The life of a goddess isn't as easy as it seems. | On the morning of Palya's arranged marriage, a mark appears on her forehead, indicating that she has ascended into a deity. She learns that she has become a void-goddess with the ability to undo the other gods' blessings. Believing that she would betray them and lose...
[ONC2024] Everyone can read minds except for Ethan Langdon. And Ethan Langdon has the dumbest (and cutest!) thoughts Lukas Hoffmann has ever heard. ____ Lukas Hoffman's life in Brambleburg is about as boring as you'd expect for a town where everyone can read minds. He's used to his routine of dusting the LPs at the r...
When flowers get pricked, they wreck the world. Rathi was once a petunia. As she walks the muddy roads with guilt that pits her heart, she hears the skies roar. The bolt of lightning pierced her eyes making her weakly succumb to the grounds. Little did she know, she was split. A tragic irony that she will never wish t...
||ONC 2024|| Twilight x Scooby-Doo || Why is Zoe's crush glowing blue?|| Zoe has no desire to chase after dangerous love and alphaholes. Not after that last time when a smug jock made her a laughing stock of the entire school! Cruz is the safest bet for a prom date--a top athlete who had never been noticed in any bad...
ONC 2024 SHORTLISTER || After two opposites find comfort in each other and have an instant connection but can't be together, they collide again months later and get a second chance at love || August Walker and Jasmine Kelly are complete opposites, but both have closed their hearts to love. One night, August walks in...
Ruslan Bogdanovich Makarov's spoiled, twisted family is desperate to retain their power, but refuse to name him Tsesarevich, the crowned prince or heir apparent, because of his birth gender. Instead, they've welcomed Alexander Vissarionovich Sokolov to the palace; the last apple on a dying branch of their family tree...
|CROSSROADS x LEAP YEAR | Eighteen-year-old April Lewis flees her troubled home, desperate to escape her emotionally distant, controlling mom, and seek out her dad. Little does she know a chance encounter with her classmate will take her on a cross-country ride: a journey that will change April's life forever. A vent...
❝It isn't my fault inspector! The sloth was in my car when I woke up!❞ she exasperated but no face intended to believe her. •°•°•° Sandra Bourdain had no intentions of getting married to an over-enthusiastic environmentalist. But being a barista to the busiest streets of NYC had its downsides. Irritated, the bride-to...
Rumors. Infidelity. Lies. Secrets. MURDER. And all before lunch time. Who knew being a socialite in 1951 could be so thrilling? ~~~ On a lovely June afternoon, as the oh-so-chic members of the Gilded Grove Ladies' Book Club gather for their scheduled luncheon, they are shocked to receive the news that their vice presi...
🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A witch has to pretend to be the wife of the Prince of the Dead in exchange for resurrecting her lover. ⋯⋯⋯ Mavyn of Krauss has everything under control until her rich and influential fiancé keels...
🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A misfit of an aristocratic family must find out who is behind the murder at his university before he is disowned and falls victim to the murderer. ⋯⋯⋯ Arlo Crowhaven, a student of the prestigious...
It is when the bar is in complete silence that the barkeeper is the most content. That is until another companion comes to them in death and they are reminded of what they are still there for: memories of love. *** A woman who spent all her years in anger, but wants to spend her last minutes talking about her sister...
[ONC Longlist 2024 | A Medusa Retelling.] Sydney 2112. Young men are disappearing without a trace. On the other side of town, an up-and-coming sculptor's works eerily resemble the missing men. Can the Inspector solve the riddle before her son joins the collection? *** Keya Sapkota needs to create artworks for her fi...
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...
In the grandeur of the Mughal court, Jalal's pursuit of a worthy heir unravels a tapestry of treacherous intentions and dirty politics, plunging the empire into a riveting saga of power and betrayal. Heer, the devoted mother of Salim, orchestrates a daring bid for the throne, enlisting the cunning support of Mehrunisa...
[ONC 2024 Prompt 18] The once-famous temple dancers are now left to destitution; their status is akin to that of prostitutes, and hence they hope for a saviour to help them reclaim their lost glory. There are hushed whispers of the prophecied Nateshwari, the earthly Goddess of Dance, who is to be born amidst them, but...
OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 (Prompt #6: Your life as you know it is over. Somewhere in Limbo, you're met with the message: "Something went wrong. Please try again) ************* ONC 2024 Round One Qualifier ONC 2024 Round Two Qualifier ONC 2024 Longlist ONC 2024 Shortlist ************* My name is Hezekiah Chamblee. Sev...
2100. A mysterious ship, nicknamed the Chimera, appears in Martian airspace. It bears the symbol of the international space agency, the BASE, but there is no record of such a vessel. Word and rumour quickly spread. BASE investigator Leanne Ziegler is sent to inspect the ship and make contact with its crew. But the Chi...
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...
[ONC '24 SHORTLISTER] When a group of assassins is onto her irritating escort, a happy-go-lucky bodyguard must ensure they survive their trip before his escort's past demons catch up to them. * * * No one expected easygoing Aspen Mendoza to be accepted into Interpol as a field agent, but she couldn't be any more ex...
Heems is an energy vampire, a parasite. Working as a doctor on dwarf planet Eris, Heems feeds on xeir unknowing hosts -- Eris's sickly hospital patients -- by draining their energy with a single touch. Caused by a tragic glitch in xeir meatware, the brain implant given to Eris's citizens at birth to enable them to en...
| Book 1 of the Night Crawler Chronicles | After being rejected by the man he thought he'd marry, Jesse travels to DeiganLupus for the Grey Moon Ceremony. However, when the ship he was supposed to take is lost at sea, he boards the Silver Treader to reach his destination. But the Galleon turns out to be carrying more...
ONC 2024: In college, it was a case of wrong place/wrong time. Eight years later, they have a second chance. But will they take the leap? ___ Prompt 14: "My muse, believe me, waiting for you has been a form of freedom." ___ Excerpt: "Don't look back." Ian stares at me through the screen with his dark, intense gaze. "...
Vampires and hunters are like cats and dogs. They either tolerate each other, or they go for the throat. Rarely ever is there a third option. ⋅⋆⋅ Lailoken is a powerful, ancient vampire with peculiar fog powers who's just awoken from a long slumber in his beloved woods. He thirsts for an adventure in the modern w...
🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart, but also his life.🗝️ You're on your own, far from home The wind is blowing in the top of the pines A gloomy sky where the sun never shines Deep in the woods, where the night is so cold You're lost, far from home -Mus...
SEQUEL TO ROYALLY BUMPED || After a whirlwind of a year, Mila Abbott is finally enjoying her life as a princess and mother. As wife to the new first in line to the British throne, Mila is adjusting to juggling royal work and being a mother, and the papers following her every move. With the royal family finally in a pe...
Together, a demon goddess and a young woman will battle the Archons' system, which was designed to kill them one life after another. *** Lilith is the only woman, conceived by the Archons leader, Yaldabaoth. She is also the first one to say no to him. The first to have eaten from the tree of knowledge and evil. But no...
In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. *** Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl...
When Elven assassin's enslave a Fae Queen within her own mines - Chyrie is blood-sworn to forge the very iron meant to strike her down. With only a few months to sever the oath, her only hope lands in the palms of a forgotten Captain and his Sea Wyrm. ...
[ONC 2024 Longlist] A princess marries a conqueror she doesn't love. A favourite breathes in forbidden love for the same man. **** Roshanak wakes up to find her kingdom conquered and before she knows, she is married to the conquerer, Shah Sikander. She goes to his land Persia as his wife. Even though his immediate fa...