All I Want for Christmas

A Christmas short story with Roger, Rita, Aastha and the gang from Joe's bar. Nothing gets in the way of true love not even good intentions.

The Unwilling Alliance of the Promised Bride - 4 CHAPTER PREVIEW (ON AMAZON)

Enora is tired of living in her brother's estate and putting up with the endless stream of suitors her father has arranged for her to meet. Five more days and she will have the freedom to control her own destiny - far away from her domineering family. Only her father has other plans for her when he invites a pocket po...

The Denver Chronicles

-THRILLER/CONSPIRACY- Charlotte is a newly minted podcaster, with a skill set to go far. She intends to uncover everything strange and unspoken that is lurking in the Denver, Colorado International Airport. Rumors of cults, new world orders and aliens swirl. Once there, what she unearths will shatter even the most ske...

Festive Fake

**Book One in the Wayden Isle Series** Spending Christmas in her hometown or running into traffic naked-Liv Carson can't decide which sounds better. Twenty-eight year old Liv left rumors and scandal behind when she moved to Atlanta. The thought of going back to spend the week with her judgmental mother, toxic cous...

No Vacancy

A (fictional) Christmas tale. Rated mature for language and life themes. Cover art and chapter pics by author, and Canva. All rights reserved, Copyright by K E JENNINGS 2022.

The Book of Common

I am Common don't laugh that is my name. Momma chose it not me. I come from York. I'm a Ranger, they say the world has moved on several times. The picture nope that's not me. Picked it up good friend of mine. Well he was my mentor and a friend, that be Norm Parson. Why he is a Legend rode the waste land to the Ohio's...

The Scent of Water

BY @CuriousGeo ''Because I would be lying to you,'' he whispered. "I want you so much, I don't think it's a good idea for me to be left alone here with you, and nothing on my mind except the filthy things I want to do to you.'' Eighteen year old perfume prodigy Cassandra Ducasse is forced to accompany her father on a...

The D*ck Pic

BY @CuriousGeo When Ebony receives an unwanted photo from an unknown number she intends to delete it... but in the cold, lonely run-up to Christmas, she finds herself getting more amusement out of exchanging a series of humorous, sexy images with the stranger.

A WOMAN AT SEA

Setting off alone in a 36-foot sailboat, the Spray, in 1895, Joshua Slocum was first on record to circle the world singlehandedly. Many others have followed with or without crew. They are a special breed for whom the challenge counts more than the accomplishment; Bernard Moitessier completed his nonstop circumnaviga...

Eliot Strange and the Prince of the Apocalypse

Eliot and her best friend, Steven, are teenage survivors of the end of the world. Eliot's dad is a world-renowned survivalist, and he taught her all the rules. After weeks of waiting for Eliot's missing mother to come home, Eliot and Steven are ready to head to the mountains to reunite with her dad. Before their escap...

Another Christmas Carol

This is my entry into @IronDragonMonkey 's #Christmas Mayhem 2021 short story contest. It is also my Christmas gift to all my Wattpad friends as it has always been a tradition for me to post something for the holiday season as a thank you to all the great writers on Wattpad who have provided me such enjoyment through...

The Finding Tree

**FEATURED ON WATTPAD's UNDISCOVERED GEMS** Janey Cameron's life is falling apart Caught in the middle of her parent's tragic marriage she has no one to turn to and finds herself searching the woods at the family's summer lake house looking for comfort, solace, and peace. But instead she finds a very special tree...

Book Worm: a Sort of Autobiography

An Autobiography The scattered story of a life lived in books. Books shape us, teach us to feel, comfort us, and ruin us irrevocably if read correctly. They change us. Books are the affliction and the cure. And if you find one that is special enough, one that you love, you must let it slowly destroy you.

The Scent of Mimosa

[Wattys 2021 Shortlisted] In the ancient French perfume capital of Grasse, lives bohemian recluse Cassandra Ducasse, the last remaining member of a legendary family of perfumers. Trapped by her past, Cassandra is unwilling to take up the reins of her family business. When she is forced into an unlikely working partne...

