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The Heartbreak Hypothesis by danielletalbury
The Heartbreak Hypothesis
danielletalbury
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[2022 Wattys Winner] When love cynic Madison Watson starts university, she vows to follow three simple rules. One: Work out at least twice a week. Two: Get an internship. Three: Stay away from men. But after a chance encounter with three guys in the dorm halls, Madi's enlisted to transform a shy and love-sick hopeless case into the perfect boyfriend. Unbeknownst to her optimistic accomplices, she's out to prove a hypothesis of her own - love is a construct, and heartbreak is inevitable. ♡ A college story about first love and first heartbreak, reflecting on the ins and outs of dating in the age of technology. Achievements: 2022 WATTY WINNER (New Adult and W by Wattpad Books Award) Featured on Editors' Picks by @wattpadexplorer (Apr 21) #1 in The Siren Awards 2020 (user run) #1 in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Best Protagonist in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Ranks: #2 collegestudent (Sep 20) #1 contemporary romance (Feb 21) #3 newadult (Feb 21) #1 collegestories (Feb 21)
Sherbet Skies | ✓ by COOLFUZZY1O1
Sherbet Skies | ✓
COOLFUZZY1O1
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shared snippets between a boy and a girl who keep finding themselves trailing back to the playground they first ever met at. ↠extended summary inside ↠CUTE COVER MADE BY @whereagardenwas copyright © 2021 COOLFUZZY1O1 all rights reserved.
Day-Lynx (EDITING) by michh_44
Day-Lynx (EDITING)
michh_44
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After Death offered him another chance in life, a young artist struggles to live between two worlds: the human one where he fulfils his banal duties as an unknown artist and the supernatural world where he lives as a notorious beast whose head is hunted by countless masses. *** The Day-Lynx, a malformed lynx-like beast in Borealm Woods, has never done the Mountkirk locals harm. But the beast has become infamous among the citizens of the realm, leading both the villagers and outsiders to hunt it down and end its reign, even if they have to get their hands dirty. For years, it haunts the daydreams and nightmares of not only children, but even the toughest adults as well. When a bad incident strikes one of the villagers and involves the beast, the hunt for it ravages more than ever. However, some people are against the plan, including Rozell, an indie paintgrapher who's eager to portray nature in a more positive light. But only time can decide if his defiance can last long enough. And in the end, only the villagers can determine whether Rozell is only trying to avoid unnecessary trouble, or if he has chosen to save the beast instead of himself. • ONC 2021's Longlist Ambassadors' Pick and Shortlist Qualifier • 3rd Place in Fantasy - The Lucent Awards • 926/81.4k in Paranormal (October 2nd, 2021) • Featured in Gems Under 1k (July 2021) by Wacky Writers • Featured in More Than the Eye Can See (March 2022) by Speculative Fiction The surreal cover's credit goes to @Laentheon and her graphic shop, A Matter of Time.
You Are the Shell to My Tortoise | ✓ by LotteStarburst
You Are the Shell to My Tortoise | ✓
LotteStarburst
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Nolan, an unapproachable guy who ignores the existence of all his schoolmates, sleeps in all of his classes. Normally, this wouldn't be Chelsea Arnold's problem-she does her best to pay attention in class and attends gym like a good, normal student. Unfortunately, she just so happens to be his assigned desk partner in many classes. She's frequently forced to wake him in English class and ends up earning the unofficial title of Nolan's Wake-up Alarm-a title that nobody in the entire school covets. The last thing she wants is to interact with him more than she absolutely has to. One day, their gym teacher sends her to bring him back to class, which he always skips for some reason. When she accidentally shines her flashlight in his sleeping face, it triggers a chain of events that gradually intertwines their lives together. It's hard to be a normal student when you start befriending the school oddball. It doesn't help that he has more secrets than the Big Ben has stairs. ----- Complete. (first person, past tense, slowburn) ----- 1st place in Humor Category of Psychological Novel Reads Contest 2020 (29 Sep 2020) ----- Started: April 28, 2020 Completed: July 23, 2021 Word Count: 160K+ ----- The sequel, The Tortoise and His Sunrise, is up on my profile now!
