A mute, foundling girl hides from her pursuers with the help of a reluctant recluse. The two of them have nothing in common except deep emotional scars. Who is she? How did she end up unconscious and scantily clothed on Evan's isolated property? Why is she so utterly terrified? How does he get answers from a girl who...
In Regency England, two brothers vie for Mabel's affections. Their passionate rivalry puts her reputation on the line and tests both her sense and sensibility to the maximum. On the verge of despair, she must cast the die: to decipher the most enigmatic mind she'd ever met OR let the rakish, yet tormented man shatter...
Life is full of regular teens going about their pretty dull, normal lives. Except Imogen is not one of them. Recently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, her hallucinations are so vivid that she's armed herself with a take-no-shit attitude and her Polaroid camera-or any device that can snap reality back into place...
2022 AMBY AWARD WINNER - Cassandra prepares to face her true nature as something other than human with the help of her boyfriend while avoiding relentless hunters bent on her capture. ...
[WATTYS SHORTLIST - 2021] Penny Lane, a young florist with a dislike of weddings and a dream of opening her own flower shop, has to overcome her insecurities to find love with Haze Delacroix, the charismatic owner of Underworld Delicacies, who charms his way into her heart by means of culinary delights, namely delicio...
Within are short stories of Fantasy or Science Fiction written for contest prompts or just for fun.
Noah Riley didn't mean to drown, or did he? But waking up in another boy's hoodie entices him not only to live a little longer but also to solve the mystery. *** Nineteen-year-old Noah Riley wakes up disoriented, soaked to t...
❀2022 Watty Shortlister❀ ❀𝗔𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗲́𝗻 𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗼𝗹❀ Much against his will, River Allen can't drag his gaze away from the new student, seventeen-year-old Dawn Gray Brooks. It isn't that she lives in a ragged, teal dress, and carries a thick, leather fairytale book around. There is something hidde...
In the Realm, a Taint cast years ago by a corrupt Shaman advances slowly but inexorably across the Lands, threatening famine and to undo the peace restored by the Treaty of Lands. Ceres, a young Shaman adept at the healing arts, flees the Order of Medice, who would have her serve in the house of the malevolent Lord Sc...
Taylen is loving her first year of college until a routine drive home catapults her into a medieval land where trust is a luxury she can no longer afford. Alone in a land ruled by suspicion and strange social dictates, she must discover others she can rely on if she hopes to survive long enough to find a way home.
An unlucky noblewoman precipitates a civil war and falls for a half-demonic beggar with a self-destructive healing talent. Summary: Tien Lyn was born lucky, but her luck ran out fast. Tossed on the currents of politics and magic, she lives in the accursed 'interesting times', during a civil war. Her worst enemy is a s...
14+// Ashleigh Rendwick never meant to make the star that bound her life to Will, nor did she know the repercussions it would have ten years on. Now, at sixteen, that world of stars is long forgotten. When her path collides with Will and Alründ at a music festival, she can't shake the feeling that she's met them befo...
18+// The headlines are on repeat: 'Broadcast live on every network. Nathaniel Blake pays for noon timeslots in search of mystery girl, Evangeline.' I'm glued to the television now, and when he says, "Evangeline," it's as if he's speaking directly through the screen and right to me... ...
Skye Jarrell likes to live life on the wild side with her partner in crime, Jayden McAlister. They live in nowhere, Kentucky in a little city called Braxton. Everyone goes to church, everyone helps fix each other's trucks, and everyone helps farm. Skye thinks everyone is too uptight though. She loves to be wild and d...
Azima Rousseau, a demon hunter destined to save her world from the denizens of the Underworld, has to venture through the Seven Levels of Hell in order to face its Prince and close the rift between their worlds once and for all. ***** Ever since her ei...