Onc2026 Stories

Nam Min Joon is self-centered, demanding, and currently... homeless. After a disastrous mix of bad press and tax evasion rumors sends Nam Corp's stock into a tailspin, Min Joon is left penniless. Enter Bo Young, the assistant who knows his coffee order, his schedule, and now, his lack of a backup plan. Out of pity, she offers him a place to stay for seven days. But as "one week" stretches on, the corporate boundaries begin to blur. Bo Young is determined to restore Min Joon to his former glory just so she can finally have her apartment back and get some sleepㅡbut the more time they spend in close quarters, the more she realizes she might not want him to leave. #onc2026 prompt 48

❝ I loved mafia novels.I worshipped the mafia king.So why did I wake up as the girl he hates the most? ❞ Evelyn Carter spent her life obsessed with mafia books- cold, dangerous men, And him-the ruthless mafia king she called her fictional husband. Until one day, she wakes up inside her favorite novel. At first, she's thrilled. She knows the plot.She knows the ending.She knows him. But then reality hits. She isn't the heroine. She is the villainess!! The daughter of his sworn enemy! "I would've died for him. Now, he's actually going to kill me." ---------- Vincent Ashford has ruled the underworld with a heart carved out by blood. The night his family died, the world lost its color-and revenge became his only reason to breathe. He has waited years to destroy his enemy. And when he finally meets the enemy's daughter, hatred should be effortless. But she ruins everything. She Murmurs strange things under her breath, She acts out of place. She avoids him... yet never truly looks away. Vincent tells himself she's a mistake that needs to be erased. Yet his eyes follow her. His thoughts linger. His patience thins. And slowly, dangerously, revenge takes a new shape. Because the girl he was meant to hate has become the only thing he can't stop watching... "You're looking at me like I'm a saint instead of your executioner... tell me, Little Sin, are you actually begging for death, or are you just that far gone?" ❌ DO NOT COPY ❌ I CLAIM THIS BOOK AS MINE SO BETTER HANDS OFF DARLING IF YOU LIKE IT THEN DONT FORGET TO SHOW SOME LOVE.

When her office burns down an editor must work together with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered. It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential. What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other. An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40. THIS NOVEL IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD AND INKITT. IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, PLEASE INFORM THE AUTHOR VIA WATTPAD, AS YOU MAY BE READING FROM A MIRROR SITE WHERE IT HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED AND YOUR DEVICE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO A MALWARE ATTACK.

Edmund comes to the remote village of Black Thickett to escape the life grief has carved out of him. He wants silence. Distance. A place where memories can't follow. But Black Thickett is wrong in quiet, unsettling ways. The broken road becomes perfectly smooth the moment he crosses the boundary. The cottages are too neat, too deliberate. And on a noticeboard full of dry flyers, only one poster is wet. A missing boy, smiling as if he doesn't know he's lost. The villagers won't talk about the disappearances. The forest at the edge of the village seems to breathe, and the deeper Edmund goes, the calmer he feels... dangerously calm. The forest can quiet his pain. It can ease his grief. It can make him forget. But not everything that heals you wants you to survive. Welcome to Black Thickett, where you'll find my entry into the ONC 2026.

En una ciudad donde los hombres arriesgan todo por pactar con dragones, Junia siempre supo que su hermano seguiría el mismo camino que su padre: uno del que pocos regresan. Cuando su hermano desaparece tras partir al castillo del gran dragón Zeros, ella decide romper las reglas que han mantenido a las mujeres al margen del poder y va en su búsqueda. Al llegar, descubrirá que el líder del clan Zarco no es quién promete ser. Junia se verá enfrentada a secretos que podrían desestabilizar el equilibrio que ha mantenido en paz a la ciudad durante los últimos años, teniendo que elegir entre el equilibrio o seguir en la búsqueda de su hermano. En un mundo donde los pactos prometen poder a cambio de un precio incierto, Junia deberá decidir hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para salvar a sus seres queridos... y qué está dispuesta a sacrificar cuando el fuego de los dragones deja de ser protección y se convierte en amenaza.

