The show won't go on.
Ten years ago, a fire broke out in the Gaston LeRoux Theater and killed a family of performers: Stephen and Katherine Daye, and their twelve-year-old daughter Erika. The LeRoux has stood desolate all these years, occupied only by the ghosts of those who died there. Until now.
Senator Whitmore Sommerset remembers the grandeur of the LeRoux, and purchases it, intending to renovate it back to what it once was, ignoring the stories and warnings about the LeRoux curse which claims the lives of all who perform on its stage.
Actors Christian Bedford and Janae York are chosen for the lead roles in the production of Macbeth, the same play that was cut short by the fire ten years earlier. Sommerset and the cast are determined to finish the play, though it is plagued by problems; broken lighting fixtures, missing props, and equipment, costumes cut up and burned in the middle of the night. Someone or something doesn't want the production to be a success.
Events reach their boiling point when Christian Bedford is kidnapped by a mysterious masked figure, and taken into a network of prohibition-era tunnels under the LeRoux Theater. His captor turns out to be Erika Daye, disfigured by burn scars, but not dead as everyone thought. As this subterranean play unfolds, all of the players will be changed, and their lives turned in a direction they never thought possible.
#ONC2023
Shortlister
Round 2 Winner
Round 2 Ambassadors' Pick
Princess Leia had a plan to end the war between humans and faeries. Sneak into the Land of Faerie and kill the prince. It would have been a good plan, if it wasn't for the prince already expecting her.
Stuck as the Prince of Faerie's captive, Princess Leia must learn to survive in a territory completely unfamiliar to her. The Land of the Faeries was exactly as she thought it would be, like a terrible dream filled with magic and trickery. The prince... Was not.
Realizing they have more in common than she thought, Princess Leia must walk a dangerous line of political delegation and love, all while staying true to herself and her duty as the heir to her throne.
The war between humans and faeries was long withstanding, but can she truly end it?
Fantasy/Romance.
An ONC2023 entry.
Prompt used: 33
Achievements:
Round 2 winner and Ambassador Pick for the ONC 2023
Shortlister
Novella version:
Started: 02 Feb, 2023
Completed: 12 April, 2023
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