☆ONC 2021 Honourable Mention and Shortlister☆ ☆One of Round Two Top Five Winners☆ ☆Multiple times featured☆ ☆☆☆ ☆This is a story about H. Ch. Andersen, about how he became a writer and why most of his stories are so sad and melancholic. Also, about why he never found real love... Yes, that's what I read about him (among other things)-- he kept falling in love with unatteinable women. My story portrays Hans Christian Andersen as a young, fourteen-years-old boy. It's set in Odense, Denmark, in the late summer of 1818-- soon after Hans' mother, a poor washerwoman, remarried (two years after his father's death) and shortly before he was sent to a school for poor children where he had to support himself. Where he became, to be able to afford his schooling, first a weaver's, then a tailor's apprentice, a singer, an actor and finally, once his excellent soprano voice changed, a writer. Hans and Louise, his (fictional) step-sister, seek refuge from a summer storm in an old shed. There, they meet Rosalind, a lost Flower Fairy. When they decide to help her find the Butterfly Fairy boy she loves and intends to marry, she takes them into a fantastical world of Terra Sonalis, her home. A land of dreams populated by fairies, goblins, elves, mermaids, talking animals... All those mysterious creatures that fuelled Andersen's imagination for the rest of his life. ☆☆☆

When your boss shows up angry at your door, you know your day is going to suck. When said boss happens to be the local crime lord, it's going to suck even more. And when an omen of death comes to pay you a visit as well, your morning is officially the suckiest. Jack isn't having a very good day. At least the problem with the angry boss can be fixed: to prove his worth and pay back debts, Jack agrees to help her find a valuable treasure in a cursed swamp infested with danger. Death, however, looms over him. Can he find a way to cheat his way out of losing his life? ~~ ~ONC honorable mention~ ~ONC round 1 ambassador pick~ ~Featured on StoriesUndiscovered~ ~Featured on WattpadDarkFantasy~ ~Featured on BadassReads~ ~Featured on 'the best action and adventure' reading list by the Ambassadors profile~ ~Featured on 'Magical realism' reading list on @Fantasy~ ~Featured on 'A magical journey' reading list on @Magic~ Written for ONC IV.

{SHORTLIST OpenNovellaContest 2021} {ONC 2021 Round One Ambassador Picks} Aithne Pan, a Chinese-Irish girl living in the futuristic city of Venice has to decide between what her heart tells her is correct, and what she has always been taught is right. Ai has always been special, what with her unusual physical characteristics due to her mother's colour-changing abilities that made her hair a strange tint of pink at birth and her own powers to manipulate water and encourage aquatic animals to do her bidding. Brought up in a strict yet loving family she has learned to love and act upon the law, her father's job as an attorney making her crave the need to protect the city herself in any way she can. Her need to protect and serve sends her to the Imperium Police Department, her first job consisting of going undercover and bringing the powered people that don't abide by the law to justice, protecting the city in the process. What happens when our nineteen-year-old Aithne learns about the monstrous things happening under the very building she works at, and how will she react once she learns that the government is behind it? ~~~~~~~~~~ Started: 1st February Finished: 28th February

How beautifully Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789 was debunked with just the flick of the Goddess' finger. How gracefully Birthright was snatched from the Nameless for daring to come into this clean, clean Universe with their filthy, filthy blood. How dreadfully the World once again fell for pretty people and deceptive words - right into the trap of surreal slavery in ways unbeknownst to man. *** Josephine and Josette, two 'Nameless' girls, strived for their Birthright. Adopted by the Church, the Nameless children were bound to the fate of doom, torment, and experimentation. They have extra-ordinary powers: from regeneration to eidetic memory, they were experimented on to advance mankind to another level in the sphere of medicine. Josephine and Josette, rebellious by nature, decide to find out if they are truly 'Nameless' or not. But they don't find their names in the Holy Book of Nom. Now subjected to extreme punishment through sacrifice for breaking the rules; gazing into the weakness of people was treason - they must be killed without fail. However, finding out a very important piece of the puzzle, the very beginning of this tyranny against the Nameless - the Goddess, Josephine is convinced they can find 'it' in Paris, the center of France. The Goddess' Holy Name. Running away from the folks of France, wanted dead, either they shall turn their 'merciful' Goddess into a Nameless and let her experience the hell they go through, or, simply put, they die. 'Birthright' is a Retelling of Fantastical second French Revolution from the aspect of a Fantasy Setting. *** TRIGGER WARNING: Sensitive themes such as Torture, Discrimination, Sexual Division of Labor etc. Was an ONC 2021 entry born from the prompts #1 (Action/Adventure), #20 (Fantasy), #56 (Mystery & Thriller) and #66 (Paranormal)!

