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When life turns into horror, will you pray or will you prey?After five years of him asking, Karoliina Hautamäki relents and brings her boyfriend to Iron Lake, her deeply religious hometown in Finland's arctic circle. The midsummer visit is marred when her father passes from Covid, though it is the inexplicable deaths that follow that truly throw life off its path. A virus is what most consider it, but in Iron Lake, it is understood as the Sin. The only cure-confession. Karoliina's brother Aatami is heralded as their saviour, the one who has prayed people back from the edge of death.The internet crashes, phone service dies, society collapses. The government attempts to control the contamination by enforcing military quarantines across the country. What was intended as a brief visit turns into a year and a half with no end in sight.When Karoliina's childhood best friend asks for her help to discover the true cause of the deaths, Karoliina rejects it without consideration. But with her brother's glory grating on her, she might desire her own moment of recognition, even if it comes with the risk of all that is Isolde.In the vengeance of mid-winter, Iron Lake is crueller than ever. And amongst prayers is where predators most easily hide.GENRE: horror, dark romanceMAY BRING TO MIND: Raw (2016), The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), Pearl (2022)…

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When Arjun Mandal summons a demon to help defeat a sorcerer threatening the balance between realms, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with his dead ex-boyfriend.Four years ago, Teddy Nkhoma was killed by followers of the same sorcerer, Cerys Price, and was reborn as a demon. Though beings from the Realm of the Dead are not trusted even by the magical community in the Realm of the Living, Arjun knows Teddy too well to believe him evil. He knows Teddy is still the boy he loved, still his best friend. Defying his family's warnings, Arjun agrees to work with Teddy to defeat Cerys.As an ancient prophecy re-emerges and more than one realm is threatened, Arjun and Teddy must face their past, their present, and a future that might tear them apart all over again.GENRE: urban fantasy, paranormal, mxm romance TROPES: second chance romance, grumpy x sunshine, nerd x bad boy MIGHT BRING TO MIND: Harry Potter, The Raven Boys, The Owl House…

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Wrath will cremate Cecilio Velez to the bone.Beewolf, his personal demon manifested from childhood nightmares, has taught them to think with fire. When he's about to be expelled from his fifth school, his older brother and current guardian has had enough. So, with the help of the class know-it-all, Cece reluctantly tries to clean up their act.But when you've spent a decade sharpening your teeth, it's hard to dull the urge to bite.GENRE: coming of age with elements of psychological horror TROPE: enemies to best friends, grumpy x grumpyCOMP TITLES: if Lilo and Stitch were in Skins grand winner of the Nano Watt YA category 2025featured in TeenFiction: Soul Deepfeatured in FreeTheLGBT: Coming Of Agefeatured in TripleACommunity: Young Adultfeatured in TeenFiction: LGBTQAIP+ Teens…

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Nicolás Velez is done with casual sex. Listen, yes, he might've slept with everyone in his flat within the first week of living in halls and had a respectable run on Grindr, but what eighteen-year-old wouldn't? He's almost twenty-four now, though, and hooking up with people who can't pronounce his name is, as his best mate would say, "not cute, baby girl".Problem: Nikki sucks at dating. With only disasters to show for his efforts, he decides to take a break from it all.That is, until he meets Josephine Rawlins.GENRE: romance, pan man x bi woman TROPES: workplace romance, friends with benefits, mutual piningCOMP TITLES: Entergalactic, Take A Hint Dani Brownfeatured in Wattpad: Black Love featured in Wattpad: BHM Contemporary Litfeatured in Wattpad: Pride Community Recommendations featured in lgbtq: Pride Shelf Dec 24featured in lgbtq: Bisexual and Pansexualfeatured in Ambassador Recommendations BIPOC Mental Healthfeatured in Ambassadors: Rainbow Fictionfeatured in Romance: Slow Burnfeatured in Romance: LGBTQAIP+ Romancefeatured in Romance: Pride Monthfeatured in Romance: New BeginningsFreeTheLGBT Pride Awards winner 2025Nano Watt Romance shortlister 2025…

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Two strangers meet on a night train.A has given up on her life, whilst R would prefer to run away from hers. It is by mere happenstance that they are seated opposite each other on the train, merely the fear of being impolite that gets them to start a conversation. But perhaps it will be by choice that they kindle a connection.GENRE: literary fiction, woman x woman romance COMP TITLES: Alone With You In The Ether, The Reader on the 6.27…

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Ziri Meziani does not want friends.Born to an unremarkable town in southern England, Ziri spends most of his time in his head. His parents and his therapist tell him that he "shouldn't spend so much time alone", but to Ziri, other people are an inconvenience at best and a threat at worst.Unfortunately, Miles Hoàng is committed to getting on his nerves.GENRE: coming of age, teen bxb romanceTROPES: the boy next door, reluctant lovers, tutoringCOMP TITLES: The Perks of Being A Wallflower, The Black Flamingofeatured in Wattpad: BxB Pride Spotlight featured in Wattpad: Written With Pride2023 AMBY AWARDS WINNER in teen fiction featured in Ambassadors: Rainbow Fictionfeatured in Teen Fiction: LGBTQIAP+ Teensfeatured in lgbtq: BoyxBoy (YA)featured in FreeTheLGBT: Diverse Literaturefeatured in StoriesUndiscovered: Tales Of The Heartfeatured in YaRomance: Unforgettable Firsts…

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Miles Hoàng's life is perfect.He has the perfect boyfriend, a nice apartment, and a decent job. And sure, his family still think that being gay is a phase he'll grow out of. And okay, he's still grieving his father who passed over a decade ago. And yeah, maybe he starts having panic attacks out of nowhere. But he has managed to ignore all that thus far. What's to stop him from ignoring it forever?GENRE: general fiction, mxm romanceTROPES: hurt comfort MIGHT BRING TO MIND: Please Like Me, I May Destroy You…

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Some experiments and shorts :)…

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The real world skins you alive.It's a hazard of growing up in rural Suffolk... or possibly, it's a hazard of growing up. Either way, the Dorian Andrade and Isaiah Matalon who reunite at a party in Oxford have become equally disenchanted imitations of the boys who used to spend summers eating apples on the riverbank.A lot has changed in the six years since they saw each other. One thing is still the same: the longing for each other's company. But aren't the objects of our yearning so much easier to encounter in the imagination than when they're standing in front of us?GENRE: literary fiction, queer romanceTROPES: second chance romance, friends to lovers, mutual piningCOMP TITLES: A Little Life, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Call Me By Your Name, basically Wolfstar Muggle AU featured in Ambassador Readsfeatured in Ambassador Recommendations: Living Beyond Labels Dec 24featured in Ambassadors: Slice of life featured in ContemporaryLit: Ambassadors' Picksfeatured in ContemporaryLit: LGBTQ+ Contemporaryfeatured in ContemporaryLit: Literary Fiction featured in lgbtq: ManxMan (NA/Adult Fiction)featured in FreeTheLGBT: Diverse Literaturefeatured in WattpadLitFic: Novelsfeatured in WattpadMulticultural: September 2023 Reads of the Month…

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In Sorrelmarsh, everything is different...…