Bianca Angel was desperate for a job. Jin Hwa was desperate to be left alone. When Bianca becomes the new caregiver for a sick boy everyone else has abandoned, she enters a new challenge that will change her life forever. What started as a job slowly turns into something neither of them expected. A bond built from shared loneliness, broken dreams, and the fear of tomorrow. As Jin's illness gets worse, Bianca was caught between responsibility, longing, and the ache of knowing she can't save him. Will it have a happy ending, or will all her efforts go to waste? This story is inspired by the song 'Holding you' by Stan Walker and Ginny Blackmore _______________________________ Prompt #84 A standalone story where romance and heartbreak join in one

🏆 ONC 2026 ENTRY Main Prompt: 52 ⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆ After Dark is supposed to be just another dating app. For Amelia, a museum curator exhausted by one bad date after another, it feels like a final attempt before she gives up on romance entirely. For Alexei, it's never been about dating at all; he's been sent to get close to her because of an artefact tied to something old and dangerous. But as their meetings turn strange and violent, Amelia realises the city she thought she knew is hiding secrets far darker than a failed love life. And somewhere in between, Alexei finds himself losing control of the one thing he was meant to keep in check: His distance from her. ⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆⋆♱✮♱⋆ Tropes: Paranormal Adventure, Slow-Burn Romance, Forced Proximity, Are they or Are They Not Together?, Morally Grey MMC 💋, 1/3 Body Horror, 1/3 Gore and 1/3 Sexually Explicit Inspirations: DMC, JJK, BB, Dante's Inferno COVER DONE BY CANVA PRO, ARTWORK BY PINTEREST © 2026 by eleeyjs (EJ Chow). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means-including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods-without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in critical reviews or scholarly work.

Briar Black isn't used to the domestic life. She's used to guns, violence, and ruthlessness. But after meeting Léna, the most beautiful woman she's ever laid her eyes on, she picked up the most unexpected job for a woman in her profession: being a nanny to a feisty little girl whose gorgeous mother is running a mysterious business. It's funny how life turns out, isn't it? Briar has no idea how she got here, but she is slowly learning to enjoy the ride. Unicorn stickers, keeping her other life a secret, tantrums, more secrets and romantic tension with her new boss, and all. ...Wait, what was that last bit?

❝ The ocean gives back what was never meant to disappear. ❞ ***** After being abandoned by the ocean as a baby, Mireya Holt grows up waiting for an explanation. Following a violent storm, she receives it when the ocean washes ashore a piece of driftwood bearing her name and a date from before her birth. As she investigates the enigmatic message, she uncovers a long-hidden disappearance and a powerful man determined to conceal the truth. The ocean didn't bring back the truth to put the past behind her. It brought it back because the time to hide it is over. ***** Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2026 Main Prompt: 7. One morning, the ocean washes up a message. One you've been waiting your entire life to hear. © 2026 | purringpages | Wattpad

❝ I went searching for my best friend and ended up kidnapping the city's most dangerous man. ❞ ***** Kieran "Kie" Maddox only wants to find his missing best friend, but a wrong turn lands him in the hands of Dante Veyra, the feared crime lord of the city. Now trapped together, they must outsmart the dangers around them and a growing attraction that none of them expected. Among lies, schemes, and threats around every corner, the riskiest move is to let your guard down and fall for the wrong man. ***** Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2026 Main Prompt: 51. While in search of a missing friend, you accidentally kidnap the most feared crime lord. © 2026 | purringpages | Wattpad

After a year spent healing at St. Francis Mental Hospital, Neillah must piece together the life she was forced to leave behind without getting caught. ⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂ ⠂⠄⠄⠂☆ When Neillah Thomas is released back into society she expects her family and friends to have moved on--not believe she's dead. Convinced it was for the best, her mother assures her temporary grief was better than long drawn hardship that could only end in pain, keeping her wellbeing a secret from everyone, but also single-handedly cutting off Neillah's entire support system. Sworn to secrecy, she attends college at her dream school only to find her former friend group in shambles. Between the cold stares, scathing retorts, and literal evasion, Neillah is shocked to find her first crush is a loner and that hot-headed best friend of hers? He seems to be staring in her direction a little too long. Clinging to her promise to remain out of sight, Neillah stubbornly fights for the closure they all deserve and answers she never got, no matter the cost. | An Open Novella Contest Entry | | Cover by the Amazing @Caralogues |

As ritual killings tear through the city, Blythe becomes the center of a dangerous obsession. Two men want her for very different reasons, and both are hiding exactly how far they'll go to keep her. *** Blythe thought college would be about classes, parties, and finally feeling normal. Instead, ritualistic killings begin tearing through the city, and every step she takes seems to pull her closer to the danger. Her childhood best friend starts acting secretive and overprotective, like he is hiding something big. Then a new man appears. Dark. Magnetic. And maybe exactly what she should be running from. As fear spreads and strange things begin happening around her, Blythe starts to wonder if the danger is following her for a reason. Someone is watching her. Someone is hunting. And the truth about who she can trust, and who she might be, could change everything. *** Open Novella Contest 2026 Prompts: 82, 99, 104, 105

Ten years ago, Rose died in an accident. Except she didn't. Not really. She was bitten. Now, on the edge of sixteen, the ten-year clock is running out. The hunger has started. Her reflection lies. Her memories glitch. And Cree - the vampire who marked her - is back. He didn't choose to turn her. The government made him. He's not here to finish the job. He's here to claim what he started in her, before OPHELIA does. A slow-burn supernatural horror about growing up, falling apart, and turning into something you're not. ONC | 2026 #16 And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. (Quote by John Muir) #104 While wandering through the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than the wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all.

Tris McCoy is having an uneventful summer. It's the summer before eleventh grade, and it's the last summer she has before she has to start worrying about driving, and college, and a career. With her mom being in the hospital and her dad enjoying the title of father out in Australia, she's left to spend the next six weeks alone. Until she (literally) stumbles across a stack of old letters from her pen pal, July Souders. July lives in British Columbia---four provinces away---but Tris knows of a camp she used to attend. Unwilling to spend the summer alone and desperate for any change, no matter the size, Tris sets off for summer camp.