In which Adeana Coleman has to interview Oliver Tate for the school paper, except she's been madly in love with him since the fifth grade. Prompt 97: For a school magazine, you're supposed to take individual interviews of the football team players. You are now hesitant to interview someone whom you have been admiring...
¤ LONGLISTED IN THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2022 ¤ // COMPLETE - stand-alone sequel to featherlight - Chase Collins steps onto a late night train, his last in the city before he moves to a new state with a job promotion. What he doesn't expect, however, is to sit opposite Kyle Rivera: former best friend, football tea...
You pick up the diary of your school bully. You know you shouldn't read it, but you couldn't help yourself. Chelsea, a simple girl who lives her life in personal solace as she tends not to associate herself in gossip, rumors or any information that doesn't concern her academics. Terry, a badboy with secrets no one kne...
This is the story about a girl who fell in love. Not with one, not with two, but three boys. They were her everything, and no matter what, no matter the distance between them, they still never failed to be there for each other. Until the summer following college graduation, when everything changed. Twenty-Three year...
Devyn Palmer never really fit into her family. Her grandmother and father were pillars when resettling the living in Houston while battling the undead. Her brother became one of the top protectors at the age of sixteen. While, Devyn sat in a research lab, staring at infected blood samples and contemplating the mean...
LONGLISTED! Lucian Wentworth disappeared in 1819. Was he escaping a loveless marriage or was it something more sinister? No one believes the valet's story that his master vanished into a mirror. Until Ben Lucas visits Wentworth Manor and meets the same fate in 2022. Now stuck in a world full of magic and dangers, Ben...
After treating his elderly family friend, Mr. Wiltshire, through a lengthy illness Howard Phillips is surprised to learn that he has been left the Wiltshire Manor. After taking possession of the house he discovers that Mr. Wiltshire was a practitioner of magic, but he is unable to determine to what ends after a cursor...
Trace spent years searching for a mate that never showed, only to have Jodi taken from him just as he found her. And so the Goddess was merciful, giving him a Second Chance. But did it have to be a woman who preferred to stand barefoot in the mud decked out like some ancient hunter rather than dress up appropriately...
"Eros!" He stares at my hand on him, his eyebrows furrowing as he moves away from my touch. "Sorry?" he says blankly. I search his face, the wide smile on my own slowly fading as realization takes hold. The look in his eyes now is nothing like I saw two minutes ago as he conversed and laughed with the human boy. Now...
Hell and heaven collide once again. The war demons march to meet the Battle Angels in a struggle for dominance over the Human realm. This gives birth to a love so forbidden, it was unspeakable. Who would have thought an angel would fall for a demon? Prompt #45 and #79 on ONC 2022 Cover background by Daniel Olah on Uns...
Life is not a journey, but a hunt. We are forever seeking that elusive quarry known as happiness, as to trap it and make it our own. After being snubbed by the selection committee, the last thing Eve St. Croix expects is to receive a last-minute invitation to compete in an exclusive game at an a haunted seaside manor...
Desperate for cash, a broke, shopaholic musician tries to unravel the clues hidden in classical music to a mob boss' treasure, except she isn't the only one looking for it, and her opponents won't hesitate to eliminate her from the treasure hunt. ~ What lengths would you go to for some cash? For Cerise Lenoir, an unst...
PROMPT 49 CONTEST ENTRY Getting in the back of a taxi your character finds a thick envelope. It's addressed but has no postage. What does your character do? You'll have to read on to find out :P)
*COMPLETED* Every 3 years there is a Blue Moon. For centuries, packs around the world have held festivals to honour their dead on this night. But this year, things are different. For the first time in over a century, the Belmont pack and Parsons Pack will honour their dead together and celebrate the union between Ryk...
[Open Novella Contest 2022 Longlist] After a new patient passes away during his shift, Alex Chilton finds himself thrown into a contest where any wrong step can lead to catastrophe-or worse. Along with five other contestants, Alex must fight for his life, outwitting powerful forces and competition in order to find out...
**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...
| 14x 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · [Open Novella Contest 2022 Longlist] · Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Saga meets The Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. *** What if your middle school cleaning lady told you you're destined to...
{completed, onc2022 longlister} For two years, Ember has been putting Matthew Harrington's life before her own. She cared for him, cooked him food, and kept him company. Everything a sad, lonely old man could wish for. Now he's dead. Ember has no idea where to go now. It was his money and unlikely friendship that kept...
[Featured in @mythandlegend's Myths from Around the World reading list; Featured in @lowfantasy's The World Among Us reading list; Featured in @asianfantasy's Summer 2022 - Cultivation Month Catalog; First and Second Round Qualifier for ONC 2022; Longlisted in ONC 2022] The little town of Hangle has always been a dull...
Han Nayeon works as a ghostwriter in Hermes Tower, a prestigious company that offers solutions to problems. Choi Junhyub is the man she meets the day she arrives late for work for the first time, the man she's attracted to but has never met before, the man with whom she will be trapped in the elevator. Not for long, a...
The Duke of Bedford needs money. After years of gambling and not paying attention to his budget, Cecil Hastings finds himself in financial trouble. If he cannot find a reasonable amount of money soon, he will be forced to sell his estate. Then, he remembers his great-aunt's proposition. Years ago she told him that wh...
|LONG LISTED IN THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2022| Blood. Peace. Betrayal. And Death comes knocking on Camelot, Londinium, and England's front door. A great war rages from the North, threatening Camelot's and Londinium's existence. A legend passes through Camelot, whispering a prophecy that a man would pull the sword fr...
Rukiya and Kadin get stuck in an elevator during a blizzard. Shenanigans ensue.
In a dingy karaoke bar, sparks fly. - Amirah Begum has always believed in happy endings. Even after everything she's been through, whether it be years ago when she lost her favourite pair of light-up sneakers or three days ago, when she got dumped by the girl she thought was the one of her dreams, she hasn't lost her...
[The Ambys 2023 Winner in Diverse Lit. Category] Bhallar, a young doctor with a hidden agenda to take down the ruthless Pharaoh: the supreme ruler of the New Kingdom, finds himself in a tight spot when Mayeen, his sister, whom he thought to be dead, ends up on a 'WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE' poster issued by the royal house...
[Book 1 of the DUO, Webtoon coming soon] The Department of Unnatural Occurrences, better known as the DUO, is an organization dedicated to solving the strange happenings in the port city of Portia. Within it is the Investigation Squad, a small group that acts as detectives to solve most, if not all, of the major crime...
Fourteen-year-old Ana and her sixteen-year-old brother, Sam, are lost in the woods, cold, tired, and hungry. Their only hope is an old train station in the woods. When a train stops at the station, they are sure they are saved. The train seems familiar, like something from a story their Grandmother used to tell the...
The High Class of Europe. Or should I say the vampires? Everybody knows they exist, yet it is an unspoken rule to stay silent about them. You wouldn't want to risk one of them hearing you talk bad about them. The punishment for something as simple as that is unspeakable. The Vampires have built an empire from the d...
[ONC 2022 LONGLIST || FEATURED] Xie Xiao's fate changed two thousand years ago, when he nearly lost his life at the hands of a friend, and then became an immortal because of the same person. He has been living a wanderer's life since then, watching the world change--watching wars crest and fade, nations rise and fall...
A sorcerer, a genie, and an outlaw - three individuals pulled together by fate through a winding tale of magic, curses, and arrows. Jafar is in search of power. As a sorcerer with the world at his fingertips, there isn't much that Jafar wants for in life but when a long-lost relic from his past emerges once more, he w...