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🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 A misfit actress must give a performance of a lifetime before her true identity gets uncovered and her hidden empire crumbles down. ⋯⋯⋯ Alyson Gardner, the misfit daughter of the Ocalira chief, is a master of disguise. It is not easy controlling the largest pleasure district in Hylsa Lyllan behind a curtain, so when a student from university goes missing in her turf, she must do everything she can to clear her ties to it even if it means shedding her masks bit by bit. But with an impatient perpetrator out for her ruin, she must turn to friends and foes alike to star in the greatest performance of her life, one that will shake her empire's foundations down to the last brick. From the author of the award-winning novella, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘈𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, comes a story of privilege, wealth, and the divide between the elite and the common. Ideals are a salvation for many, but in the quest for freedom and power, sometimes, they are the first to go. AN INSTALLMENT OF THE LYLLAN UNIVERSITY OF MAGIC AND MISFITS SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2025 (First Edition) [25,000 - 30,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• 🏆 LONGLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 1 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025

🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 A misfit witch must find her missing twin before everyone finds out about her heritage and her family's deception. ⋯⋯⋯ Agatha Fairbard is a mystery. Having lived in a mirror dimension all her life, she was an enigma no one can solve other than who always accompanies her―herself. So when her twin goes missing without a word, Agatha must step into the wide unknown with only a borrowed name and face. That is, until a dark force surfaces and demands her power. In a world of betrayal, greed, and conquest, she has to discover her truth before others with vested interest do it for her. From the author of the award-winning novella, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘈𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, comes a story of privilege, wealth, and the divide between the elite and the common. Ideals are a salvation for many, but in the quest for freedom and power, sometimes, they are the first to go. AN INSTALLMENT OF THE LYLLAN UNIVERSITY OF MAGIC AND MISFITS SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2025 (First Edition) [20,000 - 25,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• 🏆 LONGLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 1 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025

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🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 Two teenagers embark on a cross-country music tour to outrun the threat of war and curtailed creative freedom. ⋯⋯⋯ As Ash finishes identifying his parents' remains from a full-blast attack, he should have stopped writing silly songs. With rebels controlling the country bit by bit comes the diminishing right to express themselves, so when a boy with a lopsided grin and penchant to chase trouble convinces Ash to perform his music, he only has one answer―no. But Jet has a way of getting what he wants, and there is no way Ash can let a golden boy run off on his own. With only a beat-up neon-pink car, a patched guitar, an obnoxious red pen, and a battered polaroid, Jet and Ash embark on a cross-country tour to make a name for themselves, outrunning authorities, and maybe even Fate itself. What can go wrong...right? From the award-winning author of 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘈𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, comes a story of young love, the fight for freedom, and the eternal struggle for meaning set in a world of oppression and violence. There are many ways to the end, and it is up to us to choose which path to take. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2025 (First Edition) [25,000 - 30,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• 🏆 LONGLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 1 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025

There's a new god of stories in charge, and he's decided it's time to ditch the old stuff - no matter the cost. All that stands in the way of this literary apocalypse is an amateur author with a bad case of writer's block and a rookie librarian on her first day. There's a whole world of stories to be saved - if only they can survive them first.

2025 Leighyeann A. Mies All rights reserved An entry for the Open Novella Contest 2025 [Book #5 in the Face saga - spin-off] [COMPLETED ON 12/4/2025] *** Another chapter, more trouble for the infamous Sim siblings: Himchan, Daegwang and Seju. As Himchan finds a box that spells danger, he asks for Daegwang's help to uncover the secrets behind its content. Unity of intentions come in handy when it comes to facing the inevitable changes this discovery brings. However, the picture can't be complete without Seju, who gets dragged in external drama from apparently unsuspecting people, all when she's supposed to enjoy a rejuvenating holiday with her longtime boyfriend. Trouble has come for the three siblings once again-it's time to get out of it.

Deep within the mists of Tír na nÓg, Morrigan has been trained in the ways of the fair folk. They are a powerful, ageless people, far removed from the bloodshed of mortals. Life is simple. Quiet. But no length of silence can go unbroken. When a human hunter stumbles upon her home in the otherworld, Morrigan is confronted with a new way of life-one that is beautiful, strange, and endlessly harsh. Morrigan now faces a choice: stay sheltered within the safety of Tír na nÓg, or venture to learn all she's been hidden from. Truth is a dangerous thing. She can only hope it will not shatter her. ☽◯☾ ~ Standalone prequel to The Sun Sídhe ~ (Originally) ONC 2025 ~ Prompt 118: You're feeling trapped in your current relationship and can't shake the urge to break free. ~ Prompt 31: Next time, ask yourself if your integrity can withstand the truth.

