Vengeful Creations || ONC 2021

🏆 ONC 2021 Ambassador's Pick, Shortlister, & HONORABLE MENTION

To the outside world, young novelist Cristina Castillo appears to have nothing but success. With four published works under her belt, she is a literary wunderkind. But behind closed doors, she has a secret shame: countless notebooks filled with unfinished stories. Cristina's waking mind is plagued with the underdeveloped characters, incomplete plots, and cliché themes of her countless abandoned and discontinued tales. So many dreams, forgotten.

While attending the release party for her latest published novel, Cristina comes face-to-face with none other than the protagonist of one of her most beloved (and unfinished) passion projects. He tells Cristina that he wants an ending for his story. And he warns her: he is not her only forsaken character seeking fulfillment.

As Cristina's vengeful creations begin coming out of the woodwork, she is plunged into the depths of her very vivid and expansive imagination. A journey of humor, adventure, terror, and startling self-discovery ensues as Cristina tries to return to reality. She soon learns, however, that the only way to escape the fictional worlds she dreamed into being is to appease her creations by writing their endings.

*Rated MATURE for language
32,000+ words

☆☆ FEATURED STORY ~ Eight Times!!

HIGHEST RANKINGS ~

#2 Hamlet
#4 Edgar Allan Poe
#5 Writer's Block
#6 Open Novella Contest 2021
#14 Shakespeare
#42 Alice in Wonderland