Opennovellacontest2021 Stories

Malise is given one last chance to prove herself, or else, she'll be kicked out of her coven. And the world isn't safe for a witch on her own. Elvira hates witches and her only goal is to find a cure for her sister's magic. But when she gets put on trial for witchcraft herself, it changes everything she thought she knew. Enemies, and yet, they slowly find themselves bewitched by each other. This is my entry for the Open Novella Contest 2021, using the prompt: "On occasion, an accusation of witchcraft has the power to set one on a wonderful, dangerous path."

|| ONC2021 SHORTLISTER || New school. New house. New life. Kira Thistlegate transfers to Hogwarts, expecting a fresh start. She gets Slytherin. She gets Draco Malfoy. And after a Dark Magic lesson goes wrong, she gets something far worse - the ability to hear his thoughts. Now there are no secrets. No lies. No escape. And Draco Malfoy has never been easy to ignore... but he's impossible to avoid when he's inside her head. Prompt# 29 'I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky' Draco Fan-Fic- #OpenNovellaContest2021

You think Aaron Eosphoros is normal? Well, think again. Aaron is 21 years old and is named one of the strongest Eliminators as many people believes that he is for a person at such a young age. He is a final year student doing the mission his magic instructor had instructed him to do for his assignment to finish his studies. He is a Eliminator with the rank of Commander of Team E, a team that consists of supernaturals and normal people but Aaron is not one of those normal person. In fact, he is part Nephilim and part human as he is sired by a descendant of Lucifer, his father. What happens if people finds out about his heritage and his past? Will the two worlds, the supernatural and human worlds combine as one or descend into chaos? Who is that person behind the scenes plotting for the demise of everyone in both worlds? Will that person succeed? Read to find out. Main Prompt: #1 Sub Prompt: #40, #63

Night after night, I've been hearing mysterious sounds from under my bed. Taps. Scrapes. Bumps. Maybe an occasional hiss. After a while, I grew used to the sounds, and I decided that I wouldn't let the resident monster under my bed scare me. But everything changed the night it decided to speak.

✬ 2021 Round One Ambassador Picks ✩ Round One Qualifier ✪ Formerly titled 'The Chocolate Thief' Verdura, the land of Vegetablis. Earth - erstwhile home to Humans. Earth is devoid of most of its human population, but the Humans have not finished with Earth. For Earth is the only place they know where Chocolate can grow. But when Humans discover that there is another planet where Cacao can flourish, they are desperate to use Verdura for growing more cacao trees to meet the never ending demand for chocolates. Verdura is troubled when a pumpkin spy is captured. Of all their fears, Humans are dreaded the most and the Vegetablis and Fructus are terrified of being discovered. The Vegetablis and Fructus get help from an unexpected ally, the Earth Warriors, who despite being Humans themselves, do not agree with the greedy practices of the rest of their species. It is the War for Chocolate, one that would end in disaster for one or more of the planets involved. ❉ Genre: Children's Fiction with a dash of fantasy ❉ Submission for ONC 2021 - based on prompt 37

ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick ~ Lav Sciarra's accomplishments are many: He is one of the Tower's best soldiers. He founded the Gemma Special Forces. He killed the terrorist who nearly destroyed the Tower. Lav Sciarra, they say, is a hero. Lav knows otherwise. ~ An ONC2021 entry. Based on Prompt #1: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

A naive young princess gets banished to a tower and is inadvertently trapped with a wizard. Now, she must navigate through a world full of magic while the fury of the king looms over her. ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅ Princess Pranee has a love for magic but it seems like the world didn't want her to do anything with it. When she gets locked away in a tower that was supposed to isolate her from the rest of the world, she unexpectedly meets an irritated wizard who claims that the tower belongs to them. She finds herself wanting to learn more about the magic world and the genderless wizard, Shashi but she can't help but feel anxious that more misfortune will strike her at any moment. Open Novella Contest 2021 entry Credit to Rayne for the cover! ONC 2021 Longlister Featured on: Wattpad Community Curator: @KateLorraine @WattpadAsianFantasy "Celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander Voices (AAPIHM)" "Featured Stories" "The Wondering Immortal" @Fantasy "Romantasy" "Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration" "Diverselit Fantasy" @WattpadMulticultural "Asian Legends" @retold "Fractured Fairytales" "Celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander Voices (AAPIHM)" @anime "Light Novels" "Celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month" @beauty "Asian American & Pacific Highlander Heritage Month - beauty" @AmbassadorsAR "Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM)"

Alternate History: the mass extinction of the dinosaurs never happened at the end of the Cretaceous. Simon Grey, an iguanodon, high school science teacher and lifelong nerd, is drawn to a feline species that attacks a work site where his father works. Through his scientific research, he discovers that the attacking species in nearly extinct. Partnering with a failing student, he works to save the species and changes the way his people actually think about life.

