Alexie never meant to fall in love with a demon. It never crossed her mind. When she meets Zarek at the library, she thinks nothing is wrong with him. Until one night, she stumbles across him while completing his job as the demonic Judge of Souls. Thrust into a new world, the two of them must navigate dark politics, secrets, and bond ties-while denying their love and attraction to each other. But as trust builds, the two of them are thrust into a new fear that only the two of them can get out of. ONC Prompts #2 and #127

Colby is finally doing it. Not selling his family home like he's meant to be doing, that's just a side project. His real goal is to get in contact with his father's ghost and determine just what life after death is really like. Maybe he shouldn't have tested his new ghost hunting hobby on the ghost of a serial killer.

Things are not okay in Granatal. It's not just the odd disappearances in the night or the cloaked figure stalking the back alleys either. Yophiel is going to have to trust this flute wielding bard when she says things are going to get worse before they get better.

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 avoid it. But what happens when one of them discovers that their soulmate is a human who not only rejects them but loathes them? * * * * Maximilian Kreutz passed through Kirovka to take a shorter route to his destination. But unexpectedly, he saw Tatiana Dmitrievna Vasilieva, at that moment, it was not her beauty that struck him. There was something more dangerous, more violent to his senses, the subtle, tantalizing smell that seemed to cling to. The air seemed humming around the girl, and being a vampire, it was a trap he couldn't avoid. His fangs moved spontaneously, his body reacting before his mind could even keep up. The sweet, metallic smell of its blood seemed like an irresistible call, pulling him closer like a storm he couldn't stop. He tried to pull away, steeling himself, but that scent kept enveloping his senses, like a forbidden temptation he couldn't escape. He seemed to be going crazy with hunger and the intense desire to taste the girl's blood. He followed it out of his own accord, as if it were a shadow that could not be avoided. When the sky darkened, under the silence of the night, he secretly entered her room. He knows about the rules of his clan, but he can't control himself to taste her even if he dies. In One step-one moment-and he was about to see the blood that captured him. But at that very moment, Tatiana suddenly opened her eyes and with a skillful move she pulled out a knife from under the pillow to kill him, he was lucky because it did not hit his neck, but he was hit in the chest. At that time, he found out that the woman he wanted to taste blood was a Vampire Hunter. -L♠️

Nyla is sleeping with her boss, but who isn't? It's finally time for her to get a move on with her life and hope she can get out of this funk of choosing emotionally unavailable women. Now who's that cute neighbor over there?

"There's no denying it-either I'm hallucinating or Cole Winton is standing on my porch." Jamie is used to putting pen to paper. She's been doing it for years, and has a slew of novels to show for it. For the most part, she's left alone to write which is what she prefers. But this is the first time someone has knocked on her door, insisting they are one of her characters. This is the first time someone demands to know how she knows what she does, declaring it treason. Armed with only her pen, her notebook, and her cat, Inkwell, she finds out just how much of their own lives her characters have taken on outside of her novels. (ONC prompt 99) ONC 2025 Finalist (5th place)

He drew her in red because he hated her. Now, he will paint her in black to make her disappear. Graham Holloway never forgot Celeste Monroe the perfect girl from his university days. Beautiful, popular, cruel. His worst nightmare. His personal hater. While he hid behind his sketchbook, she laughed at him with her friends, never realizing that every mockery was etched into his mind... and into his drawings. Years later, Graham is a successful comic book artist, confined to a wheelchair since his teenage years. Celeste is no longer the queen of anything, but she still hides behind her mask of perfection. When fate forces them to spend a week in the same house, Graham decides it's time to settle the score. His revenge will be psychological, artistic, and physical. He will make her see herself as he remembers her a cruel stroke across the pages of his story. He will lead her into her own desires until she can no longer tell whether she hates him or needs him. Because if Celeste once turned him into the target of her ridicule, now he will turn her into his creation. And when an artist becomes obsessed with his masterpiece, he never lets it escape.