ONC 2024
11 stories
A Story You've Been Told | ON-HOLD by starisredy
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UPDATES ON-HOLD UNTIL AUGUST 2025 ❝𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖?❞ Asael didn't want to marry, let alone be forced into it by his parents, with a woman he didn't know. But to avoid any conflict and continue being the good son in their eyes, he gave in and set up a prayer of adoration to ask for God's blessing on his future. Only for the devil to show up unprompted, irritated, and demanding to be returned to hell. But after pressing close together to hide the supernatural from another human, neither of them could deny the spark that flickered between them under the sheets in the dark of Asael's room. Finding himself stuck with potentially ruining everything between him and his family and the temptation to side with the devil, he might just give in to the latter. After all, with him, there was truth and freedom--the freedom to carve his own future, the freedom to carve a story to be told without any underlying fantasy. Or was there? Sometimes, even with the intrusion of the supernatural, destiny finds a way to emerge as the true story. - NO LONGER FOR ONC Used prompts #88 and some more from the @OpenNovellaContest #ONC2024 Read the first part for information about this and other stuff! UNEDITED | FIRST DRAFT First part posted on Wattpad: 02 | 06 | 24 First chapter posted on Wattpad: 02 | 12 | 24 Last chapter posted on Wattpad: 00 | - | 25 Wordcount per chapter: 1700 ~ 3100 Overall word count: ~ starisredy © All rights reserved Only on W a t t p a d. beaut cover designed by @-DeeIsDead- Featured: @FreeTheLGBT - "ONC2024 #FreeTheLGBT" reading list (march 2024) Highest Rankings: #532 in Paranormal #65 in -romance #576 in dark romance #724 in gay romance #293 in devil #860 in new adult #49 in angels and demons #3 in angel of darkness
The Siege of Haniya [ONC2024] ✔ by IsaRids
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ONC 2024 LONGLISTER Features in @action reading list, Military & War SIEGE /siːdʒ/ a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender. **** Three people-two women and an old man-were left in the middle of a desert as a punishment for a grave crime each of them committed against the kingdom of Akkadiyah. However, the youngest of them, Salwa, woke up in the desert unable to recall the memory of her previous years. She had no idea why she was banished by a foreign kingdom, except for a key in her pocket that could solve the mystery. They wandered through the desert, learned how to survive in the harsh weather, befriended the Bedouins, and eventually reached the nearest living city with the help of a camel driver. Pieces of memory started to return to Salwa as they ran into a group of warriors defending the city from the same tyrant that banished them. As Salwa's memories began to clear the fog in her mind, she began to grow suspicious of her two companions. However, there was one thing they agreed on: to rise stronger than before and make the tyrant regret ever banishing them. *** Based on Prompt 20 from Open Novella Contest 2024. 'Three strangers. Two secrets. One key.' ** Thank you for giving my book a chance. I hope you like it and I would appreciate your feedback. :)
When The Curtains Drop by Tanu_ambia
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[Rewriting] Previously named Rosegold Rose Veretta is the heartbeat of the nation. Her smiles on magazine covers are worth a million dollars and to just get one of her clicks was to die for. People loved her and she loved her audience. At least that's what everyone thought. On the other side of the newspaper was a shadow. A serial killer on the loose who had been the nightmare of the PD for the last three months, with 5 murders to their record. Only two things about Robin were known, they considered murder as a form of art, and they loved popularity. What else would explain their obsession with leaving their name and one of their expensive ornaments on the crime scene? Naturally, these two belonged to different worlds. They didn't need to ever cross paths or even considered connected. But surprisingly, all the people Robin killed are one way or another, connected to Rose. Now that's a little too convenient, isn't it? # ONC Prompt 28: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. # ONC 2024 Longlister and Shortlister ONC 2024 Ambassadors Pick Featured in Ambassadors Newsletter June 2024
Jamaican Heat ||ONC 2024|| by SueLou66
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One secret. One Promise. Two hearts. Ama promises to keep her muma's secret till she meets an American man she dubs as Mr. Gorgeous. When their hearts collide, the secret threatens to reveal itself. Will the Jamaican heat scorch the love that could've been into ashes, or will love prevail? ONC 2024 Prompt #67 A promise is a promise. A secret is a secret. They must not tell anybody.
