❝ 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...
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...
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...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] When the world screams, only the dead will know silence. After an unexplained event occurs, people across the world begin to scream. And never, ever stop. As the world falls into chaos, Henna Blackmore tries to survive, looting and scavenging what she can, when she can, but the screams never sto...
"The pain of freedom is better than the pain of slavery." - Saladin *** For almost a century, a part of humanity has lived underground, in a bunker designated to shelter the vulnerable from the unending war. The people in the bunker, known as the Division Two people, had no knowledge of the outside world except from t...
• 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...
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...
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...
Earth, 35th Century. You can cheat death by downloading your consciousness into a Virtual Universe, with thousands of imaginary worlds to choose from, and countless 'lives' to be 'lived.' But someone of vital importance to the Virtuaverse has been murdered offline. It's up to Daniel Crow Feather, Missing Persons Speci...
The mission - colonize the slopes of Olympus Mons on Mars before the Pacific Alliance lands. The challenge - something isn't quite right with the site foreseen for the colony. Explorations reveal a cave where the support struts for the home dome are supposed to go. It gets worse - not only does the cave move, but it...
What if having superpowers was not a gift but a curse? Would you still choose to use it? Aleksandra Leszczyńska works as an agent for a secret government organisation training people with superpowers - the Gifted - to work as a police support force. Working as a public servant to keep peace and order was always her dr...
| 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...
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...
Two lovers. One is immortal, the other isn't. Aurelia is 1000 years old. A wish that saved her life as a baby turns out to be a never ending curse, as she watches her loved ones leave her, over and over again. Her solution? Give up long term relationships and never be hurt again - nice smiles and cute winks mean no...
Xiaochen dreams of angsty tragedies covered in purple tinted heartbreak. Hanzhang wants to own the world. Their disagreement over a bitter cup of coffee might just turn their worlds around.
2023 Leighyeann A. Mies All rights are reserved An entry for the Open Novella Contest 2023 (prompts #15, #63 and #75) [COMPLETED ON 28/4/2023] *** Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives... Jenny Lesko doesn't want to marry Hunter Hyde. She only has eyes for her only love, Alex Hills, but her aunt and uncle ha...