[ONC Shortlist | ROUND ONE Top 5 Winner | Based on ONC2021 prompt #13] What would you do if you woke up in a fairytale? A young, fourteen year old Ruby-Rose wakes up in a medieval castle unsure how she got there. But soon, with the help of an unexpected chambermaid and a scary dwarf who isn't a dwarf, Ruby discovers the world is none other than that of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Except, this is not exactly the fairytale she's grown up with. Snow White isn't the sweet, innocent Princess but the Evil Queen herself, her seven dwarfs are in fact fearsome knights, and Ruby-Rose isn't your average human. [This is the first, original draft of this story, written for the ONC 2021. Coming SOON, the expanded version as 'Ruby Rose'.] FEATURED IN: Round One Top 5 - ONC 2021 Round Two Qualifier - ONC 2021 @classicauthors - Grimm Retellings and Other Fairytales (March 2021) @retold - Fractured Fairytales (May 2021) @retold - Book of the Month (May 2021) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Eva Acharya, 2021. Cover made using Canva Pro.

Every now and then, a strange signal blinks on the live-dead map. Question marks above the dot represent how much knowledge about it the Underworld Central's Death Headquarters lacks. Kuolema, the Master Death and ruler of the Underworld, sends out his reapers to investigate, yet each time they come back empty-handed. Convinced they are just incompetent idiots, he decides to find this mysterious intruder while performing the obligatory centennial surveillance of mortals. Of course, it's 2020 and the pandemic is in full swing. His plan does not go as conceived. ONC entry using the prompts 36 and 57, both featuring Death as the main theme 2k words achieved - passed the 1st round 8k words achieved

When a fun-loving beauty with brains and a stone cold hardliner are forced to work together...the situation will be volatile. Paige Adesanya is a free-spirited, first year Pharmacy student at Landmark University, England. Adulting is tougher than she expected and the pressures of campus life leave her feeling overwhelmed. Her life turns upside down when a brilliant PhD finalist, enigmatic Australian, Brian Rochester is assigned to supervise her for a departmental project. He does not tolerate her indiscipline and they clash. Chaos and wild adventures ensue in the course of their collaboration. With high tension and a research deadline, will their chaotic combination be constructive or toxic? ⭐WATTPAD FEATURED (by Community Curator AngeltheAuthor) ⭐ONC 2021 SHORTLISTER AND AMBASSADORS PICK Featured @Wattpad @NewlyWrittenBooks @Ambassadors 'Best Teen Fiction' reading list @NARomance @NA @YARomance @WattpadESL @WattCliches @StoriesUndiscovered @AmbassadorsNG @TeenFiction @AmbassadorsAF @AmbassadorsUK @Humor 🎖1st in the Young Adult category of the 2021 Coral Awards ~~~~~~~ BASED ON ONC ENGLISH PROMPT 83 "This assignment requires us to behave like adults. I have never been this stressed." [First draft] Highest ranking: #1 in Multicultural romance #1 in Telemundo #1 in 9ja #1 in Positivity #1 in Australian #1 in short and sweet #3 in Excellent Cover design: @Evergreen_Ebony Banners: @WrennaStone

