Onc2025 Stories

**WATTYS 2025 SHORTLIST** Sixteen-year-old Cas is clever, sporty, and on the brink of a bright future at university. His best friend Vish has no such prospects. A pain...

Avoid looking into those golden eyes. One look is enough and you will be lost forever. Once upon a time, beyond the forests and mountains, where the leaves always wore t...

The worst thing about working at a dating agency is being constantly surrounded by love, even when your own heart is broken. That's the case for Liam. Still, he hasn't g...

• academic rival novella • The Structural Biology Lab has three rules: 1. Document everything. 2. Follow protocols. 3. Don't fall for your junior. Mr. Madhava Kamat, a f...

As water is depleted for its magic, a vigilante uses a cold heiress to infiltrate high society and steal their water before the world--and her family--burns. 🜄 After wa...

In Imperia, power is a delicate, all-consuming game. So when young Lady Sylnavi's father commissions her to quietly destroy a political rival, she's thrilled. Impress, a...

A girl in a white veil, the forest calls her to itself. She will be lost in it forever. A quiet voice, a whisper leads his bride far away. Somewhere there stands an old...

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2025! Join a society of writers and take on the challenge to create a timeless 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic quest beg...

🏆ONC 2025 SHORTLISTER 🏆 Veyr Thalric was born beneath a blood moon, his fate inked in the past and bound to a future he cannot escape. The son of the slain Wolf, he ha...

After six years in a progressive French boarding school, eighteen-year-old Lady Alice returns to her family's estate in Surrey, dreading the fate that awaits her-- debut...

Lost in The Library of All Things Never Written, Draven searches day and night for his own deleted story before it's forgotten, and he fades out of existence. The task w...

Humanity is struggling to survive in a world that's no longer theirs. Liv, a scavenger leading missions to the edges of the city for food, medicine, and iron, knows thin...

In desperate need of a lifeline, Spencer Pelekai catches a last minute flight to San Francisco where she runs straight into the arms of her missing piece. ...

🏆 2025 ONC shortlister! 🏆 It started off as a story for ONC but I recently decided to continue the story with a 2nd arc! Hope you like it! Title change from: Blackthor...

Gorgeous Cover by @BreanneLHeureux | Long Listed ONC 2025 | Summoned to another world through a mysterious door, college student Silver Wolfe discovers a realm of witch...

When Ethan Eaton comes home for the Christmas holiday to find his parents have been killed by vampires, his life takes a drastic turn. Leaving behind his old life, he op...

Genevieve Miller, an aspiring professional ballerina, is on the verge of achieving her dreams when a chance encounter with a charming photographer at a grocery store tur...

[Completed in 2025] The Kingdom of Velmoria is crumbling and on the brink of destruction, and only one person can save the dying Kingdom. Julian, a young man running aw...

| ONC ROUND 1 WINNER | A much-needed, relaxing afternoon listening to music becomes complicated and potentially dangerous when a burnt-out young woman receives unexpect...

When a mysterious thief steals a treasure from a reckless prince, his knights spring into action. They're hunting for the precious necklace intended for the prince's bri...