Gen3contest Stories

A writing contest organized and judged by members of the Literary Lounge server. The goal: write a novelette using 3 keywords.

In the midst of repeating his second year in a chaotic Computer Science degree, missing his older brother's funeral, and somehow winding up in a brothel one night with n...

10 years ago, the Lawson family disappeared without a trace, seemingly into thin air. Upon the discovery of a hidden room, it reopens a decade later, and Harper Sloann...

What happens when a mad dash for funds and renown causes an accidental apocalypse? Laureen Anston, an up-and-coming archaeologist, faces threats of defunding and disband...

The mission is supposed to be easy. Mika and his gang of real-estate crooks only have to infiltrate a high-rise building and steal secret codes for a client. But the bui...

Madalynn Agnussen and Arren Renlicht, heirs to the age-old clan feud for social power, should not be found within two feet from each other. But when a search for a legen...

A writing contest organized and judged by members of the Literary Lounge server. The goal: write a novelette using 3 keywords.

Why be depressed when you can be stressed? Computer Science Major Shai Weiss is an international student praying to get through his first year of university without dyi...

The story of a girl who keeps dying and Death who makes friends with her. Co-written by @QueenWithoutTheKrown, @EdenY_, and @RainOfFeathers. Cover by @QueenWithoutTheKro...

I knew it was love at first sight when I saw their pink hair in the crowd. They were my everything. Part of the @LiteraryLoungeD's Gen3 contest 2023

Luca Brooks, a closeted gay forced to come out against his will. Dominic Fuller, the boy Luca has had a crush on since fourth grade. And finally, Malcom Shoney, the best...

Falling in love with his childhood bully wasn't how Crispin Archibald expected his first year at university to be spent. However, Tatum Dockett was anything but predicta...

A writing contest organized and judged by members of the Literary Lounge server. The goal: write a novelette using 3 keywords.

Criminals, each and every one of them are vile and merciless killers. They hold grudges with the world and the people in it. They also hold grudges against each other. T...

The start of this dystopian novel was written for a contest. Chapters 1 to 15 were submitted, please enjoy reading, and this will be added to and become a full novel. Al...

Shaka-La is a city outside of time and space. It's also out of magic. Until E-pop boy band sensation MOJO causes the Wonder Bowl's magic-powered lights to briefly flicke...

The deserts of Yalmae are relentless: its sands are scorching by day and freezing by night, ready to consume any unprepared travellers. A nameless man, known only as 'Sa...

Cas made it big. Against the odds, he's a movie star. But somehow, somewhere along the way, he lost what it really meant to be him. Now, he has no power in his own life...

A writing contest organized and judged by members of the Literary Lounge server. The goal: write a novelette using 3 keywords.

Lilith storms the Heavens to demand her rightful place from the gods but finds much more than she could've bargained for. With the gods having disappeared, Eve finding...