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The stories we choose
Karol Hernandez
The Stories We Choose is a heartfelt New York romance about two strangers whose lives collide in the most unexpected place—a neighborhood coffee shop. In a city filled with millions of people, two strangers discover that sometimes the greatest love stories aren’t the ones we read about. They’re the ones we choose to live.
Another Man's Treasure
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A series of connected stories where one man's trash becomes another man's treasure.
Creepy Tales from Corpse Town
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My original anthology of unsettling flash fiction. Short and 'sickly'-sweet chapters. COMPLETE. Stories range from: ✓ ageless Russian high schoolers, ✓ a guy that dies every time he travels between dimensions ✓ star-walkers who wear the dead, and ✓ a bio-tech virus that 'hacks' animals and humans.
Museum of Forgotten Stories
Anne
Welcome to the Museum of Forgotten Stories! Within these galleries rest the memories of our subjects, and the horrors they have endured; we hope you enjoy your visit! After all... once you enter the Museum, you can never leave.
Escapism!
Honey S
The desire to run away!
The End Was Never the End?
Lady V
When surviving became my childhood.
Poetry of feelings
Mariahanna
Poetry and short stories for everyone who's got unidentified feelings :)
What we bring with us
Mariahanna
What we bring with us, is basically a mix of short stories revealing each point of view of a friend group before meeting each other, and how everyone has their own struggles and their own minds
Summer in snow
K
If you came across this story then maybe its your chance to know me. It my first time writing so i m not sure how it will be but i hope you find it something which related to you.
Waiting In The Sky
ducky
Mistress Pandora’s monsters are coming to Starsity. Of that, Whimsy the Star is certain. Crashing into the rockface of the Moon Duchess’s gardens, they have but one mission: Save the children of the Moon from utter destruction…before Pandora’s creatures swallow them whole.
The Mighty Greggor And Other Tales - A Compendium
Stevelikestowrite
Worlds of dragons and gods, heroes and villains; adventures in darkness and light, cities and wastelands! Explore stories of heroism and cowardice, mighty victory and crushing defeat. Every tale is something new, and every adventure a new path into the unknown! (Cover image by skaushik92x on Pixabay)
Someone's sleeping on my bed - oneshot
Pickles
This a short story I did for a Wattpad contest. Obviously didn't win, but I re-wrote it. This is a story about a guy losing everything and then losing everything. Hope you enjoy!
Passport Sisters
kathy kweya
Five women. One island. Countless secrets. An annual girls' trip to Bora Bora becomes a journey of healing as five lifelong friends confront the truths they've been hiding from one another—and themselves.
THE AFTERMATH PROTOCOL
Lady V
Fragments from a system trying to survive ..
When God Writes The Story
Karol Hernandez
Slow burn short novel with romance ,self discovery ,Christian romance, contemporary romance Little disclousre This is my first book
Who Was She?
Aretha Sengupta
He was a major, but she? Read and find out how she came through her dark past!
Paper Seasons
Sloane Wilde
For a year, she writes letters to the man she loves, filling the pages with memories, hopes and secrets. Now Complete
Love Poems
Taylor
Isn’t a story itself, but there is a story behind them all
The Sweet Killer
Chinedu Udeze
“She looked at the cup for a moment before she answered… ‘Because the day was not,’ she said finally.”
KWEKU ANANSE STORY (TALES OF ANANSE)
DESMOND EFFAH MEREON
Enter the cunning world of Kweku Ananse, Ghana’s legendary trickster spider who walks between wisdom and folly. A hilarious, heartbreaking journey through West African folklore that proves intelligence triumphs over strength, but pride always catches the mighty. Perfect for lovers of cultural storytelling and timeless moral Wisdom
Happily Ever After?
Roxanne Louise
ONGOING: New episode released Fortnightly on Wednesday You have been chosen for the new Government Approved Reality Dating Show: Happily Ever After. Who will you choose? And can you survive? This is a choose your own adventure. The current playable route means you will play as a women.
Fairies Chapel
Roxanne Louise
COMPLETE No one knows why children are vanishing, or why they disappear near Healey Dell. Does Fairies Chapel hold more than just beauty? Are the tales of fairies, wishes, and ancient music true? As a haunting melody lures them in, will anyone return? Or are they lost forever? Inspired by the Lancashire folklore of Healey Dell, eerie, enchanted spaces, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Failing worth
Sonal
I was just on walk too supermarket to buy some essential things. I heard some babble (murmuring) of a lady who chased by a gang .there was a strange aroma around those people as they were not from this land. the lady run towards the other side of road as there was two way towards the route .those people ask me have I see a lady but I distracted them and said I saw the lady which just bump to me (in anger) and gave them wrong direction.
A Barkeeps Guide To swallowing Hexes
Ellicor
Loch just wants to serve watered down ale to doomed men and ignore the mud. Unfortunately, his frail body violently absorbs raw magic and the skills of the dead. When a disgraced commander catches him swallowing a lethal hex with a wet bar towel, his quiet life in the trenches is officially over. To survive a pointless war and a looming apocalypse, this sickly publican must weaponize the stolen power of a thousand dead aristocrats.

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Read wattpad alternative short stories stories

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Another Man's Treasure

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Museum of Forgotten Stories

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Poetry of feelings

What we bring with us

Summer in snow

Waiting In The Sky

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Passport Sisters

THE AFTERMATH PROTOCOL

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Who Was She?

Paper Seasons

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The Sweet Killer

KWEKU ANANSE STORY (TALES OF ANANSE)

Happily Ever After?

Fairies Chapel

Failing worth

A Barkeeps Guide To swallowing Hexes

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Let’s Play

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