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25-year old Lee still hasn't figured out why they could not form any long-lasting relationships, even friendships for that matter. Aside from family members, which they are obligated to talk to, there is no one else Lee had even come close to calling a friend. Well, maybe except for one. -------- Submitted for ONC 2026 @OpenNovellaContest Using the following prompts : 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints in your heart. 104. While wandering in the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all. 106. After waking at 3AM to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth. All rights reserved by @J. Lee Kennedy, except for images contained in this book. Crayon drawing "Wander XIX" by @Clara Lieu. Copyright of images, including cover art, belong to their rightful owners, and are attributed accordingly, or used in accordance with the rules of Creative Commons licensing as "fair use." Altered, filtered, or edited images are copyrighted by the author in its final form.

Ki Centauri is a man with many faces. The life of a military peacekeeper is not a kind one, and the people he's lost are nearly as numerous as the ones he knows. Time and time again, lives slip through his fingers, and all he is left with is the black skies of people now gone. Yet human beings cannot live without connections. Somehow, there must be a way to find friends beyond the limitations of Crest and Clan and forge connections that last and truly matter. But is the pain of finding love in an often bleak and broken world worth the cost of of threading a family across the stars? An ONC 2026 story based on prompts 29 and 69: "You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints on your heart." "The stars are disappearing one by one, and only you can hear their whispers." New cover by @toruinagod!

A dying town launches a rebranding campaign that no one seems to be running. The billboards appear overnight. The slogans don't explain themselves. A diner waitress says nobody puts them up, and nobody takes them down. A couple arrives expecting ironic tourism and finds something closer to a live experiment. Beauchêne doesn't ask visitors to believe anything. It only asks them to stay. To notice. To participate. What begins as small-town decay becomes a slow, sideways unraveling... murals that feel instructional, civic programs that behave like dares, and a town that seems increasingly aware of the people passing through it. A surreal, slow-burn satire about American decline, anti-branding, and the strange comfort of entropy. Meaning doesn't collapse here. It rebrands. Entropy is a vibe. Decline tastes like caramel. Welcome to Beauchêne. You're here now.

Liya Merebold experiences teleportation and is never the same again.

What is love? Anveshna - this question asked by her mom shook her and usually Anveshna never asked for answers-until life handed her questions she couldn't ignore. One summer, surrounded by silence, dust, and memories no one speaks of, she stumbles into something that changes the way she sees everything. What begins as boredom turns into a quiet unraveling of the past-layer by layer, letter by letter. She thought she knew her family. She thought she knew herself. She was wrong. the question-what is love was only the beginning and anveshna had to answer and understand many questions in this journey. A slow-burning, emotionally raw story about the search for truth, connection, and the courage to face what we're not ready to hear.

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION: The story is inspired from the movie 'INCEPTION' directed by Christopher Nolan. 'A_ DREAMING_INSOMNIAC' is the fictional drama based on two NON-LINEAR storylines of two different characters "Sudeep" and "Madhan". Where the first storyline is about Sudeep who is suffering from a disease called 'INSOMNIA', who could not able to sleep at night, which affects his daily life, so he consulted a psychiatrist, Dr.RamSingh - 300 years old who uses his lifetime experience and a dream manipulating technology to cure Sudeep's condition. And another storyline is about Madhan - 18 years old - school student, who is experiencing a crucial situation and after some time the situation is becoming unrealistic, at that time only he realizes that he is dreaming. The realization happens because his reality affects his dream.

Sora has always been in the same place, longing for the extraordinary. Keen has been on the move for a long time, aching for a place to rest. When their paths cross, their desires come into sight, but there are lessons and sacrifices both must endure before they can attain them. ❣︎

The important parts of the always mysterious, heavily alluring, Rosa Waters' life can be separated into three parts: Before The Fire, After The Fire and Now. Before the Fire held the best years of her life. After the Fire was followed by the worst years of her life. Now? No one can tell. All she knows is that Red Star are back and they will not hold back this time. And neither will she.

Genisia, a missionist of a futuristic company Decent, encounters various troubles and mystery lying in the dark side of science as she travels through time and completes various missions. Dive in with her to understand the underlying mysteries of Decent and its core idea.

In a secluded hospital, the sudden and violent death of Daniil, a young patient, leaves his only friend in shock and grief. As the staff remain eerily silent, suspicion grows that there's more to the tragedy than meets the eye. Struggling with loss and isolation, the protagonist is left to confront unsettling questions about what really happened.

Just a short, non-linear story I wrote. Currently working on a book.... should I upload it chapter by chapter as I write it so I get suggestions or just all at once?

Getting to Nowhere is an epic dark fantasy saga where the world itself is the protagonist - a vast, ever-shifting land shaped by forgotten wars, fractured kingdoms, and the passage of unknowable time. Across continents where time bends and reality rewrites itself, empires rise only to fall into myth, and heroes are remembered not for their triumphs, but for what they couldn't escape. In this world, no path is straight. No future is certain. And no one truly knows where the story leads. Told through multiple eras and voices, Getting to Nowhere explores a realm where magic decays, truth fractures, and even gods must face what lies beyond their design. As generations clash and civilizations unravel, the question remains: What happens when the journey never ends - and the destination may not exist? A brutal, visionary tale of war, identity, and fate, Getting to Nowhere is a fantasy not about where we go - but what we become along the way.

"Nothing is exciting." "The only fire remained in the remnants of oxymoron-ish teenage innocence, when everything bad was new."

At the cusp of the 16th century, the budding romance of Elisa Lombardi and Arturo Alfonsi is violently obstructed by the covetous Songbird, a fallen angel whose obsession to establish its own spiritual kingdom wreaks devastation in the remote Italian town of Pitigliano.

Minjae can't say he's known a lot of peace since knowing any of them but he doesn't think he'd want it any other way. Or Bits and pieces of group that's weaved themselves together like a quilt, unknowing where one begins or ends Or Maybe Yechan was onto something when he swore up and down that Junmin was pack omega. {A xikers omegaverse au}

Exactly as the title say, a compendium (hopefully) of poems, and words that may or may not make sense.

There are only three things you need to know about Sam Simm. He hates his name, he is not a vampire and he has lived for 2,527 years.

Quinn has always been the girl with a plan. Peter's the boy who's never had one. Their love is a reckless, terrible idea, but they try anyway. (told in non-linear vignettes of their relationship)

"What if love isn't a grand gesture or a quiet goodbye-but the messy, uncharted space in between?" In a world where Bollywood dreams collide with indie-film realism, Sidharth and Amritha are two souls bound by years of almost-conversations. He's the eternal optimist, quoting sunsets and Kal Ho Naa Ho, convinced love is a flame meant to burn bright, even if it consumes him. She's the sharp-tongued realist, annotating Sylvia Plath and 500 Days of Summer, certain love is a lesson, not a fairy tale. A story for anyone who's wondered: Is love worth the risk if it doesn't last forever? Or is forever just the sum of all the risks we take? The Unscripted Hearts is a piercingly honest ode to love's contradictions-where the right person can feel like the wrong time, and the wrong words can still rewrite your heart.

Those are the sounds of men getting down. Large in number, maybe five or six. There are sounds of pistols clicking. How do I know this, 'cos I have a gun with me here myself. My friend beside me is holding a piece of antique pistol his great granddad was gifted for serving in WW1 - that aside, these people want the studio. Yeah, the brownie studio. Technically, they don't want to own the studio or something. They just need the recipe. The recipe to make perfect brownies.