WeCatchKisses

Death is a shadow that follows you through time. Vera Langley thought she would live and die and be forgotten. As a pathologist she knew the limitations of life and the vastness of death and she wanted nothing more than to be forgotten when she was nothing but dust. It was a thought she took solace in repeating. Until an accident takes the lives of everyone aboard a research vessel leaving Vera as the sole survivor. Dealing with survivors guilt and the physical recovery of nearly drowning, Vera isn't surprised when she finds little solace in sleep. Each time she closes her eyes she finds herself back on the ship only it isn't the R.M.S Etruria she remembers. In place of well-worn metal staircases are beautiful hand polished banisters and carpet covered hallways. The way the R.M.S Etruria had looked on its maiden voyage in 1893. At first it seems like nothing except a few harmless dreams but death comes for Vera each night in her sleep and she isn't the only one dying by dawn. Between whispers in the dark that may hold answers and shadows down corridors, Vera must hold onto her sanity as she tries to cheat death and stop him from claiming more than her life. An ONC 2022 ProjectHighest Rank #1 ONCFinal WordCount: 21,466 Completed: April 30, 2022…

WeCatchKisses

One dead. One sedated. One awake. The risks were simple. If anything were to have gone wrong, the entire lab was to be decommissioned. The entire project terminated. All personal included, no loose ends. - - - - Director, it's Dr Prescott. I've just examined a patient with -well, I've never seen anything like it. It's some kind of unknown specimen. I did a check on the blood we pulled from the transport and it's all negative. There's nothing registered under it in the database. Do you know anything about this? I have no idea what Sinclair and his men were doingshould have been placed into quarantine before my team was allowed to see it. The specimen is completely unknown which a risk to everyone on the base. I know you said that we have to Priority One but I can't protect the specimen and maintain quarantine all the information. The specimen is in the examination room. Get down here. Now.- - - - Prequel | Ten Parts | Science Fiction Second Place Winner: Hidden Gem Awards 2020Currently being expanded into a full length novel. Coming soon!…

WeCatchKisses

Charlotte Whitfield had always known the people who raised her were mad and she had spent her entire adult life trying to distance herself from the reputation of it - from them. From the ridicule that seemed to stick to her skin even as Charlotte worked to unravel every one of the mad things her grandfather had done. Proving every thing was nothing more than imagination. She proved almost all of his theories wrong and was content to continue until a letter arrived for her during a lecture. Her grandmother had set fire to her family home and Charlotte was being summoned as power of attorney. An almost perfect opportunity to finally remove the shadow that was her family name. Almost perfect, because her grandmother isn't who Charlotte left years ago, and the fire might not have been as much of an accident as she claims. In charred remains, Charlotte finds bizarre anatomical drawings and detailed accounts of death records burned within an inch of becoming dust but there is enough for her to put together like breadcrumbs, and Charlotte isn't the only one looking for answers. The farther she goes, the more she stumbles upon, walking headlong into a world hidden just underneath her own and between the cracks in each rotting secret. Highest Ranking: #7 Dark AcademiaHello Philips Family, if you happen to be seeing this…