Onc2022 Stories

Adin wants to go rock climbing. They go to the local sporting goods store to buy equipment. Everything seems to be going as planned, until they are half-way up the mountain and they run into problems that they never thought could exist. Problems of the fire-breathing, flying kind.

For Thea Bāo, the girl who once saw her entire life shatter right before her eyes, life is a mere game. The twisted and rotten kind. One sprinkled with action and explosions. Her one aspect in life: to succeed where her father failed. For Sebastian Wang, a boy alluring as the night sky, life means something else. Something he's searched for in every inch of the world. Something that's never been found till this day. Something lost but very close by to himself, scattered within. Those ambitions and dreams he once longed for. Simply gone. Only remaining as a fragment of the life he once lived. The one before the continuous conspiration and assassinations. They both hung in the sky like luminous stars. Close... but never close enough to meet. Never closer enough to feel the presence of each other. Glittering high in the sky, like two shining beacons in the sky, both sharing a story filled with grief and heartbreak. But when a fatal discovery brings both shining stars to collide with each other, both worlds intertwine, and tragedy stricks, leaving the brewing tension in the air unquestioned.

When one door closes, another window opens. Meet Jang Miyeon and Park Siwoo, two strangers who meet after experiencing devastating life-changing events. Life can change in a split second, but different people adapt to changes differently. When her boyfriend of four years suddenly proposes a breakup, Miyeon's daily routines change drastically. To get over him and fill the vacancy in her heart, she decides to fulfil the bucket list they planned together alone. In another part of the city, under the same sky, Siwoo receives news that his girlfriend of seven years has lost her life in a tragic traffic accident. Things go south from this moment on, and it feels like the world is against him. With the encouragement of his family, he decides to fulfil their bucket list to honour her life. As the two meet while trying to heal from the pain of loss, they decide to help each other fulfil their bucket lists. Amid their grief, perhaps they can form the light at the end of each other's tunnel. *** [Open Novella Contest 2022] Prompt #74: After a bad breakup, you decide to fulfil the bucket list that you had planned with your ex-partner alone. On halfway through fulfilling your bucket list, you meet a person who is going through the exact same situation and you decide to help this person out. Ideated: 1 February 2022 Started: 26 February 2022 Completed: Ongoing

Jenna struggles to balance her parents' impending divorce with her terrifying and seemingly unallowed feelings for the new girl at school. ~*~ After her dad moves out of the house, Jennavieve Nass refuses to accept the possibility of her parents divorcing and blames her mom for not even making an attempt to make things go back to the way they were. Attempting to distract herself from all of it, Jenna falls into music more than she ever has before, coming to rely on her carefully curated playlists to get her through each day. It's all fine - Jenna has her music, and the animals at the animal shelter she volunteers at, and, to an extent, school (because of her friends and her on-and-off boyfriend of two years). And she also has her dad, even though he may not be living with her anymore. Then Aislinn Garcia moves into town. Aislinn, a girl who is pretty and smart and friendly, a girl who carries a camera everywhere and takes pictures of practically everything, and a girl who makes Jenna's heart race in a way she desperately tries to ignore. Suddenly, everything Jenna thought she knew about herself - and her parents - gets upended in a dizzying spiral until she's left floundering for a foothold in a cliff that's constantly transforming, changing shape before she can even begin to understand it. To Jenna, the solution is simple: Ignore everything she doesn't want to deal with (which turns out to be a lot of things). But that, as she's quick to find out, proves harder than she'd originally thought. --- [ trigger warnings: homophobia, both internal and displayed by side characters ] All Rights Reserved © 2022 ( Cover credit goes to @Lueur_laVespine )

∘∘ ©┋𝗞𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗡 ❍Graphics ❍Narration ❍Plot ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Seeking Infinite life is not unusual. But, being immoral to others in this process is debatable▬Seeing the difference is not so easy. ═─────── ꗄ ───────═ Cassandra Wood is a 12 and half years old charming girl, living with her parents and two-year-old sibling in the UK. Curious Cassy never stops to ask out her doubts. Nanny-ma is the credit to Cassy's love for stories. Her fantasy lives in those characters who were misunderstood. Always has soft spot for them even villains are included in that list. Her Brilliant plan is to read her favorite series which has published its third book in 1999 on the Christmas Holidays. Yet, she just begin the 1-2* books ╮ Visiting her countryside Grandma's house▰ ❛ Will be her boon or bane? ❜ Holidays passed merrily but her plan is at stake on the last day. ⌕ Does every Grandma's story have to be ╼ fictional ╾ ? ═─────── ꗄ ───────═

Sarah has become a bounty hunter to rescue her sister Melina. She tries and fails to protect her sister from the other bounty hunters and the police. Among them, one has become her ally. It is just that Det. Kim Kitsuragi is a video game character! Has she gone mad? Strange voices murmurs in her head, guiding her steps. Can she change destiny and save the girl?

Since Clara was seven, Danny had always been there. Her best friend, her confidant, her safe port in any storm. He was her constant. The one unchangeable point in her life. It started so innocently, their last night at high school. She couldn't have known that the one constant person in her life was going to become The One she had always looked for. She had one summer to figure things out before University and the beginning of the rest of their lives. Prompt 99!

