Onc2021 Stories

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]]

Cherish thought she'd escaped her past years ago--settled down in some forgotten, sleepy town, gotten a steady job at the local library, and subtly hidden the witchcraft books donated from the local covens from the public. Cherish Harmond was wrong. Her cedar tree had screamed at her before dying on her front lawn that morning. Cherish hadn't even realized trees could scream. Faced with the desperate plea for help from a stranger, the past she thought she had successfully outrun has returned, and she must come to terms with it, to use her powers for good--because if she doesn't, she might unleash a curse onto her sleepy, normal hometown forever. **Submission for ONC 2021 ***Please note, this is also available on Amazon via ebook and paperback***

When fierce, reckless Nika Adair is sent to take The Ravens Academy For Young Villains entrance exam by her mentor, she's confused as to why she's been enrolled in the biggest villain school in Kavanhar instead of the biggest heroes school; The Pheonix Academy For Young Heroes. Both of her parents are heroes . . . right? *** Darkest Daring Divine is a gripping YA Fantasy set in a Dystopian world. Where villains fight heroes, Wyzards mentor others, and Nika Adair discovers the missing half of her soul.

⭐Featured on OpenNovellaContest 2021 Round 1 Ambassador Picks|| Bea, Ali, and Sez travel far across the Pacific ocean with their parents to live with their sick Lolo who owns a mango farm in the Philippine province. The siblings--foreign to the new land, language, and customs--find it difficult to adapt to their new home. One dewy morning while following a trail of ants in Lolo's small mango shed, the younger child Sez discovers a peculiar insect and catches it, but to his surprise, the insect screams. A tiny human girl scream. But the fairy was hurt and cannot walk nor fly. With the help of her new friends, the children decide to help the fairy find her way back home before she misses her coronation and her fairy family realizes she's missing or else something bad will happen to Lolo's mango farm. ONC prompt #7 Children's Fiction

(ONC 2021 Shortlisted) Lenny Legend works for the Intergalactic Government's Anti-Vigilante Agency. He's the best in the business, but he may have bitten off more than he could chew when he gets mixed up with the notorious and certifiably insane Captain Marmalade and his crew of misfits. *** ONC 2021: Prompt #6 "Your job is to track down vigilantes and infiltrate their groups, with the aim of gathering information and turning them into the authorities. You're successful at your job, until one day, a group of vigilantes changes everything."

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?

It was like fate tying two pieces together, an unhappy beginning, an even less happy ending, and a few brief moments of happiness in between. As a child, Akari Lovell always heard stories of a spirit guardian that lived at the peak of Mt. Sintane. She always assumed it was nothing but a myth, a fairytale used to spark wonder in a young mind; but with nothing left to lose and nowhere to go, she attempts to climb the peak only to be caught off guard by a raging snowstorm. This is truly our last dance then, isn't it, my love?" Her sapphire eyes were bright with tears that threatened to spill. When she awakes, Akari is surprised to find herself in a warm cottage, with a small translucent blue rabbit offering her a warm drink and someone who introduces herself as Mahina. I pulled her closer, unable to do anything else. "If it is, then make it shine brighter than any other." Both have their secrets, but nothing can stay hidden beneath the light of the moon for long, especially when you're falling in love with your dance partner.

Tais Montgomery has her life thrown in disarray after a near death car accident leaves her alive but takes the life of her parents. In the months that follow she has more questions than answers when she begins hearing disembodied whispers and feeling like she's being watched. That all comes to a head when the Angel of Death shows up on her doorstep dressed to kill. Sending her on the wildest hunt of her life. Entry into the Open Novella Contest. Prompt #57

Originally for ONC 2021 ------------------------------ To save their family, Eileen will have to put themselves on the line. The task is simple, but complex at the same time- they just have to infiltrate the Academy, where up and coming villains are trained. It would be pretty easy if it weren't for the fact that their hero descent was a huge problem. Eileen thinks it's no big deal, until they attend the Academy. Things were never as simple as they seemed. ------------------------------ Prompts used: Main 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. Other prompts: #1: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian" -From The Dark Knight. #4: You're a weapon and weapons don't weep.

Prompt: Death has records of everyone's existence. Except - according to Death - your records don't exist. _______________________________ PREVIEW You stumble forth into blackness. Past the threshold, there is nothing solid beneath your feet. You plummet into the oblivion below, clutching wildly at the emptiness around you. There is no sensation but the terror of freefall in the pit of your stomach and the freezing rush of air against your skin. Impenetrable darkness presses on your eyes. You fear that it will swallow you. You take solace in the fact that there is still air to breathe, even though every gasp seems to turn your lungs to ice. Distantly, you recall that hell is supposed to be firey and painful. In your desperation, you accept this comfort that you must be headed elsewhere. Without warning, your feet connect with something solid, and the impact shudders through your bones, leaving an agonizing ache in your knees as you collapse in a heap. You roll over, eyes meeting the sky. It's hazy and more grey than blue, but its wispy clouds provide the same relief as spotting a familiar face in a crowd of strangers. Death leans over you, obstructing your view. His empty sockets pull your thoughts back to the abyss, shattering all comfort. "Come on, I haven't got all day."

