Onc25 Stories

---ONC 2025--- Princess Selene has lived her life within the safe confines of her kingdom's walls, her destiny sealed by an arranged marriage to the Demon King of a neighboring realm. The union, meant to prevent war and bloodshed, is her duty-but it's one she never wished for. Accompanied by Rael, the Demon King's cold and enigmatic royal guard, Selene embarks on a dangerous journey to the kingdom of Varethia. For the first time, she steps outside the palace's gilded shadow, her youthful optimism clashing with the harsh realities of the world beyond--where treachery, deception, and violence lurk at every turn. As they travel across wild lands and face threats both seen and unseen, Selene begins to see Rael in a new light. Their growing connection forces her to confront an impossible choice: honor her duty to her kingdom or follow the unexpected emotions blooming in her heart. Will she take the chance to choose her own fate and risk the lives of others, or will she fulfill her duty and sacrifice her heart for the sake of peace? Prompts: 20 days of freedom Falling in love with a demon was not on your wishlist

Nyla is sleeping with her boss, but who isn't? It's finally time for her to get a move on with her life and hope she can get out of this funk of choosing emotionally unavailable women. Now who's that cute neighbor over there?

"You are my voice, and I am your eyes," Audrey wrote to Ellis in their shared dream. Audrey Theodore, who is mute, has spent her entire life hiding a secret-she is a comic book artist in a world where art and entertainment are forbidden. Ellis Rowen, a blind orphan, works as a call center representative. When he is alone, he plays the violin-a passion he keeps hidden from others. Since birth, Ellis and Audrey have been connected through their dreams. They share their knowledge and art in this unseen world. Ellis plays emotional music that touches Audrey's heart, while in his sleep, he sees the fictional worlds she creates. Together, they inspire one another. ONC Prompts Main Prompt 77. In a world where art and entertainment are forbidden, you're born to challenge the system and change the world. Other Prompts 102. What is science, if not magic governed by laws instead of emotions? 123. »I'm unstoppable. I'm a Porsche with no brakes. I'm invincible. Yeah, I win every single game« - Unstoppable, Song by Sia 125. »Fear is the mind-killer.« - Quote by Frank Herbert Dune 129. »The ink of our souls binds us beyond the pages of time.«

For The Open Novella Contest 2025. Lila Moore is an art curator who knows the truth about her boyfriend, Malcolm Cain, and he's a demon, tasked with collecting lost souls. Despite his dark nature, Lila is deeply in love with him, believing their bond can overcome his monstrous duties. But as Lila begins to recall her past life as Eve, the first woman, she realizes her connection to Malcolm goes back through an eternal cycle of temptation and sin. Torn between love and the dark truth of their bond, Lila must decide whether to break free from Malcolm's pull or embrace the danger of loving him.

ᴡᴇ ᴀʀᴇɴ'ᴛ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ʏᴇᴛ But in the eyes of the world, they might as well be. It's been three years of learning the rules. Don't skip checkpoints, don't leave the city, don't cough too loudly, don't hold a stranger's gaze. The most important-when you see the virus in someone's eyes, don't hesitate. Breaking this one could cost you your life, and the life of every one you love. For one young biologist, the rules of this new world has come at the cost of too many friends, too much family. And though its always a possibility he never imagined one day he'd be on the other side of it. But when that's exactly where he finds himself one day, he and a group of carriers must race against time and away from the law to find a cure before its too late.

" aubade: a love song sung at dawn " in which the eldest of the twelve dancing princesses makes a deal with the lord of the underworld, and ends up falling in love with him. -- oc x oc (onc 2025 entry) (COPYRIGHT! DemigodLegends © 2025)

Colby is finally doing it. Not selling his family home like he's meant to be doing, that's just a side project. His real goal is to get in contact with his father's ghost and determine just what life after death is really like. Maybe he shouldn't have tested his new ghost hunting hobby on the ghost of a serial killer.

Note: this is book #9 of the Venomous Agenda series Olivia, a blonde-haired freshman cheerleader at Venomous Agendas High, might seem to be a stereotypical cheerleader at first glance, thanks to her boyfriend being a football player. However, after cheering at a basketball game, she realizes that she's tired to remain on the sidelines while, at the same time, she appears unwilling to give up on the team while its inaugural season is underway. By choosing to fill in on the quiz bowl team, she also chooses to defy the stereotypes associated with cheerleading. Only time will tell whether quiz bowl is a good fit for her. Note: This story is written using prompts 25 and 131 of the 2025 Open Novella Contest 2025 ONC Round 1 qualifier 2025 ONC Round 2 qualifier 2025 January-February 8-Chapter Challenge Winner 2025 ONC Long List

