Dreamland ONC Club

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Sleepwalker, Awake (ONC2025 Entry- In Progress)

If other worlds exist beyond the looking glass, how do we cross over to those foreign shores? What will we find there in the lands of whimsy and fantasy? What will find us? *** Malachi is a miserable man who's had one too many bad turns. On his last ropes, he's ready to give up the ghost when he finds the green door...

Sorry! I'll Politely Decline! (ONC2025)

"A missing woman. A chain of murder cases where the corpses refuse to stay dead. A cryptic phone. And an infuriatingly vague mystery texter." Superintendent Inspector Ahsan Kabbo has faced superhuman criminals, underground conspiracies, survived Freadmin's tyranny, and-most terrifying of all-Nishi's cooking. But nothi...

Who Could Learn to Love a Beast? (ONC2025)

**For the Open Novella Contest 2025!** "If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return, the spell would be broken...for who could ever learn to love a beast?" When she receives a cryptic but urgent text message from her father, Isla Lamborne returns to her childhood home in Long Island to find her fam...

His Fate Is To Destroy The World | ONC2025

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.

The Ink of Our Souls|ONC2025

After spending 30 years in another world, Ariana wakes up in the life she left behind, only to find echoes of the love she lost in a stranger. Was this fate, or just a cruel trick of her grieving heart? ============= When Ariana opened her eyes in a hospital bed, the world she had known for the past thirty years had v...

The Scent of Desire [ONC2025]

PROMPT#11. Vampires are bound by an ancient destiny: their soulmate is always human, and this bond is governed by three rules. The smell of their soulmate's blood is irresistible, its taste sweeter than anything else, and if the love is unrequited, it can be fatal. Fearing this inevitable bond, most vampires try to a...

Let Me Be Your Villain | ONC2025

Lost in The Library of All Things Never Written, Draven searches day and night for his own deleted story before it's forgotten, and he fades out of existence. The task would be far easier without Solomon, the ghost librarian, constantly reminding Draven the inevitable fate of deleted characters. Sol is convinced that...

The King of Rats ⱽᵒˡᵘᵐᵉ² | ONC2025

** 𝑰𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉? Robin and Marian's feelings, together with their convictions, are put to the test when the bloodthirsty rat king threatens not only the rebellion but also the fate of all England. ** "Just one dream can wake a nation Just one man can break down a door A single light can be los...

Life is but a Vale of Tears | ONC2025

[ Fantasy - Romance / MATURE ] The Vampyres of Gale are amid a flesh-eating pandemic, and Faerie tears are the only known cure. Livinia, a Faerie healer, joined the Human side of a Vampyre war in southern Nival to avoid scandal and the captivity of an arranged marriage. Upon "Liv's" return to her icy homeland, she ge...

The Thief of Winter ⱽᵒˡᵘᵐᵉ¹

𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓, 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍... **A mirror-wandering thief and a knight who has lived hundreds of lives try to return the most precious thing to the Queen of Ice and Snow: the Heart of Winter itself. ** "When leaves have fallen And skies turned to grey The night keeps closing in on the day A nighti...

The Perks of Being Ugly | #ONC2025

Follow Regine's adventure as she tries to look for and rescue her beloved in the underworld. *** Regine has always been bullied because of how she looks. People call her a monster or a demon straight from hell. Only Leo, the most popular boy in magic school, treats her like a proper human being. Naturally, Regine fall...

Their Queen (#ONC2025)

Elethea must protect something with her life-her identity. Being part human and part faery is something forbidden. Elethea is one and she must keep her identity concealed to avoid being punished. The king of Aethoria arranges a ball for his son, Darrian, birthday. Darrian is forced to wed one of the many invited women...

Kilroy Is Back! (ONC2025)

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.

Fallen | ONC2025

[Open Novella Contest 2025] Prompt: 31 By the lake, Tara meets Ila and nothing is the same again. But clear skies do not mean they aren't susceptible to storms and that the conflict constantly within her will never fade in lieu of one strong emotion for a person! A story of trauma, conflict and loss and a story that t...

The Spare | ONC2025

ONC 2025 A sci-fi thriller with a thread of gay romance. Jiro wanted to be a pilot for as long as he could remember. Flying through the stars, what could be more thrilling? He worked hard for his dream, nothing was going to stop him, not even the debilitating illness which struck him down, just before his eighteenth...

𝗡𝘆𝘅 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 #𝘖𝘕𝘊2025

❝𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗲? 𝗠𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗺, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸, ❞ *** The world is consumed by shadows. A decade ago, Nyx's life was shattered into pieces when her parents were consumed...

SOMETHING HUMAN [Something Mine] ONC2025

Hansin was a literature student, lonely and weird and a crime lover. In his sophomore year he moved to his aunt's house. His aunt and uncle who died nine years ago... ...But the strangest thing was that Hansin could sense the presence of someone else with him. As Hansin tried to understand the situation...

The Unicorn's Blessing | #ONC2025

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞-𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. Unicorns are sacred in the kingdom of Unara, the...

Forgotten Embers | ONC2025

A kingdom doomed to burn. A beast fated to rise. A love that should have changed everything. The curse that will never forget. Once every quarter year, on the same fateful night, the kingdom is reduced to ash. The people cower, the king grieves, and when the sun rises, the world is restored; perfect, untouched, and u...

On A Winter Afternoon [ONC2025]

Markus has left everything behind to live in a remote cabin near a lake. He wants to be alone, but in the middle of a snowstorm, a stranger knocks at his door and asks for shelter. Prompt 44: In the middle of a storm, a stranger arrives at your cabin, and you offer them shelter. But the storm's forecast says you'll be...

The Cursed and the Damned || ONC2025

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 an...

Be Careful (onc2025)

As Mae stepped away from the familiarity of her adopted home, determined to carve out her own space, she couldn't shake the warning in her mind: stay away from Reece King. The allure of the unknown was too strong, however, and against her better judgment, she found herself drawn to him. Little did he know their paths...