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Aura awakens in The Sanctuary, a place known for repairing and rewiring humans. Nothing is known about their methods other than it works and those who enter leave happier. Except Aura doesn't remember signing up for their treatment plans. In fact, she doesn't remember anything at all. With her identity ripped away from her, she's filled with more questions than she can get answers for, and the worst part is that she can't leave either. When her memories begin to resurface, she starts to wish that they hadn't. - Featured On: @OpenNovellaContest - 2021 Honorable Mentions @ScienceFiction - Dystopian/Apocalyptic Fiction @PsychologicalNovel - Lost Souls @StoriesUndiscovered - Into the Abyss

A HEIST GONE WRONG. A GANG SHATTERED. Volya Angelov, known by the public as the Priest for his cult-like following, knows how to cut a deal and take what's rightfully his. He and his criminal prodigies have siphoned Gorod Krestov's wealth for years and are slowly draining the city's slums with their profits. Yet when he is arrested and shipped off to an island prison, his empire is left to his closest ally, Mysh, a girl who stands a mere five feet. It's up to her to manage what he's left behind and decide whether or not the syndicate should be risked for his life. But with demons from a haunting past and sinister characters converging all around her: can Mysh pull it off? "SIX OF CROWS" meets "PEAKY BLINDERS" in this twisty, 1920s-set novella with enough suspense to keep you reading until the church bells chime. Honors/Awards: ONC 2021 Top 5 Winner (4th place) ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick (Round Two) "NOVYYE SAINTS" is 7x featured on: @shortstory's "another time, another place" reading list @action's "thriller" reading list @action's "action spotlight" reading list @historicalfiction's "decade fiction" reading list @badassreads's "the ruffians" reading list @storiesundiscovered's "historically inaccurate" reading list for august 2021 @opennovellacontest's "2021 top five winners" and "2021 ambassador picks" lists Copyright © 2021 Elle Chaika Open Novella 2021 | Prompt No. 29

[ SORRY ON HOLD ] What would you do when you see a door vanish before your eyes, and the person who stumbled out of it claims to have a package for you? Scratch that; what should you do? [ full synopsis inside ] ONC 2021: Prompt 70

A geeky young doctor enlists the help of an uninvited supernatural guest to win the heart of his long-time crush before she gets swept off her feet by their Mr. Perfect boss. ***** Asher Jansen is one of the many new resident doctors that have joined St. Bernard Hospital. In sync with his luck, there's a freaking pandemic. Hello Covid-19! He doesn't mind working 80+ hours a week and his daily main source of nutrition being a protein shake and instant noodles. Not at all when he gets to work alongside his secret crush, the girl of his dreams, the beautiful and smart yet friendly, Kaylee Fisher. The only problem is Kaylee only has eyes for their medical director Jacob Parker. Okay, that's a lie. Aside from Kaylee already liking someone else, Asher is probably the gold standard of dorks that sports super thick glasses and rotates between only two pairs of chucks. So yeah, zero fashion sense. But all that changes when a certain grim reaper takes a vacation on Earth and borrows Asher's body. The term 'borrow' here being used very loosely. And what will happen when Asher's soul doesn't go to sleep like it's supposed to when the grim reaper takes over his body? Let's find out. ~~~~~~ AN: This is an Open Novella Contest 2021 entry. Story is based off of prompt #36. 36. You are Death, and you are obligated to roam the Earth for one week every hundred years to learn about what the humans are up to these days. The problem? You get stuck on Earth during 2020. Definitely not a social hour. Story is my own and original. Please do not translate or copy without permission. Plagiarism of any form will not be tolerated.

Thomas lived in a world where he was invisible to everyone, well except to his stepfather. Life for the 18-year-old wasn't exactly the best, his life consisted of pain and loneliness. "There's no way things can get worse," But Thomas would soon find out that he was wrong, he was so so wrong.

I love the Open Novella Contest for finding new stories by authors I've never met before and I'd love to share some authors with you that maybe you have never found before. This book will be slowly filled with authors and books of all genres and styles and places in the writing journey. I do believe every book in here has something special to be shared, and I hope the variety allows you to find some things you like. My intention is to keep this book updated with books currently updating, whether they remain in the contest or not, because I think the ultimate goal of having a complete story at the end is the most important part, regardless of the success in the judging rounds.

