Eightchapterchallenge Stories

Watty Winners Reading Event: Read like a winner 🔥 The year's Watty Award-winning stories just got even better. From December 4-14, the more you read, the bigger the rewards: 📖 30 mins = 1 entry to win 150 Coins 💫 60 mins = 1 entry to win 1 month of Premium 15,000 readers will score epic prizes. Start reading and see how high you can climb. For years, Madelyn's worst fears have only resided in her head, feeding off her heightened sense of her surroundings and unfortunate experiences and accidents in her past. That's why her schooling is more than just assignments, tests, and high school drama. The Eralyn Academy of Secondary Education provides her with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to develop her special ability. It's her safe haven, a place where she can strive to one day control her ability and anxiety - at least, it is until things take a deadly turn. When Madelyn is dared to sign up for the school's joke of a dating app, she reluctantly complies. But when she arrives on the first date, she realizes that she's been matched with a dead man. Caught up in an investigation and ruminations running wild, Madelyn seeks to uncover who the real murderer is in a desperate attempt to outrun one increasingly deafening thought: Is she a killer? *Open Door Awards 2024 - Honorable Mention for Mystery/ Thriller 3x Featured: @Fright @Mystery & @Action Trigger Warnings: Themes of death, anxiety/ ocd, and ptsd.

Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't getting paid enough to be involved in. As time goes on, she glimpses a fantastical realm of individuals that prefer to keep their powers a secret, and will do anything to remain unseen. Once unveiled, there is no going back to blissful ignorance. It all started with a paycheck. But in the end, Cleo may be the one paying - with her life. ~ cover by Laine from @avadel sticker by @SuVida777 *ONC 2024 Honorable Mention and Shortlister *Open Door Awards 2024 New Adult Winner *8CC participant January-February 2024 Completed Word Count: 31,180 Featured: @mystery 100. In a concert hall filled with hundreds of people, only you are hearing different lyrics to what everyone is singing. 27. Sometimes love is what drives you to take your next breath. Other times, it's revenge.

Jack frost has been imprisoned by ice giants. They use his power to create storms and snow and ice. All the joy of winter wonderlands has vanished since Jack had been trapped. In the place of snowy fun and joy is despair and anger all over the world. A young woman named Liv goes to rescue Jack and finds he has no memory of who he is. His heart has been frozen. Now Liv must take Jack across country trying to day ahead of the Ice giants and thier followers while trying to find the key to getting Jack's memories back. Liv is a very straight laced all business all the time. She never makes time to just have fun. She has been recruited to head a rescue mission to save a prisoner named Jack Fost. A world of magic and fairytales is not something she has ever believed in snow was just that snow, not some winter wonderland of fun and frolicking. But now she faces the reality that ice giants exist and magic is real and the most amazing thing is this handsome man that until he opened his cell, didn't even know his name Jack Frost. Come along on a journey of self-discovery where everyone should learn to be more than just a job or routine. Let's learn to be carefree and young at heart. Learn to love and find that fire that can thaw even the coldest hearts.