Opennovella Stories

A dragon, a dwarf and an elf walk into a bar... But only because that bar is on their way to tracking down the lost heir in a last-ditch quest to save the kingdom from a...

Hermione grew up reading fairy tales and other stories as an escape from her Cinderella-like life with her stepmother, her father none the wiser because of Ursula's unde...

In which Adeana Coleman has to interview Oliver Tate for the school paper, except she's been madly in love with him since the fifth grade. Prompt 97: For a school magazi...

GHOST IN THE SHELL meets THE LUNAR CHRONICLES. Year 2154, Hong Kong: Bod Mods are all the rage. From forearms equipped with blast cannons to telescopes implanted to iris...

(Book 4) Shortlisted for ONC 2023! Not all secrets go to their graves. A former librarian's ghost haunts Everett Pepperheart, pleading with him to solve her murder. Th...

[ an Open Novella Ambassador's Pick 2019, Longlisted in the Open Novella Contest ] [ featured on Fairytale Community's Misc. and Combo Fairytales Inspired/Retellings ] E...

¤ LONGLISTED IN THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2022 ¤ // COMPLETE - stand-alone sequel to featherlight - Chase Collins steps onto a late night train, his last in the city b...

When he was sixteen, Lu Ten thought the Fire Nation would change the world. At age thirty, he realized it wasn't the world that needed changing, right at the same time s...

OPEN NOVELLA 2022 LONGLISTED FEATURED ON @STORIESUNDISCOVERED'S AUGUST READING LIST Olive Rodriguez has always known he was different, but this was something else comp...

A boy with a fatal secret. A prince desperate to protect his people. A princess fighting for freedom. And they will do whatever it takes. In a world of secrets, betrayal...

The library is haunted., not to mention the whole school That much Lindsey Eden figures out on his first day as he listens carefully to the students gossiping about the...

[ONC2019 Longlister/Ambassadors Pick] Luke is in love with a stranger, his soul tethered to hers. He is born each life with an innate knowing that something is missing...

In the depths of the Netherworld, where shadows dance and eerie whispers echo through the abyss, the formidable Demon Lord Caius rules with an iron fist. Known for his r...

It was supposed to be simple prank, one that would not lead to any problems in the life of Princess Nhyira of Diamantí. What happens when an unexpected incident occurs a...

There once existed a weapon, a weapon so great it was only discussed in whispers. Some would say it was a weapon of mass destruction, an evil force only wielded by the c...

For all obvious reasons to his story, Cato should be dead. By some miracle, he's not. Somehow surviving a brutal attack, he wakes up instead to the insistent beeping of...

*Round 1 Qualifier* In the new world of Soulstice, a reluctant hero becomes the secret savior of the poor. Infamously known as the Soul Sweeper, 28 year old Freya Eeli i...

Tick-tock goes the clock, time passing slowly, time passing quick. But it's all in our heads, just one big trick. What if time didn't exist? For Sybil Avant, her realit...

The tale of two individuals; one a 22nd century journalist; the other, a cultural Anthropologist. Both of these people's lives will bring them under the shadow of the my...

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