A group of friends enters an abandoned mansion only to become trapped in deadly psychological games where memories reset, reality breaks, and people die differently in every cycle. As they uncover the tragic truth about Elena, a lonely girl cursed by her own failed ritual. They realize escaping the mansion may require one final sacrifice.

Kaviel Sterling has mastered the art of invisibility. Well--mostly. Between hosting anonymous midnight live confessions and burying himself in math equations, he's mostly imperceivable. But invisibility isn't just a preference, it's a survival tactic. Blending into the shadows of his own home means he gets to wake up without fresh bruises. His only escapes are his high-level physics equations, Swedish fish candy and his chaotic best friend, Heather, whose unhinged schemes are the only thing grounding him in reality. Until a single late night exchange changes everything. He's thrust into the golden, privileged world of the star swimmer, Aster Montgomery. Too observant for his own good, too sweet for Kaviel to digest. He holds access to live footage of that treacherous night. What should have been a one and done night, becomes the catalyst that keeps thrusting these two boys together. And Kaviel is stubbornly trying to keep their two worlds apart.

Imagine forgetting what "home" is supposed to feel like. Not all at once- but slowly... piece by piece. Until the word itself starts sounding unfamiliar. It's been twelve years since the world broke. Twelve years of moving through places that no longer belong to the living, surviving just enough to see another morning, and pretending that the past doesn't matter anymore. They don't talk about it. Not about where they came from. Not about who they used to be. Some things are easier to carry when they stay buried. But the strange thing about buried things is- they don't always stay that way. Sometimes it's a place. Sometimes a memory. Sometimes just a colour you can't look at the same way anymore. And suddenly, something starts to feel... wrong. Familiar. But wrong. In a world where letting go is the only way to survive- what happens when something inside you refuses to? And when it finally catches up to you... will you still recognize what you were trying to find?

He's been coming here for months. He always leaves the same way he arrived. Unreachable. Unimpressed. Until her. She doesn't speak first. She doesn't try. She doesn't need to - she already knows what he needs before he does. And what he needs is something no one has ever offered him. To let go. A dark slow burn (at least emotionally, as physically things develop fast) about power, silence, and the dangerous thing that happens when a man who controls everything meets a woman who doesn't want to take it from him - just watch him hand it over himself. Not everything that happens in that room is about the body. Some of it is so much worse than that.

You realize one day you don't belong to yourself. How does it feel? Thomas MacMillan, your average straight-A good boy, is serving a sentence for being his parents' perfect son. That is, until a bizarre supernatural college scoops him up. And then? Man-eating monsters. Cosmic glitches. Shady institutional secrets. Hideous heart issues. One time-travelling psycho. The term has just started, boy. ... Puppeteered by his controlling parents, all Thomas MacMillan thought he wanted to do was get into an elite university. But when a strange email shows up one morning, he never thought that would punch a hole through his reality. Or that all the colleges would cut him off at once. They call it MacMillan College. And Tom belongs to them. As a freshman in MacMillan College, Tom thinks he's found freedom. Life. But he soon realizes that this place is married to chaos. Hey. Wait. His roommate's heart is withering away. Hey. Wait. One of their classmates is a man-eating monster. Hey. Wait. His childhood bestie Mary Herrmann is back and it comes with a flurry of unwanted feelings. But torn between volatile abilities and shady professors, dirty secrets and life-threatening scenarios, those feelings might just be the only thing still holding him together. Welcome to MacMillan College, home to the surreal and the supernatural. Hope you all have a delightful semester. ... CONTENT WARNING: Rated R (18+) for graphic violence, strong language and heavy themes.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬.....𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞. 𝐈𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞? For decades, It was a scientific anomaly, but now...it seems to be more personal than that. Aurora Lee Heartstrong, a smarter than average teen is determined to find out the root of this peculiar disease, why did it exist? what caused it? was there a cure? But fate has other plans. But Aurora's scientific detachment shatters when the symptoms start appearing in her own body. Suddenly, the girl who wanted to find the secrets of the Alliance is matched with the effortlessly cool and walking disaster, Luke Rivera- the one person who seeks to destroy the entire social order. He is dangerous, and freakishly smart, yet decides to show up to class with his shirt half buttoned down and a devilish smile on his face. Caught in a war between their heads and hearts , Aurora and Luke must decide what is real, what is a lie, and if some bonds are meant to be broken.

☆ SLOW BURN • DARK ROMANCE ☆ 〜 They burned her kingdom to ash. Now she sleeps beneath the roof of its conqueror. Clarice, last princess of Sahradyn, was meant to die with her family. Instead, she was spared, dragged across enemy lines and locked in a tower by the man who shattered her world. King Caelen of Velmoras is cold, calculating, and ruthless. He offers her only one choice: become his concubine, or rot in the tower. Yet even as Clarice plots her survival, something stirs between them. A pull. A thread. The old texts call it the soul-thread: a bond said to bind enemies as often as lovers, rare and perilous, long dismissed as myth. But Clarice feels it now, in every glance, every silence, every clash of wills with the man she should hate above all others. As war brews on the borders and kingdoms begin to fracture, Clarice must decide whether the thread binding her to Caelen is a curse to be severed, or a weapon powerful enough to change the fate of empires.

{2026 Open Novella Contest Longlist} {Ranked 1 in #bandmembers (5/1-7/3)} {Ranked 1 in #songwriting (4/22-6/30)} {Ranked 1 in #drummer (5/1-6/30)} {Ranked 2 in #opennovellacontest (5/5-5/15)} {Ranked 2 in #guitar (5/12-6/30)} {Ranked 3 in #onc2026 (6/11-6/15)} {Ranked 6 in #nostalgia (6/11-6/15)} {Ranked 6 in #pining (6/28-6/30)} {Ranked 8 in #romance-friendship (6/11-6/30} {Ranked 9 in #selfdiscovery (6/11-6/30)} "𝘔𝘴. 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴" 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳-𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰. Althea has always considered herself unlucky in love. What she never realized was that love had been circling her for years, just slightly out of step. On her thirtieth birthday, the four-man band who shaped her youth arrive late (as always). One confession breaks the careful silence they've kept for years, forcing the past into the present and cracking open a decade of almosts. They chose friendship because it was safer. They stayed professional because it was necessary. And sometimes... life, simply and tragically, got in the way.

... I'm going to ask you a series of very simple questions. And you are going to be a good girl and give me answers. Can you do that for me?" I nod my head vigorously. "Good. Because for every single lie, or fake answer, or wrong response you give me... I am going to take one of his fingers out with this blade as an immediate consequence of your choice. Do you understand?" My whole body is trembling as I cast a nauseous glance at the bleeding man. He doesn't look like he has a single ounce of strength left to face any more consequences. I force my eyes back to Chance to chatter out my whisper. "What do you want to know?" I sob silently as I look up at him in dispair. How did I ever get here? Who are these people, and why are they digging into my life just because of who I'm dating? I flinch as he let's out a bark like laugh before looking down at me with a triumphant darkness bleeding back into his dilated eyes. "So let's start from the beginning, what is your name?" -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈ 💕 Xoxo.

Sophie and Alex had bad memories with their marriages. So they met at a wedding and became friends immediately, Sparks also came between and fell in love. Will these two strangers give love a second chance.