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A struggling writer finds comfort in a goldfish after a flight cancellation to New York City, but when an unexpected accident occurs, the fish and man must remain calm until help arrives.

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Twenty-four-year-old Bailey hates and loves writing and dreams of becoming an editor and author. During a trip to New York City for an interview with the New York Times, a snowstorm cancels his flight, and he's forced to stay in a Marriot overnight, where he meets Oscar the Goldfish.

Oscar has met many people over the past few months, but none have intrigued him as much as Bailey. He acts as a therapy fish and listens to Bailey's writing and life concerns.

The two begin to bond, but when an unexpected accident occurs during Hour Seven, they must put their differences aside and help one another through the tense situation.

Will Oscar and Bailey's newfound friendship overcome the accident, or will they succumb to their pasts and grow apart as most fish and man do? Hour Eight will determine everything.

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*Moral: The past is the past; this is the future.*

*A novelette inspired by a story I heard at work about Oscar the Goldfish.*

|PART 1 · 3X FEATURED · 10TH GRADE DRAFT|

Fifteen-year-old Kylie Juniper is not excited about attending a week-long canoe trip with her family in the depths of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. After she learns the legend of the Ghost of Ontario, she meets a First Nations boy who is just as mysterious as the ten-year-old ghost.

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What is the secret of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park?

Ten years ago, a little boy went missing in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Legend has is that he died and became the Ghost of Ontario. When fifteen-year-old Kylie learns of it, she vows to uncover the mystery, but things become extra interesting when she and her family meet an amnesic hermit, Ihaan, in the park.

Ihaan has no memories of his past. All he remembers is his life with Canada's wild animals. However, it changes when he meets Kylie. Suddenly, he is desperate to find his lost memories, so he joins Kylie and her family on their canoe trip, much to Kylie's mother's displeasure.

As the trip progresses, Kylie and her family learn new secrets about Ihaan and try to help him get home. Ihaan, though, is not too eager to leave the provincial park after living alone in it for long. When mysterious happenings begin: "Lucilla" and voices in the forest, Kylie begins to wonder... Is Ihaan the Ghost of Ontario himself?

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Note: Ihaan is pronounced "Ian".(IMPORTANT! Just FYI, this is very poorly written. I wrote it in 10th grade, but I needed somewhere to store it.)

Word Count: 90,000-100,000

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When Comet reluctantly accepts an offer to go to Eden Valley, he finds himself in a world of magic, secrecy and danger. He has to master the powers of fortune while protecting the valley and making friends along the way.

Author’s Notes:

+This was my first attempt at long story/serial

Kaitlyn Jones was nearing the end of her 8th grade year. She had once again survived the people, work, and battles of her ADHD and was looking forward to summer with her small family and best friend. But that all changed, and she sets upon herself a new goal.

Kaitlyn had a quiet life in Illinois. She had amazing and ordinary parents, a smart and beautiful best friend, and went to a regular, boring middle school. Her life was far from extraordinary, but she was usually fine with that.But after an accident and a late night visit, her life and perspective of it changed completely.

Kaitlyn soon finds herself in a new and magical world in hopes she and her new and old friends can save it and the beings who call it home. Meeting not just new people, but new Beasts, Kaitlyn will face things from her wildest dreams as she journeys to stop the great evil lurking in every corner.

Her life just got a little more interesting.

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Hey, there! Thanks for checking out my new book, Kaitlyn Jones and the Land of the Beasts!I hope that you continue with Kaitlyn and I on her journey!I got the core idea of the magical Beasts from a kid show my brother was watching. . .But after much research and the idea forming and molding in my head, it turned into something new and that I'm particularly proud of and excited to see how it ends!I have already written 20,000+ words for it, so after some editing and reviewing I'll start publishing!

Updates are on hold!That's all! Enjoy, maybe even leave a like, and have a wonderful day/night/endless abyss!!

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|SHORT STORY VERSION · EDITED|

Lost in the depths of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ranger Kate meets a mysterious hermit who may very well have a connection with the decade-old legend of the Ghost of Ontario.