Between 1813 and 1819, the great composer, Ludwig van Beethoven almost disappeared from public life. Many stories passed about the reason, but none could ever hope to know the truth. Until now. In 1818, Bernhard Gerber experiences something terrifying and heartbreaking, bringing him in contact with the great man, Beethoven, himself. Though Beethoven proves nothing like the person known all across Europe. Between them, the two men take on the task of ridding the world of the greatest horror ever to walk the Earth and, in the process, perhaps lay to rest both men's greatest tragedies and guilt. A deadly serious story with a character that doesn't know it. And doesn't care. A novella, written for #ONC2022. Based upon Prompt No. 70 and in the 'Creature Feature' category. Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

Army brat Emily Barfield just wants to experience a normal year of high school before she and her family move back to the States right before her senior year of high school. She'd love to be Homecoming Queen (impossible, according to her best friend) and go out with quarterback Riley Jones, Edelweiss High's Mr. Everything (even more impossible). But maybe, just maybe, all of it is within her grasp--if she can learn to believe in herself. Based on ONC 2022 Prompt 97: For a school magazine, you're supposed to take individual interviews of the soccer/football team players. You are now hesitant to interview someone whom you've been admiring for years now.

The time is up, yet why is she still breathing? · There can only be one witch or warlock every hundred years - crumbling to ashes once they've reached their time. It's been two weeks since Verona Frost turned 100 years old, and she's still alive. . Began: 16/02/22

Edin finds himself in a strange situation when he want to help his friend. A situation that will shake up his whole lifetime. Cover image credits: DominicTran2017

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Takahashi. When Suzuki Reika has a steamy kissing session with a hottie in the pub, she doesn't expect him to be the boyfriend of her new roommate. Imagine the shock on both their faces when the two meet in front of said roommate. When Takahashi asks her to keep their encounter at the pub under wraps, Reika is stumped. With her roommate and potential new best friend having a shifty boyfriend, Reika struggles between telling the truth, risking their blooming friendship and potentially giving a false narrative, and being an accomplice to her boyfriend's infidelity. And it certainly doesn't help that Takahashi insists that things are really not as simple as they seem with eyes that tell Reika that he is telling the truth. *** [Open Novella Contest 2022] Prompt #88: Last night was your first night on the university campus. You went to the pub and ended up having a steamy kissing session with a hottie. When your new roommate moved in today, though, you discovered your hottie is your new roommate's significant other. Ideated: 2 February 2022 Started: 27 February 2022 Completed: Ongoing

Born in 51BC, Professor James Scott Hamlin is about to quit his job that he has held since the late 1990s. Across Europe, someone is killing Hamlin's friends and relatives. This is my entry for ONC2022 using prompt: 44. The year was 27 B.C when you helped an individual escape their imprisonment. Before parting ways, they asked you to make a blood oath. Once done, they told you that as long as they lived, you would too. Nearly 2000 years have passed since and you continue to search for them each and every day.

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A ghost on the archaeological excavation of a Roman cemetery sounds like a perfect opportunity for Sandrine and Matt, founders of Ghost Guard Inc., to showcase their talent. But when they arrive on Vic's dig site to investigate, the ghost already disappeared - only to pop up in the museum's depot the next day. What should have been a piece-of-a-cake case becomes complicated when the police turns up to investigate a break in. And what is the connection to the mysterious lead tablet found 33 years ago across town? A Ghost Guard cosy mystery This story was originally written for ONC 2022, following the prompt #67: While working on a case, you come across a newspaper dated 25 years ago, and when you start reading it, an article catches your attention.

In which Adeana Coleman has to interview Oliver Tate for the school paper, except she's been madly in love with him since the fifth grade. Prompt 97: For a school magazine, you're supposed to take individual interviews of the football team players. You are now hesitant to interview someone whom you have been admiring for years now. Cover credit to: @-hotterthxnhell

ONC22: Prompt 70 His eyes were cold and lifeless as he stared at me. You have no idea who I am, do you? Mara is ready to be released from the hospital following a gunshot to the head. She should be dead, but was her miraculous recovery due to science or something very different?

The Sun has gone out and no one knows why. But the vampires don't seem to mind.

To a truth mirror, she asked skin glistening like glass. "Famed is thy beauty, Queen, known far and wide. Halt your advances, for now, you stand side to side. The veil can not hide her kindness nor her grace. Alas, my queen, she is the fairest of the fair. In soul and in face." She becomes enraged but could not punish what stood before her because the truth mirror never lies. Antalya Graves finds herself owning more than she thought she would from her friend's death. She's given everything from this man's will. His estate, his company, and the mysteries of Fairfield Manor. Most say it's haunted. But being a firm believer in rationality and science brushes it off. Until she spots a figure while taking off her headscarf.

Mesuka village needs a new alpha after the oldest son dies and the younger one must take his place. Mika, who had always lived in his brother's shadow, was cast into the role.