🎉 ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀꜱ 2024 🎉
8 stories
Kolibrie by Exequinne
Kolibrie
Exequinne
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🏆 THE AMBYS 2024 - PARANORMAL FAVORITE 🏆 The Mayaware's reign must end. In a world of demonic beings with a hunger for human flesh and thirst for blood, Hesi Renen knows it well. When her siblings are taken to the harvesting farms, she must do everything she can to get them out, even if it means masquerading as a potential bride to the Mayaware prince. As Hesi wades through a sea of blood and secrets, she must win over not only allies, but maybe even the demon prince, himself. With ties forged and heart burning with want, she discovers how much she is willing to sacrifice to grasp the one thing she must destroy: the Mayaware king's throne. The race to the top is at hand. There is a chance, but not without a price to pay. Delve into a tragic tale about the fight for freedom, the blood borne from betrayal and failure, and the fate of a kingdom built upon the ashes of the innocent. Victory spells freedom, but don't forget―death does too. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2023 (First Edition) © 2024 (Second Edition) C/TW: Some scenes in this story contain depictions that might upset or trigger the reader. Please read at your own risk. [70,000 - 75,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] 🏆 MOON AWARD (2nd) - OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2024 🏆 PARANORMAL WINNER - OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2024
Tellers of Lies by _abhipreeti_
Tellers of Lies
_abhipreeti_
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  • Parts 59
|| 10x FEATURED || Calix never broke rules, being the perfect prince he has always been. But for Isha, he was ready to break, twist, bend and carve every single rule. * * * * One drunken mistake turns twenty-five-year-old Isha Sen's life upside down, when she finds herself tangled up in a royal scandal with the first prince of Syncitia. Overnight, pictures and video of Isha kissing Prince Calix stirs up the citizens, causing King Richard to take a difficult decision. Till the coronation ceremony of His Majesty's youngest son, Isha and Calix would have to maintain a false relationship, in order to remove the attention from the royal family. A lot is at stake, and so is Isha and Calix's past demons. One is drowning from the stress of insecurities, career life and other such while the other is trying to break free from the chains his father has put on. As the two, with utter distaste, begin to fake date for the sake of Crown Prince Carlos and the royal family, sparks fly, unknown to them. The relationship which had begun on lies could possibly not develop into something more. Not when the two can never be together because of an abrupt change of plans, regarding the future ruler of Syncitia. The prince, the woman with dreams, a betrayer, and a bet, how would their fates turn out? 🏆 WINNER (Romance) and 3rd Place amongst 100 participants over all categories and genres, OPEN DOOR AWARDS hosted and judged by a Watty Winner and to-be-published by Wattpad Books author (@grendelthegood) 🏆 1ST PLACE (Rom-Com), ELPIDA AWARDS 2024 🏆 1ST PLACE (Romance), Sapphire Stories Awards ✨ HONOURABLE MENTION (Romance), The Aureus Awards 2024 [Word Count: 1,20,000-1,50,000] [Cover created by @-DeeIsDead-]
The Secret Songs of D.C. Silverenn by MusicalKehleigh
The Secret Songs of D.C. Silverenn
MusicalKehleigh
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  • Parts 36
What lengths would you go to for some cash? For Cerise Lenoir, an unstable job and compulsive shopping are not the ideal pairing. When she finds herself rejected from another orchestral audition, Cerise knows her spending habits must change. That is until she gets a really, really desperate idea. Rumors claim that the Silverenn Songs hold clues to treasure - one that could change Cerise's life forever. But even if such a prize awaits in the finale, surely there are others after it. And they aren't afraid to take out whoever stands in their way. ✧Second Draft✧ 🎻✧ONC 2022 Longlister 🎻✧Third Place Dream Awards 2022 - Action/ Adventure Category 🎻✧Open Door Awards 2024 - Best Opening Line 3x Featured: @Music @Adventure @Mystery Word Count: 65,000-75,000
Rhodoreef by SuVida777
Rhodoreef
SuVida777
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  • Parts 53
𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · 28x FEATURED · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find her human soulmate and forge a better future for her people. *** The city of Calliathron is the epitome of modern sea life--contained within a glorious coral atoll in the Indian Ocean. Yet, the ripples of the changing world beyond seep in with increasing force, bleaching color and darkening minds--but not Dea Rhodoreef's mind. That day, all Dea could think about was swimming her sea cow to the seagrass meadows. Who said life's easy for a high school teen? Even more so when one is a pastel goth gamer mermaid trying to scrape by in a modest mobile home with a grumpy grandmother, who's always complaining about the "human infestation". Maybe the troubled city-state will embrace a new dawn when merpeople and humans co-exist--a future that Dea is determined to work hard for. Noble causes aside, just getting to see a notorious human is number one on her bucket list. Now, as if school, a part-time job and a looming political career aren't enough, a chonky sea cow has been following her for days. It's time to return him to the wild--not like she'd run into a human. Right? © 2022 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Anime @ScienceFiction + 26 more WC: 105,000 Genres: Sci-Fi (Oceanpunk) x Cli-Fi x Adventure x Romance x Retelling This tale comes with mammalian mermaids who breathe air. Strap in for a roller-coaster ride of adventure, fun twists, feels, kawaii, exotic biomes, sci-fi battle, realistic tech and slowburn romance! Might bring to mind the Netflix movie Okja!
