Onc2020 Stories

They lived and loved in a world where skin contact was absolutely forbidden. One day, on what the past called the Day of the Hearts, they slipped up and held hands in the middle of the street. Three years after a deadly pandemic wiped out 65% of world's population. The Government's Mandate continues to control the lives of a few surviving cities across the globe. But things are dire. The virus continues to mutate. And there is no cure. ONC Prompts #4, #27, #54, #57, #62

Frei has no family, no blood to call her own. She is a mage hiding her powers, one bound to the order of the Knights of Sol, a group dedicated to eradicating those like her. She hides her true self, emotions numbed by the instinct to survive, by the hatred she harbors for herself. Ignus Soltero has royal blood, and the powers of life and death at his command. Haunted by the dead king of Primero, he slaughters his fellow mages in an attempt to stave off a slow, painful death for himself, and for the chance to bring his sister back. Their destinies intertwined, together they will shake the foundations of the world by force. And if all else fails, they'll throw a little magic at it.

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.

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⭐️

𝕊𝕐ℕ𝕆ℙ𝕊𝕀𝕊 All A+s in classes? Check. Top student? Check. Aces training at Study Camp? Triple Check. After years of hard work, Michiko Watanabe finally got what she had long for: being a part of the coveted American Chemistry Olympiad Team that will be competing in Monaco that year. For now, Michiko is setting her eyes right on the very best, and everything else, like boys and romance, is just a distraction to her. But how would she react when a boy her age suddenly got added into her life's formula? 𝔹𝔸𝕊𝔼𝔻 𝕆ℕ ℙℝ𝕆𝕄ℙ𝕋 𝕏𝕀 "We woke up and had breakfast out on the deck; like we did every morning. And long story short, we are no longer welcome in Monaco." 𝔸ℂℍ𝕀𝔼𝕍𝔼𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕋𝕊 Chemistry: #34 [05.02.20] Comedy-Romance: #100 [05.02.20] Competition: #144 [15.02.20] Japanese: #77 [15.02.20] Korean: #468 [15.02.20] OpenNovellaContest2020: #4 [06.02.20] ONC2020: #18 [15.02.20] Monaco: #11 [15.02.20] Science: #268 [05.02.20] YoungAdult: #823 [05.02.20] (TBA) ℂ𝕆ℙ𝕐ℝ𝕀𝔾ℍ𝕋 | 𝕃𝔼𝔸 𝕂𝔸𝕃𝔼𝕊

𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 :- It is a complex set of emotions, behaviors, and beliefs associated with strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth, and respect for another person. Is love an emotion or just a word people throw around when they like something a lot? Addilyn Fleur thought she loved Axel Connor but, she realized that it was all a bluff when he left her at the wedding altar and joined her best friend on another altar. Torn between rage and hurt, she declares to the heavens that she will never fall in love again. It was like a challenge to the Almighty. Little did she know that the heaven as well as Aphrodite don't like to be challenged! What happened next? Aphrodite took the challenge wholeheartedly and shook hands with Hera (Goddess of marriage). But, even Aphrodite was yet, to be surprised. If Addilyn Fleur doesn't believe in love, why did she marry Ace Vincent in future? Let's find out all the answers and see if Addilyn loves him in future or not...

Emory Vine left her old life behind after finding the man she loved plotting to steal all she had with her best friend. The wounds wouldn't hurt as much if she hadn't found them plotting on her wedding day. She took the first flight out of town hoping to land somewhere new. She needed to get away from the life she thought she wanted, and start building the life she's always dreamed of. It was time she stepped out of her comfort zone and take a few risks.

How far will you go to get back what belongs to you? She remembers nothing, not even her own name. All she has to go on is an unusual knowledge of the creatures who kidnapped her--along with hundreds of other teens--to fight in the Arena. The only way to get her memories back and get home is to win the Grand Tournament, a series of death matches against other teens in the same desperate position as she's in. To make matters worse, the tiny flash of memory her captors gave her hints at a very dark past... She'll do anything to get her memories back. But at what cost? --- Credit to @StoryWritersNeverLie for the awesome cover!

Harold is a professional and talented fifteen-year-old dancer who disappeared from the dancing world after 2nd October 2010, causing his name to be left forgotten and his father's beloved dance academy to fall under the hands of their opponent. His father's passing made him succumb to a mundane life of computers and paper works that were slowly eating him up alive. Since then, he locked himself away from the world of music and dance that once had been his way to relax and escape from his problems. With each passing day, he loses himself in between his sanctuary, his fallen dreams, and an aunt and two cousins who keep mocking his career choices. After ten long years of living a boring life, Tiberius, Harold's best friend, and dance competitor decides to drag Harold back into the dancing game. Harold finds it infuriating because it sparks old, unwanted memories, but upon knowing whom his mother had sold his father's dance academy to and the encouragement he had gotten from her and Tiberius, Harold decides to step up. Even with a scar on his cheeks that live and breathe with him, he determines to claw his ways back to his dreams. They often fade in and out of his mind, sometimes the cause of disappointment, but he fights with every breathe he has to obtain the pieces of himself that he lost a decade ago. 💎Featured on the Wattpad ESL: Thrilling and Risky Venture | Action & Adventure & Mystery (5 November 2021) 💎Featured on the General Fiction Reading List: Live Life While You Can | Action/Adventure (20 August 2020) 💎2nd place in The Millennial Awards | Action/Adventure Category (12 September 2020) 💎3rd place in The Halcyon Awards 2020 | Action Category (16 November 2020) [[Open Novella Contest 2020]]