🏆 ONC AFRICA 2021 WINNER (SPOTLIGHT STORY) "Would you sabotage someone's career to protect your own?" Teniola Oyeyinka travels from New York to Nigeria after receiving a call from her estranged, terminally ill father. She is distraught by the experience, but eventually embraces new friends and family and decides not to return to the United States. During work as a columnist at the Continental Herald, Ibadan, Teniola commits an act of treachery to save her job. All hell breaks loose when she faces spiritual repercussions from an Ancient One. Will she be pay the ultimate price for her transgression? Pronunciation of 'JAGUNLABI' : JA (As in 'Jar') GUN ( 'Goon') LA (As in 'Lark') BI ('Bee') Meaning of 'JAGUNLABI': 'We have given birth to a warrior' Note: JAGUNLABI is complete. Part two (IPENIJA) is ongoing in the same book. ~~~~~ ONC AFRICA PROMPT 51 Your job as a gossip reporter is to find dirt on a couple, but you find nothing. To keep your job, you fabricate dirt/gossip that may cost you your life. ⭐WATTPAD FEATURED (by Community Curator LeeLeeKez) 🎖1st in the Paranormal/Horror category of the 2021 Elysium Awards 🎖1st in the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2021 Campfire Awards 🎖1st in the Paranormal category of the 2021 Rose Gold Awards 🎖Winner of the Paranormal category of The Fall Awards (2021) 🎖1st in the Horror/Paranormal category of the Sunflower Awards 4.0 Featured by: @Wattpad @WattDragons @MythandLegend @Fright @Fantasy @PsychologicalNovel @WattpadUrbanFantasy @TheWarriorGoddess @Contemporary Lit @SpeculativeFiction @LowFantasy @StoriesUndiscovered @AmbassadorsNG @YAFantasy @NA Highest ranking #1 in Indigenous #1 in BIPOC #1 in Black protagonist #1 in Project African Girls #1 in African literature #1 in Afrofantasy #1 in undiscoveredstories #1 in celebrate black stories Cover Design by @Evergreen_Ebony Banners by @WrennaStone

| Honorable Mention ONC 2021 | *** Rebecca Smythe has led a perfectly unremarkable life. Unremarkable, that is, until she is accused of witchcraft and whisked away into a world of magic, secrets, and housework. When these secrets begin to take on a life of their own, however, Rebecca is forced to choose between her own survival and the fate of all witch-kind.

Ever since Death got trapped in the mortal realm three years ago, nonstop famines, wars, and plagues have ravaged Earth. Shiori, a budding scientist with a love of snakes and a loathing for small talk, doesn't really care. She can deal with the constant pandemics, bombs, and spider/iguana/fruit fly/crocodile plagues, so long as it doesn't involve socializing with strangers -- the thing she hates most in the world. Too bad her new roommate is hot, suave, and super chatty. Even worse, he seems to have decided Shiori is the only one with the power to send Death back to the underworld -- and he'll stop at nothing to make it happen! **First place in The Punk Rock Awards 2022, Paranormal*** **Grand Winner of The Punk Rock Awards 2022**

Purely physical. Until emotions get in the way. *** After a humiliating divorce, Nita swears off men. Resolved to never suffer again, she builds a fortress around her heart and prepares to celebrate her first Valentine's Day alone. Except a handsome stranger lands on her doorstep in the midst of a snow storm. As she embarks with him on a sensual journey, Nita struggles to keep their relationship casual, but she soon discovers no wall is thick or high enough against love. *** Rated Mature for sex.

(Round 3/longlist Ambassador Pick) Open Novella contest 2021 For seventeen-year-old Toby, it's hard enough being a teenager. But then the world went and ended, and he got turned into a member of the undead community. Now his life consists of chasing his dinner down the road and hiding from gun toting maniacs who are determined to blow his head off. So he starts writing it all down on a notepad he found in the pocket of his unfortunate friend Moe. A way to process this new life he is now leading. Then one day he crosses paths with someone he used to know from school, she's a zombie too, just like Toby and she's in trouble. He soon finds himself on a mission, a mission to save her. Along the way he runs into Charlie and Meg. They want to help him save his friend, but they soon discover far more sinister things going on. Hopefully, he can manage to stay alive (well, kind of alive) and save zombiekind.

ONC 2021 In the land of Nodin, an outcast fae is used by nobility in many unsavory ways. His strange looks and bird-like wings deem his blood tainted and him unworthy of the respect paid to true fairy men. Ridiculed and sometimes tortured by royalty, his only solace can be found in the ancient fae female who raised him after being left an orphan, parentage unknown. One day, Mareck, known as Raven in the Royal Court, comes to the aid of a young human witch dying alone in the forest, and is soon plunged into love and all out war, a war that will bring him answers about his parents, a war that will change his station forever.