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[ONC ROUND I AMBASSADOR PICKS] "You can't burn all of the witches, dear child. Where one falls, another drinks her blood and rises." A sellsword discovers that perhaps, just perhaps, maybe the humanity she is trying to save doesn't have much humanity after all. © irya kadlec, 2021

Milena is the heir of the throne of Bronne, and as her 18th birthday approaches she must find a match to get married to. Her mother, the Queen regent, announces a masquerade to make her daughter choose someone. She isn't happy with this since she doesn't want to get married that soon, but when she dances with a strange suitor... maybe she unintentionally makes a decision... A decision that perhaps means something dangerous. What does that hold for her and who really is the boy she has chosen to marry? Cover: Made by me. Main photo of cottonbro in Pexels.

Laurel finds herself competing in The Game. A deadly competition that only 1 will survive. But there's something about the game that just doesn't seem to make sense... Let the game begin. This is written with prompt 31 of the ONC of 2021. I'm may also just throw in some other prompts. Because I can. Cover art by @I-imagine-dragons

When a dog out of one of her mother's folklore textbooks appears on her doorstep, Anne Rhodes is pulled into a world made up of creatures that seem to be straight out of fairytales. A world hidden from every human eye - except for Anne's. And as she unravels more secrets, Anne is faced with truths about herself that she never expected. *Prompt 62 *Rounds 1&2 Qualifier, Longlister *Final Word Count: 28,450 [unedited] ©2021 by @lenoxtitia

ON HIATUS FOR EDITING This is just your typical coffee shop rom-com, except it's a magickal tea shop instead. Featuring queer witches, vampires, demons and many more, as well as lots of bastard best friend shenanigans, painful to watch gay panic and idiots in love. | My entry for the Open Novella Contest 2021, based on prompt #21 | A dating app, matching magical beings with normal folk, takes the world by storm.

When a genetic disease killed almost all superheroes around the world, five subjects cloned from the greatest heroes in our generation must fight back against the Order who seeks to control the world from within. Round 1 Qualifier - ONC 2021 2000 word milestone: reached Round 2 Qualifier - ONC 2021 8000 word milestone: reached 20,000 word milestone: reached

My Submission for the Open Novella Contest 2021 Kev, Jules and Steve have to banish a demon that's been summoned while completing Latin homework. I'm having a little experiment and playing around with voice and narrators, it's a bit different to what I normally write and there would normally be a much longer timeline. I hope you enjoy! (and sorry that I've been so slack and won't manage to submit in time for Round Two!) Using prompt 51 (I've been doing my Latin homework for three hours, and the only thing that comes out of me is this huge chunk of demonic goo instead of whatever should be put on the paper due tomorrow) with 52 (The day it started raining venomous spiders, we knew we were in trouble) making an appearance in a later round. #OpenNovellaContest2021

A woman suspects that her government-imposed birth control implant is controlling her. As reports of uncharacteristically violent female behaviour begin to surge, it becomes evident that the mandatory implant is wreaking havoc on women's impulse control. Is the rage she feels bubbling within a natural reaction to an unjust society or is there something more sinister at play? --- Readers say: "A roller coaster of a story!" "I just loved this story. A fascinating insight into the gender question nested within a fascinating sci-fi premise!" "...a strong and powerfully written work by a skilled and mature writer. I highly recommend it!" -Elveloy, Wattpad Ambassador Featured: Amby Awards Winner Dystopian July 2022 Wattpad AdultFiction Book of the Month April 2022 Speculative Fiction Awards 2022 - WINNER Wattpad AdultFiction Lit List December 2021 Wattpad Stars Feature List September 2021 Contemporary Fiction Awards 2021 SHORTLIST ONC2021 LONGLIST Note: this novella describes a contemporary feminist dystopia and includes non-graphic scenes of sexual predation and violence. [[22,000 words]]

A girl. A monster. A love story. Based on ONC Prompt #11: The child was afraid of the monster under the bed. Until the monster needed help. (Not exactly a children's story like the original prompt, though, if the cover didn't tip you off. LOL. It's more of a paranormal romance, sort of, now.)

Ava, also known as the Death was sent to roam the human world for a week every hundred years. Her job was easy-- hunt souls to send them off. However, this time when she was sent back to do her job, she found herself trapped in this world because of the system error that had occur during her time of duty a hundred years ago.

