| 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 the delicacy designed to slaughter. However, when a request comes in from a royal guard to create a pie to end the King's enemy, Tae finds there's a confection she can't make after all. Recruiting the help of a village bounty hunter to assist her in finding a secret ingredient, Tae and Oryal head deep into the enchanted forest in search of the poison. Can Tae bake the pie in time to save her kingdom? Or will her life be paid in forfeit for her failure? COMPLETE COVER BY @-DeeIsDead- (Me) 2024 © -DeeIsDead-

Embark on a captivating journey with Lucy as she escapes the whirlwind of celebrity life to find solace in the tranquil paradise of Hawaii. Amidst breathtaking landscapes and unexpected encounters, Lucy's world turns upside down when she crosses paths with the enigmatic Dean Perry. From exhilarating moments of passion to heart-wrenching dilemmas, follow Lucy's quest for peace, love, and self-discovery in this irresistible tale of romance and redemption. ********************************************************************************************* Sun Kissed is a captivating tale that follows Lucy Fletcher, a small-town girl turned personal assistant to Hollywood star Seth Tupper. As she navigates the chaotic world of fame and glamour, Lucy sacrifices her own well-being for her boss's success. However, she longs for a moment of respite and finds solace when she escapes to the luxurious Hotel Hawaii for a vacation. However, renowned musician and celebrity Dean Perry arrives, shattering her sanctuary and threatening to disrupt her newfound peace. Lucy's reservations aside, she cannot resist Dean's charm and sincerity, which leads to unexpected encounters and moments of passion. As their relationship deepens, Lucy grapples with the complexities of fame, love, and self-discovery. Throughout her journey, Lucy learns she can only find true solace within herself as she embraces her own strength and resilience. Sun Kissed is a story of romance, redemption, and the pursuit of happiness in a world where fame and fortune often come at a cost. Based on ONC 2024 Prompt #9.

This story is written for ONC 2024 and is based on prompts 84 (main) and 9 (secondary) Butter, formerly a human prince who went as His Highness Prince Dalton Buttercutter, is a kitten who has served the Woodgrip witches for the past twenty-four generations. His present mistress, (the ninth Woodgrip) Pepper, is a stress-ridden assistant to the magistrate of the Sulvill district working in the Ministry of Management of Magical Beings, aka MMMB. Their break comes in the form of his mistress's cousin's wedding, where the witch and her familiar arrive at the venue hoping for a relaxing vacation. Things don't go as planned when Salvador Hart, a playboy celebrity hounded by his fans and paparazzi, arrives there to complicate (or aid) matters. Meanwhile, Pepper is in the dark about Butter's hidden motives: to find a match for his mistress and break a centuries-old curse that plagues the Woodgrip family and him. Will Butter be able to find the perfect man for Pepper? Who really is Salvador Hart? What happens to the witch and her familiar if the latter fails in his mission? Start date: 20/02/2024 Completed on: 23/03/2024 Status: Complete Word count: 30954 This is an original story written exclusively for Wattpad by GandalfofspaceAnli. GandalfofspaceAnli ® This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, GandalfofspaceAnli

| 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

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 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐄, 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄. ❞ Saskia Vrana knows what to do when the Nights of Smoke come: Close the windows and doors. Don't look out into the darkness. Sacrifice and pray. And never dare to leave the convent. These are the sacred rules to follow if you want to survive the creatures lurking outside - and the Order of Wolves, which ensures the village's safety with watchful eyes. So, what to do when you accidentally violate one of them on the very first night and receive a divination you shouldn't outlive? However, it's not Saskia they hold responsible, but her fellow sister Katinka. When coldblooded Prince Silvan von Winterthal and his order take her, Saskia is eager to break all those rules at once and more to get her back. And if she must risk her own life making a deal with a devil while the Wild Hunt ravages the lands, she will. ______________ ONC 2024 ENTRY: Prompts 25, 28, 95

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 socialites when she is approached by a handsome stranger. He is Alexander Glass, with his diamond eyes and charming smile and a cheque with more zeros than she has ever seen on a single line. However, it is clear that there is something not quite right about the job and that The Glass Estate is hiding a sinister secret. Small things give it away at first--the ink pens filled with blood, the gilded paintings of eyeless corpses. The smell of rot masked by expensive perfumes. The beautiful Alexander, who smiles wider each time her fingers falter on the piano keys. As the horrors begin unraveling and the secrets begin festering, Divya cannot help but wonder if she will make it out alive.

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."

** Could an undying love blossom in the ruins of a shattered world? ** And so the world of men was lost and a new one, our world, was born. - Morrígan Goddess of the Battle of the Túatha Dé Danann - 4th cycle anno Bellum. The Second World War, which drove humanity to the abyss, has not only left death and destruction in its wake but has also opened the door to another reality. When the situation threatens to tip over, German cultists resort to desperate measures: They use a magical artifact that changes the fate of all humanity. It ripped the veil to Thule apart and revealed the realm of myths and legends. Beings that once only existed in the tales of the ancients now rule the world. In the ruins of the old times and an emerging new society with mighty rulers, the so-called Vaesen, the few survivors fight desperately for their existence while the remaining Cultists of the Thule Society work secretly to seal the world's fate once more. But amid chaos and despair, hope also arises. A Shapeshifter driven by revenge and an Bloodhunter of the Strigoi who harbors secrets of her own becomes caught up in the intrigue. Together, they embark on a hunt that could decide whether the world remains the same or undergoes another bloody transformation. In a storm of attraction, prejudice, and magic, Zane and Myreille must not only sort out their feelings and overcome the hostile Vaesen's entanglements but also fight against the impending doom that threatens to devour the last lives. **** NOVELLA Translation of our german ONC contribution 2024 German ONC24 WINNER Alternate History, Dark-Fantasy, Romance, Noir, Mystery-Mash-up :D 🥇Milestone Awards - Fantasy 🥇Sunflower Awards - Fantasy 🥇The Prose Gem Award - Fantasy 🥇ELPIDA Awards - Fantasy 🥇 The Sapphirian J Awards - Fantasy 🥈 Cloud Awards - General Fiction