My superpower is invisibility. Not by choice. It's the only way I know how to be. Until the cute guy on the bus shows me how to fly, but there's a catch. And it has nothing to do with me being the one who can see him. But sometimes falling feels a lot like flying. And I don't know if I'm ready for either. Prompt...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] The Hanscome Vacation Retreat had brought fun and happiness to hundreds of families over the years. But, when the last Hanscome guardian of the sprawling home dies, the once beloved hotel falls into ruin until developers give it a new lease of life. Now, potential buyers find themselves trapped...
A mysterious garden. A forgotten prince. A forbidden romance. ------------ After losing her job at a large garden nursery, Waverly Harris travels across the Atlantic to spend a few months in England with her grandparents. The coastal village of Chepstow-on-the-Sea is as quaint a community as one can possibly find with...
Rescued from a blind date from hell, a career woman's one night stand with her would be savior has unforeseen consequences. **** Up and coming New York apartment manager, Vanessa Torres' life is going perfectly according to her five year plan. Well, everything except...
What was supposed to be a simple business trip out of the country turned into a whirlwind of a romantic getaway Lexi had only dreamed about. And now that she and her online best friend Kylian had not only met but unexpectedly spent the night together, what would it do to their once internet-only friendship? Not to men...
After a fatal car crash, Mandy Merchant finds herself stuck in limbo. During a desperate attempt to make it back to the world of the living, she accidentally sets dozens of damned souls loose on the human world, much to the dismay of the overworked Grim Reaper. Together, Mandy and Grim must round up the lost souls bef...
Four strangers are trapped in an elevator and forced to reveal details about their most malicious deeds within the hour to prevent a fall to their death. But as secrets are exposed, tension escalates, leading to a reality no one is prepared for. ***** Tasha Pierce receives an anonymous invitation she believes is from...
Kiernan and Montana aren't looking for complicated in their Chicago summer, but somehow complicated has found them. [co-written with @w1ldflow3r] [extended summary inside]
Jessi Albright needs a vacation. With few clients for her life makeover business, it's hard to justify getting away, even for a weekend. But when she books a retreat in Saltport, Jessi finds herself desperate for some cash and makes an emergency stop at the local ATM. It was supposed to be a short detour, five minutes...
Five ordinary people. One risqué art exhibit. Many, many secrets. * * * This novella contains the stories of five individuals interweaved around a fictitious art exhibit called 'Kink: Attitudes Toward Sex, Then and Now' inspired by two ONC 2023 prompts: can we go back to the start when we were all strangers in the da...
Five friends, one is a killer. On fall break, twenty year old Eliza Goodchild sets off with four of her college friends for a remote cabin in Aspen, Colorado. When a blizzard strikes without warning, their SUV skids off an embankment and disappears into a wooded ravine. In the whiteout, they get lost and find themsel...
🏆ONC 2023 || Ambassador's Pick 🏆ONC 2023 || Round Two Qualifier One night is all it takes to change a life. There's something wrong with Felicity Farr. It's how she can't seem to do her job right no matter how hard she tries, and how she's still under her parents' thumb years after moving out, and how she looks at...
Nikki Valentine is a smart, successful boudoir photographer with a curvy body and passion for empowerment. Despite this, she has spent years in a relationship so full of red flags she should have run a mile. Whilst on their eighth relationship break, she agrees to go on a date to a football match as a last-ditch attem...
[ONC 2023 SHORTLISTER] Prompt 63: A rivalry between two coworkers has unforeseen consequences. *** Down on her luck with a string of 12 unfateful heartbreaks following her, twenty-six-year-old Cate Miller, having accepted herself as a 21st Century spinster is satisfied being one of the best editors in a successful pub...
Vivienne's parents found the perfect house. A stunning Nineteenth Century Victorian at Rue Renaud, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One of those houses with personality and vibe; good enough to charm even a reluctant teen into moving to what she dubbed the least interesting capital city in the world. The place was meant to...
When Leila starts a small talk with a cute guy on a bus, she expects a basic conversation or ignorance. But their encounter turns out to be a key to revisit the past secrets of the world. ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ Leila has dedicated the past few months to build her own café. Running a small business and writing her novels are the o...
At Seventeen I met a boy and fell in love. At Twenty-one I met a guy but he was off-limits. At Twenty-five I met a man, but I was off-limits. At Twenty-seven that man met a woman, who was falling apart at the seams, but that boy who met a girl all those years ago promised her one thing and he wasn't about to break...
[2x Featured] The moment you meet your soulmate, you feel it like the wind brushing against your skin when time stops. »»--♥--«« Finally ready to make an attempt at moving on from a loss that shattered her entire life, Eyilore Boss goes touring in search of something that can fill the ragin...
This is my submission for the Open Novella Contest 2023! Maggie is fresh out of med school, hoping to get in some time with her friends and go on a few dates before she moves out of town for her internship. After a particularly bad date, her best friend Becky, with the help of her boyfriend Kent, set Maggie up on a b...
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE / ROMANTIC SUSPENSE ⋆ They say you meet the same people on the way up and on the way down. In her wildest dreams and story plots, novelist Delaney Sharpe never fathomed this could apply to her, or that it would involve Phoenix Alden, the ex-boyfriend who ghosted her while his acting career was on...
It's referred to by several names: the ghost frequency, the haunted frequency, the fear infrasound. You can't hear sound at 18.98 hertz, but your body feels it, and when it does, some believe you've opened yourself to the world of the supernatural. Liv used to believe the ghost frequency was real, and so did her frien...
At first, Arabella expected the incoming text to be an apology from her idiot ex-boyfriend. Instead, it was a message that shattered her entire world and changed everything forever. Grandma Mabel was gone. Her rock, super hero, practical mother of over 23 years. Gone. Poof. Reeling from the shock of Mabel's sudden p...
CIA black ops assassin Apollo Fox awakens to find a dead body and a duffel bag of money with a pelican case next to him in a room in the safe house. The only thing he has is no memory of who he was or ended up here. Unable to trust his handler. And anyone he must unravel the deadly conspiracy to find out who was he an...
Callista isn't exactly the best in the business. When it comes to being a cupid, she struggles, and her snarky little lovebird pixie assistant isn't any help. She's already in hot water with her boss and has to make her monthly quota by the cupids' biggest day of the year, Valentine's Day. She's on a great streak u...
Chase Evans works up the courage to talk to a cute stranger on the bus, only to discover he isn't human. And worse, he informs her that neither is she. All this time her parents have tried to suppress who she really is. All this time she has denied her true nature. But despite their best efforts, her powers begin to...
As a spare heir and hero of the last war, Wystan would like nothing more than to enjoy retirement while teaching recruits and drinking up his inheritance. After stepping on the wrong toes, he is reinstated early and finds himself on a quest to slay a dragon in the Southern Lands of the Empire. Unwanted and feared, th...