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Everyone can read minds except for Ethan Langdon. And Ethan Langdon has the dumbest (and cutest!) thoughts Lukas Hoffmann has ever heard. ____ Lukas Hoffman's life in Brambleburg is about as boring as you'd expect for a town where everyone can read minds. He's used to his routine of dusting the LPs at the record store where he works and helping out his grandma around the house. Nothing in Brambleburg changes. No one in Brambleburg changes. Until Ethan Langdon stumbles in with the soggy remnants of a paper map, asking for the quickest route to Berlin. Ethan, it turns out, doesn't have telepathy, and as aggravatingly inane as his thoughts are, Lukas hasn't felt the excitement of meeting a stranger since.... well, ever. And the more Lukas listens, the more he starts enjoying Ethan's cute thoughts about life, the universe, and Lukas's dimples. ____ Might bring to mind: "Cherry Magic" but set in a fictive European town where everyone except the love interest can read minds. ____ Written for the Open Novella Contest 2024 using prompts 8, 75, 82, and 85. 8. You start singing along to a movie soundtrack late at night forgetting that your window is open. Someone from the outside starts singing with you. 75. You awake in the middle of the night to a voice saying loudly "May the force be with you..." 82. You wake up on a seemingly ordinary day to discover that your thoughts are not private. There is someone else in your head with you. 85. "If you do that again, I'll throw you out that freaking window. What are you doing?" "Checking how high the drop is to see if it's worth it."

~The Wattys 2025 Shortlist~ ~The Ambys 2025 Grand Favourite~ ~ONC 2024 Honourable Mention~ ~~~ Alaric, the King of Silmarea, recently married to his beloved husband, needs an heir of his own blood to secure the throne. With the help of Emrys, his court magician and best friend, he recalls his youthful escapades and discovers a daughter he once had with a woman he had loved in The World Beyond The Stones (our world). He sends an unlikely but trusted trio on a quest to find her and bring her home-- a brooding dragon shifter and Highlander who owes him a favor, a dashing elf whom he loves like the son he never had, and a loyal, kindhearted dwarf, the elf's best friend. Alaric, the last scion of the old gods, weary of ruling the country and ready to retire and enjoy his love life, doesn't know that this quest will bring much more than he ever bargained for, setting in motion events plotted by the destiny that will challenge his kingdom and legacy.

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[Disclaimer: This book is a first draft and is currently on hold as it's in the process of transitioning to a full novel.] How many friends do you have? When a stray thought forces Will Marte to notice the oddities in his everyday life, what follows is a reflection on the friendly relationships he has and had and a contemplation on the question: what is a friend? Having had an unconventional upbringing, he still feels its effects as an adult. Now, everyone around him is aging normally in their conventional life, and he doesn't know how to be rather than to seem. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Published in February 2024 for Open Novella Contest 2024 Copyright © by CrownedMadness (Maddy Alson) 2024

Damian's family are all superheroes, with all three of his older brothers being well known within the superhero community which means they're often saving Gotham and the off shoots to the city. Then, one day, to spend time with them, Damian decides the route is to become a villain called Rouge George and life becomes more interesting, or so Damian thinks. Disclaimer - I don't own Young Justice. This is one of my ONC projects for this year. The prompt I am using is prompt eighty-seven, "You come from a family of highly respected heroes. All three of your big brothers are known as powerhouses, but you rarely see them since they're always saving the city. One day you realise that the only way to see all of your brothers is to become a villain. Turns out you're better at it than you thought, and family dinners suddenly become the most amusing time of day." For obvious reasons, that was a difficult one to pass up, but to make it work I didn't just go with the character's as is, but instead decided to go AU with Jason not becoming Red Hood in this and bringing Damian home to Wayne manor at a much earlier age which is what the first few chapters of the novella will cover as this will be important later on. And then the fun begins.

Stories say that the Witch rained curses down on Devil's Corner, that she made the woods grow strange and wild, made shadows leap and dance and snatch up stray children for supper. In a small town on the edge of a dangerous forest, stories are never in short supply, and they are held dearer than truth. Thea lost her hand to the things that live in the wood, and she can't shake loose the voice that lured her there. But her Pa fed her tales of magic and heroes, and promises that even the darkest things have hearts. When her brother is attacked by the Witch's gruesome creations, Thea breaks into her cottage, determined to save him from a fate she knows all to well. In Devil's Corner, stories are true, and Thea knows the greatest one of all: the only way to break a curse, is to kill the witch. --- COMPLETE - 20,000 words Written for Wattpad's 2024 Open Novella Contest. ONC 2024 SHORTLISTER 2025 AMBY AWARDS ROUND 3 QUALIFIER