ARCHAEAN GNEISS

The journey of a mysterious adventuress ? The revenge of a broken soul ? This could be you, at the end of your wits. Read, see how it can end.

The Girl Who Wanted Everything

Nadine is a classic introvert and an over-thinker. Living in the shadow of beautiful, easy-going Jamie her whole life has been nothing short of painful, especially when it comes to Sam - her childhood crush. Now Sam is back for the summer, and Nadine isn't going to let Jamie take this one, most important thing from...

The Rise of Havel

THIRD BOOK IN THE TIDES OF SORROW SERIES. Still reeling from the events in Chicago, Nick and Craig are beset with deep sorrow after witnessing Becky perish in the battle at the nightclub. Cain is nowhere to be found; they suspect he is grieving too over her loss. Unexpectedly, they end up playing host to C...

BONDS

A plaintive melody's famous verses by the French king Francois 1st "Plaisir d'Amour Ne Dure Qu'un Instant / Chagrin d'Amour Dure Toute Une Vie" were written at the dawn of the Sixteenth Century AD. They have been well known ever since as a warning about the everlasting misery too shallow an affair can cause. Some t...

GHOSTS CAN DANCE

Near home, at a turn off on the Black Woods Road dwells the spirit of a maiden killed by the logging truck she tried to flag down after a sorry incident with a boyfriend. Many have seen that ghost with some giving her a ride to her former domicile down the hill, they said. A professor at the local branch of the state...

She of the Sea

2022 AMBY AWARD WINNER - Cassandra prepares to face her true nature as something other than human with the help of her boyfriend while avoiding relentless hunters bent on her capture. ...

Escaping The Vines

Jolie~ The new guy is hot. Like, made me trip over my feet and fall in front of him hot. Great first impression, right? But, surprisingly he's also really kind, a rare combo in high school. Throw in the fact that he's fae and he's even rarer, but I didn't know that last part until...well, you'll see. Ash~ The human wo...

Stories From Under A Bootheel (Rants, Laughs, and Tears)

Stories from another time and place to make you think, laugh, and possibly shed a tear. I know I did, but for me the stories are personal. This is for those who can appreciate the insanity of the world I was raised in. One should never judge the past by the standards of the present. Of course, that doesn't stop m...

The Unicorn and Other Poems

Mostly transcribed from a chapbook I made in 1982 and updated in 1991. Original contents were simple rhymes, sonnets, Christmas poems, light verse and others.

Breathless | COMPLETED

They say that there is a 'coming of age.' moment in all our lives. A moment when we find our inner strength and fight our demons. They also say that most people can hold their breath underwater for just over a minute but then Lauren Cox is not like most people. Thrust into a man's world on a ship in a storm Lauren has...

TWISTED

Everyone likes a good old fairy tale, just like Cinderella and her Prince Charming falling in love and living happily ever after. What if instead of a wicked stepmother, it was a mean stepfather? What if the Prince had eyes for her wicked step sister and not for her? What if he got married to her sister instead of h...

Songs of an Old Galactic Wanderer

An eclectic ensemble of poems written in moments of exhilaration.

Starpath and Other Tales

Short science fiction and fantasy stories from my collection of old and moldy manuscripts.

The Cold Cold Sea

A tale of the sea...

Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter

I've listed this short article as Non-Fiction, but can we really be sure of that when the topics are Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter? What I have to say here is surely speculative, which may place it squarely in the Science Fiction genre. I'll leave it to you to decide. After that, if you want to read The Rest of the St...

Tanu and other tales

4 Novelettes: Virtual Reality - A young man devotes his life to an interactive game. Prester John - A boy searches deep space for his father. Talent - In an era of cloning, an agent who can operate multiple bodies simultaneously is challenged by a rogue former agent with similar skills. Ta...