What begins as a lovely day at the fair in the village of Pepperdine leads to danger and intrigue in war-torn Albion as Deirdre and her friends race to unravel a plot that might end in disaster or worse. There are things more dangerous than battles and campaigns to be found the fair fields and lovely skies of this anc...
Who let the ghosts out? Ian thinks he's getting the hang of his supernatural powers but a surprise encounter with Melody, a professional psychic medium, forces him to put his skills to the test in a friendly psychic duel. It's all fun and games until they accidentally break the fabric of reality and the Grim Reaper ge...
No one has seen the real world in centuries. Since the creation of Dreamworld, humanity has transported permanently into the digital realm. The only ones who even know that Earth was-and is-a real place are the members of the Embassy, Dreamworld's sole government power. Tom Tolmafin, the last human to remember Earth...
SHORTLISTED. Paul Finn wakes to discover that not only is he feeling horribly sick but, more worryingly, the naked stranger in his bed isn't moving. If only he could remember what happened... My story for the ONC 2023, a thriller scifi adventure, with a touch of romance. (SciFi /Adventure / LGBT)
Everyone knows Zenith, but nobody knows how the band managed to rock Zerkovkia's youth into starting a revolution... until now. Tolya Viktov is coming of age in the 1980s to the tune of spinning records, cheap liquor, and Zerkovkia's nine year war with neighboring Blivdova. The perms and denim jackets are hip, but it'...
Part One Complete It was whispered throughout the Marvelous Kingdoms of Elidurre that no grave could hold the bones of Horeg. Always on the lips of talebearers, whether in story or song, Horeg's bones always defied their final resting place. Such as the awful reasons for this remained hidden, so also the exceptional...
❝ DEATH IS COMING. BUT SHE DOESN'T FEAR HIM. ❞ For the people of Khaya's little village living amidst the woods is quiet, and even more, so it became since the creatures lurking in its shadows turned into mere fairytales. Little does Khaya know that the stories she loves to tell are true. But then on a cold winter nig...
Taylor West is the epitome of self-reliance. Or she must be. Relationships are fickle. Despite finally enrolling in her dream studies and thriving in them, her social life is only skin-deep. When she finds out that her so-called boyfriend is a selfish cheater, her chronic condition flares up again. Walking around as...
Rescued from a blind date from hell, a career woman's one night stand with her would be savior has unforeseen consequences. **** Up and coming New York apartment manager, Vanessa Torres' life is going perfectly according to her five year plan. Well, everything except...
~*ONC shortlist*~ It's up to a climbing enthusiast, and the local jaded doctor to find out what's going on when a mysterious hole appears in their town's park at the same time that a strange new illness starts ravaging the community. *ONC 2023 From the ONC Prompts: 38) A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which...
ONC 2023 Shortlister & Nano Watt 2023 Shortlist Novella Inspired by the prompt: 28: Stumped on a history assignment, you stumble across a time machine that will bring you back to the time period you're studying. ↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹↹ It all began with an assignment... Why? Why did I pick Cleopatra?! All I wanted to do w...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
Book 1 of the Twin Souls Series Vagrant former spy JD had always felt a part of his soul was missing or that there was a vacant seat beside his core. After wandering in search of an answer, he found solace amidst the aching feeling in a small town. Until he got kicked out of the town because he accused the growing eli...
Word: Remnant (noun) Definition: a surviving trace With a single scream to break the silence, reality as it was no longer exists. What happens when they only know fear and aggression? Yet yearn for affection in the form of touch. With each passing day they lose more of whom they once were, slowly becoming Remnants of...
(My ONC 2023 Entry) Luna Caddel just wanted to spend her last day of Summer with her two best friends and neighbors, Evelyn Heart and Cora Whitlock, but things take a turn for the worst. *** Luna goes to sleep on August 31st, a completely normal day, and wakes up two moths later on Halloween. Her parents are gone. It...
|ONC 2023 SHORTLISTER| |FEATURED Wattpad Military Fiction| "She wears her strength and darkness equally well. The girl is half goddess and half hell." Legends are made, battles are fought, and the storm is yet to come. After the death of her fellow comrade, Lieutenant Amirah Grey would do anything to have redemption...
