Onc2020 storie

Ally thought her world was over when her fiancee called off their wedding the day before Christmas. No excuse, no explanation, no nothing. After spending the holiday week indulging in Nicholas Sparks movies, multiple pints of Ben & Jerry's, and living like a hermit, her best friends convince her to mingle with the masses for New Year's. Trying her best to make it through the crowded streets due to the unavailable taxis, Ally catches the subway headed towards Times Square. When her train breaks down, she wonders what she's done to piss off the universe to deserve this bad luck. While stuck on a subway full of strangers as it gets closer to the New Year, she starts counting down the seconds with the rest of the passengers. Unbeknownst to Ally, when the clock strikes midnight, and she kisses a mysteriously handsome stranger, her whole life is going to change. ONC Prompt 67

[ONC 2020 Shortlister] Something evil dwells in the black lake by the misty woods, something that will claim the souls of those who dare to dive into its realm. Lynn Morris is ready to enjoy some well-deserved holidays in the company of her closest friends. And that house on the lakeshore looks like a dream come true and is exactly what she needs. Or that's what she thinks. It takes her diving into the lake, it takes a blood-curdling vision for her to know they shouldn't have touched the waters. Something is watching her; ready to turn her holidays into the worst nightmare ever had. When reality and illusions start clashing in a never-ending war, will she be able to remain sane and save her friends? Or will she fall prey to the darkness growing in her own mind? *ONC 2020. Prompt #40.

In the future, the actions of the human race have devastated the planet. On her seventeenth birthday, Aera strikes a match, igniting a bigger blaze than she could have ever expected.

Robert sees himself as the Marty McFly of his own story. That is cool, the perfect protagonist, and friends with an eccentric scientist. When his employer becomes convinced she can send him into the future, he's prepared to put on a show and go back to sweeping the cluttered lab. Never in his wildest dreams did he prepare for the success of the project. In the future, Sonnet is trying to hold her life together between her side gig as a rebellion fighter, dramatic girlfriend, and a pile of schoolwork. Not to mention a state arranged engagement to someone she only sees as a friend. The last thing she needs is the chosen one, prophesied to change all their lives stumbling into her. Rob must navigate a new world of danger before he ruins a delicate world of politics and gets him and everyone around him, killed. Meanwhile, Sonnet's life is thrown into chaos as everything she's ever known is flipped on its head.

To escape her parents Adamina, a princess, dresses up as a fatherless and jobless boy, but soon catches feelings for a girl, Danika, that she becomes close friends with, who knows nothing of her royal blood and true identity.

I used to be a Zombie. Until a kind stranger bought me a new brain. They told me the brain was artificial; that it had been grown in one of the continent's many brain labs. "The labs were built to help recover the human population," they said. They told me no humans were harmed in the making of my brain. They were wrong. ______ Highest Rankings: #120 in #zombie (13/02/20) #541 in #humour (13/02/20) #885 in #horror (14/02/20) #12 in #opennovellacontest2020 (08/02/20) Disclaimer: This story is rated PG13, and any comments on this story should also be suitable for 13 year olds to come across. Any comments which are not PG13 may be removed without notice. Thank you ♥

Agatha Steam sells memories for a living. Is not such a weird thing to do in XXXI Century. It is just illegal... It was all good and pink until she took this golden job from her friend Pippo. An old lady wanted her to copy the memories of her son. She offered something better than money to Agatha and her friends. One thing about that guy though: he's dead.

[Novella Edition ✧ First Draft] This story has been reimagined as my project "Every Glistening Night." This version will remain up, however, I highly recommend checking out the newer one, since it is more representative of my current writing style. Light shines down from the heavens, illuminating the Earth below. But every so often, a beam falls down from above. If you know how, you can catch it. If you don't, you destroy it. And when you collect enough rays of light, you hold the power of the sun, moon, and stars in your hands. Only one has mastered the art. Only one can capture the precious light, and spin it into ethereal thread. Her name is Celisae. In order to solidify an alliance for three tribes, Celisae is asked to weave three dresses, one of sunlight, one of moonlight, and one of starlight. There's only one problem - Celisae is not a weaver. Written for the ONC 2020.

