Opennovellacontest2019 Stories

Achilles is used to a life with rules and structure. Being attracted to men doesn't fit into what he considers structured. But he's used to burying things deep down, and...

[THIS IS AN OLD DRAFT. Please read the rewrite that is currently up on my profile] ............ "Look, man, I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean to rob the bank but I'm b...

It's been three years since Everest Lark has set foot on a stage. Three years since the renowned omega raised his voice, both in song and in support of his fellow oppres...

EDITORS' PICK (November 2019) || COMPLETE Nick Buckingham is three things if nothing else: salty, antisocial, and the quintessential gay theatre nerd. He's content to dr...

(TOP FIVE WINNER!!) Patrick Morgan didn't usually invite strangers home, but when he saw Harlan camping out in the space terminal, he was prepared to make an exception...

As a wedding planner, Rachel has seen it all. From botched wedding dresses to caterers who couldn't even make a simple pot of coffee. Watching the love, the compassion...

Special Agent Alyssa Caine has been tasked with the most important mission of her life: the assassination of the man who would bring about the end of the world. The only...

Keith tells Shiro not to get on the flight home, so Shiro instead takes a commercial flight. Upon arriving he learns the plane the rest of his unit were on crashed and t...

Every year a man seeks out a tarot card reader, hoping for a different future.

The course of investigative journalist and 26-year-old Marina Davis' life is changed completely after a one night stand gone wrong. She wakes up the next morning to find...

Street urchin Jena finds her life turned upside down when a man tells her she's got magic. He takes her away and gives her a home, on the condition that she serves his L...

- Short Listed for the 2019 OpenNovellaContest - Ever since the meteor hit Earth and the Red Plague spread, life has been a nightmare. Anyone who catches the plague turn...

When Veia Phelde is cursed, she hardly expects the ruin it will invoke, but will breaking the curse come at a cost more than its worth in blood? +++ ...

Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the...

Book 1 of the Paradise Series. - 3019: The world was now advanced in all sorts of technology. They were stronger than any species known. And now, they began their explo...

¤ LONGLISTED IN THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2019 ¤ //COMPLETE "-To die is easy. Living-" he paused. "Well, living is the real victory." ...

Transported hundreds of years in the future, Jasmine Sharpe must learn to live, and cope, in a world vastly different from the time she left. Aliens, Enterprise, and an...

Actions have repercussions. Keith finds himself haunted by Allura's voice calling out in his dreams, but the universe is haunted by strange anomalies despite the sacrifi...

Death has a sick sense of humor. On the most destructive week of Holiday Warren's life, a crosswalk turns into a deadly sprint through the depths of hell to right the wr...

Glamour, mischief, and mystery made Halloween the perfect holiday for a werewolf fortune teller like Ivy Winters. That was until one meddling tarot card decided to stack...