Onc2019 Stories

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

Let me introduce you to the lost world of Kanari. A world full of myths about forgotten wars and races and a legendary sword. Dragons and magic once ruled the land, but with time they vanished. Left were only humans and some Leavers and Wavers, creatures living in the woods and oceans. The humans thought they were the strongest living creatures, and splitted the land into several countries. The Leavers and Wavers had no other chance as to return to their lands of origin. The story I want to tell takes place in the time of Re-appear. When a glimpse of magic laid over the land and dragonewts, harbinger of the dragons have been seen again. And old legends going from ear to ear over the land, about "The one sword", held by the saviour who will bring the land back together. In this time the young dragonewt Caren traveled around the world, in order to find out about her forgotten past. The only clue, an old letter to a lord, who died hundreds of years ago. Caren had been alone most of her life, but when she entered the little, music-filled, tavern her eyes catched a brief sign of the only girl in there, Mary. Who does not dislike Caren, as all other humans do. Dragonewts are not happily welcomed by humans, because they fear the dragons to return. Mary sees in Caren her chance to escape from the town and is sure to have found a familiar soul, because she is feared by humans as well, due to her ability to use magic. It is her hope to find her own destiny somewhere out there in the world together with Caren. Let the story begin! This story is an Open novella contest entry. It follows the fantastical fiction #3 (legendary sword) and #4 (myths of the old world)

|| ONC 2019 OVERALL THIRD PLACE WINNER || Every card has a meaning, but not all are pleasant. Siobhan Brady is a Tarot reader, a profession that called to her ever since she was young. So when the same card begins to repeatedly present itself during her daily personal readings, her intuition tells her there's something greater at play than just a random draw. But when the mysterious MacKenzie Stewart crosses her path, Siobhan realizes the cards weren't lying, and soon finds herself in the middle of a deadly spread where not even Fate can determine the outcome. ---------- Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2019 Suspense Fiction Prompt #6 - Tarot ONC Round One Qualifier - 02.12.19 ONC Round Two Qualifier - 03.13.19 ONC Round Three Qualifier (Long List) - 04.18.19 ONC Short List - 04.28.19 ONC Overall Third Place Winner - 07.03.19 Cover by Lucy Rhodes ©2019 M.Dalto Published to Wattpad 01.01.19 Completed 04.02.19

"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.

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.

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**

Actions have repercussions. Keith finds himself haunted by Allura's voice calling out in his dreams, but the universe is haunted by strange anomalies despite the sacrifice. One anomaly thrusts Keith and Lance into another universe when he is out looking for Allura, but the Lance of that universe finds an injured Keith in the tree during the dead of winter. Disclaimer - I don't own Voltron: Legendary Defender Note - This was written for the Open Novella 2019. The prompt I am using for the story is Suspense 1: Winter Sun

Set in the future, Orphans are recruited to participate in a scientific study. When Sarah Johnson Finds out the truth behind the study will she be able to save her friends from their inevitable fate?

Everyone knows Haru pays attention to nobody as his mind is focused on swimming any chance he gets. For this reason nobody expects the reaction Haru has when Gou stops flipping channels on a news report of a young pop idol with local connections going missing. Gossip abounds regarding the local beauty queen and her possible secrets, yet none expect said secrets to involve Haru. Disclaimer - I don't own Free! Note - This is written for Open Novella 2019. The prompt is the General 5: Missing Beauty

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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

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

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. -

*Short-listed for the 2019 Open Novella Contest* {2019 ONC Ambassador Pick} Sibling rivalry is a tale as old as time. For Kharma, her particular tale goes back to before time began. She's the youngest of seven archangels, and the only girl. Like her older brother, Lucifer, the Creator had banished Kharma to spend all her days on Earth among the human race fulfilling specific assignments that made them particularly unpopular. After seven thousand years, Lucifer was growing bored and began a campaign to speed up the demise of the Earth and all her inhabitants. Through the invention of the internet and the placement of ridiculous world leaders, along with corruption of religious leaders, he was very close to getting his wish. Just one thing stood in his way... Baby sis. And Kharma is a bitch.

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.

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.

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?

[REWRITING] Things are not going according to Caitlyn's plan. She wants to spend her final year in high school out of the spotlight but ends up creating the biggest scandal of the year. Her crime: kissing the most popular guy in school, Edward Nicholson. It is only a dare, but nobody knows. It is supposed to be known only between the two of them, but nobody cares. It is a mistake she should not have made, but it is too late. The truth gets twisted, and Caitlyn's dreams of a smooth-sailing year shatter. With Edward's jealous ex-girlfriend hounding Caitlyn, they need to solve the problem they have accidentally started. With his sudden interest in her, she tells herself to stay away from the bad boy who can break her heart. But as we all know, nothing ever goes according to her plan. *** Add a rumour, a jealous ex-girlfriend and a pinch of salt, and you get drama. [Open Novella Contest 2019] Romance Fiction Prompt #1: It started out as a dare - a kiss that didn't quite go as planned. Only you and your one other person are witnesses to the truth behind a rumour that gets out of hand. Started: 21 January 2019 Completed: 3 April 2019