What would you give up to dive into your favourite story? Romantic, sharp-tongued, with a tendency to fall in love with tall, dark-haired, brooding men--Leah is the archetype of the "Pride and Prejudice" fan. TV series, movies, comics, musicals: she has seen and read them all. For her birthday, Leah's friends and fami...
[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...
It's 1980 in a small town named Ostton. Only the millionaires can afford one of the big mansions that form the town, so young people leave to come back years later when they have already made a fortune. It was clear from a start that the town wasn't normal. People who don't know their neighbors, cover their windows an...
Denise Webster thought her life was perfect. Until the man she was supposed to marry fails to show up for their wedding. Broke, distraught and heartbroken, Denise has no choice but to move back to her childhood home with her eccentric mother and stepfather to lick her wounds. Hell-bent on avoiding as much human contac...
Six young adults with severe sleeping disorders go to a holistic sleep camp called Camp Hypnos. The bond developing between these ordinary heroes will be the start of a memorable summer in 1996, one that will put them at odds with an extraordinary killer. Prompts: #15, #56, #60, #40, #26 #4 #41 #43 #9 #63 Cover by @...
Two people. One minute. One unforgettable kiss. These were the only things present in Avery Grace Hernandez's life at that time when she accidentally kissed her long time crush, Clyde Harrison, the hottest jock in her school, on New Year's Eve. Although she's never made a move on him and doesn't plan to be his girlfri...
She hadn't meant for it to happen. One moment Harper Holloway was out In the beer garden to get some fresh air and the next moment she was in James Wittig's body embrace, his mouth against hers in reality rather than just the fantasy she'd been living in for the last ten plus years. James is more than off limits. Not...
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity - Henry David Thoreau When six likely teenagers take a camping trip just outside of their small town Northcliffe, Western Australia, in the 1960s, everything seems to be normal. That is, until they wake up the next day in a completely different timezone, 50 years in...
Darkling Academy only has two rules. Number one; don't die on the first day. Number two; try not to die over the next three hundred and sixty five days. Hayden Mikkelsen, a seventeen year old, already had enough to deal with as a teenager with a supernatural gift that she knows nothing about, but after she finds a mys...
What would you do if your worst nightmares become someone else's reality? Julia Abbot is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life with the ordinary man of her dreams until an extraordinary twist of fate brings a new man into her dreams. Jahlin has been on the trail of evil his entire adult life, a trail that leads h...
After five years of building his empire, Ron Powers surprises his fiancée Natalie with the latest rage-a destination wedding in romantic, Jamaica. Ron's plans fall short as he, his fiancée, and an unlikely hero get kidnapped for ransom. His dainty beliefs to fight for their survival are tested. Feelings grow for a man...
"Tell me, if I shoot this bitch in the head, how fast can you carve my babies out of her stomach, alive and well?" That's what my best friend asked me before the worst tragedy of our lives. Now I must tell my children how they came to be. About their parents who loved each other so much and hated each other even more...
Writing Challenge for the Open Novella Contest 2020! Hannah is just a typical sixteen, going on seventeen-year-old girl, but has an added interest in magic. She ends up going too far one Halloween night as she plays with magic to impress her friends. How will she respond to the actions that follow? Only time will tell...
Vicky Ashcroft is many things. A recent college graduate, an urban New Yorker, and recently engaged. And the cherry on top? She's the newest addition to one of the city's top architect firms. Vicky knows her life is perfect -- that is, until a night with her charismatic and affluent boss changes everything. Vicky's li...
Harriet Longdale had never believed in ghosts. Despite the stories that and the noises that plagued her daily life, she always thought ghosts to be nothing more than a mind trick. Whilst preparing for a trip to the theatre, Harriet finds herself over one-hundred years into the future with no way of knowing how to get...
I used to be a Zombie. Until a kind stranger bought me a new brain. They told me the brain was artificial; that it had been grown in one of the continent's many brain labs. "The labs were built to help recover the human population," they said. They told me no humans were harmed in the making of my brain. They were w...
"He lived like a dead tree in a graveyard." "A Storm On The Mountain" is nominally about Aanav, a young boy who flees the portrait of a family and finds refuge on a hill where he befriends a shepherd who wears goat-skin-trousers. Still, his chaotic childhood becomes a haunting figure that reflects the silence of his p...
