Two ex-best friends are invited back to the reality TV cooking show that caused their ruined relationship three years ago. *** Three years. That's how long ago it was when Luci Baker shoved a cake in Shae Brown's face. That's how long the fifteen-year friendship of Shae and Luci has been extinct. Now, the show that hosted the infamous scene has invited Shae back to participate in a bake-off with other baking "Fiascos" that were featured on Tiana's Kitchen. Shae is embarrassed that their debacle made it into Fiasco territory even though the episode they participated in never actually aired. But, they are also determined to redeem themself from the humiliating experience. The problem? Luci was invited back too. And she wants to be friends again. Will Shae's pride get in the way of their friendship's-and their reputations'-redemption? Let the bakeoff begin! *** Cover from @TaeTaeGinger! WARNINGS: extreme profanity, themes of mental illness, alcoholism, mentions of domestic violence and abandonment, enbyphobia, on page panic attacks and autistic shutdowns with unintentional self-harm during these attacks Chapter Title Teasers for July: • May 18th: 10 - Lemon Cakes and the Moons that Live in Them • May 23rd: 11 - Winner, Loser, Who Gives a Shit? • May 28th: 12 - Maybe the Real Prize Is the Friends We Made Along the Way This is technically #5 of the Fiasco Season of Tiana's Kitchen series, but it was the first one written. Watch my profile for more Tiana's Kitchen content! 1st Draft Published: February 28th, 2025 1st Draft Finished: - 1st Draft Word Count: 27,312

A fun-loving young woman yearning for financial freedom and love becomes entangled in lies and scandal while working for a cynical billionaire. *** Katerina Ramos, a recent grad drowning in student loan debt, interns at one of Las Vegas' prestigious marketing firms, while also moonlighting as a dancer to make ends meet. Her life becomes more complicated when an annoying coworker blackmails her to pose as his girlfriend to advance his career. She readily agrees in fear of being exposed and fired from her internship. But things go from bad to worse when she discovers the handsome man she's been engaging in cat-and-mouse encounters with at the club is her reclusive boss. Closed off, marketing genius William Cardona has learned the hard way how betrayal can come from unexpected people. He's come to enjoy his solitude until he meets a charming dancer that awakens him from his mundane life. Though she keeps her identity hidden, the attraction is instant and she helps him realize he's finally ready for more than surface-level connections. When the scandal of espionage circulates at work, Katerina is assigned as William's assistant to help find the traitor. As they work closely together, he finds himself torn between the clever and impulsive intern who's already dating someone at his agency and the outgoing, mysterious dancer he feels a deep connection with. Under the mounting pressure of financial obligations, Katerina finds herself way in over her head. Tangled in a web of lies she's created, and struggling to overcome career-ending extortion, she fights not to lose the only valuable asset she has left-her heart Open Novella Contest 2024 Prompts: #53 A co-worker who irritates you the most just asked you for a big favor. They are not who or what they appear. And they know you're not either. #45 Keep your happily ever after, it ain't mine © 2024 LJRae

*ONC 2025 Shortlist & Ambassador Pick* On the morning of her wedding, Edrea is prepared to seal a political alliance with the man she despises. But fate, or something far darker, has other plans. An empty box appears in her garden. A hidden path leads her underground. And a deck of cursed cards delivers her into the hands of Malphas, a demon bound by an ancient contract. One that now claims her as his. Trapped in a world of shadows, Edrea is torn between a cruel fiance who seems far too pleased by her disappearance and a demon who watches her like she's the only thing keeping him tethered to existence. Malphas swears he won't take anything she doesn't offer freely. But the longer she resists him, the more she begins to wonder... This is a mature 18+ story.

#ONC round 2 award winner 🏆 #Bewitching awards runners up 🏆 What's the worst that could happen when a socially anxious nerd crosses paths with Paramount High's golden boy quarterback in a game of Fear Pong? Spoiler alert: Everything. °*° Clark Alderman has always kept his distance---from parties, from chaos, and especially from Ethan, the effortlessly charming demon quarterback with a habit of turning everything into a spectacle. But after a magical dare at a party gone wrong, Clark finds himself bound to a new weekly routine: being picked up by Ethan every Tuesday. What starts as a reluctant arrangement quickly spirals into something much bigger. A wrecked convertible, a levitating bunny, and a looming school documentary competition throw Clark into the center of attention he never asked for. To fix what's broken, he'll need help---from his friends, from himself, and inconveniently, from Ethan. As tension gives way to trust, Clark must navigate magical mishaps, hidden truths, and emotions he's spent years trying to avoid. But with each passing Tuesday, the line between enemies, allies, and something more begins to blur. #ONC2025 Prompt 2: To be in love with a demon was the last thing on your wishlist. Prompt 110: 20 days of freedom. ©Liam McMarsha 2025 2k - Round one qualifier 🎖️ 8k -Round two qualifier 🎖️ Nano Watt 2025 longlist 🎖️ Most impressive rankings: Novela: No 4 out of 3.5k YAFantasy: No 24 out of 1.39k LGBTQpride: No 401 out of 20.3k Sarcasm: No 163 out of 12.7k Humour: No 447 out of 34.7k Road trip: No 74 out of 9.44k