ONC ROUND ONE QUALIFER A prank gone wrong sends four teenagers several years into an alternate past of their small town. Eden town, seventy one years ago is plagued by a murderer that is hell bent on dwindling the town's numbers, appearing at night unseen and disappearing after each gruesome murder. Some call it a monster, others call it a reaper but it is up to these teenagers to discover its identity and stop it, otherwise, there might not be a present for them to return to.

Christine was just a small-town psychic detective telling fortunes and helping the police locate missing persons when world-renowned archeologist Charles Debois appeared with an unusual job offer-join his team as a psychic archeologist. The catch, she had to keep her talents a secret. Now she finds herself chasing after an elusive treasure that should never see the light of day. Will they listen to her and turn back before its too late? Not likely. #OpenNovellaContest2020

"If you fail, you are doomed for another century." *** Synteni Herka is a normal 22 year old girl. She is perfectly content with having no boyfriend, just flings. With no parents or siblings, just a faraway aunt, she has no one but friends to lean on to. Unfortunately, friends in New York aren't the best influence. What happens when sudden changes occur, tilting her life, her beliefs and her firm foundations? Is she ready for inhuman interference in her life? Angels, demons, sins, virtues, smiles, tears. Will she make it? *** "What the heck did I do to deserve this?"

Exiled for her high ideals, Asa leaves her home planet to continue her medical career on Concordia in the Eulian Outskirts. Though the Celest-ruled empire is a drastic change from her nomadic tribe, she is determined to take the species' knowledge to not just treat but to eradicate all chronic illness. Her plans change, however, when she stumbles upon a patient, Renvir. An unorthodox love blooms between the two, but the secret he carries forces her to question the perfect world she's imagined. She must ask herself if her quest is worth the lives sacrificed. ***** First draft, very unrefined. Originally written for the Open Novella Contest. Novel version coming 2022. Open to constructive feedback.

Megafantastic Man is the greatest superhero on Earth. His little brother Marvin is decidedly not. It's tough living in the shadow of greatness, and although Marvin possesses some super powers of his own, things just never seem to work out quite right. When an especially nasty supervillain pops up to threaten the world just as Megafantastic Man is called on to lend aid to another planet, Marvin might be the only chance at saving the day. Earth just might be in really big trouble.

By performing the ritual of this legend you will open the Gateway to Pandemonium and if you're lucky, you will come face to face with The Devil himself and ask him for anything you want. But everything has its price and The Devil twists everything to be in his favour. Ellis Parker is desperate and only sees one option: see if the legend is real and find The Devil in Pandemonium. She will do anything to get what she needs. And so she does and sets out into the underworld. But what are the consequences of the deals she will be making? And what is the reason for the Devil visiting her five years later? - TRIGGER WARNING- Some mildly strong language will be used from time to time, plus the subject of suicide will be shortly meantioned. Nothing will be discussed in detail, but if you do have trouble with these things I would ask you to be cautious when reading. It is all VERY lightly discussed, but I did want to give people a warning just in case. ©All Rights Reserved Prompts #49 and #42 ---- Highest rankings so far: #41 in Hades #3 in Spinechilling

Six missing teenagers ,one town and a lot of time to spare.

Medani Langcaster has always been a fan of adventure fantasy. Spending time in another world would be a dream come true. When she runs into Lady Simina, her wish finally comes true. Living her ideal fantasy, nothing can go wrong. Absolutely nothing. {Trying my hand at writing for ONC. Some minor details will probably change as I go along.}

Years after the end of the war with Hybern, Feyre and her Court are invited to the Continent to celebrate the success of Prythian's new alliances and lavish regrowth. But the Mortal Queens have also made a special request of the High Lady- all three Archeron sisters must be present as the event's special guests of honor. Suspicions immediately arise at the request, but does the Night Court want to question motives when so much rests in the balance? ---------- Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2020 Fantasy - Prompt #31 ONC Round One Qualifier - 03.18.2020 Cover art belongs to Gabriella Bujdosó (Instagram: gabriella.bujdoso) Characters from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series belong to Sarah J. Maas Published to Wattpad 02.09.2020 Initial Draft Ongoing - last updated 02.22.2020

* 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