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 m...
A woman cursed with immortality navigates a post-apocalyptic world in order to hunt down the god that cursed her...and kill him. (full blurb inside) Written for ONC 2024 | Prompt 63. In a world of curses and gifts, you find yourself cursed with immortality - in the apocalypse. | First Draft
*ONC 2024 entry* **Round Two Ambassador's Pick** **Shortlisted** She's an angel of love; an ill-fitting name, as she's no angel. She strives for a world devoid of pain and sorrow. A world of love; of sex and debauchery without consequences. Unattached forever, she's spent millennia ensuring her world remains free of t...
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...
UPDATES ONCE A MONTH ❝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 G...
ONC 2024: In college, it was a case of wrong place/wrong time. Eight years later, they have a second chance. But will they take the leap? ___ Prompt 14: "My muse, believe me, waiting for you has been a form of freedom." ___ Excerpt: "Don't look back." Ian stares at me through the screen with his dark, intense gaze. "...
Fantasy Action novella with anime influences! Cassia Rose made a mistake: she didn't believe the legends, but they're real. And learning this truth may just cost her life. After going into the local haunted manor to impress a boy, Cassia sees strange things everywhere, from floating lights to transparent...
||ONC 2024|| Twilight x Scooby-Doo || Why is Zoe's crush glowing blue?|| Zoe has no desire to chase after dangerous love and alphaholes. Not after that last time when a smug jock made her a laughing stock of the entire school! Cruz is the safest bet for a prom date--a top athlete who had never been noticed in any bad...
When Elven assassin's enslave a Fae Queen within her own mines - Chyrie is blood-sworn to forge the very iron meant to strike her down. With only a few months to sever the oath, her only hope lands in the palms of a forgotten Captain and his Sea Wyrm. ...
Anchor Morningstar owns and operates the Resting Point, a hole-in-the-wall tavern sitting right on the border between life and the afterlife where travelers catch a brief respite before passing through a portal for judgment day. For years, Anchor has lend a kind ear to those desperate souls and has offered words of en...
Entry for ONC 2024- When I took another step back, my feet found a round structure instead of the flat floor that I had been anticipating. I realised, too late, that I had collided with the rolled rug and before I could regain my balance, I crashed down, the chalice spilling its contents right over my head, drenching...
ONC 2024 entry- London Hartley has had enough of the high school experience. With a crush who never notices her, bullies who always do, and a former best friend turned queen bee who acts like a superior, stuck-up princess, London can't wait to get over with her senior year, already. On the last night before her senio...
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 wa...
He might become the next small town hero with stars in his eyes... and a monster in his veins. Good has a dark side. Evan Mack's football coach will do anything to win. He has the formula for success that took last year's starting quarterback, Xavier Rhodes, to the state championship and beyond. If Evan participates...
[#17] Their curse is to love so much and crave love more than life, but never be loved. Those who dare to love them will be subjected to the worst of fates. ♥ When Lucie Blanchard discovers her crush's dark family secret, she's determined to help break him free from the shackles of a generational curse. However whilst...
[ Mystery / Romance / Mature ] Grady just wants to grieve the loss of his ex in peace, but then Quinn's younger sister, Taryn, whirls into his Texas hometown, looking to stir up the past. She brings in a wave of goons with her and a mystery that's well beyond his pay grade. Still, it's Grady's job to serve and protect...
Round1✔ - Ambassadors' Pick Round2✔ Longlist✔ Shortlist✔ ----------- Genre: fantasy, romance, and a teeny tiny bit of action. ----------- Of a Moon, majestic silver and soothing blue, that hung in the sky, breathing life into barrenness and lifting away the darkness that threatened to swallow everything. And a wolf, f...
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 sp...
Five years ago, Cairo Quimby disappeared without a trace. His family has neglected to speak of him since, running the slightly strange but unassuming hotel he grew up in as if nothing ever happened. Until Cairo, a lone wanderer roaming a lost and dangerous world, has a run-in at a diner with mysterious strangers who a...
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...
2100. A mysterious ship, nicknamed the Chimera, appears in Martian airspace. It bears the symbol of the international space agency, the BASE, but there is no record of such a vessel. Word and rumour quickly spread. BASE investigator Leanne Ziegler is sent to inspect the ship and make contact with its crew. But the Chi...
In the magical, secluded village of Laeternas, Marissa Jenkins, the mayor's daughter, awaits Cristina Stevenson, her destined soulmate, so that they can marry on her 28th birthday and preserve the ancient tradition. However, not only is Cristina on the other side of the world with another woman, but she also dies in a...
IN TIMES OF PERIL, THE ANCIENT DRAGON LORDS WOULD APPEAR, providing aid and salvation to the Empires of the world. Their power brought many victories against the evils that lurked from the Realm of Ruin- the plane of hellish abominations and demonic power. That was- until a new force discovered a way to seal the realm...
Join Daphne, the ex-security guard and the new night shift reference librarian at Darswick Library. Indulge her as she indulges Jasper the crude ghost who mysteriously occupies the local historical records room. Daphne seeks to uncover Jasper's long-lost secrets so that she can finally move on from the night shift and...
A vampire named Citlali receives an email from an old lover who broke her heart centuries ago. The message says the immortal is dead and she left a key for Citlali in a bank in New York. But the same message had been sent to two other persons whose identity Citlali ignores and the safe can only be opened if the three...
Bad boy Adam Lawson is cursed never to know love until he's placed in a Mormon foster home and meets Thomas, an innocent boy who dares to love a monster no matter the cost. [Frankenstein meets 1985, the AIDS epidemic, and a bad boy desperate for love.] ONC Main Prompt: 17 (chapter 1) ONC Side prompt: 95 (chapter 6) No...
The narrative follows the journey of a man thrust into a bizarre quest to find his identity, only to discover someone else has taken his place. "I Am the Real One, Right?" is a mind-bending, witty sci-fi story I'm writing for ONC2024, inspired by the following prompt: Prompt 23: It's a dark and stormy night, and you'...
It all started with a miracle microchip. One that promised eternal life but delivered the end of the world. The software was supposed to prevent death, instead it brought people back to life. Now, the Risen walk the earth, and anyone who was rich enough to buy their immortality is rewarded with returning from the grav...
: ̗̀➛ 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.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...
In the year 2032, the first AI-assisted RPG was released, allowing players for the first time to freely interact with NPCs so long as the AI could keep up with their requests. It's not long before a glitch is discovered allowing immortal NPCs to die. Celine discovers that her world is not quite what she thought it wa...