Onc2026 Stories

She wakes with missing hours, a burning imprint carved into her shoulder, and no memory of who put it there. Nyxara Blackvein is an assassin who survives by control. Control over her body. Her blades. Her choices. But the mark beneath her skin has a will of its own, pulling her toward Stillreach-a city protected by an impossible shield and a power no one dares to name. Torin Cross was never part of the plan. A half-elf bard with a charming smile and secrets of his own, he's headed in the same direction for reasons that don't quite add up. When violence forces them to fight side by side, trust forms before either of them is ready for it. Whatever waits in Stillreach is already watching. ONC 2026 Prompts used. 32. Two assassins from rival organizations are sent on the same secret mission, only to realize the assignment holds a much bigger truth. 86. A wasteland hides pockets of thriving communities protected by mysterious shields. 99. You wake up with a strange mark on your skin after a late-night encounter you can barely remember, and its meaning grows more unsettling by the hour.

William Grombo is a librarian who tries to forget the fact that he has super powers, but then he meets Kaya Ravens, who is just as obsessed with super heroes as he once was. But like William, Kaya hides a secret she doesn't want anyone to know.

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

Destiny just simply couldn't love, her love was lost with the wind since her sixth birthday when her father slammed the divorce papers on her mother's face when she was in the hospital. Her boyfriend married another woman after seven years of knowing each other from childhood ,her broken....... and wounded heart couldn't love anymore .

If you're lucky enough to have it, don't take your immortality for granted. Being immortal, I'm sure you'd never imagine that a small sip from a mythical spring could be your undoing. If you should find yourself in this circumstance, I'm sure you'd look for a way to save your hard-earned legacy. Perhaps with an heir, lovingly created with the perfect woman - the love of your life. And if this perfect woman objects to your well-laid out plan, what lengths would you go to change her mind? Any and all? Bastian would.

25-year old Lee still hasn't figured out why they could not form any long-lasting relationships, even friendships for that matter. Aside from family members, which they are obligated to talk to, there is no one else Lee had even come close to calling a friend. Well, maybe except for one. -------- Submitted for ONC 2026 @OpenNovellaContest Using the following prompts : 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints in your heart. 104. While wandering in the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all. 106. After waking at 3AM to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth. All rights reserved by @J. Lee Kennedy, except for images contained in this book. Crayon drawing "Wander XIX" by @Clara Lieu. Copyright of images, including cover art, belong to their rightful owners, and are attributed accordingly, or used in accordance with the rules of Creative Commons licensing as "fair use." Altered, filtered, or edited images are copyrighted by the author in its final form.

Harit is rizzless. He is also a vampire. As far as he knows (from the tons of vampire lore he has consumed), he is nothing like his peers, or so he believes, for he hasn't come across his kind ever; he hasn't lost hope, though. Rudra the shifter (who loves frolicking around as a parrot) and Harit's immortal companion, after taking care of a fumbling, bumbling mess of a vampire for a hundred years, has made up his mind to go his separate way. However, he is sure that his friend can't fend for himself in this big, unforgiving, cruel world. He, thus, decides to take matters into his own hands or wings, depending on his form at the moment. Rudra's plan is simple: enroll his auraless friend in a course that can make him what turning into a vampire should have made him: alluring, confident, and irresistible so that he can feed himself once he is gone. Ayank Tripursundara is the best personality, speech, and drama coach in the state. He takes coal and turns it into diamond, or so his mother has heard everyone say everywhere she goes. He is rich, cultured, and handsome but slightly depressed because of his recent falling out with a friend. But as fate would have it, Ayank might just be the one Harit needs to be the best version of himself. Manik is a thousand-year-old vampire. He is also Harit's sire. Now, after a hundred years of waiting, he has found a reason to find the one that got away: Harit. Tying their lives together is the stolen melody of a heart, a century-old curse, and a hundred-year-old spell. Will Harit get his rizz? Or will he fall prey to his sire before the forgotten melody finds him? [Written for Open Novella Contest Prompt No. 81: Unalluring and bumbling, your character is the world's worst vampire. Prompt No. 37: Your hateful stare fixes on the smug bird. It has beaten you once again.] Start Date: 27th, February, 2026 By: GandalfOfSpaceAnli

Lights, camera, action. When an Alien gets curious, too curious, things go... south. Calliope is from the species Llanci, and when her fascination to mankind grows, so does her list of major crimes. Her thirst for knowledge never wavers, quickly snowballing to a dead corpse of a human in her space station. No one can find out the truth. She shifts into the humans appearance, completely replacing the human with herself and taking on its life on Earth. All she has to do is play the part, just like all those humans she sees on those pixel light boxes, and make sure no one finds out. Easy, right?

Prompt 36- Your told to choose a weapon before battle, but when you approach the table the only options laid out are musical instruments.

