Onc2021 storie

An anonymous gamer, a faceless Twitch streamer, and YouTube creator, Nora Byrne goes by noidentityceptmine on the Internet. She never believed she'd get ten subscribers, but within the last two years she has reached a milestone: one million. None of her fans know who she is. She is known for her hoodies, background lights, second alto voice, and hatred for scary video games, which her audience wants to hear her react to. But ideas have disappeared. The intense pressure to give, to give, to make, to make, and upload her videos every day (sometimes two videos per day) has exceeded her limit. After a burnout and struggling with her grief, she takes a break. She knows this is her paycheck. She understands there could be a backlash. She finds a new video gamer, one who yells, high pitch voice, and his Irish accent . . . she starts to watch his videos: Séamus Reid. New perspective. Games that she hasn't played before. Will she return to making videos? Should she reach out? Maybe a new friendship? ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 🌟 Open Novella Contest 2021 ➤ Prompt #29: ❝I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.❞ - Virginia Woolf ➤ Round One, Two, Longlist, and Shortlist Qualifier ✨ ➤ Honorable Mention | All The Feels 💕 💫 Round One First Place Winner 2021 ◇ @WattpadSocialMedia | DM Me | Teen and NA reading list ◇ May 21, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Round Winners ◇ March 25, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | Longlist Part 2 ◇ May 27, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Honorable Mentions | All the Feels ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @WattpadShortStory | Strugglers ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @generalfiction | Freestyle Fiction | Miscellaneous ◇ September 8, 2021 ◇ @ProfileMentalHealth | A New Day ◇ September 30, 2021 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Shortlist ◇ March 15, 2022 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Finale In 2026, I'll publish the 2021 edition.

Malise is given one last chance to prove herself, or else, she'll be kicked out of her coven. And the world isn't safe for a witch on her own. Elvira hates witches and her only goal is to find a cure for her sister's magic. But when she gets put on trial for witchcraft herself, it changes everything she thought she knew. Enemies, and yet, they slowly find themselves bewitched by each other. This is my entry for the Open Novella Contest 2021, using the prompt: "On occasion, an accusation of witchcraft has the power to set one on a wonderful, dangerous path."

"Kidnapped by the police" Now that's something we don't hear often. Even much less "to another dimension where Cinderella could be your grandma." And Blaire Williams is fortunate enough to experience both. ~~~~~~~ "You're under arrest." I went still for at least a minute. The voice on the other side of the line coughed awkwardly. "What I meant by that is, if you don't answer the doorbell and open the goddamn door right now, then good luck replacing the latter." --- Open Novella Contest 2021

Siblings can be one of the most frustrating things in the world. On top of Emma's younger brother Blake being gung-ho for Christmas despite their father no longer being alive she also finds herself worrying about embarrassing herself in front of her crush Charlie Calvin. And what is with the two Christmas Elves who mysteriously show up in the garden shed who are dealing with sibling issues as well, let alone the others getting involved? Disclaimer - I don't own Santa Clause or 48 Christmas Wishes. This is written for ONC 2021, but the prompt I selected for this one is "when the siblings found a lost fairy in the garden shed, they decided to help her find the way way home. They were in for an adventure."

The dead typically want one of two things. Ghosts crave conversation. Spirits seek pain. My name is Bria, and I've been able to interact with the dead for as long as I can remember. Communicating with the deceased might sound like a cool gift, but let me assure you, it's not. Ghosts don't shut up, and not all specters are friendly. In fact, most of them are dangerous. Pretending the paranormal doesn't exist is far easier than talking to the shadows, so I've been avoiding the dead for years. Past experiences have led me to avoid the living too. And for a long time, I've successfully kept my distance. Until a single ghost encounter in the library ruins everything. Now a couple of my classmates know my secret. But as it turns out, they have a deadly secret of their own. Time to talk to the shadows again. _______________ This story contains profanity and violence. [ONC 2021 Shortlister]

[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the bronze giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years. Prompts chosen: (25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*) (60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate. (*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"

