She repairs broken memories - but who will repair the truth? ***** Nova Aurion understands how fragile memory can be - she mends it for a living. In a world where memory is currency and abilities define worth, society is divided into Endowments: cognitive classes established to preserve stability. Every three years, the nation hosts 'Project Elite' - a prestigious competition honoring the finest minds from each Endowment. Within the high-stakes arena, they contend not only for victory, but for the recognition to lead their future. When Nova, a Memory Diver renowned for restoring fractured minds, is selected to compete - she enters the Project, determined to win. However, survival demands more than mere intellect; it requires strategy, perception and sacrifice. As alliances shift and sparks ignite, a forbidden dive into a stranger's memory leaves Nova deeply unsettled, leading to a chilling realisation: what if Project Elite isn't designed to measure brilliance at all - but to harvest something far more dangerous? Caught between a charming rival, a skeptical ally, and a system that predicts every move, she must confront a choice that could reshape humanity itself - Is an unpredictable future worth the risk of chaos... or is controlled stability the safest path to preservation? ************************** ONC prompt (main): 111: With a single touch, you can slip into someone else's memories. But when a stranger shows you a future crime involving you, you must uncover the truth before it comes to pass.

A world at war. Spies fighting in the shadows. Niko Sapphire, a dedicated young agent of the Quorum, must unravel the sinister plots of a notorious alchemist and his alliance with the Siren kingdom of Lokesha before his homeland is ravaged by a new breed of creature, born of chaos and hellbent on tainting the ocean tides with blood for eternity. *** As the war between the evil Dragoness and the noble Lightsworn rages across the shores of the Southern Isles, tensions rise as new pawns of darkness arrive to swing the pendulum of fate in their favour. Recruited to seek out the mysterious dealings of corrupted alchemist, Doctor Kief Thondial, Quorum Agent, Niko Sapphire, joins forces with mermaid operative Skilla Striker to uncover the mysterious alliance between Thondial and the Siren Queen of Lokesha. Rivals by nature forced to work together for the sake of their people's survival, Niko and Skilla soon discover that Thondial has returned to his wicked experiments, and this time, what he creates could guarantee the outcome of the war. James Bond and Mission Impossible meet Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in this action-packed novella about spiritual warfare, second chances, and the dangerous consequences of resentment. *** Entered into the 2026 Open Novella Contest Prompt #32

When Elara Smith accidentally spills her cup of coffee on a stranger, the moment should have been enough to ruin her day. Her handmade cards are soaked in brown stains, and the future she was struggling to safeguard seemed uncertain. What she doesn't expect is a surprising request from the stranger: to make cards for his girlfriend, and the beginning of something that may quietly change her life. --- Twenty-two-year-old Elara Smith is a struggling card maker, balancing her studies while folding her dreams into handmade paper cards and digital designs that the world barely seems to notice. Buying her first airplane ticket took months of sacrifice, and she never imagined that one careless mistake would smear not only her ticket, but her carefully crafted work as well. Yet, a mistake is not always a loss: especially when it comes with a business-class seat and an unexpected opportunity that could alter her future. Leonardo Sylvester, the owner of Air World, one of the largest airline companies in the world, is caught off guard when he collides with a clumsy, visibly frustrated stranger at the airport terminal. As her cards scatter across the floor, he sees more than just art. He sees honesty. Intention. And perhaps, a way to mend a relationship he has already begun to lose. A newly bought cup of coffee meant to soften an apology. A first class seat offered out of convenience. A friendship born when art meets honour. And a journey that was never meant to happen. As paper planes of ambition, regret, and quiet hope begin to unfold at thirty thousand feet, two strangers discover that some connections cannot be bought, scheduled, or controlled. Because not all friendships begin with intention, and not all hearts are willing to follow a flight plan. Sometimes, the moment meant to ruin your day becomes the one that gently redirects your entire life.

When the strongest mafia organization in Endouva crumbles from within, who would expect their most skilled assassin, Loralie Asterra to end up in the mysterious island of Arkaris as a nanny for a three-year-old girl named Mimi Catapult? Loralie finds out that something bad is swirling within the borders. She uncovers Arkaris' hidden secrets, all while protecting a tiny prince and a child who refuses to leave her side. Doing so, Loralie realizes that she has no choice but to piece her gang back together to break the Curse of Arkaris.