The daughter of the most powerful priestess is nothing like her mother. The Oracle of Delphi has always been the most influential and powerful woman in Greece. But Pythia is dying inside everytime she channels the god Apollo because she is the only one who knows that all of the prophesies are false. Until one day a stranger comes seeking their fate and Pythia gives them a very different kind of answer.

In 1897, Charlotte Moreau has been in an abusive marriage for years and the only solace she has is in the quiet moments when her husband and children are asleep. She often spends time by the lake and usually finds it a place of solace until one day when she receives a message in a bottle from her former best friend Marie who passed away. She encounters a friend of her acquaintance, Julien Deroche, a man she despises. She begins to argue with him, telling him to leave her alone. She begins to argue with him, telling him vicious things and to turn the other way when they cross paths. When she goes to the woods to find a new place to escape from her daily hell, she encounters Julien and must come to terms with what happened to Marie because Julien knows the truth. And because of their connection to Marie, she begins to soften toward him until she begins seeing him every day in this isolated place. But then Charlotte realizes that she has fallen desperately in love with him. And her husband begins to suspect something when she has dirt on her dress nearly every day. She must choose between her heart and her duty to her husband and children.

In East Texas, you're expected to come back with pie, gossip, or maybe a good story. Just not blood on your hands. Briar brought home a Frenchman, a secret, and more trouble than her mama's prayers could fix. Prompt 51: "While in search of a missing friend, you accidentally kidnap the most feared crime lord." #ONC2026 (Open Novella Contest 2026)

Far away, in a foreign country, Sonda is bitten by a dark vampire on a day that was meant to be a celebration. Too young to be allowed to exist, she is destined to be destroyed when a long-lost relative who, was also changed, intervenes to protect her until she matures, and to keep her from succumbing to the darkness that wants to take over her soul.

After a year spent healing at St. Francis Mental Hospital, Neillah must piece together the life she was forced to leave behind without getting caught. ⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂ ⠂⠄⠄⠂☆ When Neillah Thomas is released back into society she expects her family and friends to have moved on--not believe she's dead. Convinced it was for the best, her mother assures her temporary grief was better than long drawn hardship that could only end in pain, keeping her wellbeing a secret from everyone, but also single-handedly cutting off Neillah's entire support system. Sworn to secrecy, she attends college at her dream school only to find her former friend group in shambles. Between the cold stares, scathing retorts, and literal evasion, Neillah is shocked to find her first crush is a loner and that hot-headed best friend of hers? He seems to be staring in her direction a little too long. Clinging to her promise to remain out of sight, Neillah stubbornly fights for the closure they all deserve and answers she never got, no matter the cost. | An Open Novella Contest Entry | | Cover by the Amazing @Caralogues |

At eighteen, she begins dreaming about a boy she has never met-yet somehow knows by heart. In her dreams, he feels like her missing half, someone who understands her in ways no one else ever has. She wakes up every morning wondering if he's real... or just a creation of her lonely imagination. Then one day, she spills her coffee on a stranger. Late, stressed, and embarrassed, she expects the moment to ruin her day. Instead, it becomes the beginning of something unexpected. The boy she drenched in coffee is kind, funny, and strangely familiar. Too familiar. As their awkward meeting turns into friendship, and friendship slowly turns into something deeper, she starts noticing unsettling similarities between him and the boy from her dreams. The same smile. The same voice. The same way he looks at her like he's always known her. With every shared laugh and late-night conversation, the line between dreams and reality begins to blur. Was their meeting just an accident? Or was fate slowly guiding them toward each other all along? And when love begins to bloom, she must face the truth- Some souls are destined to meet... long before they ever touch.

𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓. ~•~★~•~ Avyxia Kleymor's peaceful life was shattered when an elvin assassin murdered her parents before her very eyes. Kneeling in a pool of her mother's blood, Avyxia vowed to find the person who took everything from her. Rage and sorrow consumed her young heart as her life gained a new and horrible purpose: vengeance at any cost. ~•~ 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩: 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧, 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚. ★OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 ★Cover art not by me ★Thanks for reading! «Tales Of Yvenia» ~•~★~•~

Some loves don't end. They just go silent. Between "I have to" and "I love you," something shifts. And sometimes- without warning- you find yourself wondering: will what they felt ever find its way back? Athens keeps breathing. The air still smells like jasmine. But time doesn't move forward. It circles. A forgotten photo. A single comment. And suddenly, everything that was buried starts breathing again. Not as memory. As unfinished life. Andreas learned silence to survive. Charoula walked through fire - and stayed standing. Two people on the same avenue, in different lanes. Athens, at night. Bouzoukia. Loss. Second chances. And a love that refuses to end. ✍️ Odysseas Nostos #odysseasnostos #athens #love #memory #drama #relationships #secondchance #nostalgia

Seventeen-year-old Aemilia, an orphan raised at a secretive Scottish academy, becomes obsessed with an ancient arch hidden in the nearby woods. When she deciphers its forgotten inscription, it opens a portal to a magical medieval kingdom. There she meets Brian, a young prince she cannot forget. Back home, the young man she had been enamoured of for years, Francis, finally returns her affection-but Aemilia's heart is divided between two worlds. As she continues crossing the portal, Brian's hidden destiny awakens: he is a dragon shifter whose power threatens both realms. When he is declared an enemy, Aemilia must choose-destroy the dragon to save her world, or protect the boy she loves. My entry for the ONC 2026.

"I won't marry you," I told her plainly. "I know," she said in a sing-song voice. "I'm not going to have sex with you or get you pregnant." "Ugh, I know," she said, rolling her eyes. "Good." - Klaus Damson loved once, and it cost him everything. Now broken, missing a leg, and drowning in alcohol, he's convinced his story is over... until the past comes knocking. Old wounds reopen. Familiar faces return. And a possible arranged marriage threatens to change everything. But then, there is more at play, secrets that when Damson finds out could burn even more bridges and this time, it's not only him who is going to get hurt. Damson has a choice when he knows of these secrets. Would he burn the bridge or let it stand so no one else gets hurt? Join me as I explore the different Shades of Klaus Damson. P.S: If you stumbled upon this book, this is a Sequel to my first book 'Library boy' but it can also be read as a stand alone.

Kitchen maid Rima wakes up chained in a cave as a sacrifice to the Dread Dragon Cyclone, along with two goats and gold and gems as tribute. If she escapes, the Guardian of Beltonia will pay a grand reward for her return, dead or alive. Cyclone arrives late and wants more than making her a meal. They flee, but Sir Roger Tallego, the knight stuck with the fatal quest to destroy the dragon, and his squires are after them. They must quest until Sir Roger succeeds or dies honorably, true to his chivalric code. Sir Roger drinks too much since the death of his wife. His squires, Beau and Franz, and his page, Pen, keep perilous secrets. But Roger honors the quest. Prompt 4: You discover that the dragon everyone fears is in danger, and you are the only one who can save it from the knight sworn to save it.

Abrie Warren didn't go to the Portland synagogue wedding looking for anything life‑changing - until Judd Nelson walked in wearing sunglasses indoors and staring at her like she'd rewritten his script. What follows pulls her into the warm chaos of his sisters, his unpredictable actor friends, and a chemistry that unfolds with the slow‑burn tension of a 90s indie film.

Beckett begins to fall for his childhood best friend but refuses to admit it to himself or anyone else. Scared to loose him, Beckett acts as if everything is normal and convinces himself it's all in his head.

The rowdy troublemaker and the quiet, almost-invisible nerd. The retired professional athlete and the burnt out professor. Everyone hides their true intentions, and the only way to figure someone out is to peek at their heart. Some silently hope for better days. Some journal. Some send texts to no one in particular. But Kato Minori makes a wish from the bottom of her heart that startles her when it comes true.

The planet's terraforming is nearly complete, but Dr Sotoria needs to get through the core to finish else all their effort will be worthless. But what is this strange pollen that comes out? And what are these blue flowers? Why does Sotoria keep dreaming of rabbits when they are long extinct on a home they no longer live on? Cover Art by Emma Wilson