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Ranger Kate wants only one thing: to see her son, whom she lost to a canoe accident ten years ago. The opportunity comes when she and her partner, Ranger Amelia, attend the 24-Hour Ghost of Ontario Challenge in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Legend has it that a ghost haunts it with his mysterious lullaby, "Lucilla," and the only way to connect with him is for two individuals to brave the lakes.

Ihaan never expected to find Ranger Kate on Red Squirrel Lake, said to be the birthplace of the ghost. He and his eagle friend, Ro, band together to win her trust, which is crucial for Ihaan's Guardian Trial. It's the only way for him to learn whether he is truly dead.

Fate turns to reality, and suddenly, the legend of the ghost is more real than Ihaan and Kate think. What will happen when the Spirit Animals come and try to interfere with their long-lost memories? Will Kate and Ihaan defeat them, or will they lose themselves to the hands of Ontario's Beast?

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*Moral: Loved ones are never really gone when they move on.*

*Ihaan is pronounced "I-an."*

*The Sixth Sense meets Brother Bear in a story about discovering one's true destiny.*

*Word Count: 6,000-7,000*

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A rainy day encourages Teuila's father to take her out on Oceania, but what will happen when their boat flips and they're left stranded in the Atlantic Ocean?

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Teuila just wanted a peaceful summer break after her first year at the College of Charleston. However, peace in her family never happens with her father's sailing blood. To grow closer to his little girl, he takes her out on the family's Laser, Oceania, on a rainy day that mimics a special one nineteen years earlier.

When Oceania flips and leaves father and daughter stranded in the Atlantic Ocean, they must work together to return to shore without the buff lifeguard girls running out to rescue them. Teuila has to see past her father's sailing personality and find the one she grew up with before she and her parents ran aground in Charleston Harbor.

With the help of the current, love, and just a little imagination, Teuila and her dad's fight for survival becomes nothing more than a mere Disney Channel movie. Not only that, but Teuila learns a secret-the truth behind why she carries such an unusual name.

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*Moral: Tell your loved one you love them every day.*

*Huge thanks to my dad for helping me edit!*

*Word Count: 4,000-5,000*

Quote: "Why does a daughter love her father so much? It's because she knows there's one man who will never hurt her." - Anonymous

Hiroyuki's Splendid Forestis a storybased on friendship and nature. It begins in the bustling and poverty-stricken city of Yoshi, where our main character, Nobulives. He's a young thirteen year old boy with a drive to see what else is waiting for him outside Yoshi. With the help of his grandmother and a young orphan girl named Shig,he feels more determined than ever before. Will he accomplish his dreams or not?

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(AUTHORS NOTE):

This story does contain mentions of abuse and animal death. If you are sensitive to those, please don't read.

I thought of Hiroyuki's Splendid Forestfrom watching Princess Mononokeby Studio Ghibli (Please do watch it. It's wonderful!) I loved the idea of preserving nature, so I decided to make up my own little story based off it. This is not made from the help of ChatGPT.

|4X FEATURED · A MILO AND MAISIE NOVELETTE!|

When Maisie and Feya's friendship is tossed into the danger zone, they must work together to save it before Summit 2023 destroys them forever.

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Coronado Springs, the epicenter of Southwestern culture in Disney World, carries a legend. Unknown to Maisie and Feya, who have waited a month to attend Out and Equal: Summit 2023, it's rumored a ghost haunts Veracruz in Coronado's Convention Center.

Just when Maisie and Feya thought they were finally settling in as suitemates, they're thrown into another adventure with a mysterious girl, Melody, who seems to hold a grudge against the Disney College Program and someone whom Maisie doesn't want coming between her and Feya.

Still recovering from what happened to Feya in August, Maisie must find a way to understand that her fairy is safe so she can trust Melody and finally start moving on from The Tragedy. Destiny always finds her, though, and now she must face the world without Milo.

Will Maisie overcome her jealousy and grief, or will Summit 2023 destroy her and Feya's friendship forever?

