Among the salt-licked tombstones and the blood-red roses, my mother's fragile sanity shatters and she is slowly driven to madness. My mother believes I, her only living child, is a ghost haunting her. But I am flesh and blood...am I not? A bereft mother believes her only living child is a ghost haunting her. In the gl...
In 1984, 6-year-old Alexander Sedona walks into an old-fashioned schoolhouse in the quaint rural town of Oaksbury, Pennsylvania, situated in the heart of the Old Amish Country. In one of the country's safest places, the small boy never leaves the old schoolhouse. An inexplicable phenomenon, his disappearance rocks the...
A missing teenage girl, a boy dying with cancer, a man clinging to life on a hospital bed ... At the center of the freewheeling catastrophe is Yinka, who's just trying to get through his week without blowing up over his ex-partner's bullshit
This is the story of Julian Douglas Voorhees, in his own voice, of how he came to be a passenger on an interplanetary space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the planet Terra Nova, his trials and tribulations, and his eventual demise at the hands of the greatest silence of all - the expanse of space. The story i...
{WATTY'S 2020 WINNER & EDITOR'S PICK.} Hopeless romantic and aspiring writer Mare Atwood has fallen madly in love with her childhood correspondent. There's only one catch-she doesn't know who he is. When the beaus of Star's Crossing return from boarding school to begin the courting season, Mare is determined to uncov...
Stream of thought about a robot lady from dram12's world of Common. I hope dram enjoys my little attempt to join in his storyverse!
Des rumeurs courent par delà les terres d'Amanil, racontant que l'Écureuil Noir, l'un des plus célèbres voleurs du pays, est parti à la recherche de l'Orbe du Cerf. Un objet mystique qui alimente les légendes de la sombre forêt de Doemort. Laérra est une jeune chausseuse de prime. Fière et désireuse de prouver sa vale...
It was a love that came into my life so quickly and I could not stop you from stepping into my life like a mist. / A Lin Thit (Light) There are not many reasons to like you. This is because you are my light. / Myu (Mist) This is my own work of fiction and just my imagination. Enjoy it !
❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, wh...
The house is safe. The hills outside are not. The basement is out of the question. Joel has been trapped in the house for what has felt like an eternity; all hope of escaping lost after the first few years. Without the company of the eight strangers who arrived with him, he would have gone mad long ago. But while liv...
[Editors' Choice 2020] In a near-future, post-apocalyptic world, a lone girl must choose between becoming the next-in-line to head a corrupt government or siding with those who wish to see the world burn. Order, suppression and lies, or chaos, truth and freedom? Whatever is chosen, one thing is clear: both sides bleed...
Jacob is haunted. Not by the dead, but by an idea. An innovation offers him a glimpse at redemption through an unexpected medium. Meanwhile, Detective Arthur McDaid is on the trail of a break in. This is a near-future science fiction, and my first whole story on Wattpad. I hope it enjoys readers and I welcome feedb...
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to...
A collection of short stories, all under 5,000 words, spanning genres and themes. New stories to be added on a pseudo-regular basis. Contains @ScienceFiction's December 2019 Short Story Contest co-winner! Featured on the @WattpadShortStory "Boxed Sets" reading list!
Beatrice Butler - a stylish, nerdy Bostonian - gets her fix from documenting abandoned places and posting the footage online. Neither past trauma nor her mom's disapproval can keep her away from a ghost town deep in the Appalachian mountains. Abraham is a different kind of fugitive. Hyper-intelligent. Gifted. Near...
Tomorrow liked solitude. Then a naked lunatic arrived and demanded pants. Things went downhill from there.
This is a FREE STORY with one paid bonus chapter! An exclusive boarding school on the coast of Maine. The unexplained death of a female student. A sister determined to find the truth...even if it kills her. * * * * * When Mia Greenley's older sister, Ava, dies under my...
[🏳️🌈COMPLETED: Wattys Shorts Finalist] Following the death of his brother, Drew's parents leave him to his own devices. Unable to cope and incapable of grieving alone, Drew is turning invisible. Forced to relocate for spring break, he stumbles over what could be his salvation in the woods behind his grandfather's h...
Set in early 1999, life isn't just about the possible end of the world, the third Harry Potter book, or pants seeming to become even baggier than before, for 17-year-old Lawrence; it's about Oliver Turner, his bougie neighbor from across the street. *** Ongoing First Draft :) Updates every Wednesday & Saturday
"God says no." A police officer's suicide is interrupted by the appearance of a woman who tells her she had been recruited to join a covert group that stops terrible things before they happen. Jane Berden is brought into Madrigal, a group created by a man who is able to see the future in perfect clarity and who uses t...
L'existence de Naola, sorcière trentenaire pas complètement sans histoire, bascule quand ce qui devait être la simple exploration d'une ruine précataclysmique se transforme en chasse à l'homme, dont elle est la cible. Cette fois, les relations de son antique vampire de patron ne suffiront plus à la protéger : la jeune...
[COMPLETED] Adrian's headed for a collision. He doesn't know when; he just knows that he is. With his father ill and his mother devout at his hospital bedside, Adrian is left navigating the world of grief, microwave meals, and first love alone. The sole person who makes him forget is Heather, his childhood crush who i...
Mallory was an author--once. Now he's half the man he used to be. Literally: he's a walking, talking skeleton. Yet, inexplicably, he's still alive. How it happened is, well...complicated. To make matters more confusing, he now works as an assistant for a young girl who can shape-shift, type on his typewriter from afar...
A Girl, tormented by her past loves, gets on a tram, and finds solace and support from a woman who has gone through similar ordeals in her youth. As they each reflect on their pasts and decisions, a question which has tormented women for generations stands before them: how do you know when to leave the man you love? w...
Chère Consoeur, Par la présente, je sollicite l'accord officiel de la Confrérie quant aux démarches que je souhaite mettre en oeuvre concernant Amalia Elfric. Née Hohenhoff le 13 septembre 1875 du calendrier Merlinique, elle présente une capacité innée liée à l'empathie. Je l'ai personnellement repérée le 4 décembre 1...
Life Shifted when Jed Johnson died. It was a shift which left a gaping hole Charlie's family fought their way through. Charlie locked her mind away. Her father drank more. Older brother Jake turned to drugs. Sister Kerrie snuck out at night. Charlie's mother moved around the house like a shadow. If it wasn't f...
Life in The Untitled Village is charming and comfortable. Families, new to the area, raise children untouched by urban life, and the original inhabitants of the village live on through each passing generation. Alice Robin, whose parents moved themselves and 4 children to The Untitled Village in the 90s, lived out a si...
When Lara's life in Portland falls apart, she's given a timely opportunity to escape when she inherits her grandmother's cottage in a tiny town on the northern coast of France. Love, mystery, and self-discovery await as she explores a new country, makes new friends, and uncovers a secret about her grandmother's past. ...
A mysterious boy who never takes off his jacket. A temple where men talk directly to angels. An extremely boring college economics course. Curiosity gives way to confusion as our nameless, genderless narrator learns the reason behind their classmate's hunched posture and reluctance to remove his coat. In a world where...
