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  • Kiss Me When I Lie [ONC 2024]
    889 116 7

    Kya Edwards is a liar. She can't seem to help it. She opens her mouth and the lies just spill out without thought or reason. Typically, her lies are harmless until one lie spirals and lands her in a heap of trouble with the absolute wrong crowd. Who knew the Mafia wouldn't have a sense of humor? KISS ME WHEN I LIE i...

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  • In Search of Kasena (ONC 2024) | ✓
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    Torn between following a family tradition of being a bounty hunter-one that he's not particularly fond of-and following his dreams of being a private detective, Niel has always struggled to land himself a job and put the food on his table. Few people were willing to hire an untraditional bounty hunter like him, so whe...

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  • In Our Time of War
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    🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A young journalist must navigate a war-torn country and the intricacy of first love in order to save herself and her family. ⋯⋯⋯ In 2042, invaders crossed Philippine waters and marked the start of the...

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  • The Slave's Gladiator
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    When death is everywhere, what will you do to survive? All Hadriana remembers is slavery. Her home burned to the ground, she now works the fields of the estate, keeping a low profile to survive. That is, until she attaches the attention of a famous gladiator. Kind, confident, and wanting her, he whispers promises of a...

  • To The Ends of The Universe (ONC 2024 Shortlister✔)
    879 124 19

    "When just being alive makes you a target, you learn to keep your head low." Being a nurse in an ER clinic, Eileen never had much time for romance. Especially, when job and education often came before everything else she's ever known. That is until she met Ursus. Funny and compassionate, he always seems to understand...

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  • Eternally Yours || ONC 2024 {Rewriting In Drafts}
    466 36 1

    * Updates returning soon * An uptight witch and a grumpy ghost stumble into a bookstore. And now they're both stuck together. What's the absolute worst that could possibly go wrong? Selena Delacroix, a witch with a penchant for disorder, escapes to Shadow Falls to find peace among the pages of Renaissance literature...

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  • One Midnight (ONC 2024) ✔️
    928 125 27

    ONC 2024 Round 2 Ambassador Pick ONC 2024 Longlisted and Shortlisted New Orleans native Corinne Broussard still hasn't gotten over her ex-fiancé two years after he left her for another woman. She has tried hard in the past to get over him, but she's still hung up on him and frequently dreams of them getting back toget...

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  • A Dagger to my Heart [MxM]
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    What hurts more than getting betrayed in love? getting betrayed twice.... ... Heath was a tyrant. Not a born one but made one. The day he was forced by his father to kill his cheating and abusive mother as an 8-year-old child, his future was set on the stone. His father told him to not fall in love, but he did... not...

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  • Deadly Wicked
    951 146 22

    🏆 HONORABLE MENTION - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A witch has to pretend to be the wife of the Prince of the Dead in exchange for resurrecting her lover. ⋯⋯⋯ Mavyn of Krauss has everything under control until her rich and influential fianc...

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  • I Got A Date With ... Lucifer!? | Round 2 ONC 2024 Qualifier| ON HOLD
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    When Alycia tries to summon a demon to be her date for her sister's wedding, the last thing she expects is for Lucifer himself to show up instead. And what's more shocking: he's also looking for a date for a wedding. ******* Alycia is a socially anxious person. She spends most of her time avoiding human interaction. S...

  • Message in a Bottle [LGBTQ+] [ONC 2024]
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    When sixteen-year-old Eli Webster finds a message tucked inside a glass bottle, he doesn't expect to find himself writing letters to the mysterious Samuel Owens. With no one named Samuel living nearby, Eli fears it all to be a practical joke at his expense. Yet he finds himself drawn to the words written by a strange...

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  • The Pieces We Kept - ON HIATUS
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    THIS BOOK IS ON HIATUS Amintyre week is approaching, a sacred festival to the Eldritchs. Mavishyanep, "Mavi," is a young Eldritch woman, part of the many young adults who will "rise" into the next generation, and have their achievements etched in the book of Recollection. She wants to squeeze in one last accomplishme...

  • The Inbetween | #ONC 2024
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    Cursed with the touch of death, Amera faces a lifelong battle for normalcy. Among her myriad of challenges, she oversees her family's bar, positioned at the cross roads of life and death. Her world rips at the seams, quite literally, when a witch walks in, ultimately needing her help. Her eyes are opened to the realit...

