Opennovellacontest2022 Stories

When a strange old woman comes to the village of Little Plimpton, her arrival sparks a conflict that could bring the entire population to the brink of war. And by 'war', read 'a series of petty grievances aired in public'. Humphrey, caught in the middle of the ensuing whirlwind of accusations, threats and mildly aggressive and/or violent actions, must try his utmost to bring Little Plimpton back to some semblance of serenity and, if he has his way, at least quiet. If only so he can read his newspaper in peace. A novella, written for #ONC2022. Based upon Prompt No. 6 and in the General Fiction category. Cover created in Canva, using a Pixabay stock picture.

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

Between 1813 and 1819, the great composer, Ludwig van Beethoven almost disappeared from public life. Many stories passed about the reason, but none could ever hope to know the truth. Until now. In 1818, Bernhard Gerber experiences something terrifying and heartbreaking, bringing him in contact with the great man, Beethoven, himself. Though Beethoven proves nothing like the person known all across Europe. Between them, the two men take on the task of ridding the world of the greatest horror ever to walk the Earth and, in the process, perhaps lay to rest both men's greatest tragedies and guilt. A deadly serious story with a character that doesn't know it. And doesn't care. A novella, written for #ONC2022. Based upon Prompt No. 70 and in the 'Creature Feature' category. Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

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

After years of struggling to make it as an actor, Daniel Shephard is finally about to make it big. He's landed the lead in a superhero movie. He's about to be Captain Universe with the whole world. That is, if he can make it to his agent in time to sign the contract. Which is easier said than done, as Daniel wakes up, only a few days before the need to sign the contract, in a locked room with no escape. He doesn't know who's abducted him or why. The only clue he has is the manuscript pushed in under the door. A script so terribly bad, it physically pains him to read it. Now Daniel is forced to act out the script--while wearing increasingly ludicrous costumes--and deliver a performance of a lifetime, to appease the manic author who has him trapped, before he loses his spot in the limelight. *** This is an ONC story, using prompt #6: Walking down the street, a stranger approaches you. He/she stares intently into your eyes for a moment and then says, "I know what you need to do." *** "If you liked Misery but didn't like the maiming, drug abuse, peril, or murder then you'll love this!!!"

Adin wants to go rock climbing. They go to the local sporting goods store to buy equipment. Everything seems to be going as planned, until they are half-way up the mountain and they run into problems that they never thought could exist. Problems of the fire-breathing, flying kind.

|| WINNER AMBYS 2022 VAMPIRES CATEGORY || || FEATURED: FOODKART || When single mother and baker Autumn Milford is hired to cater a high-end party in the Berkshires, she discovers the "special ingredient" she is required to use isn't just the quirk of an eccentric millionaire ... ------------ Autumn Milford has been determined to rely on no one but herself after her parents kicked her out at seventeen. With the money she's due to earn from catering a high-end party in the Berkshires, she'll finally have enough to open up her own storefront bakery. But her employer is not just another eccentric millionaire and his guests aren't your average denizens of high society. Autumn is about to discover that creatures of the night are real ... and they're eating her cinnamon rolls. Corbin Westbrook would rather cut off his own head than host the once-a-decade gathering of the New England Knowing. There have been sightings of a Fallen in the area and it is Corbin's duty to ensure that the creature is disposed of. But to decline such an "honor" is ill-advised. Left with no choice but to throw the party, Corbin stays as far away from the event planning as possible ... until he meets the baker. Hold onto your cinnamon rolls, it's going to be a sweet ride! ------------ ONC 2022 Prompt 20. You manage a catering company. The latest request has a few ... interesting menu items. [Status: Complete] [Word Count: 28,000] [Content warning: PG-13 for mild swearing, violence, sensuality, and fade-to-black intimacy.] [ [ Highest rankings ] ] [#1 in Baking 2/26/22] [#1 in Singleparent 4/1/22] [#1 in Paranormalromance 4/14/22] [#8 in Paranormal 4/11/22] [#10 in ONC2022 4/14/22] [#11 in Supernatural 5/3/22] [#16 in Vampireromance 4/20/22] [#20 in Romance 4/11/22] Cover by @chessaandersen

When a young woman goes missing without a trace, the police write it off as another missing persons case. But her mother is not convinced... After the fallout from a corruption scandal forces the disbanding of her old unit, Elise Wu is transferred across the country to Corviston. She is paired with the grumpy, withdrawn Simon Brown, who she had worked with previously. Simon quickly becomes convinced that the mother is right in her instinct. A trail of clues leads to an unlikely path...

