Onc2021 storie

It's official, the Open Novella Contest is back again for a fourth edition! And the African community is hosting one! 13 weeks to write 2OK words minimum. Ready for the challenge?

{ONC2021 2nd Place Overall, Round Two Ambassador Picks & Shortlist} When Max O'Brien receives an almond with a skull painted on it, he initially plays it off as a prank. But, after his wife leaves town, he begins discovering more of the nuts hidden around the house. More disturbing than that is that some unseen intruder is keeping an accurate running count. The more almonds Max finds, the stranger things get. Mysterious noises. Moving Objects. Damaged valuables. It's a haunting that grows in power with each success in the involuntary scavenger hunt. As the almonds pile up so do the threats until Max realizes he may just not survive. __________ ONC2021 Prompt 62 Cover by @mensemortuis 1st Place in Horror/Paranormal - The Opulence Writer's Awards Also posted on Royal Road

I love the Open Novella Contest for finding new stories by authors I've never met before and I'd love to share some authors with you that maybe you have never found before. This book will be slowly filled with authors and books of all genres and styles and places in the writing journey. I do believe every book in here has something special to be shared, and I hope the variety allows you to find some things you like. My intention is to keep this book updated with books currently updating, whether they remain in the contest or not, because I think the ultimate goal of having a complete story at the end is the most important part, regardless of the success in the judging rounds.

✬ 2021 Round One Ambassador Picks ✩ Round One Qualifier ✪ Formerly titled 'The Chocolate Thief' Verdura, the land of Vegetablis. Earth - erstwhile home to Humans. Earth is devoid of most of its human population, but the Humans have not finished with Earth. For Earth is the only place they know where Chocolate can grow. But when Humans discover that there is another planet where Cacao can flourish, they are desperate to use Verdura for growing more cacao trees to meet the never ending demand for chocolates. Verdura is troubled when a pumpkin spy is captured. Of all their fears, Humans are dreaded the most and the Vegetablis and Fructus are terrified of being discovered. The Vegetablis and Fructus get help from an unexpected ally, the Earth Warriors, who despite being Humans themselves, do not agree with the greedy practices of the rest of their species. It is the War for Chocolate, one that would end in disaster for one or more of the planets involved. ❉ Genre: Children's Fiction with a dash of fantasy ❉ Submission for ONC 2021 - based on prompt 37

The Combat Anticipative Tactical Analysis Logical Artificial Intelligence Nuerosuite--CATALAIN for short--was the last hope of a dying nation, in a world about to be blanketed by a single global regime. She failed spectacularly. Broken, guilt-racked, and having lost everything, the last existing fragment of CATALAIN, or Caitlyn as she prefers to be called, destroys portions of her own code to prevent reactivation and shuts down for what she hopes will be the final time. Nineteen years later, Caitlyn is brought back online against her will by young members of a desperate resistance facing genocide in a nightmarish world where the global government has ordered the extermination of eighty percent of the world's population. Unable to shut herself down, a literal fraction of what she once was, and missing any of the data that might have helped figure out what destroyed her, Caitalyn is forced to confront both her past and her future in a war she never had any chance of winning.

[ONC 2021 Longlist] **Only published on Wattpad Marcus, a young farm boy with few expectations in life finds himself suddenly intertwined with a powerful race of immortal warriors destined to watch over mankind, as he discovers a newfound power of his own. Based on prompt # 25 for the ONC 2021.

*entry for ONC 2021* prompt thirty-three: when a loved one dies, the person is lost. until, they find a jar of fortune notes which leads them to read each one every day. how does the journey start and end? ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ Milana Fallaci doesn't believe in love. After the death of her mother and the heartbreak left by her ex-boyfriend, she has struggled to get herself back up on her feet. Connections of the emotion, love, is something she doesn't want to relearn and she wants to ignore the whole meaning of it as much as possible. But when a jar of love letters mysteriously appears in her locker, and a lover from the past waltzes back into her life, her view on the emotion shifts. Not only is she experiencing a sense of hope, but she's also hell-bent on figuring out who lies behind the poems and scribbled writing. Letter after letter, secrets are revealed, truths are spilled and lies are spread. Emotions resurface, bonds are formed, memories are created and the past is forgiven. But what happens when Milana catches feelings? Will she chase after them and give up on the anonymous love-note writer? Or will she choose an anonymous identity over a face she can visibly see? 'Violets are Blue' is a thrilling romance novella that follows Milana Fallaci, a heartbroken teen, on a journey that requires her to open up the wounds she had hid for years, let go of her past and allow herself to follow her heart. © myrawritess 2021. all rights reserved.

