Killanaus, a second-year biology student at an alien university, is down to one last chance to obtain research experience in the summer prior to graduation. However, Lokath, his would-be research advisor for the summer, harbors concerns about the student. As he enters the troubled waters leading to graduation, he and...
Eryndor Veylan is the young king of Luminara, the kingdom of progress. Born into power, he quickly learns that true authority doesn't lie in the throne. When the council forces him to approve a new industrial site that will poison the last great forest, he knows the kingdom is on the brink of an irreversible mistake. ...
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...
When international superstar, Laila, decides to ignore all warnings and fly to her next gig in a storm, she finds herself lost on a mysterious tropical island with no hope of rescue. With only her uncompromising pilot for company, both women must learn the secrets of the island in order to escape back to the modern wo...
The only thing worse than being on holiday in paradise with your chaotic family while your father is being investigated for tax evasion? Being there with your ex.
Zade Farrah thinks that spilling coffee on his shirt or blowing the back tire of his only bike, while on his way to work, are the only exciting things in his life. But when he realizes that he is not alone in his little apartment, things take a terrifying but oddly alluring turn. ...
Soren never asked to be the only faerie on campus who can see ghosts. Because honestly? It's kind of a nightmare. Between dodging chatty spirits in the hallways, and constantly being late because some 200-year-old ghost will not move from the dorm entrance, Soren has enough problems. And after Soren loses his protect...
What's the evidence of someone's existence? Paintings, writings... kindness? For me, it was acknowledgment. Acknowledgment of one's existence. Walking on the path of the throne had always been covered in red, and then, written with ink, painted in black on coarse pages of history. As I gazed at the winter plum blossom...
Sora Yōmei was the first female heir to the Veozian throne-until her step-brother's birth turned her world upside down. With her claim to the throne in jeopardy, her brother seeks to slay the mythical mountain serpent Vraniscar, hoping to claim its power and unite the kingdoms of mountains and sea. Exiled and nearly s...
The Seven Star Systems have been in turmoil since the oppressive DOMINION seized control of the 16,039 planets and moons. Hara Ellis, from the shattered moon of Olnayama, survives by transporting rebels to their deaths on the hostile planet Bozoth. This grim task keeps her and her mother safe from Bozoth's lethal envi...
Main Prompt: #1 Sub Prompts: #2, #7, #12, #13, #39, #75... For as long as she can remember, Ivy Reece Tauria has worn an unbreakable ring on her finger. A childhood relic, a forgotten gift...until the day it opens. It happens after she stumbles upon a door made entirely of briars and thorns, hidden deep in the forest...
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.
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At Auralie, a prestigious school for young witches and warlocks, Clementine has always felt like something is missing from her magical abilities-until she meets Adam, a brooding warlock with an uncanny understanding of her powers. Drawn together by a chance encounter in the library, Adam becomes Clementine's guide...
In the realm of Vellara, books are not just stories-they are living worlds, inked into existence by the hands of ancient scribes. For centuries, the Grand Archive has safeguarded these enchanted tomes, ensuring that no one disturbs the delicate balance between fiction and reality. Kael Dain is a young scribe apprentic...
Ava Monroe is just eighteen, freshly out of high school, stuck in a small town that feels too suffocating and too small for the dreams burning inside her. She craves freedom, adventure-something more. She finds it in the most unexpected place: Damien Black, a man who's everything she should stay away from-older, dange...
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...
Love is not a blessing, but a curse. In the shadowed halls of the Night Court, where vampires rule with quiet cruelty and ancient tradition, they are bound to an unbreakable destiny. Vampires are bound to their human soulmates, and rejection can kill them. Cassian never wanted to believe in fate, but when he discove...
When Rosie McGee's new husband ignores her, she begs the harlot next-door for lessons on seduction (1980s suburban dystopia with a spicy lesbian romance) *** It's 1982, and newlywed Rosie McGee has just moved into an idealistic suburban cul-de-sac called Windsor Lane. As a good Christian girl, this is Rosie's dream co...
It's been more than twenty years since Dwayne last saw his childhood imaginary friend. But in a sudden hail of bullets, explosions, and car chases, Mr. Foo Foo comes roaring back into his life in a major way with trouble hot on his tail. Dwayne's boring and mundane life is about to get upended in a serious way, and...
She's an angel. He's a demon. What could go wrong? Most angels would balk at setting foot deep into demonic territory -- not Siah Umbrath. When the Angelic Council appoints her father as ambassador to the demonic kingdom, Siah sees it as a thrilling opportunity. As a history buff, she eagerly awaits her enrollment at...
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...
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...
#ONC2025 Main Prompt: #40 Sub Prompts: #100 & #59 Book cover: Temporary Once, you were a character in a story--your life crafted by an unseen hand, your destiny inked into pages. But that story was deleted, erased from existence. Now, you wake up in the Hidden Library, a place where discarded characters and abandone...
**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 lost in the dark But a million lights will...
Rennie Fitzgerald is nearly forty and has finally realized that there is no timeline for adulting, no ticking clock for setting a date for marriage, and no pressure to have children. If only Imani Aguillon's parents had reached the same conclusion... What do you do when you're on the cusp of middle age and under pres...
ONC2025 ------ "She really fell from the sky and landed right into my arms, I'm not even lying!"
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...
[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...
**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...