3 X Featured... ✨Featured July 2022 on StoriesUndiscovered ✨ Featured September 2022 on WattpadZombies ✨ Featured January 2023 on WattpadZombies _ONC 2022 Longlist 🌼Cover by laylagriffin_ 🌼Third place winner in the Horror/ paranormal category of the Count Awards ☣️AN EPIC TALE WHERE THE STRAIN MEETS CONTAGION☣️ In 2023, Scientist Daniel Rudolph told the WHO Board of Directors that he may have discovered a cure to the Coronavirus. He is tasked with carrying out all necessary lab tests to ensure the 'cure' is safe for world consumption. Emilia Larsson, Regional Infection Prevention Coordinator with the CDC, is assigned to work with Doctor Rudolph on his cure and to ensure that all his procedures are WHO approved. It is a dream for her to work with her new team and when she meets the test subject, Alexander Maxwell or 'subject zero' as everyone calls him, she starts to fall in love with him. As Emilia fights to stop the program which she deems to have been carried out unethically, they make a new discovery. The cure works. But there is a cost.

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.

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.

*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.

DARKLINGS, FYI: a new, longer version of Heaven can be found here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/321729586-heaven The arrival of a new priest, Father Caleb Hill, causes ripples in the sleepy community of Heaven, Arizona - a place full of people who have lost their faith in God. Disgraced and damaged, Sina Noir works as a stripper at a local club catering to the needs of those who desire to drink enough to forget their existence. When the two men meet, everything they thought they knew about themselves and their beliefs shatters and they find themselves entangled in a forbidden romance. They weren't supposed to meet. They were never supposed to fall in love. The prompts I'm using for the ONC 2022 are #39 (as my main) "Fine, make me your villain." -From Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo and #79 (secondary) A love so forbidden it was unspeakable. Who would have ever thought an Angel would fall for a Demon. Warning for: bad language, dark situations (drinking, drugs, smoking, trashy clubs, etc.) and typical Christine darkness.

Jane doesn't quite believe the magic bean is real when the tooth fairy accidentally drops it into her sister's bed. She plants it anyway and finds herself climbing to the sky on a giant beanstalk, just like her cousin, Jack. The Giant catches her and gives her an ultimatum: steal her weight in gold from the dragon or never go home again. Fortunately for her, there are good friends to be had, but will they be enough to overcome an ancient dragon? Jane is determined to try.

Entry for ONC2022. What happens when it's Layla's first day at university and things don't go quite to plan? Surprise after surprise seems to meet her at every corner. A past she can't escape from catches up to her. -- Cover by @WrennaStone

∘∘ ©┋𝗞𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗡 ❍Graphics ❍Narration ❍Plot ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Seeking Infinite life is not unusual. But, being immoral to others in this process is debatable▬Seeing the difference is not so easy. ═─────── ꗄ ───────═ Cassandra Wood is a 12 and half years old charming girl, living with her parents and two-year-old sibling in the UK. Curious Cassy never stops to ask out her doubts. Nanny-ma is the credit to Cassy's love for stories. Her fantasy lives in those characters who were misunderstood. Always has soft spot for them even villains are included in that list. Her Brilliant plan is to read her favorite series which has published its third book in 1999 on the Christmas Holidays. Yet, she just begin the 1-2* books ╮ Visiting her countryside Grandma's house▰ ❛ Will be her boon or bane? ❜ Holidays passed merrily but her plan is at stake on the last day. ⌕ Does every Grandma's story have to be ╼ fictional ╾ ? ═─────── ꗄ ───────═

Adam Mitchell disappeared one rainy night in May, 1996. Twenty five years later, November Falls Police Detective Evelyn Hardy stumbles upon an article about his cold case. It's been long enough, it's time to get Adam Mitchell the justice he deserves. But, with the FBI on scene, the unorthodox involvement of Evelyn's family, and the unacknowledged feelings between Evelyn and her partner finally reaching breaking point, there is one thing that is for certain: Solving the case is going to be the easy part. Part 1 of the November Falls Series. Prompt 67

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