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For Centuries Grim has been collecting souls. It's what he does, it's his purpose. One day, while collecting a soul in the park, he comes across a lost puppy. For reasons he can't explain, the urge to return the small dog to his owner is overwhelming. He soon finds the animal's owner, a woman in her mid-twenties named Maria. He is struck down by her beauty and realizes that he had once claimed the soul of someone she loved. He becomes even more conflicted when he realizes he has just one year to claim her soul.

[ONC LONGLIST] When the Goddess rages no more, And the Seven Virtues meet demise, Then will the enemy no longer wage war, And the Supernal take their place on high... For a thousand years no one knew what the Prophecy uttered by the Fates meant, until Anveya Carnel was brought to the Numinous Atheles school for witches. After discovering her powers resemble the Supernal described in the Prophecy, her life has become controlled by everyone but her. Forced to train beyond her limits, Anveya journeys with her close friends to fulfill her supposed destiny to tame a raging Goddess and kill the Seven Virtues. But there is a twist, one the Prophecy does not mention...because to expose the truth would be the end of the Witchcraft World. AWARDS: ⚜️ 2nd place in Magical Mini Awards (best supporting character) ⚜️ 3rd place in Magical Mini Awards (best antagonist male) ⚜️ Open Novella Contest Longlister **COMPLETE** *Side stories ongoing * If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe form, please go to @Yovarneine on Wattpad. Thank you.

Mari thought that coming home to a ghost town was bad. It turns out it's worse having to attend her estranged father's wedding and letting her childhood best friend break down the walls she carefully built. ***** Mari Chasey's life is suspended. She returns to her hometown in a cold November day following her mother's death, after years of studying abroad in Europe. Pinewood is sleepy in the bitter cold, the deserted shoreline stretching further than she can reach, but that's okay. Mari is good with temporary things and at not lingering. She's not planning to stay for long, just enough to sort out her mother's affairs without poking at open wounds. Then her father returns. Jack Chasey, former renowned superstar, absent for most of her childhood, is getting married to a woman Mari hardly knows. He gets to begin again, build something new, while Mari grapples with a fractured life and all the scattered pieces of herself. Her mother was supposed to live forever; Jack was mercurial and always at arm's length. But now he's here to stay. Enter Kinney St. James. Once Mari's closest friend, then another person that passed by like a comet, she still knows Mari and all the shards of her. Even the sharper ones. In the stillness of winter, Mari reconnects with the quiet life Jack always wanted for her, the softer parts of her that only Kinney can tap into, and what it truly means to be her mother's daughter. ***** Open Novella Contest -- prompts 24, 29, 46, & 77 © 2026 caterina george // all rights reserved

She was born a witch - but magic never answered her. When her mother trades her future for political gain, Xylia refuses to become a pawn and flees in search of answers about the power that never awakened within her. But freedom is short-lived. A curse older than kingdoms binds her to Xanderis - a prince she considers an enemy. The spell is merciless. Enemies forced into proximity, they must work together to unravel the answers they both ask for. But the closer they get to freedom, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Alaina Clade was the daughter of the man who dissapeard in space. The world is fucked up now ever since some mad scientist created a mirror organism and let hell loose on humanity causing a rise in depopulation. Her fathers mission was to explore TOI-715b to see if it was habitable for the rest of humanity....... yet he never made it back. That was eleven years ago. Now that Alaina grew up, immense pressure started to build on her shoulder, which led her to continue her fathers exhibition to explore the possibilities of living on another planet and find an escape from the fatal organism. But thats not why alaina took on this mission. she already lost her mother and she will not let go of the thought that her father might be still alive.

PROMPTS USED: MAIN: 97. When the world slips into endless darkness, something begins to move in the shadows and you must find a way to survive in a night that never ends SIDE: 93. Buried beneath the ruins lies an artifact that whispers the memories of an ancient being. The first memory it reveals is a warning and it's meant for you. 104. While wandering through the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than the wind until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all.

For six years, Amaya Evans has loved someone she has never met. At least not in person. Every night she returns to the same dream: a sunrise field, a rain-soaked courtyard, a faceless stranger who smells like cherries and dark chocolate and feels like forever. She doesn't know their name. She doesn't know if they're even real. But she knows she would love them until the day she dies. In the real world, her life couldn't look more perfect. She's known as England's Darling, adored by millions, dating the golden boy everyone approves of. Alexander Hawthorne is kind, charming, and everything she's supposed to want. So why does loving him feel like a choice? A choice that she's not sure she wants to say yes to. When the dreams begin to grow sharper and the stranger feels closer than ever, Amaya must decide whether to follow the life that makes sense or risk everything for a love she's only ever known in her sleep. Because sometimes, the person you've been waiting for your whole life is closer than you think.

~•~★~•~ 𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓. ~•~ Avyxia Kleymor's peaceful life was shattered when an elvin assassin murdered her parents before her very eyes. Kneeling in a pool of her mother's blood, Avyxia vowed to find the person who took everything from her. Rage and sorrow consumed her young heart as her life gained a new and horrible purpose: vengeance at any cost. ~•~ 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩: 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧, 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚. ★OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 ★Cover by me ★Thanks for reading! «Tales Of Yvenia» ~•~★~•~

In the middle of an enthralling house party, nerdy senior business graduate Igor meets Aurelio, a sexy, risktaking gangster who changes his life in ways he never imagined. ONC PROMPT 46: "We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and classically beautiful than you."

