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Anna lives a deliberately colourless life-one spent in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned to stop paying long ago. At school, on the bus, at home, her world has been built on silence, routine, and the certain safety of going unnoticed. It's a balance she maintains meticulously, because being seen has never ended well for her. Then, one day, that balance fractures after a brief moment of accidental acknowledgement-small, meaningless, fleeting, and completely impossible to undo. Now, Anna is forced to confront the quiet life she's built. She begins to question whether survival is the same as living... and what it might cost to want more. She finds herself wondering whether the price is too low-or far too high. Because once you're noticed by someone, the world doesn't always let you disappear again. Highest ranking: #1 literaryfiction 01/03/2026 - Ongoing.

"In 'When reality bites,' [Penelope Martin] embarks on a journey of self-discovery and heartbreak as she navigates the complexities of real-life love. Having grown up on fairytales and romantic comedies, she's convinced that her own life will unfold like a dream. But when reality fails to meet her expectations, she must confront the harsh truths of love, relationships, and herself. This poignant and relatable tale explores the gap between idealized love and the messy, beautiful reality of human connection."

In the silk-producing valleys of the Kingdom of Naples, Renza, the daughter of a respected silk merchant, has been raised within the careful order of family and tradition. Lucien arrives as a restless outsider, marked by a past he cannot escape. Around them move others bound by secrecy and survival, including a spy for the Inquisition trained to live between two worlds. As tensions deepen and suspicion spreads through Silk County, their lives draw toward a tragic event history has nearly erased. Echoing the ancient myth of Galatea and Acis in a 16th century setting, Silk County explores how love endures in fragile and often dangerous spaces, where even the most delicate threads can bind souls across time. Updates ongoing as part of the #ONC2026 contest.

Where brilliance attracts power and power attracts danger. Diamond reads the room. Coal controls the storm. The Dialect Series explores the minds that cross their path. Every encounter leaves a mark.

They called him a wolf because he walk alone but wolves walk as a park but he's afraid he's not good enough for everyone or can't fit in

Hari's dreams were dying, from continuous failed government-job exam attempts and the weight of his family's disappointment, he flees to the concrete heart of Mumbai. He isn't looking for greatness anymore-just survival. In the grueling heat of a suburban factory, he meets Babban. A man who has spent twenty years inhaling smoke so his son can breathe clean air. Babban becomes more than a mentor, he becomes the mirror Hari afraid to look into. While Hari has given up on his fate, Babban refuses to let him compromise with fate, pushing him toward one final, desperate attempt at the SSC exams. But Mumbai is a city of sharp edges. When a spark of local unrest ignites into a violent riot, the dream Hari worked for suddenly carries a devastating price. They say many people will come and go in your life, but some leave footprints on your heart. For Hari, Babban's footprints lead all the way back to the village he tried to escape-carrying a debt that success can never truly repay. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• -•-•-•-• Written for ONC 2026 Prompt No. 29 :-- You'll meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some leave footprints on your heart.

Fall, 2022: On the Bayou of Southern Louisiana. Ozzy, a 14-year-old artistic honors student, is looking forward to starting high school and the talented theater program. But a whirlwind trip to the ER and an MRI reveals Ozzy has a brain tumor - and later, a pediatric cancer diagnosis - changes everything. During a year-long fight for a cure in the hospital, hope comes to Ozzy and their Mama through art, music and letters from friends, family and even strangers. There are so many that some remain unopened, collected in a box that goes home with Ozzy after they are discharged from the hospital a year later. The box sits in Mama's closet for over two years. Neither Ozzy nor Mama have opened the box as they struggle to return to "normal" life when "normal" is no longer possible. Until today, 2026: when what begins as spring cleaning turns into opening the box, reading its letters, and finding a mysterious adventure in one that neither Ozzy or Mama ever saw coming. And it just may be the adventure 17-year-old Ozzy and their Mama need to reveal the unexpected, ordinary magic that can help them heal, move forward- and live. ONC 2026 Prompts Used: #79 (Main) - Additional: #16, #28, #69, #104. Stacie Eirich @spacetodream

"They say the war is over. So why is the world still so loud?" For Matthew, 29 July 1944 isn't just a birthday, it's a mark of shame. In a post-war Norway that wants to erase every trace of Germany, Mattie is a reminder they can't burn. He only has two things left: a wooden boat in his dreams and Gutt, the teddy bear who knows all his secrets. This is a story of a boy trying to find a harbor in a world that has no room for a 'War Child.' Matthew is a Lebensborn child a product of a history the world wants to forget. Now, as the dust of World War II settles, he must navigate a life of silence, prejudice and shadows. While others see a 'Little Nazi,' Mattie only sees a horizon. He is waiting for the adoption ship, hoping that across the sea, someone will finally look at him and see a son, not a sin. Was supposed to be the "Perfect Child". But when the flags of the Third Reich fell, he was left behind in the cold Norwegian soil a living ghost of a fatherland that no longer exists. With a tattered teddy bear named Gutt as his only witness, Mattie spends his days staring at the horizon, waiting for a ship that will carry him to a home where he isn't called a 'monster.' But in the aftermath of 1945, some wounds don't bleed they just whisper. First title: Mattie God's gift of Lebensborn Second title: Tyskerbarn In the land of snow ___________________________________________ Draft: 26 July 2025 I always update depending on my mood 🗿

