Wattywinner Stories

🏆 Watty Award Winner (2022) This updated edition includes revised chapters and new scenes. Trans guy Collin makes a bet with his coworker that he can land a date with the hot new barista across the street. It should be easy. Except the more time he spends with her, the more the bet starts to feel like the worst idea he's ever had. ### It's 2003 in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Collin thought transitioning would be the hard part. But now that he's on hormones and passing with ease, he's still stuck wondering who he is and where he belongs. It doesn't help that his girlfriend of six years just dumped him. So when his coworker challenges him to prove he's still got game, Collin agrees to a stupid bet: get a date with Heather, the cute new barista who just started working at the café across the street. With some unexpected help from his roommate Sam, getting close to her might be easier than Collin expected. But what starts as a harmless distraction quickly turns into something real. And when the truth behind the bet finally comes out, Collin will have to decide whether risking his heart again is worth it... or if he's about to lose the best thing that's happened to him since the breakup. A nostalgic beach-town rom-com about bets, baristas, and what happens when pretending turns into something real. ☕ Tropes: friends-to-lovers vibes, a very bad bet, coffee shop flirting, early-2000s nostalgia, and learning who you are while falling in love. NEW CHAPTERS EVERY TUESAY & FRIDAY

When Piper discovers she has hidden cybernetic implants, she is inducted into the secretive AmpCore Academy to master incredible gifts, in a place where the impossible and possible collide... WINNER IN THE 2024 WATTY AWARDS AND GRAND FAVOURITE IN THE 2024 AMBYS * || WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST? || Hadrian is a city split in two. One side lives under the iron rule of competing tech corporations. The other is a wasteland, destroyed in a schism between human and artificial intelligence, stalked by code-wraiths, mad AIs and berserk cyborg abominations. When streetkid Piper is attacked by a rogue codewraith from Hadrian South, she discovers that she has hidden implants that no normal person should possess. Not willing to tolerate such an anomaly, the corporate overlords of Hadrian rip Piper out of her life and send her to the secluded AmpCore Academy, where she is set on a new path, whether she likes it or not. At the academy it quickly becomes clear that the wraith attack was no accident. Someone, somewhere, tried to murder her. Plunging into the murky world of corporate politics, academy cliques and gangland wars, Piper has to find out who wanted her dead, and stop them before they try again. || AmpCore: Book 1 || - [COMPLETED] *NB. this story contains strong language.

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Love is a journey. we must find the essence of being in love. The story is about a girl and her journey throughout her high school days (last year).... read to get to know what all happens in her life how much did u relate? Have u ever experienced love before??? COMMENT ME ;))

A corpse, a city marked by decay, and a detective whose obsession with death drives him to the edges of secrecy and corruption. In late 1950s at Mexico City, the disappearance of a young woman from a wealthy family, shakes society. After nearly a month of searching, her body is found in the shadowy corners of Miraflores. Espíndola, a seasoned detective with unorthodox methods, takes on the case, driven by his peculiar fascination with the hidden clues in cadaveric fauna. But what seems like just another murder in a city plagued by its own demons, soon reveals a far more disturbing truth. Espíndola will uncover that the girl's death is tied to something far more sinister-and that the answers lie not only in physical evidence, but in the riddles that death itself has left behind. [Cadaveric Fauna Series] [Winner of the Wattys Awards and featured on the official Mystery profile]] Content Warning: This work contains scenes suitable for ages 16 and up, as well as themes related to forensic entomology. Viewer discretion is advised. Cover designed by me. Photograph by Egor Kamelev, available on Pexels. Translated into English by me, so there might be some mistakes. Please feel free to give me feedback if you spot any. Thanks for your patience!

★ NOW PUBLISHED! ★ Hookup Culture Noun The idea that casual sexual encounters are the best or only way to engage sexually in college, a set of practices that facilitate casual sexual encounters, and an organizational structure that supports them (Lisa Wade, American Hookup 2017). As a sociology major researching nightclubs, Laney Emerson finds hookup culture to be just another socially constructed phenomenon that is worth questioning, analyzing, and concluding about. As a twenty-something college student, Laney also finds herself immersed in the culture of hooking up, in which physically getting naked is often easier than admitting how you feel. © 2020 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting © 2023 Published Version |ORIGINALLY A Short Story One-Shot (Walk of Shame) that received an HONORABLE MENTION in Romance Contest #12: Songspiration| *This story contains explicit language and implied sexual content*

***Wattys 2020 Winner*** Rex Fletcher is caught up in a desperate race to unravel one of the most ancient mysteries of the world. ***** Rex and his motley group of friends travel across Europe trying to stay one step ahead of a megalomaniac that wants nothing more than to reshape history in his image. Can Rex connect the clues, save an old friend's life, and track down a historic relic in time? Or will he be forced to watch as the power of the gods falls into the wrong hands? Author's note: This is a sample. If you are interested in the full novel, you can find it on Amazon in paperback and ebook.

Evelin is known as the wild Fendway sister. She dreams of someday escaping to the Forbidden Lands to the west, despite the rumors of its danger and dark magic. Evelin escapes to the lands and finds them to be not exactly how she expected. The creatures there need help, and only Evelin will save them. On a journey filled with bandits, elves, faeries, kingdoms, and a prince, Evelin tries desperately to break an enchantment cast long ago. Completed 9/30/15

REALISATIONS... from past mistakes, innocent conversations and spiritual healings. Poetry by Ken Maraj

That was a good night. Thank you.

A musically talented teen with her sights set on the spotlight must find a way to get her life back when she falls in with the mob. ***** In a city where con artists make the rules and aspiring females wear sequins and dance with a pole, Melody Holiday refuses to ride on the coattails of her semi-famous grandfather. She wants the freedom to choose her own path to showbiz greatness. When a chance meeting with a handsome stranger provides Mel with an opportunity, she thinks she's landed the big one. But her grandpa isn't thrilled with the direction Mel's career is going, and it's not until she stumbles across something she probably shouldn't have that this becomes clear. Perhaps meeting the stranger with the Rocky Balboa eyes wasn't by chance. Maybe Mel is rubbing elbows with the kind of people who could take away her freedom for good. This story is loosely based on the author's feral youth. So, if you like your fiction shaken not stirred with a sprinkle of badboy on the rim, NEON GIRL delivers the goods; giving readers a dose of drama, a dash of romance, and a heaping helping of Las Vegas schmaltz. Oh, and there's a killer playlist, too. WATTYS WINNER! LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction and owned by the author. If you attempt to plagiarize, the author knows people backstage who can 'take care of things'. IN OTHER WORDS: If you find this story on any online platform other than WATTPAD, the author did not allow this. You may also be exposing yourself to malware. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, do it here on WATTPAD.

TO BE PUBLISHED BY WATTPAD BOOKS DECEMBER '23! Marina's new life in Boston might seem perfect on the surface. She's a student at her dream school, MIT, and she has her family to support and guide her. But when old ghosts lurk in every closet, can a house really be a home?

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place. She sees no escape from her existence under the sorceress Bebinn, until one day her music lures Owen who, at age 16, is supposed to be too old to succumb to its spell. Imprisoned alongside Lira and desperate to find a way back home, Owen vows to find a way to free them both. The only problem: no one has ever escaped Bebinn and the Spirit World alive. 1st Place Winner in Fantasy for the Undiscovered Writer Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hidden Author Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hot Dog Awards! Winner of @EventualElites "Hypnotized and Hooked" Award! 3rd Place in Fantasy for the Book Center's Summer Awards! Cover by: @Baneen121

Her eyes fluttered open and a smile spread across her face. Once her vision came into focus, her smile only got wider. She watched as his chest rose and fell, a serene look on his face. His lips were parted slightly and his eyes were shut tight.He looked so much younger when he was asleep. She reached out and lightly traced his features until his eyes shot open. She had been caught. "Can I help you, Mrs. Rose?"He asked with a smirk on his face."Why yes you can. You can go back to sleep so I can continue what I was doing." "And what were you doing?" He asked again, his smirk growing wider. "That is none of your business." Only he wasn't letting her off that easy. He flung his arm around her waist and began to tickle her until she was kicking off the blanket whilst laughing hysterically. A young girls journey through life trying to figure it out.

| WATTYS 2018 WINNER: THE POETS | ❝Only when one can smile at her own reflection, be proud of her own thoughts and be happy with who she is, will she learn to fall in love with a candid picture.❞ Unveiled, unmasked, revealed. Displayed for the world to see, is her true personality. At first, she believed thoughts were just better left unsaid. She believed in bottling up her tears and locking away her secrets. Eventually, she let out her first whisper of silence. Taking baby steps, she slowly made her way into the world. She opened up her doors and took off her mask. Now, she's ready to show her true colours. She's ready to uncover those scars hidden beneath the painted smiles and the coloured lies. She's ready to be Candid. ~A poetry collection~

It was around midnight. Jeff knocked my front door. Little bit high, smelled like alcohol, and his forehead was bleeding a little, but he's still charming like always. He didn't say anything, just stared at me. And he cried like a lost boy. But, why did it had to be me who found him?

✨ Wattys 2023 winner ✨ Special award for best storyline ✨ The Moffet family is just like any other family. They lead a simple, quiet life in a pretty little two-story house on the outskirts of London... That is until they receive, from a strange deliveryman, a mysterious package that will catapult them into an unknown and fantastic world; an upside-down kingdom populated by talking sticks and chattering pebbles, welcoming shoes, stone keepers, enchanted lamps and magic cauldrons, prankster soothsayers and screaming matches that can reveal secret paths. A magical and adventurous journey that will take the protagonists through difficult trials, solve puzzles, traverse rough paths and clash with dark, malevolent forces. Status: complete

Adventurous Ella's brave and daring spirit calls her ( and apparently her parents too) to move to Canada. After finding a metal disc that supposedly sent her Sister to another dimension and back years before she disappeared on a date with her Boyfriend, Ella's restless self forces her to use it to find out what truly happened to her dear Sister, Melanie.

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