Complete. ONC 2021 entry. ONC Longlist and a Round II Ambassador's Pick! Exclusive to Wattpad. Ulthar is a cozy, sleepy town in the Dreamlands, close to the River Skai. It is a cobblestoned, gable-roofed town of pumpkin patches and a sizable population of cats. The only law is that you must never harm a cat, but the town is quiet and peaceful. Cats, humans, fish-people, and cosmic horrors live in unity. And really, the horrors are quite pleasant. Fourteen-year-old Eileen, who escaped the waking world, helps out at the chocolate shop and lives with her inventive adoptive mother, Cecilia Haunt. Besides the occasional cat, zoog, or animate pumpkin snatching the wares away, all is well. That is, until a mysterious eye statue appears in Ulthar. Every night, it moves to a different location. It's the sign of the Great Ones, who long ago left the dark palace of Kadath and went to the sunset city. Listless and hurt over the past, and desperate for an adventure to give herself a purpose, Eileen asserts that this is her chance to make a name for herself at the risk of her own safety and identity. Over the Garden Wall + H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

Main prompt 6. Your job is to track down vigilantes and infiltrate their groups, with the aim of gathering information and turning them into the authorities. You're successful at your job, until one day, a group of vigilantes changes everything. ★ Agent 24 lives in thirst for justice. She wants the people who hurt her to suffer. Every passing day, she chooses to hide her pain beneath her mask. Her untold story always to be kept hidden. Craving vengeance for that lachrymose night, she fights her way up to become one of the most successful and strong agent. Never truly getting what she wants, she lives in the hope to meet her destroyers one day. Is it truly justice or is it revenge? However, soon she finds herself falling into depths of darkness. Unable to remember her past, except for her name. Her path ahead is not easy but neither is anything. She longs to be loved and to love. Starting with herself. Living not for justice or revenge but for herself. ★ Open Novella Contest Entry ★ Copyright© 2021 tisajobbin

Everyone said it was an accident, but I know it was a murder. Police may have shut the case file but I would keep searching for the culprit. There's no stopping until justice is served. Curious to know who was murdered? It was a girl named Maira, who is none other than ME. Yes! It's Me👻 I may have died but my ghost won't rest until it haunts down my murderer. Read this story if you want to become my partner as we search for the murderer and reveal the mystery behind my death. Mature because it contains topics like domestic violence, caste discrimination, bullying, etc. ~~~•~~~ This story is only published on Wattpad app. If you are reading this from any other site then please beware of the possible malware risk. ~~~•~~~ Awards: 🥇 Winner in The lilies awards- Mystery Genre. 🥇First place- The Dreamer Awards 2021 🥇First place- Blossom Awards 2023 -Mystery. 🥈 Second place in The Debutante Awards 2022- Mystery Genre.

In Eden Rutledge's dreams, she travels to a distant past while she spends her days living in the shadow of her parents' expectations. As a founding family of the picturesque town of Echary, reputation was of the utmost importance, especially after her sister's untimely death. On the town's anniversary, the Rutledges hold a lavished masked ball. When Eden falls into Ethan Baker's arms, she is thrust into the past yet again and finds herself feeling an eerie connection to the mysterious stranger. The two are drawn together like a moth to a flame, but as the past unravels so will Eden. Falling in love is inevitable, but withstanding the tests of fate may be unfathomable. *** This story is inspired by prompt #87 in the Teen Fiction section of the Open Novella Contest 2021: "With the Kingdom Heir coming of age celebration fast approaching, the search for a match begins. It is decreed a dance will be held; an anonymous masked ball."

Duchess Andreya Marivatan was murdered at the age of twenty-two. It was during the hours the pool of night was deepest, Andreya soundlessly asleep in silk sheets behind the curtains of her elegant canopy bed. By the time she awoke to a noise, the deed had already been done and her sheets dripped with a deep vermillion stain. That was the first time Andreya met death, and it would not be the last. The death that knew everyone did not know Andreya - not even so much as her name - and because of it Andreya could not die. So she survived and forgot, the stains on her bedsheets becoming naught but a dream. It took many years for Andreya to realize she had not grown a day older since she had died, however, and that in a society where status is dictated by age, it would not be long before she had visitors on her doorstep asking questions she did not know how to answer. The reason behind her youthful features. The explanation behind her lack of scars. Andreya Marivatan was an impossible woman who wanted nothing more than to have died the night she was killed, and Andreya Marivatan was determined to get her wish. ❉ ❉ ❉ - First draft: COMPLETE & EDITING (all suggestions welcome :>) - Shortlister in the Open Novella Contest 2021: prompts 22, 57, 62, 66, 71, and 87. Main prompt 66. - Featured Ambassador's pick: @WattpadDarkFantasy "Dark Desires" list - Highest ranking: 64 in #darkfantasy, 4/26/2021 - 1st place in Historical Fiction, Coral Awards 2021

Hayley Clarke was doing so well. Her secret was deeply buried. Nobody suspected a thing and that was how she would very much prefer to keep it. Unfortunately, things did not seem to go her way when a deadly virus began wreaking havoc upon the world. When the Mutant Hemorrhagic Fever (MHF) infected someone she held close to her heart, Hayley was forced to confront the very past she worked so hard to hide. 💫 My Open Novella Contest 2021 submission 💫 Prompt #3 "When the world's superheroes are struck down with a deadly and mysterious illness, it's time for the next generation of heroes to save the day."

