I've just submitted RUNNER'S GAME to the Wattys! I've spent the last year extensively editing and enhancing the story (Sorry for the unnoticed mistake in Chapter 2 (ugh!)) including finalizing the name. Originally the story was called 'Lanna's War' but that alway felt like a working name to me. I changed the name several times but eventually settled on Runner's Game while on a road trip through the Canadian prairies this week. Please check it out and let me know what you think! And good luck to all of the other Wattys contestants!
https://www.wattpad.com/story/305250364-runner%27s-game
I'm particularly proud of my short story 'All is Well in Suburbia'. It won the November 2022 sci-fi challenge and is also featured in Wattpad Science Fiction's 'Nano Bytes'. I felt it deserved a better cover than the original image I slapped together so I spruced it up! If you haven't read it yet, you will be my hero if you do:
https://www.wattpad.com/story/326803824-all-is-well-in-suburbia
@TE_Bradford I noticed! Space travel and mythical creaters. I like that. The two genres blend naturally but I don't yet have a comfort level with writing fantasy to try it myself. And thanks for checking out my work! Hope you like it too.
@TE_Bradford No problem! I'm half way through and am enjoying it quite a bit. You're very articulate with your work and manage to say a lot with few words. I am! My own work is SciFi. It's basicly all I write.