[ROUND TWO QUALIFIER ONC] Hera Collins, the daughter of two well-known heroes, has to survive leaving London and everything she has ever known behind and decide whether being good - following her parents' footsteps - is the path she wants to take. Hera has always been told what her future will be, what with her mother being Light - a powerful Lorem with the ability to bend light - and her father being Crow - the hero who saved London from a hurricane - she is expected to uphold the family lineage. But then one day, London is taken under siege by the Dominus Gang, all the Lorem she knows thrown into camps - or worse, killed - for the sole reason of having powers. Now she is left on her own, her feelings towards non-powered people very negative due to their similarity to the group of criminals. What happens when our sixteen-year-old Hera is left alone in the city of Venice after escaping London with her aunt, leaving her parents behind? Will she follow the path that was set for her, or will she go the opposite way, and become a villain? ~~~~~~~~~~ Started: 11th February Finished:

*entry for ONC 2021* prompt thirty-three: when a loved one dies, the person is lost. until, they find a jar of fortune notes which leads them to read each one every day. how does the journey start and end? ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ Milana Fallaci doesn't believe in love. After the death of her mother and the heartbreak left by her ex-boyfriend, she has struggled to get herself back up on her feet. Connections of the emotion, love, is something she doesn't want to relearn and she wants to ignore the whole meaning of it as much as possible. But when a jar of love letters mysteriously appears in her locker, and a lover from the past waltzes back into her life, her view on the emotion shifts. Not only is she experiencing a sense of hope, but she's also hell-bent on figuring out who lies behind the poems and scribbled writing. Letter after letter, secrets are revealed, truths are spilled and lies are spread. Emotions resurface, bonds are formed, memories are created and the past is forgiven. But what happens when Milana catches feelings? Will she chase after them and give up on the anonymous love-note writer? Or will she choose an anonymous identity over a face she can visibly see? 'Violets are Blue' is a thrilling romance novella that follows Milana Fallaci, a heartbroken teen, on a journey that requires her to open up the wounds she had hid for years, let go of her past and allow herself to follow her heart. © myrawritess 2021. all rights reserved.

WARM BODIES meets THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets ZOMBIELAND in this YA apocalypse story full of fluff, comedy and humans biting back. ✿ "When I imagined my high school crush would be dying to eat me, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind." ✿✿ Ava Sterling never expected she'd be the one solution to the zombie apocalypse. Then again, she never expected she would end up biting one of them either. But, hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. During a moment of intense panic, Ava's teeth end up firmly lodged in the arm of her old crush, now turned very much zombie. A spur-of-the-moment impulse that even drowning in mouthwash wouldn't erase. After this impromptu bite, Gabriel the zombie turns back into Gabriel the human and the zombie apocalypse suddenly takes a completely different turn. This not-so-fun revelation changes everything for Ava's ragtag group of survivalists. Tensions are higher than ever. Feelings are getting in the way. And it seems that being newly re-humanized does leave some nasty mental side-effects on the previously zombified. Still, not everything is that bleak for Ava and her survivors. For one, it's finally time for the humans to bite back. ✿✿✿ ACHIEVEMENTS: 🏅ONC Round One Winner, Ambassador's Pick & Shortlister WARNING: There is occasional swearing, some gore, and lots of laughs. You have been warned.

[ON JANUARY 8TH 2024, UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR EDITS] ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 🌟 Open Novella Contest 2021 ➤ Prompt #29: ❝I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.❞ - Virginia Woolf ➤ Round One, Two, Longlist, and Shortlist Qualifier ✨ ➤ Honorable Mention | All The Feels 💕 💫 Round One First Place Winner 2021 ◇ @WattpadSocialMedia | DM Me | Teen and NA reading list ◇ May 21, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Round Winners ◇ March 25, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | Longlist Part 2 ◇ May 27, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Honorable Mentions | All the Feels ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @WattpadShortStory | Strugglers ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @generalfiction | Freestyle Fiction | Miscellaneous ◇ September 8, 2021 ◇ @ProfileMentalHealth | A New Day ◇ September 30, 2021 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Shortlist ◇ March 15, 2022 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Finale #1 in #bu

Love is in the air── it has always been── since the day Amaya came into Rae's life, and it has only grown stronger over the years as their boundaries as friends grew some wiggle room. Despite her feelings, Rae has never allowed herself to entertain the idea of breaking the boundaries altogether and turning their relationship into something more, but when a determined Amaya confesses her romantic intentions, will Rae embrace it or find a way to keep herself grounded? © 2021 Indigo Ivy Salamander / @indigosa All Rights Reserved ----- Featured as an ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick by @OpenNovellaContest. Also featured on @WattpadFriendsandFamily, @AmbassadorFeatures, @Romance, @WattpadLitFic, @adultfiction, and @generalfiction.