Black Avatare by SuVida777
Black Avatare
SuVida777
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𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 · 23x FEATURED · A gothic fairytale based on the Black Prince from Sri Lankan folklore | SAMPLE CHAPTERS ONLY ATM. BECAUSE QUERYING. A teen ghosthunter must defeat the alluring demon Black Prince in order to save her haunted city. *** The Great Haunting was just a historical plague. The alluring demon Black Prince wasn't real. It was the disease that drove the unfortunate maidens to insanity--a tragedy compounded by natural disasters that claimed many lives. Cityfolk with sense know that. Binara knows better. For those acquainted with her, Binara is just a teen spending school break in her ancestral estate with a strict governess, a workaholic mother and an ailing great uncle. Only her missing sister knew of her ability to detect ghost essence and the mysterious dark matter the city is using as a power source. Armed with science, Binara is confident that she's a better ghosthunter than the city's clandestine ghostbusting agency. When history repeats itself with increasing incidents of missing girls and hauntings, Binara blames the demon prince for the disappearance of her sister. It's time to fight back before darkness takes over her home. What better way than to set a trap for none other than the Black Prince? © 2022 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Romance @Fantasy + 21 more BOOK 1 of the Black Avatare series Genres: Dark Sci-Fi Fantasy (Gothpunk) x Paranormal Romance x Supernatural Horror x Mystery This is a ghost story set in a tropical gothpunk city. Strap in for an anime-esque adventure full of spooks, mystery and slowburn romance. The world is based on Sri Lankan ghost lore, mythology and the Kandyan Kingdom. Might bring to mind: Mediator, Tim Burton, Alice Madness Returns, Supernatural, Bleach & Stranger Things.
Facing Fear | ✓ ONC 2023 Honorable Mention by MiyaHikari
Facing Fear | ✓ ONC 2023 Honorable Mention
MiyaHikari
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  • Parts 24
| 𝟏𝟐𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | An ex-gamer enters a virtual reality ruled by a rebel AI in order to rescue her younger sister and shut down the death game. * * * Eight years ago, Mori Fukutomi held the rank of number two player in the tactical hero shooter game SniperX. But fate and her parents had other plans and Mori now works as an accountant with her dreams of being a pro gamer long since buried. Games like SniperX are old relics in the face of virtual reality tech and their latest gem, Facing Fear--a simulation designed to analyze the psyche of its players and adapt itself accordingly, creating a safe terrain for players to take risks and discover themselves. Until FEAR, the AI governing the virtual world of Valor, decides the thing humanity fears most is death. Despite the rising death toll and Facing Fear closing its doors, when Mori discovers her sister Shiori is trapped in the game, she does the unthinkable. She goes in after her. But she'll soon discover they're not the only ones desperate to make it out alive and there are worse things in Valor than the monsters. There's more to FEAR than fear itself. ✧ 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 ✧ 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 ✧ 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 ✧ ─────────────────────────────────── Completed: 4-23-2023 Word Count: 35,000 - 40,000
Trial by Fire(ONC 2024) by LiebeKlara
Trial by Fire(ONC 2024)
LiebeKlara
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  • Parts 7
"Horror is in the eyes of the beholder." My sister disappeared from the bathroom. All the villagers said my mother murdered her. And my childhood extinguished along with the fire under that bathing pot. Following the vines of memory, I'll slowly unearth the chilling truth... and in the graveyard of time, how many darker secrets lie buried? Cover by @damarisatlas from Astania Graphic Shop
Slate Gray by alpaljames
Slate Gray
alpaljames
  • Reads 9,487
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  • Parts 45
For the Slates, Demon Slaying is the family business. And eighteen-year-old Perrin has fully embraced her chosen profession. But when her younger sister, fifteen-year-old Ace, unwittingly picks a doozy of a case as her first outing, they discover their connection to a demonic bet one thousand years in the making. Along with their exasperated father and an overeager, yet extremely cute grocery store clerk, Perrin and Ace will need to trust each other and their training in order to avoid setting off a chain of events that some might deem apocalyptic. Will Perrin lose herself trying to keep her family safe? Will Ace make a deal with the devil that ruins both their lives? Only time will tell. Accolades: 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Nova Nexus Awards for BEST WRITING STYLE 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Open Door Awards for BEST DIALOGUE 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Gloria Regali Awards for BEST VILLAIN 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Grand Masquerade of Writing for BEST ANTAGONIST 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Bloomers Awards for BEST BONDING 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Cloud Awards for ACTION/ADVENTURE 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Grand Masquerade of Writing for PARANORMAL/SUPERNATURAL 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Gloria Regali Awards for PARANORMAL 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Fantasy Awards for PARANORMAL 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Ocean Yellow Awards for PARANORMAL/HORROR 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Celestial Nexus Awards for HORROR 🥇1st Place in the 2024 Elpida Awards for HORROR Featured on: @Fantasy @CelestiaCove @CitifiedFantasy @HalosAndHellfires @JustWriteIt @PrideReads @Project_Athena @QuickFantasy @StoriesUndiscovered **Trigger Warnings for Language, Violence and Gore**