Open Novella 2019 Reads
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The Dark Heir (SHORTLIST - Open Novella Contest 2019) by HM_Braverman
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**Featured on DARK FANTASY and ADULT FICTION reading lists** WARNING: EATING OR DRINKING WHILE READING THIS STORY IS HIGHLY INADVISABLE. Once Upon A Time, Good Omens, Monty Python, and Arrested Development had a back-alley three-way and birthed a fairytale. Gerald wasn't supposed to be stuck living seven centuries in the future. He definitely wasn't supposed to be "mentoring" The Dark Lord's progeny in the hopes that she would decide to save the world rather than destroy it. In fact, he wasn't even supposed to be named Gerald (the name of every other male in his family for three hundred years), because everyone assumed a weak-chinned, balding, forgettable man, who was just a magician, could never be who Geraldo The Foreshadower prophesied. But that's what assuming gets you, and here he was saddled with a fate he never asked for, in a time he didn't know, surrounded by people he didn't want to like, and he was out of Firewine AGAIN! The Dark Heir is a darkly satirical tale of assumptions, anti-heroes, and apocalypses, where the road to hell is actually a themed water-park slide covered in slightly less urine than a real one. It drops literary and film references faster than an NYC socialite drops names, and promises endless laughs - including, but not limited to, sad chuckles, guffaws, uncontrollable giggles at inappropriate moments, brays, barks, cackles, snorts, cachinnations, and the occasional howl (though that may be the Welsh Werewolves showing up unannounced). Consider yourself warned... Reviews: "Completely and adorably bonkers," says @floranocturna "Hilarious in every way. Even when I cringed, I laughed," says @LadySapphire2018 Winner of The Trident Awards
Swaying By The Odds by rubamaheen1
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❝In which an event planner's endurance and forbearance capacities are put to trial when she is forced to plan a caliginous client's wedding, who threatens to topple her life upside down if she doesn't act per his illogical behests.❞
Primal Fortune by LadySapphire2018
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Glamour, mischief, and mystery made Halloween the perfect holiday for a werewolf fortune teller like Ivy Winters. That was until one meddling tarot card decided to stack the deck in favor of complete and utter chaos. Starting with a sexy, matching tattoo attached to very much still human veterinarian. An entry for the Open Novella Contest. Open Novella Contest Milestones 2,000 words - Towards the end of Chapter 1. 8,000 words- Somewhere in the first scene of Chapter 5. 20,000 words - End of Chapter 11 or beginning of Chapter 12.
The Sparrows. |ONC Entry.| by rickeychet
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Ever since everything she loved was ripped away from her in The Woods, Olive hasn't exactly been the heroic type. If anything, with her newfound abilities, she's been pursuing chaos and revenge compared to good deeds for the sake of good deeds. However, when a cop with questionable motivations and even more questionable abilities makes her an offer she can't refuse, she forms a reluctant alliance and realizes there may be a bit of a hero in her after all. Okay, maybe that's pushing it a little. Anti-hero. That's more like it.
Animals (Open Novella Contest) by Jordietheshortie
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Tabitha Rockwell has literally found herself at the end of the world. Not only is she battling flaming weather conditions and a race on foot to get to the last shuttles off of the earth, she's also fighting for her marriage as she and her husband cling onto the last bit of humanity they could possibly have in each other, even though it all went downhill long ago. Tabitha will have to navigate the storms of her present, past, and her possible future as she debates whether humanity is worth saving, and whether she should die out with it. In the end, who are we really? *Written for the Open Novella Contest* Huge thanks to @forthemadones for the awesome cover!