Before the fall of the fairy kingdom, wishes were freely given. Now, wishes are gone, and only curses remain, with two girls standing against them. Princess Estefania longs to save her kingdom, but with a looming curse over her head, she's spent sixteen years in exile from Sahar. Then, a strange Marquis shows up on he...
I am not afraid of lightning storms-the famous last words of a girl staring down the angry glare of a Qilin. My mother was wrong about the ''Asian Unicorns.'' Qilins are massive, beautiful, and they seem to peer right through your soul as they conjure the storm around you. But that's the least of my worries now. Wakin...
Amanda, a woman battling a sleep disorder and chronic migraines, moves into her partner's dream home, only to begin unlocking the PTSD-induced amnesia from her childhood. ... ... Cover designed by @AriaofStorms
In a world forged from darkness, savage creatures known as Night Walkers roam the land, their hunger for vengeance matched only by their thirst for human blood. From the cover of nightfall, they set out on a relentless pursuit of retribution for the sins of humanity. Amongst their ranks is Mara, a young and fearle...
🗝️Detektiv Ryker Viltarin muss düstere Geheimnisse lüften, ehe er nicht nur sein Herz sondern auch sein Leben verliert.🗝️ You're on your own, far from home The wind is blowing in the top of the pines A gloomy sky where the sun never shines Deep in the woods, where the night is so cold You're lost, far from home Will...
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 | 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 When Mara Santiago is laid off from work and dumped by her boyfriend, she moves in with her parents. Struggling to find another job as a ballerina, she begins go-go dancing at Penthouse---a high-end nightclub in San Francisco where her br...
When a lost mafia principessa is found by a rivaling family, her love for a criminal won't be the only thing turning her life upside down. _______ Luca Bianchi knows the life of a killer is a lonely, rocky path. After all, he has spent the majority of his adult life running from an old job that has plagued his thought...
Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...
The last person Victoria Beaumont expects to be singing the grease soundtrack alongside, is a serial kiler. Sasha Vaughan is not a serial killer, a fact she's made abundantly clear to absolutely nobody, because, quike frankly, she's good at her job. The lives of Victoria and Sasha intersect one night as they catch e...
After the war that out vampires in charge of the world, Warrick took a high position for Corporate. All he wants to do is work and be left alone. Nothing in life is worth straying for. Scarlette is intrigued by a grumpy vampire who wants nothing to do with her. That won't stop her from seeing the truth: there's more t...
Naomi likes to spend her mornings on the sand, walking, collecting treasures, and singing. She would never expect this simple hobby to pull her into a dark curse. As strange events make her feel like she's going crazy, she realizes some mythical creatures do exist. And this is no fairytale. ~~~ ONC prompt 36: "Fairyta...
Marilsa lost her entire clan. What's worse? The darkness that took over now resides inside of her. can she keep the Eingu from destroying her people? ~~~ ONC Prompt 3: Your greatest fear is monsters in the dark. The last thing you expect is to become the monster in the dark. And ONC Prompt 45: Keep your happily ever a...
My ONC 2024 entry inspired by prompt 21: A dragon, an elf, and a dwarf embark on a quest to find the lost heir to the kingdom.
[ONC 2024 Prompt 18] The once-famous temple dancers are now left to destitution; their status is akin to that of prostitutes, and hence they hope for a saviour to help them reclaim their lost glory. There are hushed whispers of the prophecied Nateshwari, the earthly Goddess of Dance, who is to be born amidst them, but...
[ROUND ONE & TWO QUALIFIED] Emily Walton is a 25-year-old young woman who has had a difficult life ever since she was a child. She never received love from her mother or her boyfriend, which made her feel miserable. As she nears the end of her life, Emily desperately begs for another chance. She yearns for a life fil...
She's waiting on her true love while he's waiting for his soulmate. One wishes for a happily ever after while the other wishes for total destruction. One embraces the light while the other caresses the darkness. Ember learns a few thing in life. One you can't trust a stranger even if it's your own mate. Two, soulma...
