Opennovellacontest2019 Stories

A cursed jewel thief and a desperate gangster must work together to save their two worlds. Leo Kane keeps his feet firmly on the ground. His whole life is focused on protecting his younger brother Kaleb. When Kaleb is kidnapped by sky pirates, Leo is willing to risk it all to get him back. Finn Grace likes to keep her head in the clouds. She may be a thief, but she's a dreamer too. For years she's worked to save-and steal-enough to start a new life in another city. Her plans for the future come crashing down when a dangerous heist leaves her cursed. The only hope she has now is to break the curse before it takes her life. As their goals bring them closer together, they begin to realize that their problems are more connected than they thought. Only together can they save their worlds. Based on the Cursed Jewel and Flying World prompts.

"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)

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.

*Entry for Open Novella Contest 2019* - Made it to the Long List Jasmine has finished university and is now working at an events management company, East Meets West, specialising in South Asian events. Jasmine has never had to organise a wedding event, much to her relief, as she has just one teeny tiny issue with weddings... she doesn't believe in love. So what happens when her boss tasks her with organising a wedding event for a big client? Will she be able to organise it without barfing at the mention of love? Or will it change her mind on the whole idea of love...?

An Open Novella Contest II entry. Round 1 and 2 qualifier. Samantha Lockheart has stumbled upon a prized family heirloom which now gives her the ability to view the past and the future. After being flung into what seems to be a fantasy land she's now convinced she's either going mad, hearing ghosts or both. The more her questions get answered is the more new ones begin to form. With nothing but confusion rolling around her mind about how this is possible she sets off to find herself in a world full of dreams and not so mythical creatures. The question of who to trust turns out to be a persistent one. Join Samantha on her journey to uncover the truth about her existence. Copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.

Maxus Maddox wanted a normal Earth family. Instead, he became captain of a space exploration mission, alongside his filthy rich college rival, had his life saved by an alien mermaid, and is very, very confused. Discontinued O O P

It used to be tradition, to tell the children stories of the gods that lived down in the river. It had been generations since those stories had even closely resembled the truth, but they lingered, until finally they were no longer told at all. Kenzie was never told these stories, so he has his own concerns when his younger sister, Tara, disappears. Was she bitten by a snake? Has she broken her leg, and gotten stranded somewhere far from home? Was she kidnapped by the strange woman who recently appeared in town? But Tara has stumbled across something else entirely, something she has never known even to imagine. The siblings' attempts to find each other will uncover a world of secrets- legends forgotten, in more ways than one.

#OpenNovellaContest2019 *Prompt: Fantastical Fiction #4 - Family Heirloom* Dareia Blackstead is perfectly content with her uneventful life. She works, pays her rent on time, and reads adventure stories in her spare time. She would never think to ever ask for more, and never expected it. That is, until an old family heirloom begins singing (horribly out of tune) to her about her one, true destiny. Now, it's up to Dareia to claim it. The long-lost honor of the Blackstead family name rests on her small, unassuming shoulders.

These twin sisters would do everything they can to find out what happened to their friend when she was found dead in the woods with no one to help her . The cops found her body hung on a tree after a video found on Tatiana phone showed that whoever murdered her was someone she knew because she was laughing in the video as she was being tied to the tree. Unfortunately the cops ruled it a cold case. Minnie and Mickey are left with no choice but to step up and find out the person responsible except they can't trust anyone even those they love as friends .As secrets keeps on getting revealed , the twins must get very careful about who they share information with .No one is who they seem to be ..............

Open Novella Contest entry: Chosen prompts {Merged}: Suspense Fiction #6 - Tarot General Fiction #5 - Missing Beauty

Twenty years, each day she suffered the same routine: waking up, going to school, eating, doing homework, sleeping. Everything was so... Common. Dresses, lipstick, and high heels made Alisa's life a complete cliche. A cliche is always a cliche. But on a cold Wednesday's night, a message brings her perfect life down the hill, and she's got no ticket back from hell. Her non-biological sister has disappeared, and nobody has a single clue of her whereabouts. But in the end, Satan was an angel once. And her safe place might be the clue to this mystery when blood covers the snow that surrounds her, once loved, tree. However, it never compared to her life... Blood stained and it's build out of secrets.

