ONC2025 Rafe Daring is not a hero known for his bravery. He is a farm boy known for being stubborn, cheeky, and doing things haphazardly, which always leads to chaos. When he flees town on his motorcycle, chased by the boy he'd turned into his nemesis, Rafe veers from safety to avoid his enemy. He ventures onto a stra...
ONC 2025 Born to drug-addicted parents, Linc Bridgestone was crippled in an accident when he was a child. After breaking up with his girlfriend he overdoses and is brought back to life by his sister. Linc doesn't believe in luck. He doesn't believe in love. He doesn't believe in anything except broken relationships...
When a historian fails to track down a missing piece of the past that is crucial to her manuscript, she turns to her absolute last resort: a Vampire who was alive during that time. But Eleazar the Morbid is far from the fearsome creature he once was and Daphne is desperate to finish her manuscript and escape the dead...
"Say goodbye, for may we meet again in another hell." Fractured by the chains that bound him to past transgressions. Lysandre Highwind stands falsely accused of slaughtering the realm's protector. In a world plagued by a deadly sickness, teetering on the brink of collapse, Lysandre finds himself ensnared in a deadly w...
Many would go to great lengths to possess the imagination of a child, where nothing is impossible. It is a power that not only enables one to create an Imaginary Friend but to also 'destroy' it. A Power that Natalie still possesses even at the age of 18. Such a pity she doesn't know it. But someone does. And they're...
Haunted by the past, Rhiannon Carmichael returns to her hometown for her father's funeral, only to uncover a web of secrets and a possible murder, forcing her to confront the family she left behind. *** Victor Carmichael, the titan of local construction industry...
A sci-fi novella set in the universe of Shadow and Steel. In the city of Rift Dome, secrets are buried deep within the moon's ancient fractures. But some won't stay dead. Jace lives for the rush-the speed of the chase, the sting of blaster fire, and the high of outrunning death. But when a heist goes sideways, he unco...
Ivy Rosewood - or Ivonne, as her parents call her - never wanted to be a princess. Her role always fit her beautiful and charming older sister Eloise much better, but now that they are both receiving marriage proposals from foreign kingdoms, she's forced into that role as well. Unruly and with a tough attitude, her pa...
ONC 2025 _______ Dr. Merilyn Bascom Quartermain was scheduled to return to the Olympus Moon Colony a month ago. Now, her father, a high ranking official with T-CUAS, The Center for Universal Astronomical Studies and Air Force Commander, Jethro Bascom is sending a military team to go and bring her in. If they can find...
There was a kopitiam at the corner of the street in Ipoh. It was located in a quaint little street, away from the tourist area. One day, with the ghost of your dead friend, yes dead and keep on lingering beside you, who stayed quiet for most of the time, unable to talk, pointed you to this place. You opened the little...
For ONC 2025 | Prompt 14 A middle-aged witch. One successful murder, one less successful murder. Add a dash of yearning, and it's the perfect recipe for disaster...or romance. Lee Morose, pronounced Mo-ro-say, is an appeals witch, which means she works her hardest to get innocent magical beings out of their punishmen...
Not all who die go to heaven. And of those who do, fewer become angels. They are known as The Transcendents. For thousands of years Angels and Demons have fought over mortal souls to be claimed for Heaven or Hell. But when a Transcendent Angel, Helen, finds herself in a perilous situation, she is saved not by her k...
A stormy night shattered Dawson Sanders's life when she was only sixteen. Ten years later, she returns to her sleepy town in Maine, still reeling from the scars of her past. Settling into the home of her late great aunt, she discovers a secret that could hold the key to redemption, or it could trap her in everlasting...
Prompt 95: There's a university where, once someone dies on campus, they become a permanent ghostly resident. But one student may have the power to break the curse. Summerfield College is haunted, according to many students and locals. Prof. Ward Bresley advised the Coven, a school group for students interested in wit...
Love and retaliation conspire to foil a billionaire land developer's attempt to bulldoze a family business. Heather Clayburn owns Nuance, a thriving upscale restaurant in a nineteenth-century house in Vancouver's West End. Her family has lived above the restaurant for generations, but after her divorce, only she and h...
ONC2025 entry based on Prompt 110. 20 days of freedom and Prompt 77. In a world where art and entertainment are forbidden, you're born to challenge the system and change the world.
In the wake of her estranged mother's death, Maricel Ferrer returns to her childhood home to confront the dark secrets she left behind. * Maricel has spent years trying to forget the house she grew up in - the house where her mother's mental health slowly unraveled. But after receiving unexpected news, she has no cho...
Adeliza of Normandy has only ever wanted a place to belong. The illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Normandy, she never was certain there was a place for her. Orphaned at a young age, all she knew was conflict and misery, as her brother, William, fights to inherit Normandy. Illegitimate like her, William promises tha...
Robert Pierce, a spy suffering from amnesia after his last mission, is assigned to infiltrate the Carlton family as a bodyguard to the mafia boss's only son, Mick Carlton. Having fallen for Mick, Rob, there to investigate the Carlton family's link to the gruesome Crimson Bay slaughter, comes to realize that someone is...
ONC 2025 Entry. Prompt 60: The magic of the library takes its toll- a love story so powerful that its echoes span eternity. But as you write, you fall in love with the character you've created. What happens when the line between fiction and reality begins to blur?
After a devastating and heart shattering encounter, Emily couldn't pinpoint if it's a reality or figments of imagination. One thing is for sure, monsters are real. ____________ It starts where it ends. Where the lamp struck out, blowin' over the final curtain-nothing remains the same, not even the familiar road you o...
A successful lawyer meets a carpenter through an AI (artificial intelligence) machine, hoping to find love. But what they find is more than what they bargained for. __________________________________________________________ Ursula has all the book smarts and not an ounce of social skills. After a year of loneliness, s...
What happens when you come face to face with your worst nightmare? Do you run away or face it head-on? Whatever you choose to do it changes you in ways you never could have predicted, that is if you survive it all first.
Twenty years ago, magic vanished from the world, presumed forever gone. Yet it still existed, tangled within its own domain, along with Naamah, its dark personification. Naamah schemes return to complete her desire for humanity's subjugation and to avenge her earlier defeat. But with a soul barren, Naamah needed anoth...
Have you ever wondered what your friends really thought about you? Do they like you half as much as you think they do? Well, what if you didn't have to wonder? What if you could be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt? The pages of this book will give you the power to find out once and for all. All you need to do is sig...
[Set in Eilos, the world of 'Echoes of the Reach', and can be read standalone.] Where ripples of the past lead, the tidal waves of history soon follow. Jaster Brand is an artificing prodigy. From enchanted tools to automaton companions to his own right arm, his passion for arcane engineering has carried him to the Ma...
A girl in a white veil, the forest calls her to itself. She will be lost in it forever. A quiet voice, a whisper leads his bride far away. Somewhere there stands an old castle, a cursed prince dwells within its walls. When the full moon rises in the night sky, the monster awakens. The white veil of the bride turns cri...
A group of teenagers open a door to a half burned library, little do they know they did not only open the door to adventure in that old half-burned library but also open that of someplace else. Moreover, what they simply set off.
Lorelei Engel is at the peak of her career. Her songs are performed by dozens of popular artists, but her own versions top them all. A meeting with a top city bureaucrat pays unexpected dividends when she discovers a second set of documents hiding unethical and illegal contracts. She takes the folder of files with...
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 would rather fake his own death and live under a rock than go to a party. But thanks to some questionable life choices, he's now locked...