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🏆ONC 2025 || Round One Round WinnerCary Leong sees ghosts. Ever since his parents were brutally murdered by one, he's lived in the space between reality and the other world, mingling with humans and the supernatural alike in a desperate attempt to track down their killer. But there's only so much one boy can do---until Jackson Grey shows up on his doorstep. Jackson is desperate. His girlfriend, Sophia, is being haunted, and he needs Cary's assistance. Seizing the opportunity, Cary proposes a deal: he'll help Jackson...if Jackson helps him find his parents' murderer. Accompanied by Sophia and Sophia's overprotective, hot-tempered brother, Edmund, Cary and Jackson must tread the border between worlds in order to kill the ghosts of their pasts and presents---or die trying. Dead men tell no tales, but the other world has a lot to say.…

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🏆Featured on TeenFiction | Head Over Heels🏆Featured on Romance | LGBTQIAP+ RomanceTo Leroy 'Lee' Hiew, home's never felt like home. He has a huge mansion, a big car, and more money than he could ever spend. And yet, the idea of home always seems to elude him. Armed with his dog, Socks, and the desperate need to find a definition of 'home' other than the one written in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Lee begins searching for somewhere to call home. The closest thing he can find? His on-off friend and resident pain in the ass, Jack Sang.…

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The woods surrounding Crenshaw are haunted by the secret between life and death---a monster known only as the Reaper. For centuries, Crenshaw's Institute for the Dark and Gifted has had one rule that its students are never meant to break: stay out of the woods, or face the Reaper's wrath. Faceless and formless, the Reaper feeds off the blood of those unfortunate enough to wander into the forest, but never touches those who obey the golden rule. That is, until a body is found in the library, drained entirely of blood. With the school halls no longer safe from the Reaper's bloodlust, four gifted students are forced to team up to uncover what the Reaper truly is---and more importantly, how to get rid of it.(Prompt 16: "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.")…

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If you dial the number 4444, no one will pick up. But fall asleep afterwards, and a man will visit you in your dreams. He will introduce himself as an assassin of sorts, and you will tell him your darkest desire. After all, the Dreamwalker can become your enemy's worst nightmare...for a price. Nathan Lee is many things: a slacker, a skeptic, and above all, hopelessly infatuated with the illustrious Aurora Kim. But when he accidentally swaps phones with a stranger, he ends up face-to-face with Cyr, a contract killer who travels through dreams. And his next target is Aurora. Desperate to save Aurora, Nathan takes it upon himself to hunt down Cyr's client. But when the bodies begin piling up, Nathan is forced to question who Aurora Kim really is...and what it will cost to keep her alive.(Prompt #56: After grabbing the wrong phone at a busy deli, you discover the stranger's life is far more tangled with yours than you ever expected.)…

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Legend speaks of a man with crows in his hair and stitches in his lips who will teach you his greatest trades. Some call him a monster. Most call him the Needle-Mouthed Man. But only the shadows know his true name, and they call him Master. As one of the dead, Minseo Park is a creature of the night, doomed to eternal darkness. However, refusing to accept his fate, Minseo turns to the shadows to give himself a second chance at life---all to get his sister out of the whorehouse where he himself died. Desperate, Minseo seeks out the Needle-Mouthed Man for guidance. But the Needle-Mouthed Man brings company: his protégé Nikolas, who both makes Minseo's blood boil and sets his heart aflame.In order to find his murderer and save his sister, Minseo must walk the balance between life and death and decide whether to embrace his inner darkness---or to let it consume him. Because the shadows are hungry, and the only food they want is revenge.[ cover and banners by inmyxikey ]…

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🏆ONC 2023 || Ambassador's Pick🏆ONC 2023 || Round Two QualifierOne night is all it takes to change a life. There's something wrong with Felicity Farr. It's how she can't seem to do her job right no matter how hard she tries, and how she's still under her parents' thumb years after moving out, and how she looks at girls the way she should look at boys. So even though she can't fix anything, she tries to fix herself all the same. But when a blind date ends with her in an attractive stranger's bed, Felicity is forced to question everything in her life. Especially when said attractive stranger asks her to run away with her for a week. Clover Chai is beautiful, confident, and everything Felicity should avoid. But she captures Felicity like the drag of the tide, and as the week drags on, Felicity finds herself having to choose between her head and her heart---especially since she can't imagine her summer fling remaining a fling anymore.…

