[ONC 2022 SHORTLISTER] In a small city, catering services are not the best business to opt for - too late for Lucas Schneider to realize that. With a catering company on the verge of bankruptcy, he is at his wits end. He has no choice but to give up on his dream job not until a certain Mr. Pheles decides to hire him. The event? A midnight celebration at their mansion. The payment? A hundred thousand dollars for the whole night. The menu? It's better if you don't know. *** This is for ONC 2022 PROMPT 20: You manage a catering company. The latest request has a few... interesting menu items. Featured on: StoriesUndiscovered WattpadFairytales WattpadDarkFantasy WattpadUrbanFantasy lowfantasy © Copyrights Reserved 2022

Sealed within Kealie Gothalis are the secrets of a magic destined to flood her kingdom. Trading her Mortality to disguise the heritage her mother fears most, Kealie is gifted with a blessing. She need only do one thing; keep her kingdom in the dark until the dusk of her twentieth birthday. But her control over the ancient magic is slipping... ...Along with her Willpower. || Open Novella Contest 2022 || || Complete 4/30/22 ||

Entry for ONC2022 Cheryl is a young woman who runs her own catering company. Her apartment isn't the best looking out there but it is her home. She has a reputation to uphold but what happens when a few customers give her trouble? A new neighbour moves in and immediately starts trouble. What happens when she goes to confront this person? Will it be sunshine and rainbows or will it just blow up in her face? Cover by @Exequinne

💜#ONC2022💜 "Pluck your eyes off with this." The voice stormed in the dark icy cave. After refusing to move an inch to the sword hanging in the air, a dagger fell beside my toes from the small crack above my head. ★★★★ "Amelia, would you rather..." Those were the last words from her boyfriend before he slumps down to the red water. She could almost hear his bones cracking. Just within one night, Amelia is terrified by the sudden amount of blood in the dinning room. Her little sister dead, with a disfigured nose, her parents with some body parts ripped off and her almost dead boyfriend. Prompt #6 (Modified) Walking down the street the next day, she stumbles upon a weird looking man whose eyes wavered through her in and out. She could feel it. After his obvious scrutinizing, his grin came out softly, "I know what you need to do." What does she need to do to find out the killer ? What does she do when she discovers that every single incident is caused by a game of words? She writes; 1. Play the game. 2. And get your loved ones back. Little did she know that life doesn't go as we planned.

"There was something inside [her] that wouldn't stop until the whole world was blood." The kingdom of Ostrova has been at war for centuries, and to feed the unending cycle of violence, every year, the day after the New Year, every sixteen-year-old in the realm is conscripted. A notoriously difficult exam called the Proving determines where in the military they will be placed. Norah Tasca is a peasant girl from Ostrova's oldest colony, Navaria. When she passes the Proving with a perfect score, she becomes only one of a handful of commoners ever admitted to the Citadel, the training program for Ostrova's future commanders. But at the Citadel, Norah is an outsider, and all is not as it seems. Those chosen to train there were not chosen for the intellect or their aptitudes, but for something else, something that challenges everything Norah has ever known about the world and the balance of power.

Simon Tuttle is dead. When Finnigan Walsh attends the funeral of his late, long-lost uncle, he expects to simply pay some unemotional respects and head home. Instead, he's drawn into a bizarre mystery as he meets three of his uncle's old friends. A blind man armed to the teeth. A woman that speaks and moves only in whispers. A monstrous brawler who lives in the woods. Each one is a reformed killer who owes their redemption to Simon. Now unable to repay their debts, the trio vows to safeguard Finnigan by drawing out and defeating his mortal enemy. The problem is, Finnigan had no idea he had one. __________ ONC22 - Inspired by Prompt #35

The angels of Elysia are dying, and it's all Micah's fault. Stealing the Heart of Asariel was never intended as anything more than a harmless prank. It was certainly never supposed to end in the Heart lost to the earth, and Micah caught red-handed. In an attempt to put an end to his troublemaking ways, he is tasked with recovering his fallen treasure. The crime-ridden city of Anhren is far from the sheltered life he's used to. With a multitude of greedy humans eager to make use of the Heart's magical properties on his tail, his only option is to team up with Corinne, a sharpshooter with killing thick in her blood, if he is to survive. If the Heart falls into the wrong hands, it will destroy everything Micah knows and loves. But if he's not careful, his own heart will prove just as deadly. -♡- [beautiful cover by @avadel] ~ Completed ~ May 2023 Editor's Pick

ONC 2022 Longlister! After years of dreaming of a different world and being visited by a bird that defies identification, Miriam Rogers embarks on a mysterious quest to repair something she doesn't understand. Along the way, she meets the crown prince of her dream world who claims she is his soulmate, the prophesied key to saving his world and her own from destruction. Can they reverse the curse from his land and find love for themselves, or are they doomed to watch their worlds disintegrate along with their fledgling bond?