♡| ONC 2020 Short Lister |♡ ♡| Now A Full-Length Novel |♡ Run with the big dogs, they said. It will be fun, they said. Let me tell you riding in the back of a cop car is not as sexy as it sounds. Handcuffs are a lot more entertaining when you're getting laid. I ran with the big dogs. Now I'm caged with them. A textbook drug deal gone bad. Case closed. I've given up fighting, even if my folks haven't. It's like learning to walk again. Lebanon Correctional carries its own codes and laws of violence, bureaucracy, and extortion. Ones I'm hell-bent on avoiding. Until my cellie teaches me to make a tattoo gun. Colt Cross. First degree murder; fifteen-to-life. Brilliant and broken. Fighting for me inside the fence while my family rallies on the outside; proving beyond a reasonable doubt that nothing is as it seems. Cover art by the lovely @AFleetingDream_91 Warning: Contains offensive language (racial slurs, sexual slurs) Contains sexual situations

In a world not that different from ours, Lily Arianell is a royal seamstress tasked with creating clothing from sunlight, moonlight, and stardust for the royal family of Sylvania, but in order to do that, she must ask for help from beings who... let's just say don't have that good of a relationship with her kind. The royals of the kingdom start to wonder about her past as mysterious things start happening around the palace in her wake. What secrets could she be hiding under that cool facade?

The young half elf Talis finds together with her best friend Aurelia an old legend about dragons. They have lived a long time ago next to the elves but dissapeard. Together the two girls are going to find the truth about the legend. A lot of thing are happening what distracked them from their quest like a strange group of elves that claims they are descendants from the dragons. How will Talis and Aurelia handle this situation?

As the princess of Lazoreth hosts a competition to find her newly wedded husband who will rule along beside her. Isaac Kora, a 17-year-old boy in the kingdom of Lazoreth who's participating in the competition soon discovers a secret cult and takes it upon himself to investigate their headquarters that took part in Prince Kozert's death. But, along the way, he will face many hardships. In order to win the competition and find out what really happened to Prince Kozert, he must win an annual tournament that decides the strongest man in Lazoreth. Can he find the real truth, and reveal what really happened to Prince Kozert, or will he fail and lose his life in the process. A medieval-fiction novel, all rights reserved. ©AllenVex2020

Given a second chance, Jax refuses to lose Kaelie again; the woman he loved and let walk out of his life years ago. Now she was back and his roommate, again, and he was going to do everything he could to finally make her his. ***** After a rough break up, Kaelie returns to her home town to get away and hopefully recoup to start fresh. Not making any preparations, she returns with nowhere's to go or stay. That is until her old, but still, best friend, Mia, comes through just like she had before. She just didn't know she would be roommates with him. Again. Just like Mia had done last time. Jax was shocked to receive a call that Kaelie was back and needed a place to stay. Having a roommate already that was his best friend, he kicked him out to offer his place to the woman he loved many years. Given a second chance not many get, he refused to fuck it up again. He wasn't going to let Kaelie walk out of his life once more. Now roommates, again, old feeling will emerge. Fun memories will be created. Boundaries will be pushed. Enticement will be shown. Desire will be strong. And, hopefully, love will fill the air. Get ready for a steamy romance that will have your heart pumping, skin flushing, while guaranteeing that happily ever after ♡ 18+ - steamy sexual content - mature language Cover made myself, with licensed images.

The world is a dark and scary place, full of psychopaths that feel compulsion to commit heinous acts and feel no guilt afterwards. But what if there was a way to feed these compulsions without having anyone die? Meet Dr. Clowd, a renowned Memory Therapist. She has made it her purpose to prevent such travesties from ever occurring by treating those classified as "pre-criminals", specifically deterring predicted murderers. The concept is simple: provide a memory of a killing for the urge to be sated. It will save lives. But the reality is not so simple. Dr. Clowd is thrown into an investigation, after sharing the memory of a young girl's murder with multiple pre-criminals, making the investigation that much harder for the lead detective. The only catch, it's her own memory she's sharing. Can Dr. Clowd help solve the investigation while keeping her dark side a secret?

Sienna Diaz has lived the life of a nameless face, a retreater from threats, and a thief of lives. Every time she lights a match, she is transported to another world. Surviving as a woman with many pasts and identities, she can hardly call herself her own. Despite her desire for control, however, the fire -- her matches -- remain her only escape. But as a pawn to the universe and to the flames themselves, Sienna finds that escape is only a delay of the inevitable: a life of wandering and loneliness. After an accident, another burnt match Sienna lands in a new world where Fire is an entity, a deity to its citizens. The opportunity is clear: overpower Fire and rewrite her identity. This time, starting afresh would be real and permanent. Settled. But this Fire is unpredictable and temperamental, worshipped by his priests and guarded in his own temple like a treasure. When Sienna Diaz was younger and still lived in a place she remembered as Nevada, her parents told her to never play with fire. She agreed -- no, she would never play with it. She would kill it. *Open Novella Contest 2020 Entry* *Awesome cover by @CelticWarriorQueen17*

Wren and Kenna hated each other in high school. Now mature-ish adults, they still hate each other. The problem? They're engaged. A year away from marriage, according to two of the most powerful people in the world: their parents. ***** Wren Castile and Kenna Gold are engaged...because their parents say so (and no, they're not kidding). Wren has one year to marry her former nemesis, or else. The fact that Kenna emulated her infamously anti-gay father throughout high school seems to be irrelevant--even to Kenna herself. Suddenly Wren and the girl she never wanted to see again are on the same (bickering) side as they face mandatory dates, disastrous family get-togethers, and their unhappy past. Wren is filled with mistrust, but to protect her heart, she might just have to sit back and let it lead the way. Content/Trigger Warning: This story contains references to and/or scenes of homophobia, childhood trauma, bullying, violence, and suicide. [[2022 Watty Awards Shortlist]] [[Editors' Choice - October 2022]]

A Participant for Open Novella Contest. Prompt #27 A few people can understand the complex world and its hidden messages. Nineteen year old Blaire Hughes possess the skill. Blaire lives in a small and isolated community. The people love their peace and familiarity. Children go to school, adults go to work and people routinely live their simple and perfect lives. But just like any other "perfect" community, they have their dark secrets no one dares to discuss. In the morning, she is known as the Odd Belle. No beauty, just plain weird. At night, she travels through her dreams to see different parallel universes. She lives freely from the rumors and gossips, trying to find a place where she truly belongs. No one knows her secret nor powers. No one at all... Or maybe someone already does. As the town's secret starts to reveal itself, her dreams becomes erratic. Her ignored life just became surprising than she thought it will be. Will she learn the secret and bring herself out of the dark or will she step on an endless void and be capitvated by the darkness forever?

Synopsis: Dimi has been haunted by dreams of an impossible library. The layout made no sense, it went on forever, and something was calling him ever deeper inside. For months it has occupied his mind and it was creeping into his waking life. One day while mindlessly scrolling through his feed he saw a photo, taken in Matthew's Cove, that stopped him cold. The photo was the entrance to the library that had been haunting his dreams. There was no doubt about it. He dropped everything and went straight to the bus stop. Dimi could not resist the call. But the idyllic seaside town of Matthew's Cove is not as it seems, and Dimi may not be ready for what he finds. Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2020 Prompt: 24 Millennia ago, your kind was cursed by an angry goddess. Ever since then, you've all been confined to human bodies while the rest of the world believes dragons are no more.