A college athlete helps the daughter of the moon goddess exact her revenge and tries not to fall in love with her in the process. *** Slade Nakoi Locklear grew up knowing everybody in the small town of Normrock, Oklahoma. He was the typical college athlete who loved sports, music, and being around the crowds of peopl...
One Kiss changed everything. Hailey is done with college and on the verge of either losing her job or climbing the ladder and maybe restructuring her love life. When she's mismatched with the wrong person on a date, a stranger swoops in to be the hero. He may be charming, but he's the kind that breaks one like a prom...
• OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2023 • SHORTLISTER • AMBASSADORS' PICK • FEATURED STORY • Artemis Hexley used to be the famed Curse-Breaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Now, she isn't even a Curse-Breaker anymore. The events that shaped her formative years may be behind her, but with the Triwizard Tournament...
General Min Lian has climbed the stairs of treason and reached the top: his opponents are crushed, dissent is all but gone, and his ascent is a matter of time. Soon enough, he will become the new Chairman and cleanse his beloved country of the despicable spinners - artists who dare to shape the world with their unnatu...
[Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2023] Fate is a twisted thing, or the evil sorcerer had a hand in her demise. Roysia Ysembert made a deal to cure her mother, but with every gift comes a price. A matrimonial union is to take place between enemies. One who rejoices in the taste of blood. Another who hopes to spill...
Round One Ambassador Pick. Emily Hollyford fell in love with Oscar Trentham, Earl of Riverstoke, when she was just thirteen years old. All she wanted in life was to marry her prince charming in front of the most important people in her life-her parents. Oscar, on the other hand, only saw an annoying child who pester...
The Sentinels are finished. Everyone knows that. Once crucial to the defence of the galaxy, now neglected and labelled as irrelevant, the legendary warriors are a shadow of their former selves. No longer a bastion of the best and brightest, in this time of drones and AIs, when contracts have taken the place of conflic...
Deacon Blye struggles to leave the shadow of a demanding legacy to create his own. Working himself to the bone, he's now the popular mysterious country star for True Tone Records. Don't be fooled by his suave personality, Deacon likes filth... When a spanner is thrown in his works quite literally, he needs to rethink...
🏅HONORABLE MENTION IN ONC 2023🏅 Written for the 2023 Open Novella Contest: It's easy to get away with crime in a packed, unruly and newly built city--Cantonesia: The Jewel of the Orient. That's what Amelia Yeung's family has been doing for decades. She's part of Cantonesia's most notorious and elusive mafia family...
** ONC 2023 ** Psyche lives in the darkness of the abyss, with worshippers occasionally providing moments of light. A sad result of making enemies with a fellow goddess. But then, little Lucilla gives her chocolate as tribute, and Psyche decides to take a chance. Now, the goddess has a class full of runny-nosed chi...
[ROMEO x JULIET | ENEMIES TO LOVERS AU] After centuries, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is coming to an end. A marriage between the two children of the families will unite and merge two of the biggest conglomerates the world had ever seen. All thanks to true love. There's only one problem. Romeo and Jul...
OLYA stands on the deck of a spacecraft known as the Aimless. The Aimless houses the remainder of humanity, who have drift through space, seeking another inhabitable planet. During a routine mediation class designed to increase emotional intelligence, OLYA experiences what she initially calls a hallucination, on a bea...
**In Necropolis, every afterlife citizen is dead, including Tyryn. While each soul is seeking to carve a path towards redemption at second chances, the girl who still bleeds crimson in the city of the dead is searching for answers to her very existence. ** When Tyryn and her rival are tasked with working together in s...
[ONC 2023 SECOND PLACE WINNER | AMBASSADORS PICK 2023] An unwilling but gifted geneticist must find a way to safeguard humanity against the deadly pathogen she's forced to design or die trying. *** The planet's population is pushing past 11 billion and counting. With resources spread thin, widespread famine, and heal...
Grown up in the simple town of Forn, as the daughter to an innkeeper and ex-soldier, the youthful Marion Barwick aspires to become a soldier herself. Beaten down time and time again by life, she is eventually broken and takes on the role of innkeeper her father always hoped her to have. Here, she reunites with an old...
After seeking sanctuary in Harl for almost nine hundred years, Herbert Fletcher Zaeheri, the legendary vampire sets out on an exigent journey with Rao Yueru, the one and only prince of Roa to assist him in relieving his lost memories and to discover Roa's concealed enigma. Along their journey, Herbert discerns the sil...
Constance meets a hot man named Beom on a bus. She always sees him on her commute to her new job, but is too scared to say anything to him. One day, she decides to talk to him. He is surprised when she can see him. After all, he has invented a way to be invisible to everyone, saying he's done with other people's expec...
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'...
Most families have a history, but none have one like the Thatcher's. Cora Langley has made it her job to uncover some of the most stomach-twisting mysteries known to man. So when she lands an interview with the Thatchers' only son, she thinks it's her lucky break. When Levi Thatcher is more charming than she'd ever e...
There's always that one thing you just can't be bothered to care about. For drug dealer Nathan Devereaux, it's the grimoire he found, complete with working magic and all. Okay, fine, maybe he tried one spell, and maybe that ended with his curtains on fire. Lesson learned. Leave forces you don't understand alone. Magi...
★ AMBASSADORS PICK ★ When the Demon Lord threatens to wipe out the entire human population, Demon Huntress Zelda Harpestrix must join hands with another demon to defeat the evil Lord. ★★★ Zelda Harpestrix was an orphan who was picked up from the streets and handed the special ability to hunt and...
❝ 𝐃𝐔𝐌 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀 𝐄𝐒𝐓, 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐒𝐓. ❞ 𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑 she was, 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 had always kept the real world out of her reach. When her grandmother's passing seemed to hold more secrets than she bargained for, Alana's hopes at an adrenaline-filled life quickly turned i...
Miriam's good at what she does. Some might even say great. So talented, she's cornered the market, niche as it is, and is forevermore known as the only person who can make your cheating boyfriend weep in the blink of an eye. Ade's better. Suave and charming, smooth where most are jagged and frayed. So good, he often...
Stripped of its lights, Paris plunges into darkness after a group of celestial moths eat away at the city's memories-a Weaver Of Starlight and a Hunter Of Hearts are assigned the task of slipping into the fabric of the universe, in order to breathe life back into Paris's streets and illuminate the world again. But whe...
~*ONC shortlist*~ It's up to a climbing enthusiast, and the local jaded doctor to find out what's going on when a mysterious hole appears in their town's park at the same time that a strange new illness starts ravaging the community. *ONC 2023 From the ONC Prompts: 38) A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
Four strangers are trapped in an elevator and forced to reveal details about their most malicious deeds within the hour to prevent a fall to their death. But as secrets are exposed, tension escalates, leading to a reality no one is prepared for. ***** Tasha Pierce receives an anonymous invitation she believes is from...
[8X FEATURED] Merlin is the greatest-eleven-year-old nerd the world doesn't know because his name has cursed him--he's all parts nerd and zero parts magic and all he wants is to be cool. When Merlin hacks a new encryption code designed to protect online banks, he receives a full scholarship to Code-X Academy and wins...
Daiki has secrets. He hides them with Rumors. Rumors Bring People. People Bring More Rumors. More Rumors Bring a certain group of people. Which happens to Bring Quinn. Quinn Has secrets. She hides them with distractions. Who will arise Triumphant?
When his vampire blood begins to poison him, dhampir Elio Starling falls into hallucinations. As the delusions get darker, and the line between reality and dreams blurs, he believes he is losing his mind. There is only one soul he can confide in, a mermaid and part-time lover named Lux who suffers from an intolerance...