In the aftermath of a long and bloody war, the daughter of a king, no longer a princess, Mussumi, has to bend the knee to the man who has defeated her father. With only a small escort to lead her back to her homeland, Mussumi soon realises that the warlord does not intend for her to reach home alive. Only the intervention of a skilled warrior, who identifies herself only as 'Duty', allows Mussumi to escape, but a desperate chase ensues and only 'Duty' can get her to the ship that will carry her to safety. With the enemy sniping at their heels at every turn, Mussumi and Duty have to face dangerous paths and deadly creatures to reach the port. But can Duty be trusted, or is she only another assassin waiting to strike? An ONC novella, based on Prompt 31: "Next time, ask yourself if your integrity can withstand the truth."

✉️ ONC 2025 LONGLISTED ✉️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛What started under a drizzle turned into a thunderstorm. Prohibiting me from wanting too much, yet wanting it all.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A Teen Fiction Novel | Ongoing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When September Grahams starts to receive letters from an anonymous person, she's in awe of his cursive, his words, his rhythm. The beautiful poetry she has the chance to read every month makes her heart soar. Her sister's convinced, it's a prank, but September believes otherwise. And, she also hopes the new member of their Literature club is the one who's making these sweet advances, hidden in the folds of those beige envelopes. However, the letters might remain the only good thing in her life as her world seems to shrink and cracks start to show. As buried secrets threaten to awaken, and friends turn to foes, will she find the one person who continues to remain her only source of true happiness? One must turn the page, to learn about all the 10 Letters To September . . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛The ink of our souls binds us beyond the pages of time.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Started : 01.02.2025 Posted : 07.02.2025 Novella : 27.02.2025 Status : Novel, Ongoing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ © All rights reserved by Rose LeClaire 2025

1893. In Victorian London, a world marked by deep class divisions, young worker Henry Hops stumbles upon a secret manuscript by an unknown thinker. Fascinated by the radical ideas regarding the liberation of the working class and the contradictions within society, Henry embarks on a quest to find the mysterious author. A handwritten invitation in the manuscript leads him to an exclusive book club. Henry must decide how to navigate these ideas and how to fight for the rights of the working class, all while grappling with his own emotions, relationships, and the tension between aristocracy and social justice. ONC | 2025

Margot Rivera thought the podcast she started with her best friend in college would be a side project. Instead, Between Us Girls became a breakout hit, launching them into the world of influencers and media events. When the show takes them to London Fashion Week, Margot is pulled into a glittering new world-and into the orbit of Keeley Keene. Daughter of a supermodel and a rockstar, Keeley has spent her life in the spotlight. She's graced runways, amassed followers, and supported her footballer boyfriend from the sidelines. But when she discovers his infidelity and a brewing charity scandal, her carefully managed image begins to fracture. Refusing to stay silent, Keeley quietly joins forces with a pop star, an investigative journalist, and the hosts of Between Us Girls. Together, they uncover the truth behind the headlines.

Before he was famous, Harper used to be best friends with Bang Chan. When they parted ways in high school as he became part of "Stray Kids" and his career took off, Harper figured that she would never see him again. She started to develop her own career and life, trying to move on from him. One day, Bang Chan calls her out of the blue with the oddest request known to man. Half thinking he's bluffing and half curious, Harper agrees to his request which sets into motion a wild series of events and stirs up feelings that she thought had long since disappeared. - - - |ONC 2025 Entry| |Based on prompt 10 that goes as follows: "Your best friend, whom you deeply care for, asks to switch lives with you for an entire year. Are you ready to step into their shoes?"| |Stray Kids AU| |Beautiful cover designed by @_Kyuki_| |Round 3 Ambassador Pick For ONC 2025|

Most people would panic if they suddenly found themselves in ancient China. Not Jiang Meizhi. Although she didn't expect it to happen, once she learned that she was the reincarnation of the goddess of oblivion, she began to wonder about the regrets of her past. Meizhi is catapulted back to the mortal realm on the day she meets her husband for the first time. While she is excited to reunite with him, she quickly realizes that everything is different this time around. As she embarks on this unexpected journey, she faces a crucial decision: can she sacrifice everything, including the future of countless souls she was meant to guide, to finally be with the one she loves? "Maybe this Life" is a retelling of the Chinese folktale of Lady Meng Jiang, inspired by the Open Novella Content prompt 37: You discover you're the reincarnation of a [Greek god or] goddess and you're transported back in time. But something unexpected happens, and your story takes an entirely new turn.