My first ONC attempt. Connor Jarvis is dead. He drowned on a beach holiday when he was young. Now he helps souls cross over to their rightful place in heaven or hell. It's work he's used to, but he doesn't enjoy it. Mostly because of interference from guardian angels who think they know better. When the soul of mass...
Anton Vitalli had grown up dreaming of making it to Hollywood's big screen - not as a star, but as a screenwriter. Flash-forward a decade, and now he's in his late twenties, still living in NYC. Instead of the creativity he was hoping for in life, he works as a copywriter for a tasteless retail corporation. Things h...
Ever since he was a child, Robert has never liked his family's business, but neglecting his family's legacy has never been an option-as the only way out is through or by death. On one of his missions for a client, he broke the major rule of being a bounty hunter, which is; never get attached to your victim, and as a...
All Rights Reserved: Aleksandra Mihaleva /@justthebadassme/ 2024 Open Novella Contest 2024 >>> O N H O L D <<< > 2000-word milestone completed The city is seductive, but yet so cruel. And still, it hides me from anybody's eyes when all these hundred millions of windows are watching. Maybe billions even! A mur...
#ONC2024 ◇☆◇ Princesses, Charmings, Godmothers... they all have their parts in fairytales. But what if your role determined your destiny? ☆ Ivy Castle wants what everybody else in Luminaire desires; a Happily Ever After. When you're an upcoming Godmother, you get the short end of the stick. You don't get a Charming, y...
In the chaos of World War Three, Brynn McCallan, the sixteen-year-old daughter of West Virginia's House of Representatives, faces the daunting task of escaping from her home under the looming threat of a nuclear bomb. Adrift in the remnants of a shattered reality, Brynn finds herself in a fiery abyss and when her fami...
On a routine training patrol, the last thing Lt. Commander Wraia Clay and the crew of the SNV Cobra are expecting is trouble. But when a frontier colony seems to vanish off the face of the universe, they are dispatched to find out what happened. What they discover is an apocalyptic trail of destruction on an interstel...
Welcome to the Second Quarter Quell... When 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy is reaped for the 50th Hunger Games, he faces a surprise twist: forty-eight Tributes will be sent into the arena in place of the typical twenty-four. While battling twice the amount of deadly adversaries, and his beautiful yet treacherous surr...
It's not the pretty fantasy of your childhood. Humans and magical creatures living together? It's the worst development under the sun, but when the sun's flares obliterated the surface world, they had little choice but to come together. Detective Brady O'Malley lives in this new world with his family. A daughter and a...
Sequel to "Athanasius Finch: Private Dick" Beatrix Cagliostro(pen name) thought they were done with the self-proclaimed "World's Second-Best Detective," but when he comes up with a once-in-a-lifetime-get-rich-quick scheme that would only require one hour to pull off, Beatrix pounces at the chance to make a quick buck...
Entry for ONC 2024- When I took another step back, my feet found a round structure instead of the flat floor that I had been anticipating. I realised, too late, that I had collided with the rolled rug and before I could regain my balance, I crashed down, the chalice spilling its contents right over my head, drenching...
ONC 2024 entry- London Hartley has had enough of the high school experience. With a crush who never notices her, bullies who always do, and a former best friend turned queen bee who acts like a superior, stuck-up princess, London can't wait to get over with her senior year, already. On the last night before her senio...
Jade is on the run. To escape her old coven, she pretends to be normal. Just some run-off-the-mill witch. Certainly not someone powerful and especially not a life weaver. Taking on the position of the town witch in a seemingly idyllic, quiet, and desolate town seemed like the perfect plan to lay low for a while until...
A dark family lineage. Secrets hidden away within rotting walls. And a mysterious Book that binds it all together... Oliver Wendell was only ever meant to write stories, lost within his own worlds of imagination. He was never meant to be a soldier. He was never meant to see his brother die. Yet in the midst of the fir...