Legacies & Bloodlines | ONC 2025

Blurb

When 14-year-old Eva moves to a new town with her parents, she decides to get a job at the newly opened curio shop named "Mystic Curio Shop". Before asking about the job advertisement, Eva browses through the many shelves, coming upon some paintbrushes. "Hello, I would like one of these," Eva said, pointing to the shelf, only for the shopkeeper to freeze, their eyes narrowing. "Oh, so you can see this shop?"

#All places and people are fictional.

#An 'Open Novella Contest 2025' entry.

#Prompt 138. »Hello, I would like one of these,« you said, pointing to the shelf, only for the shopkeeper to freeze, their eyes narrowing. »Oh, so you can see this shop?«

#This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.