[ONC 2024 Round 2 Ambassador's Pick & Longlister] Zjahn Zjmit, AKA Sean Smith, AKA Psycona. Alien refugee from a destroyed world. Peacemaker. Superhero. The life of a superhero isn't everything Psycona thought it would be. He feels unappreciated, undervalued, and sits in the shadow of other heroes. Heroes that he could beat with little trouble. Though he remains committed to the life of a hero, something is missing. When the world's greatest hero, Principle, must go off-world to save his loved one, Psycona takes the opportunity to prove to the world that he is its greatest hero. All he needs is a villain only he can defeat. As a plan formulates, Psycona will become the world's greatest hero, even if he has to become its greatest villain to do it. ONC 2024 - Based on Prompt 49 - Being a superhero is just too boring. Let's be a villain! Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture and text through Logokit

Princess Addyson of the Angium finds herself in trouble. On the night of the ball, her Father King Roland, wound up dead. Her stepmother, Andrea, witnessed the scene. Her stepsisters, Amanda and Cassandra, blame her for his demise. She's exiled from her own kingdom as a criminal. The magic from the kingdom is gone, gray and rotten. Andrea has taken over, leaving her in charge. There's only one way to fix this: with a vial of blood she collected, help from her godmother in the enchanted forest, she could be a way to bring him back to save the kingdom. Prompt #36: "fairytales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse. Prompt #48: The curse of magic is that for every reward, there is a great loss. For every spell that goes right, there is something else- in the real, natural world- that goes terribly wrong. Nature loves its balance. (main prompt)

King Uther of Forland is old and failing. His grandson and heir, Prince Richard, lives the good life: anything that gives him an adrenaline rush. He gives cursory attention to his duties and means to keep living the life he enjoys. The prosperous Duchy of Westmere can only be inherited by a male. The Duke of Westmere, Prince Sean, despises the Royal Family for shunning his parents when his father married a commoner they called unacceptable. Richard dies unexpectedly. Sean, now King against everyone's wishes, is the one man who can keep the Kingdom together. And he wants to break Forland in two. With no choice but Sean, the Royal Family and Government plot to keep Sean in line by marrying him to a cousin. He has other plans for his country and his heart. He wants to marry Isobel, twice-divorced, beautiful, scandalous and ambitious. She wants the advantages of being Queen. Sean is forced to meet any number of hopeful young women but plays the field. He decides to force the Family and Government to allow him to marry Isobel by selecting the least suitable girlfriend he can find. Pam is a clerical temp, a foreigner, and the opposite of princess material. She's no Cinderella, beautiful under her rags, but a tired young woman who lives paycheck to paycheck. They have nothing in common. Sean tries to hire her to pretend to be his girlfriend. She says it is deceitful. Her mother's financial troubles lead her to accept. He arranges generous compensation for her help that will relieve her financial quandary if she can make Isobel look good. Their relationship is platonic despite appearances. He starts to depend on Pam more and more. He misses her when she is away. Sean is pushed to choose his cousin by the Government, Isobel by his desires and Pam by his heart. The Family demands he marry his cousin and the Government begins to favor Pam. She wants to return to the US. Sean must choose between his heart and his country or find a way to unite them.

All her life, Idilia believed she was the strongest witch among her classmates. From a young age, she developed potions and spells that could make her worst enemies beg for mercy. She roamed the halls of Calathea Academy with her head held high. Until one day, she is wrapped up in the mysterious disappearance of the Academy's renowned professor. Will Idilia be able to clear her name and find the missing sorceress? Or will she crumble under the dark truth behind Calathea's rose-tinted glasses?

Co-written by: @MisfitRonnie and @NiaHoutson ✨ONC 2024 Long-list Star✨ Mia Richardson, a quiet woman who enjoys her mundane routine, comes face to face with a new world to tackle as reality and fantasy clash. Mia and her friend, Skylar, learn to take on the new world in different ways. But after a run in with a charismatic stranger, Mia finds herself tackling the world in a way she never thought possible.

(ONC 2024 Longlisted) Not all fairy tales have happy endings, which Arthur is about to discover in a big way. After an especially bad day of work, he makes a wish on a star that all of the magical stories his Nana used to tell him when he was a boy were real. Life in the mundane everyday world might not always be great, but fairy tales might not be all they're cracked up to be either. Can Arthur get things back to normal or is he going to be stuck in a fractured fairy tale world (not so) happily ever after?

