Onc2019 Stories

Ryo stopped appearing in Japan or anywhere else as the pop idol Doragonhanata, but decides to return when the world learns upon Sam's return of the Galra threat to help boost morale. He finds himself met with questions regarding why he disappeared from the public eye. One of the sisters of the missing cadets, Rachel, personally doubts his motivations, yet feels he wouldn't understand how she feels about having a family somewhere in the universe fighting the Galra. (AU) Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender. Note - I wrote this for the Open Novella 2019. The prompt is General Fiction 7: Public Disappearance.

Tai and Ken find themselves involved in events which involve the colliding of two worlds, secrets one of the two would rather have left in the dark, but the return of an old friend along with the old friend's memories. Of course, the Digidestioned and Digitamers find themselves clashing as their worlds merge. Disclaimer - I don't own Digimon. Note - This is written for Open Novella 2019. The prompt is Suspense 8: Mystery Man.

When Emily wakes up in a hospitalbed after a traffic accident, she can't remember anything from her life before that. Her friends and her dad tell her things, but nothing rings a bell. Then they tell her about the Others - a savage race of people living on the other side of the forest. People with strange, magical powers. As Emily discovers more and more about her old life, she also finds out that people close to her have been lying to her. Can she even trust her own past? Why does she have a photo of an Other boy hidden under her bed? She'll need her memory back to know the truth. Prequel to The Atrament series (Can be read separately). Cover by the fabulous @KatySantiago08.

Keith somehow finds a comatose Allura on one of his missions, but Lance decides to bring back the love of his life by stealing the souls of others. Keith is of course the first soul he needs in his attempt to revive Allura from her soul sickness, or is it? Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender Note - This is written for Open Novella 2019. The prompt I am using is Suspense 7: Soul Sickness.

Aled is a gay man in a soldier's uniform. Unhappy with the turn his country is taking, Aled seizes the opportunity to enter a mysterious portal into the strange, primitive world of Thera. Finding himself trapped there, Aled discovers Marius, a man left to wander blindly in the wilderness. Surrounded by intrigue, Aled and Marius must find a way to trust each other, to save both themselves and Thera's Lady. 2022 AMBY AWARDS Winner for Alternate Universe stories. Finalist for the Open Novella Contest 2017/8. Sci-Fi and LGBT ♥ **Edited version now available on Amazon etc with the title PORTAL**

Cover Credit: @ILoveMusic060803 Alexia Kemp was probably one of the most kind, pure girls that her friends, and family knew. She was always there to help, even when she had a lot of things on her plate. Little did they know about the feelings growing inside of Alexia. Heck, little did she know about them- dark feelings that she couldn't shake. As everyone, Alexia has a dark side, darker than most. Does she have the power to release the darkness when her family and friends are at stake? Is she willing to take the risk summoning the dark will have?

Round 3 Long List for the Open Novella Contest Party planning doesn't have to be personal. If anyone knows that, it's Samantha Hall. She's been successful in the Event Planning business without ever getting emotionally involved. It's how she likes it. With no one else to take care of a job, Samantha is forced to face the one thing she's went out of her way to avoid the most. Love. A promotion isn't too far out of reach, and apparently neither is rekindled relationships. What happens when there's a lot more riding on a new client than just a paycheck? Formerly known as: The Engagement _________________________________ Content Warning: Sexual situations, Profanity, Implicit content (implied actions) MA15+ Open Novella Contest 2019: Romance Prompt #3: Engagement Party

"I'm just an ordinary girl. So... Why Me?" That's what Sylvia Olive Smith thought for her entire life. That she was just an ordinary girl. Sure, she scored straight A's and was a little smarter than your average 12 year old, but that's all she thought she was. Average. She couldn't be farther from the truth.

Lorrine Miller, a successful eventologist and a sought-after wedding planner, experienced another heartbreak from the man of her dreams. This breakup changes her entire perspective in love - in happily ever after. How will she fulfill everyone's "happily ever after" if she no longer believes in it? In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities. A story about dreams, love, and reality. (On Going) ©️ 2019 *** Check In a Perfect World's Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/12152311368/playlist/7wn3bfEfAfzlS5JW3wsoUS?si=Y0s7K2HQTpaRbo6TPWs9-A

Keith tells Shiro not to get on the flight home, so Shiro instead takes a commercial flight. Upon arriving he learns the plane the rest of his unit were on crashed and there were no survivors, yet he finds himself curious regarding why his younger brother knew he shouldn't get on the flight. Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender or One Day at a Time 2017. Note - This is written for Open Novella 2019. The prompt is Thrilling 1: Saved.

Book 1 of the Paradise Series. - 3019: The world was now advanced in all sorts of technology. They were stronger than any species known. And now, they began their exploration of other planets, searching for what humanity wanted to find even during the past millennium: planets capable of hosting life and paradise to all. At last, in this very year, they have found a planet worthy of being Earth's twin. But as soon as the first humans landed on that same planet, they were killed, suggesting that they were not alone on the new planet. So NASA sent a group of humans to planet Greta to investigate. But eventually, they realized that there is more at stake than what they expected. -

