You don't go to the police when you think you've seen a witch. They won't help you. *** Political dissidents and nonconformists alike, colloquially referred to as witches under the paleoconservative, totalitarian regime of the New American Republic, are tracked down like animals, tortured, and swiftly put to death. ...
|𝟏𝐱 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃/𝐎𝐍𝐂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐒| When the apocalypse arrives 𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐄 is ready to accept death after living a cursed life. But fate has other plans for him. Whisked away by a mysterious taxi driver with a silver tongue, Kane finds himself caught up in the world of faes, vampires...
Everyone knows Zenith, but nobody knows how the band managed to rock Zerkovkia's youth into starting a revolution... until now. Tolya Viktov is coming of age in the 1980s to the tune of spinning records, cheap liquor, and Zerkovkia's nine year war with neighboring Blivdova. The perms and denim jackets are hip, but it'...
Photoshop adventures of self taught design enthusiast... ... and some misadventures, if we are being completely honest.
Buried in the wreckage of a Compound meant to imprison her, Faine awakens a shell of her former self. With no memories and a growing taste for revenge, she is given the ultimate decision. She must save the city, or herself. Round One 》✅️ 2k 》✅️ Round Two 》 ✅️ 8k 》✅️ Round Three 》✅️ 20k 》✅️ Longlisted 》 ✅️ 》Fe...
Five friends, one is a killer. On fall break, twenty year old Eliza Goodchild sets off with four of her college friends for a remote cabin in Aspen, Colorado. When a blizzard strikes without warning, their SUV skids off an embankment and disappears into a wooded ravine. In the whiteout, they get lost and find themsel...
Ethan Wong, an ex-prodigy violinist, thinks it's not meant to be. After his latest mental breakdown at his last violin competition, where he placed tenth out of ten contestants, he's not sure why his music professor appointed him the soloist for their New York concerto. Cameron Langley, the star college baseball ath...
Sealed within Kealie Gothalis are the secrets of a magic destined to flood her kingdom. Trading her Mortality to disguise the heritage her mother fears most, Kealie is gifted with a blessing. She need only do one thing; keep her kingdom in the dark until the dusk of her twentieth birthday. But her control over the anc...
Mavra Kedrovna is a corpsewitch and nobody knows. Cursed with the ability to control blood and reanimate corpses into upyrs, she's been confined to a convent alongside other young women for their protection amidst the Happenings; a series of disappearances and attacks plaguing Roz's villages. On the eve of mass hyste...
𝟮𝟭𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · AMBYS 2023 WINNER · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find her...
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕟𝕠 𝕟𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒 𝕘𝕠𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕤. 𝔸𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕒𝕪𝕤. GREY is doing alright, all things considered. She's the reincarnation of a legendary moon goddess, on the run from the death cult that raised her. So far, laying low in the crowded neon city of...
Whether it's your first time or your sixth time, writing a novella in 12 weeks isn't easy. As a 2021 ONC Winner and 2023 Honorable Mention, I would know. After years of participation and reflection, I have lots of advice to share on how I did it. Inside this guide, you can find everything from insider tips to timeline...
Sam runs into a classy lady in the elevator. He's immediately smitten, but before he can find the courage to talk to her, the elevator stops and all the lights go out. Who said that romance never began - or ended - with a bang? ;)
Katherine Addis is a stripper... on paper. After a hellish childhood of abandonment and bullying, she's doing whatever it takes to support herself and her mentally declining mother. Even if that means selling her body and her pride. So what happens when, a decade later, one of the people instrumental in her childhood...
|𝟏𝟗𝐱 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃| Here lies the tragedy of 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐀. A young woman with a heart of gold and eyes as red as blood. Cursed with the Midas Touch and destined to die beneath the Phrygian sun. She is a monster. An outcast. She is made to endure. But when a foreign goddess arrives swords clash and words ar...
When 𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐇 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐋 and 𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐆𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐘 cross paths it's anything but love at first sight. These twenty somethings come from wildly different worlds. Lilah hails from old money with a successful career to boot. Whereas Ambrose gave up his dreams to raise his brother in the wake of...
