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Ariel Fontansia is ten pounds away from total relapse. Since the previous summer, she has been stuck in a vicious cycle of calories, pounds, and inches. Redemption, Maine, isn't another escape -- it's a dead end. With no one to keep her disorder in check and hallucinations of a dead cousin driving her insane, she falls into an isolation that could prove detrimental. Standing in her way is a black-eyed boy with an anger complex: Price Olsen, who wants her to see more than the bad side of his grief. With an absentee father and a mute little sister, he recognizes the signs of someone on the edge. He wants to save Ariel, but up until this point, he's had a nasty penchant for ruining relationships. When her best friend overdoses, Ariel is forced to face the deterioration of her own mind and body. Price, frustrated by his inability to help her, fights the anger that threatens to take an ugly twist. As their fragile friendship teeters, another bruised, broken teenager chasing reconciliation stumbles through their lives. Yet she isn't just another damsel; this girl has a history in Redemption that involves the death of Ariel's cousin. Peaceful lives unraveling, all three discover that Redemption is harboring a secret with dangerous consequences. Now, they will be forced to face their past - and their present - to determine the course of their future. But how far are they willing to go for redemption?…

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A boy buys a wolf from the corner drugstore. Written on the tag stapled to its soft ear are the words, "Feed three drops of blood daily; rabbits or other small animals preferred. Bathe, brush, and leave alone at night."…

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A WILDEST DREAM turns into a WORST NIGHTMARE. After their parents disappear, five siblings are thrown into a world of dreams, monsters and disaster. On the run - hunted - they seek the truth, but the greatest threat comes from within...[Updates every Wednesday & Saturday]…

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The classic tale of Cinderella meets the myth of Apollo and Cassandra... Ellie, a popular beauty YouTuber, used to believe in forging her own destiny. Until tragedy struck. Deep in the desert during festival season, she pretends to have it all while trying to tell her step-sisters the truth: her pregnancy is the result of a toxic relationship. There, she meets Chanden - a mischief-maker whose 'golden boy' status has just taken a hit. She sees a temporary escape; he sees a girl trying to save everyone but herself. The obstacle to their happiness isn't simply ever after. In a wasteland of daydreams where fantasies twist into nightmares, a malicious step-brother is on the hunt. When he finds out the truth, neither Ellie nor Chanden will be wishing upon a star.…

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Written for the Sun-Kissed Summer Anthology, hosted by @MichelleJoQuinn & cover by @LucyFace. BLURB: Max is a magician who doesn't believe in magic, not even when it blurs the lines of fact and fiction. But Brioni - the sister of a girl for whom magic, once upon one stormy divorce, died - does believe. Life's a disappearing act, love feels like an illusion. When reality turns fragile and the magic begins to fade, both must understand who they are in the face of disbelief.…

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[Featured in the Dark Dreams Anthology, hosted by @tenebris_somnia. Check it out for more spooky stories all December long!] She built a playing-card house of murky memories and dim morning dreams...But lover didn't want to be locked safe inside.…

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"To die," he said, "would be an awfully big adventure."After two hundred years of ruling Neverland, Peter Pan has decided to search for new adventure. He and the original Lost Boys have embarked for India and the Orient, where a grand expedition awaits. In his stead he leaves Desdemona, a Lost Girl whose soul and imagination is anchored in the magic of the land almost as deeply as his own. But trouble rises with the horizon. The pirates, Hook's son at the helm, have grown restless. The Indians and Mermaids have produced children of war, who seek to rule the water and cause mischief on land. And an unexpected guest upsets the fragile balance Desdemona is fighting to establish: Priscilla, Michael Darling's granddaughter, who has fallen in love with the Peter Pan of legend and lore. Too bad Peter has left Neverland. Too bad that magic has a mind of its own, and too bad that the future - frozen in its tracks - has begun again to advance. Without the boy that never grew up, what will become of the island that can? [A Middle Grade novel]…

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A sketchbook filled with poetry. A sports team with a vendetta. A town where strange things happen. A funeral for a girl who never died...Six friends just became five. Gwen, Lexya, Rowan, Paul, and Christopher arrive at college fresh from the strange disappearance of their friend Hannah. They're all battling the demons that come with time and change, struggling to reconcile their high school histories with their present realities. Relationships shatter. Shots are fired. All five face a battlefield in which the only way out is death. And their greatest fear - Hannah herself - might still be alive, filling up pages of a new sketchbook that could damn them forever.…

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In high school, August was on top of the world. He was the star of the baseball team, in love with misadventure, and fixated on a girl named Kaydance. On the last game of the season, he fell apart. Now he escapes by losing himself, but the shadow of his past successes leave him miserable. In order to find reconciliation with his new future he must come to terms with problems beyond himself.…

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[Wattys 2015 Hidden Gem award winner!]Their leader: dead.Their family: broken.Their future: status, uncertain.When five disconnected cousins face the aftermath of a funeral, they must join forces to fix problems long-dormant in their family tree before their differences divide them.But Esau's evading the cops. His girlfriend, Mirrin, is hiding from her errant father. Brother and sister Seven and Eden are locked in a battle of best musician. And Seven's young protégée, Corrin, is just trying to sidestep his family's reputation. When relationships, dreams, and reputations raise the stakes of conflict, each must define for themselves the true meaning of family.…

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All Gideon wanted was to become individual. Yet all his twin brother, Keane, wanted was to become infinite. It takes eight minutes for the police to arrive. Eight minutes for his world to change -- forever. Within 480 seconds, one stolen apartment, and three thunderstorms, there is an infraction. What happens when, in eight minutes, neither reaches infinity?…

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Mairi wants a miracle for Christmas. But the things she has taken as miracles - Kennan and his love, eighteen and its freedom - have only been prelude to a misunderstood pattern: the nature of life is not that it gives, and that it takes away. It is that she will be given a choice.…

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"No, Seriously!" is an [unofficial] fiction initiative that seeks to provide a forum for those struggling with eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, bullying, depression, or self-harm, and to allow the work of authors who are passionate and focused on these topics to shine within the Wattpad community. Inspired by the realization that far too often in fiction, and in the real world, such life-changing struggling are not taken seriously, this initiative hopes to give voice to the very real issues teens face today. What this will include: Opportunities for Young Adult/New Adult authors to showcase their novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and to give deeper explanations as to the inspiration behind them. Contests and giveaways for aspiring writers seeking an outlet for the negativity they are going through. Blog installments, posted chapter by chapter, featuring posts that deal with topics concerning self-love, positive outlook, self-confidence, battling depression, overcoming bullies, and more.The type of fiction "No, Seriously!" features will be...Accessible. Respectful. International. Meaningful. Join the #NoSeriously initiative today - and start by taking these struggles, and the people who face them, seriously. [Cover thanks to the talented @5ifthproject.]…

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Three hallucinations. Two doors. One decision. With the passing of her starlet siblings, Kirsten - the Minimalist Triplet - escapes Los Angeles for Virginia Beach. Nightly wanders through dark forests and blatant desperation bring her to the Valley: the Valley of the Shadow of Death.Now, she will be forced to choose between the broken grief of LIFE and the uncertain darkness of DEATH.…

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My 90 words in support of #NoMoreBullying.…