Ethereal
Entries for Fantasmical 2024
"And what you've been looking for, has been right in front of you, you didn't dare to look back." [ A poetry collection ] #5 on poetry (11th June, 2024)
Rambling ruminations, words of wisdom and awesome alliteration from your favorite coyote. An experiment, not so much a story as a stream of consciousness focused on human folly. Please enjoy the silly similes and playful, philosophical, political, provocative, purposeful, and pensive prose, pontifications, parabl...
Awards that are uniquely mundane for all the writers out there. We aim to crown all the wonderful stories out there, unbiasedly, with exciting prizes that would definitely make you feel good about what you do, coupled with all that you can do to be better at what you do! Too confusing? Quit this, and simply peep in to...
The fourth and final book in the You Were What You Eat series. It's finally senior year, and Anna, Mina, and Carmine are hoping for a normal year of high school. But the monsters they've defeated over the years seem to be coming back. Now they have to find out why they're here, and how to stop the demons they thought...
You are trapped in the underground prison of The Collector, a madman who collects people. There's to be a museum dedicated to his genius and you are part of an exhibit called "The Family", right along with the other stuffed creatures and oddities. Is there hope? A chance for escape or rescue? Maybe, have faith, Daisy...
Inspired by true events, 'The Blue Hour' is a story of political intrigue and doomed love set in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire during the summer of 1876. All Prince Hamid and the Belgian glove-maker, Flora Cordier, want is to pursue their forbidden love. But how can they amid backroom dealings, deadly conspirac...
**Book Two in the Wayden Isle Series!** Joby Carson compartmentalizes the things in his life. In one box is his career as hotel manager for Peachtree and Kings; a high-end hotel owned by old southern money. He lives on the premises and keeping things running smoothly is his first priority. In another box--the one he k...
A monster emerges from the shadows. He is followed by another, and another, until the world is inhabited by new beasts of its own creation. This anthology incorporates stories from various genres and timelines, exploring what makes us who we are.
Evan Jacob Baldwin. Rushes to a small Island off Maine with his dog Raven a highly intelligent Golden Retriever. To help a dear friend, Nancy K. Walton. It seems the Island's few inhabitants are dying strangely.
Using my Wordle guesses as writing prompts and using them sequentially results in a short story that is part Western part something else
In this fourth and final installment of the Patrol series, Vania must find out the truth behind the voice in her head--and how to stop it--before the city falls under the sway of the cruel goddess of storms. Is this her destiny that Commander Aleira foresaw? And can she succeed without Eddin if he gets called back to...
In the lavish world of 1970s high society, Madeline, once a poor relation, captivates the attention of a politician's son. Their story takes a sharp turn when Madeleine, now pregnant and abandoned, concocts a husband, Bill Shakespeare, to shield herself from societal judgement. Unexpectedly, a real Bill Shakespeare, s...
Bill creates the park in his lucid dreams and waits for Olivia to arrive. He longs for her touch, but fears the darkness it would bring. As he brings new life to the dreamscape he shares with his late wife, he is forced to start living in the reality of life without her. Moving on means finding someone to share his li...
Sedna, Newt, and Mister Green expand the plan for bringing life to Mars.
The musings, humor, fairytales, love letters and poetry of a GenX Momma brain. I've been encouraged through other Wattpad authors to continue writing, so this is the start of that request. Evidently I have quite a few stories to tell I hope you enjoy them, and leave a comment and vote.
[COMPLETE] Drake Rohan's wife is a real piece of work. He despises everything about her. Everything from the heavily-powdered face, to the overly-red lips, to the shrilly voice she uses to yell the heads off the servants. But this marriage was his mother's last dying wish, and so he is stuck. Painfully stuck. Amelia W...
-THRILLER/CONSPIRACY- Charlotte is a newly minted podcaster, with a skill set to go far. She intends to uncover everything strange and unspoken that is lurking in the Denver, Colorado International Airport. Rumors of cults, new world orders and aliens swirl. Once there, what she unearths will shatter even the most ske...
The shadows seem to have a mind of their own, and mysterious gifts keep appearing in Nora's mailbox. It was supposed to be a nice weekend getaway. She never expected that it would be the start of the paranormal encroaching into her life. Image by Herm from Pixabay
Randall Cashe, a mechanical and electrical engineer, joins a team of scientists in a Mars-mission habitat hoping to rake in a massive payday. Their goal: to produce their own air, water, and food while testing the building with simulated disasters. When the outside world succumbs to a lethal airborne pandemic, the her...
Woodpecker says the end of the world is coming, there's a dead body on a bed, an empty field in Somerset is somehow connected to a secret government project, and Samantha Brock is the only one that can discover the truth of what is happening and stop it, but then that isn't really the point. In the days following the...
More adventures of Amaryllis Belladonna. Things for Amy were back to normal. Well, at least as normal as possible for a demon's wife who runs her own porn chat room, spends half of each year in hell, and has an aged coyote spirit animal for a pet. A pet that would rather be curled up watching classic movies on TV o...
A Skin Walker, also known as yee naaldlooshii (Navajo for "using it, he/she/it walks around on four legs"), usually has the supernatural ability to change their form into an animal or another human being. This is a work in progress, starting due to Fantasmical 2023. Many of my previous works deal with folklore and myt...
A Curse crawls inexorably across the Elysium Realm, turning everything it touches to lifeless stone. Alana, a powerful young witch, vows to stop it, but became herself infected and disfigured. After his mother goes missing, Micah, an unaware college student, finds himself drawn into an alternate world where magic rule...
slow dancing love and pain in the midnight chorus of liquor-washed autumn green ... || a constellation of destructive poetry ||
A collection of short stories and flash fictions. It is essentially an one pot stew of random tales spun on an impulse with no particular genera what-so-ever. Venture forth, beloved reader, and once you are done, let me know: Did you feel it? ***********************...
[Completed] 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞... Follow the tragedy of Rebecca Caruso, an ex-cop who chose to protect the son of a notorious Chicago mobster. Her sacrifice came with a heavy price - a traumatic prison term, and thirteen months of her...
"life is slow dying. so are their separate ways of building, benediction, measuring love and money ways of slowly dying." ~ philip larkin
The French and Indian War, fought in the west, as told by Abram Simonian, originally from northern New York. Moving into Ohio, he was guided by his good friend, more like a brother Okwaho. Who chose to stay and make a life in Ohio.