Wailmouth

Wailmouth

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[ONC2024 ENTRY] [COVER IN PROGRESS]Sixteen-year-old Fern was happy to be sent off to an innocuous boarding school, until she finds herself at the epicenter of strange events and the string of fate bonding her to the school.***Monkeys, matrons, mattresses. Commonly unrelated to the average person, but students at Wailmouth would say differently. The impressive boarding school sits among swathes of green foliage whose simian residents are playful as they are unruly. As if their tailed neighbors aren't enough of a problem, the school's matrons seem dedicated to make their lives a living hell. The infamous Madam Matron rules with an iron fist, her unrelenting force intensified against the old mattresses they're forced to sleep on.Fern learns all this in barely a month of her enrolment into Wailmouth College. Her arrival, however, had sparked a chain of bizarre events within the gates of the school. Together with her friends, Fern investigates the connection between the peculiar incidents, and between Wailmouth and herself.***Trigger warnings: Alluded teen pregnancy, animal abuse, violence, death…

Flash Fiction by Edie Arks

Flash Fiction by Edie Arks

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A collection of flash fiction authored by Edie Arks as part of Wattpad's "Aim to Engage" event.***List of chapters and loglines:▪︎ Dear William,: A nurse meets a young man resembling an old friend from the War, only to learn that their realities are worlds apart.▪︎ The Marks: A satirist and his agent race against time to prevent his own masterpiece from destroying a local art gallery.▪︎ See You Later: A viral outbreak forces an orphan to escape with her dog and find shelter, without knowing they share a roof with another threat.▪︎ Dawn of Eumelis: The downfall of Atlantis at the hands of avaricious rulers leads to the rise of a new righteous sovereign.▪︎ Our Greatest Treasure: Threatened by the pending Ice Age, a trio of survivors discover a hidden trove that may help them weather the storm.▪︎ Boy, Beast: A little boy wakes to find himself eye to eye with a terrifying beast from the jungle and seeks to use its power to gain what he wants.***Votes, comments, and constructive criticism are always welcomed ♡…

TX-2033-LEEKNIGHT-1004-AM

TX-2033-LEEKNIGHT-1004-AM

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A grief-stricken mother relives the final days of her troubled daughter while attempting to preserve and restore data from her memory logs. ***In the midst of her divorce proceedings with her estranged husband, Helen raises their troubled daughter, Alice, in an unassuming town of Wickington in her home state. Alice's sudden demise prompts Helen to extract her daughter's memory to be stored digitally. With the data in hand, Helen seeks to change the ending of Alice's story- by any means possible. Inspired by: ALICE IN WONDERLAND X BLACK MIRROR…