Mrs. Z, the eternal Mother of the Zodiac. 12 Zodiac children run away through time... Chaos ensues. What happens..? *All Zodiacs represented are based on their characteristics, research, and the people in my life. All other information in Author's Note and Aesthetics Chapters.* (ONC LONGLIST 2025 🎉) (ONC SHORTLIST 2025 🥳) *CURRENTLY BEING EDITED OFF APP, FINAL EDITIONS WILL HOPEFULLY BE MADE AVAILABLE BY NOVEMBER 2025*

a luka couffaine love story | miraculous ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I didn't know the melody I was searching for, Couldn't be composed alone. For to describe her, I needed to Let my heart out of my cage, So it could fall in a dance with her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Two different people, from two different countries, now living in one city. If he can draw melodies from the water itself, she can conjure words from thin air, making them flow into a rhythm. Together they could make a perfect song, don't you think? What happens when Preeti Das Durand packs up her life and moves to the city of Paris? It's not just a change of scenery, a whirlwind of conflicting emotions awaits her. And perhaps opening a mysterious box in her garden is enough to throw her world into a never-ending chaos. Will she be able to fight for what she believes is right? Or will she succumb to the dark powers that haunt Paris day and night? And will the blue-eyed Couffaine boy finally find his place in this world and realise how to write the melody of his own heart this time? All the questions will be answered in this novella. As the title suggests, Welcome To Paris! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We didn't need to express our love through words this time, when we could feel it through the beats of our hearts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥇 1st Place Adventure - RGC Awards ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ started : 28.02.2025 status : ongoing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The cover has been made by me. Do not copy/steal/repost. If you're reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, then please message me on my Wattpad/Pinterest/Tumblr user: @AngeBlancRose

× ONC Round 2 Ambassador Pick × Dorothea thought she had her life under control. Sure, she's not super rich and successful, and she doesn't have a gorgeous, loving partner by her side, but she's a barista in a local coffee shop who swore off of relationships, so she doesn't expect anything better. That is, until one short encounter at work flips her world upside down. Sofia Amaro has been Thea's number one weak spot since their high school days, but whatever they had ended five years ago. She left the town, and Thea moved on-or so she thought. When Sofia suddenly returns because of a work project, and a friendly round of drinks turns into a lot more than either of them had in mind, Thea is conflicted. She's a different person now. But Sofia is too, and she's not the same girl who strung her on for over a year. So when she tells Thea she wants to be more than friends now, Thea has to decide whether she's willing to take the risk once again. Perhaps some mistakes need to be made twice. ~ ❤️‍🩹 ~ Entry written for Open Novella Contest 2025 Prompts: 120, 121, 18 Genre(s): NA Literary/General Fiction PUBLISHED: 2/20/2025 COMPLETED: TBA

He drew her in red because he hated her. Now, he will paint her in black to make her disappear. Graham Holloway never forgot Celeste Monroe the perfect girl from his university days. Beautiful, popular, cruel. His worst nightmare. His personal hater. While he hid behind his sketchbook, she laughed at him with her friends, never realizing that every mockery was etched into his mind... and into his drawings. Years later, Graham is a successful comic book artist, confined to a wheelchair since his teenage years. Celeste is no longer the queen of anything, but she still hides behind her mask of perfection. When fate forces them to spend a week in the same house, Graham decides it's time to settle the score. His revenge will be psychological, artistic, and physical. He will make her see herself as he remembers her a cruel stroke across the pages of his story. He will lead her into her own desires until she can no longer tell whether she hates him or needs him. Because if Celeste once turned him into the target of her ridicule, now he will turn her into his creation. And when an artist becomes obsessed with his masterpiece, he never lets it escape.

Life hasn't been easy for Emilia. She's bullied at school and her sister recently died. But her life might get better when a store shaped like a dinosaur appears that only Emilia can see. Or it might get much worse and considerably more dangerous. She is the Chosen One, after all. Not like anyone knows what that means. Join Emilia and her unlikely new friends as they try to save her town from creatures that no one else can see. There's a trend of not seeing stuff here, isn't there. Oh, there's aliens too. 👽 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm doing something new this time and creating a playlist for the story with a song for each chapter. I have a feeling most of the songs will be quirky and poppy since that will probably reflect the tone of the story. If that's not your jam, feel free to skip the videos. Just choosing songs that I feel fit the vibe of the chapters. Also, I've seen other people were doing playlists and I can't be cool unless I do one too. ____________________________________________________________ Written for the ONC prompt #138- "Hello, I would like one of these," you said, pointing to the shelf, only for the shopkeeper to freeze, their eyes narrowing. "Oh, so you can see this shop?" ___________________________________________________________ TRIGGER WARNINGS: Bullying (If reading about this is upsetting to you, you may want to skip Chap 2) Divorce/Separation Death of a sibling

ONC 2025 Prompt: "I am the pages of the past and the ink of the future. I course through the veins of many, though few truly notice me. I am what they search for in others, yet, I cannot be bought. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end. Tell me your story, and perhaps I'll grant you the love others have failed to find." Some love never truly fades. They just fall silent. Miguel and Desiree were each other's first love, but life always had a way of pulling them apart. Distance, ambition, family, and fear-one by one, the obstacles piled up, until their love became nothing more than a collection of unspoken words and forgotten promises. In the space between them, something else was born: The Silence. Now, years later, Miguel is a struggling writer, and Desiree is a small film producer. When one of Miguel's short novels an aching, intimate retelling of their past gains unexpected attention, Desiree's brother secures the rights to turn it into a short film. As Miguel and Desiree reunite to bring his story to life, old wounds resurface, and memories they once shared begin to diverge. Because love is never just one story. It's two versions of the same truth shaped by time, distance, and everything left unsaid. Told through the haunting voice of The Silence itself, this is a story of longing, misremembered pasts, and the echoes of a love that was never quite lost.