|WATTYS 2022 WINNER - HORROR| Shawn, a convicted criminal, never thought she'd see the sun again, let alone call another star system her home. When she's offered an out from her prison sentence, she embarks on a dangerous interstellar expedition along with 18 of Earth's most intelligent criminals. Their task is to set up a base on a supposedly habitable planet and prepare it for colonization. Although the planet has liquid water and a breathable atmosphere, it is believed to host only microbial life. However, upon arriving, Shawn and the rest of the colonists learn that assumption was grossly incorrect. In a brutal attack from rampaging wildlife, everyone but Shawn and four other colonists are killed. The five survivors retreat to the cavernous network beneath the ground seeking safety, but they soon come to a terrible discovery. These caves aren't ordinary caves, and they are no safer down under than they were on the surface. [][][] This was originally my entry for the 2021 Open Novella Contest, and it received an honorable mention! It has now been expanded into a full length novel. I used prompt number 53: "When wildlife starts rampaging, all the humans are forced underground. However, they come to a terrible discovery that being underground is no safer than being on the surface."

The word 'princess' was too pretty. The word 'queen' was too elegant. Now the words, 'I'm your new favorite mystery' was something that would go down in royal history. Following the death of her parents, a young girl from America is suddenly forced to move into her grandmother's house, correction- castle, located on the other side of the globe. Estrella Minerva knows anything and everything about fantasy books, to constellations, to ballet, EXCEPT for being a princess. Let's ignore the fact that she only has a month to get married to a noble prince and become queen of Roselaine. An arranged marriage is bad enough- but the noble prince turns out more decent than she expected. Then that's when a jar of notes from a secret lover appear... ...and suddenly Estrella is having a crisis with her love life. - [ warnings: mentions of deaths of parents ] - ENTRY FOR THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2021 (ONC) FOR PROMPTS 74 & 33.

In a world where the majority no longer dream, and happy thoughts are easily lost, nineteen-year-old Eli sells memories. With no family or home, the young man travels the country dealing to those in need. When he runs out of memories to sell, Eli heads to the town of Los Demonios hoping to find someone to harvest from. Ashlyn carries dreams which others have lost inside her. Her thoughts are filled with recollections belonging to people she's never met. Haven is an albino Kadisin, a half-mortal, half-angel who must kill in order to survive. He is a man plagued by seventy years of things he's seen and done. Welcome to my entry for the 2021 ONC! I'm using prompt number 29 "I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky." -Virginia Woolf ONC Shortlister 2021. Added to The Badass King reading list on @BadassReads. Second place in the @PrettyInPunk Mystery and Thriller awards. Warning for typical Christine darkness, swearing, some sexual and romantic themes.

There's something wrong at Westwood College. All Kena Maasai knows are the fields around Westwood, the hidden places she escapes to with her friends during classes, and a uniform that's two sizes too big on her. That, and how to kill a man and get away with it. But when six-foot deep graves start appearing around the school's grounds and Kena's sister falls deathly sick, her fragile hold on life begins to unravel. Somehow, saving her sister means uncovering the mystery of the graves, and Kena's time is running out. Thirty days, thirty graves - and one of them has her name on it. - A mix of Prompt 29 & 58

[The Nano Watt 2023 Shortlist] [ONC 2021 Longlist] The world as Evren once knew changed massively from doing homework to fighting for survival in a zombie infested planet. Countries were wiped out within months some even days. Bringing a global impact on food and resources. But the infected wasn't the only thing Evren had to worry about. Her last group encounter had created a major target on her back when they found out what she had been keeping a secret. Surviving on her own after the tragic events that left her scarred, she realized the living was far more wicked then the dead. Which brought out a reluctance to trust anyone ever again.... Until she wakes up in the arms of a boy she thought was dead. ✨Round One Qualifier in Open Novella Contest✨ ✨Round Two Qualifier in Open Novella Contest✨ ✨Round Three Longlist in Open Novella Contest✨ 🥇Fist Place in Mystery/Thriller:Lucky Charm Awards(May 2021) ✨Longlist in The Nano Watt 2023✨ ✨Shortlist in the Nano Watt 2023✨ #ONC2021 | Prompt 38 | Prompt 2 ‼️Content/Trigger Warning: Contains gore, violence, some strong language. All rights belong to the author and no reproductions are allowed without the permission of @Renaissance1111. Please respect the author's copyright. 😊❤️ ©2021 C.S Marie