Anna lives a deliberately colourless life-one spent in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned to stop paying long ago. At school, on the bus, at home, her world has been built on silence, routine, and the certain safety of going unnoticed. It's a balance she maintains meticulously, because being seen has never ended well for her. Then, one day, that balance fractures after a brief moment of accidental acknowledgement-small, meaningless, fleeting, and completely impossible to undo. Now, Anna is forced to confront the quiet life she's built. She begins to question whether survival is the same as living... and what it might cost to want more. She finds herself wondering whether the price is too low-or far too high. Because once you're noticed by someone, the world doesn't always let you disappear again. Highest ranking: #1 literaryfiction 01/03/2026 - Ongoing.

When her office burns down a successful editor must share a workspace with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is thriving. Not only does she have the job of her dreams she's about to make Acquiring Editor of PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years which would definitely prove to her judgmental father once and for all that he was wrong about her wasting her life away at a dead end job but she's also determined to enjoy the prime years of her youth. Endless fun and casual romps in the sheets are the name of the game. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's building catches fire and burns down she has no choice but to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form with his well-timed scathing remarks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will change everything they thought they knew about each other. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't decide whether to kiss or kill each other. An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40. You and your greatest enemy are struck by a curse that binds your lives together. The only way to survive is to share a kiss, but you would both rather face death than each other.

In the magical town of Amorville, the only thing more dangerous than falling in love is failing to. With Valentine's Day approaching and a curse counting down to eternal loneliness, Sandhya has fourteen days to find a soulmate - or be branded unlovable forever. Desperate times call for forbidden measures, forcing her to bend the rules of fate before the last petal drops. Fourteen days, fourteen illegal spells to win the heart of one perfect, pre-approved golden boy - destined by magic and allegedly impossible to mess up. But when each spell comes with a twisted consequence, glitching her fairytale romance into a spiral of glittery disasters and public humiliations, she finds herself pulled into the orbit of a grumpy, enigmatic shopkeeper who seems to know the dark price of a magically manufactured 'happily ever after' a little too well. As the magic starts to fade, Sandhya realises the true cost of her crime. Because when the clock strikes twelve on Valentine's Day, she won't just lose her final chance at love - she'll become the warning story everyone tells about the expiry of a soulmate spell.

❝𝑩𝒖𝒕, 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅'𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐... 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆, 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍?❞ Professor Hans Dominique is London International University's newest professor-disciplined, calm, and impossible to read. Obsessed with meeting the mysterious founder, he studies her patterns and influence, blinding him from someone else's motives.. When a withdrawn student leaves behind a notebook filled with unsolved, real cases, Hans finds stories that are far more than fiction. The final story points to the founder as a mastermind, and the supposed victim... is him. With the last pages blank, Hans must confront a possibility he cannot control. After all... he's not himself when he's hungry. - For the Open Novella Contest 2026 Used prompts: 78 & 109 UNEDITED | FIRST DRAFT First part posted on Wattpad: 02 | 24 | 26 First chapter posted on Wattpad: 02 | 28 | 26 Last chapter posted on Wattpad: 04 | - | 26 Wordcount per chapter: ~2500 Overall word count: ~ starisredy © All rights reserved Only on W a t t p a d .

As the head women of The Wilting Society, we welcome you to our sanctuary. Here, we will heal the broken and wilting petals of your tainted soul, but before we are able to heal those petals - you must sacrifice everything for us. ••• Braelyn's life is thrown into an endless spiral of worry when her older sister, Macey, doesn't come home one night, but that one night quickly blends into days, and then trickles into weeks. But the fragments of her life remain untouched, as though she never left; she took nothing with her, she vanished, leaving zero reasons as to why. Braelyn knew something was deeply wrong, her sister wouldn't do something like this; her sister wasn't some runaway, and she knew had to find her. Since macey's disappearance, Braelyn had only been given one trace to her sister on the night she went missing, she had gone to a travelling psychic in the dark alleyways of their quaint town, Bronwick. When braelyn later left that tattered, over-hanging tent, she also left with an invitation. Welcome to The Wilting Society. Will Braelyn be able to track down her sister within the society, or will she stumble across something more sinister? ••• Prompts used - 80. "Monsters don't live under our beds. They live in the recesses of our minds." + 46. "We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and classically beautiful then you." ••• cover designed by forgettablewords

In a world full of monsters, sometimes you have no choice but to become one. The kingdom of Aspera is in disarray, and its queen, Julia Semel, fears that she may lose everything. She's losing popularity with the royal court, her cousin rightfully contests her claim to the throne, and invading armies threaten to ravage her homeland. The chaos is a prime opportunity for the enemies to strike. If she fails to unite her people, it's the end of Aspera as they know it. However, there seems to be nothing she can do, especially with Melinda Bellerose, the ruler of a world power, vying for the throne. There may be one solution, though. In a dark forest, under the light of the full moon, Julia makes a great and terrible decision. After all, there appears to be no other choice. Making a deal that could cost her everything, she turns her citizens into an army of unstoppable monsters with the promise of them being able to turn back after the conflict is over. Still, this does not remain secret. Hearing of this immediately, Melinda, along with all her other enemies, plots to counter her risky move, and the possibility of her defeat becomes more real by the minute. Will she win, or will she perish? And can she handle the price of her actions? *** Based on Prompt 96.

"Come here, Daurius! We need you." I woke up after hearing a female voice. As, I was taking heavy breaths I felt something. A presence of power beyond natural. The stories of Gods were quite famous since ancient times. However, as modern world started reshaping this same Gods were forgotten by civilizations. It could because the society became more scientific or so I thought. Being an archeology student always had me interested in this stories as it gave a direct history of humanity. But, that night changed everything. A temple was suddenely discovered on the outskirt of the city only to be opened by me. It didn't end there because I bought something with me from that temple. It was none other than God of Mischief.

Keywords: romance | haters to lovers | hollywood | mutual pining | murder mystery | time travel | inspired by a song You time-travel back to 2012, only to be cornered by a wildly famous celebrity who insists you're "the key to saving their future," and they're determined to take you with them. "Because, you know, there's no end to the hypocrisy of the human heart." © 2026 EmmaJD

Grace Anna Sumer has always craved freedom. That hunger is what led her into the shadows, working as a covert field operative for a little-known government agency. Officially, she gathers intelligence. Unofficially, she removes problems. Pulled from a coveted assignment in the Congo, Grace is reassigned to Paris to surveil the family of Hermes Mansi, an international football (soccer) star whose career is tightly controlled by a powerful and corrupt league that profits from obedience. Grace is told to watch him. To observe. To wait. What she does not expect is a twist of fate that places her inside his home, hired accidentally as the nanny to his six-year-old son, Drax. Under the safest cover imaginable, Grace enters Hermes' life with one objective, gather evidence and prepare for a quiet takedown. But the longer she stays, the harder it becomes to remember where the mission ends and her feelings begin. As secrets unravel and loyalties fracture, Grace must choose between completing her assignment or protecting the fragile and unexpected family she has found. ------------ This novella was written for the Open Novella Contest 2026, based on Prompt #33: "It doesn't take long before everything in your life spins out of control. One moment you're a secret assassin, and the next you've somehow been hired as a nanny and you're not entirely sure how it happened."

Ian starts having detailed dreams that feel like recollections. Seeing people she's never met before and places she's never been. Her therapist told her that these were dreams and decided to use hypnosis to assist her shut out her memories. She is invited to a wedding in the town of Zoey. Upon her arrival, locals continue to mistake her for Anna. But the question is: who is Anna?