Lady Marigold Lennox knows the rules of the Season. Follow mother's orders, secure a match to protect the estate, and never let longing for romance or feelings ruin a perfectly sensible plan. With her inheritance on the line and her seventeenth birthday looming, she intends to marry quickly. At a pre-Season flower arranging class for young ladies, Marigold finds unexpected allies in two other girls navigating this new world beside her. One too sweet to be seen and one too scandalous to be forgiven. Together they must enter society and await it's judgement. Then she meets Oliver Harrow. Practical, intelligent, and refreshingly uninterested in control, Oliver seems to be her perfect solution. A marriage of convenience would benefit them both. Marigold can secure her inheritance, and Oliver gains better standing in society - each free to live life largely as they please. Love, after all, is an unnecessary complication. Or so Marigold insists. But whilst Marigold is content with simple friendship, Oliver's heart begins to want what their arrangement forbids. As the Season unfolds, her friends' struggles force Marigold to confront her own heart. Friendship with the man she is to marry feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path she's meant to take. With her heart no longer following the plan, Marigold must decide between the safety she wanted and the love she never expected. Written for @OpenNovellaContest 2026 Prompt Used: 24. Staying as friends feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path you're meant to take

A prophecy promises Elias Crowe two great loves: One that will save his life, and one that will destroy it. The problem? He's already in love with both. One walks beside him in the living world like temptations wrapped in devotion. The other is like a ghost, an angel who should have stayed dead. Heaven demands obedience. Hell offers protection. And Elias must decide which love is worth the end of everything. 🌹 Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2026 Main Prompt ↦ 115. A prophecy claims you will love two people. One destined to save your life and the other destined to destroy it. The trouble is, you have no idea which is which. Additional Prompt ↦ 82. You are in love with someone living and someone long dead. Neither one is willing to let you go. © 2026 ↦ onechapteraway on Wattpad

Sophie loves cosy games, especially Stardew Valley. But when she is suddenly sucked into the world of the game, it turns out living on a farm is different from what she imagined. Cultivating the land is arduous work; the animals smell, and what is worse, the role of the beloved farmer is already taken. If Sophie wants to return to her world, she will face a series of challenges. But she's a gamer, and she beat the game several times already, so it can't be too hard. After all, she knows everything about the Pelican Town, its people, and the mechanics. It's just a game. What could go wrong? *** ONC 2026 Prompt 8: 8. You wake up inside Stardew Valley with no idea how you got there and no guarantee you'll ever get back home. *** Cover art by @caralogues

🏆 | Round 2 Qualifier of ONC 2026 ❛❛ He was living on a heartbeat that was not even his, a pulse bought with blood and a whole lot of silence. Inside the Corpus, where the walls literally breathed and the shadows were looking for a reason to hunt, saying his own name was the fastest way to break his soul. They were stuck navigating a nightmare made of bone and pain, realizing that the only way to make it out was to hang onto the memories that just would not stay dead . . . ❜❜ Galateya and Shelomoh are trying to survive the Corpus, a city made of flesh where you cannot tell where a person ends and the architecture begins. It is run by the Father and the Mother---basically a pair of monsters turning suffering into a science---and the city itself eats the names and memories of anyone caught in its veins. In a place where a single word can literally shatter your body, they must get to the heart of the madness and find themselves before they are lost to the silence for good. 𖦹 𓍼꩟ ﹻ © Wattpad 𖦹 𓍼꩟ ﹻ © Banner & Cover by @mxtsuro 𖦹 𓍼꩟ ﹻ © Enmesharra ,, 2026

Catastrophe || An event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster. A chance encounter leads to misadventure when a curious cat and a rebellious young reaper's world collide. The daughter of the Grim Reaper, Eulalie, is nothing like the legendary phenomenon. She's not built for reaping, unlike her older brother, Nemorin. It's hard enough being a teenager without collecting souls. Let alone when an entire council of reapers wants to get rid of you. It's not her fault she doesn't fit in. And reaping doesn't get you out of algebra. After one too many mistakes and a lost heirloom, her father can't protect her any longer. Thirteen Souls. She has until midnight to prove herself. Or else risk losing her powers and returning to Earth to live with her human mother, whom she's never met. CW: Themes of Death. #ONC2026 || Prompt #65 On the way to collect a soul, the Grim Reaper is distracted by a stray puppy. Instead of completing the task, he decides to find the puppy's owner, much to the frustration of his assistant.

