Zoe_Blessing

When your girlfriend gives you a gym membership for your birthday, your relationship is probably doomed. Too bad Jenny didn't realize this before proposing. Rejection stings, but it's the catalyst Jenny needs to move her stagnant life forward.For Juliana, well-padded women frequenting the gym she works at are potential clients. But she can't help noticing how cute this one is. And determined. And a number of other things she shouldn't notice. She doesn't, however, want to be attracted to gym clients, so she does her best to keep it professional. If only her attraction to the woman would do the same.Open Novella Contest (ONC) entry - Prompt #61: After being jilted, you move to the city to hide your embarrassment, lick your wounds, and start afresh.…

dzangiewrites

Esther Abbey has never been brave and has never needed to; until she's faced with an ultimatum: take a stand or face complete obliteration.♕modern lesbian retelling of The Book of Esther. extended synopsis inside.♕© dzangiewrites 2017. all rights reserved.✯ wattys 2018 shortlist ✯…

MaskedParkers

When men vanish around the city, a young, paraplegic detective takes it upon herself to uncover the truth and soon realizes the culprit might be a lot closer to home than she imagined. ****Barbara Gordon thought her career as a promising young detective ended after she was left crippled in a tragic accident. But when men start disappearing around the city, Barbara is given one more opportunity to fulfill her dream. Convinced her dad's new fiancee is not who she seems, Barbara begins her own investigation and discovers she might be responsible for the recent string of disappearances. But a darker truth lies just below the surface. If this once would-be detective wants to solve the case, then she must accept the help of some even more mysterious--and possibly dangerous--allies.[Wattpad Editors' Picks AUGUST 2021][Wattys 2021 and 2022 Shortlist](Cover by @lantea-)…

JanGoesWriting

[Book Five of the "Patrons' World" series.]In the snow blasted wastes, far to the west, Únik, a woman with a tragic past and a terrible secret, becomes reluctantly charged with accompanying an exotic prince to her destiny as the concubine to the king of an opposing nation.As they take a long, circuitous journey to the capital city of Star Harbour, Únik finds herself pursued by relentless, implacable foes who seek nothing less than the blood of her charge, Hatyara.Accompanied by her faithful sled dog, Barsa, Únik learns nothing and no-one are what they appear in a desperate race to stop a war that could destroy two nations. A war that some people would do anything to ensure it happens.A fantasy tale of two people caught up in events beyond their control, set in "Patrons' World".🏵Wattys 2023 Shortlist🏵🏵Featured by Wattpad - Feb 2024🏵🏵Featured on Ambassador Profile - Highfantasy - Jan 2023🏵Cover created in Canva, using a Pixabay stock picture.…

Kamiccola

What are wings for if not for flying with dragons in the realm where islands float in the sky?The life of order and monotony is not enough for a winged demon like Ansgarde. When society rules suffocate her, she escapes to fantastic dreams of dragons and epic quests. If only someone qualified took on the challenge to break the Dragon's Curse, her dream would come true - she would share the sky with a dragon. After all, the prophecy says that a demon like her would free the ancient race. But no one takes the legend seriously. No one but her.***This book has been featured on the following Wattpad reading lists at one time or another:- Open Novella Contest: 2020 Shortlist,- Fantasy: High Fantasy and Featured Fantasy Stories,- High Fantasy: Wonderland,- YA Fantasy: Magical Creatures,- Watt-Dragons: Legendary Creatures,- Magic: A Magical Journey,- Secret Treasures: Fantastical Realms,- Warrior Goddess: Fantastical Warriors,- Horns and Halos: Underworld - Demon stories.2nd place winner in The Dream Awards 2021 hosted by @TeamOfDreams.*** No trigger warnings. Just a laid-back high-fantasy adventure.This novella is a standalone prequel to The TriRealm series.…

