2nd Place Winners
4 stories
Into Shadows and Escaping Ash ✔️ by AriaOfStorms
AriaOfStorms
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The earth is careening straight down the tracks to hell and the humans are at fault. Trapped in the dungeons of an ancient burial grounds and tortured to the brink of insanity, the God and Goddess of balance have been separated, unleashing a terrible and chaotic apocalypse on the world. 96 years later, Iridian breaks free from her captivity thanks to a snide idiot with a big mouth. Using him to escape her confinement, a group of survivors discovers Iridian left to her own devices. Learning of a way to fix the massacre after all this time, humans and beings alike will find themselves allying with the cranky, disoriented Goddess. With a very small moral compass, Iridian is out to set the world straight again - but mainly get back to the love of her life or die trying. | Complete: 1/31/2021 | | 1st place Winner of the Astral Awards | | Readers Choice Awards 2018 Winner | | Featured on Wattpad's DarkFantasy and YAFantasy profiles | | Cover by -Starless |
Primal Fortune by LadySapphire2018
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.
Distantly Falling Stars (GRAND WINNER * ONC 2019) by Di_Rossi
Di_Rossi
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Seti, a humble civil servant at the Office of Information, is selected for an important mission to retrieve a cluster of 'fallen stars' with very special, and very secret, properties. But why has he -- ambitionless and without influence as he is -- been chosen? And just who wants these particular stars at all costs? As Seti becomes more and more involved in the machinations of shadowy figures, he realises he has his own personal mission to fulfil, and it has nothing to do with the one he was selected for. Distantly Falling Stars is punk genre thriller set in ancient Egypt following the 2019 Open Novella II prompt #2. (Wicked Meteors) Cover by FlavoredWolf ⭐️ Placed 2nd in the 2nd round of the ONC. ⭐️ Grand winner of the ONC 2019 ⭐️ 2nd place in The Historical Award 2019 (Historical Fiction profile)
The Turing Test - [Open Novella Contest 2019 Shortlist] by its_artemis_actually
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Ronnie Gold only has one dream. Every night for the past two years, flickering images of a bloody battlefield have haunted her sleep, and every night, she's the only survivor. She's never told anyone about it, because combined with the dissociative emotional disorder that renders empathy out of her reach, she'd be labeled dangerous. But amid rising public tensions over an artificial intelligence project she's spearheading, Ronnie's dreams begin to infect her waking life, too. With the visions starting to take on an ominous, almost prophetic quality, Ronnie must sort through the blurred lines of reality before the bloodiest nightmare finally comes true. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ #RedefineHumanity - An Open Novella Contest Shortlister! CONTENT WARNING for manipulative relationships [[Completed]]