A woman stands at the edge of her reflection, caught between the life she built and the haunting promise of something more. The Illusion of Us follows Annie, a young woman still searching for who she is, as the world she carefully arranged begins to crack when she meets a man who carries the scent of freedom and the weight of memory. Mirrors that see deeper than skin, a theater that remembers what you try to forget, and a love that feels like both ruin and awakening. In a world of shadows and quiet unraveling, Annie must choose between returning to herself or remaining in the illusion she once called safety.

Life is like a rollercoaster, it has its ups and downs, but it's your choice whether to scream or enjoy the ride... When life's rollercoaster throws you off track, do you scream, or do you hold on tight? For Ira and Rudraksh, the journey is far from smooth: one suffocating under the weight of failure, the other nursing a heart shattered into pieces. Two strangers caught in life's ugliest turns, where every step forward is a fight against invisible battles. This is not a story of being saved by each other, but of learning to live despite the wreckage, of finding the courage to stand when the ground never stops shaking. But if their paths converge-bringing their emotions and differences-will they find solace in each other, or will those very differences pull them apart? ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ Copyright © 2026 Jambudweep. This content is protected under applicable international copyright laws. Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, translation, or redistribution on any platform without the author's explicit written permission is prohibited. Original publication: Wattpad.

Iggy records things before they disappear. The cicadas in the vacant lot. The sound of wind before the houses went up. The exact way a quiet street sounds at night when everyone is already asleep. Then Therese starts talking into the recorder. She does it the way she does everything, without asking, like she's always belonged there. Over one year in Porta Viento Subdivision, the tapes fill up with ordinary afternoons, with the things neither of them says out loud, with the sounds of a place that's slowly becoming somewhere else. He thinks he's preserving the neighborhood. He doesn't know yet what he's really keeping. Some things only make sense when you play them back. Chapter Release every Friday, 8:30 PM GMT +8

Some people disappear slowly. They stop answering texts, stop showing up, stop showering, stop eating real meals. They lock themselves in their rooms and call it comfort and try not to think about the people they've already lost. Sunny is very good at disappearing. Alex isn't very good at letting him. Midnight Catalyst is about grief, self-harm, cigarettes, bad coffee, and what happens when someone refuses to stop seeing you, even when you've given them every reason to.

Wiphala is a remote estate that does not exist on social media, is never advertised, and can only be reached through word of mouth. Those who manage to secure a stay all say the same thing: "No one comes back the same." There, certain trees -known as The Elders- respond to absolute honesty. They grow. They expand. They reshape the landscape. Emma arrives searching for something she cannot name. But Emma is not Emma. She is Carol -a journalist who, after the highly publicized death of her son, staged her own disappearance. In Wiphala, she will discover that some trees do more than grow from truth... Some embody what we believed was lost forever. Tender, symbolic, and deeply human, Diary of a Tree with a Wide Canopy and Shallow Roots explores grief, identity, inherited silence, and the fragile hope that survives even in shallow ground. Enter gently. Some secrets are waiting to be trusted with you.

In a world where power decides whose talent survives, a young woman returns to reclaim what was stolen from her blood. Born to a seamstress erased by cruelty, Kallika grows up carrying unfinished dreams, silent wounds, and an inheritance the world tried to bury. Years later, she enters an empire built on lies - not with anger, not with violence, but with memory, patience, and extraordinary art. This is not just a story of revenge. It is a journey of destiny, justice, and transformation. Of a woman who turns pain into power, and silence into truth. When the past returns wearing silk, empires begin to tremble. ✨ A character-driven story of inheritance, art, and quiet justice.🌺🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻

Finding a penny on the ground is considered good luck. But what about finding a dead body? Probably not. Instead of an ordinary day for Felix, he finds someone dear to him on a riverbank, surrounded by both blood and confusion. What he realizes is that this isn't the first time. It's the second. And whatever happened before is happening again. Something is connected. Something is off. But what? As unbearable past secrets unveil, friendships break, trust wears thin, he realizes that those that truly hurt you are the ones closest. He's left to wrestle with grief, guilt, and the horrible realization that the truth hurts more than it heals. And questions. Many, many questions. Statement One features Felix's case on how this happened and went down, told from entirely his perspective as he pieces together the events that led him there, and the case that would come to define him.