RElizabethM

One mistake changes Hannah's life forever, exiling her from her realm and isolating her from the man who loves her. Now, Hannah must find a way to restore Ryan's memories and get them both back home before she loses everything forever.After threatening Ryan's father, the Ruler of the Realms, Hannah is transplanted into a new life in the Second Realm. Unable to get through to Ryan or to find her way back to her birth realm, Hannah enlists the help of Maizie, another banished soul who has some secrets of her own. Hannah knows that Ryan's father is abusing his power on the Third Realm and she intends to stop him, no matter the cost. Seeking out the Keepers of the Realms, Hannah and Maizie are drawn into a web of deception that leaves Hannah struggling to find the right path for herself and Ryan. Hannah's choices could save Ryan and the Third Realm but may leave her facing an uncertain future.What have people been saying about The Realms?*This book is awesome. I wish I could erase my memory of it and start it all over again - alubenlanretni*I loved this book - a3griffin32*This is so amazing. You are truly talented - collettekozuchlepley*Love love loved this book! - shantelle721*Loved the book! I was anxious to see what was coming next and was not disappointed when it did! - nicoleblakebontaine#5 in Adventure - January 26th, 2017Third Place - 2016 Undiscovered Writers Awards in AdventureFeatured story December 2016 - July 2017.Watty Awards Shortlist 2017Cover by @pipo_here_…

OnceUponASonder

While her best friend Cassidy snacks on brie and boys in France, Darcy Li-Quinn must face her last year of high school and the unpredictable wrath of her sister, Danica, alone. Darcy's plan for dealing with Danica and her heinous friends is simple-be invisible. But first, she's promised Cassidy she'll do 'one brave thing'.Mustering the courage to say 'hi' to the cute boy on the bus, Darcy expects rejection or indifference. She doesn't anticipate a grumpy ghost with unfinished business who needs her help. Suddenly, a quiet year of flying under the radar looks increasingly unlikely.***Rationally, Hunter Viera knows that his brother's death wasn't his fault. But that doesn't stop his guilt about Archer invading his every thought or lessen the grief sitting heavy in his chest.Changing schools offers a fresh start, and Hunter's plan is simple-be invisible. But he hasn't counted on Darcy, or her ludicrous claim that Archer speaks to her from beyond the grave.Suddenly, a quiet year of sitting on the sidelines looks increasingly unlikely.***This is a story about hearts and hope and public transport.This is Darcy and Hunter's story (and a little bit Archer's too).***'Get A Life' is my entry for Open Novella Contest 2023 and is inspired by the following prompts.20. You finally build enough courage to talk to that cute someone you see every day on the bus. Their face turns dark as they respond "You shouldn't be able to see me."9. There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years about a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night, you stepped into this cab.…

SmokeAndOranges

❖ A hundred years after a disease burned the world down, Adriana is dragged into a war she didn't know existed. The Aztec gods are fighting for their lives, and they want her to help. ❖Adriana is a fourth-generation member of Grillo Negro, a nomadic village trudging down the continent in search of warmth and other people. It's been a hundred years since human society was incinerated by an unknown disease. The descendents of the survivors live in fear that they'll be next. When a scouting trip takes a terrifying turn, Adriana finds herself caught up in a war that reveals a darker side of the apocalypse. The gods of her ancestors are real. They're standing between her village and a powerful enemy, and she and her friends might be the last thing that can help. The burning disease isn't gone, and the one who created it is only just getting started. ❖❖❖Complete. Wattys 2021 and 2022 Shortlister.Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)…

FoxLock34

Soulmates were a fabled tale, passed down through generations, that spoke of someone with the power to bring you back from death or completely sunder your soul. Ilaria Celestino had never put much stock in the fabled tales as a pair of soulmates hadn't been seen in over a hundred years. Her grandmother, however, insisted that they were real. They called him the Devil of the Spire. A cruel, relentless leader who governed the land with an iron fist. There wasn't a soul within the kingdom of Dorn that held any love for him. No one had laid eyes on him in years, yet here she was, standing in his castle like a lamb led unto the slaughter.Would she be able to soften his heart, or would their destiny be of death?---Book Cover: @MilaForLife…

