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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."

'There was a stain on the floor that used to be a vampire, and Aaron Evans was starting to feel like he really wasn't being paid enough.' ***** Aaron is only in Supernatural Investigations for the pay. It's stressful and dangerous, and he's certain it's aging him beyond his years. When the remains of a high-ranking vamp from London's most powerful underground gang show up on his turf, even the excellent pay seems like poor recompense for trying to prevent all-out war in his city. All he has to work with are his wits, some stolen evidence, and an enigmatic vampire investigator who appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Nikolai Meier is surly, uncooperative, but frustratingly competent, so Aaron has no choice but to make it work. But Nikolai has secrets, and those secrets may prove just as deadly as failure. *** #ONC2024 Entry for Prompt 56: 'In a world where humans and magical creatures coexist, a detective must solve a murder case that threatens to plunge the two communities into war.' Cover Artwork is my own.

11. A drunken shopping spree has you obtaining the strangest item. Theo has had the wildest drunken night that a person could have, and as a university student in his final year, that's saying something. However, it's not just a hangover that this lad will have to nurse. He's bought some ridiculous items and now has no idea what to do with them. Not only that, one item is cursed.

Her new goal is to leave behind the hustle and bustle of city life and move out to a place that screams peace and tranquillity. On a whim, she finds a place and decides to move ASAP. She bounces into this friendly stranger named Audeion who helps her move her stuff from point A to point B. They part ways with the wish that they meet again somewhere along their journeys. Audeion is searching for answers to his problem and his search has led him here. If he doesn't find the answer within the time limit he will become an outcast and be banished from the place he once called home. Will his secret be his downfall? Blissfully unaware of the world around her, her only interest was keeping her lifestyle active and this new house she found on the market. Everything is a dream come true or is it? Though the friendly stranger lay dormant at the back of her mind she had no clue that Audeion Dahael would cross paths with her once again in his home town Daysville. Will her secrets be her downfall? But is it a secret if the only person who knew about it is dead? Time is running out, unexpected things happen to unsuspecting people, will it be for better or for worse? Join Sayde and Audeion, who knew that this quiet friendly town had such secrets lurking in the shadows.

A prodigious young detective must confront his demons to prevent a cataclysmic war. ⸻ Detective Tobias Hale has a caffeine addiction and enjoys avoiding his problems. His problems include his dead Fae father, the abilities he inherited from him and a government agent named Alaine Falmouth. Their superiors assign Tobias and Alaine to solve the murder of Elijah Laing-a man whose death threatens to unravel centuries of peace. Despite his protests, Alaine pushes Tobias to use his abilities to present a solution. He realises avoiding his past is ineffective and must confront his Fae heritage to prevent a cataclysmic war.

Mia woke up, strapped to a chair, a long way from home. Who can she trust? My ONC24 story. Guidance: swearing, sexual references.

Mike Burbank, fresh out of college, believes that a cheery smile and bottomless drawer of fun socks is enough to keep him going at his new career at Infinitech. While all his friends find the work soul-sucking, Mike refuses to let his neighborhood faceless tech company bring him down. When a senior executive tears down Mike's seemingly perfect sales proposal, Mike is forced to relive his humiliation over and over again in a time loop. Will he win over upper management before his sanity crumbles? Is there a limit to how many times one can hear "TGIF" before one's sanity snaps? Only time will tell... (No groundhogs were harmed in the writing of this novel.)

This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024 Meet Blair, your average seamstress who works a thankless job sewing dresses for bachelorettes, weddings, and a plethora of other events in dire need of women in dresses. Her hopes and dreams are the same as all of us, owning a mortgage in hopes of affording a better place than her run-down, one-bedroom apartment. When a chance to afford a decent property with a down payment arises, how could she say no? Though unlike all of us, Blair is capable of seeing beyond the veils of our existential plane. She has seen the limbo of the dead, and what she saw has forever altered her life. She will soon discover that this house of hers is a cursed tomb of memories of it's past inhabitants' grudges and unfinished businesses. And she's not the only one... Cover by @MilaForLife

Aarna Rupa was dead, but not really. -- Waking up in the past after dying of cancer, Aarna found herself living in the year 3247 BCE--more than five thousand years ago, in the civilised land of India. After taking an oath to not disrupt their peace with her information about the 21st century CE, she had decided to live a quiet life, but that was until she stumbled upon a wide-eyed boy with dark skin--Madhava. But Madhava was not just any nineteen-year-old. He was a nineteen-year-old god.