(Complete) **Only published on Wattpad As a young girl, Princess Katrina had never stepped foot outside of castle grounds, and yet she had unconditional trust in the King and Queen. The betrayal of her trust made her question everything in her life, eventually leading her to sneak out from the castle to explore the world beyond. After enduring the attrocities that a neglected kingdom can bring first-hand, she developed a plan to blend in as a man and help save the people of her kingdom.

While out on the hunt, self-confident vampire Ashton for once ends up being the hunted. After being accidentally captured and almost killed, he finds himself indebted to the black witch Elizabeth, who has a pact with a demon and is on a hunt herself. When her old coven gives her a task that may redeem her from her past misdeeds that cost the lives of innocents, Elizabeth calls in her favor, and recruits Ashton to help her find out why more and more witches from both black and white covens are going missing. Thrown into a conflict between forces as ancient as magic itself, the two have to learn to work together quickly, while old secrets and promises of the past hamper their mutual trust. But soon it turns out that the pacts that bind them both might also tie them to each other, and their encounter might have been not one of chance, but one of fate. _____ I decided to give the ONC a shot again, and revive a short story from last year... and also use this opportunity to foray into another genre this time. This will be my first paranormal/fantasy/gothic horror story, and if nothing else it's supposed to be a fun little writing exercise to get me back into a creative mood after quite a long break from writing :) Since it's gonna be a WIP throughout the ONC and I want to spend more time on "explorative" writing rather than getting lost in in-depth planning, this story will probably be subject to numerous changes and edits, but I hope you'll enjoy nonetheless!

Studying geology was not supposed to involve helping an alien prevent the destruction of his world. -- When a large crystal falls from the sky and lands in her friend's rural backyard, geologist Jade Harlow cannot help her curiosity. However, when it gradually changes over the course of a year, it becomes apparent that there is much more going on then she first thought, especially when there seems to be a body inside of it. It all falls apart when the Krisoala, the alien race responsible for the crystal, comes to collect it. The being inside introduces himself as Nesilva, a Krisoala himself. He's on the run from his own species, who have plans to create a new type of organism too powerful to exist in nature. The Krisoala are here, and they are one step away from finishing their catastrophic experiments. All they need is Nesilva. Except there's something else, something about Earth that appeals to the Krisoala, something they may have to take by any means necessary.

Seacliff is now only available on Inkitt. In 2019, Aidan is a kilt-wearing tour guide on the cobblestone streets of Edinburgh. In 1919, Saoirse is a Great War nurse who's got nothing left to live for - until the sea brings a naked, unconscious man to her feet. Not one easily shocked after caring for the most broken of men in France, Saoirse takes the stranger in and tends to his wounds. Except the man is all kinds of unusual and she begins to question whether he even is a man at all. Is the grief driving her mad or is there more to the world than she ever thought possible? Saoirse hopes to find answers in her Aunt Aoife's diaries, since the gentle giant she rescued from the sea has no recollection of how he ended up there in the first place. * Editors' Choice, December 2020 * an open novella contest entry which grew into a ~75k-word novel completed * prompt: "When something tragic happens, it's often said we lose a piece of ourselves. How far would you go to find these lost parts of yourself in order to be whole again?" * featured on: @WattpadHistoricalRomance - 'Traveling Through Time' @talesofthedeep - 'Fintastic Reads - Sea Creatures'

* ONC 2020 AMBASSADOR'S PICK * * ONC 2020 HONORABLE MENTION * * ONC 2020 SHORT LIST * * HIDDEN GEMS * Sean has a problem: his dreams come to life. It causes him enough trouble that he moves across the country to start fresh at Everwood Institute. But as his repetitive dreams become more vivid, he wonders if anything he sees is real, and if the black leaves Finn trails behind him are truly there... Finn tries to keep his dreams under control, but this year, he keeps dreaming the same dream. It haunts him in the day, and doesn't help when he's trying to keep his past problems separate from his present life. Then there's the matter of Sean, who leaves flowers blooming wherever he steps... As Sean and Finn grow closer, they realize there's more to their dreams - and each other - than they know. ~*~ COMPLETED | #lgbtq+ #mlm #contemporaryfantasy "How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?" - Plato Prompt #15, OpenNovellaContest2020 Word Count: 21,198 words