The metal in the beast was made to crush Na'vi resistance. The healer from the clouds will not be broken. "Text written by Aurelia Na'Vi. Concept imagery generated using Google Gemini." "This story is a work of fan fiction based on the Avatar universe created by James Cameron. The world of Pandora, the Na'vi, and associated concepts are trademarks of Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Studios. No copyright infringement is intended. My additions and telling of the story, including additions of new characters and storylines are creative brainstorms meant to bring enjoyment to myself the writer, and any readers." This story was inspired by the avatar trilogy and the #onc2026 contest. I used these prompts: Main prompt- 29 78,34, 24 were additional prompts used My word counts for the contest can be found at approximately these spots: Chapter 1, end of chapter- 2,000 words Chapter 4, end of chapter- 8,000 words

When Aspen Park goes missing at a party, everyone assumes she ran away, but her two best friends, Luna Torres and Miriam Bykowski, know that there's something more to the story and set out to uncover the truth. Open Novella Contest 2026- Prompt #51

Jackson Volkov is the King of Federal Max. After three years in solitary, he's more animal than man-a lethal weapon for the Russian Bratva with a cage-door heart and a hair-trigger temper. He doesn't talk, he doesn't negotiate, and he certainly doesn't play by the rules. Julian Thorne is a disgraced elite. A high-priced defense attorney who fell from grace and landed in the prison's administrative wing. He's polished, arrogant, and looks at Jackson like a stain on his expensive floor. He thinks he's in control because he holds the clipboard. He thinks his sharp tongue can keep the beast at bay. When Julian is assigned to Jackson's "re-entry" case, the friction between them is enough to burn the prison down. In a world where touch is a luxury and weakness is a death sentence, Jackson is about to teach the "Quiet Student" that some ledgers are written in blood-and some men are never truly caged

Lost in thoughts, Sapphire thinks it's a perfect time to take a trip to her families old estate in the woods. Will she survive it, or will she crumble. This my entry for the 2026 ONC Contest. Please support and add it to your library if you like it. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.💗

For the open novella contest, this is a story about a young girl who wakes up in the small town of Star Dew. The scenery is nice. The town's people are friendly. But she has no memories of how she got there. And things get surreal when she tries to leave town but is looped back in. Her only clue is a purple iris that glows in her dreams.

Rivals. Royalty. Brothers. An ailing King gives the two wayward princes a choice. Learn to work together, or watch as their Kingdom falls to ashes and flames under the fury of the Great Dragon. Wattpad Open Novella Contest 2026 Participating Story #4 in Opennovellacontest2026 15/03/2026 #1 in contestentry 16/03/2026 #1 in wattpadcompetition 15/03/2026 #3 in onc26 19/03/2026

Every ten thousand years, a celestial flower blooms. Though all beings in the nine realms fight to obtain it, only the most powerful one will have the right to pluck it. And even then, the flower may choose another. After two hundred years of quiet cultivation with her master, Yin Wan Ling suddenly finds herself competing for dominance amongst the other immortals. But her only interest in the flower is to help learn the identity of the mysterious figure who plagues her dreams. Every night, she runs toward a man swathed in mist and fog. Every night she yearns for him. But his face remains shrouded. Until one night, she finally sees his face...right before he stabs her in the heart.

What would you do if you woke up one day to find the whole world frozen? Every person, car, plant, animal - birds suspended mid flight, people mid step, cars at a complete standstill on usually busy highways. When Nate wakes up in a seemingly ordinary Tuesday he is met with these scenes of complete confusion. He is left alone to question why only he can move? Why the planet is on pause all of a sudden? And how it can be fixed?

Maya Kingston has one rule this year: don't mess up. After a scandal nearly destroys her future, she transfers to Kimbell University determined to prove she's more than the reckless twin living in her brother's shadow. If she can raise her grades and keep her head down, her father might finally give her a place in the family empire. There's just one problem. Adam Lockhart. Brilliant. Isolated. An outcast. He's the rough among the diamonds and they always remind him. When the university assigns him as her tutor, Adam makes one thing clear: he doesn't tutor Kingstons. Maya quickly learns that at Kimbell, last names carry weight and some grudges run deeper than she ever imagined. Forced into each other's orbit, Maya and Adam collide in a war of pride, secrets, and dangerous attraction. Because the more she tries to prove she's changed, the more she realises that the past isn't done with her. And Adam might be the one person who won't let her forget it. He's broken in ways no one can see, and she's far too beautiful for him to scar Main Prompt: Prompt 46: We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you. Other: Prompt 78: You begin to realise nothing is quite what it seems. *** Jedayo. ©2026.

" Once becoming a hero, never give up what's your potential" Yuna Suzuki, an ordinary girl who lives in a cities in Japan, every spring a flower blooms; until everything changed when an unfamiliar flower bloomed which created a portal to another world, She expected to die, but instead she was in a world where There's a power called a Quirk, which she didn't know, until she met a curly green haired with freckles name Izuku Midoriya, who was once Quirkless, until he inherited the One For All, what she didn't know that the world she entered, her quirk is to control can fire . She learnt that going to U.A will help her become a hero she always dreamt about. What happens when Suzuki faces real villains? Will She and Class 1A defeat them? Will she achieve her dreams and goals? (prompt 2 The first flower to bloom in spring isn't just a sign of the season changing. It's a portal. When you touch it, you're transported into a magical world you never knew existed. prompt 9 There's a knock on your door, and when you open it, your favorite animated character is standing there.)

Professor Edward Keane has spent his life teaching literature at Havenbrook University. When his student, Tiana Henderson, asks him to review her mystery manuscript, he agrees without hesitation. As Edward reads through the draft, certain details begin to feel uncomfortably familiar, blurring the line between imagination and reality. What begins as a simple review soon becomes something Edward cannot ignore. *** THE FINAL DRAFT: STORIES DON'T FORGET THEIR AUTHORS #OpenNovellaContest2026 #ONC2026 Prompt #109