Amesh is the fourth and youngest child of the Suriname family, a family of well known superheroes that protect not only their world but others that surround it. While his siblings are out saving the world, Amesh is at home playing Mango Life. Unlike his siblings, Amesh has no interest in being the hero of the story, he prefers to be normal. And like all normal teenage boys he locks himself in his room and plays video games all day and night, only to come out when the dinner bell rings. The only family member you don't want to piss off is Momma Suriname, and dinner is always reserved for family meal time. It was a normal family dinner time, the Powerhouses were relaying their adventures of the day, Father and Momma Suriname gleamed at the tales, and Amesh drank his strawberry mango smoothie. That was until the tales became a little too similar to the gameplay Amesh had experienced earlier that day. ======== Written for ONC 2024 Main Prompt: 50 Sub Prompts: 49, 87 Fun Fact: Amesh means "Sweet like a Mango"

Aarna Rupa was dead, but not really. -- Waking up in the past after dying of cancer, Aarna found herself living in the year 3247 BCE--more than five thousand years ago, in the civilised land of India. After taking an oath to not disrupt their peace with her information about the 21st century CE, she had decided to live a quiet life, but that was until she stumbled upon a wide-eyed boy with dark skin--Madhava. But Madhava was not just any nineteen-year-old. He was a nineteen-year-old god.

Storms tended to bring change. Solving Neridia's first ever murder case wasn't exactly what Nemera had in mind. The overworked yet semi-retired bartender had seen her fair share of death and destruction within a world full of dragons and demons. But when Aidari Rainheart, a young Stormspell elf is accused of murdering one of her own, Nemera is dragged in to follow in her former Master's footsteps. Whether she liked it or not. The role of the Night Rider is a heavy burden to carry and without the usual comforts of following others' lead, Nemera finds herself drawn to secrets hidden deep within the Brink. But nothing is ever that easy when elves are involved and much like a good mead, the truth starts to get a lot murkier the more she delves in. Especially when Aidari turns out to be hiding far more than any elf in Neridia. Caught between a peace treaty, the aftermath of war and a complicated relationship with a happy go lucky pyro spirit things go from bad to worse when Nemera learns who exactly the victims are. Political coups turn into a full on power vacuum and how poisoning a dragon could lead to the murder of two of the most prominent elves in history. After all, killing an immortal race had never been done before. Somehow, Nemera has to learn to put aside her biases, her booze and most importantly, her bad mood to help those truly in need and maybe get a free tip at the end of the day. With a healthy dose of wit and a sobering reminder of what every Traited faces, perhaps her Master's last wish was for her to become something more than being a drop in the barrel.

Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories she's been told couldn't be further from the truth. When Margaret Bolton, a potential match for Jacob, arrives at the house for a visit, Lily finds herself entangled in an affair far more complex than it seems. Based on Prompt 28: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

LONGLISTED ONC 2024 Open Novella contest 🏆 Horror. Courtesy of ONC2024 Novella Contest LONGLISTED Natto Watt 2024🏆 °*° Every tick-tock that counts can cost your life, and as each door shuts don't look behind. At Arielline's first day in her first job she discovers that the library she will be working in is very haunted, and there is more to it. The twelve locks of Twelve Locks Valley are tangled to her. Every wrong door is leather, and any wrong timing can make her part of of the ghost community. ONC 2024 Prompt 97 It is your first day at your first job, and you discover that the library you'll be working in is very haunted. 1st place best cover award winner🥇 1st place horror award winner in the happiness awards. 🥇

◇ONC 2024◇ Three secrets. Two strangers. One key. ✦✧✦✧✦✧✦ In a world of magic known as remedies and the powerful yet cryptic Stones that grant them, miracles are not unheard of. And neither are tragedies. Esme can't begin to describe what happened to her village the day it was struck by a devastation, inexplicable disasters occuring all throughout the country, only that she witnessed the glowing eyes of the man who single-handed saved everything and the powerful remedy he used to do so. She never would have imagined that she would possess that same ability. Or what it would cost her. Years later, the land of Ranmos finds itself struck by devastation after detestation, and The Society's supposed lack of help is another tragedy prompting people to take action themselves. In an effort to become someone who can heal this broken world, and her own painful past, Esme finds herself on the run before being joined by two strangers. As Esme is determined to find the man who healed her village and learn more about the strange remedy that connects them, she finds that the greatest darkness might lay in the hearts of the very people she seeks to save.

Scottish highlands, winter, 1691. A new king sits on the throne, and the clan chieftains have been given an ultimatum: swear their allegiance to the crown or face the dire consequences. The time remaining to take the oath is dwindling, but the MacDonalds of Glencoe are already pledged to the old king. As the snow starts to fall and friends become indistinguishable from foe, will this family be able to survive through the cruelty of these changing times?

ONC Novella. A little of something I've thought about. Promt no. 31. Total word count: 20015