His heart is completed through three lifetimes. He was once a Camel, carrying weight that wasn't his. Then a Lion, powerful yet painfully imperfect. And finally... a Child, learning the courage to soften again. Each life left its own scars- buried anger, unexpected betrayals, quiet forgiveness, and fragile hope. But every path led him toward a single lesson: "We heal when a heart meets another heart." Now, as a dentist in the human world, he meets fear-stricken patients, broken smiles, trembling hands, and eyes that hide stories deeper than pain. And for the first time, he understands what his three lives were teaching him: Compassion is a form of power. Kindness is a kind of wisdom. And healing... is a shared act. This novel reads like a fairy tale in warmth, a poem in clarity, and a philosophy in depth. Once you begin, you'll feel it- this isn't just a story. It's a quiet act of healing.

Elia was only a child ,a heartbeat of laughter, a flicker of light in a quiet town that forgot how to listen. Then one day, the rope stopped turning. Years later, someone still remembers. Someone still hears the rhythm. And someone is finally ready to step into the silence that began it all. My story is told in 39 haunting fragments,21 Jumps and 18 Stops. This story moves between innocence and vengeance, love and grief, sound and silence. "Because what word is there for a child who disappears and never gets to grow old?"

"Karena terkadang, mata manusia terlalu pengecut untuk mengakui apa yang ditangkap oleh lensa." - Endra Maheja 📷 SINOPSIS : DI ANTARA LENSA DAN LOGIKA Tahun 1997, Kania percaya bahwa cinta adalah sebuah garis lurus. Namun bagi Endra Maheja-fotografer idealis yang lebih suka bicara lewat bidikan lensa daripada kata-kata-cinta adalah tentang jarak, komposisi, dan kapan harus menekan tombol rana. Lalu di tahun 1999, sebuah perpisahan tanpa penjelasan terjadi di selasar wisuda. Ejha menghilang, meninggalkan Kania dengan segudang tanya dan sebuah tiket kereta api yang tak pernah terpakai. Lima tahun kemudian, Kania kembali ke Bandung sebagai wanita karier yang dingin dan profesional. Ia mengira telah berhasil menghapus seluruh memori tentang "anak Mapala" itu dari logikanya. Sampai sebuah proyek membawanya kembali ke sebuah studio tua di Cipaganti, dan ia menemukan kenyataan yang mengerikan: Bahwa selama tujuh tahun ia menghilang, Ejha tidak pernah benar-benar pergi. Pria itu ada di sana, di balik lensa, memotret setiap langkah kehancuran dan kebangkitan Kania dari kejauhan. Menumpuk ribuan fragmen rahasia dalam sebuah "Ruang Gelap" digital yang siap meledakkan kewarasan Kania. Di antara aroma pinus tahun 90-an dan dinginnya beton Jakarta tahun 2004, Kania harus memilih: Tetap menjadi objek yang diamati dari jauh, atau menghancurkan lensa itu dan menghadapi logika cinta yang selama ini disembunyikan darinya? ________________________________________ Nostalgia Bandung 90s | Unspoken Frames | Professional Conflict | Slow-burn | Second Chance. CATATAN : "Sebuah sekuel dari novel [Di Antara Lensa dan Logika] sebelumnya , namun dapat dinikmati sebagai cerita yang berdiri sendiri."

When a young king secretly marries a village physician's daughter in a chapel hidden among ash trees, he believes love will be enough to protect them from the machinery of the crown. But duty intervenes, forcing him into a second, public marriage that secures the kingdom while condemning his first wife and their son to a life of careful invisibility. For twenty years, letters cross between palace and cottage, sustained by love and shadowed by political compromise-until the truth threatens to unravel the succession itself. Spanning decades, this intimate historical drama explores the cost of silence, the burden of power, and the kind of love that survives not by claiming a throne, but by choosing not to. This not a romantic story it's a tragic one

Sera has a system for everything - her thesis, her mornings, her feelings. Neat categories, correct conclusions. It has worked perfectly for twenty-two years. Then she meets Professor Elena Reyes. Elena is brilliant, composed, and exactly the kind of person Sera should not find herself thinking about at two in the morning. She is also religious, careful, and very good at performing a life she has almost convinced herself she wants. They are a graduating student and her thesis adviser at a university in Manila. They are nothing. They should remain nothing. But Sera, who has never had trouble naming things, finds she cannot name this - and Elena, who prays every night for clarity, finds that her prayers keep going quiet before she reaches the part about Sera. In the Silence Between is a story about two women in a country where some things are still spoken only in silence. About faith that costs something. About a choice that neither of them can quite bring themselves to make - and the question, at the end, that only one of them is brave enough to ask.