They say knowing is half the battle. But sometimes it takes more than acknowledged love to turn a friendship into something more. Being lovestruck and unable or unwilling to do anything about it is a special kind of hurt. Can childhood friends, Calvin and Ian, get over their own individual hangups and finally take tha...
[Shortlisted] [ROUND ONE, TWO & THREE QUALIFIED] Emily Walton is a 25-year-old young woman who has had a difficult life ever since she was a child. She never received love from her mother or her boyfriend, which made her feel miserable. As she nears the end of her life, Emily desperately begs for another chance. She...
A young girl gets a fire lizard for her birthday. A young fire lizard is kidnapped from her home. When their two worlds collide, their lives will never be the same. ~~~ Super-short chapters! Word count is under 6,000 for the whole story. ~~~ I'm leaning hard into tonal whiplash. You have been warned! ~~~ Completed...
Cruel. Devoid of empathy. Ice-hearted. Those three words perfectly describe the cruel Empress and her reign of terror. Iron Maiden has ordered the beheading of an enemy of her reign, setting a warning example for the rest of the commoners. Anyone who opposes the kingdom must repent with death. However, those dying...
{Featured ×4} In the heart-pounding world of 2082, where laws bend and twist like shadows in the night, seventeen-year-old Bryan Adams is thrust into a whirlwind of mystery and danger. Tormented by relentless nightmares of his father's tragic demise, Bryan embarks on a quest for truth, unaware that the very essence of...
When the deadly virus unleashed a zombie apocalypse, Serena, a once carefree 16-year-old girl, found herself thrust into a world of chaos and fear. Separated from her family during a walk to her school, she was attacked by zombies, got separated from everyone and was forced to navigate the harsh realities of survival...
The opposing forces of the universe, creation and destruction, have always lived in harmony with each other, keeping the cosmic balance stable in the name of order. However, this balance has failed, and now only one thing can save reality from its annihilation: Life. One of its avatars, Gaia, along with Zantas, the Go...
On an early Monday morning in Germany, Sankt Goarhausen's police department finds itself in a peculiar position as several policemen visit the site at the Rhine. Among them, 25-year old Henning Dorn is tasked to investigate the case of the salvage team's strange discovery: an unscathed coffin containing two bodies. A...
When returning to Canada for a friend's wedding, a dive instructor must face her judgmental mother and her ex, whose heart she never wanted to break, so she agrees to a fake relationship with an environmental scientist as she tries to minimize the stress on herself and others, further complicating her romantic life. *...
What would it take to turn a fading past into a brighter future? Life back on her old home coast isn't quite as inspiring as Elise Penrose imagined it to be. When she suddenly receives an offer to work on the latest novel by a leading romance author, she seizes the chance with both hands. Yet the job isn't the lift in...
Afraid of human contact, renowned ballerina Akhyra Morel is the epitome of grace on stage, but offstage, her icy demeanor keeps everyone at arm's length. When a media scandal jeopardizes her career, Akhyra reluctantly becomes entwined with Lucian Moreno, a rising star of the national Haitian football team. Lucian, sus...
A fugitive on the run for murder, Angeline escapes the core city planet of Midelian by hitching a ride on a transport ship to freedom. When the ship is ordered to stop for a routine search, she hijacks it to escape - only to crash land on a planet no one knew existed. Now, her and the other survivors must figure out h...
All men in her life dish out broken promises and disappointments to her. ~~~ Amara is a 22 year old young woman living with her single mother in the East Finchley London. From a young age life has dealt her a bad hand and forced her to fight for survival. She works to the bone at a small restaurant in East Finchley t...
When Mila finds out she's pregnant from a one-night stand with a reluctant prince, she is thrust into a fake romance with him; are her feelings that grow for him genuine or for his way of life that ensures her baby stability?|| Down-on-her-luck Mila Kennedy had been looking forward to a quiet life on the southern Engl...
Eighteen years old Freya has never gotten it easy in life; having to cope with her insufferable stepmother, who couldn't care less about her existence, to raising her optimistic sister, ignorant of the blights in the world, and being a prime target for bullying, in the prestigious hell people deem as Harington high, i...
*Cover designed by @arrowgig* Clarisse Ricci, a fiery and intelligent Italian American amateur astronomer, knows how fleeting life can be. She's come to observe it firsthand, so she makes sure to experience the joys and sorrows of life with the loved ones she has left. People like her fun-loving and artistic mother, I...
Rose Johnson is beautiful, softhearted, and wildly inappropriate. After moving with her parents to the mysterious town of Shady Cove, she discovers that the world is much stranger than she ever believed. Running for her life becomes a daily exercise but she doesn't look back at the dull life she left behind in LA. A g...
In the quiet town of Riverwood, nestled amidst dense woods, thirteen childhood friends once shared a bond that seemed unbreakable. Their camaraderie was forged in the innocence of youth until, at the age of ten, a chance encounter with a ruin in the heart of the forest changed everything. Within those ancient walls, t...
In a post-World War V world, global divisions have given rise to factions vying for resources and power. Amidst this tumultuous landscape, Kaya finds herself on the fringes of society through no fault of her own- branded an outcast due to her mother's status as an asylum seeker from an adversarial faction, Kaya grappl...
Lumi grew up her whole life Elmsborough, the southernmost country in Saoir, even though her blacksmith father was from Skyhaven, she has never seen the land of wind and snow. However, when her father dies in the ongoing war, the drive to find a piece of him becomes too great, and she leaves to go discover the world he...
Sometimes the future can come back to bite you. When a ragtag group of humans discover alien technology, they might inadvertently threaten the distant past, endangering all of humankind in the process. New episodes will now be released three times each week, on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Thousands of years ago, the RIVENING split life on earth in two - Earthside, the reality we know, and Dahria, a hidden realm where humankind evolved in a more peaceful and humane fashion. Now Dahria's existence is about to be discovered, exposed, and exploited by nefarious Earthside interests. All looks hopeless excep...