CONTENT WARNING: This story deals with heavy themes, including depictions of mental health struggles, self-harm, suicide attempts, and mentions of childhood neglect. Reader discretion is advised. - All Aihara Eari wanted was a place to belong-a place to call home. Being an errand person for the scholars of the Akademy...
In desperate need of a lifeline, Spencer Pelekai catches a last minute flight to San Francisco where she runs straight into the arms of her missing piece. ***** Spencer Pelekai isn't sure how to let go of her seven-years long r...
A professor and a detective must pair up to discover the secrets of the bog behind the former's new home. *** The Autopsy of Jane Doe meets Predatory Natures by Amy Goldsmith in this tale of folk terror. Following an incident at her workplace, professor of psychology Raisa Thorne decides to take a sabbatical at her...
It has been a week since the old mausoleum at the Nethermly Cemetery collapsed without warning. This week has been full of unexplained deaths and strange sightings. Like every resident of Nethermly, Reverie Ashford had locked herself safely in her house. She planned to enjoy some peace and quiet until the town returne...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
Kieran Hale is going to die. According to the cards, the tea leaves, and every witch, medium, and psychic in New Londinium, he has less than a month to live. With no solution in sight, and death haunting his every step, Kieran knows that he must go to drastic, and dangerous, measures, if he wants to live. A demon co...
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...
Hiding from the strict French regime, a spirited revolutionist risks everything to keep the truth alive, until she uncovers a conspiracy that could erase her and her cause forever. - ༓ - In the dark heart of 19th-century France's reign, where print is tightly regulated, dissent is dangerous, and women are expected to...
Open Novella Contest 2025! This is my interpretation of prompt 50. A supervillain has a midlife crisis and decides to become a superhero. But redemption might be harder than they imagined. ___________________________________________________________________ Cassius Vale has spent his life in the shadows, a man forged...