[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...
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...
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...
The world is a dark and scary place, full of psychopaths that feel compulsion to commit heinous acts and feel no guilt afterwards. But what if there was a way to feed these compulsions without having anyone die? Meet Dr. Clowd, a renowned Memory Therapist. She has made it her purpose to prevent such travesties from e...
To break his family's curse, Faolan mac Domnall seeks to marry the beautiful Saoirse, princess of Mide. Spirited and outspoken, the wild Saoirse wants nothing more than to escape the life that's been decided for her. Determined to outmaneuver a twist of fate and win her hand, Faolan searches between worlds to find the...
Getting married was not an item on Eddie's to do list until Myra put it on there. Now it's there, with thousands of sub items to take care of; all neat little boxes waiting to get crossed off. There is only one problem: Eddie doesn't know he already ticked off the 'get married' box years ago. Excerpt: Wedding proposal...
Wynton, a man in his early forties, is going through the attic of his recently deceased grandfather, Neston's, house when he stumbles upon what looks to be an old journal with his grandfather's name on the inside cover. The first entry is dated "April 05, 2192".
❝How far are you willing to go for me?❞ ❝Far enough to die for you, over and over again.❞ ** Athalia doesn't believe in past lives but being plagued by dreams of her death every night, Athalia begins to question herself. Why would dreams have pain so vivid it manifests in real life? Why does she feel cautious around h...
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...
***This story will become free on April 25th.*** Charles Abbot is finally living the life he has always dreamed of. At only 25, he has managed to turn his unique magical ability of copying memories into a profitable business. However, his comfortable life is shattered when he is tricked by a thief into extracting a da...
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...
2081. In a sinister world where human survival hinges on biotechnology, an oblivious sixteen-year-old possesses the one code to undo it all. Can she survive the devious world designed to eliminate anything - anyone - out of the ordinary before it's too late? Mia Love is nothing extraordinary. Just another teenager who...
ONC ROUND ONE QUALIFER A prank gone wrong sends four teenagers several years into an alternate past of their small town. Eden town, seventy one years ago is plagued by a murderer that is hell bent on dwindling the town's numbers, appearing at night unseen and disappearing after each gruesome murder. Some call it a mo...
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...
"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...
🌟Wattys 2022 Shortlist!🌟 ~ Rayna's job is to duplicate memories for public use, but when she steals the data to help with her wife's amnesia, the crime takes a dark unsuspected turn. - - - How far would you go to be remembered? For Rayna Guzman, the path went on for miles. After a failed memory transfer at Alt-Life...
When Nick North sold his soul to the devil for fame at 16 he knew he'd regret it someday. He imagined he'd have to do some despicable stuff like murder or corruption. He never imagined the devil would come back two years later to make him front a band consisting of the Prince of Hell and the horsemen of the apocaly...
PASSED ROUND TWO IN OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST!! *** Historian Patricia Pavlov is a bachelor with a secret: she can skip from one timeline to another by just thinking about it. She had fun watching the Tudors bicker with one-another, shocked by the horrors of the two World Wars, sympathised with Trotsky when he was being re...
BOOK ONE - Scarlet's perfect world gets turned upside down when life begins to drain of color. After losing her parents, Scarlet realizes she has the power to see things no one else can. Struggling to bring it all back to normal, she finds herself on a hunt with her best friend in order to learn the truth about her fa...
Fiama is a princess who wants to escape her royal ties and actually do something good for her kingdom- something good that doesn't involve sitting on a throne wearing pretty dresses. When her path crosses that of Ziedas, a local diplomat's daughter, the two women find themselves in an unexpected game of mistaken ident...
Grace, the illegitimate daughter of Edward IV, finds her life turned upside down when he dies and her family flees into sanctuary when her uncle takes power. Torn between family loyalties and her need for love and stability, Grace struggles to survive a dangerous world. A historical fiction story set during the War of...
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...
Ted has suffered a hell of a week. Losing his family, his eyesight, and the ability to walk in one fell swoop, he's been forced to pick up the pieces in a whole other world entirely. The land of the fae, where everyone trusts no one, and the streets basking in neon light are on the verge of war. He wholeheartedly beli...