Opennovellacontest2020 Stories

[Novella]As a child, Sci was scarred by her own mother for being a witch. While the wound has healed and her shawl now covers her face, Sci struggles to remain deaf to the call of the desert wind. She works hard to get into the Scorian army, taking a path riddled with false friends, petty politics, and relentless Rajas. Then, one day, Sci receives an invitation from the palace. A personal message from Queen Rainah. **Cover by Krystal_M**

They called her 'Mouse'. Kie Loren just wanted to be left alone to study the music she loved. But now she was teamed up on a biological survey project with Ben Finn, the son of Mora and Gan Finn, the heroes credited with saving this newly terraformed world called 'Paradise'. It didn't help that Ben was handsome and irresistibly charming. The most infuriating part was that he knew it. Oh, and he also had chocolate... But Ben was the least of her problems. An alien civilization had begun terraforming this world long before humans arrived. And now they wanted it back.

Nia James is a 32-year old senatorial speechwriter who is living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Her illness isolates her from the world, making it almost impossible for her to develop close relationships with other people. After she embarrasses herself at her brother's engagement party, he encourages her to download a new dating app called PoliDate. She sets up an account with the intention of deleting it once she regains her self-esteem, but her plans are thrown out of whack when she matches with her ex-boyfriend, a news anchor who dumped her last New Year's Eve on live television. [Open Novella Contest 2020 -Round One Ambassador Pick -Round Two Qualifier] [Added to the 'Adulthood' list on the official Wattpad ChickLit account on 5/27/2020 Added to the 'Featured' list on the official Wattpad ChickLit account on 7/1/2020]

Josh Alves recently became a father. The only issue with that is that he is gay and never went to an adoption agency. Caleb somehow turned into a five-year-old and now goes by the name, Kyle, unaware of his traumatic past and who he was prior. Now Josh must cope with the grief while trying to raise Kyle in order to give him a happier life than Caleb could have ever had. Open Novella Contest 2020 entry

One man - determined to save... G Raghuveera Rao is a man of principles and honour. A man of integrity and valour. A man now desperate enough to make a deal with the Devil himself, if that is what it takes to save his son. One favour - destroy to save... The Devil has no use for Raghuveera's soul, though he does want his skills. And hence places a different kind of deal on the table. One End - disastrous... Raghuveera Rao takes up the deal. Battling his growing unease and grappling with gradual loss of his morality, he realises that no deal with the Devil is straightforward and that the price demanded might not be worth the deal. ✥ Genre: General / Spiritual (Philosophy with a touch of paranormal) ✥ Submission for ONC 2020 - (prompts 4 and 45) ✥ ONC 2020 Long Lister COMPLETED

🏅ONC 2020 || Round Two Qualifier 🏅The Peacock Awards || Science Fiction Best Graphics 🥇The Next Top Book || Science Fiction 1st Place Winner 🥈The Bubble Tea Awards 2020 || Science Fiction 2nd Place Winner 🥈The Moonshine Awards || Science Fiction 2nd Place Winner 🎉The Dream Awards 2020 || Science Fiction Honourable Mention 🏆Featured on Adventure || The Adrenaline Rush 🏆 Featured on Action || Science Fiction in Action When a boy wakes up from a coma and finds a letter at his side, he finds out he's the newest player in a game they call Vanguard. *** The last thing 05 remembers is crashing his spaceship. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a hospital room on a strange place called Earth with a mind of memories that aren't his. A letter informs him that he's in the body of a murdered boy and that he's now part of a survival game. Soon, 05, now Red Harris, is dragged away to start his new life---in a steel maze known only as Vanguard. Amidst traps and death, Red meets Alisa, Lennox, Cheng Xin, and Becca. He finds out they're in the same situation as him---all players of the game, specially handpicked by a strange force they call 'the government'. They decide to work together to escape Vanguard and make it out alive. There's a catch, though. There can only be one winner---and the prize is their life. [ Cover by TheNextTopBook ]