|| ONC 2020 || Round One Qualifier When Cara was asked out by a cute guy at school, she had no reason to say no... or to believe it would be one of the worst decisions of her life. A year later and she is still dealing with the trauma, attending a support group for survivors of sexual assault. When a fellow classmate named Tabitha joins the support group, Cara is terrified she'll tell everyone at school her secret. She knows she's supposed to rely on the other members but can't help feeling that something is off about Tabitha. Refusing to trust her, Cara decides to keep her distance. That is until Tabitha tells the story of her own assault, the details of which sound eerily familiar to Cara. Realizing they have much more in common than simply sharing a support group, the two of them work together to pick up the pieces of their shattered pasts. But when another girl comes forward with a similar story, they decide picking up the pieces just isn't enough. The three of them hatch a plan... one that will lead them down a destructive path toward violence, vengeance, and murder. || ᴏɴᴄ 2020 ﹣ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛ 68 || ᵞᵒᵘ ᵐᵉᵉᵗ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒᶰᵉ ʷʰᵒ ˢᵉᵉᵐˢ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ᵖᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘ˒ ᵇᵘᵗ ᵃᶠᵗᵉʳ ᵈᶤᵍᵍᶤᶰᵍ ᶤᶰᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉᶤʳ ᵖᵃˢᵗ ᶤᵗ ᵗᵘʳᶰˢ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵃ ˢᵗʳᶤᶰᵍ ᵒᶠ ᶜʳᶤᵐᵉˢ ʰᵃˢ ᵇᵉᵉᶰ ᶠᵒˡˡᵒʷᶤᶰᵍ ᵗʰᵉᵐˑ ᴺᵒᶰᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵒˢᵉ ᶜʳᶤᵐᵉˢ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵒᶠᶠᶤᶜᶤᵃˡˡʸ ᵇᵉᵉᶰ ˢᵒˡᵛᵉᵈˑ

Two minds, one threat. Sabrina and Joshua are two very different people, but when each takes the new sleeping pill, Deeperem™, they become inexplicably intertwined. As the SAT looms, their dreams become more insidious when the Figure appears, a mysterious shadowy being. Alone, they don't stand a chance, but together, they might just survive. Based on prompt #15.

[ONC2020 Shortlister / A Featured Story on Wattpad Low Fantasy] You can't outrun the past. Hattie Newfield is a fake medium who makes a living off pretending to speak with the dead. But Hattie has a real psychic gift--she can "read" people's memories. When Hattie is approached by a stranger with an intriguing job proposal, she learns that she has other psychic powers that aren't easily controlled. As the two join forces to investigate a mysterious haunting, her psychic powers grow and the past begins encroaching on the present in unforeseen ways. Now Hattie must face her own troubled memories before the dark past overtakes them both.

Tick-tock goes the clock, time passing slowly, time passing quick. But it's all in our heads, just one big trick. What if time didn't exist? For Sybil Avant, her reality is close to that. Imagine being locked in a room and never knowing how long you were in there, not even an estimate. Dyschronometria. Sybil has never really known how much time has passed. This makes her perfect for a certain experiment. One bending the very laws of time. How could it have gone so wrong? ONC2020 prompt #14 "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -Albert Einstein

Small town girl Lucille escaped her boring life by telling lies. She fought and clawed her way to a glamorous flapper life in the 1930's, with a psychic accomplice no less! But will her tower of lies be her undoing? ⚡️ONC 2020 Round One Qualifier & The Novella Awards 2020 Round One Qualifier⚡️ ⭐️Featured in @HistoricalFiction Decade Fiction Reading List and @YA The Time Machine Reading List⭐️

Entry into the Open Novella Contest III (ONC 2020) Girl meets girl, girl defends girl from douchebag drug dealer, girl ends up in juvie... on another planet? I used prompt #7: A drug deal gone horribly wrong leads to a youngster being wrongly convicted, and to have to learn very quickly how to survive in a juvenile prison.

Where I brainstorm off old and new ONC prompts utilizing various fandom, I'm familiar with to give an idea of how to use prompts during ONC, and figure out the ins and outs of brainstorming for ONC.