landlost | ONC 2024 by risen_phoenix
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THE WORLD IS CORRUPTED. THE WORLD WILL START ANEW. ━━━━ Generations after Adam and Eve, evil runs through the veins of every human being on earth. A great Cleansing is coming, and all life will be wiped out. Na'el doesn't know any of this. Betrothed to the son of a lunatic, the duties of her as a woman pressure her more than any impending apocalypse. But when the rain starts to fall, her life hangs in the balance. Which will destroy her first; love, or the Flood? ━━━━ ROUND TWO WINNER FOR ONC2024 ✨
Breaking Tradition || #ONC2024 by septicthewolf
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Erika had always hated weddings - a hate that only grew as she watched her siblings get blindly married off. Her father played with their lives like poker chips, using his children to fill his own wallet through marriage deals. It wasn't long before Erika found herself being fitted for a gown, only hearing about her groom to be through secondhand stories. There was no way she was going to accept getting married off - especially to a man she had never met. || Featuring #ONC2024's prompt #88 {Content Warning} This story includes: Suggestive Themes & Mild Language
Half a Lady by CamWill18
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| Amby Awards 2024 Top Pick | Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has felt adrift. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter. Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent Regency family, Cordelia tries to find other ways to contribute to her family's legacy. But Cordelia's mother is determined to keep her hidden at their country estate--especially after a wealthy gentleman begins courting her beautiful sister. When Cordelia's father arranges her exit from high society, Cordelia is faced with a difficult decision: accept the quiet life her family planned for her, or overcome her fear of being seen. ☆ FEATURED @HistoricalFiction @ShortStory @Wattpad Ambassadors
Lie to Me Again | ONC 2024 by MiyaHikari
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In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. *** Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl at school who's always one wrong move away from having her crystal castle in the sky come crashing down. If her wealthy classmates find out that her parents died bankrupt, Yuki's reputation at Zenith High will be shredded to tatters. With lies as her foundation, Yuki is determined to make it through the next three years with her past safely buried and her future secure. When Era Wang, the queen of Zenith, offers a college scholarship and the coveted presidency of her club as the prizes for winning a simple game, it's an opportunity Yuki can't refuse. But sparks fly when Rhett Tudor, her childhood friend turned enemy threatens to defeat her in the game and expose her web of lies. As the lines between truth and fiction blur and the distance closes between her and Rhett, Yuki must decide whether the end justifies the means, even if she'll lose her only true friend and his trust again--this time forever. ✧ Rivals to Lovers ✧ Academia ✧ GrumpyxSunshine ✧ For fans of K-Dramas like Doona! or highschool anime such as Kaguya-Sama: Love is War. ─────────────────────────────────── Ongoing Word Count: 25.1k
Taking You HOME | EN by BellOfSilence
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🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart but also his life.🗝️ You're on your own, far from home The wind is blowing in the top of the pines A gloomy sky where the sun never shines Deep in the woods, where the night is so cold You're lost, far from home -Mustash- Ryker Viltarin, a former soldier and now a private detective, is asked for help by an old comrade: He has to find his ex-wife, who has kidnapped their child because of their impending divorce. At first, this sounded like an easy case for Viltarin. The search for the missing leads the investigator to the sleepy little town of Silvershore on Everbreeze Lake in Canada. When he moves into the small guesthouse Pineview Cottage, Ryker is convinced that he has found an unscrupulous child abductor. But why does this impression change more and more the closer he gets to her? Why does every step toward the truth raise more questions than answers? And what is the significance of the mysterious key that suddenly ends up in Evelyn's possession? Will Ryker succeed in saving Evelyn and Liam, or will they also fall victim to the killer from Everbreeze Lake? 🗝️ "Taking You Home" is a romantic and gripping mystery-drama story about love, betrayal, and the shadows of the past that must be overcome to finally understand the true meaning of happiness. 🗝️ *** ROMANCE READS 2024 CONTESTANT 🥇Frosty Flavour Award - Adult 🥇Wishing Socks Awards - Others & Best Blurb 🥇TheGemstoneBookAwards - Romance 🥇Inferno Awards - Romance 🥇Cloud Awards - Romance 🥇Black Lace Award - Romance 🥈ELPIDA-Awards - Romance
LIVING THE DREAM ✅ by worldwidesmallgal
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ONC 2024 SHORTLIST ************ For the longest time, it's been just Mitchell and Hayley against the world. Between hustling and trying to be a good big sister, Mitchell's only happiness comes from romcoms. But she has a dream - the day when the two of them will be free and happy. With Hayley pursuing her internship at a prestigious food research lab and Mitchell experiencing an encounter with a man, both of them get exposed to a whole lot of new things and people. The two sisters will have to work hard for their dreams amidst balancing the new additions to their lives. And boy will that be a whole rollercoaster! This story is created basing on prompt 8: You start singing along to a movie soundtrack late at night forgetting that your window is open. Someone from the outside starts singing with you. - Featured on Celestia Cove's New Adult reading list