A much-hated man is found dead, his face twisted into a rictus of horror. Young Inspector Visser can't stand the sight of blood or death, so this case was destined to be a struggle, even before a storm hits. The death occurred in an isolated boarding house on Pluvierstraat, The Hague. Fighting nausea as he examines the body, Visser grudgingly concludes that the death is murder by poison. Which of the motley group of suspects is the killer? The blind woman? The practical jokester? The Italian ex-convict? The English bookie? The scarred railroad engineer? Or could it be the pretty piano teacher? Visser orders them all to stay inside the house as he completes his time-consuming police work. The confinement becomes real when a storm strikes, cutting electricity and telephone. Clues mount and tensions rise, and the murderer among them could kill again. The more clues Visser unravels, the closer he comes to becoming the next victim. ---- I tried to channel Agatha Christie a bit. Okay, more than a bit. This story was longlisted in the 2020 "Open Novella Contest," and won 2nd place in the 2022 Punk Rock Awards, Mystery & Suspense category. Comments welcome!

One likes to fight. One hides the truth. One keeps them all in line. Nadia, Jax, and Angelo are triplets from the imaginary city of New Canton. Their parents have been selling drugs for years, absent from their lives. As a result, the teenagers have learned to sell, fight, and keep everything afloat. Almost eighteen and high school dropouts, the siblings are suddenly faced with a question: how far will you go to find yourself? Written in the POV of each triplet, find out what it takes to fight your demons and put the past behind you. [ONC prompt #4] #perdurableawards

[ONC LONGLIST] When the Goddess rages no more, And the Seven Virtues meet demise, Then will the enemy no longer wage war, And the Supernal take their place on high... For a thousand years no one knew what the Prophecy uttered by the Fates meant, until Anveya Carnel was brought to the Numinous Atheles school for witches. After discovering her powers resemble the Supernal described in the Prophecy, her life has become controlled by everyone but her. Forced to train beyond her limits, Anveya journeys with her close friends to fulfill her supposed destiny to tame a raging Goddess and kill the Seven Virtues. But there is a twist, one the Prophecy does not mention...because to expose the truth would be the end of the Witchcraft World. AWARDS: ⚜️ 2nd place in Magical Mini Awards (best supporting character) ⚜️ 3rd place in Magical Mini Awards (best antagonist male) ⚜️ Open Novella Contest Longlister **COMPLETE** *Side stories ongoing * If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe form, please go to @Yovarneine on Wattpad. Thank you.

Violet's life is chaos. When she's not dealing with the chaos at home, she's dealing with the chaos of being bullied at Gotham Academy. More importantly, she wants to disappear so nobody - particularly her crush Dick Grayson - wouldn't notice her. When she is finally able to, she finds her life turned completely upside down. Disclaimer - I don't own The Incredibles, Teen Titans or Young Justice. This story is written for Open Novella 2020. The prompt I choose was number ten, or "the new kid is bullied relentlessly until they discover they actually have a quite unique and unexpected talent". Story is also a spin off of my Beyond the Night fanfic series.

Seacliff is now only available on Inkitt. In 2019, Aidan is a kilt-wearing tour guide on the cobblestone streets of Edinburgh. In 1919, Saoirse is a Great War nurse who's got nothing left to live for - until the sea brings a naked, unconscious man to her feet. Not one easily shocked after caring for the most broken of men in France, Saoirse takes the stranger in and tends to his wounds. Except the man is all kinds of unusual and she begins to question whether he even is a man at all. Is the grief driving her mad or is there more to the world than she ever thought possible? Saoirse hopes to find answers in her Aunt Aoife's diaries, since the gentle giant she rescued from the sea has no recollection of how he ended up there in the first place. * Editors' Choice, December 2020 * an open novella contest entry which grew into a ~75k-word novel completed * prompt: "When something tragic happens, it's often said we lose a piece of ourselves. How far would you go to find these lost parts of yourself in order to be whole again?" * featured on: @WattpadHistoricalRomance - 'Traveling Through Time' @talesofthedeep - 'Fintastic Reads - Sea Creatures'

When Lucifer appears in her bedroom, telling her he needs a favor, he is completely taking aback by her refusal of gaining back her soul. But what does she want in exchange for the favor he needs of her? And is Lucifer willing to pay the price she asks or will he let Hell reign on Earth just to keep his pride intact?

