{ONC2021 2nd Place Overall, Round Two Ambassador Picks & Shortlist} When Max O'Brien receives an almond with a skull painted on it, he initially plays it off as a prank. But, after his wife leaves town, he begins discovering more of the nuts hidden around the house. More disturbing than that is that some unseen intrud...
Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've never met? When Amos Castillo buys a vintage guitar at a pawnshop, he discovers more than an SG Gibson inside the hard leather case. A hidden compartment filled with journal entries gives him a glimpse into Carmela's tumultuous relationship with her addict rockstar hu...
ONC 2021 Honourable Mention! Amby's 2022 Historical Fiction winner Based on prompt 45: 'The war has begun and soldiers are needed. You have two choices: serve as a soldier, or defy the call and disguise yourself as a shepherd.' (C)Spruce_Goose
When Hell and Earth collide, sparks are bound to fly. Saddened by the death of her lover, Tora tries to take her own life only to learn that her name is missing from the system of the Fates. She sets out on a journey to correct the glitch but lands herself in trouble, becoming a wanted criminal on the run. Trapped in...
ONC longlister! Yay Featured on @YA @newlywrittenbooks @Storiesundiscovered (December) @Teenfiction (wicked little creatures) When a drastic soul-wrenching incident takes place in Aini's life, she decides to take a leap into her life and move on. All goes well until one night, she dreams of a horrifying dream within...
☆ONC 2021 Honourable Mention and Shortlister☆ ☆One of Round Two Top Five Winners☆ ☆Multiple times featured☆ ☆Only available on Wattpad☆ ☆☆☆ ☆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...
(HONORABLE MENTION) Rik Sandro is a dimension traveller. Jumping from one version of the world to another was intriguing at first, until he discovered he can never go home. Now all these new beginnings are just a pain. Maybe it's time to stay in one place. Maybe it's time to settle down. Maybe it's time to fall in...
[ONC Shortlist | ROUND ONE Top 5 Winner | Based on ONC2021 prompt #13] What would you do if you woke up in a fairytale? A young, fourteen year old Ruby-Rose wakes up in a medieval castle unsure how she got there. But soon, with the help of an unexpected chambermaid and a scary dwarf who isn't a dwarf, Ruby discovers...
In Eden Rutledge's dreams, she travels to a distant past while she spends her days living in the shadow of her parents' expectations. As a founding family of the picturesque town of Echary, reputation was of the utmost importance, especially after her sister's untimely death. On the town's anniversary, the Rutledges h...
The dead typically want one of two things. Ghosts crave conversation. Spirits seek pain. My name is Bria, and I've been able to interact with the dead for as long as I can remember. Communicating with the deceased might sound like a cool gift, but let me assure you, it's not. Ghosts don't shut up, and not all specter...
Fitness-trainer Winston settled in Corbeau Woods for a quiet life with his husband, free of the superstition and madness of his childhood. When a mysterious statue of an eye circulates the town, people go missing and he and his husband make a shocking discovery about their neighbour's inexplicable fate. After the stat...
Complete. ONC 2021 entry. ONC Longlist and a Round II Ambassador's Pick! Exclusive to Wattpad. Ulthar is a cozy, sleepy town in the Dreamlands, close to the River Skai. It is a cobblestoned, gable-roofed town of pumpkin patches and a sizable population of cats. The only law is that you must never harm a cat, but the...
Duchess Andreya Marivatan was murdered at the age of twenty-two. It was during the hours the pool of night was deepest, Andreya soundlessly asleep in silk sheets behind the curtains of her elegant canopy bed. By the time she awoke to a noise, the deed had already been done and her sheets dripped with a deep vermillion...
Cloud Elfari is a sylph with the power over Folka: magic that is created through music. There's only one problem. She can't sing. With the title of Elfidari she is expected to rule as her mother did but without her Folka she is seen as unfit. With no other option, she participates in a race against the other four tri...
What do you do when you find a dead soldier from the opposing kingdom just when the Declaration of Peace was about to be signed? Hide the dead body, of course. Super soldier twins Petra and Peter made two mistakes: one is burying a dead body instead of telling people that they found the soldier dead, and the other is...
Nevai and Toriola Odeli were not thrust into a story. They were bred for it, nursed on revelry and wickedness, laid on broken wings and shattered promises. Betrayal was their butter, malice their milk, cruelty an acquired taste, one they found quite a liking for. Nevai, for one, is a blade, and one worth wielding. Sh...
Vita hates being a demigoddess. Especially now that Barnabas, the love of her life, is locked up in the Underworld, while she is stuck in an endless cycle of resurrections and new lives. Worst of all, with every resurrection Vita loses a piece of her past, as her memories slowly fade. To break this never-ending cycle...
"It's true what they say about you, isn't it? You really did sip tea and smile as you watched humanity fall apart." "Nope," he said. "I sipped whiskey." Eight years into the Infection, a spunky idealist convinces a hardened recluse to help him save humanity. --- For eight years, Zafaru has fought to survive the freezi...
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 w...
[ROUND TWO ONC 2021 qualifier] Young Camille Kamdev is hoping on her sixteen birthday she'll magically wake up as a zit-less, sassy, grown-up goddess, one babes will fall in love with because she finally has it, whatever 'it' is. That or the God of Love will take mercy on her and send someone. Instead, Cammy welcomes...
When Tara Walters discovers the disturbing truth about a new virtual console called AfterLife™, she must risk everything in order to expose the enslavement of digital Sims. ___ Cover made using CANVA PRO. Status: complete but unedited. Editing begins July 1, 2021. Word count: 20,231/20,000
[WATTYS SHORTLIST 2022] Auch Liebesgötter haben Liebeskummer----Liebesgott Armand ist seiner Arbeit überdrüssig und sehnt sich nach Veränderung. Doch dann erreicht ihn plötzlich ein gänzlich unerwarteter Hilferuf der anderen Art. Sylvia hat die Nase gestrichen voll von der Liebe. Seit drei Jahren lebt sie in einer Bez...
Despite the fact their hearts no longer beat, vampires really aren't all that different from human counterparts. Some are kind, some are vile, and most are stuck trying to navigate the muddy middle. Enter our two vampires: One would never manage to fit all the candles on her birthday cake even if she desired to celebr...
Torn from his mother and forced to become a witch hunter, Gavin was trained to show no mercy to witches. But when he traps his first witch, she sees the secret he has kept buried for years. Now she offers him a choice: free her and she'll help him find his family or imprison her and she reveal his secret. He hates wha...
