Amid war and colonization, as her past refuses to fade, Aurora, an infamous singer hiding a deadly secret, must confront the darkness stalking her--before the pact she made consumes her. ❥๑━━ In a quiet corner of 1900s Manila--peaceful, or so it seems--Aurora Rivera Beaumont sings for the living and punishes the damned. By day, she is a celebrated performer, her voice drawing applause beneath the lights of theaters; by night, she listens to cries and pleas, collecting debts paid in flesh and blood. Haunted by a past she cannot outrun and bound to a pact she cannot break, Aurora walks a perilous line between justice and ruin. Allies falter, enemies allure, and each performance may be her last. Yet the gravest threat does not lurk in the shadows or upon the stage--it lies in a truth she dares not voice: to end the pact, she must take the life of the one she holds most dear. How far would you go when life is a performance, death a standing ovation, and your own heart the final audience? ❥๑━━ ONC prompts used: 100. A human summons a demon, and their first conversation quickly reveals the human may not be the one in control. ---- 102. You break into an abandoned cottage for shelter, only to discover three bears that are anything but ordinary. Something in the shadows stalks the house, and every choice you could make could be your last. 104. While wandering in the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all. 112. 》They're a hungry little angel.《》They're no angel. They're the devil.《

Vincent is having an amazing morning. The most popular guy in the office has given him a high-five, a pretty girl has offered him a coffee, and he's been invited to join the frisbee team. It's almost like they've confused him with someone else. Someone popular. Someone fun. Someone about to bring Vincent's life to a shuddering halt. My entry for ONC2026 based on this writing prompt: 77. Everyone in town remembers you differently, as if everyone has lived a different version of your life. Cover design by @elicatucci

A world where croaky voices, loud sneezing, and loose change falling out of pockets are considered laughable is not a man's world. But here we are. In this world, men undergo voice breaking once a month for several days due to a cyclical decline in testosterone levels. The associated prejudices have meant that men rarely pursue public professions, with less than 20% of politicians, business leaders, or television presenters being male. Beau wants to change that. His confidence grows when he is hired as a staff member on a presidential campaign that has the historic goal of bringing the first man into the highest office. A small step for Beau, a giant leap for mankind. Little does he know that his presence will ruin everything. PROMPT: Self-love often starts small, like planting a single seed. With time, patience and a bit of light, it will blossom.

I woke up to flame, fury, and a rare spark of hope in my heart. Thalia is a Princess- or, she was, before the Chancellor betrayed and killed her father. When Saltspire falls and a legendary dragon tears through the city, a captive heiress must choose between revenge, escape, and survival in a world ruled by a vicious prince. From prompt number: 4

"Nothing is what it seems in dreams." In the depths of a dark and twisted forest, Aris, crown prince of Lancaster, is tormented by recurring nightmares of the Tainted--monstrous creations of the black fae, a corrupting force that seeps into all who live within its woods. Relentlessly hunted in the dreams, he finds unexpected aid from a mysterious girl named Elara, and with her help he is able to elude the creatures each time, breaking free from the nightmare's clutches. But when Aris is wounded by one of the Tainted, the line between dream and reality begins to blur. When a weapon deadly to the black fae appears in his grasp from the dream, Aris and his sisters--Tamryn, Maeve, Maeril, and Aine--must race against time and Aris' failing health to uncover the ancient truth behind the forest's curse--or face the imminent threat of the black fae and its vengeful master, the guardian of the dark forest, Erebus Nocturne. ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ Submitted for the Open Novella Contest 2026. Main Prompt: 75. A cursed forest hides an ancient creature longing for freedom. When it senses someone carrying the bloodline of the witch who once bound it, the creature summons monsters to a mansion where the forest and human worlds collide. The doors are open to anyone brave enough to enter. Side Prompts: 18. At eighteen, you begin dreaming of a stranger who feels like your other half. When they finally appear in real life, everything you thought you knew about love and reality begins to shift. 78. You begin to realize that nothing is quite what it seems.

"You won't die in this one." *** Spencer Feynman exists in two universes. In both, she's a writer. In one, she's already a ghost. The headlines called it a suicide. Peter Wallshack calls it a lie. He's the only one who believes she was murdered-and the only one who realizes the killer might be following her across worlds. A story that takes more than one Universe... Can they rewrite the ending? Or is Spencer destined to be a tragedy in every world? #ONC2026

In a city floating among the clouds, life is spent fighting gravity. To end up on the surface of the Earth amongst enormous, roving clouds of carbon dioxide would be certain death. Yet no city can exist as an island in the sky; steel rusts and motors fail. Someone needs to be supplying the city with resources to repair or replace. The Retrieval Corp is the best of the best. The best windsurfers, most resourceful engineers, the most creative salvagers. Together, these courageous few brave the surface and retrieve whatever the city needs. Allisios Soliros has spent his life working towards joining the Retrieval Team. Now, with a coveted spot open, only one thing stands between him and his dream. His father. ONC Prompt 78: You begin to realize nothing is quite what it seems. ONC Prompt 16: And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. Cover by @TrashyM

The creator of a 26th century matchmaker is anti-romantic, but when an analyst challenges her views, she relives painful memories, exposing her technology's flaws and threatening her identity. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Kayla Lacson believes that love is a biological equation that can be solved. She is the brilliant mind behind Dorothea, the most advanced AI dating application of the 26th-century, designed to calculate compatibility with extraordinary precision. Kayla's world is crafted in data, logic, and predictable outcomes. That is, until Mathew Matel, a Behavioral Analyst whose brilliance matches hers, joins her team and challenges her views. When Dorothea's latest revision loses public trust and corporate pressure mounts, he becomes the catalyst that forces Kayla to confront buried trauma, uncovering the flaws of her creation and fracturing her carefully structured reality. Despite Dorothea's calculation of their incompatibility, Kayla finds herself drawn to Mathew. Flashes of his face begin to haunt her as she tries to unravel his unexplainable familiarity. And when her very identity is threatened by tangled feelings, she must decide whether love is something to manipulate or something to surrender to. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Written for ONC 2026 ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Genres: Romance SciFi Speculative Fiction Unconventional SciFi Hard SciFi Slow Burn Romance

An average Wattpad reader winds up in a story―and a sauna. One pair of smoldering eyes and one fire extinguisher later, she has met her male love interest, learned that he's a billionaire mafia werewolf and that she's a millionaire vampire werewolf, and chaos ensues. Will the enemies-to-lovers trope work its magic? Or is she doomed to a failed plot in a story that will forever be left unfinished? Enjoy the insanity. She won't. (But I will complete her story because I'm not that mean of an author.)

Three hundred years in the future, life on Earth isn't what you would expect it to be. The world has been ravaged by war. Many technological and medical advances have perished. Caste systems are put into place, and many are enslaved. Food is scarce except for those of the ruling party. Nico, a young princess of the Unified World Order, deals with a stepmother and stepsister who hate her, grief for her recently passed mother, and her best friend's slave status. When Nico finds that a scary-looking visitor has come not just to court her but to marry her, she does what is forbidden and goes into the woods. While she is saying goodbye to her late mother, another odd, but beautiful, stranger appears to rescue her and leads her on a journey greater than anything she ever would have imagined. Perhaps a path beyond your wildest imagination. I utilized prompts: 66. A strange message arrives, written in your own handwriting, but it's dated years in the future. As you read, you realize it warns you about something only you can change. 104. While wandering in 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.