For Centuries Grim has been collecting souls. It's what he does, it's his purpose. One day, while collecting a soul in the park, he comes across a lost puppy. For reasons he can't explain, the urge to return the small dog to his owner is overwhelming. He soon finds the animal's owner, a woman in her mid-twenties named Maria. He is struck down by her beauty and realizes that he had once claimed the soul of someone she loved. He becomes even more conflicted when he realizes he has just one year to claim her soul.

When Jane decides to follow a black cat into the woods, she does not expect it to lead to her meeting a Grim Reaper named Stormy who needs her help to stop a catastrophic event that may end the world. Unable to bring herself to turn down such an important mission, Jane soon finds that things may be harder than she anticipated. This is an ONC 2026 story! It is based on the following prompts: 98: You never imagined the end of the world would begin with a one-eared black cat showing up at your door. 65: On the way to collect a soul, the Grim Reaper is distracted by a stray puppy. Instead of completing the task, they decide to find the puppy's owner, much to the frustration of their assistant. 72: A real necromancer sits in on a fake seance. The cover art is by Anne Stokes.

If you got anyone to describe Jessie Reynolds-Somber in one word, it would be 'lucky.' She survived childhood leukemia (twice), has the best friend-slash-roommate in the world, and she's studying something she loves at the university she's forever adored. But not even November can describe why she feels so incomplete, as though she's forgotten to do something she'll never get a chance to do. Why she feels like she's failed---no, worse, like she's a failure.

Nicole Brenner has been dead for three years. Sort of. Trapped between worlds and bound to a cabin deep in Pennsylvania's western mountains, Nic has spent every day since keeping an ancient evil locked behind the door at the end of the hall, and trying not to lose her mind. She's got a grimoire she's memorized cover to cover, a weepy cryptid named Pierogi, and exactly two weeks of corporeality per year to shore up defenses against the monsters called to kill her. Then Cal Muir walks through her front door - ex-Navy SEAL, ex-almost-something, and the last person she ever expected to see again. He's here to find out what happened to her; he doesn't know she's standing right behind him; and he's wasted no time dismantling her meager defenses (and she cannot stress enough how much of a problem that is). Now Nic has six days to figure out how to save a man who can't see her, from monsters he doesn't believe in, before Halloween night blows the door open for good - all while reckoning with the fact that the magic she once told him wasn't real might be the only thing that saves them. A second-chance paranormal romance steeped in Penn Dutch folklore, veteran mental health representation, and the kind of magic that challenges both fate and faith.

What happens when you meet the wrong person at the right time? He didn't want love. He just wanted a fake girlfriend-someone temporary, convincing enough to keep his parents off his back. After heartbreak and betrayal, trusting anyone was impossible. His heart had learned one rule: don't get attached. She wasn't supposed to be there. She only stepped out to clear her head, never expecting that being alone would make her the perfect mistake. One brief encounter. One simple misunderstanding. And suddenly, she's the girl he thinks he's meant to meet-a mistake that could cost them both everything. Desperate for money and out of options, she agrees to play the role-just for a while. No feelings. No promises. Just a deal. But pretending isn't easy. Stolen glances begin to feel dangerously real. Rehearsed smiles turn into laughter that lingers longer than it should. And two guarded hearts start to heal... in ways neither of them anticipated. What started as a business arrangement slowly turns into something neither planned-or could control. In a world of coincidences, secrets, and second chances, can love find a way in?, or will the past destroy the one thing they never meant to find? A fake relationship A wrong meeting One coincidental love that changes everything.

The woods surrounding Crenshaw are haunted by the secret between life and death---a monster known only as the Reaper. For centuries, Crenshaw's Institute for the Dark and Gifted has had one rule that its students are never meant to break: stay out of the woods, or face the Reaper's wrath. Faceless and formless, the Reaper feeds off the blood of those unfortunate enough to wander into the forest, but never touches those who obey the golden rule. That is, until a body is found in the library, drained entirely of blood. With the school halls no longer safe from the Reaper's bloodlust, four gifted students are forced to team up to uncover what the Reaper truly is---and more importantly, how to get rid of it. (Prompt 16: "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.")

𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒚𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 2024 9× 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒂𝒅 Afraid of human contact, renowned ballerina Akhyra Morel is the epitome of grace on stage, but offstage, her icy demeanor keeps everyone at arm's length. When a media scandal jeopardizes her career, Akhyra reluctantly becomes entwined with Lucian Moreno, a rising star of the national Haitian football team. Lucian, suspended from the quarter-finals of the Gold Cup competition due to a foolish bar fight, finds himself stuck chauffeuring around his coach's spoiled daughter. Initially resentful and at odds, Akhyra and Lucian must learn to cooperate. As Akhyra takes a hiatus away from the attention of the press, she is confronted with a reluctant guardian who would rather be on the football field than playing chauffeur. In this delicate dance of vulnerability and strength, Akhyra and Lucian navigate a journey from isolation to connection. Will the fiery clash of their worlds lead to a new pas de deux, or will the shadows of their pasts keep them forever entwined in a dance of solitude? ❦︎𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒓 - 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑎𝑑 𝑂𝑁𝐶 2024 ❦︎𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 - 𝑅𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 ❦︎ 3𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕- 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠

Inspired by the cruel world of Fear and Hunger. A Dungeons and Dragons, High Fantasy trope. What happens when the Gods give up on humanity? Will you ascend to take their place? Or will overwhelming power and glory consume you until you're nothing? After all, you're just you. Human. What begins as a simple mission to retrieve a mythical artifact soon unravels into a desperate hunt for the Divine and ending the God responsible for the Death Plague, bringing close blood-bound alliances and a desperate search for salvation while death and destruction ring over their heads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ∆ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Names of people, places, events, and ideas in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental or is used fictionally. Trigger Warnings: Some chapters of this story may contain mature themes (occasional violence, minimal gore, and crude language). Reader discretion is advised so watch out for 🚩. Chapter 4: Body Horror. Chapter 5: Self-Harm. DISCLAIMER: I don't own any illustrations/pictures used in this story. All of them are from Pinterest and I don't and will NOT take credit for the said illustration/pictures. These are mainly here as guides to help readers visualize better.

A princess unloved by her family for being an illegitimate child that cost the life of two people. She is destined to die due to a curse that she kept concealed until she died in her first life. Now reincarnating as her younger self can Serenity defy the will of the gods from the royal families and live to see her family demise.

She thought her past was buried. He thought he knew her. Neither expected the truth to rewrite everything. Kara Matthews grew up following a script she never wrote-perfect daughter, perfect student, perfect future. But the one thing that never fit was Nathan: the boy who burned bright, made her feel alive, and then disappeared in a flash of sirens and shattered glass. They told her he died. She believed them. Years later, after choosing the safe path-and being abandoned on her wedding day-Kara ends up stranded in Riverfront, North Carolina with her life in pieces. That's when she sees him. A man with the same eyes. The same voice. The same pull she swore she'd buried. He shouldn't exist... but he does. Drawn to him, haunted by him, Kara becomes tangled in a town full of shifting truths and dangerous secrets. So she makes herself a promise: she'll make him fall for her-and then she'll walk away. But some collisions are impossible to escape. Some love stories refuse to stay buried. IF NO ONE KNOWS - a contemporary romance about grief, fate, family lies, and the kind of love that changes everything.