ONC Shortlister(✓) Won The 2023 NanoWatt Awards in the category Novellas. August 1st, 23: Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered - Tales of Adventure. September 1st, 23: 1st place in the Vampire/werewolf category in the Lavender Awards hosted by @grandeur_cat with the highest score: 95.5% September 11, 23: - 3rd place winn...
Born the son of a lowly hunter and abandoned as a child, Zhenxing never expected to be brought to Heaven and become the most treasured attendant of the mighty Tiger Immortal, one of the twelve Zodiac Guardians appointed by the Jade Emperor. But the world is tumultuous and not even the Heavenly Realm resides in peace f...
Deacon Blye struggles to leave the shadow of a demanding legacy to create his own. Working himself to the bone, he's now the popular mysterious country star for True Tone Records. Don't be fooled by his suave personality, Deacon likes filth... When a spanner is thrown in his works quite literally, he needs to rethink...
Las Vegas. Now I know why it is named the city of sins. While on a business trip, I drunk-married my boss. Drowning in tequila and the lust for the hots for my boss seemed like the best idea on my week off. There was no undoing except that my boss didn't do soulmates, fate, and marriage. Especially an impromptu one...
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...
▪︎ Deep in the Zimbabwean bush, a lion roars, a woman screams and two men hunt down their human prey. ▪︎ When a group of friends goes for a weekend away in the middle of Hwange National Park they expect to see some animals, play some drinking games and escape from their daily lives for a while. What they don't expect...
Legend speaks of a man with crows in his hair and stitches in his lips who will teach you his greatest trades. Some call him a monster. Most call him the Needle-Mouthed Man. But only the shadows know his true name, and they call him Master. As one of the dead, Minseo Park is a creature of the night, doomed to eternal...
This story is for the ONC 2023~ prompt #36 When a powerful witch possessing an unusually old magic cast a spell on Alpha Knox of the Blood Wolf Pack he quickly becomes ill and slips into a coma. The pack doctors don't know what do or how long the Alpha will survive. His Beta, Ebony, assumes the role of a Alpha...
After finding out her time on Earth is running out, Elle Harper decides to make preparations for life after death. No, not her life - the lives of her loved ones. For her best friend since childhood, Euan Golding, who has never dated, Elle decides to set him up with the girl of her dreams so that he won't be sad and l...
"If I cannot move Heaven, then I will raise Hell. And I will do it for you. Again, again, and again." *** Iris Irai, a half-demon of wrath, is living in anything but paradise. She works as a cleaning lady at the Paradise Resort, a hotel in the Florida Keys that is catered to retiree demons who vacation from Hell...and...
[Bauhinia Legacy Series, Book 4.0] 🏅HONORABLE MENTION IN ONC 2023🏅 Written for the 2023 Open Novella Contest: It's easy to get away with crime in a packed, unruly and newly built city--Cantonesia: The Jewel of the Orient. That's what Amelia Yeung's family has been doing for decades. She's part of Cantonesia's most n...
ONC Shortlist Before her twelfth birthday, Davinia never thought she could kill, but for the past eight years, taking their lives is all she could think about. ☽ ⛤ ☾ The banished Atropa coven witches came back in an all-destroying reaping of revenge. They killed Davinia's mother and destroyed most of her town, coven...
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...
Winter Sutton, a trained assassin, is sent to kill a mysterious someone who ends up enabling a whirlwind search for answers about their past. All their life, they have been kept in the dark about much of their past. They've asked questions, but over the years, their silence has proven to have better outcomes. One nig...
Hanari Raven Wilson thinks that everything she experiences in her dreams is just a figment of her imagination and whims. But how could she explain when a man starts showing up in her dream when she craves company? There was him when everything started to spiral out of control. When things get better, will there still...
Yeju Hwarng no longer believes in love. After breaking up with her long-term girlfriend and watching her parents divorce over the summer, all her passion disappeared, including her passion for science that got her into her microbiology Ph.D. program. When a new roommate moves into the apartment, Yeju recognizes her as...
What is identity, if not a collection of someone's interactions and experiences? Will they be the same person if these are taken away? Is choice real, or is every outcome set in stone? Val had his past taken away from him. Everything he knew was deleted like a file in a computer. He was forced into a life he doesn't...
"You were at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and now you are running for your life." Christabelle Lewis, a young, independent journalist with a dark past, has... a special relationship with the devil, which, naturally, means she'll do anything for him. She takes a trip from New York to Lostville, Netherlands to m...
Three women, who have never met. Three secrets, never meant to be known. Three lives, tangled together in horrific ways, as fate plays with the strings. * * * * * Rani Altario has a secret. A threat to her life and her country leaves her with little choice but to flee, hiding herself behind a new identity for protect...
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)
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...
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...
An amateur medium races against the brink of her own sanity to track down a serial killer who is already in possession of his next victim. And she only has 23 days to solve the case or else. *** Devyn Brooks has only ever had one fear: don't become like Aunt Atheena. But after helping her boyfriend, Ace Jones, solve...
His voice is the sweetest dream. Reminding me of Beltane celebrations. Luke O'Brien's joyful musings were warm. Like bonfires signifying summer's approach. They conjure up visions of wild forests and flourishing fields. Of the sun dancing against one's skin. I'd never had the privilege of gazing upon Luke's undoubted...
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...
ONC 2023 Shortlist Astrid, the Princess of Eurovea, a country existing several centuries in the future, had led a happy and sheltered life in the castle ruled by Regent Arcturus, her uncle. Only on reaching the age of ascension when, according to an ancient tradition, all future queens must face a trial, she realised...
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'...
38 A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. ~~~ Susan "Maysie" May Hornsby was a toddler when the s...
72 On the twilight of their sixteenth birthday, a shy bookworm escapes their surprise party to find refuge in their favorite library. While walking through the shelves in search of a good read, they stumble onto a peculiar book that changes their life. ~~~ Being a Great-Granddaughter of Greek Gods doesn't make you spe...