84. A witchy tale from the perspective of the familiar. 81. The town's witch has gone missing and no one is looking for her but her two familiars - a crow and a black cat, plus the teen who has always been scared of her. ~~~ Eclipse is a raven familiar, an invasive Corvus splendens in small-town coastal Louisiana. He serves an outsider called Mamman Simbi, a witch hidden between a Catholic and Voodoo culture, when a new witch is born into Cajun bloodlines (Tammy Broussard, b. 1977). Being overburdened in soul leads to the new witch having dangerous fevers that Eclipse and Simbi protect her from until she's old enough to take over as Mung Bean's witch (Simbi's rescue cat the same age as the girl). Familiars take on that excess spirit and help manage their partners health and daily work, becoming as human as their masters. The process of protecting Tammy leaves her frightened of Mamman Simbi, and parents in denial don't push children to stray outside their culture. But the world has never been safe for their kind, and just as the deep south starts to recover from a painful recession, the witches hiding in their culture start disappearing, leaving Simbi too distracted to reach out to a fearful child. Then Simbi disappears from a gathering during the worst years for murders in New Orleans (1994), with police corruption running rampant. Mung Bean and Tammy, both now 16, run away from home soon after, leaving Eclipse to sort out how much is safe to tell the young witch's parents, Rafe and Dinah Broussard, and Simbi's boyfriend, T-Beau LeBlanc. Can Eclipse find his master, ride herd on two teens (a witch and her familiar), keep mere humans safe, and not lose himself to the humanity he's avoided as a crow? Life wasn't supposed to be so complicated for a bird brain.

|A SET OF TWO ORIGINAL DISNEY COLLEGE PROGRAM NOVELLAS · MILO AND MAISIE TO BE INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED ON APRIL 1ST, 2026!| |MILO AND MAISIE SAMPLE · 12X FEATURED| Milo and Maisie: Two years after her older brother's tragic death, anxiety-stricken Maisie and her emotional support cat, Milo, attend the Disney College Program, where they must discover a new life meaning in the most magical place on Earth. Milo and Maisie: The Veracruz Ghost: When Maisie and Feya's friendship is tossed into the danger zone, they must work together to save it before Summit 2023 destroys them forever. *** Main Achievements: 🏆 Milo and Maisie to be published internationally on April 1st, 2026 (translated and all, with consideration for a short film)! 🏆Inkitt HQ Featured! 🏆 ONC 2024 Longlist/Ambassador's Pick! 🏆 Ambys 2025 Winner in Teen Fiction!

Asha Ahmad and Nikhil Mohan find themselves set up for an arrange marriage that neither of them are keen on follow through with - until they catch each other sneaking out the night before their wedding. They both see a future for themselves in America, far away from their families in India, and that's enough common ground to agree to give it a go - for five years. They settle on the terms of their five-year plan over a honeymoon, but a lot can change in that time. Will they have a change of heart or keep to their original promise? Even Asha and Nikhil don't know...

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ She wasn't meant to be in Mosukoshi. Hisashi works six days a week, making sure his tavern is always ready to serve the souls that visit for one final drink. Paid in silver, he eases their transition, providing comfort before they pass onto the afterlife. But when Momoko, a young girl with no recollection of her memory, appears one day at his tavern, questions arise about how a living human had managed to enter the land of limbo. Forced to be a guide, Hisashi takes Momoko under his wing, and the two set out on an adventure in search of answers about Momoko's arrival; all while Hisashi is forced to confront his own past. Journeying through the wondrous yet dangerous lands and waters of Mosukoshi, its up to Hisashi to help bring Momoko home, and find solace in his own history. ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ Hey, it's my first novel! Thank you so much for reading this. Cover credit to me! #ONC2024

Three strangers. Two secrets. One key. Emma was perfectly happy being a driven, yet single, high school student. Until a love goddess decides that Emma needs a boyfriend- whether she wants one or not.

👉 ONC 2024 Longlister 🤯🎉 When all hope was lost, Destiny had no choice but to act according to her fate... She regretted her actions ever since. Can she - with the help of Coincidence - turn back Time and find Hope again?* *A𝐮t𝐡o𝐫'𝐬 𝐍o𝐭e: I had fun writing this ^w^

Can Regulus' words speak louder than his brother's actions? There are many times Regulus doubts his ability to get through to his older brother who is unwilling to listen to anyone with the last name of Black, but a part of him wants to believe in Slughorn's pet project of forming a band and making music to bring house unity just as much as he wants to believe the songs he writers as Stubby Boardman might get through to Sirius. Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter. This is one of my ONC projects for 2024. I'm using prompt one for this story, "Sometimes words speak louder than actions."

In a bleak world, void of both love and heartbreak, a fallen angel must convince a jaded god to break the curse he has cast on the realm. *** Made for ONC 2024 Prompt used: 19. A world with no heartbreaks. In such a world, you fall for someone forbidden. And you're about to experience the first ever heartbreak.

Scottish highlands, winter, 1691. A new king sits on the throne, and the clan chieftains have been given an ultimatum: swear their allegiance to the crown or face the dire consequences. The time remaining to take the oath is dwindling, but the MacDonalds of Glencoe are already pledged to the old king. As the snow starts to fall and friends become indistinguishable from foe, will this family be able to survive through the cruelty of these changing times?

"All I wanted was a peaceful getaway and now all I want is to get away from you!" "The feeling is mutual," he snapped. "So, stop running into me!" - - - Bethany Summers has been dreaming of this tropical vacation ever since she was little. The summer she turns twenty-six, she has finally managed to save up enough money to go on the vacation of her dreams. The only problem is it's not the type of getaway she envisioned it would be, especially not when celebrity actor Lee Minjun becomes her problem as well. |Cover designed by @EstelleKnightrise| |ONC 2024 Entry| ©️ Sherly Holmes 2024 (All Rights Reserved)