Opennovellacontest2019 Stories

OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST ENTRY A missing little sister. A mysterious neighbor. Trails of red petals. A confused man. Will we ever find the truth?

[COMPLETED] He's a top notch lawyer. His radio show is the reason men think they are mini-gods. His listeners say he's a wise counsellor, his friends know it's a revenge mission, his parents just want a grand child. Owing to two failed marriages, he wants nothing more than a baby mama. His name is Max, their names are bitches. ~~~ She's a relationship coach. She's the reason many marriages are still standing. Her clients think she's a saviour, her friends knows she's in pain, her family say she's cursed. She's left to rotate the bad guys since the good ones are been taking, curtsey of her advice. Her name is Tania, their names are beasts. ~~~ LIDP tells the tale of two individuals bound by a thin connection, separated by opposing ideas. © Chisom Vincent 2019 #7 - Lawsuit 6/5/19

Ryo stopped appearing in Japan or anywhere else as the pop idol Doragonhanata, but decides to return when the world learns upon Sam's return of the Galra threat to help boost morale. He finds himself met with questions regarding why he disappeared from the public eye. One of the sisters of the missing cadets, Rachel, personally doubts his motivations, yet feels he wouldn't understand how she feels about having a family somewhere in the universe fighting the Galra. (AU) Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender. Note - I wrote this for the Open Novella 2019. The prompt is General Fiction 7: Public Disappearance.

The unexpected occurrence of the second blood moon in the land of Uria had brought multiple interpretations. But for Awen Lockhart, it consisted of few significant meanings. One, all shrine priestess are obliged to pray at the temple of Aumanda, the Goddess of the sun, until the blood moon peacefully pass. Second, the sign from heavenly beings, her one-way ticket to get away from the life of priesthood without being noticed. Her escape plan is long overdue, and tonight is her only chance. However, there is one thing Awen fails to realize. The Dark Lord also has plans for tonight.

Tai and Ken find themselves involved in events which involve the colliding of two worlds, secrets one of the two would rather have left in the dark, but the return of an old friend along with the old friend's memories. Of course, the Digidestioned and Digitamers find themselves clashing as their worlds merge. Disclaimer - I don't own Digimon. Note - This is written for Open Novella 2019. The prompt is Suspense 8: Mystery Man.

Kyle recounts the fails and victories in his life. Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2019. The contest is to write a 20,000 word novella in three months. More about it can be found on the Open Novella Contest account. Prompt: General Fiction #2: Against an Obstacle

When Emily wakes up in a hospitalbed after a traffic accident, she can't remember anything from her life before that. Her friends and her dad tell her things, but nothing rings a bell. Then they tell her about the Others - a savage race of people living on the other side of the forest. People with strange, magical powers. As Emily discovers more and more about her old life, she also finds out that people close to her have been lying to her. Can she even trust her own past? Why does she have a photo of an Other boy hidden under her bed? She'll need her memory back to know the truth. Prequel to The Atrament series (Can be read separately). Cover by the fabulous @KatySantiago08.

||2019 ONC Ambassador Picks Reading List Selection|| Orphaned as an infant and raised by a troupe of Renaissance Faire actors, Quadir Janszoon is haunted by the past. Six days before his 25th birthday, spectral riders of the Bás Anáil gallop into Central Park in an attempt to murder him and claim the moire, a divine essence in his blood. Born to an ancient line of guardians, warriors known as the Dakaari, Quadir is thrust into a world of magic, prejudice, and political intrigue. With only his wits and his mother's ith'nael sword, he must fight for his life against a powerful, hidden foe sworn to kill him, ending the sacred bloodline of his family forever. <<<WINNER-BEST FANTASY-The Novella Awards 2020>>>

It's a Sunday night just after the last show of Hamilton for the week. Cast members Nellie, Isabelle and Audrey are ready to go back to their apartment to get rest for the upcoming week. Little did they know, someone had other plans. After a recent killing spree, Angelica Schuyler Church makes the girls travel back into her time to figure out the murder before it's too late.

I swear to you, I don't know what it's bound in, either. I definitely don't know what the ink is. What I do know, is that it used to be Great-great-great-great-great-great grandpa Agustus Dodge's, and that whatever is written in it is DEFINITELY not English. Cred to @rubamaheen1 for the cover!

