Crushed (ONC '25)

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.

I Wrote Her For Me | ONC 2025

The Crown University of Berenia is the finest academic institution in all of Malar. Its alumni include the ranks of royalty, nobility, scholars, and sorcerers alike. Native Berenian Tornik Favandi, or Nik as everyone knows him, is in his 6th and final year at the Crown studying to become a royal tutor. For his final p...

Beyond The Fourth Wall | ONC 2025

Ah, the start of Senior Year. Homecoming, late-summer house parties, team tryouts, and betting on which universities will fight over your over-accomplishing athletic career. Can it get any better? Certainly not for the It Couple of Northride High. Cameron Hansley, the captain and star of the school's record-setting ho...

Family Man | ONC 2025

Mira Harper has the perfect husband. Callum is kind, has a stable job, and a nice house in the suburbs. Most importantly, he's great with Mira's 14-year-old son, Ezra. Sure, they moved fast--her friends say too fast--but he felt like a miracle she couldn't turn down. Then, a woman shows up on their doorstep claiming t...

Cancelled || ONC 2025

Fame, fortune, and millions of followers can disappear as quickly as they come, especially in an era where getting ''cancelled'' is just one viral scandal away. Hollywood's former golden boy, Finnegan Braxton, knows this all too well. Once a beloved teenage heartthrob, he's now branded as a notorious player, arrogant...

Neighbors with Lemonade

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?

Love Me Not (ONC)

This story is written for the Open Novella Contest 2025. I utilized prompt number: 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 is sweeter than anything else, and if the love is unr...

Female Rage

Aspen Keller has only ever known a world with her self-absorbed, pick-me best friend in it. But when she receives a glittered box and is introduced to the members of the elusive club whispered about in Wyland's hallways - members that claim to know some of the events of That Night - she has to come to terms with her i...

Falling Hard | ONC 2025

When Logan turns up at Violet's remote cabin during a blizzard, she's forced to give the stranded lawyer shelter. Sure, Logan seems the perfect gentleman, but with no way to call for help, Violet remains on edge. Logan's polished city life couldn't be more different from Violet's solitary art retreat. But as the snow...

Bitter Lemonade | ONC 2025

Mabel's life is falling apart. Between her long-time situationship who wants to be more than friends now, her rapidly deteriorating grades, and a group of friends who've been conveniently excluding her from their plans lately, nothing is going her way, and the pressure keeps building up from all sides. That's when Kat...

Cupid Is As Cupid Does | ONC 2025

Eros (Cupid) gets rejected by Psyche for a newly-revived Narcissus. Convinced he is a failure who does not live up to his job description, Eros quits in anger and embarrassment, breaking his bow and his vows and retiring to Florida. -- After Hell's major overhaul, Kelsia-a repentant succubus and a hopeless romantic-fi...

The King and the Wild - ONC 2025

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. ...

Hoax | ONC 2025

[18+] When Hollywood's rising star Cameron Beck is dumped by her NFL boyfriend and branded as the shallow ex by every tabloid under the sun, she hatches a plan to win back her image-and him-by proving she's moved on with someone new. Enter Alec Davenport, a reclusive gaming mogul who wants nothing to do with the spot...

Welcome Back | ONC 2025

Supermodel Kaia Keene has the perfect life-until she uncovers her footballer boyfriend's infidelity and shady charity dealings. Refusing to be just another scorned ex, she teams up with a rising popstar and a relentless journalist to expose his secrets. This time, she's not the side character in his story-she's the on...

The Bride, the Blade, and the King | ONC 2025

ONC 2025 -------- Princess Selene has lived her life within the safe confines of her kingdom's walls, her destiny sealed by an arranged marriage to the Demon King of a neighboring realm. The union, meant to prevent war and bloodshed, is her duty-but it's one she never wished for. Accompanied by Rael, the Demon King'...

The Vanishing Teashop | ONC 2025

When the mysterious tea shop suddenly appears, one can't help but hear its call, and wonder-what's its true purpose? *** Bumping into the childhood friend she thought to be a creation of her mind, Alicia Ward follows the skittish white-haired boy and soon finds herself at The Crooked Kettle, a magic teashop. Soon lo...

Brewtiful Souls || ONC 2025

Olive and Sebastian have been best friends since they can remember and are total opposites. Despite everyone around them thinking they would get together, they both thought they were too opposite to see each other as anything more than friends. When a new, suspicious cafe called Brewtiful Souls opens on their high st...

Pick Me Up On Tuesdays (bxb) || ONC 2025

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...