  • The Lucky Break [ONC2024]
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    Fated for heartbreak or lucky in love? -- Juliana Guo's carefully planned life has gone off the rails. Her once promising legal career is dead, her chances for love lie in tatters around her, and her painstakingly penned magnum opus - an investigative nonfiction book about the Japanese mafia - has been stolen by a hom...

  • Masked Desires | ONC 2024
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    : ̗̀➛ 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.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...

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  • Scorned [ONC 2024]
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    Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...

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  • A Web So Dark and Deadly
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    Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't g...

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  • Aurablade
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    Elyminai are rampant in Cyber City 354431. They hold no formal ties to any of the three gangs controlling the city, though they'll steal or kill for anyone for the right price. After her sister, Stellae, signed on to a CryoFuture project, testing the latest developments in prolonging human life, Sol assumed the alias...

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  • Citrus | ONC 2024 ✔️
    927 214 14

    After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies do...

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  • Elemental Beings - ONC 2024
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    This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024! Dragons and magical beings. A bond like no other. In a town in the middle of the continent, Silver City is home to some of the most powerful magic wielders. Layla Arclight, an ambitious young magus, who possesses the unique trait of being able to wield two elem...

  • Revenge was just the start ( ONC 2024)
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    Gale, a young independent lady in mid twenties, earning her own living. Calmer and collected on the outside while bitter on the inside. Only good to some few friends she remained usually to herself. Hellbent on revenge from her ex boyfriend, Liam for cheating on her. Bennett the kindest living soul, a loving dad to h...

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  • Stained Glass Kings | ONC2024
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    When a struggling pianist takes up an offer to play at the mansion of an elusive billionaire dollmaker's son, she is not prepared for the horrors she finds within. ♤ Trying to maintain her scholarship at Juilliard and also pay her rent, nineteen-year-old Divya Mahavant is playing at a piano bar for bejeweled New York...

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  • The Cat, The Crow and The Witch ||ONC 2024||
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    When the towns local Witch goes missing, her two familiars set out to find her. Matias only really likes one person, his witch, Eve. So when she goes missing one day he's determined to find her. Even if that means putting up with the annoying crow of hers. But there's only one problem, Matias has no clue where to star...

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  • Tainted Rose - ONC 2024
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    Entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024 For as long as they could remember, Ivan and Vixen have lived their whole lives in Oaksville, your typical town inhabited by folks repeating a menial cycle for decades with seemingly no hope for anything short of a white-collar job. People work, come home, rest, and the ro...

  • Die a Horrid Death, Arlo Crowhaven
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    🏆 WINNER (2ND PLACE) - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A misfit of an aristocratic family must find out who is behind the murder at his university before he is disowned and falls victim to the murderer. ⋯⋯⋯ Arlo Crowhaven, a student of the pre...

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  • Spells on Shelves
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    Jade is on the run. To escape her old coven, she pretends to be normal. Just some run-off-the-mill witch. Certainly not someone powerful and especially not a life weaver. Taking on the position of the town witch in a seemingly idyllic, quiet, and desolate town seemed like the perfect plan to lay low for a while until...

  • An Order of Death
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    | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ʜᴏɴᴏᴜʀᴀʀʏ ᴍᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ꜱʜᴏʀᴛʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ​ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ᴀᴍʙᴀꜱꜱᴀᴅᴏʀ ᴘɪᴄᴋ | x6 ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ | ❝ ᴀ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴍɪꜱᴇ. ❞ Deathly Delights is a bakery specialised in the art to kill. Poisoned filled muffins, venom coated pastries, cakes decorated with toxins - if you can name it, Taerane Aviris can make...

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  • A Scent of Chaos
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    | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ꜱʜᴏʀᴛʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ ​| ❝ ᴀ ᴍᴇʀᴇ ꜱᴘʀᴀʏ ɪꜱ ᴀʟʟ ɪᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ. ❞ All Elvira Grythras has ever wanted is to climb the ranks of Velux Emporium to become a head perfumer. She has trained tirelessly for her entire life to reach the acclaimed title. Finally, when the day arrives for her goal to come to fruition, it's snatched a...

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  • Milo and Maisie
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    |15X FEATURED| Two years after her older brother's tragic death, anxiety-stricken Maisie and her emotional support cat, Milo, attend the Disney College Program, where they must discover a new life meaning in the most magical place on Earth. ...

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  • Skye and the City (A Romantic Comedy)
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    Skye Templeton is sick of living in a small village in the Scottish Highlands where everyone knows every single little thing about her. She's tired of her dead-end "situationship". She desperately needs to escape . . . So when a chance encounter opens her eyes to the possibility of a different life, she decides it's t...

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