Everyone fears the ancient creature trapped in the forbidden forest. That's why the knights have come to kill it. Maera Solene Wyld has never been what her coven wanted her to be; she was too volatile, too angry, too weak to carry her mother's legacy as the most powerful witch alive. Her magic fractures instead of obeying, her temper burns hotter than her spells, and for almost ten years, Maera's nights have been haunted by dreams of a stranger who feels like the missing half of her soul- when dreaming itself should be impossible. When knights march into the cursed woods close to her coven's Sanctum, Maera begins to suspect the creature they hunt is tied to the strange dreams and warnings that have followed her for years; connections she doesn't yet understand- and saving it means turning against everything she was taught to fear: monsters, fate, and even herself. Hunted by her kingdom, betrayed by prophecy, and driven by a rage she can barely control, Maera must choose whether she is a failure of her bloodline... or something far more dangerous.

"Please... don't believe the lies Simon and his friends will feed you. They're lying. Things... go much deeper than you thought." That Sonic Charge exploding has Kazdan Kalinkas mourning the technical loss of his closest friend, Tom Majors. At least, the loss of his Chaotic self. But an hour after his confirmed coding, he gets a voice message that changes everything. Something is happening behind the scenes of Chaotic. Something sinister. And the only ones aware of it are a group of friends and two disgraced Codemasters. Dismantling a secret empire may be hard when one of you is stuck on Earth, while a part of him is gallivanting around Perim, refusing contact whatsoever. (Uses Prompt no 90 of ONC 2026) (Conspiracy AU for Chaotic)

Evelyn Stone lives inside a life that looks complete from the outside-married, settled, raising a healthy son in a house filled with routine and expectations. But beneath the checked boxes and Sunday smiles, her marriage has become a place where love is measured in logistics rather than attention, and worth is defined by usefulness instead of connection. Lucas is not unkind; he is simply finished-content with a version of Evie that no longer includes her dreams, her hunger, or her becoming. As Evie navigates motherhood in a body marked by survival and a spirit quietly starving to be seen, she begins to question what it means to matter in a life that has already decided she should be satisfied.

In life Nothing is quite what it seems. Through the years and the challenges of life this women realises that she choose to become a mother, a wife, a drug addicted, a survivor of domestic violance, a women. She realise she didnt know she choose... She didnt want to choose all that... Then why did she do it...?

Lights, camera, action. When an Alien gets curious, too curious, things go... south. Calliope is from the species Llanci, and when her fascination to mankind grows, so does her list of major crimes. Her thirst for knowledge never wavers, quickly snowballing to a dead corpse of a human in her space station. No one can find out the truth. She shifts into the humans appearance, completely replacing the human with herself and taking on its life on Earth. All she has to do is play the part, just like all those humans she sees on those pixel light boxes, and make sure no one finds out. Easy, right?

The stars whispered to amateur astronomer Levi, and to his alarm, one by one they disappeared within the abyss. But when he witnessed one such disappearance, the star fell to him and took a human form. Together, Levi and Celesta faced a darkness that threatened to consume the entire universe. A fantasy story written for the 2026 Open Novella Contest, utilizing prompt #69: The stars are disappearing one by one, and only you can hear their whispers.

Every ten thousand years, a celestial flower blooms. Though all beings in the nine realms fight to obtain it, only the most powerful one will have the right to pluck it. And even then, the flower may choose another. After two hundred years of quiet cultivation with her master, Yin Wan Ling suddenly finds herself competing for dominance amongst the other immortals. But her only interest in the flower is to help learn the identity of the mysterious figure who plagues her dreams. Every night, she runs toward a man swathed in mist and fog. Every night she yearns for him. But his face remains shrouded. Until one night, she finally sees his face...right before he stabs her in the heart.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai We share our emotions through art. Through writing, painting, and composing. In a world where no one shares their inner music anymore, some begin to lose themselves and become Muted. When Solveig's brother becomes one of them, she refuses to accept his silence. To save him, she must find not only his lost voice, but her own and discover that even in the quietest world, a single voice can awaken many. Prompt 36: You're told to choose a weapon before battle, but when you approach the table, the only options laid out are musical instruments.

The sirens scream but we don't move, With nothing left to fear or prove. In the hollow dark of a world undone, Your pulse is the only war I've won. Two young souls finding meaning and life and discovering their relationship admist the burning town and black clouds. Please like my story after reading every chapter. Show your love to my story. Because I've participating for the first time. *This story is written for participation in Open Novella Contest and no earlier draft exist before 1st Feb . The story is based on prompts provided by the event .

What goes down when the predator and the prey have to come together to save themselves from a curse? Allie comes from a family with the long history of everyone as far as she can remember and draw the family tree being a witch hunter. But she is powerless. Caelan is the High Warlock, equivalent to the Ruler of all the Witches. And the last thing he wants in his life is love. But as fate likes to play around, there seems to be a dark, twisted curse that ties them both together. So, will a witch hunter and a warlock come together and fight to break the curse, or would they rather face death than each other? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participating for the Open Novella Contest. Prompt - You and your greatest enemy are struck by a curse that binds your lives together. The only way to survive is to share a kiss, but you would both rather face death than each other. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE - This may turn into mature adult content in the future as this is a work in progress. Ratings will be updated.