✉️ ONC 2025 LONGLISTED ✉️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛What started under a drizzle turned into a thunderstorm. Prohibiting me from wanting too much, yet wanting it all.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A Teen Fiction Novel | Ongoing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When September Grahams starts to receive letters from an anonymous person, she's in awe of his cursive, his words, his rhythm. The beautiful poetry she has the chance to read every month makes her heart soar. Her sister's convinced, it's a prank, but September believes otherwise. And, she also hopes the new member of their Literature club is the one who's making these sweet advances, hidden in the folds of those beige envelopes. However, the letters might remain the only good thing in her life as her world seems to shrink and cracks start to show. As buried secrets threaten to awaken, and friends turn to foes, will she find the one person who continues to remain her only source of true happiness? One must turn the page, to learn about all the 10 Letters To September . . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛The ink of our souls binds us beyond the pages of time.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Started : 01.02.2025 Posted : 07.02.2025 Novella : 27.02.2025 Status : Novel, Ongoing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ © All rights reserved by Rose LeClaire 2025

🏅Shortlist 2025 🏅 Detective Michael Wulfe has solved every case that has come across his desk--with a little supernatural help. However, a recent string of unconnected murders leaves him stumped and the people of Keirwood Heights nervous. On top of everything, the police chief is getting dangerously close to Michael's own secret that could end both his career and his life if he doesn't close the case soon. ONC Prompt 87: A skilled detective has solved almost every case that has come across their desk. But one case seems to elude them, with no apparent connections between the murders. That is, until something changes everything. Rated T for violence, but there's no swearing or smut.

Prompt 75. You've worn a mysterious ring since childhood, but one day it opens to reveal a tiny creature telling you it's been trapped inside all along and more secrets are on the way. 62. You wake up and bump your head on glass. Confused, you realize you're trapped inside a miniature snow globe. How did you get here, and more importantly, how will you get out? Tristram Wald likes to spend his days daydreaming about all of the magical things that he wishes would transpire in his lowly, humble and mundane existence. As an orphan, he was taken in by his Uncle Giacomo and forced to endure hardship and cruelty, and is eventually put to work in his Uncle's celebrated shoemakers shop. But now Tristram Wald is eighteen years and he has big ideas of his own Tristram wants his own success and fortune. A chance encounter with the beautiful Princess Oriana Aureum cements the idea of escape from his humble beginnings in Tristram's mind. Desperate for riches, so that he will be eligible to marry the princess, Tristram allows himself to be coerced by a mysterious Goblin named Grimalkin who claims he can weave straw into gold. But Tristram will soon find out that putting his trust in a renowned trickster can have sinister consequences. The Gold Weaver of Goblin Wood is a dark fairy-tale, horror.

Things are not okay in Granatal. It's not just the odd disappearances in the night or the cloaked figure stalking the back alleys either. Yophiel is going to have to trust this flute wielding bard when she says things are going to get worse before they get better.

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A visiting Prince was always going to cause chaos for the small town, but they never anticipated just how much. After an accidental love potion exposure leads to a confusing love triangle, three unlikely travel partners must set out to restore the balance.

Gollum isn't dead - the ring isn't destroyed either! They've landed in our world of human, causing more trouble than anyone could have imagined. --- As a girl's ring turns out to having a tiny creature hidden inside for many years, she chooses to cause as much trouble as possible. There couldn't be any other human so similar to Gollum - the ring has changed both of them. They are ready to get their revenge. But maybe, together, the ban of the ring might be broken.

In the realm of Vellara, books are not just stories-they are living worlds, inked into existence by the hands of ancient scribes. For centuries, the Grand Archive has safeguarded these enchanted tomes, ensuring that no one disturbs the delicate balance between fiction and reality. Kael Dain is a young scribe apprentice burdened with an ability he was never meant to have-the power to "unwrite," to alter the words of any book and reshape the worlds within. It is a talent so rare and dangerous that the Grandmasters have forbidden its use. But when the legendary Codex Eternis, a book capable of rewriting existence itself, is stolen by the rogue scribe Orion Vale, Kael is the only one who can track it down before reality begins to unravel. To retrieve the Codex, Kael must step beyond the library's safety and into the very stories that have shaped his world. Journeying through magical realms-each with its own treacherous laws-he faces living myths, ink-born creatures, and a power far greater than his own. At his side is Riven Calder, a mercenary with secrets inked into his very skin and a past he refuses to reveal. Bound by an oath he won't explain, Riven becomes both Kael's protector and his greatest mystery. As Orion's rewrites twist reality into something unrecognizable, Kael begins to question his own role in the story. Why does the Codex seem to call to him? What truth has been erased from its pages? And as his bond with Riven deepens, Kael faces the most dangerous rewrite of all-one that could alter fate itself. With the world crumbling around him and the line between reality and fiction blurring, Kael must make an impossible choice: restore the book and preserve the story written by those before him or take up the pen and rewrite his own destiny.