** 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 - 𝑹𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒘𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 - 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑾𝒚𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈-𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓. ** After her husband not only cheated on her but also took her best friend for this little ride, Alice digs up her past, packs her bags and heads straight for the one place he's sure not to follow her: her hometown Grandfalls in Wyoming. What awaits her there is her parents' run-down ranch, dusty roads, stubborn horses - and cowboys who throw her good intentions out the window with a smile. Shortly after her arrival, Alice stumbles upon the charming cowboy Blake at a town festival and straight into a hot one-night stand that turns out to be a load of horseshit the next morning -because Blake turns out to be working at her parents' ranch. As if that weren't enough, Blake turns out to be a charming mess with a talent for chaos, while his gruffy brother Cole criticises her every idea as if it were his personal mission in life. And then there's Byron Carter: dashing, influential, and clearly too interested in the ranch... and in Alice. Between bankrupt finances, broken high heels, old enemies, and way too hot cowboys, Alice quickly learns that a heart is harder to tame than a wild ranch horse. In the end, she is faced with the all-important question: does she trust her feelings, or does she save the ranch before everything goes down the drain?

One moment, you're a weapon. The next, you're a nanny. And somehow, the world ends in between. Two assassins from rival organizations are sent on the same classified mission-only to discover the assignment is hiding a truth big enough to shatter loyalties, rewrite destinies, and maybe doom humanity itself. Secrets unravel fast when curses bind enemies together, time refuses to move forward, and the last hope for the world turns out to be something no one wanted to trust. As summer stretches on, chaos follows: frozen cities, undead roads, magical bargains gone wrong, and a journey to the edge of the world where treasure isn't gold-but choice. Everyone else sees ordinary people, harmless faces, familiar smiles. But some truths can only be seen by those already broken enough to recognize monsters in disguise. This was supposed to be a normal summer. It wasn't. A story about rivalry, survival, and the dangerous things we become when everything we believed starts to burn.

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-

This is not enemies to lovers. This isn't even a love story. At least, not yet. -- oc x oc (onc 2026 entry) (prompt 24: Staying as friends feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path you're meant to take.) (COPYRIGHT! DemigodLegends © 2026)

Time around the world has frozen and a boy has grown tired waiting for it to melt, as his humanity begins to drain from him, a cat shows up at his front door to change everything. #ONC2026

In a week's time, Mira is set to reveal to the world that she has invented a Time Machine. Then a book appears. A book that says that Mira needs to destroy the machine as it will be the cause of humanity's greed, chaos and eventual destruction. It also says destroying it will result in Mira's death, but if Mira follow the book's every instruction, she can manage to save herself and humanity.

The daughter of the most powerful living witch in existence prefers to use her intellect as an anesthetist. Putting people to sleep is easy. Impressing her mother... not so much. Neve does her best to ignore her powers, but she can't seem to turn off her psychic premonitions. Before they even ask, she knows when one of the single doctors is going to ask her out. She's ready, phone in hand, to answer her mom's calls before the cell phone rings. She can predict which patients aren't going to make it and sometimes, she's even able to save them. Which is why Neve doesn't understand how she didn't see him coming, barely remembers meeting him. But when the mark appears on her arm, her mother assures her it means only one thing... Neve's finally met the man who is going to kill her. This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest 2026 using the following prompts: 11. The daughter of the most powerful witch is nothing like her mother. 99. You wake up with a strange mark on your skin after a late-night encounter you can barely remember, and its meaning grows more unsettling by the hour.

Ten years after graduation, Aspenwood High's Class of 2018 reunites at the city's most luxurious hotel. Bethany Perez, a rising lawyer reeling from a devastating courtroom loss returns home hoping for one simple night of nostalgia, old friendships, and unfinished rivalries. But beneath the glittering ballroom, a secret biotech experiment goes catastrophically wrong. What begins as a breakthrough becomes a nightmare. When something inhuman claws its way into the reunion, the celebration turns into a blood-soaked trap. Cut off from the outside world, former classmates must fight to survive. Not just the horrors stalking the halls, but the secrets, betrayals, and grudges they never left behind. In a night where the past refuses to stay buried, survival will demand impossible alliances. Because at this reunion... not everyone is making it home. ------------------------------------------------ Written for Open Novella Contest 2026 ------------------------------------------------ Prompt chosen is: 59. You're at your school reunion when there is a zombie apocalypse. ------------------------------------------------

Two teachers. Two rivals. Two hearts. Poppy Newman has worked at Twin Oaks Academy for the last six years, and when Logan Matthews, her childhood rival, suddenly becomes her colleague she can't quite believe it. With his classroom next door, there's really no avoiding him, and when the head teacher announces a competition, in order to get the A- Level students more engaged with their learning, their rivalry is sparked back into life. And with competition comes something unexpected: the students shipping their two English teachers. Will Poppy and Logan see each other beyond the competition or will they just focus on being number one? *** This story has been written exclusively for the Open Novella Contest 2026 with the following prompt as its main theme: 55 - Two teachers at the same school are determined to outdo each other by having the top-scoring class. But when their students start enthusiastically shipping them, the rivalry takes a very unexpected turn.

Dorian Dallowmarsh is a man on the run. The necromancer thought he'd be safe masquerading as a vacationing professor at a seaside resort, but his attempts to lay low at The Beacon have failed spectacularly. Spirits appear with cryptic messages at the worst possible moments, and Bitzy, an exuberant young widow, has taken a shine to him. She even secures him an invite to an exclusive soiree: a séance featuring the famous medium, Madame Draga. Dorian assumes Draga's a fake. Most self-proclaimed mediums are. But when a ghost delivers a disturbing message, he faces a terrible choice: risk exposure by a medium who may be a bounty hunter in disguise or disappoint his new friend. Either way, Dorian's quiet escape plan is about to get very complicated! Prompt 72: A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance.