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The Sun has gone out and no one knows why. But the vampires don't seem to mind.

"There was something inside [her] that wouldn't stop until the whole world was blood." The kingdom of Ostrova has been at war for centuries, and to feed the unending cycle of violence, every year, the day after the New Year, every sixteen-year-old in the realm is conscripted. A notoriously difficult exam called the Proving determines where in the military they will be placed. Norah Tasca is a peasant girl from Ostrova's oldest colony, Navaria. When she passes the Proving with a perfect score, she becomes only one of a handful of commoners ever admitted to the Citadel, the training program for Ostrova's future commanders. But at the Citadel, Norah is an outsider, and all is not as it seems. Those chosen to train there were not chosen for the intellect or their aptitudes, but for something else, something that challenges everything Norah has ever known about the world and the balance of power.

*entry for ONC 2022* prompt seventy: his [her] eyes were cold and lifeless as he [she] stared at me. "you have no idea who i am, do you?" - It's only been three weeks since Vera Watson and her father moved to Goldhurst Lighthouse. She's trying her best to settle in, but it's hard when they're the only non-white family living on the property. And to make matters worse, she's never worked at a lighthouse before. But when a storm rolls in--the first one Vera will experience since moving here--everything changes. In the middle of the raging tempest, Vera finds a strange girl by the rocky shore. Wearing a white dress, her skin pale white and her hair as dark as the night, she looks like a ghost. Thing is, she is. And she's asking Vera for help. © myrawritess 2022. all rights reserved.

Elizabeth Grayson was still caught on Christopher Milton. The one that got away. Her childhood friend; her first crush and the unrequited love of her life. When he suddenly gets back in touch, Elizabeth knows this is it: her chance. Only things don't go quite to plan when Chris turns up at a reunion dinner with a new fiance, and the announcement that he's getting married in a month. With her second chance gone, and a month's worth of activities planned for the wedding party, Elizabeth has to decide whether to keep pinning her hopes of happiness on Chris or to take a chance finding it somewhere she'd never thought to look before. One thing is for certain: this month is definitely going to be interesting. Prompt (89): You thought you still had a chance with your childhood friend, but it turns out they're getting married in a month.

Entry for ONC2022 Cheryl is a young woman who runs her own catering company. Her apartment isn't the best looking out there but it is her home. She has a reputation to uphold but what happens when a few customers give her trouble? A new neighbour moves in and immediately starts trouble. What happens when she goes to confront this person? Will it be sunshine and rainbows or will it just blow up in her face? Cover by @Exequinne

PROMPT 49 CONTEST ENTRY - Getting in the back of a taxi, your character finds a thick envelope. It's addressed but has no postage. After getting stuck in a downpour, Warren Daly ends up in a taxi waiting for better driving conditions. When he notices a package on the floor in the back, he and the driver agree to deliver it on the way to Warren's house. The following several weeks of their lives are drastically changed by that choice.

The hospital called Skyler Everlow's phone 20 hours ago to inform him that his girlfriend had passed away in a nasty car accident on Interstate 86 due to injury to her head. He had seen her dead, wrangled body in the hospital, raspy breathing, gasping for air until it stopped altogether. If she was dead, why was she eating dinner with his parents right now? *** Skyler Everlow's life was flipped upside down when his girlfriend, Natalia, was severely injured in a car accident. He was there in her last moments, he held her hand when she died. He watched her die, and there was nothing he could do. However, his whole world was flipped upside down once again when he saw her eating dinner with his parents, perfectly well and happy. Turns out, a mistake had been made in the afterlife and she wasn't supposed to die. Something was keeping her on Earth, and she refused to pass onto the afterlife until Skyler would go with her. *** Open Novella Contest 2022, Prompt 68

Lila Unwinter is not a very talented witch; she mostly has a lot of ambition, determination, and enough spite to last her a few hundred years. How else was she supposed to survive the past sixteen years, after she lost both her best friend and her family over something she can barely even remember now? They're not dead, of course, but for all that they care about her, she might as well be. But then her magic decides to send her home for lunch break one day, and she not only finds out about a curse that's taken hold of her way back when she was only six years old, but also reconnects with her childhood friend (who's considerably less alive now). A series of events unfolds that may well redefine Lila's perception of both love and magic itself. Featuring: way too many ghosts, the town at the Edge of the world, knife and sword-wielding girls, sapphic childhood-friends-to-lovers, ghost kitties, weird magic and magical creatures, and a certain three-headed dog. ________________ an entry for the open novella contest 2022

Ten years ago, Julia Reddings's girlfriend climbed a set of stairs in the woods and never came back down. When she was just a teenager, Julia Reddings watched her girlfriend Alice ascend a staircase in the middle of the woods and vanish at the top without a trace. In the ten years since, Julia has never been able to find Alice. Or the stairs. Now working as a park ranger, Julia has gathered the stories behind every paranormal encounter and local legend she can get her hands on, trying to unravel the mystery of her girlfriend's disappearance. But it seems that Alice has been wiped off the face of the earth. Until she finds the stairs again. Desperate for the truth, Julia returns to the place she lost Alice. But the woods that were once so dear to her are different, now. They feel dangerous. And the staircase that took Alice ten years ago is calling to her. Based on ONC prompt #33: "And then I pressed my cheek against the asphalt and prayed the dead bodies would cover my scent." ONC Longlister!! Cover by @ClaraElisibeth

Born in 51BC, Professor James Scott Hamlin is about to quit his job that he has held since the late 1990s. Across Europe, someone is killing Hamlin's friends and relatives. This is my entry for ONC2022 using prompt: 44. The year was 27 B.C when you helped an individual escape their imprisonment. Before parting ways, they asked you to make a blood oath. Once done, they told you that as long as they lived, you would too. Nearly 2000 years have passed since and you continue to search for them each and every day.

In a dingy karaoke bar, sparks fly. - Amirah Begum has always believed in happy endings. Even after everything she's been through, whether it be years ago when she lost her favourite pair of light-up sneakers or three days ago, when she got dumped by the girl she thought was the one of her dreams, she hasn't lost her dream of a happy ending. So, when she finds a brooding stranger doing the exact opposite of what she lives her life by, she makes a pact to help them get their happy ending, and maybe re-evaluate her own definition of a happy ending in the process. - started: february 3rd, 2022. completed: april 24th, 2022.

What good can come from being tangled with a prince,especially when you're a commoner without a noble status.

"People come and go, but video games are always here for you." That is something Felix Baker has decided to fully live by ever since a bad breakup he wishes to completely erase out of his mind. In order to get his life together and move on from his heartbreak, he gets back into one of his old-time hobbies: gaming. Through his gaming journey, where he starts uploading gameplay and gaining popularity and support, he accepts a single friend request. That is the start of a beautiful friendship that Felix cherishes from the bottom of his heart. After three years, the two decide to meet up, but what will happen when the person that Felix meets up with is the one who originally broke his heart by cheating on him? Will he truly be able to recover, or will he be giving his heart a second chance to either be mended or shattered even more? *** [Open Novella Contest 2022] Prompt #77: Having had your heart shattered into pieces by a particularly tough breakup, you turned to a popular multiplayer online game, through which you met your new best friend and virtual soulmate. After three years of talking and playing together every day, both of you agreed you were long due for meeting up in person. But when you meet, you realize it's the same person who broke your heart all those years ago - the person you caught cheating on you. Cover by @calistacyq

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A duo of gamers... An invisible portal... A gameworld of magic... Overnight, a wimpy kid got teleported and transformed into a foolhardy game character who would stop at nothing to find his friend and get back home in a perilous gameworld. But there's more than just finding his friend: Finding a Sphere. Finding himself. Then finding his way back home.

Saya just wants to enjoy a lazy Sunday with her wife and ten year old son. But what happens when her one good deed of the day comes to bite her in the ass. Because in her short trip down the block, fifty years have passed. And everything she's known is gone. What does she do? What can she do? Open Novella Contest 2022

Growing up, Lark Wilson always felt he was different - abandoned as an infant on a doorstep and raised in Wilson's Home for Children and Youth, creatures of nature accompanied him in every little aspect of his life. Things only escalated as soon as he turned eighteen. Will a chance encounter at a museum a few years later give him all the answers he's been searching for? Or will it lead him to more questions? Embark on a journey into the unknown in a story of magic, adventure and... love. a novella for the 2022 Open Novella Contest , prompt 46 (fantasy)

After tragic circumstances, twin sisters Pat and Kat find themselves in front of a magical mirror. A decision to step through lands them in Uther Pendragon's court. Legend says only he who is fit to rule England could pull the sword from the stone. Yet Pat finds herself poised to do just that, and the outcome could change history... forever.

When one is seen dead, naturally it can be assumed that they remain so. In the case for Jason, he saw his ex-fiance whom fell dead that day, happen to see a woman with the same face at his home, as if without scars. For him, it might be a terrible fake episode of delusion and paranoia or a terribly real episode of something more sinister. ONC 2022 contest