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Florist, Anya is determined that this will be the year her career blooms like the sweet jasmines she's tended to. She's in for a rude shock when she rents a building only to find out that it's been given to gorgeous and confident Kaynath, who owns her family confectionery. Kaynath never intended to get in her way to jeopardize her business but it's not her fault that the town has come to adore her sweets and chosen her. Recruiting the help of Mirza, her long time best friend, who runs a Bridal boutique, she vows to take over the building and make her business flourish. Mirza doesn't want to be caught in their drama, especially since Kaynath is her regular customer and she adores her best friend. She proposes that whoever makes the most sales after a month gets to keep the building permanently, which they both oblige to. Anya soon finds out that maybe she's got a sweet tooth not just for one, but maybe two people after all, if she can handle the secrets under the sweet sugar glaze and glamorous veils.

✨️ONC 2023 Shortlisted✨️ 'And I knew then, with an earth-shattering certainty, that everything I'd worked for, strived for, suffered for, had just turned to dust. My life as I knew it, scattered along the pavement with shards of windscreen and the contents of my stomach.' As the ruling queen of her elite private school, Annabel Sinclair has the brains and ruthlessness to go far. But an unexpected pregnancy and an 'incident' with a golf club and her ex-boyfriend's car leaves her expelled and disowned by her friends. Suddenly she's shipped off to the wrong side of town and forced to live with her estranged dad. If that isn't enough drama to deal with, his eccentric neighbours, the Grady's come into her life. Annabel doesn't need their unique blend of chaos as she's desperately trying to cling onto her old life. And she definitely doesn't need the spark that's growing between her and Connor Grady... ✨️Open Novella Contest 2023 entry✨️ Prompts - 69. I had a marvellous time ruining everything - Taylor Swift 44. Music is the bridge that can join together people regardless of their differences. Connect your diverse characters through their love of music. Trigger warning - references and detailed descriptions of pregnancy.

When Ethan Johnson wakes up with a dead body next to him and a duffel bag full of money, he has no memory of how he got there. As he tries to uncover the truth about his past, he discovers that he possesses an alien artifact, a key that operates a gate to the various 'memory storehouses' in the galaxy. With the help of his fellow Team Agent, Sharon Michaels, Ethan must follow through with a dangerous mission to save the Earth or all of humanity's memories will be harvested and lost forever.

This is my entry for the OCN 2023. Dan had never been to the Adirondacks and thought it was time he remedied that situation. The Adirondack Railroad just felt like the proper way to do it. An avid photographer, he filled his memory cards with images of mountain lakes and woodland wild life. A newly formed, large sinkhole attracts his attention and he takes copious pics. Back home ,reviewing the pics with his girlfriend, the two are shocked at what they find. Is that a dead body? And what are they doing with it? The pair must now return to the mountain village to slake their curiosity.

Eset is finally at peace. But for some, the war still isn't over and old grudges reveal long forgotten secrets.

Humankind has long since perished. But life goes on. Nature is slowly reclaiming the planet. A fire forces a young red fox named Kip to flee her den for the first time. Now alone and left half-blind, Kip must struggle to find refuge for herself and her two cubs. One thing is for certain: this nascent and feral world is just as dangerous as ever. --- ONC Prompt 13: You were at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and now you are running for your life! Cover art drawn by me.

||WATTY WINNER 2023🌟|| Two strangers pretend to be a couple to win a dumb bet. The wager: they must enrol in couples therapy and fool their counselor. _________ Six non-refundable couples counseling sessions. That's how many Clementine booked for him and his girlfriend to sort out their relationship problems. What he didn't see coming was getting dumped as soon as he informed her of it. Enter Everett, a chaotic, curly-haired boy who barges into Clementine's life. He offers to fake date and attend the counseling sessions with Clementine. Unfortunately, they are both idiots. Did they really believe they could safely fake-date in a Wattpad book and NOT fall in love? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Might bring to mind: "Heartstopper" but with a ton more baking and fake dating 🌈 🎼🎶 This book has a Spotify playlist with a song for each chapter. To download it you can search me on Spotify @itsmeimthevampire - the playlist name is "Idiots To Lovers." 🏅🏅🏅 Watty Winner 2023. Shortlisted in the Open Novella Contest 2023. Featured on Wattpad profiles: @Lgbtq @FreeTheLgbt @Romance 🏆🏆🏆 #2 lgbt #2 lgbtq 📆 10/5/23 #4 gay 21/5/23 #4 bxb 14/5/23 #5 boyxboy 13/5/23 #1 gayromance 5/5/23 #1 gayshipsareyayships 14/5/23 Written for ONC2023 using prompt 39: On a blind date with a complete mismatch, you're increasingly uncomfortable but too polite to leave. Then an attractive stranger comes over and gives you an out.

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝- 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐈 In a small town, nestled in the heart of the countryside, lived a young boy named Luci. Luci was a quiet, introspective child who had always found it difficult to understand his own emotions, let alone those of others. He struggled to connect with his peers and often felt like an outsider, even within his own family. One day, as Luci sat alone in his bedroom, he had an epiphany. He realized that what he was missing in his life was love - not just romantic love, but love in all its forms. He knew that he needed to go on a journey to find it. So, with nothing but a backpack and a sense of determination, Luci set out on his quest. He didn't know where he was going or what he was looking for, but he knew that he would recognize love when he found it. As he journeyed through many places, Luci encountered all kinds of people and experiences. He met kind strangers who showed him compassion, and gruff old men who taught him the value of toughness. He found beauty in nature and in the small moments of everyday life. But despite all of this, Luci still felt like he hadn't found what he was looking for. He had seen love, but he had not yet felt it. As he continued on his journey, Luci began to feel discouraged. He wondered if he would ever find the love he was seeking. But just when he was about to give up, he stumbled upon something unexpected - something that would change his life forever. And so begins the story of a young boy on a journey to find love - a story that will take him to the ends of the earth and back, and teach him what it truly means to love and be loved.

