Entry for the Open Novella Contest, 2024 Prompt #36: "Fairy tales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse. After the death of her husband, Charlotte seeks a fresh start in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. She wants to do two things: work her mundane job and spend the evenings at her cabin talking to her hu...
Down on her luck after murdering her husband, Ivelle has no choice but to follow in her late mum's footsteps and become a villain. Her first customer: an unhappy lady betrothed to a prince with more loose screws than Ivelle's defunct hardware store. But as Ivelle guides her client through her validated Twelve Step Pla...
|| ONC 2024 || Artist Adwin's life in the sleepy town of Shadow's End changes forever when she meets Ciaran, a man with a dangerous secret. Bound by a mystical curse, Ciaran is both her heart's desire and her deepest challenge. As passion and dark histories entwine, Adwin must choose between a burning quest for venge...
: ̗̀➛ Open Novella Contest (ONC) - Entry ༘♡ ⋆ *ೃ༄ Prompt 22 - You get ready for work one morning as usual. When you arrive at your car, which is parked in the street, the windshield is covered in blood.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...
Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...
Tilly has been with her boyfriend since she was fifteen. When she finds herself suddenly single, it feels like everything is falling apart. Facing that she may have to move in with her parents now at twenty-five, she decides to go all 'Eat Pray Love' and move across the globe. Her new flatmate, Nick, is stunning and T...
An ONC 2024 entry A regular museum worker one day, Raul Mendez finds his life turned upside down when he gets dragged into a supernatural grapple for power that threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness.
Entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024 For as long as they could remember, Ivan and Vixen have lived their whole lives in Oaksville, your typical town inhabited by folks repeating a menial cycle for decades with seemingly no hope for anything short of a white-collar job. People work, come home, rest, and the ro...
Bee is anything but happy. Once a promising student and an A plus daughter, she weaves through life trying to make it through one day at a time. When she gets dumped by her college boyfriend, she seeks refuge in her grandfather's home only to discover her doting grandfather kept secrets of his own. And the secret is a...
"Thirty seconds. That's all you have to stop the bullshit, or your son is dead." ~~~~ Six years ago, Chelsea Doherty lost everything when her husband disappeared without a trace and left her to clean up his past. Now living in Ireland, she has pieced her life back together as best as she could and runs a small tea sh...
Round two ambassador pick. Wyatt has just won it big and, in a drunken haze, buys an old, neglected mansion. When she moves in to start renovations, she gets an eerie feeling that she's not always alone-and let's not forget the noises. One fitful night, she heads to the kitchen for a midnight snack and is shocked when...
Yukio Sakuragi, a famous detective among the humans and the fae kingdom, Serendell, a legend. That is what everyone calls him but for Yukio himself, he is a haunted man broken by a horrible and terrible past that made him who he is today. His past was a horrible one, the one that he was not willing to share because o...
ONC 2024 entry- London Hartley has had enough of the high school experience. With a crush who never notices her, bullies who always do, and a former best friend turned queen bee who acts like a superior, stuck-up princess, London can't wait to get over with her senior year, already. On the last night before her senio...
|ONC 2024 AMBASSADORS' PICK · 5X FEATURED| Two years after her older brother's tragic death, anxiety-stricken Maisie and her emotional support cat, Milo, attend the Disney College Program, where they must discover a new life meaning in the most magical place on Earth. ...
The holidays are over, but the murders aren't. Lieutenant Christina MaCaw is a formidable figure in the Los Angeles Police Department, heading up the Special Taskforce Unit with an iron hand. She's seen it all, from gruesome murders to high-stakes hostage situations, but nothing could have prepared her for the series...
Time heals all wounds. When you have the power to rewind it, you begin to wonder whether it's too much responsibility for one person to hold. ***** Sometimes, walking away is the scariest, yet the bravest thing one can do. Iris Fox would know; after r...
Childhood best friends - Imole and Maleek reunite on the summer of their come up, together they explore their growing identity, their undeniable romance and a world filled with danger and adventures. "When The Sunset on Mount Little, The Big Boys Come Down To Play."
Entry for ONC 2024- When I took another step back, my feet found a round structure instead of the flat floor that I had been anticipating. I realised, too late, that I had collided with the rolled rug and before I could regain my balance, I crashed down, the chalice spilling its contents right over my head, drenching...
Zara Morrigan didn't really expect to get accepted into Belmare, the premier university of magic in Oclia. After all, the entire world already knew the heir to Family Morrigan didn't have any magic of her own. She had only applied to please her mother. It was really more a private joke than anything...until the arriv...
After stealing money from her wealthy but controlling stepfather, Nataly Collins makes the bold decision to run away with her four-year-old sister. But as she does, she crosses paths with an escaped convict from the local penitentiary, and he plans to keep the sisters hostage until he can safely cross the Canadian bor...
High school at Crestwood Heights High feels like hell and the end of the world, and for Zoe and her friends, it might just be. Reopening after a mysterious summer "remodeling," the school now harbors a new library and a seemingly friendly librarian, Mr. Henderson. For Zoe, the library promises a haven of books and new...
Imperial Russia kills her heroes quickly- and she does not show mercy. ▪︎▪︎▪︎ Arkady Bessmertny's destiny has already been decided. Banished to the caucasus for his liberal beliefs, he is fated to die in the bloodbath of a cruel war and sacrifice himself in the name of the tsar. His punishment is as devastating as it...
Dreams are the greatest power of mankind. In our waking hours, we dream of more, imagining our futures as they teeter on hopes, hard work, and a little luck. But when we sleep, our subconscious mind takes over, and it is a beast that cannot always be tamed. It takes that which is strongest inside of us and unravels it...
ONC 2024: Prompt #17: Your curse is to love so much and crave love more than life, but never be loved. Those who dare to love you will be subjected to the worst of fates. Fedya Zaravyrzhik is a siren--a cursed one at that. While most sirens are designed to seduce and kill, Fedya is flawed--he loves love. Fedya's curse...
Danilo's life is a mess, from the drinking to the smoking to the nagging of his mother. It seems nothing is ever going right until he meets Dulnuan, a ghost who lived during the time of American imperialism in the Philippines. He befriends her, and she becomes a light at the end of his dark tunnel with the promise of...
Emma, a girl used to being watched. Zephyr, a detective who makes a living by watching others. Acacius, a serial killer from the future who enjoys watching his victims. The plot is kept secret, but the ending is clear. There's only one survivor in this story, and no one but the main character can escape with their lif...
Bad boy Adam Lawson is cursed never to know love until he's placed in a Mormon foster home and meets Thomas, an innocent boy who dares to love a monster no matter the cost. [Frankenstein meets 1985, the AIDS epidemic, and a bad boy desperate for love.] ONC Main Prompt: 17 (chapter 1) ONC Side prompt: 95 (chapter 6) No...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all those who travel to Paris must have a good time. Dominic, however, isn't having much of a blast. That is, until his annoyingly attractive roommate Luc ropes him into a daring scheme: visit the city's most famous cemetery at midnight. Illegally. Père-Lachaise is a true ne...
Confined to the family's estate since birth, three sisters have never seen the outside world. Taught they are unable to leave home due to their long hair, Lexi, Lulu, and Fia secretly envy their volatile father and narcissistic mother whose short locks allow them to come and go whenever they wish. Raised believing the...
In a community of guarded secrets, first-time condo owner Imani Jenson is struck by mysterious blue lightning, unveiling dual personas. Amid a romantic entanglement, a sinister stalker emerges, forcing Imani to join forces with her alter ego through a diary to unravel secrets and save her unraveling life. ***** First...