Imogen thinks she may have found The One. For years she's been waiting for the right guy to come along. But now that he has, she's realised something about herself. Something that might ruin their relationship forever, she's Asexual. Most people don't even know what it means, so how will her boyfriend understand? Lia...
Pristine Marvin, a shy sophomore harboring a secret crush on her classmate Andrei, finds herself unknowingly entangled in a web of mysterious events after a fateful encounter at an eerie shop. As the case unravels, Alan Alteiner, the manipulating hero of Caperwood, embarks on a quest to uncover the truth surrounding h...
: ̗̀➛ Open Novella Contest (ONC) - Entry ༘♡ ⋆ *ೃ༄ Prompt 22 - You get ready for work one morning as usual. When you arrive at your car, which is parked in the street, the windshield is covered in blood.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...
Astoria De Vil had everything ripped away from her and the royal family of the Viscount Kingdom, the Abernathys, turned a blind eye. The Viscount Kingdom refuses to acknowledge the lesser side of the kingdom, the Valdor, also known as the Slums. The Slums are ridden with crime and people are barely getting by. Astoria...
I just discovered that my bed is a portal to another world. And I couldn't have been less prepared for my adventures in the land of dreams. __________________ "𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦," 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥. "𝘕𝘰, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨." "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘨𝘰𝘥." 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦...
This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024 Meet Blair, your average seamstress who works a thankless job sewing dresses for bachelorettes, weddings, and a plethora of other events in dire need of women in dresses. Her hopes and dreams are the same as all of us, owning a mortgage in hopes of affording a b...
This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024! Dragons and magical beings. A bond like no other. In a town in the middle of the continent, Silver City is home to some of the most powerful magic wielders. Layla Arclight, an ambitious young magus, who possesses the unique trait of being able to wield two elem...
Entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024 For as long as they could remember, Ivan and Vixen have lived their whole lives in Oaksville, your typical town inhabited by folks repeating a menial cycle for decades with seemingly no hope for anything short of a white-collar job. People work, come home, rest, and the ro...
From Prompt #95 "I will become as monstrous as I must." Rowan Stevescant just wanted to start over. He'd killed enough. He was done. Until they brought him back. And then he wasn't. In a world where faces change as easily as buying a new set of clothes, nothing is what it seems. In an attempt to leave his old life an...
🏆Round 2 Qualifier🏆 Princess Aurelia, better known to her friends as Aure, has led a comfortable life in the kingdom of Geldery for as long as she can remember. She has everything she could ever need or desire right at her fingertips. Well, that is until her father decides to make an alliance with the neighbouring k...
Death was once something I feared, an illusion that brought darkness with it, but now I plead for its mercy in this time that survivors have come to call, The New Order. ••• It was only a cough to began with, something so simple, it had happened a thousand times before, but with in a few days it was so much more then...
When Zev finds himself on a journey away from his home in Sanctum with only a new friend and his less-than-powerful ability, he must travel a path of hardship and dedication to find his lost older brother. In a tornado of self-discovery and more mysteries about the twelve-layered world he lives in than he can count, Z...
When you are surrounded by devils, who do you trust? On the night of her death, Kailey Summers finds herself whisked away by an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her soulmate. Suddenly, she must navigate an afterlife filled with magic and temptation - all without losing herself. Prompt 25 of the Open Novella Contest...
Others call me blessed, but I know I'm cursed. The day I got my powers was the day I realised all magic comes with a cost. Nature loves its balance. I never asked for this, but this is the burden I now have to carry. I was use to the solitude of travelling alone, just my animal companion by my side for these past f...
Inventor Selene Mintz and her partner Arch Kenton are on the cusp of breaking into the upper levels of Inno-Tech with their latest inventions when she is rocked by a devastating betrayal. Unsure who to trust but hellbent on making the person pay, she fights for control of her idea before the materialistic tech company...
❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐄, 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄. ❞ Saskia Vrana knows what to do when the Nights of Smoke come: Close the windows and doors. Don't look out into the darkness. Sacrifice and pray. And never dare to leave the convent. These are the sacred rules to follow if you want to survive the...
A woman cursed with immortality navigates a post-apocalyptic world in order to hunt down the god that cursed her...and kill him. (full blurb inside) Written for ONC 2024 | Prompt 63. In a world of curses and gifts, you find yourself cursed with immortality - in the apocalypse. | First Draft
In the shadowed heart of Uncanny Valley, a wildland whispered about in hushed tones and shrouded in folklore, the disappearance of young Samson White has unsettled the tight-knit community of Appletree. When FBI Agent Lucinda Ferryman arrives in the town, her presence stirs more than just the Spring leaves. With a his...
ONC 2024 8K qualifier Horror. Courtesy of ONC2024 Novella Contest °*° Every tick-tock that counts can cost your life, and as each door shuts don't look behind. Arielline's first day at her first job she discovers that the library she will be working in is very haunted, and there is more of it. The twelve locks of Twel...
A family curse. A forced marriage. A runaway bride. And a wayward son. After years of misfortune, luck has finally shown favor upon the Truvow family in the form of Count Reginald Drewmond, but his kindness comes at a cost. Estella Truvow discovers she must marry the count tomorrow morning, a man she has never met, if...
[ONC RD2 AmbassadorsPick] ** A fairy with a desire for revenge. A fallen angel with the burden of guilt. Two lives unexpectedly intertwined by sin, magic and fate - well, and bloody murders. ** "A righteous God displays his wrath every day; if someone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword." (Psalm 7:12) In the...
A tale about a cat and a crow in search of their witch. Asha, a black cat, and her friend Kyrell, a hooded crow, are living their best lives as the familiars of the town witch Cybele. But as Cybele goes missing, their peaceful lives are threatened and they need the help of a mysterious boy to find her. My entry for t...
** When their beloved mistress is murdered, a white raven and a black fox embark on a journey for revenge. Will the brave familiars manage to recover the stolen heart in time - or would they lose themselves? ** "Sometimes love is what drives you to take your next breath. Other times, it's revenge." - ONC24EN Prompt...
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...
Blurb On a dark and stormy night, Mia is running along the road, unable to handle what has just occurred, which shouldn't have been logically or scientifically possible. As the storm intensifies, a strange lightning bolt strikes her. She miraculously survives the strike but is split into two people unknowingly. Unawar...
After one of the most awful days in her life, Eva Romney goes for a relaxing run on the trail behind her house. Cursing her failing life and her toxic boss, she fails to notice the clouds gathering above her. That is until she gets struck by lightning. Overcome by her luck to still be alive after the shock, she leave...
What do you do when a teenage movie star makes it seem as if you've kidnapped him? After working two summers at his father's health club as a towel boy, Peter Fisk saved enough money to visit California. He literally runs into Lance Hardwood in his hotel lobby - and Lance just wants to have fun, incognito. Pete gets c...
The West Throckmorton (UK) Library holds a secret - it's an Intergalactic storage facility for dangerous creatures, magically kept in its tens of thousands of books. But there are those who would release its frightful inhabitants upon Earth. Enter the last remaining Gulper, who ate everyone on his planet, and is now H...
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...
