Celia

OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST ENTRY A missing little sister. A mysterious neighbor. Trails of red petals. A confused man. Will we ever find the truth?

Beyond the Dreams #OpenNovellaContest2019

*MADE IT TO THE FINALS OF ONC's SHORT LIST* One makes, one nurtures and one extinguishes - thus, a balance is maintained on Tellus. But what happens when the scales topple?

Alexandria (ONC entry)

When Maxence Mills digs up a skeleton and a marble statue in a small village in Egypt, she knows she just made the discovery of a lifetime. What she finds inside the statue is even more exhilarating: an age-old testimonial, recounting how the great Library of Alexandria met its end. Preparations to get her finds to Wa...

Road Trip To Nowhere (MxM) (ONC 2019 Entry)

[COMPLETED] (OLD) Leaving the comfort of your own home is one thing, but travel around the state in just one week is another. William is the type of person to never go wild and follows every rule. He has never left his home city, until one night where he met a very odd stranger named Benji. Benji takes William on a ve...

The Last Card

Every year a man seeks out a tarot card reader, hoping for a different future.

The Eset Clair Cypher

"If you are lucky enough to survive the slums of Traol, the streets of Edinu will strip you of your sanity as soon as you take a step onto its corrupted streets... " ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ In Edinu, the Challengers don't fight for fame or for money. They fight for their lives. Slaves to the elite and traitors to their kind, t...

Strange Beasts || Novella

Six years since the cruel and untimely death of their mother, Raina Marshall finds herself riddled with worries that are of no concern to normal eleven year old girls. The most important of which surround her younger brother, Rami, who seems to prefer his imaginary Kingdom to real life. The summer feels like those pr...

Sinister (COMPLETED / TO BE REWRITTEN)

Life has many things in store for Raiden within a week. His parents' debts result in his house being confiscated. His sister, Ece, is missing, leaving anemone petals as his only guide. Shortly afterwards, his ex-crush, who's supposed to be dying at the hospital, is alive without any traces of her sickness, and decides...

Defixio

Zeus and Hera are fighting. . . Again. . . Zeus has made it with a lady. . . Not his wife. . . Only this time, he pissed off the wrong father. . . who would later piss off the wrong goddess? This leads to a curse tablet being delivered by Hecate. . . To Zeus and Hera. . . What can I say? Karma has a funny way of bein...

An engagement party, please

[AN OPENNOVELLA CONEST SHORTLISTER] Gloria is forced to organize an engagement party, as she is an assistant of a party planner. Moreover, she has to help her client with the actual proposal. There is just one problem: She does not believe in love. She does not believe in marriage and therefore, she does not believe...

O2

The Earth is dying, yet humanity survives. Pollution and radiation run rampant on the surface. The government rations food and clean air for everyone. The glass domes provide some sense of security, but they are only for the rich who can afford the astronomical price of providing precious clean air to a whole city. N...

Paradise Blight

The first terraformed world, Tau Ceti Four, was now ready for colonization. Some called it Paradise, and it seemed a fitting name. The initial conditions before the terraforming began were perfect, too perfect for botanist Mora Torr. Something was not right. Engineer Gan Finn came over with the other colonists on t...

The Sparrows. |ONC Entry.|

Ever since everything she loved was ripped away from her in The Woods, Olive hasn't exactly been the heroic type. If anything, with her newfound abilities, she's been pursuing chaos and revenge compared to good deeds for the sake of good deeds. However, when a cop with questionable motivations and even more questionab...

Otherworldly Beasts : Finding the Royals (ONC Entry)

|SHORT LIST ONC 2019| This is my OpenNovellaContest2019 entry. Prompt used: Strange Beasts (Children's Fiction) Sarah is ten and too old to believe in fairy tales. Her brother, at seven, still loves a good bedtime story though. When Lucas, who is diagnosed with dyslexia, finds an old picture book of their grandmother...

Bunker Bird

Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the world they live in. -- Tim is one of those who shovel the shit and clean away the waste. Life in the dirt of others is all he knows. When his father g...

The Delfe Treasure

Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679. Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Wa...

Techno Fever [ONC II Round 1 WINNER | Asian Scifi | Complete]

GHOST IN THE SHELL meets THE LUNAR CHRONICLES. Year 2154, Hong Kong: Bod Mods are all the rage. From forearms equipped with blast cannons to telescopes implanted to irises to jet propellers as feet, there is no limit to the modification available that money can buy. University student Chan Meiha witnesses a gruesome B...