⭐Featured on OpenNovellaContest 2021 Round 1 Ambassador Picks|| Bea, Ali, and Sez travel far across the Pacific ocean with their parents to live with their sick Lolo who owns a mango farm in the Philippine province. The siblings--foreign to the new land, language, and customs--find it difficult to adapt to their new home. One dewy morning while following a trail of ants in Lolo's small mango shed, the younger child Sez discovers a peculiar insect and catches it, but to his surprise, the insect screams. A tiny human girl scream. But the fairy was hurt and cannot walk nor fly. With the help of her new friends, the children decide to help the fairy find her way back home before she misses her coronation and her fairy family realizes she's missing or else something bad will happen to Lolo's mango farm. ONC prompt #7 Children's Fiction

Resurrected after he's murdered, Asher Wang thinks he has a second chance at life. He can rekindle old bonds. He can fix things. He can start anew. And he will kill. Asher mirrors his murderer in an attempt to lure them out while keeping up his stellar reputation, careful to hide this change within from everyone. His plan is simple: once they take the bait, they will die by his hands. His masquerade will pit murderer against murderer and bring answers to the surface. Yet, Asher knows better than to rejoice; a second chance at life may just mean his last chance at death.

ONC 2021 In the land of Nodin, an outcast fae is used by nobility in many unsavory ways. His strange looks and bird-like wings deem his blood tainted and him unworthy of the respect paid to true fairy men. Ridiculed and sometimes tortured by royalty, his only solace can be found in the ancient fae female who raised him after being left an orphan, parentage unknown. One day, Mareck, known as Raven in the Royal Court, comes to the aid of a young human witch dying alone in the forest, and is soon plunged into love and all out war, a war that will bring him answers about his parents, a war that will change his station forever.

My first marriage was a mistake, therefore, divorce wasn't a surprise. My second marriage, with the same man?...Well, that was twice wrong. #OpenNovellaContest

Tais Montgomery has her life thrown in disarray after a near death car accident leaves her alive but takes the life of her parents. In the months that follow she has more questions than answers when she begins hearing disembodied whispers and feeling like she's being watched. That all comes to a head when the Angel of Death shows up on her doorstep dressed to kill. Sending her on the wildest hunt of her life. Entry into the Open Novella Contest. Prompt #57

** Cover done by @dricochete ** Ivette Young (Ivy to her friends and homemade savory meals) just wanted to make a difference in a conventional world with unconventional magic. After all, it was their world and magic users were just living in it! Not wanting her magic to be used frivolously, Ivy pursued a career in counseling (never mind that her degree was given in far less time than required thanks to her magical academy). The catch? Ivy only dealt with clients who fell prey to Caries, mischievous and violent manifestations that took on the form of... A VEGETABLE?! Ivy is the first and only magic user to resolve Caries by also treating the afflicted human and that meant her services were stretched way too thin. Unlike those who find exorcising Caries to be a fun hobby, Ivy has made it her life's mission to counsel those who are emotionally vulnerable to Caries so that they can continue to live their lives peacefully and in blissful ignorance of magic once again. No one wants to be haunted by their inner vegetable after all. Enter Lorra. The first client Ivy has ever encountered to refuse an exorcism. This pumpkin that has manifested (who Lorra SWEARS is not a Caries but is in fact her brother turned fruit - yet another anomaly) is clever but Ivy is determined to get to the root of this. But more important than the exorcism is the emotional wellbeing of her newfound client - acquaintance - friend? - and when it comes to who Lorra is, as a person, Ivy is about to find out that she's bitten off more than she can chew. --- Written for the Open Novella Contest 2021! Prompt #37: "Catch that chocolate thief!" And it was shouted at a pumpkin with tiny legs and hands.

I don't know my past. I won't know my future. But all I know is that I'm about save the world! _*_ After meeting with a tragic car accident, Aqsa Jameel loses all her past memories as well as finds difficulty finds retaining new ones. As time passes by, she starts to settle with her 'new' life until one day, life decides to drop another bomb on her. She gets a mysterious message that says: "Agent 23 has been activated." Um, Agent 23 who? ______ Cover design:- Sakina Yusuf Started:- February 28th 2021 Still ongoing ______