Actions have repercussions. Keith finds himself haunted by Allura's voice calling out in his dreams, but the universe is haunted by strange anomalies despite the sacrifice. One anomaly thrusts Keith and Lance into another universe when he is out looking for Allura, but the Lance of that universe finds an injured Keith in the tree during the dead of winter. Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender Note - This was written for the Open Novella 2019. The prompt I am using for the story is Suspense 1: Winter Sun

When a jinn dragged Glasgow science teacher, Tavish MacBruce, to a Scotland where dragons and unicorns are real, he took on the role of a wizard. After a princess is murdered, he's asked to be a detective. When he finds a second body, he realizes it'll take more than a knowledge of BBC crime shows and the know-how to make a crab apple battery if he wants to survive.

{Round 2 open novella qualifier} Down the rabbit hole and into the underworld goes another unlucky soul. Lost, alone, and very confused, Alice joins the long line of the dead, waiting to be judged. To save her from endless boredom comes the chance of a life (death) time. Win the Queen's Tournament and earn back your place in the land of the living. Hundreds of hopefuls are chosen, from every time, place, and death imaginable, but Alice won't go down without a fight. She's determined to complete her trials, including slaying something called a Jabberwocky (which she assumes is some kind of dragon, hurray), navigating an undead forest, and beating every other competitor to the finish. It's a lot to handle alone, but Alice isn't one to give up, and isn't lonely for long. With a mysterious offer from a chatty competitor and paper thin alliance formed, Alice is ready to show the Queen of the dead and her husband that she has what it takes. But when the games begin, the heat of the battle shows Alice that maybe Hell's not that hot after all. #OpenNovellaCONTEST2019 #Godsofdeath

Open Novella Contest Entry - 2020 Roses don't grow in the town of Rose Woods. Jimmy Sarkins is back home for the first time in a long time, and nothing is as it appears. His sister is missing, the only mark of her absence a single red rose. In the woods he finds a gateway. And beyond, a world beyond his imagination. Prompt: Red Petals

Greetings Dear Reader, My name is Lorimer Graveskeeper. I am a paranormal detective who spends his time nosing around old bookstores, apothecaries, and catacombs as well as observing (and often escaping from) zombie attacks, witches' gatherings, and vampire rites. This account of the terrible happenings in Saul, Arizona is my own. I happened upon this strange, spectral city after escaping from a malevolent spirit at my previous lodgings in the state of Washington. I was drawn to the remote town both because of its lack of inhabitants and its remote location in the middle of the desert. I was hoping for a few months reprieve from the ghosts that pursued me around the country, and what I found there is contained in the pages of this short novel. Within you will learn of a copper mine with a violent history, a poisoning, an unprovoked attack, multiple limb amputations, and a bitter thirst for revenge from beyond the grave. I urge you to keep an open mind and a tightly locked door.

~Participating in Open Novella II, Romance Fiction: Prompt 5~ "I'm back," he says, an unnatural smirk decorating his face. He never looked at me in that way, his gaze traveling up and down my figure as if I was even remotely desirable. He licks his lips and looks into my eyes. "Did you miss me?" My eyes harden. "I don't know who you are anymore." I hope my words cut deep, but they don't. He chuckles and then whispers, "But, I still know who you are. And this whole facade of happiness you put up... I see right through it. So, let's not play games with each other. I've missed you, Cora. And I definitely know, given our history, that you've missed me." - Cora was the ship, threatening to sail off into the infinite tumultuous waters of her mind, and Elijah was her anchor. When he abandoned her, she was left to her own devices, and all too many times almost sank. Right when she convinced herself she didn't need him, he came back into her life, with unexpected secrets, and as a completely altered person. She wants nothing to do with him, him only bringing back memories she's fought to forget. But he wants back in her life, and will fight to become more than just an anchor.

"I wanted to give this to you in person," Anubis said, taking a step closer to the girl who was evidently petrified. He handed her a crisp white envelope that had his name written in a cursive scrawl. With shaky hands, Zaina took the envelope. Not knowing what to do, she performed an awkward curtsy which was met with a hearty laugh from the god. He lifted her chin with a finger and grinned that heart-stopping grin once more. Anubis trailed the finger up her jaw and laid it beneath her ear. "I'll see you around," he whispered, ghosting his lips over the shell of her ear. He stood up and walked away as though he had not made a long lasting impact on the young girl before him. After taking a few breaths to calm herself, Zaina opened the envelope. ONC 2019 entry ➴ round one qualifier round two qualifier longlisted wattpad featured story