Two assassins. One royal secret. A lullaby of steel and secrecy. One last assignment to buy her freedom. The final phase of the mission was supposed to be straightforward: slip into the Spanish Royal Palace during the midsummer gala, incinerate the marked documents, and eliminate the crown and its heirs. It was supposed to be easy. At least, it would have been if she hadn't arrived twenty-four hours too soon. Forced to play a role her lethal training never prepared her for, the Royal Nanny, Elizabeth must use her supernatural abilities to navigate a world of silk and secrets while protecting the very heirs she was sent to kill. But she isn't the only one on a mission. Thomas, an assassin from a rival organization known as The Pendulum, is already embedded as the palace's head of security. In their battle to outspy each other, they realize they share more than just a job description. ~~~~~~~~~ ⚔️Genre: Espionage/Dark Fantasy/Romanstasy 🏆ONC2026 Entry Round 1- Passed Round 2- Passed Round 3- ⚠️Rated: MATURE (Violence, Physical Trauma and Psychological Distress) 📍Exclusively on Wattpad. © 2026 MiriamElade Main Prompt: 32. Two assassins from rival organizations are sent on the same secret mission, only to realize the assignment hides a much bigger truth. Sub Prompt: 33. It doesn't take long before everything in your life spins out of control. One moment you're a secret assassin, and the next, you've somehow been hired as a nanny and you're not entirely sure how it happened. Started: 1st February 2026 Completed: 20th April 2026

Margo Merryweather, a pickpocket, is confident in her perception of reality and how to survive within a system of the "have and have nots". Poe Whitlock, an inquisitor, has dedicated his life to bridging the gap of justice between those on the "inside" and those from the slums where he was born. Both of them will find themselves deeply involved with a mysterious man called Dream. And Dream, he has one goal in mind: Freeing the people of their world from the literal nightmare they haven't realized they are trapped in. ONC Prompt #71. People always say dreams come true, but in your world no one actually dreams at all. One night you become the first person to dream and everything begins to change. #86. A wasteland hides pockets of thriving communities protected by mysterious shields.

Jake spent years building a life he enjoyed with a fulfilling tech career, close supportive friends, and the one biological family member who had ever cared for him. But a year after his best friend, Austin, has a baby and his brother moves out, Jake is the primary one maintaining those connections and feeling left behind. When his friend Austin connects him with Vi, an aro-ace woman with similar frustrations, who wants to start a family free of the obligations of romance and sex, they connect as friends, and it shapes how he envisions his future.

Seventeen-year-old Ellie downloads the 'Connect with a Face' app hoping to cure her boredom- maybe to talk about the silliest topics with strangers from across the world, instead of dealing with the kind of boys who make her want to puke. Instead, the app connects her to something far worse. A shattered screen. A terrified girl. A broken warning which ends too soon. The real horror? The girl looks exactly like Ellie. Genre: Psychological Horror | Speculative Fiction Content Warning: Violence, blood, death Prompt: 60. You download a new app that promises to cure your boredom and it delivers far more than you ever expected.

When Brie lands a spot on Cheese Whiz, a cheese-themed cooking competition, the last thing she expects is to run into Colby Jackson, the man who left her heart with more holes than Swiss cheese. ~~~ It was supposed to be simple. Enter the contest, win the prize money, open her own restaurant. Easy peasy, extra cheesy. So of course Colby freaking Jackson and his smug, entirely too sexy face just had to come back into Brie's life like an extra stinky wheel of limburger cheese. Surrounded by fierce competitors and legendary amounts of dairy, Brie and Colby exchange barbs sharper than any cheddar. Yet, as the competition heats up, Brie quickly discovers the mozzarella isn't the only thing melting. Against her better judgment, Colby is once again worming his way into her heart. Will Brie find a whey to make things work between them, or will he leave her feeling bleu? 🧀 Rivals to lovers 🧀 Second chance romance 🧀 All puns are fully intended Using prompts 29 and 89 for ONC 2026! Cover by @-DeeIsDead-