Special Agent Alyssa Caine has been tasked with the most important mission of her life: the assassination of the man who would bring about the end of the world. The only problem? He is already dead. A minor issue that is resolved in the year 2157 when a renegade group of scientists develops a device that allows to jump through time. They recruit the former special agent to send her back fifty years, to take just one man out of the equation, a minimal change with a predicted maximal effect on the fate of the world, and prevent a devastating war that has driven the last surviving humans to live in decrepit underground bunkers. Every action has a consequence. Alyssa is humanity's last hope, and her actions will determine the fate of the whole world. She is willing to sacrifice everything for a better future. But she soon realizes that the impact of her actions might be beyond her control, and beyond all predictions. _____ Highest Rankings: #16 in Science [06.02.2019] #36 in Dystopia [06.02.2019] #65 in FemaleProtagonist [01.02.2019] #71 in TimeTravel [06.02.2019] #1 in Paradox [28.02.2019] #1 in ONC2019 [01.02.2019] #3 in OpenNovellaContest2019 [28.02.2019] This is my entry for the ONC 2019! At first I thought I'd pick something a bit out of my comfort zone (so.... NOT SciFi for once...) to expand my horizon, but when I saw a prompt about time travel I was immediately inspired. Please keep in mind, all of this is WIP! The title, cover, and some of the content might change at any time... I have an outline and I worked hard to come up with a compelling and consistent story line, but due to the nature of the story (timey whimey stuff!) I might have to revise things a few times as I write. I'm grateful for any feedback and I hope you enjoy :)

I'm keeping track of my notes and reflecting on my writing process regarding my Open Novella writing.

During a massive drought, a Water Witcher goes trekking across several states to visit a friend but finds himself in danger when a group called The Hounds begins hunting him down. 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 1 ~ 🅦🅐🅣🅔🅡 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 Corbin has been witching water since he was a young boy. It's a skill his grandfather taught him to survive living in a time of thirst. He also taught him never to venture farther than their property because the world had become too dangerous with people fighting over water. As an adult, however, he finds himself alone. The home he once shared with his grandfather feels more like an empty shell with echoes of memories. Deciding to head for the road to visit a friend, he sets out to wander what's practically become a wasteland. Except, he soon discovers that since his last adventure north, Water Witchers are being captured and sold to high bidders by a group called The Hounds. With his friend Coyote living up north, a few states away, he'll have to figure out how to get there safely, but it won't be easy with danger at every turn. * * 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧: ~Editor's Pick - Oct 7, 2022~ @Wattpad - Adrenaline Rush @WattpadExplorer - Adrenaline Rush @WattpadDarkFantasy @Adventure - Featured Stories @Fantasy - Featured Fantasy @Mystery Featured Mystery @Adultfiction - Featured Adult Fiction @Action - Featured Action Stories

It used to be tradition, to tell the children stories of the gods that lived down in the river. It had been generations since those stories had even closely resembled the truth, but they lingered, until finally they were no longer told at all. Kenzie was never told these stories, so he has his own concerns when his younger sister, Tara, disappears. Was she bitten by a snake? Has she broken her leg, and gotten stranded somewhere far from home? Was she kidnapped by the strange woman who recently appeared in town? But Tara has stumbled across something else entirely, something she has never known even to imagine. The siblings' attempts to find each other will uncover a world of secrets- legends forgotten, in more ways than one.

**Featured on DARK FANTASY and ADULT FICTION reading lists** WARNING: EATING OR DRINKING WHILE READING THIS STORY IS HIGHLY INADVISABLE. Once Upon A Time, Good Omens, Monty Python, and Arrested Development had a back-alley three-way and birthed a fairytale. Gerald wasn't supposed to be stuck living seven centuries in the future. He definitely wasn't supposed to be "mentoring" The Dark Lord's progeny in the hopes that she would decide to save the world rather than destroy it. In fact, he wasn't even supposed to be named Gerald (the name of every other male in his family for three hundred years), because everyone assumed a weak-chinned, balding, forgettable man, who was just a magician, could never be who Geraldo The Foreshadower prophesied. But that's what assuming gets you, and here he was saddled with a fate he never asked for, in a time he didn't know, surrounded by people he didn't want to like, and he was out of Firewine AGAIN! The Dark Heir is a darkly satirical tale of assumptions, anti-heroes, and apocalypses, where the road to hell is actually a themed water-park slide covered in slightly less urine than a real one. It drops literary and film references faster than an NYC socialite drops names, and promises endless laughs - including, but not limited to, sad chuckles, guffaws, uncontrollable giggles at inappropriate moments, brays, barks, cackles, snorts, cachinnations, and the occasional howl (though that may be the Welsh Werewolves showing up unannounced). Consider yourself warned... Reviews: "Completely and adorably bonkers," says @floranocturna "Hilarious in every way. Even when I cringed, I laughed," says @LadySapphire2018 Winner of The Trident Awards

A tarot reader aids a mysterious man who believes she is the only one who can help him return to his true home in the eerie Manaan caverns where they must fight the natural and supernatural to stay alive. ***** Maxine Shepard is a tarot reader who has survived several traumas in her twenty-five years of life. Without living parents, trusty friends, or a loyal partner, she is unfulfilled and lonely, seeking meaning outside of her tarot shop. Bombarded with visions of a mysterious man with a strange tattoo, Maxine's world is turned upside down when he enters her shop, claiming she is the only one who can help him return to his true home. After reuniting with her old gang to aid the odd man, they become trapped in the maze of the mysterious Manaan caverns where they must fight against the natural and supernatural to stay alive. --- [Wattpad Picks: Editor's Choice] [Wattpad Picks: Friday the 13th] [ ONC 2019 Shortlist ] 🏆 2nd place in the Materia awards 2019 in Paranormal. --- Copyright © 2019 by L.L. Sanders