Nora Abraham isn't a hero. In fact, she's far from that. A red-headed spitfire who is-WHOOPS- a descendant from a long line of telepaths, Nora never had any interest in the world of heroes, a world that her father has long been pressuring her to join. Until she received a letter from the Aurelia School for the Wicked and Vile, the number one villain school in the world, Nora didn't even consider going away to hero boarding school, let alone train to be a villain. But her mother's disappearance had something to do with Madame Aurelia, the wicked, never-seen-by-any-of-her-students, headmistress. Nora is pressured to go by her father, armed with nothing but her wits and the foggy memory of what really happened that day. The time is running out for Nora to find the truth. The deepest secrets of the oldest school in the world bombard her at every turn. Can Nora find the truth before whatever got her mom gets her next? COVER BY @IceBlueShadows who we do not deserve

{SHORTLIST OpenNovellaContest 2021} {ONC 2021 Round One Ambassador Picks} Aithne Pan, a Chinese-Irish girl living in the futuristic city of Venice has to decide between what her heart tells her is correct, and what she has always been taught is right. Ai has always been special, what with her unusual physical characteristics due to her mother's colour-changing abilities that made her hair a strange tint of pink at birth and her own powers to manipulate water and encourage aquatic animals to do her bidding. Brought up in a strict yet loving family she has learned to love and act upon the law, her father's job as an attorney making her crave the need to protect the city herself in any way she can. Her need to protect and serve sends her to the Imperium Police Department, her first job consisting of going undercover and bringing the powered people that don't abide by the law to justice, protecting the city in the process. What happens when our nineteen-year-old Aithne learns about the monstrous things happening under the very building she works at, and how will she react once she learns that the government is behind it? ~~~~~~~~~~ Started: 1st February Finished: 28th February

Lucy Schraan isn't just nervous about dating someone - she's positively datephobic. When she comes out to her over-involved nerd friends, though, they convince her that her time has come: Lucy Schraan is going to find a partner. (Probably.) *** When Lucy comes out as pansexual to her close friends - a group of AP-taking, theatre-loving nerds - they're not surprised. (Surprisingly.) In fact, they want to help her find a partner. There are a plethora of cute girls in her arts school, like Ash Kagawa in her APUSH class and thespian queen Lia LaFollette, and Gene Mann from her required gym credit has weirdly nice forearms. (Like, nice-nice.) Lucy is terrified of dating, though. She's comfortable playing other people, experimenting with different parts and different lives. Living her own life? Absolutely terrifying. *** Picture "YOU DON'T LIVE HERE" by Robyn Schneider meets "THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED" by Becky Albertalli. ***UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY. PROBABLY.

Imani was just supposed to make sure that the lost dog got home safely, come back, and pretend like the mere thought of the owner with doe eyes and an armful of tattoos didn't make her question her entire belief system. Sounds simple enough...right? It isn't. (onc prompt #69 | when music becomes a way to communicate no words could compare)

A HEIST GONE WRONG. A GANG SHATTERED. Volya Angelov, known by the public as the Priest for his cult-like following, knows how to cut a deal and take what's rightfully his. He and his criminal prodigies have siphoned Gorod Krestov's wealth for years and are slowly draining the city's slums with their profits. Yet when he is arrested and shipped off to an island prison, his empire is left to his closest ally, Mysh, a girl who stands a mere five feet. It's up to her to manage what he's left behind and decide whether or not the syndicate should be risked for his life. But with demons from a haunting past and sinister characters converging all around her: can Mysh pull it off? "SIX OF CROWS" meets "PEAKY BLINDERS" in this twisty, 1920s-set novella with enough suspense to keep you reading until the church bells chime. Honors/Awards: ONC 2021 Top 5 Winner (4th place) ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick (Round Two) "NOVYYE SAINTS" is 7x featured on: @shortstory's "another time, another place" reading list @action's "thriller" reading list @action's "action spotlight" reading list @historicalfiction's "decade fiction" reading list @badassreads's "the ruffians" reading list @storiesundiscovered's "historically inaccurate" reading list for august 2021 @opennovellacontest's "2021 top five winners" and "2021 ambassador picks" lists Copyright © 2021 Elle Chaika Open Novella 2021 | Prompt No. 29