🤎 'Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives.' 🤎 All that supermodel Amy Wonderson ever wanted was a few breathes of relief in a new home, after an early retirement from the industry, with her long-term partner and fiance. But leave the breathes, even her want to stay for a minute fades away when a not-so-secret gets exposed about her past on the internet. 🤎 Julien Sally Neverith was a normal girl with a simple part-time job in a coffee shop, a few cats in her one-room apartment and a hobby of collecting painting and hosting parties and competitions for kids in the asylum. But, her life comes to a 180⁰ turn when she realizes what actually happened to her sister almost 7years ago. 🤎 'Being jobless, orphan and a single mother at the almost 27th year of your life in the 21st century' was the position that Rosetté Maria Gomez have always despised with all her heart and might. Although tired, she had no other ways but to chose to live for her daughter - her first priority. 🤎 Fate has decided something else when Rosetté meets Amy and Julien - people with equally troublesome surroundings and situations - at the most uncanny settings - a 'Masquerade Maskers' concert in Texas. How will this one meeting at the most arbitrary place prove so much changes in the life of these three struggling young ladies with no will to continue their journey? Will they be able to find their way back to the start after coming so far into a messy life; together? 🤎 An 'ONC 2023' project with prompt #15. 🤎 Word Count- 3.6k [updating] Start date- 2nd February'23 Finish date- [*shrugs shoulders*] 🤎

Emily Ross started her new job as a hotel assistant manager. She doesn't know the first thing about hotels, but she needed the job and lied to get it. Putting out fires during her first week, Emily feels she can handle her new job until she gets stuck in an elevator with six strangers. Sebastian Von Ziegesar is a multi-billionaire hotelier in the day but a ruthless mafia prince at night. He has a kink that leads him down a path of no return, and he doesn't want to return unless Emily Ross is by his side.

University professor Cora Glass may be an expert on the topic of red/green colorblindness, but when her walking red flag of an ex shows up on campus, is she smart enough to say no to a second chance? *** Three years ago, scientist Cora Glass met a stranger over cocktails in an airport hotel lobby. His name was Jamie Bowen: an irresistible charmer with a talent for impersonating men he'd never be - and the only man who ever succeeded in breaking Cora's heart. Their fiery relationship flamed out years ago, but forgetting about Jamie is a different story. Seeking a change of scenery, Cora accepts a junior faculty position at prestigious Wallingford University and throws herself into her research with single-minded focus. She couldn't be less interested in the campus gossip surrounding the hot new professor who just joined the English department. That is, until she sees him, and he turns out to be none other than... her ex? But the man who won her heart three years ago was a high school dropout, not a PhD. Jamie could only be at Wallingford now as an impostor - and Cora's determined not to let him drag her into whatever game he's playing. ONC 2023 Contest Prompts: 51. The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them. 63. A rivalry between two coworkers has unforeseen consequences. 6. Can we go back to the start when we were all strangers in the dark?

Florence Eisley is dead, according to her death certificate and her loved ones. Gone. Buried. Already rotting away into nothingness in her little grave. Ethan hasn't seen her in over a year, after a falling out that left both of them too awkward to reach out and mend things. Not only that but for some strange reason, Florence entrusted Ethan to be her post-mortem confidant, a person responsible for sifting through a dead person's online life. Now, finding himself knee deep in Florence's digital life, Ethan must figure out what's worth keeping and what's worth erasing from the internet forever.

Jade Snow by day, Sapphire Bullseye by night. Sandshore. A place of beauty and disaster. She is one of the top assassins in the underworld. Sent out to kill and steal. Nothing is too challenging for this woman but what happens when she is sent on a mission to Frostbourne to assassinate the Prince. Secrets will be revealed. Fights will break out and those they loved will die in the crossfire. Cover by @-DeeIsDead--

An ONC shortlister! The long-forgotten god of chaos awakes when a small child drops a piece of candy onto his altar, unwittingly becoming the high priest of chaos. The god is beholden to his priest and his priest's people--AKA: his kindergarten classmates. The children are all-too-delighted to serve the whims of mayhem until the chaos becomes too much, even for them. They forbid the god from using his power. But when disaster strikes and the whole school is in danger, a bit of bedlam might be the only thing that can save the children, the town, and the god's budding romance with a schoolteacher. Based on the Open Novella Contest 2023 prompt: #73 - You are a long-forgotten god. A small kid leaves candy at your shrine and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priest/Priestess, the kid, and their entire kindergarten class, your worshippers. #ONC2023 #OpenNovellaContest

[ONC 2023 Shortlister] The Hanscome Vacation Retreat had brought fun and happiness to hundreds of families over the years. But, when the last Hanscome guardian of the sprawling home dies, the once beloved hotel falls into ruin until developers give it a new lease of life. Now, potential buyers find themselves trapped in a house that has become home to nightmares and evil. Real estate agent, Maddie Bourne fights to escape the madness, to return to her family, but the house will not let her, or the others, go without paying a steep price. Only the mysterious strangers, Winter and Twilight, stand any chance of reuniting Maddie with her family. An ONC Novella, based on Prompt 62: Hell is empty and all the devils are here - William Shakespeare. A homage to the tv show, 'Sapphire and Steel', The Shining and Dirty Dancing. Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

Who let the ghosts out? Ian thinks he's getting the hang of his supernatural powers but a surprise encounter with Melody, a professional psychic medium, forces him to put his skills to the test in a friendly psychic duel. It's all fun and games until they accidentally break the fabric of reality and the Grim Reaper gets involved. Ghosts aren't the only ones with unfinished business. Ian's approach to moving on is to not think about the past, but what he really needs is someone to guide him through the darkness, someone who understands his gift. Too bad he pissed her off. * ONC 2023 Prompts #40 and #20 * **** ONC SHORTLIST ****

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 athlete, believes it's meant to be. After being completely ghosted and shut out of Ethan's life after high school, he's finally found the man at a chance encounter at an overbooked hotel. More determined than he is to win his college's first championship, Cameron is desperate for answers and another shot at love with the guy who stole his heart. Will they face the music or strike out from each other's lives for good? -An Open Novella Contest 2023 Shortlister-