The Iron Hallway by flamesword01
The Iron Hallway
flamesword01
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Baird Amergin is a successful writer and poet from the prosperous land of Ferange. He lives a life of ease with his beautiful girlfriend and is in want for nothing. But when the notorious Redistribution Force shows up at his house and evicts him, separating him from his girlfriend and deporting him to another land, he learns of a certain outspoken, upstanding political figure who has also been relocated to a dreadful place. He joins a band of bickering, misfitted heroes to go to rescue her. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 2019 by @Flamesword01 Cover by @Fennagin [WATTPAD EDITOR'S PICK April 2021] *** Previous Readers Commented: "I loved reading this story! It was so much fun to read! Your author notes were just as entertaining, because your personal writing style matches the comments. Thank you for the journey 🤗" -themaskedwomanrc "Such a fantastic book!! I really enjoyed it, you have a talent for writing and I definitely felt like I could see the characters and the scenes playing out before my eyes!" -Purplejeans "This was awemazing! It got better and better paragraph by paragraph, chapter by chapter.. Thank you so much for a nice read!" -thenovice_j "Took two days to finish XD I was up til 2 reading this, its so good!" -ILoveWriting1516
Winners Don't Have Bad Days (Watty 2020 Winner, Romance) by DomiSotto
Winners Don't Have Bad Days (Watty 2020 Winner, Romance)
DomiSotto
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When a total stranger knows what eats you, maybe they are your one true love. Even if you don't know it yet. || On Friday the 13th, two twenty-something, Daya and Mike, end up in a mutually beneficial arrangement: she is his caregiver after he breaks his foot; he provides room&board to help her out with a teeny-tiny cash flow problem. Not a whiff of a romance, strictly business. And for a while, all is good... for about five minutes, that is. What can an overweight man, a video game obsessed librarian, know about her quitting a challenging sport of figure skating, Daya scoffs. He needs to get off her case and sort out his binge eating! What does a celery-chewing skating diva care about his failure as a PhD candidate, Mike wonders. She is just replacing her dreams with his non-existing problems instead of pursuing her one true passion! With the two already teetering on the brink of mutually assured destruction, oil splashes onto the flames when Daya resumes her never-ending quest for skating triumph at Canadian Nationals. (Well, that should make Mike happy, right? Right?) But isn't there *something* worth fighting for *together*? Like, you know, love? COMPLETED. First Published: August 19, 2019 Trigger warning: This story contains themes of eating disorders and body image insecurity (male).
Tuesday & Max by kateryderbooks
Tuesday & Max
kateryderbooks
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Tuesday lives with her aunt after the death of her mother in a car accident following remission from cancer. Angry at the world, she rebels against her guardian, her education and her nervous peers, and it isn't until she meets Max (with his own burdens to bear) that she begins to learn how to navigate the tumultuous waters of college, friendship and love once more. ★ WATTYS 2019 WINNER: Young Adult ★ ★ 3 TIMES FEATURED: Homepage banner & Wattpad Picks, Editors' Choice x2 ★ ★ 1ST PLACE TEEN FICTION: The Constellation Awards 2018 ★ ★ 2ND PLACE GEN FICTION: The Rising Star Awards 2018 ★ ★ 2ND PLACE TEEN FICTION: The Annual Medley Awards 2018 ★
Rell and The Rose by hjnelson
Rell and The Rose
hjnelson
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A Beast stalks the night... but Beauty hunts him. A reimagining of the story you thought you knew. Rell grew up hearing stories of the Human Realm, a fantastic world with light at the flick of a finger, metal boxes that fly through the sky; a fantastic, faraway fairytale that she knows is too good to be true. Because Rell lives in the Dark Realm: a world full of magical creatures and a low-hanging sky, all protected by The Blood Rose. Until the day the Blood Rose is stolen away and taken to the Human Realm. Without it, the two realms will meet with disastrous consequences, the human sun bleaching all the magic from the Dark Realm. And so Rell leaves everything she knows to bring it back. There's only one problem: the Human Realm- especially high school- is nothing like the stories. There's some sort of code with words like "twerking" and "Instagram" she can't understand, and then there's Bastien, the boy who hates Rell for reasons she can't explain. But when Rell realizes Bastien is keeping just as many secrets as she is, the two become an unlikely team in the search for the Blood Rose. Time is ticking, and more than just The Dark Realm is at stake. Whoever stole the rose is now cursed to turn into a Beast every full moon, and is hidden among them. Students are going missing, and dark creatures are slipping into the Human Realm. Rell needs to find the Blood Rose, slay the Beast, survive high school, and sort out these new, confusing feelings for Bastien--all before the night of the full moon. To fail could mean the end of The Dark Realm and every magical creature within, but to succeed means she'll lose the boy she's falling for, and a Realm more beautiful than she ever imagined. A modern-day reimaging of Beauty and the Beast.
Of the Twisted and the Lost by polaroidcolours
Of the Twisted and the Lost
polaroidcolours
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[FEATURED] Upon discovering mermens exist, Sera Chang and teenage detective Junjie Williams work together to kidnap a merman as proof that these once-thought fictional creatures exist.
Fortitude by WamboPopo
Fortitude
WamboPopo
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Completed (Will be edited soon) Fictional Christian Romance ♡ Mental health awareness ♡ __________________________________________ Picture a world where everyone sees you but no one understands you. Tragic right? Well that's pretty much Taji's life. After losing his mother, he's left struggling with learning how to balance bipolar disorder in an environment where mental health is not taken seriously. That's also Raziya's life. A perfectionist interior designer; great at her job, but overly sensitive about everything else. Through her job, a life changing relationship sprouts with Taji. Find out what happens when push comes to shove :) [[84,000 + words]] __________________________________________ 💫 Highest rankings 💫 💫 1/285 - Christian Fiction - 20/01/2021 💫 8/203 - Clean Love - 26/06/2020 💫 9/203 - Christian Romance - 26/06/2020 💫 22/8.32k - Bible - 26/09/2020