The Womanhood Theory [ONC 2025]

When her estranged sister is involved in a near-fatal car accident, twenty-five-year-old Jordan Friedman finds herself the temporary guardian of her eight-year-old niece, Cory, who she has not seen since she was a toddler. To make things easier for everyone, Jordan moves Cory into the house she shares with her two eccentric and very opposite housemates.

As the four girls navigate growing up together, Jordan struggles to balance caring for Cory, managing her comatose sister's affairs, and continuing to scrape by with her wedding photography business. The longer Cory stays with her, the more Jordan struggles to stay afloat. But Cory has nowhere else to go, and after six years of silence between them, Jordan is determined to do right by her sister, even if it means wedging a hesitant foot in a door that closed long ago.

In the midst of tragedy, the four girls navigate growing up together and discover what being a woman truly means through heartache, a stray cat, and the unexpected truth behind the Womanhood Theory.

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Rated mature for recreational drug use.

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Main prompt:
The door that closed to you many years ago has reopened, and now it's up to you to take a chance once more. (120)

Additional prompts:
You return home late one night only to find it's no longer your house. Nothing is as it seems. (56)

A group of people wake up with no memory and find themselves adrift on an old steam passenger liner. The name? Titanic. (42)

A famous singer and their pilot crash land on a tropical island. With no one else around, survival isn't their only challenge. (47)

It's not a mystery - it's the walls. They hold secrets, but what are they hiding? (66)

»You're wonderin' why half his clothes went missin'.« - Taste, Song by Sabrina Carpenter (124)

»I've got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane.« (127)