ixseesxblue

Stories say that the Witch rained curses down on Devil's Corner, that she made the woods grow strange and wild, made shadows leap and dance and snatch up stray children for supper. In a small town on the edge of a dangerous forest, stories are never in short supply, and they are held dearer than truth.Thea lost her hand to the things that live in the wood, and she can't shake loose the voice that lured her there. But her Pa fed her tales of magic and heroes, and promises that even the darkest things have hearts. When her brother is attacked by the Witch's gruesome creations, Thea breaks into her cottage, determined to save him from a fate she knows all to well. Because in Devil's Corner, stories are true, and Thea knows the greatest one of all: the only way to break a curse, is to kill the witch. ---COMPLETE - 20,000 wordsWritten for Wattpad's 2024 Open Novella Contest.ONC 2024 SHORTLISTER…

veelozada

✨️WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST + AMBYS Top Pick, Science Fiction! ✨️ | Gio, a man jailed for a crime he didn't commit, becomes an augmented human in exchange for his freedom, only to question his sacrifice when he becomes thirsty for revenge. *****The plan was simple:Go in through the front doors, demand the money from each of the drawers, and escape with the getaway car before the cops arrived.That plan crumbled in less than five minutes.Giovanni only took part in the robbery to pay for his daughter's kidney transplant. But after he was arrested, then sentenced to life, he lost it all.He wouldn't see his daughter grow, start school, or fall in love. He'd miss every step of her life while wasting away in prison with what was left of his.So, when Paxton, a blossoming cybernetic company, approached his cell with a proposition, Giovanni didn't say no. In exchange for becoming their experiment, he'd get to see the sunlight outside prison walls. He'd get to see his daughter's smiling face. And he'd get to find his "friends" who ran away with his freedom.***AWARDS:⭐️First Place - Mystery/Thriller - Punk Rock Awards 2023✨️WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST⭐ Editor's Pick September 2022⭐ Editor's Pick August 2023⭐ Featured: @Wattpad's Unlock Science Fiction⭐ Featured: @adultfiction "Kills and Thrills"⭐️ Featured #FreeThePOC⭐️ Featured on @mystery - Mystery/Thriller⭐️ Featured on @crime "Detective & Crime Featured Stories"⭐️ Featured @BadassReads "The Rebels"⭐️ Featured on @action - action stories⭐ Featured: @Creators "Siri play "Backstabber" by Kesha: Stories of Betrayal"A Scifi-thriller ◇COMPLETED ROUGH DRAFT** Content Warning -- this story does contain swearing and violence **…

AuthorESElias

#ONC2024 Round 2 Ambassadors Pick | Shortlister (Finalist)When Prince Oskar decides to disguise himself and goes out into the village to see what the people are like, he is met with a shocking sight. There are orphaned children in the streets, beggars at every corner, and people fighting for their next meal. The kingdom of Unara has never seen poverty and the royal family looks out for the people. Why is this village struggling?As Oskar returns every day, he befriends one of the village's deformed members. A young woman with multiple scars on her face. Taking pity on her, the prince gives her one of the rings on his fingers, intending for it to bring her a better life. However, the woman is soon arrested for being in possession of this ring and Oskar knows she is innocent. Until he discovers she possesses a ring with the Unaran royal crest. This is not the ring he gave her. (The Royals of Unara)Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2024 | @OpenNovellaContest - Rules & Guidelines: https://www.wattpad.com/story/359598678©2024 E. S. Elias All Rights Reserved.Created & Published to Wattpad 02.01.2024Completed: 04.27.2024Main Prompt #55;"You're a young royal in disguise who befriends a villager with a scarred face. One day they are arrested for stealing something you gave to them."Secondary Prompt #67;"A promise is a promise. A secret is a secret. They must not tell anybody."Cover: Me @DesignsbyEHImage was generated using Dream.AI by Wombo solely for the purpose of making my book look pretty. Cover is temporary and subject to many changes.Word Count: 24,689 / 20,000Round 1 ✔ | 2,000 words ✔Round 2 ✔ | 8,000 words ✔ | Ambassadors Pick ✔Round 3 ✔ | 20,000 words ✔LONGLIST ✔ | SHORTLIST ✔Rankings;#opennovellacontest #31 on 02.20.2024 | #ONC2024#opennovellacontest2024 #15 on 02.20.2024…