When the man she loves is about to marry someone else, she does the unthinkable - she goes to stop the wedding. But timing is cruel. Who would have thought arriving a day late would change everything? My second entry into the Open Novella Contes. A Frankenstory made of many prompts... can you spot them all? Each chapter is a song title with the corresponding song as a video before it. You don't have to listen. It's just an additional detail Trigger Warning: Adultery, Blasphemy and a whole lot of bad language

Laufey Valerie had just broken off her engagement to one of the realm's most brilliant bachelors. On vacation in a little town known for its wonderful parks, where she reconnects with something she had thought lost. Together with her newfound 'companion' she crosses paths with twisted creatures called Discorn, that threaten the World's Harmony. She would come to discover a dark secret that will shake the foundations of her Rhythm magic. Cover by mysticariumch on IG Prompts 17. You fall in love with someone whose heartbeat matches a song you haven't heard since childhood 36. You are told to choose a weapon before battle but when you approach the table, the only weapons laid out are musical instruments. 45. "Kings have honour, soldiers are brave, poets have heart and all I have is rage!

Before France burned and crowns fell, it once starved to live. Before he was a king, he was a boy who once feared the silence. Before she was a revolutionary, she was a girl who once believed in love. Years before his marriage to Marie Antoinette, before alliances forged him into the King the world will remember, Louis was only a quiet prince who found comfort in the laughter of a printer's daughter from the Third Estate. Camille was never meant to stand beside a monarch. She never asked to love a prince. She asked for bread. For justice. For a France that did not bleed its poorest dry. But when a prophecy, whispered in the still halls of Versailles, follows Louis into manhood, "He will love two women. One will save his life. The other will destroy it." The trouble is, love does not wear a name. As France trembles beneath famine, debt, and rising fury, the prince becomes king. The king becomes a symbol. And the girl he once loved becomes something far more dangerous than memory. Revolution has many faces. Sometimes, it looks like the woman you once promised forever. Kings have honour. Soldiers are brave. Poets have hearts. And all Camille has left... is rage. As history sharpens its blade and the guillotine waits for its final applause, Louis must decide which love was his salvation, and which was his ruin. Because in a country built on hierarchy and hunger, loving the wrong person does not merely break a heart. It breaks a crown.

When Michael learned of his friend Jack's death, the last thing on his mind was fighting for his own life, but when Jack's voice called him outside his apartment building, his reality began to shatter. Transported into a fantasy world that Jack had already been revived into and saved from a demonic menace, Michael will face off in a head-to-head death game with friends and acquaintances to determine who among them was the most fit to join Jack in challenging the very heavens above. In this new environment, whether they wanted to or not, it seemed it was kill or be killed. Cover by Muyasa!

Elicia Thorne has spent her life chasing whispers. When her search leads her to the ruins of a civilization erased from history, she uncovers more than myth. Beneath shattered stone waits an artifact that hums with memory. The memory of an ancient being once worshipped, once feared...and now awake. The first vision it offers her is not prophecy. It is a warning. From that moment on, the world shifts. Fate coils tighter. Rage flickers beneath her restraint as something vast and cunning draws closer. A forgotten god of mischief has reached through centuries of silence and its touch has not gone unnoticed. Elicia does not know whether she was chosen, claimed, or merely convenient. But she knows this: The whisper that once called her name has grown louder and it wants something in return.

White. The colour that haunted her entire life. Born into a lineage of warriors and witches, she is the Matriarch's only daughter and her greatest disappointment. In a world forged by blood and conquest, her power does not burn or strike. Instead, she sees what others cannot: colours bleeding through the cracks of reality, a spectrum hidden beneath the violence they worship. They call her weak. They call her useless. But power does not always arrive as a weapon. Sometimes it arrives as perception. Sometimes it arrives as the space between. As ancient traditions close in and the weight of expectation sharpens into a blade, she must choose whether to disappear into the white that defines her-or claim the colours that terrify everyone else. A dark fantasy about inherited violence, quiet rebellion, and the power that exists where no one thinks to look. ---------- Open Novella Contest 2026 Based on prompts: 2. The first flower to bloom in spring isn't just a sign of the season changing. It's a portal. When you touch it, you're transported into a magical world you never knew existed. 11. The daughter of the most powerful witch is nothing like her mother. 16. "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul" by John Muir 28. Self-love often starts small, like planting a single seed. With time, patience, and a bit of light, it will blossom. 63. A forgotten temple appears overnight in the middle of town, but its doors will only open for those who tell lies.