There is not just one princess in trouble in this Novella, but two. Both are in need of protection and only one can do the protecting. When Vondra meets the recently widowed Prince Sharzor, she finds herself disliking him and when they are together, she despises him all the more. For some reason, he seems to hate her and does his best to keep putting her in her 'place', believing she is either a servant or a crafty female criminal. But deeper emotions are at play in both of them and soon they will surface... This is to be a 'Novella', written for Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest and is about the seventeen-year-old princess, Vondra, who appears like an upper-class servant, certainly not a royally titled young woman. She is on the run and has no idea where she is or where she is going. She whispers, "I'm in heap of trouble and there is no way on this earth that I will go back. I don't fully believe in God, but as a last resort before I find a high cliff to throw myself off, I will pray and ask for help to become the woman my grandfather taught me to be."- He had told her, 'You're a weapon and weapons don't weep.' At the same time she wished to fulfill her Grandmother's prayers that she would 'be a woman of great wisdom, care, love, faith, hope and peace. I have placed this novella in the category 'Romance' as there was no category for 'Action-Romance' - the main romance doesn't happen right way because of the prince's loss and princess being in such trouble, she can only think of herself, of escaping and finding a normal life away from the restrictions of royalty. When the romance begins in earnest, it is intense. Enjoy.

[ONC ROUND I AMBASSADOR PICKS] "You can't burn all of the witches, dear child. Where one falls, another drinks her blood and rises." A sellsword discovers that perhaps, just perhaps, maybe the humanity she is trying to save doesn't have much humanity after all. © irya kadlec, 2021

Hayley Clarke was doing so well. Her secret was deeply buried. Nobody suspected a thing and that was how she would very much prefer to keep it. Unfortunately, things did not seem to go her way when a deadly virus began wreaking havoc upon the world. When the Mutant Hemorrhagic Fever (MHF) infected someone she held close to her heart, Hayley was forced to confront the very past she worked so hard to hide. 💫 My Open Novella Contest 2021 submission 💫 Prompt #3 "When the world's superheroes are struck down with a deadly and mysterious illness, it's time for the next generation of heroes to save the day."

Everyone wants to escape the phase, they don't like. Life is unpredictable, we just can't make plans and hop on everything to be perfect like a piece of cake. Like the impurities in metals somehow our ill habits comes out. We keep on excusing ourselves. No way I don't wanna sound so like an adult. I just wanna say thanks to my sweet 16th birthday that kinda eke out the extreme verge in me. The ups and downs are well, I am an optimist and I can take it the way, it has been laid. Let me mark some question to y'all dear readers How can you forget something which keeps on daunting you every morning and night? You wanna find a space, don't you? Then, You ESCAPE, isn't? The caps says it all. It's colossal to think how ended we are. I am Georgia, I have been dealing a lot through my teenage (having a crush on someone who's never or barely gonna give you a chance kinda nerd you can guess and also gotten up with rumours with the most reluctant stoned senior who you hated the most of the time, which I had no idea that gonna totally change my life) but I guess everyone in their teenage had something similar. Being happy resemblance is all we do even in that state when were are total miserable. Whenever you try to get away from something, more in general try to Escape, don't you get back to the same part of the map which you were ignoring. Same what happened to me, love life never entertained it just a cling to another misery. We don't really get out from the shits we are dealing with until and unless we learn the lesson. Markus is so shy and Fin whom I just see as a friend feels a hundred bunch of emotions for me. That's a general simple teenage story but uh huh it doesn't end here There comes the greatest part of the teen life THE Rumours. I ain't sabotaging my feelings but it hurts. I don't know how to respond, quiet ambition about my reputation. HEY! that wasn't the end, it was the beginning story of a good girl falling for an extremely outrageous insane guy.

[COMPLETE ON PATREON] A quiet two months in a small house at the edge of suburbia is Jazz's idea of a perfect summer. Even if the house isn't supposed to be empty. Jazz's uncle is an eccentric, self-proclaimed scientist with a tendency to wander off unannounced. His family is no stranger to this, but he's now been gone for a month, and Jazz's mother is starting to feel the stress. To keep his house in order, she gives the keys to Jazz and their best friend, Priya, who are more than happy for the summer retreat and a shot at independence in their last summer before university. As Jazz and Priya explore, they begin to find notebooks about a place that shouldn't exist: the Green Grass Weald, a world of giant bugs and oddly familiar infrastructure, viewed from a perspective that sounds bug-sized at best. They never expected it to be real. And they certainly didn't expect to open the wrong notebook and find themselves trapped in it like Jazz's uncle might be - with no known way to get back. ❖❖❖ Complete on Patreon. Entry in Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest. Round I Ambassador Pick. Longlisted. Complete. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Every year since the second Open Novella I've kept a writing journal and this is the one for this year.