samcathb

Delilah is a villainous princess with nothing. Dante is a vicious king with everything. Hungry for revenge, they make a deal that will change their lives forever. The only catch: the two wicked royals, both used to getting their own way, will need to learn to work together. If they can survive that long. The crown is not large enough for two... and there must always be a victor. Dark and light, heroes and villains; we know the story. We've seen it a thousand times. The heroes always win and the villains always lose.This is a tale told from the dark side's point of view."The world was hers to burn as she saw fit..."Book 1 COMPLETE. Book 2 ongoing.The Cruel Prince, A Court of Thorns and Roses and Hades & Persephone meet Avatar: The Last AirbenderCopyright © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author.…

Nyhterides

In a world where the majority no longer dream, and happy thoughts are easily lost, nineteen-year-old Eli sells memories. With no family or home, the young man travels the country dealing to those in need. When he runs out of memories to sell, Eli heads to the town of Los Demonios hoping to find someone to harvest from. Ashlyn carries dreams which others have lost inside her. Her thoughts are filled with recollections belonging to people she's never met. Haven is an albino Kadisin, a half-mortal, half-angel who must kill in order to survive. He is a man plagued by seventy years of things he's seen and done. Welcome to my entry for the 2021 ONC! I'm using prompt number 29 "I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky." -Virginia WoolfONC Shortlister 2021. Added to The Badass King reading list on @BadassReads. Second place in the @PrettyInPunk Mystery and Thriller awards. Warning for typical Christine darkness, swearing, some sexual and romantic themes.…

MonicaNguon

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 family pool together to get her the ultimate Janeite gift: the Bridge, a virtual-reality gaming device.By granting access to her five senses, she can live her favourite novel as the iconic Elizabeth Bennet!As she explores Regency England and quarrels with the infamous Darcy, Leah cannot help but digress from the original plot to suit her modern-woman convictions.The longer she plays, the weirder her beloved characters act, until the lines between fiction and reality blur.⚠️ Content and/or trigger warning ⚠️This story contains one scene of (unsuccessful) sexual coercion, and mentions domestic violence and death by domestic violence, which may be triggering for some readers.📖 Featured 19 times! Seen on: 📖@beauty@SpeculativeFiction@Humor@ContemporaryLit@retold@WattRevenge@ScienceFiction@mystery@StoriesUndiscovered@WattpadGaming@ChickLit@Fanfic@NA@generalfiction@classicauthors@WattpadHistoricalRomance@HistoricalFiction…

Silverdawn_

"When just being alive makes you a target, you learn to keep your head low."Being a nurse in an ER clinic, Eileen never had much time for romance. Especially, when job and education often came before everything else she's ever known. That is until she met Ursus. Funny and compassionate, he always seems to understand Eileen's feelings more then her own. She knows that she wants to spend the rest of her life with him, but you know what they say about things too good to be true. When a grey eye man that looks too close to Ursus shows up, Eileen learns that her world and the man she loves are way more then what she ever thought possible.With new people and new creatures to meet, Eileen will have to rely on Ursus if she wants to help make his home a better place. But with betrayal and heartache around every corner, Eileen will have to stay aware if both of them are to make it out alive.…

alcoholandcaffeine

It's 1893, and eighteen-year-old Catriona "Kitty" Thackery is bored out of her mind at the countryside parsonage she was raised in. All eleven of her cousins have grown up and moved out, leaving her without an outlet for her youngest-child mischief. Until cousin Joey returns from America alongside his dashing benefactor, Mr Benedict Hawkins.Educated at Eton, then at Harvard, the half-American Mr Hawkins is a worldly businessman and an only child, fascinated with the affectionate workings of the Thackery clan. He is warmly welcomed in their midst, and his exciting influence persuades the Thackery matriarch to break tradition and allow Kitty her London debut.In London, Detective Inspector Tobias Thackery has made a spy network out of his family in an attempt to locate his runaway sister, who may or may not be involved with anarchists. Kitty ingratiates herself into this scheme, her sense of adventure stifled by polite society. The risks are real, and more personal than she expects, but on her quest to self-fulfilment, she begins to enjoy the dangers.*ONC2023 shortlister! Prompt 51: The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them.*Completed, ~40k words.…

