The sky fractures at dawn. Rivers run backward. Reality is coming undone. Alara wakes in a world of ancient magitech and broken kingdoms with no memory of who she is-only the unsettling truth that crystal spires and rune-driven machines respond to her touch. As anomalies spread and the world edges toward collapse, she is told she may be the last one capable of stopping it. But the closer Alara comes to the truth, the clearer it becomes: the catastrophe was not an accident. The machines remember her. The records erase her name. And the end of the world may be something she chose. Because this world has been saved before. And ending it might be the only way to break the cycle. Hi~ thanks for reading my story. If you have any questions or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact me! Also, as English is not my native language, if you see minor mistakes, I'd love feedback! Love krawallsternchen

A 2023 Open Novella Contest Entry Shortlister Round 2 Winner Round 2 Ambassadors' Pick Princess Leia had a plan to end the war between humans and faeries. Sneak into the Land of Faerie and kill the prince. It would have been a good plan, if it wasn't for the prince already expecting her. Stuck as the Prince of Faerie's captive, Princess Leia must learn to survive in a territory completely unfamiliar to her. The Land of the Faeries was exactly as she thought it would be, like a terrible dream filled with magic and trickery. The prince... Was not. Realizing they had more in common than she thought, Princess Leia must walk a dangerous line of political delegation and love, all while staying true to herself and her duty as the heir to her throne. The war between humans and faeries was long withstanding, but can she truly end it? Fantasy/Romance. Prompt used: 33 Novella version: Started: 02 Feb, 2023 Completed: 12 April, 2023 Cover made by Carlisle-cullen-fics. Exclusively on Wattpad. © 2023 Miriam Elade

| Hide and the truth will never be found, Find the will and the world shall be yours. | bxb | A drop of blood on his lips enslaved him to one person for the rest of his life. The other witches called him the daemon of the archives, the tragedy of the Tower, but he would not stay that way. A newfound prophecy and the arrival of three strangers, including one with two different colored eyes and a penchant for stirring up trouble will shake the very foundation of the Ivory Tower. I ask you, what will fall first: their hearts or the Tower? Cover masterfully created by @cleartapes / @toruinagod The Sovereignty Series Standalone | First Draft | 48.8K Words Content advisory 16+: Violence, LGBTQ+ (MxM), Explicit language, Emotional Manipulation/Abuse, Intimate Scenes. Genre: Dual POV High Fantasy, Fantasy-Romance, Dark Fantasy Copyright© 2025-2026 short_flame

Evy Elvergaard doesn't trust the government. Jacob Winter is unfortunately government-shaped. He's a financial-crime investigator: calm, patient, offensively ethical, and built like a man Evy would very much like to climb. She's an anti-fraud genius with questionable impulse control, an even more questionable relationship with rules, and TINX-a system she absolutely does not want the police touching. Avoiding each other would be easier if they didn't already share everyone. Jacob is Viktor's best friend. Evy is Petra's. Their friends drink at the same bar, invade the same tables, celebrate the same birthdays, and have absolutely no interest in rearranging their lives because two idiots developed inconvenient chemistry. Then TINX connects their cases. Libra isn't one scam. It's dozens. Widows, investors, pensioners, romantics-victims manipulated in completely different ways, yet their stolen money keeps disappearing into the same hidden network. Worse, Libra's operators are unusually good at one thing: Making people trust them. Jacob wants to investigate twelve years of evidence. Evy wants to build an army of synthetic victims and bait Libra into calling. This is approximately how all their arguments go. As the case grows, old frauds begin connecting, familiar names appear where they shouldn't, and somebody starts looking less like a criminal mastermind and more like a teacher. Meanwhile, Jacob and Evy have developed another problem. They want each other. Badly. But this isn't a stranger they can kiss, regret and never see again. Their people are tangled together. Their jobs are tangled together. And neither of them is willing to risk the friendships that have become home just because keeping their hands off each other is becoming increasingly unrealistic. So they agree to slow down, think carefully, and absolutely not act on it. This goes about as well as everything else Evy has ever promised not to do.

**The fates of a barista, a dancing criminal, and a deadly stranger become tangled in a world where the apocalypse is old news** All Mads Capot wants to do is run her coffee shop in peace and to be able to pay her bills until the next wave of intragalactic tourists arrives. But when a mysterious green-eyed stranger walks into the shop and seems to be the answer to all her problems, she's immediately skeptical. And her instincts have always been good . . . Luc is mysterious and adaptable, a drifter with a dark past and a score to settle with one of the galaxy's most infamous criminals. When he crosses paths with Mads, he inadvertently draws her into a complicated world of outlaws, renegades, and ancient curses existing on the fringe of a destroyed world. Can they put aside their differences to survive, or will they end up as two more nameless corpses? Inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, Baz Luhrmann films, 2000s pop punk, club bangers and a dash of Star Wars, "The Last Coffee Shop" is a science-fantasy adventure for fans of Firefly, White Collar, fairy-tale retellings, and Diana Wynne Jones. *Stay tuned for spin-offs/shorts in the world of TLCS* CW: PG13 level violence, language, sexual themes, and mentions of abuse, etc