A successful lawyer meets a carpenter through an AI (artificial intelligence) software, hoping to find love. But what they find is more than what they bargained for. __________________________________________________________ Ursula has all the book smarts and not an ounce of social skills. After a year of loneliness, she decided to take matters into her own hands and completes the creation of Adelaide--a brilliant AI meant to help people like her make real life connections. Looking for potential clients to test her theory out, the librarian hoped that Adelaide would function properly. But as the AI came to life, this matchmaking scheme of Ursula's might not end up as well as she once believed. The Clients: Erica Cresswell, a single mother who works hard to make a living for herself and her son, happens to be a successful lawyer. Most would say that Erica was doing well, but all that was missing in her life was a man, as her fiancé passed away a few years ago. Yet, her best friend, Claudia, played matchmaker to keep her friend happy. Although, all of Claudia's attempts failed, the women meet Ursula, an uncanny librarian, who might have the answer to Erica's problems. Halfway around the world, Esteban Novicio wasn't having much luck in life either. After being dumped by his girlfriend and losing a client over a rival, he didn't know what else to do. That is, until his best friend, Commodore, introduced him to an AI dating site, which led him to meet Erica's avatar. ~ ~ ~ ~ Written for the 2025 ONC & using the following prompts: Prompt 40: You were once a character in a deleted story, now lost and memoryless in the library. All you recall is your former importance. To rewrite your backstory, you must first outwit the ghost librarian, who won't stop offering unsolicited advice. & Prompt 131: "This girl is on fire!"

The city of Queensrest has been besieged by attacks from the nearby Mysterious Woods. The cityfolk know only rumor and children's tales of the Woods, until Maeve Riverborn, a young woman of enigmatic origin, arrives to protect the city from the monsters of the forest. Maeve quickly wins the admiration of the cityfolk, though she finds the newfound fame a difficult adjustment. But are her motivations pure? Or does she serve a master more sinister than any monster she's yet killed? Written for ONC 2025, using prompt #9.

It all started with the tea shop and a newspaper clipping. Aletha Robin lives in the small town of Lilitia with her girlfriend Freedom Williams, who goes by Fey. They go to eighth grade together and are open about their relationship, despite facing discrimination for it. One day, Fey shows Aletha a scrap from a newspaper dated twenty years ago about a new tea shop. A tea shop that has no records since then. When Aletha goes to check it out, it's there alright, but then strange things starts happening. A unicorn horn while hiking. An odd cat. And somehow, Aletha and the tea shop are all tied to it all. When she learns that someone is trying to take it away, it's up to Aletha to make things right again, with or without the magic of the tea shop. Be warned (though it shouldn't be necessary, but I understand religious beliefs or just preferences), this story is LGBTQ+ with the main character being bi, and having a pan girlfriend. If you're not comfortable with that, do not read it. Do not go into the comments and leave hate about it either. ONC 2025 ENTRY

[CLOSED FOR 2025] Astania's ONC book club dedicated to supporting participants with a stress-free, supportive environment. Anyone participating in the ongoing Open Novella Contest is eligible to enter! You can choose any member's book to read, and receive engagement on your own book in the process! Every month, the most engaged member will receive a shout-out from the profile. For 2025, there is no minimum reading requirement. See our profile for year-round book clubs!

With great power comes great responsibility. That is what Leah Cavendish, a simple waitress living a simple life, discovers when she stumbles upon a doorway to another world and is granted extraordinary magical powers. She must now fight an evil sorcerer and save the crumbling kingdom of Avandish before it is too late.

Georgia C. Pearl, Americas biggest princess, is a world famous singer, actress and ex model. When everyone adores her and loves her, it seems like she's had a bit too much good in life than she truly deserves, and most people tend to feel that way, including Joseph Pete Quinn; Private pilot who loves flying more than anything in the world. When Joseph is called to fly Georgia across the pacific to an African island for a retreat from the brutal press after a shocking scandal that just may ruin her business and celebrity life, the last thing he expected would be for the chopper to crash, landing on an unknown island, in the middle of the ocean, with only the two of them on it. What happens when creepy crawlies of the island begins drawing near? when creepy crawlies of their past lives draws even closer? Find out in Crash landing with the Pop star. ONC 2025. Prompt #47