EvelynHail

[Wattys2018 Shortlist] [Bootcamp Mentorship Mentee 2020] [Insidious Awards - 1st place/Action/Adventure] "Squinty, I... Help me! Please! You have to help me!" Squinty huffed at him as the horse might snort at an annoying fly it couldn't get rid of. "A...a... an apple," he stammered. "I just... stole an apple!" ----When water is controlled by those in power, even a mere apple can be a catalyst.For Squinty, it was the start of everything.Finding Grizzly. Losing Roko. Becoming a Vigil.Discovering she had the power to become invisible.For Nalina, the threat of a new Water War was even closer to home; her beloved brother was the one initiating it.To Drian, water formed the core of his belief system, defined who was - and was not - worthy, and justified the treatment of the underground-dwelling Wellers.An orphan girl, determined to do what was right.A princess, petitioning for peace.An abbot, torn between his religion, and his experience.Each with an Etching, a unique power that surely makes them special; a tie to something more, something extra, something beyond the Squareworld. Credits for the cover go to an absolutely amazing cover artist and fellow writer Narcisse Navarre @InkSorcery.The Prophecy of Water is ONLY available on Wattpad. If you are reading this anywhere else, it is a plagiarized version that may contain malware. ⭐⭐⭐📘 Shortlisted in Watty2018 awards (October 5th, 2018)📘 Featured on "WONDERLAND | Wondrous Worlds" reading list on @HighFantasy (April 8th, 2019)📘 Bootcamp Mentorship Mentee 2020🥇 Action/Adventure - Insidious Awards 2020…

SmokeAndOranges

❖ Interstellar pilot and ex-adventurer Alex Gallegos must keep their team safe on an icy moon as sentient storms threaten to repeat the tragedy that ended their last career. ❖Everyone in the United Inhabited Solar Systems (for some reason, UIS for short) knows to stay away from Mahaha. The icy moon is notorious for failed probe landings and research missions that end in tragedy: the only people to ever venture to its surface needed rescuing after just two weeks. When a prestigious research group decides they want a turn, they ask Alex Gallegos to lead the team. Perfectly qualified and haunted by their past, Alex accepts, hoping to make up for old mistakes and get just a little further from the earth they've left behind. Two months into the seven-month mission, the team is struggling with discontent, damaged equipment, and blizzards acting less and less like normal weather. As Mahaha moves out of range of help and the storms take on a more malicious character, Alex must face the one foe they could never have prepared for.Mahaha may or may not be alive.❖❖❖Complete. Wattys 2021 Shortlister. Standalone sequel (Rocks Can Dance) coming in 2023.Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)…

JuneValentine

In a dark and deep land lives young Marjorie, a woman desperate for something more than her conventional life in her tiny village, Core. She aches for something dangerous, something like the dark forest, Mirkwood, which borders her home. Yet, there is a curse which haunts her people: a Wolf. For the last eighteen years, he takes one innocent life. Fate seems to change at the hands of Vivian, a Wardeness who promises Core a safe passage through Mirkwood. For a moment, Marjorie has everything she has ever wanted: An escape from a fate set in stone... until the Wolf set its dark intentions on her. Now, she is forced to decide: Will she defeat the Wolf or will she willingly be devoured? __________________The stranger turned to face her. This close, it was easy to see his handsome features. From his high cheekbones to his piercing gray eyes, he was unlike any sully-faced villager. Instead, he wore his beauty with a casual grace, as if he were clueless to the plumpness of his lips or the flat, smooth surface of his chest. "Am I a what?" The man cocked a thick, dark brow up. He pushed his right hand into the pocket of his trousers, but not before Marjorie caught a glimpse of the heavy jewels on his fingers. He drowned in an opulence few villagers could afford. "I take that as a no," she said. "What is your name, stranger?" He looked to her, and then his gaze traveled to where men and women continued to fling themselves around the heat of the bonfire.You don't belong here, she thought.…