Maryam Balan is drab. She's unpretty, kind of boring, and is tired of fighting to be seen, lost among her prettier, more talented sisters. But when her big sister Ellie whisks her off to DC for the summer to be an accompanist to Georgiana, a budding star in the opera world, Maryam is lost in a whole new world full of...
" after she loses her best friend rosemary to suicide, kate decides to writes letters to rose that might just help her heal. " 「 #108 in short story #367 in spiritual 」 copyright © 2017 by 15-year-old layla. all...
" he broke up with his supposedly true love, her. she can't seem to do anything but write. " 「 watty award winner 2015 / #1 in short story 」 copyright © 2015 by 13-year-old layla all rights reserved.
Enfri is the last sky woman of her village. She is a healer, herbalist, and midwife. The day she is visited by Jin, a beautiful assassin in service to the king, Enfri starts down a path towards the truth of her heritage and the reason why she has been condemned to die by the crown. Using her wits and the magic of a sc...
Alana Mitchell came to accept that her life was destined to be a hard and miserable one. In her mind it was only fair. After all, it was her fault her dad was dead and her mother turned to drugs and alcohol. So she was determined to protect her little sisters and spend her life making up for her mistakes. But things g...
Growing up, learning everything that comes along with it, including the varying perspectives in life, death and everything in between. A story told by two boys trying to figure out their fleeting youth, in a coming-of-age story of their own. Copyright © 2016 Zen. All Rights Reserved.
When old memes start taking over a tragic all-girls high school, it's up to six lame-os to embark on an interdimensional adventure and use their wits, poor athleticism, and various memeing skills to save their school. 2016 WATTYS WINNER! Edit: Most of these memes might be...aged. Please note that this comic was first...
She just wears it as worship to the god she is faithful to She wants to wait til her marriage night, is that so wrong? Why must her friends tease her for not wanting to have sex like them? He doesn't want his friends to know he doesn't want to have sex with just anyone; that isn't 'manly', right?
Sometimes you just need a little sunshine. **updated every week**
❛power isn't everything. it's the only thing.❜ [complete] wattys 2018 winner ❧ Lin is a hunter, one of the magically enhanced witch slayers that roam a flooded world. Under the laws of four Kings and Greymark, who rules them all, Lin is untouchable. She could massacre thousands and no-one would blink. But she...
(Posting to RoyalRoad) Iona of Tamaris is a half-elf caught between worlds. Born a bastard child with the curse of an ancient magic, she has always lived a life with secrets weighing her heart down like a stone. The price of discovery? Death. When two unwelcome visitors arrive in Yssa's royal court, however, her life...
WARNING: CONTAINING AMOUNTS OF SASS PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TO MANKIND In the city of NYC--- Ok. Hold up. First of all, New York City. What, are ya gonna assume everyone here knows what NYC is? Anyway, this is about two people. I can almost hear you rolling your eyes. Another cliché teen fiction with a bad boy and a good g...
Let me ask you something. Why is it that all the books that win Watty's Awards are already books that have been featured? Don't you think that gives smaller authors less of a chance to win? That's where we come in. With the #HippieTeensCampaign, all authors with small followings can have a chance to win The Hippie Tee...
This is the short sorrowful story of Noah Blake and his first love. Noah Blake realized he had death's touch by the time he was five years old. Before, he considered them to be bad dreams. When the first death he dreamed happened exactly the same way in reality, he knew he was cursed. With just the slightest touch o...
[Newly edited and rewritten!] Russell is a virtuous goth with a Christian upbringing. Sal is a carefree slack-off who would rather work retail than go to college. It was hate at first sight. Until they were forced to partner up in class. After their true feelings surface, Sal learns just how different he is from Russe...
mex·i·can·a - noun. a native or inhabitant of mexico, or a person of mexican descent. she was thought as someone who jumped the border
The Order is a group out to find one child. One child that isn't human like the rest, and Cecelia is that child. * * * How special is your life? Cecelia often questioned this in her young life as an orphan. She had no idea what the future could hold, or how it felt to have someone to love. She had planned out what t...
❝ − It's a terrible thing, the destruction of words.❞ All rights reserved @ o p t i c a l i t y | 2017
A retelling of the colonization period like you have never heard before! Halia never knew the Elders' ancient way of life. She was a nymph born in a dark alley of a human town, far from nature, and had never left it. One day, in 1534, a frenzy took over the community as they are offered a new life in a newly discove...
Four unmarked survivors. One totalitarian government. A fight to keep their humanity intact. 100 years into the future, the E-91 virus has thrust the world into chaos. For Rachel Wilson, survival hasn't come easy. For the last fifteen years, she's lived in the wilderness, just out of reach of the Council of Nations...
**CURRENTLY A FEATURED STORY** highest ranking: #11 in Science fiction ❝true happiness is only achieved without freedom. There is a girl who wakes to a world that she was supposed to protect. Instead, she fights it. There is a man who is cursed with the ability to dream. A glass city is their cage, a city filled to t...
It didn't take long for junior Miren Eze to realize that high school is just an academic cover up for hell. Especially when she is terrorized daily by Penelope van Helsing, a friend turned evil nemesis. After a cruel prank at an assembly for a coveted award leaves Miren scholarship-less and practically expelled, she's...
[COMPLETED] ❝Image is everything.❞ Set in the 1960s, The Dollhouse is the haunting story of Lydia and Violet - forced to uproot to a new town and live with an old-fashioned family they barely know. The sisters soon discover that image can be deceiving, and that no one else can truly know the horror behind closed doors...
[Highest ranking yet: #1 in Short Story] "Siri, if you were a person, what would you look like?" Does my appearance matter to you? "...."
This is a campaign I am starting to help raise awareness of the struggles people face. Although our troubles may not all be the same, we all have them. Some things may be more or less difficult, harmful, or unsettling than others, but in the end it all matters. "Dear Bullies, You know the boy you pushed over earlier...
Rawiya Baba, an Arabic child with Panic Disorder, and her family are new immigrants in New York's Harlem, who are seeking piece of mind during a war outbreak in the Middle East. She is trying to have a good time and not to be called a terrorist by the entire school. Suddenly, Rawiya came across a extremely rare editio...
Michelle is back home from her move-out assert-independence stint. Some things are still the same- like she's still-single since-birth, while some things have changed... The greatest change though is, hands down, her best friend, Nate being in love with someone else. Nathaniel thinks actions speak louder t...
