[#ONC2024] The Open Novella Contest is back for 2024 with shiny new prompts to get you out of your dragon cave. Once again, we are here to challenge you to create a legendary 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic journey begins February 1st, so mark your calendars.✨
[**Slow Updates**] Lawrence thought that Count Abbot was his soulmate...until he realized that his creator had abandoned him as a Fledgeling to pursue another human. - ⥽ ✟ ⥼ - Lawrence thought he found his soulmate in Count Abbotーuntil Abbot heartlessly abandoned him. Betrayed and furious, Lawrence resolves to seek re...
Prompt #3 Your greatest fear is monsters in the dark. The last thing you expected is to become the monster in the dark. Teraphobia: The Fear of Monsters Aislinn Raine is deathly afraid of monsters. A traumatic ordeal at the age of five steals her voice and makes her a prisoner of her own design. She watches as her fel...
In the year 2032, the first AI-assisted RPG was released, allowing players for the first time to freely interact with NPCs so long as the AI could keep up with their requests. It's not long before a glitch is discovered allowing immortal NPCs to die. Celine discovers that her world is not quite what she thought it wa...
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.
#ONC2024 Round 2 Ambassadors Pick | Shortlister (Finalist) When Prince Oskar decides to disguise himself and goes out into the village to see what the people are like, he is met with a shocking sight. There are orphaned children in the streets, beggars at every corner, and people fighting for their next meal. The king...
When death is everywhere, what will you do to survive? All Hadriana remembers is slavery. Her home burned to the ground, she now works the fields of the estate, keeping a low profile to survive. That is, until she attaches the attention of a famous gladiator. Kind, confident, and wanting her, he whispers promises of a...
In the bustling heart of the culinary world, where spices meet flames and recipes are family treasures, Teni stirs up more than just her signature dishes. By day, she's the maestro behind the sizzling pans at her family's beloved restaurant. By night? Thanks to her sister's upcoming nuptials, she's entangled in the ch...
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. "...
Hopeless romantic Romano Goodpan has admired his crush, Yoliana Mielvalle, from afar for more than a minute. Fortune smiles on him during a senior trip to the charming and scenic town of Willowmere, which puts him in close proximity to the girl for whom his heart beats. Soon, Romano gets to see a side of Yoliana that...
Single mom Selina Sardi would do anything for her 6-year-old son. Eager to turn their new house into a real home for him, she's devastated when she discovers that the monster under his bed is not a figment of his imagination but the real deal. Elias Zwarteveen started his bogeyman career twenty-four years ago and he...
A dark family lineage. Secrets hidden away within rotting walls. And a mysterious Book that binds it all together... Oliver Wendell was only ever meant to write stories, lost within his own worlds of imagination. He was never meant to be a soldier. He was never meant to see his brother die. Yet in the midst of the fir...
[ONC 2024 Longlisted] Marek has worked for the Society of Powereds in Service of Community (SOPISOC) for as long as he can remember. He's got a great superhero team, his best friends, fighting supervillains by his side. But there is one supervillain he just can't bring himself to fight anymore-the love of his life, Va...
Algunas promesas, especialmente aquellas hechas en los momentos más difíciles, pueden ser el puente hacia un nuevo amor. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Penélope, una adolescente de diecisiete años, se encuentra confinada a una silla de ruedas después de un devastador accidente automovilístico que le arrebató a su novio. En medio de su duel...
||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...
'One thing is for certain. Something has been stolen from this room.' When popular podcaster Erica Scott is found murdered at a true crime convention, it soon becomes clear that the case will not be straightforward. Someone had a motive to harm Erica. In fact - lots of people did. And when Rita Silvera is drawn in t...
Severn: A kingdom where humans were just the facade. The real power stayed hidden in the shadows - strong, dangerous, and silent. In such a kingdom, lived a young and naive girl, Xolani. Unaware of the evil around her, she falls in love with a man, not realizing he's the literal Devil. Her naivete and innocence knew...
"When just being alive makes you a target, you learn to keep your head low." Being a nurse in an ER clinic, Eileen never had much time for romance. Especially, when job and education often came before everything else she's ever known. That is until she met Ursus. Funny and compassionate, he always seems to understand...
A merchant's daughter must join the grueling Frostwing Academy and learn to ride the mighty gryphons to save her family from financial ruin. ------------ Seventeen-year-old Herleva Montrose has lived a life of privilege, but her family is plunged into debt when a business deal goes wrong. Determined to fix her father'...
Gale, a young independent lady in mid twenties, earning her own living. Calmer and collected on the outside while bitter on the inside. Only good to some few friends she remained usually to herself. Hellbent on revenge from her ex boyfriend, Liam for cheating on her. Bennett the kindest living soul, a loving dad to h...
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...
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...
The King is dead! Long live the ........? The king has died, but despite his multiple marriages and mistresses, he has never sired a son. So the crown should go to his eldest daughter, right? Wrong! The newly proclaimed Queen Regent must locate and marry the first eligible male with a claim to the throne before her 21...
In the shadowed heart of Eldridge Hollow, where ancient woods whisper secrets, Rima harbors a life divided. By day, she runs Whispers of the Past, a bookshop with stories as mystical as the town. By night, she treads a more dangerous path, navigating the dreamscape as the last Dreamwalker. Her rare gift, to enter and...
When turning back isn't an option, what does it take to delve into the unknown? After a troubled upbringing in the foster care system, Gemma Haywood is used to switching homes. Her latest destination is Milnhome, the rural town where her runaway brother Jacob has resurfaced after five years of silence. With its distan...
𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐎, Cairo Quimby disappeared without a trace. His family has neglected to speak of him since, running the slightly strange but unassuming hotel he grew up in as if nothing ever happened. Until Cairo, a lone wanderer roaming a lost and dangerous world, has a run-in at a diner with mysterious str...
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...
Join Katie on a heartwarming journey of self-discovery and friendship as she unlocks the secrets of a mysterious box filled with unexpected treasures. From rediscovering childhood joys to embracing newfound confidence, each item in the box leads Katie on a path of self-care, creativity, and connection. With the suppor...
In a world where your soulmate can completely change your life, for better or for worse, Valarie avoids discovering hers at all costs. She stays home as much as possible and avoids all eye contact for it is through one's eyes that you can discover your soulmate. Yet she unexpectedly meets a devil named Reese who is h...