A badass pirate girl. A crew of bickering men. A missing captain. An iguana. A treasure map. Add to that a mermaid, a bunch of manatees, and perhaps a capybara or two. These are the ingredients to a crazy and unexpected adventure across the seven seas. Will the crew stop bickering? Will they find the treasure? And how did the iguana end up as the captain of the ship?

Complete! Raizia has already died twice and she's not planning on dying again anytime soon. The 20-year-old necromancer makes ends meet by offering her resurrection services to a select few for an exorbitant fee. There's just one condition: she will only resurrect souls who have died within the past three days, and only for five minutes so they can share final goodbyes with their loved ones. But then she meets Aris, an attractive soldier reeling from the recent death of his mother. Raizia agrees to resurrect her, but when Aris ignores her cardinal rule, all hell breaks loose. As punishment for his deed, Raizia binds the soldier into her service. But Aris isn't going to come quietly... Fantasy ~ Romance ~ Adventure ~ Novella - - - Written for the 2021 Open Novella Contest, based on prompt #66: When you die, you come back. But you never come back the same. There's always a price to pay for resurrection... Open Novella Contest 2021 Round One Ambassador Pick and Short Lister Completed! Image by Rav89 on Deviantart.

To make ends meet now that her husband has died in combat, Patrice accepts the only job going in the small town-backbreaking work picking fruit for the local farmer. When the farmer asks Patrice to move the cows into the lower field, she thinks nothing of it until one cow decides to go on an adventure through the wrong gate. After moving the cow, Patrice notices a glowing gem in the long grass. Patrice decides that it has to be returned to its owner and assumes that the shadowy figure in the distance is that person. Transfixed by the stone and its magical powers, Patrice chases after the mysterious figure, forgetting about the world behind her. The true owner is Jarek, a merciless elf king who has little time for the games that the crystal is playing. Jarek's plans for returning to his world after the battle to save the humans in their global war are thrown into disarray when he realises that the stone will not return to him. Jarek has no choice but to do everything within his power to get it back. Without the crystal, he will die. One small stone will cause chaos for Jarek and Patrice when it binds itself to her and refuses its rightful owner. Determined to get his crystal back, Jarek takes Patrice to his world. He knows that the clerics will have an answer. Neither Jarek nor Patrice will be pleased with what they offer. With time running out, they must do what is necessary to save a king with no heir. © This story is copyrighted. No part may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of T.M. Watkins (xMishx) 2021

Everyone wants to escape the phase, they don't like. Life is unpredictable, we just can't make plans and hop on everything to be perfect like a piece of cake. Like the impurities in metals somehow our ill habits comes out. We keep on excusing ourselves. No way I don't wanna sound so like an adult. I just wanna say thanks to my sweet 16th birthday that kinda eke out the extreme verge in me. The ups and downs are well, I am an optimist and I can take it the way, it has been laid. Let me mark some question to y'all dear readers How can you forget something which keeps on daunting you every morning and night? You wanna find a space, don't you? Then, You ESCAPE, isn't? The caps says it all. It's colossal to think how ended we are. I am Georgia, I have been dealing a lot through my teenage (having a crush on someone who's never or barely gonna give you a chance kinda nerd you can guess and also gotten up with rumours with the most reluctant stoned senior who you hated the most of the time, which I had no idea that gonna totally change my life) but I guess everyone in their teenage had something similar. Being happy resemblance is all we do even in that state when were are total miserable. Whenever you try to get away from something, more in general try to Escape, don't you get back to the same part of the map which you were ignoring. Same what happened to me, love life never entertained it just a cling to another misery. We don't really get out from the shits we are dealing with until and unless we learn the lesson. Markus is so shy and Fin whom I just see as a friend feels a hundred bunch of emotions for me. That's a general simple teenage story but uh huh it doesn't end here There comes the greatest part of the teen life THE Rumours. I ain't sabotaging my feelings but it hurts. I don't know how to respond, quiet ambition about my reputation. HEY! that wasn't the end, it was the beginning story of a good girl falling for an extremely outrageous insane guy.

Every year since the second Open Novella I've kept a writing journal and this is the one for this year.

