Onc Stories

For Centuries Grim has been collecting souls. It's what he does, it's his purpose. One day, while collecting a soul in the park, he comes across a lost puppy. For reasons he can't explain, the urge to return the small dog to his owner is overwhelming. He soon finds the animal's owner, a woman in her mid-twenties named Maria. He is struck down by her beauty and realizes that he had once claimed the soul of someone she loved. He becomes even more conflicted when he realizes he has just one year to claim her soul.

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

||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.

Everyone can read minds except for Ethan Langdon. And Ethan Langdon has the dumbest (and cutest!) thoughts Lukas Hoffmann has ever heard. ____ Lukas Hoffman's life in Brambleburg is about as boring as you'd expect for a town where everyone can read minds. He's used to his routine of dusting the LPs at the record store where he works and helping out his grandma around the house. Nothing in Brambleburg changes. No one in Brambleburg changes. Until Ethan Langdon stumbles in with the soggy remnants of a paper map, asking for the quickest route to Berlin. Ethan, it turns out, doesn't have telepathy, and as aggravatingly inane as his thoughts are, Lukas hasn't felt the excitement of meeting a stranger since.... well, ever. And the more Lukas listens, the more he starts enjoying Ethan's cute thoughts about life, the universe, and Lukas's dimples. ____ Might bring to mind: "Cherry Magic" but set in a fictive European town where everyone except the love interest can read minds. ____ Written for the Open Novella Contest 2024 using prompts 8, 75, 82, and 85. 8. You start singing along to a movie soundtrack late at night forgetting that your window is open. Someone from the outside starts singing with you. 75. You awake in the middle of the night to a voice saying loudly "May the force be with you..." 82. You wake up on a seemingly ordinary day to discover that your thoughts are not private. There is someone else in your head with you. 85. "If you do that again, I'll throw you out that freaking window. What are you doing?" "Checking how high the drop is to see if it's worth it."

Based loosely on ONC2026 prompts 32 and 33. Two assassins from rival organizations are sent on the same mission, and in a very short time they each find themselves shifting from their chosen profession to the unexpected role of nanny.

A slipstream in time. A cloak of eternal night. Something stirs in the dark. [ ✶ ] Upon returning from a weekend getaway to celebrate their last time together before college, a group of friends discover the residents of their hometown have vanished without a trace, leaving behind a shroud of mystery, sunless skies, and an unshakable horror. [ extended summary inside] original novel / all rights reserved olivia siobhan © 2026 onc prompts #97, #44 and #24 [ ✶ ] open novella contest 2026 round 1 winner

"Everyone loves Lingling, especially Orm. Why? Cause Lingling hates her." ------- The campus heartthrob of the college, Lingling had always been polite and charming to everyone. Her smile and gaze always had everyone around sway, even though she didn't really care much about it. Even while she was popular, she was a lovely person. Or at least that's what Orm had always known before. Until she met her herself. Their encounter left a bitter aftertaste in her heart, because why did the campus darling turn icy at her presence? And now, she's determined to find out the reason. Come on in the journey with Orm to sneak a peak at the Icy Campus Darling ❤️ . Tropes: Strangers to lovers, Romcom, Grumpy x sunshine Secord couple trope: Best friends to lovers ONC 2026 entry with the tropes 49, 57 and 24 (P.s. this has nothing to do with LingOrm's series. This is an RPF.)

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Book Two Evie O'Doyle didn't come to Oxford to fall in love. She came to build a life that was hers, away from where she grew up and the parents who told her she wasn't worth much. She's done that. Against every odd, she's done that. Archie has spent his whole life stepping in front of his father's fists and taking it. It's the one thing he knows how to do. But this time his father is taking it too far, and messing with the one thing Archie won't back away from. For the first time in his life, he's going to have to fight back. Evie has survived harder things than a man in an expensive coat who doesn't think she's good enough. She knows how to hold herself together when everything is falling apart. She's been doing it since she was a kid. What she doesn't know how to survive is watching the people she loves most pay the price for who she is. Some storms you can outrun. Some you have to stand in.

Every year on your birthday, a library will show up in your bedroom closet. You spend several years thinking that it was a hallucination or some whimsical childhood thing. The library is filled with books specifically about your life story and refuses to disappear, even after you grow up.