The Turing Test - [Open Novella Contest 2019 Shortlist]

Ronnie Gold only has one dream. Every night for the past two years, flickering images of a bloody battlefield have haunted her sleep, and every night, she's the only survivor. She's never told anyone about it, because combined with the dissociative emotional disorder that renders empathy out of her reach, she'd be lab...

The Dark Heir (SHORTLIST - Open Novella Contest 2019)

**Featured on DARK FANTASY and ADULT FICTION reading lists** WARNING: EATING OR DRINKING WHILE READING THIS STORY IS HIGHLY INADVISABLE. Once Upon A Time, Good Omens, Monty Python, and Arrested Development had a back-alley three-way and birthed a fairytale. Gerald wasn't supposed to be stuck living seven centuries in...

Without A Trace (Open Novella Contest) [Completed]

Shortlisted for the Open Novella Contest 2019 • Being a Supervillain is tough. Between managing a secret lair and making sure your mom doesn't stop loving you because you keep telling everyone she's dead, it's a really hard business to be good at? Add to that, the fact that somehow you got arrested because your cat...

Dark Visions

A tarot reader aids a mysterious man who believes she is the only one who can help him return to his true home in the eerie Manaan caverns where they must fight the natural and supernatural to stay alive. ***** Maxine Shepard is a tarot reader who has survived several traumas in her twenty-five years of life. Without...

Jungle Stakes (SHORTLIST Open Novella Contest II)

[SHORTLISTED ONC 2019] The elation of finding an undisturbed tomb is tarnished when people begin feeling ill, then bodies start showing up. Helena also struggles with her strange attraction to the beautiful corpse they uncover. She wonders if the illnesses are more than a bug, but when her boyfriend gets deathly ill...

Hush

ONC 2019 shortlisted #### #The Sass awards first prize winner #The glory awards 2019 third place # the cleaved awards honourable mention #the chaos awards third prize #WIA2020 shortlisted😊 The worst quality for a thief to possess is honesty and the worst scenario that a thief would have to face is if she is cursed...

Distantly Falling Stars (GRAND WINNER * ONC 2019)

Seti, a humble civil servant at the Office of Information, is selected for an important mission to retrieve a cluster of 'fallen stars' with very special, and very secret, properties. But why has he -- ambitionless and without influence as he is -- been chosen? And just who wants these particular stars at all costs...

Hidden Whispers

[ OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2019 SHORTLISTED ] [ FEATURED ON MYSTERY ] Mikaela didn't want anything to do with her past. Her life already changed to a drastic extent when she had to be the sole witness of an "accident". 10 years later, a new accident pulled her back to her hometown. Because it resembled something she dread...

Moebius 2157 | ONC2019 Short List [Complete]

Special Agent Alyssa Caine has been tasked with the most important mission of her life: the assassination of the man who would bring about the end of the world. The only problem? He is already dead. A minor issue that is resolved in the year 2157 when a renegade group of scientists develops a device that allows to jum...

Fen and Mara - Open Novella Contest 2019 Short List

Teenage love is already complicated enough as it is, you don't need the whole battle of good versus evil thrown into that mix. Think Romeo & Juliet in modern age, with superpowers, heroes and villains. :-) This is my entry for the Open Novella Contest 2019. The judges selected this story for the Short List!

Empty Chains ✔️ | #ONC2019

Death has a sick sense of humor. On the most destructive week of Holiday Warren's life, a crosswalk turns into a deadly sprint through the depths of hell to right the wrongs of her troubled past. No one was ready for Holiday's death, not even her. Dying is supposed to be simple, easy. She expected darkness or maybe e...

𝓑𝓾𝓽, 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓶𝓪, 𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓼 𝓓𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓔𝔁𝓲𝓼𝓽!

Two young siblings think they are too old to believe Grandma's tale of Unicorns. But youth will always be curious and magical. When Grandpa gives them a map of the forest lying behind their house, and with the help of their strange dog and playful cat, the two brother and sister will go on an adventure. Will they fin...

The Name's Kharma - Miss Reaper if You're Nasty

*Short-listed for the 2019 Open Novella Contest* {2019 ONC Ambassador Pick} Sibling rivalry is a tale as old as time. For Kharma, her particular tale goes back to before time began. She's the youngest of seven archangels, and the only girl. Like her older brother, Lucifer, the Creator had banished Kharma to spend a...