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Sometimes, we have to kill the things we love.𝐆.𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 • 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐏𝐀𝐈…

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In which Soobin's fucked up, but Hueningkai loves him anyway.[ cover by treasure-maker ]…

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🏅ONC 2020 || Ambassador's Pick🏅ONC 2020 || Shortlist Qualifier🏅FreeTheLGBT || Pride Month Fiesta 'Book of the Month'🥇The Dream Awards 2020 || Mystery Thriller 1st Place Winner🥇The Creative Awards 2020 || Mystery/Thriller/Paranormal 1st Place Winner🥇Coalition Community Awards || Mystery/Thriller 1st Place Winner🥇Award for Wattpad Book 2020 || Mystery/Horror/Paranormal Genre Winner🥇The Pink Diamond Awards || Teen Fiction 1st Place Winner🏅The Pink Diamond Awards || Teen Fiction Best Book Overall🏅The Peacock Awards || Mystery/Thriller Best Characters🏅The Peacock Awards || Mystery/Thriller Best Book🥈The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 || Mystery/Thriller 2nd Place Winner🥈The Moonshine Awards || Mystery/Thriller 2nd Place Winner🥉The Soap Awards || Young Adult 3rd Place Winner🏆Featured on GeneralFiction || Clues and Secrets🏆Featured on Mystery || Bright Young Minds🏆Featured on Mystery || Murder🏆Featured on YA || Sherlock HolmesThey're the elites of the school, the popular kids, the untouchable bullies. They're the ones at the top of the food pyramid, the predators with nails just as sharp as their words. They're the ones who everyone wants to stay away from---or be.They call them the Liars.When teacher's pet Canterbury Swayze sees something he shouldn't, he finds out a fact that's not written in the school handbook...That Liars will do anything to protect their secrets.[ cover by CoalitionCommunity ]…

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🏅ONC 2020 || Round Two Qualifier🏅The Peacock Awards || Science Fiction Best Graphics🥇The Next Top Book || Science Fiction 1st Place Winner🥈The Bubble Tea Awards 2020 || Science Fiction 2nd Place Winner🥈The Moonshine Awards || Science Fiction 2nd Place Winner🎉The Dream Awards 2020 || Science Fiction Honourable Mention🏆Featured on Adventure || The Adrenaline Rush🏆 Featured on Action || Science Fiction in ActionWhen a boy wakes up from a coma and finds a letter at his side, he finds out he's the newest player in a game they call Vanguard.***The last thing 05 remembers is crashing his spaceship. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a hospital room on a strange place called Earth with a mind of memories that aren't his. A letter informs him that he's in the body of a murdered boy and that he's now part of a survival game. Soon, 05, now Red Harris, is dragged away to start his new life---in a steel maze known only as Vanguard. Amidst traps and death, Red meets Alisa, Lennox, Cheng Xin, and Becca. He finds out they're in the same situation as him---all players of the game, specially handpicked by a strange force they call 'the government'. They decide to work together to escape Vanguard and make it out alive.There's a catch, though. There can only be one winner---and the prize is their life.[ Cover by TheNextTopBook ]…

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[ BACK IN 2023 ]One cold morning, Simon meets a boy with starry eyes and poetry-wreathed lips, and that is when their tragedy begins.***Simon Huang's a quiet loner with dreams of being on stage. Too scared to disappoint his overbearing, grade-focused parents, he forces himself to stick to books instead of scripts. Then he meets his Literature professor's son, and all that changes.For piano prodigy Vincent Kelle, failure is not an option. Gifted from birth, he prides himself on dominating all the competitions he participates in with a giant smile on his face. After his mother enrolls him in a piano competition outside London, he's forced to fly to America to stay with his estranged father until further notice. Determined to win the contest and head back home immediately after, he's intent on getting out of America as fast as possible. Then he meets his father's star student, and all that changes.When a boy who's afraid to try meets a boy who's afraid to fail, there's only two ways it can go. It'll end in heartbreak---or maybe they can rewrite the stars.[ UPDATES ON SATURDAYS, 9AM EST ]…