Exequinne
🏆 ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 🏆
A misfit businessman must find an escaped beast before it wreaks havoc in the last place it should: inside the campus.
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For Alexi Jansen, a third-year student and a full-time arms dealer and exotic animal breeder, security is his currency. So when a shape-shifting beast escapes his menagerie, the last thing he expects is to find its traces in the Lyllan University of Magic where absolutely no one should know of his...extracurricular activities. Now, he has to capture the beast, scrub clean its prints, and find out who released it―all before it leaves a clue he can never cover up.
From the author of the award-winning novella, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘈𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, comes a story of privilege, wealth, and the divide between the elite and the common. Ideals are a salvation for many, but in the quest for freedom and power, sometimes, they are the first to go.
AN INSTALLMENT OF THE LYLLAN UNIVERSITY OF MAGIC AND MISFITS SERIES
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© 2026 (First Edition)
[25,000 - 30,000 words]
[All graphics are made by @sardonictabby]
🏆 ROUND 1 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026