"Do first, think next" would be the single statement to describe Scarlett, a nineteen-year-old walking bad decision. When her bestie (and patner in crime) goes missing, she creatively investigates and unknowingly abducts a literal crime lord, Augustine. What could be the possible outcome when a chaotic crackhead crashes straight into a calm, controlled crime lord?

My ONC Journal 2026.

~•~★~•~ 𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓. ~•~ Avyxia Kleymor's peaceful life was shattered when an elvin assassin murdered her parents before her very eyes. Kneeling in a pool of her mother's blood, Avyxia vowed to find the person who took everything from her. Rage and sorrow consumed her young heart as her life gained a new and horrible purpose: vengeance at any cost. ~•~ 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩: 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧, 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚. ★OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 ★Cover by me ★Thanks for reading! «Tales Of Yvenia» ~•~★~•~

When a Phoenix Queen of Heaven must decide between two human lovers, one of whom is destined to destroy her, sparks will fly! #ONC2026 Round One Winner! 11,000+ words and counting. Based on prompt 115: a prophecy claims that you will love two people. One destined to save your life and the other destined to destroy it. The trouble is, you have no idea which is which.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai We share our emotions through art. Through writing, painting, and composing. In a world where no one shares their inner music anymore, some begin to lose themselves and become Muted. When Solveig's brother becomes one of them, she refuses to accept his silence. To save him, she must find not only his lost voice, but her own and discover that even in the quietest world, a single voice can awaken many. Prompt 36: You're told to choose a weapon before battle, but when you approach the table, the only options laid out are musical instruments.

After Travis McPherson dies, his fiancée receives a voicemail, recorded an hour after his passing. *** Candace and Travis have known each other their entire lives. First as best friends, and later, high school sweethearts. As far as anyone in their small town is concerned, these two were meant to walk down the aisle together. But when a flash flood takes all that away, Candace is left grieving and heartbroken. All she has left of him is a mysterious voicemail recorded an hour after his confirmed death. It's impossible, yet she plays it over and over again, desperate for the sound of his voice. And a sign. Something, anything to ease her aching heart. All as their lives flash before her eyes. Travis always told her he loved her to Heaven and back, and beyond the grave, sends a final, heartfelt message moments before his death. The only remaining mystery is how as death parts two halves of the same heart. *** (Prompt 90: You receive a voicemail from someone you love, recorded one hour after their confirmed death). Wired for the Open Novella Contest 2026

Every time Tess fails, at auditions, friendships, or love, a flower blooms in her yard. What begins as a delicate marvel soon overwhelms her life. Roses spill over fences, lilies bow toward the pavement, and neighbors gather as if her failures were a performance. All Tess wants is grass again, something still and ordinary, something that doesn't move to the rhythm of everything she couldn't be. One moonlit night, a soft melody leads her to Hyatt, a tiny, quiet prince cursed to live inside the garden. He reveals that to break the spell of the garden and set him free, Tess must perform a final ballet. Accepting her failures and dancing through fear.

In the middle of an enthralling house party, nerdy senior business graduate Igor meets Aurelio, a sexy, risktaking gangster who changes his life in ways he never imagined. ONC PROMPT 46: "We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and classically beautiful than you."

Edwin Rowe has lost everything - his family, his future, and his sense of purpose. On the night of his father's funeral, he is visited by a black cat who speaks, eats like royalty and guides him to a ruin. There, an ancient artifact awakens and speaks his name. It offers him a choice - one that could decide the fate of more than just his world. ONC 2026 (Keep in mind, this piece of writing is my very first and serves as a learning lesson to me. There would be times that the words of the chapters change multiple times over the course of the entire 12 weeks period because of the same reasons.)

[ 2026 Open Novella Contest Entry ] Jane Newton isn't grieving; she's furious. Two years after burying her husband, Mark, a security protocol triggers in her empty home, revealing a digital ghost that shatters her reality. She didn't bury the truth-she buried a stranger. Mark wasn't the quiet graphic designer she loved. He was a cyber-intelligence specialist who staged his own death in the midst of a plot at the highest levels of power. Now, Jane is the accidental courier of evidence of a looming assassination-and the only person who knows that Mark is still alive. With SQUID tracking her every digital heartbeat, Jane must vanish into the analogue world. But when the hunters take her sister, Jane stops running. In a world built on encrypted lies, the truth is the most lethal weapon of all.