There's an unspoken rule on the island of Norholm, whose shores are haunted by sea nymphs that dwell deep beneath the ocean and only surface twice a year when the moon glows blue. The rule is: don't bother the sea spirits, and they won't bother you. Fionn Miller is not the best at following rules. Especially when there's a mystery to be uncovered. This story is being written for the Open Novella Contest, inspired by prompt #23.

[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the bronze giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years. Prompts chosen: (25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*) (60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate. (*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"

Fitness-trainer Winston settled in Corbeau Woods for a quiet life with his husband, free of the superstition and madness of his childhood. When a mysterious statue of an eye circulates the town, people go missing and he and his husband make a shocking discovery about their neighbour's inexplicable fate. After the statue lands on his doorstep, Winston must wrestle with his denial of the paranormal to avoid losing his husband and his life. 2nd place and Best Cover Horror Category The Berry Pancake Awards (2023) ONC Shortlister and Round 3 Ambassador's Pick (2021) 1st Place Winner Mystery/Thriller 'The Level Up Awards' 2021 WattpadDarkFantasy's 'Dark Arts' reading list (May 2022) PsychologicalNovel's 'Terrible Speculation' reading list (Sept 2021) Paranormal 'Chills and Thrills' reading list (Sept 2021) StoriesUndiscovered 'Can You See Me Now' reading list (Sept 2021) Ghost's 'Featured Ghostly Tales reading list (August 2021) Cover image credit: Perchek Industrie on Unsplash Story copyright 2021 Sarah Paradis

Monique and James have just moved to the county, to a house on the border of a wood, a dark wood, filled with magic and mystery. ****** When a mysterious door the size of an apple appears in the back of the garage, 10-year-old Monique and James have to investigate. After freeing a trapped fairy, the small magical creature tries to recruit the kids for a mission to save the dark wood and the fairy folk who live there. Monique jumps at the chance, but James is reticent. What could a couple of kids possibly do to save magical beings? If fairy magic can't save them, how could a couple of city kids? Regardless of his apprehension, James finds himself following his bold step-sister into the wood, the dark wood where magic is real and murderous beasts lurk. #OpenNovellaContest2021 Longlist

There is not just one princess in trouble in this Novella, but two. Both are in need of protection and only one can do the protecting. When Vondra meets the recently widowed Prince Sharzor, she finds herself disliking him and when they are together, she despises him all the more. For some reason, he seems to hate her and does his best to keep putting her in her 'place', believing she is either a servant or a crafty female criminal. But deeper emotions are at play in both of them and soon they will surface... This is to be a 'Novella', written for Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest and is about the seventeen-year-old princess, Vondra, who appears like an upper-class servant, certainly not a royally titled young woman. She is on the run and has no idea where she is or where she is going. She whispers, "I'm in heap of trouble and there is no way on this earth that I will go back. I don't fully believe in God, but as a last resort before I find a high cliff to throw myself off, I will pray and ask for help to become the woman my grandfather taught me to be."- He had told her, 'You're a weapon and weapons don't weep.' At the same time she wished to fulfill her Grandmother's prayers that she would 'be a woman of great wisdom, care, love, faith, hope and peace. I have placed this novella in the category 'Romance' as there was no category for 'Action-Romance' - the main romance doesn't happen right way because of the prince's loss and princess being in such trouble, she can only think of herself, of escaping and finding a normal life away from the restrictions of royalty. When the romance begins in earnest, it is intense. Enjoy.

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My first marriage was a mistake, therefore, divorce wasn't a surprise. My second marriage, with the same man?...Well, that was twice wrong. #OpenNovellaContest

It hadn't occurred to Esme that she should be suspicious of her parents, they were just ordinary people after all. But when an unknown number won't stop texting her, the questions start coming. Was the accident really the cause of her amnesia? Why did her parents speak five languages suddenly? How was it that Esme could suddenly assemble and disassemble guns? Who exactly was Agent 23? Maybe one of these days she could get back to her sappy daydreams of her incredible coworker. That itself seemed like a dream.

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.)

𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐑 ────────── 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡; 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 In a world where magic-wielders are prosecuted and branded with the punishment of death, there is no escape for Nyrinn Santyere. She is a Maga, one of the rare magic-wielders forced into hiding after the Extermination years ago, and she must find a way to survive in this broken world and stop the ruthless king from destroying her home. She is willing to trade her heart and soul for a chance to save her loved ones and put an end to this reign of terror. cover by @-lucifael- Round One and Two Qualifier for ONC2021