A curious demon shadow follows a regular woman who spends her days sleeping, hopping from dream to dream in the hopes she finds the memory of her recently dead cat.

A story being written for Open Novella Contest 2025

In a dystopian alternate Earth in which omegas face discrimination and oppression, omega Jonah Merrick is hiding in plain sight as a private investigator. He's also demisexual taking heat suppressants to hide from the ten Houses and their oppressive regime. Until a murder of one of his clients brings him into contact with the strangest alpha he's ever met, a detective named Isme Gallagher with a shadow past. The two forge an instant connection in a complicated story of consent, abuse and the darkness we try to hide from ourselves. This is a very rough draft that I am posting as I go. I will try to catch any proofreading issues and continuity errors, but I can't promise anything exciting. This is also a very dark paranormal romance with a fox shifter omega and a non-shifter alpha. I'd describe it as spicy but with lots of emotional angst. It's got hurt/comfort galore and an age gap (28 and 41). It features lots of knotting, scenting, mpreg, explicit scenes of cutting and self-harm, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse (in the past, not between the two MMCs), dubcon and issues of consent. Mental health rep: PTSD (from sexual and war trauma), depression, OCD, self-harm, anxiety. Read at your own discretion. Cover by Rocking Book Covers.

*ONC 2024 entry* **Round Two Ambassador's Pick** **Shortlisted** She's an angel of love; an ill-fitting name, as she's no angel. She strives for a world devoid of pain and sorrow. A world of love; of sex and debauchery without consequences. Unattached forever, she's spent millennia ensuring her world remains free of the chaos caused by heartbreak--a term unknown to the humans she oversees. And she'll do everything to keep it that way, at any cost. Meaning she'll kill any who have malice in their souls, to ensure the survival of those who are pure; their hearts red, the color of love. He's the first of his kind: a demon of heartbreak. New to the world, he's thirsty for love, for carnal relations, but craving to destroy it all once he's had his fill. He seeks despair, but not without having a little bit of fun on the way. He's sent above the surface by his king, to spread his disease, until he meets a feisty, sinfully sexy, devious damsel with immense powers. Her heart is so red, so pure, that he has to have it. To crush it. He makes it his goal to seduce her, trick her, and make her his first heartbreak victim. But she's not an easy one to toy with, as her heart isn't as pure as she lets on. *** ONC Prompts 35, 19, 46

Maddie may be a vampire, but the young bartender hasn't let go of her life or her legal identity. Since she's still alive on paper, she must do what all other citizens must do and serve jury duty. In order to find a way to do her civic duty, Maddie asks the owner of a magickal supply shop for help. Zanna, a sarcastic warlock who is in hiding from her evil family, reluctantly agrees after realizing how naive Maddie is about the supernatural world. The two unlikely allies soon find themselves on an adventure that neither saw coming, and the fate of New York City hangs in the balance. AWARDS: The Triple Moon Awards: First Place (Comedy) The Olds Awards: First Place (How Rude/Sassiest Character: Zanna Blackrain)

In the nearby future, a scientist discovers a nebula about to very slowly collapse. She faces critics and naysayers every day. This is the story of Celeste.

Max and Ash are grocery shopping when One Night Love Affair comes on over the grocery store PA system. This launches Max into an infodump about his headcanon about Bryan Adams's Reckless album. Max and Ash's conversation is interspersed with the story of Chris, a physics student in 1990s Montreal. His love story follows the themes of four songs off the Reckless album: One Night Love Affair, Summer of 69, Run to You, and Heaven. The Bryan Adams Cycle was written entirely on a dare.

A sci-fi action story about several people who join together to save the world, but the world is not as it seems...

When Lilian and Sarah meet, their hearts are filled with hope. The love they'd dreamt of is finally at their fingertips. Lilian, forced by her mother into an engagement with a rich suitor, wonders what life could be like with Sarah. Sarah boldly approaches her in public. As their relationship and love grows, passion shared between them takes them to new heights. Will they survive the societal pressures of the early 1900's? When an accident happens, will either of them survive at all?