"I want that fairy tale love at first sight kind of story." Zayan Patel is a romantic at heart who's determined to leave his love life up to fate. Except fate got a bit distracted leaving Zayan with only a one-day memory to cling to. That and the jacket the man he fell for left behind. Kyrell Starr is a realist who doesn't exist. When his band is signed following a performance at a major music festival, Kyrell couldn't be happier. Then he was booted from the group for being "not handsome enough to justify his presence" and the bottom fell out of his world. He dropped his stage name and went into hiding. How much time needs to pass to heal Kyrell's wounds? How long will it take fate to realize it left a story unfinished? ______________________________ Cover image credit to https://www.pexels.com/@ketut-subiyanto Zayan Patel is a support character in an upcoming book. **I've started publishing that story - Can't Let You Go. Check my profile for the link! THANKS!** If you like this story, please follow me to get a notification when that book releases. XOXO

"Perhaps I am too biased to speak on this matter, given that everything I have, everything I have achieved or had the strength to fight for, I owe to her. Because she showed me how beautiful and how miserable my life could be, only if I chose to make it so. Because she made me the person I am today. My name is Sophia Clarice Stuart, and this is the story of a villain." Davina Hart, a once beloved war hero, now an infamous murderer in prison, and Sophia Stuart, a poor village girl, two women who have nothing in common will cross their paths and form an unbreakable bond that will change them both.

Who will she choose? Upon her parent's last wishes, Adelina Clarke is forced to retire to the English countryside with a grandmother and uncle she's never met. Elevated from Baroness to Marchioness she must navigate the whirlwind of her first debutante season and the sprouts of new love. Adelina may be promised to a nobleman but will title and money be enough to keep her from someone else? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Navigate Regency Era England in this edge-of-your-seat romance. Bridgerton meets Scandal in a collision of steamy, swoon-worthy literature. Title creds go to Izzy Prompt #79: "Thanks to your parent's last will and testament, you find yourself living out in the English countryside with the grandmother you'd never met before and an apparent servant whose only goal is to make you fall in love with them. The problem here is that this grandmother has already promised your hand in marriage to a noble in line for the throne."

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

after a tragic accident, two elves embark on a life-changing quest to win each other's hearts · fantasy, ongoing · ONC 2021 SUBMISSION · © voiucris 2021

Hayley Taylor was looking forward to a drama free senior year, spent with her three best friends. She was content with her mediocre social status in school and admiring her long time crush and neighbour Charlie Boyd from afar. All that changes when she is included in a group text by accident throwing her life into chaos and potentially the arms of Charlie. She knows she has to stand up for what's right, but at what cost? *Open Novella Contest 2021 entry* Prompt 73. In a group chat you reply to a message that was not aimed at you and yet you inadvertently start something with your crush.

You are being hunted by a spirit, that seems to be taking revenge from you due to an uknown reason,in the form of a cat. at first you thought it was all your illusion, and its a simple harmless stray cat, until it Dynamically starts changing the direction of your life from peaceful to chaos. The strange things that start happening around your house, had you wondering whether you are mad, or the cat possessed. The cat was vengefully tasty for your blood, saying" you needed to pay for your sins". Which sin is it talking about??? Follow my account @amreetakaigama to find out more about what really happened.

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?

What will you wish for if you can be alive again? And what will you offer if someone can bring you back to life? You can get your precious life back but need to sacrifice something to earn it. What will it be?

an OpenNovellaContest IV entry inspired by the prompts #73 and #63. ONC2021 - let's paint the sky, in colors of yellow, red and blue, let's listen to the thunder, and watch out for lightning. let's drown in the sea and find back to shore. let's climb back to our feet and run. let us fight free and love. - wlw urban fantasy with vampires, magic, unicorns & rainbows.

Guardians, those who have swore to protect humanity's freedom even at the cost of their own lives. This is who Takiaya is-or was. Now everything has changed. Only a scarce few of the Guardians remain, and Takiaya can't bring herself to trust another human again, not after what happened. But when one boy saves her, she can't help start to wonder. Is all of humanity as cruel as she thought? And if not, is there some good still worth saving?

Is it a gift or a curse to always come back to life after you die?