[18+] Emma Price was one of the country's top collegiate gymnasts until a doping violation cost her a year, her reputation, and nearly everything she'd worked for. Now she's back, fighting for a second chance, only to find herself falling for Liam Schafer, swimming's golden boy who has every reason to believe the worst about her.

One week of borrowed time should be more than enough for Andre Wells and Mallory Hayes-Palmer to live another lifetime.

Mari thought that coming home to a ghost town after her mom's death was bad. It turns out it's worse having to attend her estranged father's wedding and letting her childhood best friend break down the walls she carefully built. ***** Mari Chasey's life is suspended. She returns to her hometown in a cold November day following her mother's death, after years of studying abroad in Europe. Pinewood is sleepy in the bitter cold, the deserted shoreline stretching further than she can reach, but that's okay. Mari is good with temporary things and at not lingering. She's not planning to stay for long, just enough to sort out her mother's affairs without poking at open wounds. Then her father returns. Jack Chasey, former renowned superstar, absent for most of her childhood, is getting married to a woman Mari hardly knows. He gets to begin again, build something new, while Mari grapples with a fractured life and all the scattered pieces of herself. Her mother was supposed to live forever; Jack was mercurial and always at arm's length. But now he's here to stay. Enter Kinney St. James. Once Mari's closest friend, then another person that passed by like a comet, she still knows Mari and all the shards of her. Even the sharper ones. In the stillness of winter, Mari reconnects with the quiet life Jack always wanted for her, the softer parts of her that only Kinney can tap into, and what it truly means to be her mother's daughter. ***** Open Novella Contest -- prompts 24, 29, 46, & 77 [[OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 ROUND 1 WINNER, SHORTLISTER]] © 2026 caterina george // all rights reserved

───✱*. In which Spencer D'Agostino just wants to fly under the radar, ace her midterms, and survive junior year. But after a malware mishap leaves her cornered by a naked, furious Garrett Graham, her quiet life is completely upended. Following an exhausting game of cat-and-mouse, they finally strike a truce: she will fix his computer problem, which she may or may not have caused directly, and he will be her dating coach. They just didn't plan on the dating advice working on the exact wrong person. GARRETT GRAHAM x FEM!OC ➼ off campus (season 1 - ?) © M4L4MENTE

❝ I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FROZEN PINES. ❞ SAM WINCHESTER X FEM!OC SEASON 1 - 5 crownsmist, 2026 cover by @dancefevers

❛You can take the wheel, but I'ma backseat drive it Four-letter feelings, that's a next-day problem It gets me going when I know you're lying But I like it, but I like it❜ ❪ male!oc X fem!oc ❫ ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🔬 IN WHICH ━━ After upending her life by walking away from a relationship she'd spent years trying to save, Rowen Maddens is determined to keep it on track as best as she can. The last thing she needs is Briar University's charismatic men's lacrosse captain getting involved. When a demanding anatomy class forces them into a semester-long group project, what begins as reluctant teamwork and sharp-witted banter slowly turns into an unexpected friendship. As he helps her navigate the fallout of breaking up with the campus prince, she begins to realize he's far more than the easygoing athlete she'd assumed he was. And as their connection deepens, she'll have to decide whether she's ready to risk her heart on something new.