Goat sucker. Overgrown lizard. Monster. Miguel is all too familiar with the many names humans have for chupacabras. As a member of a struggling pack, he knows how unfair the world can be to his kind. With their scaly bodies, sharp claws, and flesh-melting venom, it's no wonder humans fear them. After Miguel protects a...
Camila struggles to write a completed story until she confides in Reece, the cute librarian, and with a whirlwind romance, he helps her believe she can do anything she puts her mind to. *** Camila wants more than anything to write a book but constantly deals with writer's block. With a new book contest in town, she be...
Hollywood star Jess Kellerman heads to her childhood home in a small midwestern town to celebrate her father's birthday and her brother's first big professional success, but when she discovers signs of extreme violence in her father's house, she goes in search of answers. Each answer only leads to more questions until...
Four years ago, Charlie Reyes and Jonah Cavalcanti promised to die together. Four years ago, they promised to jump. He did; she hesitated, and she watched him fall to his death, too afraid to do the same herself. But little does she know, Jonah survived. He's spent all this time recovering from his injuries as well as...
A "behind the scenes" look at my writing process, how I come up with ideas and what inspires me to write them, ways to tackle writer's block, and some Q&A!
I think I was possessed when I wrote this lol. This piece is a very raw and honest look into how depression affected me. I would be honored if you took a moment to digest my story. The following material contains graphic content and descriptive imagery that may be triggering to some. Wattpad and Maybelline have partn...
In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, Wattpad and Maybelline have partnered up once again to bring you a weekly writing challenge that aims to banish the stigma around depression, anxiety and mental health. For the month of May, we will release a Weekly Write-a-thon prompt every Monday, and for every response Wa...
Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous. *** A dark fortress of trees twisted and crippled by time, the Clearwater, Connecticut, woods is no place for two teenage girls. The legends claim it's haunted. Fed u...
Luciana Castillo would rather be jumping off a moving train than be spending the summer before her last year of college in her hometown. After all, home means Luciana avoiding her overbearing parents and her ex-best friend Zahra Aziz, who she hasn't talked to in years. Unfortunately, four of her childhood best frien...
Senior year had never seemed so daunting. After her sister died, Avery found out just how much she hid behind Riley and how comfortable it had been to live through her stories instead of living her own. Realizing that and making a change, however, were two different things, as Avery soon understood. But life had not...
In the middle of Des Plaines Illinois three boys find themselves in a tangled knot of angsty lust and amateur love. Evan Webster has an average American life. When he isn't at swim practice or the movie theater, he's trying to make time to study biology. He likes Spiderman comics, chocolate chip cookies, and kissing...
[Watty's 2021 Winner - Sci-Fi Category] Clara only wanted to reach her interview on time. Now she finds herself lost in time, space and reality with only an impeccably dressed six-foot tall lemur for company. Dragged through Breaches to alternative realities, timelines, alien worlds and a filthy diner off the I95, all...
Two childhood best friends. One accidental kiss. A summer that changes everything. *** Felipe Rivera has a problem. Several problems, really; as if his anxiety disorder and his strained relationship with his father weren't enough, he's also been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember. Now that it...
Isabela "Indigo" Morales is a completely normal teenage girl in New York. That is until, she finds a hidden lab report that says otherwise. Kids are going missing all over the city. Now, with more kids that are just like her, she's running for her life and hoping to find something, anything that will uncover her fabri...
COMPLETE UNEDITED ROUGH DRAFT | "Elena, the princess of Homestead, and Damien, the only human amongst machines, find each other at the gate that separates the worlds they know, but to stay together, they must destroy the barrier that keeps them apart." *** Elena wanted to leave the marble walls of her sheltered life...
What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies.
[Wattpad Editor's Pick] [Featured on Wattpad's Fresh Reads List September] When her father is murdered by a police officer and her mother turns to alcohol for comfort, young Keila Sheldon finds herself in the clutches of the foster care system. Scared and alone, she is forced to adapt to an unfamiliar world. ...
In a world where people are followed by animals that reflect their personality, Taylor is devastated when she starts being followed by companions of the creepy crawly variety. As her passionate science teacher's annual companion showcase rapidly approaches, Taylor's mind is abuzz with anxiety about what her newfound c...
The last thing Adrien expected to receive in the mail was a painting. And not just any painting: a painting of the world just two hundred years before. When it comes to life before his very eyes, a boy on the other side offers to bring Adrien into his world. * * * This takes place in the near future, where the rich li...
Gustavo visits Chicago's World Fair eager to see the mystifying aliens that fly the windy skies, but when a piece of metal lands in the street, he soon finds there are more dangers within the city than a spaceship colliding with Earth. **** Gustavo isn't the adventuring type but when his uncle in...
[Now A Wattpad Featured Story] Soon to be eighteen, Abigail Saunders always wished to be in the bubble of perfection with her parents. Her prayer unanswered, fate had made its decision and as tragedy hit, with no warning the bubble burst and Abby was thrown into reality to fight alone. Taken by her distant aunt, Kelly...
"Go ahead," I said, backing up against the pink wall of the shop. "Do something other than glare at me." I waited. One, two, three seconds... and nothing. I raised my chin at him. "You're boring me, mute boy." He stepped closer. Leaned toward me as his gaze burned into mine. Then... ❀ ❀ ❀ After three months in juve...
Leighanna Chua has always struggled to fit in. Left feeling disconnected between her suburban community and her own identity, she's determined to prove that she belongs. But when Hunter D'Medici, a boy who embodies the very essence of privilege, offers her a proposal of a lifetime, Leighanna puts aside her morals and...
FEATURED ON WATTPAD FRESH READS 21/07 Asha has watched pretty much every rom-com to ever exist and read every romance novel to have ever set foot in the world of literature- in fact, she's even written some successful teen romance novels of her own on Wattpad, which practically makes her an expert. So, how hard could...
In 2045, Psychwatch treats the mentally ill or cages them. Margo wants to bring empathy to every patient but a killer pushes her, and the system, to the limits ***** In a dark future, more than a third of the United States population suffers from mental illness and violen...
From the looks of it, Ivory Renee Carter has the life that any grown woman could ask for. She has a successful career, owning her own clothing line. She lives in NYC, having an upscale and luxurious house, which gives her the best views. Not only that, but she is married to Lance Carter- one of the best music producer...
In this book of interviews, our team sits down with diverse authors on this platform who make the themes and characters of diversity a focal point of their stories. We talk to them about their experiences as diverse writers, as well as writers who discuss these topics in their work, in order to better understand and c...
PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** A disillusioned man, Brian Hanson, travels to a parallel universe to regain a lost love with the help of a mysterious stranger. ***** Brian Hanson didn't know of the Mandela Effect until a traveller shows him...
A submission for The Maybelline #BraveTogether Write-a-thon Prompt hosted by @Maybelline Prompt: "...share your [or a fictitious] story of how bravery and emotional connections triumphed over a mental health challenge." Word Count: 500 words • • • Tagline: Hope can last more than two seconds. Logline: The narrator r...
hi <3 it's been a while and I have something really important to say. ****************************************************** In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we're creating a space where we can all be #BraveTogether and foster a climate of support and spread courage to live one's life without shame or he...