[FIRST DRAFT] Wren Deisy, a young girl plagued with hallucinations and strange dreams, has just discovered that maybe they weren't all in her head. Wren has the ability to portal to another world. And she couldn't have been less prepared for her adventure in the Land of Dreams. __________________ "𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦," 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥. "𝘕𝘰, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨." "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘨𝘰𝘥." 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥. "𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮. 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳." __________________ This is my story for ONC 2024! Please enjoy! (NOT EVEN CLOSE TO DONE, STILL WRITING/EDITING!!!)

Power. Some kill to get it... Some kill to keep it... Some kill to keep others from having it. Aside from being a Ranger's daughter, Aurora Amethyst Makepeace (yes, that is her real name, bless her ever-loving Mum) is about as normal as normal can get. She has to study hard to get through school just like most people, she has to do laundry and help with the family business like every other young person in her District, and she has to walk on her own two feet just like God intended. She has never raised a flag on the Flameseeker's visits to her settlement. She is absolutely certain she is NOT a Spark. As the only son of High Councilor Kederov, Dane Kederov is a fourth-generation Sparkblood. Not only does that make him royalty, it makes him an Inferno - one of the most powerful Sparkbloods on the planet. It also makes him an extremely valuable political pawn. He lives a life of extreme privilege, high above the tensions and riots that have been escalating between the Sparkbloods and the Norms... until his father is murdered after leaving an ominous message for him, and Dane is suddenly a liability. Someone wants him gone. Someone who has the resources to kill an Inferno. Someone who is determined to claim power for themselves at any cost. Dane flees the Capitol, flying into the vast expanse of untamed wilderness that surrounds the city state of Firestone. Two weeks later, Rory goes on a tracking mission to find whatever is killing Biddy Correl's hogs... and discovers a lot more than a rogue bear out there in the Wildlands. She finds her exact opposite, in more ways than one. With Sparkblood hunters on Dane's trail, and Rory's father going after the bounty, Dane and Rory wind up thrown together in a mad, desperate attempt to solve the murder of Dane's parents before the riots and inter-racial tension boil over into all out war. No matter what, their lives are never going to be the same.

Being the most doted child of all regal family members in the Pang empire, Haoran was born with access to the spiritual world and was granted authority to venture out of the castle grounds alone at the age of twenty, breaking all the sovereign laws designated for royalties. Amidst his adventures, Haoran's kindness saved the life of a witch who, unbeknown to him harboured uncanny curiosity towards his background after she possessed the jade pendant left among the blankets during one of his overnight stays. Preternatural occurrences befell him one by one, tempting him to unveil the layers of chronicles from both the Cui family and the Pang empire. To cope with the losses and ensure his survival, Haoran had to make fortuitous choices that could burn or save his soul. 💜 Featured on ONC 2024 | Longlist 1 on 23 May 2024 || This story is written in conjunction with the ONC 2024, and can only be found on Wattpad.||

: ̗̀➛ Open Novella Contest (ONC) - Entry ༘♡ ⋆ *ೃ༄ Prompt 22 - You get ready for work one morning as usual. When you arrive at your car, which is parked in the street, the windshield is covered in blood.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮Blurb╭──╯ . . . . . In the quiet town of Eldridge, Willma's mundane life takes a spine-chilling turn when she stumbles upon blood splattered across her car windshield. A devoted fan of true crime and thriller novels, Willma finds herself thrust into a real-life mystery as a series of gruesome deaths unfold in her community. Intrigued by the enigmatic "ShadowBlade" killer, who dons a chilling mask during his heinous acts, Willma becomes determined to unravel the truth. As the town becomes paralyzed by fear, Willma's obsession with the elusive murderer intensifies. Unbeknownst to her, the killer becomes aware of her relentless pursuit and begins fixating on her in return. "Masked Desires" is a gripping tale of forbidden allure and the dangerous dance between a girl infatuated with darkness and a killer drawn to her irresistible curiosity. In this twisted game of obsession, the boundaries between hunter and hunted blur, revealing the haunting consequences of desires that should never be embraced.

ONC 2024 ENTRY |ONC 2024 LONGLISTER| |Nanowatt 2025 SHORTLISTER| |2× featured| - |mystery|, |teen fiction| The holidays are over but the murders aren't. *** Deep in the city of Ikoyi, blood has become a daily alarm. With the amount of people being killed rising and the numerous calls to fight against this insurgency, the residents are doused with fear as the city tips between peace and utter chaos. Zara, an ever anxious and over thinking teenager, has come back with her family from their vacation to the United States, finding their hometown ablaze with all these news of murders that have suddenly become an epidemic. But with her goal to pass her external exams in flying colors and still keep herself together despite her family's many abuses, the murders are little more than stories that cause a stroke of anxiety before she is once again swamped with her own problems. But when Zara's mother is murdered in cold blood, she is suddenly thrust headfirst into this epidemic that has ransacked her home. Nothing ever happens without a reason and whatever killed her mother may be coming for her too. Beautiful cover by @ReynaBennett

Death was once something I feared, an illusion that brought darkness with it, but now I plead for its mercy in this time that survivors have come to call, The New Order. ••• It was only a cough to began with, something so simple, it had happened a thousand times before, but with in a few days it was so much more then just a mere cough, it become lethal, and it spread like wildfire. Twenty year old, Naseria Friedelinde never thought she would be alive to see the world that she grew up with, collapse right before her very eyes, but on the 22rd of August, that was the new harsh reality that she was unexpectedly thrust into, along with her fourteen year old sister, Eliana. They didn't know how or why the virus had spread and affected everyone they once knew, but Naseria knew that she needed to get her sister as far away from the other people as quickly as possible. But being stuck in the middle of the city was going to make that a tricky situation to get around. And it didn't help that the virus turned its victims into something else, something they couldn't just run or hide from, something that craved chaos, a creature that sort out death. ••• My entry for the Open Novella Contest for 2024! Prompt used - 52. "And that is how that world was lost and a new one, our world, was born."

From Prompt #95 "I will become as monstrous as I must." Rowan Stevescant just wanted to start over. He'd killed enough. He was done. Until they brought him back. And then he wasn't. In a world where faces change as easily as buying a new set of clothes, nothing is what it seems. In an attempt to leave his old life and start new, he faces an old life that simply won't let him walk away. When his girlfriend is kidnapped to ensure his cooperation Rowan has no choice. He can either take back all that he'd fought for or return to the job and never see Miranda again. But in a world where reality is fragmented at best and the nature of The Watchers is revealed who can you trust? Inspired by the Altered Carbon Book series: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.

Round1✔ Round2✔ ---------------- This is based on/inspired by a true story. On a very beautiful and warm day, Tara found herself hitting rock bottom. Five monsters shattered her life, stole her dreams, and tainted her inside out. Alone in her despair, she was consumed by disappointment and betrayal, and then left a sprawled mess of living organs and a broken spirit. Yet, she refused to stay on the ground. Tara picked herself up and faced life head-on, no matter how much her very being struggled to keep going. This is the story of Tara who fell, dusted off her knees, stood up, and refused to fall once again. Instead, she was bringing everyone else down. Tara will become as monstrous as she must and her blazing fury will feel worse than hell itself. A victim? No, they'd created a monster. ------------------ Warning: strong language, mature scenes/themes, nonconsent, violence, blood, death, and one satisfying revenge. + If you are reading this on any site other than Wattpad then it is being unlawfully shared. Mirror sites often contain malware so please protect yourself and the work of this author by reading only on Wattpad. ------------------ [ONC entry - 1st draft - unedited]