Grant Voss, a college running back who communicates better with his body than his words, has spent four months hiding his feelings for Poppy Hayes, the cheerleader his best friend Charlie dated and left heartbroken. On the day of the season's most important game, Grant must balance his loyalty to Charlie, who is struggling under his demanding father's scrutiny, with his growing inability to deny his feelings for Poppy. When an impulsive kiss on the field after a crucial victory exposes Grant's secret to forty thousand spectators and a national television audience, he must confront whether his silence has been protecting the people he loves or simply protecting himself from the vulnerability of being truly seen.

Bronhini, the storm queen, sends out her pet dragon to turn the skirmish her men are losing. A lone warrior stands up to the beast - a brave, but useless act. When Laiàn learns about the courageous last stand of her brother, she is devastated. But not everything is as it seems... Based on the prompt #29: "You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints on your heart."

The stars whispered to amateur astronomer Levi, and to his alarm, one by one they disappeared within the abyss. But when he witnessed one such disappearance, the star fell to him and took a human form. Explaining Celesta's sudden appearance to suspicious townspeople became an insignificant problem when a Darkness threatened to consume the universe, one star at a time, including the one that warmed his world. A fantasy story written for the 2026 Open Novella Contest, utilizing prompt #69: The stars are disappearing one by one, and only you can hear their whispers.

Jareth Coppersmith and Pol Flynt have one thing in common. They kill for a living. One works for GAME, the powerful Guild of Airship Mechanics and Engineers and the other, for the Royal Spymaster. But what happens when they are unknowingly sent on the same secret mission? At best they are rivals, at worst, mortal enemies. SciFi / Thriller/ Steampunk/ LGBT