my being." "Very interesting concept of reality... Thought provoking.." "I have been turned to a whole new way of thinking because of you." "Like a seven course meal full of spice and illumination... One does not listen to a classical piece to get to its ending. No. It is the ride, the moment by moment...a genuine Masamune among stories." "It was both personable and philosophical. A rare breed of good story and thought provoking ideas... A virtual standing ovation would not be enough to encapsulate the absolute awe I have of you." "It's not a regular thing to find a piece of work that oozes sophistication and embodies literature and art." "The world Takatsu has created opens to the deeper awareness of another, the draw of another." - Mary L Tabor, Wattpad author, essayist, professor "Offers acute, almost painful observations of the minutiae of life, if life took place in a Murakami snow-globe." - IndieReader Insiders "Vapoury style that seems to hover off world at times...haunting and strange (which is good)...You're on to something different, striking." - B.W. Powe, York University English Professor, award-winning author, poet, philosopher http://EspressoLove.tk

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Hitchhiking his way across 1973 America, Garrison is a confused teenager, trapped in a tangle-web of morbid, adolescent impulses. His already unsteady life is turned upside down when, after stumbling upon a mysterious girl's disturbing secret, he's sent on a dark journey into the mind of a killer that could very well end in prison or an early grave.

A short story about love and reconciling.

In the near future, when corruption and poverty have taken over, police and government officials no longer take care of the people, but rather, those wealthy residents that can afford the protection. Because of this, families are left to protect themselves, turning their own communities into the armed forces they need to put an end to all of the violence that's quickly sweeping through each, and every, household. Will the law-abiding citizens prevail? Or will the law-breaking officials have their way in the court of life? Or better yet, will they ALL discover a truth NOBODY expected? ------------------------- (****WARNING - CONTAINS SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE, ALCOHOL and MORE) -------------------------