Kirashi Eikóna (referred to as Gomi by family and captors), is a young man with no sense of direction in his life. Believing that anything was better than living with his father, he happily complied when he was sold off to a team of scientists. What he was yet to realize was that the most gruesome fate awaited him. {Specifically written for ONC} [Prompt used - Body Mods]

The year is 2113, and almost all the world's problems have been single-handedly solved with a shocking breakthrough - of how to store and transfer souls. At a certain price, anybody can buy a prolonged life, or a never-hungering body, or eternal happiness. However, despite the prosperity of the world as a whole, only a few rich enough can afford extra souls for themselves. And Owen Milano, left with nothing but a bare minimum of resources and his young daughter, can only dream of such things. Owen is stricken to discover that his daughter has fallen to a disease that will kill her in a short period of time. Not willing to lose anything more, Owen sees no other choice but to steal a soul to preserve his daughter's life. But it appears that the souls have a much darker truth behind it... [Submitted for ONC 2019] [Prompt: SUSPENSE FICTION #7, Soul Sickness] [Shortlisted!!] Cover by the amazing @hayakiu

The war against vampires and the disease that creates them is unlike any other humanity has ever faced. With one bite, people are transformed into enemy combatants. No matter how loyal, how well-trained, or how disciplined someone is, the result is always the same. Each person is plundered for information, then pleasure, and then fed back into the conflict to destroy everything they value. Sergeant Wren Horan leads a squad whose sole purpose is to find and kill such vampires. On one fateful mission, she encounters more than a group of fledglings. She walks into a massacre and faces what she fears most: turning. But when she wakes up, it's not as a mindless fledgling. It's as something else entirely.

She thought he is in love with another man. He thought she will never love him. She thought he is gay. Well he is not.

One look at her and you want to envy her fighting spirit. But in actuality she had mastered the skill of pretending. pretending to be okay, pretending to be confident, pretending she doesn't care. Join Susan Lee the omega as she meets her mate- who has to sometimes show her tough love to teach her to love herself, maybe even more than he does.

As a wedding planner, Rachel has seen it all. From botched wedding dresses to caterers who couldn't even make a simple pot of coffee. Watching the love, the compassion, the devotion between each and every couple, the utter admiration between them... it made her sick. Money was her motivator and Rachel refused to change her ways. But when a client approaches her, with the most curious request, she couldn't bring herself to say no. Following her client through the start of his journey, to the end, something began to stir deep within her heart... Would this curious client be able to melt the ice within her heart?

Lorane Spencer always had a thing for the mythological. So when she decided to go out on her own to prove that the most majestic of creatures, the unicorn, did exist, she never expected to form a friendship along the way. ©Bethraylene

Born with a multitude of health issues, Astrid's days were limited. Her parents opted for surgery to install mods to fix them. What no one expected was that her body would reject them, resulting in seizures, blindness, deafness, and a host of other problems worse than what she had before. But the doctors found a medication that could help delay the destruction of her body from the inside out. But Astrid keeps refusing to take the medication despite the consequences she's been warned of...only to discover there's much more to it than anyone's ever told her.

"Are you my Karma in a masquerade, punishing me for my sins, while I was falling in love with you?" Nicholas cried, stepping closer. I withered by the sofa as he flooded his glass with wine, it's scarlet staining the trail of struggle betwixt us. His drunken face plastered with a forceful smirk that failed to hide his painful eyes, as he raised his glass at me. "I raise a toast to your successful pretentiousness." "My lie was hiding my truth, but my love wasn't. And the truth is, I don't deserve to love or be loved. You fell in love with everything about me, yet not me," I confessed, as tears seeped down my eyes, filling my empty glass. He crashed his heavy body on mine, as his wine drained down my transparent shirt stripping my misfit identity. His hands tugged at my skirt, unzipping it, as I held him midway. "No-" I hissed. "I fell in love with a human. But you were only a delusion," Arjun expressed. ••••• ❝To bully or be bullied, to love and yet be hated- The third gender only knows the extremes.❞ Things have never been simple for Karnika aka Karn, a trans person who identifies as 'female'. And life takes a turn when she is forced to juggle as a male and a female, in and outside school. To complicate things further, her love Arjun knows both Karn and Karnika, but as two different individuals. As the yarn of her dual life unfurls intertwining her in its threads of complications, how long can she withhold her truth from the love of her life? 18 in #transgirl (28.04.19)