After Earth is ravaged by climate change and the Cataclysm-the largest earthquake in history- humans are struggling to survive. Swathes of unlivable landscapes, the Barrens, continue to grow. Everywhere else is a battleground, where humans fight each other for food, water, and shelter. Humanity's numbers further dwind...
Hiding the book was the only hope... While grieving her mother's recent death, Kath discovers a book with an attached lock and key buried in her mother's backyard. Kath and her friend, Amelia, are mystified why a book full of Kaalling Okuupants song lyrics would need to be buried. And what connection did Kath's mother...
This is my entry for the OCN 2023. Dan had never been to the Adirondacks and thought it was time he remedied that situation. The Adirondack Railroad just felt like the proper way to do it. An avid photographer, he filled his memory cards with images of mountain lakes and woodland wild life. A newly formed, large sinkh...
(ONC2023 shortlist) Minnie, a retired airship pirate, and Eleanor, Minnie's respectable new wife, discover what's at the bottom of the seemingly bottomless pit that has opened in their steampunk city. Can they survive the strange world below, and protect their home city from disintegration? This is my entry for the ON...
|| ONC2023 SHORTLISTER x 2 FEATURED || "𝙰 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎." Denizen is Blank Slate, the number one villain in the region-except he doesn't remember it. With only a cryptic note telling him his eight rules, he sets out to discover just exactly who he is and...
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, a young girl awoke in a body not her own. 'Mirror mirror on the wall tell no more lies of who we are.' Atticus When the giant mirror shows not her own reflection but that of an evil enchantress, Lucy Lambert realizes that her troubles have only just begone. Waking up a...
Nathaniel is a boy plagued by nightmares. However, he is unable to express to his parents what his dreams are about. Nathaniel's mother is determined to find out the truth of his dreams so that they can all get better sleep. However, when a ritual is performed to allow them to view Nathaniel's nightmare, the nightmare...
Ross McIntyre's very existence is illegal. Obsolete decommissioned Psyborg turned soldier of fortune, he inherits his mentor's ship, the St. Martin, in the middle of an AI recovery op. Too late to back out of the contract, he risks mutiny with a crew who fears he's one of the abominations they had suffered under durin...
The Wells sisters are three witches in training. Their mother, Ms Wells, gives them enough magic to perform only one spell a day. The two oldest, overconfident April and kind-hearted May, can cast spells even if those spells sometimes go awry. Unfortunately, when June, the youngest, tries to do magic, only rainbows ap...
[Highest Wattpad Ranking: #1 in Lute stories] At 10.55 PM the guitar music begins. Yet only fourteen year old Lily can hear it. A lousy guitar player, Lily believes that someone is teasing her about her lack of musical skill. Fed up, Lily decides to confront them. Unfortunately, she ends up breaking a female fairy'...
Fourteen-year-old Ana and her sixteen-year-old brother, Sam, are lost in the woods, cold, tired, and hungry. Their only hope is an old train station in the woods. When a train stops at the station, they are sure they are saved. The train seems familiar, like something from a story their Grandmother used to tell the...
This is My 2022 holiday short story for my Wattpad friends. It's 3200 words. It's called Frosty. It is a fable of fickle fate, faithful friendship, frothy foam, and Frosty's Felice Navidad.
Dreamer blames the death of her mother on the Healer. In a dream, she confronts the Healer. Yet amidst Dreamer's accusations, Crow arrives. Crow presents a way for Dreamer to see her mother. But only if Dreamer chooses Crow's way. Dreamer's choice takes her on a journey of her own grief. Can she travel through this f...
Deals with the devil are always tricky, especially when it was someone else who sold your soul to the devil. Faye Wulfgaar has always had bad luck. She figured it worked like a genetic trait: red hair, shy, conscientious, and unlucky. She never thought she might be cursed. But when her family moves back to the smal...
