No Explanations - ONC24
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--LONGLIST ONC 2024--
Are you ready for it?
Arora is the perfect sweet princess of the Golden City and Ebony is the bad girl and serial dater princess of the City of Night. And they are NOT supposed to be in love with eachother, but Ebony already has a crush on Arora for months now and her 21st birthday party is the perfect opportunity to make Arora hers. So baby, let the games begin.
A Novella based on the album Reputation by Taylor Swift.
Written voor the Open Novella Contest 2024, based on prompt 60. "Look what you made me do" - Taylor Swift.
ONC 2024 place 244-103 (longlist)
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