🌻 Featured on Stories Undiscovered reading list on January of 2021🌻 Roses. That's all 17 year old Scarlet has been able to smell ever since this weird dream she had. Or was it a dream? What if the reoccurring nightmares are more than just that. What if these reoccurring dreams, were actually her reality?

Zach and Liv are two archaeologists who adore ancient Rome. They study it, excavate it, theorize and gush about it. But now, they must live it...for one year. If they manage to live like ancient Romans for just one year, all their financial troubles will be over and they will be able to make all their dreams come true. But will these most knowledgeable of history buffs be able to survive the ways of an ancient civilization? And will their relationship be able to withstand the test of time? Well, you know what they say; when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

"He lived like a dead tree in a graveyard." "A Storm On The Mountain" is nominally about Aanav, a young boy who flees the portrait of a family and finds refuge on a hill where he befriends a shepherd who wears goat-skin-trousers. Still, his chaotic childhood becomes a haunting figure that reflects the silence of his present. Profoundly delicate with arresting imagery, the story narrates a broken heart, who brings these shattered pieces onto a hill and tries to make a very unperfect mended heart. WARNING: LGBTQ (Only in Part II)

Terry bumps into a woman who seems to know her yet Terry has no idea who she was. A journey to the past leads her to a past she might never remember having

My entry for Wattpad's Open Novella Contest III (COMPLETED). 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩: 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. ★ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ During the midst of WWII, a 14 year-old French-African Jewish girl named Sabine escapes the French concentration camp, Natzweiler-Struthof. While she's outrunning the Nazis close on her heels, she stumbles across a magical box of matches that transports her across the war. From war-strewn battlefields to places that look all too familiar, the matches teach Sabine to reignite the fire within her to save the ones she left behind. ★ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ ONC 2020 Status: ★ Round 1 ✔️ ★ Round 2 ✔️ ★ Longlist ✔️ ★ Shortlist ✔️ BadassReads Rebels Reading List | 8/17/20 © 𝙲𝙻𝙰𝚁𝙰 𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙳, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶

A crash leaves Sarah and her older sister, Mila, without a mother. | #3 in Children's Fiction. ♥ Wattpad Ambassador's Pick ♥ ONC 2020 Longlister | With their dad long gone, Mila is the only one who can keep their tiny family together. But, Sarah isn't making things easy for her. She keeps running away to a tree in the middle of the woods where she swears she can still hear their mom speak. When Mila finally chases her down, she can't hear a thing. The social workers have given the sisters only seven more days to put everything in their life back together, before they take Sarah away for good. But with Sarah on the run, playing with the ghost of her dead mother in a magic, blue tree, can things ever get back to normal again? _____ Current word count: 20,030 (children's novella)

While out on the hunt, self-confident vampire Ashton for once ends up being the hunted. After being accidentally captured and almost killed, he finds himself indebted to the black witch Elizabeth, who has a pact with a demon and is on a hunt herself. When her old coven gives her a task that may redeem her from her past misdeeds that cost the lives of innocents, Elizabeth calls in her favor, and recruits Ashton to help her find out why more and more witches from both black and white covens are going missing. Thrown into a conflict between forces as ancient as magic itself, the two have to learn to work together quickly, while old secrets and promises of the past hamper their mutual trust. But soon it turns out that the pacts that bind them both might also tie them to each other, and their encounter might have been not one of chance, but one of fate. _____ I decided to give the ONC a shot again, and revive a short story from last year... and also use this opportunity to foray into another genre this time. This will be my first paranormal/fantasy/gothic horror story, and if nothing else it's supposed to be a fun little writing exercise to get me back into a creative mood after quite a long break from writing :) Since it's gonna be a WIP throughout the ONC and I want to spend more time on "explorative" writing rather than getting lost in in-depth planning, this story will probably be subject to numerous changes and edits, but I hope you'll enjoy nonetheless!

2020 Midge Midgets All rights reserved cover by @corvums An entry for the Open Novella Contest One day, Ma Yerin wakes up, ready to enjoy another painful workday. At least, she can console herself back at home, listening to her favorite group's best hits. Little does she know, she seems to be the only one who remembers who the heck are Imfact... How can she sort this mess up when no-one else can get a grasp of who they are?