Jade Snow by day, Sapphire Bullseye by night. Sandshore. A place of beauty and disaster. She is one of the top assassins in the underworld. Sent out to kill and steal. Nothing is too challenging for this woman but what happens when she is sent on a mission to Frostbourne to assassinate the Prince. Secrets will be revealed. Fights will break out and those they loved will die in the crossfire. Cover by @-DeeIsDead--

After their mother is mysteriously killed, Ethiel and Tifa start seeing ghosts. Their Aunt decides to move to their mother's home with them, hoping to provide them a better life. However, in the new house, Ethiel and his sister find a strange mirror in the working room of their mother that takes them to another world, Anigma. One after the other, they discover shocking secrets about her from the videos she has left for them in a flash drive. With nothing more than a few leads from her videos and some help from her other-worldly friends, the two siblings must finish the quest she started in order to be granted three wishes, in hopes of saving Animga from doom and also to bring her back to life. Will Ethiel and Tifa be able to fulfill the last request of their mother and get to see her again? Read and find out. -------- ONC 2023 prompts I will be using: Prompt 29 -------- COPYRIGHTED ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 2023 P. Kumaran Pandian Cover illustrated by P. Kumaran Pandian

When a grandmother is declared the Chosen One, she abandons her rocking chair to challenge the Dark Lord who plots to destroy the world. -- Formerly a single mother, now a devoted grandma, Granny Thayer has never left her hometown before, let alone slayed a demon. But she'd better learn fast; she's just been selected as the Chosen One, the only hero who can defeat the nefarious Dark Lord of Devnia and avert a zombie apocalypse. Accompanied by a devastatingly handsome prince, a failed bard, and a werewolf with a dangerous secret, Granny Thayer embarks on a quest full of intrigue and love triangles to save her grandson. This is a collaboration for ONC 2022/2023, written by SophieKestrel and Spelunkadunk. Prompt: "It's always what/who you least expected that blows your mind away."

𝘈𝘳𝘪 𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The invitation was bad enough. So were the blatantly cursed artefacts that were actually being auctioned in the first place. But when Ari is dragged into the midst of a complicated historical mystery, the stakes are raised through the roof. The most dangerous of the, again, blatantly cursed objects up for auction has been stolen, and if Ari and his new friends want any hope of saving - and surviving - the day, they're going to have to help track it down again. Sounds easy enough, but nothing's ever as easy as it seems when magic's involved. And only time can tell how this story is going to end...

Every month, young death witch Rune Doverey must bind the gateway to the necropolis that hides beneath his bed. When he fails for the first time, the consequences prove worse than he could have ever imagined, and he knows he won't be able to fix it alone. Enter teen Reaper, Zander Sealey, rather literally. Despite the fact that Zander is far from Rune's biggest fan, thanks to the whole 'making his job a lot harder' part of accidentally unbinding the underworld, both of them know they're going to have to work together if they want any hope of getting the escaped spirits back where they belong. But it's not just ghosts, and something bigger is stirring. The only question is how long everyone else can hold out.

A plague covers the land. No one is safe from its hold, magic and non-magic wielders alike. Sending its victims, the Infected, into insanity, the plague has claimed more lives then any war. Leuitant Colonel Luthera Griffith is the leader of one of the many battalions fighting the Infected. She is killed on the line of duty, but when she wakes up alive and as a Returned, she is given a second chance to end the plague, and find the traitor who led to her and her brother's death. Fuelled with a rage and hunted by Reapers only intent on maintain the natural balance of life and death, Luthera races against time to regroup with her battalion and try to save whats left of this dying civilization.

Elizabeth-Annebelle lived her life on the family farm. She gathered the animals for breakfast, helped clean and feed them, and reported any deaths or weird behaviors. One day, when she goes to report a death, she finds out that she's become a ghost. When trying to find out what to do, she finds two doors. Opening one, she releases many w into the living world. Now her and the Grim Reaper have to work together to return the souls.

Freshly promoted to second in command of his pack and burdened with new responsibilities in taking care of his depopulating pack, the only joy that remains in Tin's life is updating the blog he keeps on the sorry state of getting around in his neck of the woods. Given an urgent task by his ailing Alpha that thrusts him out of his comfort zone, can he juggle his new mission, new city, and new friends? Prompt #36

2023 Leighyeann A. Mies All rights reserved An entry for the Open Novella Contest 2023 (based on prompt #56) Book #3 of the Face saga [COMPLETED ON 30/4/2023] *** Everyone knows Sim Daejung, the master troublemaker from South Korea who took the state of New York by storm with his shenanigans. When it comes to getting other people spill their darkest secrets, he's unrivaled. Until just now. Jung Sanghyun is yet another hopeful who leaves his home country to find his way through the so-called American dream. Or nightmare, it depends on perspectives. Nevertheless, this doesn't deter him from his goal: delving into other people's inner demons, like Sim Daejung does. Put him in an elevator with six other people, and trouble is served...

What would you do if you on day awoke from a two-month long nap to find everyone, and everything had disappeared? Well, this is the story of what a fifteen-year-old did. With only a cat and her next-door neighbor to accompany her quest to discover: The Magic of September. prompt #66 (onc 2023)