Duchess Andreya Marivatan was murdered at the age of twenty-two. It was during the hours the pool of night was deepest, Andreya soundlessly asleep in silk sheets behind the curtains of her elegant canopy bed. By the time she awoke to a noise, the deed had already been done and her sheets dripped with a deep vermillion stain. That was the first time Andreya met death, and it would not be the last. The death that knew everyone did not know Andreya - not even so much as her name - and because of it Andreya could not die. So she survived and forgot, the stains on her bedsheets becoming naught but a dream. It took many years for Andreya to realize she had not grown a day older since she had died, however, and that in a society where status is dictated by age, it would not be long before she had visitors on her doorstep asking questions she did not know how to answer. The reason behind her youthful features. The explanation behind her lack of scars. Andreya Marivatan was an impossible woman who wanted nothing more than to have died the night she was killed, and Andreya Marivatan was determined to get her wish. ❉ ❉ ❉ - First draft: COMPLETE & EDITING (all suggestions welcome :>) - Shortlister in the Open Novella Contest 2021: prompts 22, 57, 62, 66, 71, and 87. Main prompt 66. - Featured Ambassador's pick: @WattpadDarkFantasy "Dark Desires" list - Highest ranking: 64 in #darkfantasy, 4/26/2021 - 1st place in Historical Fiction, Coral Awards 2021

Getting married is not on Imogen Kaiser White's bucket list. She'd be more likely to want to jump off a cliff then to ever get married. So, when her parents tell her must get married she does what any rational teenager would do, she runs away and joins the outlaw academy, a school known for producing some of the best of the worst villains, including her mother's enemy the Evil Queen. It starts out as all fun and games but when she must decide if she wants to lead on with this new life or go back to being a high and mighty princess she's stuck in the crossroads. What will she choose? And will the villains be okay knowing a princess is walking amongst them or will she be kicked out? Prompt 84: This academy isn't a typical boarding school. No, it's where kids train to become villains - if they pass the entrance test, that is. Nobody at the academy knows you're descended from heroes, and that's the way you'd like it to stay. Previously Outlaws academy

Bram's world relies on the clocks. Time is the only thing that can be trusted to be reliable, and so, time controls everything. Every bit of machinery, every person's schedule is precise down to the second. The clocks keep the world running, and the Timekeeper keeps the clocks alive. An anonymous figure cloaked in mystery, the Timekeeper is responsible for making sure the clocks are aligned with the universe's time. A clock running late could cause the whole system to slowly decay into complete chaos. And so when the Timekeeper disappears, it doesn't take long for cracks to start appearing, and Bram notices his world starting to fall apart. When he finds himself in possession of a mysterious amulet that carries him to places he never knew existed, he makes it his mission to try and follow the Timekeeper's path, winding through a maze of universes and worlds, racing against time itself. ------------- Written for 2021 open novella contest :D Uses prompt 76: "There are two things keeping this world operating: The clockwork system, and the dimension-traveler."

1969. It was the year of Manson's helter-skelter, the year we put a man on the moon, and the year two strangers watched the world end in a mushroom cloud of nuclear war. 1966. This was a much better year. Well, for everyone except twenty-two-year-old Annie Edwards. Because it was the year she first saw the blonde-haired boy in her dreams. And although she believed in science, her gut told her these visions might somehow be connected to bizarre experiments happening on campus. As Annie and the mystery man known as Dimitri watch the world erupt in their dreams, they realize that the only way to save their countries, and the world, from nuclear destruction is to work together. They'll uncover the powers of dreams and nightmares, delve into hallucinogenics and insanity, and blur the line between the waking world and their subconscious. A race to space, a delusion of mind control, and the end of the world. Welcome to an experiment in dreams, drugs and war. -.. .-. . .- -- ... / -.. .-. ..- --. ... / .-- .- .-. inspired by prompts: "𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎." - #𝟼𝟿 "𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖." - 𝙴𝚍𝚐𝚊𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚘𝚎 - #𝟹𝟸 -.. .-. . .- -- ... / -.. .-. ..- --. ... / .-- .- .-. published: 24/02/2021 highest ranking: ---

When Rin imagined meeting her mate she did not expect their first meeting to be of him wounded and kneeling in her father's throne room slowly dying. What was more shocking was how she healed him without a second thought because she couldn't bear his pain and even going as far as kissing him slightly forgetting everyone in the room including her father who did not look in anyway pleased. She is torn between two sides. The right one blurred in-between them both. Each holding a consequence she just might not be ready to face. Her father who is grooming her to be exactly like him, a merciless tyrant. Or Her mate who wants her to forsake all she's ever known and in doing so choose him and his people, the rebels. *** 'Rin I care about you. The moment you let them conquer your mind from something as weak as your heart you have already lost. They will use that spymaster to dethrone me and once they do that they will disgard you for your blood relation to me. Understand. I have to protect you Rin even if it hurts you. You're my little girl.' *** Written for the open novella contest 2021. Longlisted for the open novella contest 2021.