**A Snow White Dark Fairytale Retelling** - - - - - - - - - - - Marion Price wished something exciting would happen during the long, hot, sluggish summer vacation spent at her grandmother's house. Instead, she is tasked with cleaning out her grandmother's musty old attic full of junk. But when Marion stumbles upon the...
A heavy evil has settled over the cobbled streets of Anumia. This mysterious force has brought a rapidly spreading sickness with it, and now there are even more puzzling, brutal murders taking place at the hands of an unknown perpetrator. Lotte bore witness to one of these killings - she just can't remember exactly w...
Ever since he was a child, he's wanted to see the elves that run wild within the empire's jungles; when he finally gets the chance, though, it doesn't go quite as planned... *** Amaran has only ever known about the elves that run fierce and free within the empire's lush jungles through the books in his father's libra...
I'M NOT THE MONSTER YOU SHOULD FEAR. A world of bloodshed is all Yazia has known despite never having struck a blade to one's heart-that is until everything changes when an attack lures her into a spiral of revenge for her parent's death. With nothing but the throne of Sankori left to her name, a new war threatening...
❖ ''ZF 16 Ariomma to unknown vessel. Please identify yourself. Over.'' ❖ Farah and Kazem are twins working aboard the Ariomma, a trading airship that sails the edges of a flat world. Out here is a frontier far from civilization: a place known as the Tideless, where water lifts from the surface of the sea, and great cr...
When a grandmother is declared the Chosen One, she abandons her rocking chair to challenge the Dark Lord who plots to destroy the world. -- Formerly a single mother, now a devoted grandma, Granny Thayer has never left her hometown before, let alone slayed a demon. But she'd better learn fast; she's just been selected...
A sheltered honor student must overcome his anxiety and esteem issues to win the heart of a charming street performer who just may be the key to unlocking his self-confidence. ***** Seth is an honor student with no social life. Jordi is a high schoo...
🏆 OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2022 LONGLISTER 🏆 Mersem Wess, a town boy in the wintery kingdom of Solon, is content with his life collecting timber and admiring Leara Madris, the darling Lady Knight, from afar. His sister, Silke, a girl with a short fuse and way too much time on her hands, thinks otherwise. When a plan to...
The Sídhe: creatures of the earth that hold incredible powers, and a rare sight indeed in Rienne. Maeve, a girl who can draw fire from the sun, is one of the few Sídhe left--and the only one to linger amongst humans. She is content to live a simple life as a farmer's daughter, working beside the ocean and caring for h...
A year ago, in one of the few self-sufficient colonies free of the military's control, Kavi's boyfriend ran away from home after an argument-turned-breakup. Now Jasper is back, but there's something deeply wrong with him-something that draws Kavi in more than ever before. With soldiers gathering on the horizon to recl...
There's one thing in the world that Arielle hates above all else. Humans. Eighty years ago, the human kingdom of Anjord destroyed the merfolk kingdom of Vandya and banished her people to a distant corner of the sea. Since then, the merfolk have become little more than a myth to the rest of the world. But when the fo...
What happens when you find out that the rumors that you always considered impossible might be true after all? How do you survive in a world that doesn't follow the rules of your own world? One where you are surrounded by danger and unfamiliarity whichever way you turn, whose laws don't follow any rhyme or reason that...
Unjustly accused of murder, the Demon of Wrath joins forces with the Archangel of Justice to find the true culprit. ____ Sannarah lives from one deadline to the next. As a Wrath Demon, she is obliged to provide a certain number of human souls to the Fallen God every month so she can stay in the Human Realm. If she fai...
Book 1 of the Vanquisher Series Narvari Shar-captain of the Wildlife Protection Unit-has one job: protecting the West African four-tusk elephants (bazwu) from poachers invading Kirriba Plains. Like her father and grandfather, both ex-captains of the Unit, Narvari is excellent at her job. But when a psycho scientist w...