When the tragic death of Inanna's parents leaves her utterly alone, meeting a handsome stranger in a bar awakens her darkest fantasies and changes her life forever. *** No one could have predicted the car accident that took the lives of Inanna's parents. Torn between wallowing in despair and seeking the comfort of oth...
General Min Lian has climbed the stairs of treason and reached the top: his opponents are crushed, dissent is all but gone, and his ascent is a matter of time. Soon enough, he will become the new Chairman and cleanse his beloved country of the despicable spinners - artists who dare to shape the world with their unnatu...
What's worse than waking up beside a dead body and a bag of dirty money? Not remembering how the f*ck you got there. Or even who you are. ~~~ When Roxanne wakes up to find a lifeless woman next to her in bed in a hotel room she doesn't recognize, she's swift to call the front desk for help. There's been a murder, afte...
🏆ONC 2023 || Ambassador's Pick 🏆ONC 2023 || Round Two Qualifier One night is all it takes to change a life. There's something wrong with Felicity Farr. It's how she can't seem to do her job right no matter how hard she tries, and how she's still under her parents' thumb years after moving out, and how she looks at...
Four strangers are trapped in an elevator and forced to reveal details about their most malicious deeds within the hour to prevent a fall to their death. But as secrets are exposed, tension escalates, leading to a reality no one is prepared for. ***** Tasha Pierce receives an anonymous invitation she believes is from...
| Round 2 Winner & Ambassador's Pick | Nightshade. It's a name spoken only in whispers for fear that speaking it aloud will summon her. It's the air of death that hangs on the wind and lurks in shadows. It's a curse, a deadly blight that leaves pain, misery, and a single purple flower. Azalea is a weapon, forged in...
Open Novella Contest 2023 #ONC2023 SHORTLISTER Prompt #49: "Master the rules of the game until you can play it better than they can." ― Michael Scott, The Sorceress Who says that youth, beauty, money and privilege don't come with a price? When a group of friends, from a London's elite secondary school, are forced to s...
Valeria is an orphan, a High Mage and a descendant of a long line of powerful mages. She is also a child of the Void, one born with a very unique magic ability. Like many of the starving, helpless mages of the Void, Valeria is condemned by the mages of the Light, ever at war with them. She cares little about the war t...
He's an introverted romance-loving writer. She's a heartbroken girl who no longer believes in love. What if you were caught up with your polar opposite in the most tragic love story of all time? What if you had to help Romeo and Juliet fall in love again? What if Cupid and Aphrodite entrusted you with the mission of g...
When his vampire blood begins to poison him, dhampir Elio Starling falls into hallucinations. As the delusions get darker, and the line between reality and dreams blurs, he believes he is losing his mind. There is only one soul he can confide in, a mermaid and part-time lover named Lux who suffers from an intolerance...
Florence Eisley is dead, according to her death certificate and her loved ones. Gone. Buried. Already rotting away into nothingness in her little grave. Ethan hasn't seen her in over a year, after a falling out that left both of them too awkward to reach out and mend things. Not only that but for some strange reason...
🤎 'Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives.' 🤎 All that supermodel Amy Wonderson ever wanted was a few breathes of relief in a new home, after an early retirement from the industry, with her long-term partner and fiance. But leave the breathes, even her want to stay for a minute fades away when a not-so-secr...
What if having superpowers was not a gift but a curse? Would you still choose to use it? Aleksandra Leszczyńska works as an agent for a secret government organisation training people with superpowers - the Gifted - to work as a police support force. Working as a public servant to keep peace and order was always her dr...
Blamed for a lethal disease she did not cause, a reclusive necromancer sets out to cure the sickness and save a town before any more victims perish. *** Draped in a cloak of blood and deemed a wicked monster, Evylyn is an im...