(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 2021 contest prompt 64 What should have been a simple task for a trio of ghosthunters becomes something for which the term "Worst Case Scenario" is the mother of all understatements. Sandra, Amelie, and Candice are the three tough women who run "Third Eye Investigations". Recently, ghosts have been popping up eve...
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...
[Open Novella Contest Longlisted] A little girl meets a magical creature who takes her dream-surfing. When the dream world and real-world collides, she finds solutions to the questions she has been searching for a long time. ❤❤❤ When Aalo is advised to wear specs, she's all in tears thinking how her friends might rea...
[ONC 2021 WINNER: 3rd place] When a car accident reveals a shocking secret even he didn't know about himself, an android finds himself hunted by his own husband. BioSynth is one half of a duology of novellas. Both follow the same sequence of events from different PoVs. BioSynth is Quentin's tale; SynTracker is Ian's...
[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...
Maya was the consummate procrastinator. 'Save it til the last minute!' was her motto in life, just as it had been in all the previous. The last minute of the day was her specialty after all, being the temporal guardian of the Twenty-third hour of the clock. And Maya had used it to full advantage in this modern age of...
A bastard by birth and orphaned at twelve, Charles has learnt to fend for himself in 1660s London. Homeless, he seeks shelter for the night in some canvas aboard a barge on the Thames. In the morning, he tumbles awake when the sail is hoisted, and the captain presses him to work as they move away from the wharf. Trapp...
Cyril defied the Gods by his very existence. In a world where the Gods' will shaped the fate of every man and woman, he had no destiny. Such defiance could not be allowed. Per the Gods' will, the Moirai weaved a tapestry of destiny and death. A snip of a thread ended a life and a drop of dye subdued a mind. When Ophel...
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
ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick ~ Lav Sciarra's accomplishments are many: He is one of the Tower's best soldiers. He founded the Gemma Special Forces. He killed the terrorist who nearly destroyed the Tower. Lav Sciarra, they say, is a hero. Lav knows otherwise. ~ An ONC2021 entry. Based on Prompt #1: "You either die a her...
Ian's senior year and all plans for the future are cut short when a car accident ends in a tragedy, forcing him to become his family's caretaker. He doesn't notice an anomaly in his new life until a cute girl enters the picture and unravels the layers of denial that have protected him from the pain of loss. There wi...
A naive young princess gets banished to a tower and is inadvertently trapped with a wizard. Now, she must navigate through a world full of magic while the fury of the king looms over her. ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅ Princess Pranee has a love for mag...
Sam was having a bad day when he got the letter from the IRS. You'd think his day would get better after realizing it wasn't from the IRS, but you'd be wrong. *** Sam Walker considers his biggest problems in life as his coursework for his engineering major and his lazy roommate Jake. But when Sam receives a letter fro...
Sandrine is reluctant to take the job as a ghost hunter, despite her ancestral gift. And when she meets her boss and future partners, every fibre of her being tells her to quit-but she needs the money. How hard can it be to dispel the ghost of a bird? Soon, she finds herself fighting the advances of a medieval playboy...
☆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...
As a Death Warden, Ava Longbane is well acquainted with corpses. She collects the dead, checking for the sinister and untoward before adding them to the body cart. But she deals with the human dead, not the Whym. Never them. As creatures of innate magic, they're best avoided. Especially by someone like her, exiled, co...
What do you get when you combine afternoon detention with an Alien invasion, a homicidal teacher and an inter-galactic protection detail that you don't remember signing on for? Harriet, Eloise, Max and Freddie are about to find out. Welcome to Bogge Creek P-12 College, where this week, staying alive is the only acade...
Luke and Naluma have had a rough year, but their Force-bonded love has gotten them through the death of a student a few months earlier. However, Luke's worried about Naluma, who is trapped at the Jedi Academy with three dozen Padawan driving her crazy in the dead of winter. He surprises her with a long-overdue vacati...
🏆 ONC AFRICA 2021 WINNER (SPOTLIGHT STORY) "Would you sabotage someone's career to protect your own?" Teniola Oyeyinka travels from New York to Nigeria after receiving a call from her estranged, terminally ill father. She is distraught by the experience, but eventually embraces new friends and family and decides not...
"Let your minds drift into the world of tales and allow your mouths to spread the word of Fate and Destiny..." During the carnival season of 1793, the Venetian palace hosts an anonymous masked ball to celebrate the adulthood of the Doge's grandchild and introduce him to the fine society. All eligible women of marital...
It was the end of the world. Zombies were everywhere. Still, Marissa found the time to look for something that most thought of as useless. She was looking for love. Will she find it or will zombie hordes hinder the blossoming of love in the time of the apocalypse. Is it possible to not only survive in the new, zombie...
Dozent Dr. Bert Hinz hat sich einmal überreden lassen, abends den Schreibtisch zu verlassen und zu einer Party zu gehen... Jetzt will eine reaktionäre, frauenfeindliche Gruppierung seinen Tod ‒ und die Person, die ihn beschützen soll, ist eine Frau! Open Novella Contest 2021 Deutsch, Prompt 21: Er hat etwas gesehen...
'Death is coming in the Autumn.' That's what Tira tells Verity. But Verity is stuck in her life, and doesn't understand just what's at stake, until it's much too late... A novella written for ONC23. Guidance: mild horror, sex references.