When fierce, reckless Nika Adair is sent to take The Ravens Academy For Young Villains entrance exam by her mentor, she's confused as to why she's been enrolled in the biggest villain school in Kavanhar instead of the biggest heroes school; The Pheonix Academy For Young Heroes. Both of her parents are heroes . . . right? *** Darkest Daring Divine is a gripping YA Fantasy set in a Dystopian world. Where villains fight heroes, Wyzards mentor others, and Nika Adair discovers the missing half of her soul.

It has been ten months since Jean Kelly wandered into a small, sleepy town with no memory of who she was. Leaving the past in the past, she begins to focus on starting a new life. However, just when she is settling into her new life, she receives a mysterious text message..."Agent 23, you have been activated." This message might hold the key to her identity, but what does it have to do with the two men, she just met, from Hollywood who claim she's their missing actress, Justine Kay? Now every time she turns around, new clues to her identity come to light, forcing her to delve into a past that she would rather forget.

ONC 2021 Fanfiction prompt 13 and Romance Prompt 71. This novella is a non-canon version of Superman, with some of the same characters and places. Lexy Logan is sent from an Earth like ours where Superman is a fictional character to one where he is a real man, Clark Kent. Clark befriends her and helps her live in his world until she has to leave. She falls in love with Clark and tries to hide her feelings to protect them both, but he falls in love with her, and can't hide his feelings, but they accept what they can share until she must leave.

Forewarning. This was my first time doing a paranormal kind of story so it is VERY rough around the edges. If you can tolerate a confusing plot that goes somewhere but nowhere at the same time....Well feel free to read. The Face Carver; that was the nickname that the media gave to the lunatic running around the small town of Marington. However, a serial killer is the least of Lauris's problems. When a strange statue of an eye appears on her doorstep, otherworldly, paranormal events start happening around her. Chased by malicious beings, she begins to unravel the mystery of the events and the truth behind the face carver Her perception of reality will change, and assumptions challenged. Perception is in constant flux. Thus, the truth is variable. An entry for the open novella contest 2021. Previously titled 'Madness in 21 Days'

"Did I stumble in my own written story?!" Prompt#16

{ONC2021 2nd Place Overall, Round Two Ambassador Picks & Shortlist} When Max O'Brien receives an almond with a skull painted on it, he initially plays it off as a prank. But, after his wife leaves town, he begins discovering more of the nuts hidden around the house. More disturbing than that is that some unseen intruder is keeping an accurate running count. The more almonds Max finds, the stranger things get. Mysterious noises. Moving Objects. Damaged valuables. It's a haunting that grows in power with each success in the involuntary scavenger hunt. As the almonds pile up so do the threats until Max realizes he may just not survive. __________ ONC2021 Prompt 62 Cover by @mensemortuis 1st Place in Horror/Paranormal - The Opulence Writer's Awards Also posted on Royal Road

A coming-of-age thriller about a lonely girl protecting a family secret that could get her killed. Fourteen-year-old Sydney Blaze does everything to satisfy her parents, even attend the prestigious Razor Stone Academy for villains. Her endless training prepared her for this moment. Socially inept, Sydney struggles to fit in as her classmates shun and bully her. Complicating matters is the family secret she's uncovered and hides from everyone-a secret that endangers the lives of her and her family-she's descended from a famous hero. While she navigates her attraction for fellow student Yasuko Noguchi and the usual pitfalls of high school, anonymous death threats appear in her belongings. After a failed attempt on her life, she doubts who to trust. The roommate who doesn't have time for her? The teacher who takes her under his wing? Yasuko's bullying friends? Yasuko herself? Will pleasing her parents cost Sydney her life? ⚠🛑Content and Trigger Warning🛑⚠ There are depictions of death and murder within this book. Mental, emotional, and physical abuse are mentioned or shown. There is strong language. Prompt 84. This academy isn't a typical boarding school. No, it's where kids train to become villains - if they pass the entrance test, that is. Nobody at the academy knows you're descended from heroes, and that's the way you'd like it to stay. 4. You're a weapon, and weapons don't weep.

All Copyrights © are reserved and belong to me ST, aka @me_myself_and_books. This story is my submission for the Open Novella Contest 2021. It's inspired by prompt 32 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" - Edgar Allan Poe *Every 1,000 years on New Moon, a terrible storm broke out in the kingdom. The sky was colored blue and pink, which merged in purple, lightning flashed and split in two, and then fell and sank into the two chosen ones - a boy and a girl with pure hearts and capable of great love. They were united in an indestructible union with each other, and they became the new Guardians... On the same night, shortly after the appearance of the new Guardians, it got as silent as the grave, and then... The sky became bloody red and an ominous lightning with a monstrous rumble fell and enveloped one human soul in darkness, creating the new Apollyon* Please welcome to one of my dreams! And let's see where it's gonna take us!