Opennovellacontest Stories

**For the Open Novella Contest 2025!** "If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return, the spell would be broken...for who could ever learn to lov...

53. On your honeymoon, you discover the most shocking truth about your spouse - one that could change everything. For Celia, nothing matter more in the world then marryi...

Después de perder a su novio, Agustina de treinta años se ve obligada a escribir un diario por recomendación de su psicóloga. Con un humor ácido, mucha ironía y cero gan...

Detective Michael Wulfe has solved every case that has come across his desk--with a little supernatural help. However, a recent string of unconnected murders leaves him...

In the aftermath of a long and bloody war, the daughter of a king, no longer a princess, Mussumi, has to bend the knee to the man who has defeated her father. With only...

When Naomi's brother Jorge becomes infected with the world's newest killer parasite, she takes it upon herself to continue his research and save him and the remaining hu...

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2025! Join a society of writers and take on the challenge to create a timeless 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic quest beg...

1893. In Victorian London, a world marked by deep class divisions, young worker Henry Hops stumbles upon a secret manuscript by an unknown thinker. Fascinated by the rad...

Combine a mountain filled with rugged orcs with a mysteriously arrived shop serving delicate cups of tea. Could this be the start of a revolution? **** On Orc Mountain...

"No one believes you. But you're the only one who can solve this mystery-for all of them." I only told a story. An eerie story that felt unsettlingly real. My...

The ONC journey can be challenging, but you don't have to go it alone! "ONC Promotion Room 2025" is a community-powered platform designed to lift up new novell...

A battle trading card company creates the ultimate battle game, and people of all ages flock to play the new, immersive game of monsters and tactics. When Charli finds h...

It all starts with a bouquet of roses. A renowned ballet dancer with her own studio, Lily is miserable in her spiralling career. But when she's delivered flowers by an a...

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Entering the 2025 Edition of the Open Novella Contest and looking for feedback before submissions? Join other writers who want the same! Be advised that we are ONLY acc...

A lone lighthouse keeper watches over the coast, tending to her light as the sea rages beyond. The storms are nothing new-neither is the solitude. She is content with th...

In desperate need of a lifeline, Spencer Pelekai catches a last minute flight to San Francisco where she runs straight into the arms of her missing piece. ...

Mrs. Z, the eternal guardian of the Zodiac, must reunite the twelve celestial beings after what she thinks is a cosmic rupture scatters them across history, when in real...

Twenty years ago, magic vanished from the world, presumed forever gone. Yet it still existed, tangled within its own domain, along with Naamah, its dark personification...

The werewolves of Marrowbone Village are all dying...slowly. Excruciatingly. And unfortunately for the rest of the pack, the only wolf immune to the terrible plague-the...