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'

| Honorable Mention ONC 2021 | *** Rebecca Smythe has led a perfectly unremarkable life. Unremarkable, that is, until she is accused of witchcraft and whisked away into a world of magic, secrets, and housework. When these secrets begin to take on a life of their own, however, Rebecca is forced to choose between her own survival and the fate of all witch-kind.

[ 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

When Billy experiences his first glimpse into the future he has no idea of the import it will have upon his life. As he grows older, the occurrences become less frequent but one day he sees his own future which leads him into new experiences. ____________________________________________________________________ Written for the Open Novella Contest 2021 inspired by prompt #56 You can see the future by looking into people's eyes. However, if you tell them about it it won't come to fruition. One day, you lock eyes with yourself in the mirror.

ONC 2021 ❝ When a loved one dies, the person is lost. Until they find a jar of 'fortune notes' which leads them to read each one every day. How does the journey start and end? ❞ Keanna Lancaster is a private detective who was living a wonderful life until her fiancé died the day before she married him. Her world is shattered and she doesn't think anything can be done to fix the broken remains. . . until she finds a jar with a bunch of little pieces of paper that she discovers to be 'fortune notes'. Not really having anything remotely fortunate in her life, Keanna decides to read them, one note a day. Little does she know that the bunch of paper would lead her to find things she was never supposed to know about.

A teen girl is at a prom with an unworthy date, she finds herself in the company of her best friend and crush. Who by chance has had the same mishap with finding a date. Do they make the realisation by the next prom that the one they need and should be taking is in fact each other; Or will a spanner be put in the works by unknown forces and a disappearance.

₊˚𝐨𝐨𝐨.┊❨ 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇'𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐏. ❩ death is a deity and like all of us , death would prefer not to do anything , being a guardian of the department of the mortal realm , he has more than billions of arms and is required to hold every single life on earth in his deadly grip . but one day , he fails to do this , and the children born that day were able to resurrect themselves , death , knowing he had failed the great god , cursed the children and was never lazy again , but who are they and what happened to them ?

Ira's burgeoning romance with her fellow palace servant is abruptly cut short when the royal family is ousted by the new king. She finds herself enslaved in the coal mine until an act of violence brings her back to the tower like palace. Will she find her love all over again?

When her parents die in an accident, 27-year-old party girl, Adelaide Becker, sets her sights on inheriting the family fortune. But when the will is read, she is not surprised to find her parents are capable of ruining her happiness even from beyond the grave. If she hopes to inherit the family estate, she has to follow one not so inviting rule: move to the English countryside and live with a long forgotten grandmother. For a year. Begrudgingly, she packs her things and leaves the sandy shores of Greece for the small, ramshackle house her mother grew up in. Between the drafty room, the terrible food, and the young carpenter who seems more intent on sweeping her off her feet than fixing the roof, Adelaide is convinced her parents set the whole thing up just to punish her for indiscretions. She's determined to beat them at their own game and survive the year, but when her grandmother hands her a ring and a letter and declares her engaged, Adelaide might finally snap. *** ONC 2021 entry for prompt # 74. CW: Death of parent.

A girl has to live with her grandma after her parents died. There, she finds out that she is promised to the prince. But when a servant also wants her, things get complicated. Who will she choose and who will leave empty handed? ---------------------------------- "You can't just have me. You have to earn me." ---------------------------------- This book is based on prompt 74. "Thanks to your parent's last will and testament, you find yourself living out in the English countryside with the grandmother you'd never met before and an apparent servant whose only goal is to make you fall in love with them. The problem here is that this grandmother has already promised your hand in marriage to a noble in line for the throne. "

Most people in the human realm have lived comfortable lives with little to no interactions with supernatural beings aside from the occasional ghost activity. However, across the whole world, people and supernaturals, have lived in fear of the Black Dog Murderer. It is said that when someone encounters the infamous black dog, they soon die.

Gods are coming after what they left on the earth but the call is it is still there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aayush, Dhriti, Falguni are on their adventure after the terrible drought comes to the village and destroyed everything they had. After seeing their family dying, they left the village alone and start their journey to see if they can outdo others to live longer. finding a lake, whose water is pink, their curiosity is peak. "little did they know, what they would find, takes gods decades to hide."