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ONC 2026In a world woven with secrets, silence can be deafening. Eighteen-year-old Luca Kant has never known the sound of her own voice; born deaf and raised under the suffocating grip of her controlling father, she is haunted by the shadow of her mother's mysterious disappearance. Did she flee from the clutches of a man who could be a monster, or did something more sinister happen? Nineteen-year-old Boy Harrison lives at the wrecking yard. He can speak, but hasn't spoken since he was four. He is haunted by nightmares that echo a woman's voice warning him that to remain safe, he must remain silent. Fate draws Luca and Boy together. Long-buried memories and cryptic connections between their lives begin to unravel. As they delve deeper into their entwined pasts, eerie parallels unfold-did Luca's father play a role in the dark mystery surrounding her mother's fate? Does he hold the key to both their truths? How is Boy connected, and who is the woman he dreams of? In a gripping tale of identity, resilience, and the haunting weight of silence, Luca and Boy must confront their monsters and uncover the chilling revelations that bind them on a riveting journey where silence speaks volumes and whispers could change the course of their lives.PROMPT 80 - Monsters don't live under our beds. They live in the recesses of our minds. (Variation of Edgar Allen Poe's famous quote.) My interpretation - Monsters didn't live under your bed. They sat at your table.…

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WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2021.During the Scottish autumn of 1891, Irishman Lucan Hayes, a coal miner, loses his wife to childbirth. In his darkest hour, he meets prostitute Meg-Anne Dunn. This brief encounter would alter their lives forevermore. Lucan must find a way to raise his sons while continuing to work as a faceman. Confronted by the challenges of being a widower and single father, he slips deep into despair. In the dark tunnels of the underground, he sees his future as death.A letter from his uncle changes the course of his life. He emigrates to Australia to work in Irvinebank, one of the largest tin mining towns of the time. Australia seemed to be the answer for Meg-Anne except her old life followed. Working the infamous Sachs Street filled with brothels, shanty hotels, and gambling dens was to live in hell. Now, a new punter has walked into her existence. When Meggy's eyes connect with his, she remembers they are blue, the deepest kind.…

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ONC 2025 SHORTLIST.Book 3 in the Black Cat series.Born to drug-addicted parents, Linc Bridgestone was crippled in an accident when he was a child. After breaking up with his girlfriend, he overdoses and is brought back to life by his sister. Linc doesn't believe in luck. He doesn't believe in love. He doesn't believe in anything except broken relationships, pain, torture, and the demons that possess him.Darby Dermot has a beast list. They come in different shapes and forms. Sometimes, she questions her career choice. Little Help Home Services has its ups and downs. Most of her clients are evil fiends, monsters, and devils. Falling in love with a demon wasn't on her wish list, but here he was, crippled, curled in a ball, spitting hate and vengeance, smelling like a sewage pit and demanding she leave him the fuck alone. ONC 2025 Prompts - 2: To be in love with a demon was the last thing on your wish list.32: - A non-believer of love wakes up one day to find themselves in a world where love is everything. What will they do in a land ruled by hearts?THE DEMONS AND BEASTS IN THIS STORY ARE THE ONES WE BATTLE EVERY DAY.Thanks for taking a look at my first-ever entry in ONC. Wish me luck. ♥♥♥…

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I've been quiet lately and as some of you know I visited America for 8 weeks. I wanted to share some of my favourite photos in this album.Cover image taken from Public Domain Pictures…

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AMBY'S 2025 ROUND 3 QUALIFIER Fin Hamilton has been isolated in the backwoods of Cooktown in Northern Australia for a very long time. She can barely read. Everything she knows comes from the television. Belittled and backhanded by her alcoholic father, Findlay, Fin spends long days hiding in the dim shadows of a booth, at the back of Snakes Bar, where Findlay drowns his sorrow. Cody Compton is a stranger, hidden within the dark recesses of the bar. Fin watches him watching her. On the day Cody abducts Fin, heavy monsoons roll in and isolate the pair in Cody's old shack, changing their lives forever.In a field, on Delaney Road, a body is found. When Fin opens a box of secrets their world erupts. There's more to Cody than Fin understands.…

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Leaving their friends behind was a tough gig but even worse was leaving each other to live in two different cities to study and make their way in the world. Becky and Rob just knew they could make the long-distance thing work. There was no reason why they couldn't because they loved each other so much.Didn't they?The Mice Do Play - Black Cat - Book Two. This book reads as a stand-alone novel but to get to know Becky and Rob I recommend you read Black Cat first.…

