LIKE FIGS ON A HOT SUMMER DAY, Yusuf Khayat is slowly losing form. Watching the people around him beat up by life and ambition, he thinks it better to be uninvolved rather than hurt, better a bystander than an accomplice. But when a career shift transforms him into a walking culture shock, he has no choice but to stand out by blending in. OR..... A perpetual immigrant is suddenly forced to belong.

Nicolás Velez is done with casual sex. Listen, yes, he might've slept with everyone in his flat within the first week of living in halls and had a respectable run on Grindr, but what eighteen-year-old wouldn't? He's almost twenty-four now, though, and sleeping with people who can't pronounce his name is, as his best mate would say, "not cute, baby girl". Problem: Nikki sucks at dating. With only disasters to show for his efforts, he decides to take a break from it all. That is, until he meets Josephine Rawlins. GENRE: romance, pan man x bi woman TROPES: workplace romance, friends with benefits, mutual pining COMP TITLES: Entergalactic, Take A Hint Dani Brown featured in Wattpad: Black Love featured in Wattpad: Contemporary Lit featured in lgbtq: Pride Shelf Dec 24 featured in lgbtq: Bisexual and Pansexual featured in Ambassador Recommendations BIPOC Mental Health Jul 24 featured in Ambassadors: Rainbow Fiction featured in Romance: Slow Burn featured in Romance: LGBTQAIP+ Romance featured in Romance: New Beginnings

Riz is one of the most famous men in the universe- a member of the idol group Saccharine, with billions of fans across hundreds of planets watching his every move with bated breath, a twenty-four-seven livestream that never leaves Riz with a second alone. That makes it pretty difficult to hide the fact that he's lying to all of them- and that the person he's pretending to be is far more complicated, far more traumatised, and far less innocent than they've been lead to believe. It's only through getting caught breaking the rules by just the right person that Riz unlocks a secret about this life- that there are blind spots. It's a taste of freedom he needs, as well as a chance to find out who everyone else around him really is, when the cameras are pointed away. Ares, his manager, told him the secrets of finding the silence- but he might want more from Riz than Riz is able to give. Amello, his best friend and fellow member of Saccharine, acts like a perfect dream in front of the camera- but who would he be if no one was watching? Kiel, a member of a rival group Atlantis, is supposed to hate Riz with all his heart- but something in his eyes makes Riz suspect there's more going on beneath the surface. And his bodyguard, Colian, seems to share something with him that it's impossible to speak about- and how much about Riz's past does he actually know? It's not just Riz's wants and needs he's hiding from the world- it's everything about his past, too. The blackmail that he's a pawn in and his doomed home planet are secrets from the universe at large- and if he gets caught, his entire home planet falls with him. Riz can't live a lie forever. Taking someone else behind closed doors and shutting out the rest of the universe might be the only way he survives- but what if the consequences are worse than he imagined?

{WATTYS 2023 WINNER} • Book 1 of the Daegelus series • While hunting for his missing friend, Elijah stumbles upon a fiery journalist, who so happens to be looking for the same people as him: the doctors who experimented on him when he was a child. But when the two are forced to go on the run together, Elijah's healing wounds are opened, and he realises that Lyca Corp. took more than his childhood. ⊳⊱ ♕ ⊰⊲ The moment Elijah escaped from the lab where he unwillingly spent the past thirteen years of his life, he planned to live up to his promise: he'd find Haru, the only thing that kept him sane growing up. But with no idea where Lyca Corp. transferred him, Elijah hunts down the former doctors who made his life hell in search of answers. After chasing his next lead, however, Elijah accidentally rescues Zoe, a journalist locked in his target's trunk. He has no choice but to bring her and her roommate, Jake, along with him as he flees the city to avoid capture. But as he continues his search, Elijah struggles with the scars Lyca Corp. burned into him. He has no idea who or what he is; he doesn't understand the power raging inside his bodyーthe power Lyca Corp. desperately tried to pry from him. Why does he have an insatiable bloodlust? What does the whispering voice inside his head want? And why does he feel as though a huge part of him has been torn away? ❅ LGBTQ couples ❅ Grump x Sunshine ❅ Dystopian Urban Fantasy ❅ Word Count: 137,000 ─────────────────────────────────── ✵ Numenverse year: 1335 **April 2024 Editor's Pick **#3 in Werewolf 5/4/2024 **#1 in GayRomance 5/4/2024 **#12 in Werewolf 31/5/2025 2023-2025 © Tate Csernis | | Series is exclusive to Wattpad

novaturient (adj) : desiring or seeking change in one's life, behavior or situation. "Whenever worries find their way into your brain. Remember we're here. And you owe us your undivided attention at all times. Find comfort in the fact that you don't own them, you don't have to mind them. We do." Matias said slowly, looking into Chase's eyes as if they were the embodiment of the cloudless, starry night sky, holding his chin gently and ever so lovingly. "Look at me." Hyunwoo said. Naturally, he listened, as if he was programmed to. As if his body didn't consider disobeying even for a second, any of their commands, no matter how small. And maybe he was. Maybe he was programmed to mindlessly follow them through any request. And yet he's never felt so free. "Good boy." Hyunwoo smiled, sliding his hand around Chase's waist and he felt it. Safe. Loved. A story about healing.

Fantasy|Romance|Mystery Ferdinand doesn't want to get married or have children, but as the heir to an elvish duchy, his father demands it of him. All he wants is to play violin and flirt with cute boys. Whilst on an illicit musical outing, he's drawn to a quiet bard named Adesh. But Ferdinand's father has ordered a series of balls to be held in order to find his son a noble suitor. Worse, someone at the ball has more malicious intentions than marriage. Soon Ferdinand and Adesh are unwittingly following a dark trail of murder and necromancy, even as they struggle with their differences and attraction to one another. A murder mystery and t4t romance set in an early 1700s-europe-inspired fantasy setting. Updates whenever I have time to write Content warnings: Transphobia, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Abusive/controlling family Let me know if there's anything else you would like me to tag a warning for! [cover illustration by: knightfool (that's me!!) ]

Vampire|Romance Orsino Ortiz is a quiet, struggling art student. He thought he'd already experienced the worst of the curveballs life has thrown at him, but one day he manages to travel back in time... to the late 19th century. Lost and alone, he ends up in the clutches of the refined, yet excitable Elliot Darling; a man freshly made a vampire and lacking in control. As both of them help each other through the life changes they grapple with, they grow closer than Orsino ever expected, uncovering dark secrets, and sweet romance in a world that would hunt them down given the chance. Content Warnings: Vampire bites, transphobia mentions, period typical homophobia mentions, minor ethnic microaggressions, fatphobia mentions, suggestive content

(SEQUEL TO YOU'RE A MASTERPIECE) Shade Flaurante and Art Mendoza have a few things in common. First, they're both struggling Filipino teenagers. Second, they're both very, very, very queer. And, well, they're both extremely smitten with each other, but they don't want to admit that. Yet. Welcome back for another academic year inside a pink Catholic school! Here's to another year of meeting new people, new friends, and especially new rivals. Join Shade and Art for another messy school year revolving around their unresolved feelings for each other in this messy story of love, friendship, and getting drunk. And they might end up together... Or not. Who knows, really?

A collection of short stories about women loving women. - i. in bloom - completed. ii. matter of time - ongoing. - started: june 1st, 2021.