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

#ONC2026! Kalila Karam has it all. Beauty, smarts and a promising career at Stillwater Research, a secretive risk analysis and special operation firm based in Washington D.C. She also has a past that few know about, one that's left her with physical and emotional scars from the bombing of a civilian bunker in Iraq. She's made her way to Stillwater for one thing: revenge for the death of her family. Seth Stillwater has a double identity. The scion of a ruthless family business, most people know him as a former soldier turned freelance operative, Ax Antonov. He's summoned to take over the family business, the very same corporation where Lila has been recently hired. When Lila and Seth meet, grand-finale style fireworks go off for both of them. Seth's overwhelming attraction to Lila has only one problem. Lila's out to kill him.

"Do first, think next" would be the single statement to describe Scarlett, a nineteen-year-old walking bad decision. When her bestie (and patner in crime) goes missing, she creatively investigates and unknowingly abducts a literal crime lord, Augustine. What could be the possible outcome when a chaotic crackhead crashes straight into a calm, controlled crime lord? ONC 2026, Prompt 51.

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25-year old Lee still hasn't figured out why they could not form any long-lasting relationships, even friendships for that matter. Aside from family members, which they are obligated to talk to, there is no one else Lee had even come close to calling a friend. Well, maybe except for one. -------- Submitted for ONC 2026 @OpenNovellaContest Using the following prompts : 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints in your heart. 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. 106. After waking at 3AM to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth. ------------- © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. All rights reserved. Cover design © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. Images used in this work belong to their respective copyright holders and are used under license or in accordance with applicable Creative Commons terms. Edited or altered images are copyrighted by the author in their final form.

The rules of the Relationship Grim Reaper are simple: don't get close, don't get attached, and definitely don't accidentally swap Kindles with a stranger at a café and spend twelve minutes reading his very annotated, very revealing smutty romance novel before realizing it isn't yours. Nadia Reyes has a reputation. Every couple she befriends eventually implodes - and somehow finds their perfect match afterward. It's a gift for everyone except her. She doesn't date. She doesn't let people in. And she definitely doesn't read strangers' Kindles. Except she did. And now she has to give it back. Zane Holloway is charming, infuriatingly perceptive, and the ex-boyfriend of the last couple Nadia accidentally destroyed. He also has her Kindle. And he read it. And he has thoughts. What starts as a forty-five second hostile exchange in a busy café becomes something neither of them planned for: a collision course through Caldwell's streets, a slow unraveling of everything they've built to stay safe, and the creeping, inconvenient realization that the person most dangerous to your carefully constructed defenses might also be the only one worth letting past them. Some curses aren't real. Some walls aren't protection. And some wrong Kindles are exactly right.| BASED ON PTOMPTS 54 & 56

After the brutal, unsolved murder of his father, Jules has inherited it all. The most powerful corporation in the world, the largest wolf pack--and the pressure of being the most watched man on earth. It's far from his old life of killing enemy werewolves and keeping the pack in line, but he's taking it well. Maybe it's not so bad being insanely powerful and filthy rich. And then his packmembers start dying, and Jules is forced to come to terms with a startling thought: He has to kill an angel. *** I don't know what I am anymore. One day, I was gay and broke and had just been blessed with a 'good job.' The next day, I had killed a man and become something entirely inhuman. Something not quite myself. The more I learn about myself and the dark corporation that owns most of the world, the clearer my fate becomes: I have to kill an alpha.

New chapters coming soon! • A Greykin Chronicles Origin Story • What the hell did a mutt like Emrys think he was doing entering the Redblood Trials? Winning, that was what. He'd prove he was more than an outcast runt, and he'd become the first of his kind to claim a place in the Monarchy. *** Since the beginning of the human-Caeleste war, Emrys' pack has moved from territory to territory. When they finally reach the Pactlands, a city far from the chaos and neutral ground between the surrounding packs, it is immediately made clear that mutts aren't welcome, and runts never last long. Unfortunately, Emrys is both. If it weren't for Finn, he wouldn't have survived long enough to witness the twentieth Grey Moon. With it comes the Redblood Trials, a brutal tournament which promises the victor a royal title. That was his chance to prove that a mutt was more than a revolting cross of far too many bloodlines. But his fight for survival starts before he can even sign up. Driven from the city by the Silveinbloods, he trespasses into forbidden woodland, a place no wolf dared to go. Abandoning sense and instinct alike, he ventures into the ruin of an old castle, where he uncovers an ancient Aegis artifact. However, the discovery doesn't promise fame and fortune; it warns that entering the trials will bring only danger and despair. With the moon just around the corner, he has to decide what he fears more: a life forever of humiliation and seclusion, or the apparent fate waiting for him in the arena. ❅ Dark Fantasy ❅ Mystery-Thriller ❅ MxM Romance ❅ Werewolves vs Wolf Walkers ❅ Word Count: 18,085 ─────────────────────────────────── ✵ Numenverse year: 1150 2026 © Tate Csernis

Kieran is already dealing with a flirtatious boss, disdainful coworkers and a heavy workload and writhing self-insecurity that gives him a perpetual migraine. Now the cute boy he met as a child had turned out to be a handsome, adorable... werewolf?! Salva opened their wings to their city neighbors in Bellport's greatest time of need, but will the divide between the two cities be greater than the chasm that seperates the them both or can they work together to find the solution to the virus that plagues them both? #ONC2026 Genre: Fantasy-Supernatural, Werewolf Mature (16+): Mention of abuse, Bullying, Profanity, Gore/Violence Copyright© 2025 short_flame