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Something is afoot at Denbury Hall. Samuel Denyer, second son of the duke, can't believe his stepmother's new born son, is his father's child.When Samuel goes missing everyone thinks he is dead.To be woken, chained to the hull of a ship, bound for the slave market in Algiers, is to wake in hell. Samuel's only saviour is a green-eyed girl. A stray found in the woodland of Lytton House. She comes to him each night in his dreams, her whispered words, the only light in his tortured soul.Shay doesn't want to be a lady of the ton. Shay doesn't want to marry. She's a stray and would rather work with Jack, looking after Mrs. Picks' piglets. When Shay returns home from Saint Germaine's Finishing School in Paris, she begs her guardian to allow her to work in the Blue Maids Orphanage for Girls. He has a condition; she must attend the season and be open to marriage.Knocked over by a Bedouin man, with the face of an angel and irises belonging to the devil, Shay can barely breathe, as he stares into her vivid green eyes. Green eyes that have plagued him for three years. A damaged man, an orphan girl. Stolen souls that belong together.…

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VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (Now Tasmania), Australia 1840. Jessica has been transported for the theft of a brooch. A crime she did not commit. Beaten and brutalized by Muster Master Pead, she is assigned to wealthy shipping merchant Louis Copeland. A man she refuses to obey.The battle begins. Louis realises she is not who she says she is. His search to find out the real circumstances behind her transportation ignites feelings he has never experienced before.Can he get the stubborn wench to fall in love with him or will he have to send her back to Port Arthur's notorious penal colony and certain death?SOME MATURE CONTENT…

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Becky Bridgestone isn't the girl she pretends to be. She has secrets. Dark secrets that she doesn't want anyone else to know. There's something about the new boy that scares her. When he looks at her, it's like he can read her thoughts. Rob's move to Kalara High had only one positive. The hockey team. It ranked number one in the state. Its coach, a part of the Olympic training squad. Maybe this place wasn't so bad after all. His new teammates were turning out to be a great bunch of guys. Another plus were the girls connected to the group and in particular, cute little Lizzy Tyson with her dreamy chocolate eyes. Rob has never understood why there is always at least one bitchy slut, at each school he transfers to. Kalara High has two. Katrina Walsh and Becky, the bitch, Black Cat, Bridgestone. Rob hates them. So why is it, he can't stop thinking about Black Cat? Rob soon learns Becky isn't who he thinks she is. Now he wants to help her escape the prison that is her life.MATURE READERS 16 AND OVER!This story written for Wattpad.…

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ONC 2025JASMINE BAKER has given up on men and has decided to find herself. She catches the 6.20 from Flinders Street, each evening. Intrigued by one of her fellow passengers, she watches and listens to phone calls she can't understand. Jasmine witnesses Train Guy exchange packages with another passenger. Her imagination takes over. He has to be a drug dealer. When she sees him beating a man on the station platform Jasmine realises, she could be in danger. An unknowing witness to what must be criminal activity.Prompts -57 - Two lovers - one is the villain, but no one knows it except the other. Can their love survive the truth?126 - Because you're you, and I'm me and we just don't fit - Idea of you. Book by Robinne Lee.…

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Did Rohan Wayland kill Sally Parks? He wanted to. All his life Rohan has been ridiculed, abused and beaten. It's happening again. Sally Parks and the rest of the staff at Sykes Pathology Lab see him as the weakling he is. At lunch times he hides in the outdated café on Charlotte Street. A place filled with activity, where old men play cards and friends can be made. Ruby the cafe owner, and her husband, Gus the cook. Sid an ex ambulance officer, Harry a retired barrister, and Mal, a private detective, bring him into their circle, but it's Annie Mitchell, the waitress, who lights up his life. When Sally Parks is found murdered, Rohan, is Detective David Days' prime suspect. Did Rohan Wayland kill Sally Parks? He wanted to.…

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Science Fiction -Short Story- 4 Chapters - Silla has been raised to think her way of life is perfect and as life should be. Tarn needs to convince her it's all wrong and that true freedom awaits her outside the domed city.This is one of my stories which has been selected for the L. A. Neo Noir Novel, Film and Script Festival to be held on the 26th May 2018 at Dave and Busters on Hollywood Blvd. A small trailer will be made for the story and shown at the festival. Another of my books - Twenty-Three Hundred - also here on Wattpad has also been selected along with a third book entitled Children of Toil - which was also shortlisted in the Wattys 2021. I'm so thrilled and thought I'd share Liberty with you.…

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Forbidden Love. Will she get what she Desires?My entry for Wattpad's Romance Competition - Love: To Be Or Not To Be.…