Opennovella Stories

(Book 4) Shortlisted for ONC 2023! Not all secrets go to their graves. A former librarian's ghost haunts Everett Pepperheart, pleading with him to solve her murder. Th...

The Fire Nation understands the need for a male heir to Crown Prince Iroh after the death of his son Lu Ten, yet they're far from thrilled with the choice being Prince Z...

Final Chapters Coming Soon! A kingdom ruled by a king hiding a dark secret becomes the target of a vengeful sorcerer when he transforms the princess into a clockwork aut...

Katara dislikes being confined to the home of her father, the head chieftain of the Southern Water Tribe, after her mother's death and eventually sneaks out in disguise...

The library is haunted., not to mention the whole school That much Lindsey Eden figures out on his first day as he listens carefully to the students gossiping about the...

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...

No more Reach, mission successful.... right? Realization slapped Bart in the face, his perfect facade of a chipper-speedster-tourist tearing at its seams. He hadn't allo...

Can Regulus' words speak louder than his brother's actions? There are many times Regulus doubts his ability to get through to his older brother who is unwilling to liste...

A dragon, a dwarf and an elf walk into a bar... But only because that bar is on their way to tracking down the lost heir in a last-ditch quest to save the kingdom from a...

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

When he was sixteen, Lu Ten thought the Fire Nation would change the world. At age thirty, he realized it wasn't the world that needed changing, right at the same time s...

A boy with a fatal secret. A prince desperate to protect his people. A princess fighting for freedom. And they will do whatever it takes. In a world of secrets, betrayal...

In a post-pandemic world where class and privilege are determined by immunity status, Seraphine, Isolde, Beck and Griffin are about to find out what they're made of. Wh...

When a teenage Beauty Queen goes missing, a small town is torn apart with worry and grief. But as time and the investigation progress, several ugly truths are revealed. ...

[Open Novella Contest 2021] While on a stroll, Prince Charlie of Randerville ran into a mysterious woman that would change his life forever. Little did he know, she was...

Sapphire's mournful howls of despair and grief pierced through the battlefield between her fits of hopeless sobbing. It was the sound of heart being shattered into a tho...

There once existed a weapon, a weapon so great it was only discussed in whispers. Some would say it was a weapon of mass destruction, an evil force only wielded by the c...

Secrets, sadness, and summer. Three things that converge on Emmie Bridges. She always knew that there was something different about her mother, but when more mysteries a...

There's an unspoken rule on the island of Norholm, whose shores are haunted by sea nymphs that dwell deep beneath the ocean and only surface twice a year when the moon g...