And what will happen when Melody's caught between the feuding friends?

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*Based on a real legend at Coronado Springs.*

*Must read Milo and Maisiefirst!*

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|11X FEATURED · 2024 NANO WATT/ONC 2024 LONGLIST · AMBASSADORS' PICK|

Two years after her older brother's tragic death, anxiety-stricken Maisie and her emotional support cat, Milo, attend the Disney College Program, where they must discover a new life meaning in the most magical place on Earth.

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The death changed everything. Milo, an orange tabby, has always wanted a little sibling, but after the tragic loss of his owner's older brother, adoption was put on hold, and he became her Emotional Support Animal. Now, two years later, Maisie's determined to grant Milo's long-overdue wish; however, she's still grieving and overthrown with anxiety, leaving Milo to tag along with her for the famed Disney College Program. Nevertheless, when heartbreak catches him, too, Milo must push past his grief to save himself and his wish.

Maisie Claire is ready to move on but not prepared to leave her family after two years for the DCP. She would've never accepted that offer letter if it hadn't been for her parents helping her get an ESA. Now trapped in an unfamiliar world, Maisie must find a new life meaning while still keeping her brother's memory alive. It starts with discovering the courage to befriend her mysterious suitemate and thanking Milo for everything he's done. After all, sometimes moving on just takes a little bit of courage.

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*Prompt Used: #24-"A desperate wish, made from the heart, is always answered. Sooner or later.*

*Based on a true story.*

*Contains a subtle, LGBTQ+ subplot because of Disney's Inclusion Key, but it's not the main focus. However, please be respectful.*

A whimsical story of a man living alone in his stone home on a hill.

Relying on his art to keep himself alive, the man is trying to find the spark in his art that people are also looking for.

When mysterious gifts start arriving at his door, he starts to wonder who could be intruding on his isolated life in the wildflowers.

Its not until a humanoid crow turns up at his window, an omen of death, that the man starts to push aside his fears and find the love for art again through a series of exchanges and amusing events with the creature.

With the crow trading its way deeper into the man's life, what will make them stop and see just how life-changing that can be?

This story is the full version of one created for an LGBT+ contest.

A shifter, shunning society as a human and living through his feral form, finds the light in humans again through a simple offering of soup and the kindness of a heart not wanting to give up on it.

Missy, a kind and daring young woman, lives alone up on the hill of wildflowers.

With ambitions of making it big, she sews dresses and feeds the shifter she affectionately calls Soup, believing it to be nothing more than a wild animal she can enjoy the company of and spill her stories to.

But strange things have been happening since Soup turned up.

Ingredients have been dropped into food packed away in the fridge. The house has been cleaned out of its disarray, and a single thistle has appeared in a bottle on the table.

As questions are raised, Soup must draw the line of what he believes should be reality and fantasy.

|OLDER DRAFT|

Lost in the depths of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ranger Kates meets a mysterious hermit who may very well have a connection with the decade-old legend of the Ghost of Ontario.

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Ranger Kate wants only one thing: to see her son, whom she lost to a canoe accident ten years ago. The opportunity comes when she and her partner, Ranger Amelia, attend the 24-Hour Ghost of Ontario Challenge in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Legend has it that a ghost haunts it with his mysterious lullaby, "Lucilla", and the only way to connect with him is for two individuals to brave the lakes.

Ihaan never expected to find Ranger Kate on Red Squirrel Lake, said to be the birthplace of the ghost. He and his eagle friend, Ro, band together to win her trust, which is crucial for Ihaan's Guardian Trial. It's the only way for him to learn whether he is truly dead or not.

Fate turns to reality, and suddenly, the legend of the ghost is more real than Ihaan and Kate think. What will happen when the Spirit Animals come and try to interfere with their long-lost memories? Will Kate and Ihaan defeat them, or will they lose themselves to the hands of Ontario's Beast?

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*Ihaan is pronounced "I-an".*

*Based on a canoeing trip I took with my family to Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park!*

Word Count: 7,000-7,500