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The North (#wattys2016)

Breakout. Escape The City. Stay Alive. Sixteen-year-old David Simmons is on a mission to save his eight-year-old sister. In a smoldering world infested with walking cadavers, the survivors of Simmons infantry reserve unit are going hatches down in a pair of armored personnel carriers and everyone knows that it's only...

Algorithm - Book 1 - The Medallion

A young boy, Adam, discovers a gold medallion in a lump of coal. He keeps it as a curious good luck piece for the next twenty years, until as a scientist, he discovers it contains a message and is clearly alien. Join Adam and his colleague, Linda, as they embark upon an adventure of revelation, ultimately giving up al...

Someone's In My Head (WATTYS AWARD WINNER 2015)

BOOK ONE OF THE WICKERNHAM TRILOGY - WATTYS AWARD WINNER - - #1 IN SCIENCE FICTION - After a close brush with death, Jarod ends up in a hospital, traumatized but alive. He thinks he is lucky to get off with minor injuries, but he soon realizes that something is wrong when he starts behaving abnormally. Eventu...

Tempered by Love

Daniel Ulysses Barrow, created in space, part Time Lord, part human, is abandoned to a parallel Earth with three things: a small bit of coral destined to become a sentient time machine, Rose Tyler and the clothes on his back. When he is rejected by Rose, he is forced to build a life on his own. And he does. Two years...

Blood of the Ancient - The Helix Rebellion saga #1

Logan dreams of becoming a Marshal in the Malikan Army, and when an angry rebellion challenges the ruthless constitution, an opportunity is presented to enter the ranks - but it comes with a price. Tragedy entwines destiny in this action-packed adventure, as an ancient darkness is unearthed - threatening the life of a...

The Visitor

My entry for Round One of the UWS Club's Writing Challenge. Cover by the amazing @Shattered_Violet

Excerpts from BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE

Read long excerpts from two of the 33 zombie and monster stories in Mark McLaughlin's BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE. Most of the stories in the book are contemporary urban horror, but there are some dark fantasy and science-fiction stories, too, in the mix.

Ocean's Infiltrator (Book 2 of the Ocean's Gift series)

What happens when a human sees too much? Could you kill to protect your people? Capsize his boat… Lure him into the water… Summon sharks … How long will Sirena let Joe live, now he knows her secret? A story about seduction and sharks, parenthood and penguins, at some coral islands off the coast of Western Austral...

Kuro: A Land in Eternal Night

Now back on Wattpad! ---- In a land covered in eternal night, a young girl's light is all that stands between Mankind and the Forces of Darkness. When the Sun Goddess vanished under mysterious circumstances a thousand years ago, she left the land of Kuro blanketed in eternal night. Over time, the people learn to harne...

Sin (Wattys Winner)

On the flip of a coin, people die around Sin. Escaped from a lunatic asylum and haunted by his dead sister, he must find out why, and discover who is trying to use his power to destroy everything and everyone. ***** Dead, dead, dead. Say it enough times and it becomes just another word. What would you do? Could you k...

Darker Places

*Featured in the Creepy Camping Tales reading list for the Blair Witch movie!* What if you could steal the final moments from the dying? What if you had the darkest secret, but couldn't think what it might be? What if you entered the forest in the deep of the night. Who is the melting man? And are your neighbours re...

Blasted Futures, Secret Histories (SciFi Smackdown)

The Adventures of Morley and Boots: The crew of the Leapfrog travel randomly about the galaxy in search of unique lifeforms to trap & trade. Intra-galactic poaching is profitable, but risky - like when an Evil Intergalactic Empire accuses you of capturing their Goddess, and you don't even know which critter she is! En...

Letters From New York [Blood Magic, Book 2]

(Completed) Until Mills and Keel, the sorcerer-vampire bond was solely the stuff of folklore and legend - a whispered myth with one hell of a body count. Now Mills has returned to New York City, to human life, but the bond is reawakening. And someone knows her secret. All her secrets... --- LETTERS FROM NEW YORK is a...

Fatal Beauty (aka Her Revenge)

Tessa Monroe is a highly skilled assassin. In her line of work she comes face to face with dangerous men on a routine basis. It wasn't until Bron McCloud entered her world that she met the most dangerous man of all. He was the one man that could capture her heart completely, only to leave it shattered in his wake.

Maudie

A short story written long ago by a remarkable woman -- my aunt: Ursula Evans Fortner. A mountain woman struggles against unbelievable odds to be the simplest of things -- a mother.

Aces High

Through Darkened Glass

The Fracture: a tear in the fabric of space swallows Earth for a brief moment and changes everything forever. Ex-soldier Gabe Keplar is doing his best to survive on the new, broken Earth hunting down rogues and bringing their tags in for cash. But when an unexpected customer arrives with an offer too good, and too d...

12 Hours of Murder

A gruesome discovery on the morning of the May Fair sends an otherwise sleepy town into chaos. *this is a completed short story that will be downloaded in parts over the course of the week*

The Wrongs of The Right

Olivia's life took a change one day when she was the sole witness to an accident, an accident that claimed the life of a child and changed the future of two very different women. Now she has to decide if she should tell the truth and ruin the life of one woman believed to be right, or allow the lie to prevail, ruining...

Writer's World

Enter Writer's World. Here we will talk to Wattpad's finest writers. There will be tips, advice, challenges, and summaries to their stories.

Risen

Imagine living a full life, dying months after your beloved wife passes and being buried. Only to wake up 300 years later, called out of the grave to fight a final war against an alien invasion. Join Max Niekro, formerly living and now Risen as he deals with this reality as the forces of Earth, both living and dead...

Essence Extracted

Losing her parents in a double-murder, 21-year-old Payton comes into her powers. With her new abilities comes a secret. Born as the prophesied Royal that would restore balance to the Fae and bring forth peace and harmony after a centennial of warring between light and dark Fae, she is met with a vengeful ex-lover, se...

A Blissful Moment

A Blissful Moment is one of my first short stories... it truly is a blissful moment of love and it means a lot to me.

The Casquette Girls (Book 1)

Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. ** After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling a war zone, a pa...

Gretel (The Children Of The Sun) Book One

The last child born of a people dating back before the beginning of time, coveted by some, hunted by others - this is the story of young Gretel. Beyond beauty and imagination we follow the lives of young Gretel and her brother Hans, as her only daughter relives their past through a forgotten diary. A story of the lov...

Nevermore

This is the story of Lenore Auden and the madness she was plagued with. Her life was shattered when the dreaded Apocalypse began with the start of nuclear warfare. Her mother died by an airborne virus and her sister was murdered by infected wolves. Now, only Lenore and her father are left. When the Post-Apocalypse d...

Finding Grace: The Guardian Chronicles Book One

Highest rank Vampire #1. Evan Whitman is a emergency trauma physician with a special gift. She has the ability to feel the energy of her patients and it allows her to be a better healer. This gift is also a curse, as with it comes the knowledge of emotions and thoughts from those she is closest to, which has turned h...

Darkness

Everyone has a side of light and a side of darkness. Sometimes the darkness is stronger than the light. When it starts to consume me, I embrace it.

Invisible Armies

In a world where security cameras prove what you have done and databases define who you are, the few who know how to manipulate the technology can play God. They can change the future; they can alter the past. They can make big money, they can save the world, and they can get away with murder over and over again. Dani...