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  • Oops! We Died? [ONC 2025]
    206 34 3

    A witch's broom is for flying and should never be used for cleaning unless you are Isolde Cromsbane. Her notorious clumsiness often ends up in a mess she has to deal with and there is only one job that can suit her, a librarian. But when a warlock comes looking for a forbidden book, which she had already burned to as...

  • The Prince's Ransom || ONC 2025 || bxb
    371 93 8

    When a mysterious thief steals a treasure from a reckless prince, his knights spring into action. They're hunting for the precious necklace intended for the prince's bride, but the prince knows better. His heart was stolen, and his heart is priceless. The only way he can recoup this loss is to find his thief before th...

  • The Wicked and the Deadly
    291 57 14

    AN OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 ENTRY A young witch must team up with a banished demon to reverse the curse on her village before she is persecuted. ⋯⋯⋯ Rakida of Apilsha has her life in order until a mysterious fire broke out and the townsfolk...

  • Dead Wrong | ONC 2025
    869 203 13

    Soren never asked to be the only faerie on campus who can see ghosts. Because honestly? It's kind of a nightmare. Between dodging chatty spirits in the hallways, and constantly being late because some 200-year-old ghost will not move from the dorm entrance, Soren has enough problems. And after Soren loses his protect...

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  • The Impossibility of Us [ONC 2025]
    303 88 8

    An introverted graduate student accidentally signs up for a reality TV show and navigates the pressures of sudden fame and a budding relationship with an infuriatingly charming athlete. * * * When Bridget Campton moved to sunny California to pursue a PhD in Biochemistry she thought it was her ticket to finally becomin...

  • The Groundtaking Resolution (ONC 2025)
    260 43 9

    (Ongoing) When the five worst pranksters in High School finally graduate, they discover a mysterious portal and realize they're old stories that take you to the history of each. While they find out what has happened, they go home, almost speechless. Although their parents knew what was going on, they were about to com...

  • Pick Me Up On Tuesdays (bxb) || ONC 2025
    265 141 20

    What's the worst that could happen when a socially anxious nerd crosses paths with Paramount High's golden boy quarterback in a game of Fear Pong? Spoiler alert: Everything. °*° Clark would rather fake his own death and live under a rock than go to a party. But thanks to some questionable life choices, he's now locked...

  • Trapped || ONC 2025
    99 16 6

    Former detective Selena Evans retreats to a remote cabin to escape her past, but when Gavin Locke arrives, claiming to have crashed nearby, she hesitantly offers him shelter due to the oncoming storm. As the brutal snowstorm traps them together, her suspicions of him grow, and she soon discovers Gavin isn't who he say...

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  • 10 Letters To September | ONC 2025
    453 140 14

    "What started under a drizzle turned into a thunderstorm. Prohibiting me from wanting too much, yet wanting it all." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A Teen Fiction Novella ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When September Grahams starts to receive letters from an anonymous person, she's in awe of his cursive, his words, his rhythm...

  • Adelaide: An Artificial Intelligence Advisor [ONC 2025]
    82 14 4

    A successful lawyer meets a carpenter through an AI (artificial intelligence) machine, hoping to find love. But what they find is more than what they bargained for. __________________________________________________________ Ursula has all the book smarts and not an ounce of social skills. After a year of loneliness, s...

  • Jet and Ash
    227 40 13

    AN OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 ENTRY Two teenagers embark on a cross-country music tour to outrun the threat of war and curtailed creative freedom. ⋯⋯⋯ As Ash finishes identifying his parents' remains from a full-blast attack, he should have s...

  • Celestial Mechanics || ONC 2025
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    **When an innocent teen is murdered in prison, his older sister forces her ex-friend turned officer to arrest her in order to investigate.** After eight years abroad, Lana Lippian has returned to the frozen asteroid of her childhood as a Lieutenant in the Intergalactic Disciplinary Organization. It is now her job to p...

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  • To Sand, To Sea: An Eilosian Ballad | ONC 2025
    76 12 3

    [Set in Eilos, the world of 'Echoes of the Reach', and can be read standalone.] Where ripples of the past lead, the tidal waves of history soon follow. Jaster Brand is an artificing prodigy. From enchanted tools to automaton companions to his own right arm, his passion for arcane engineering has carried him to the Ma...

  • When Water Burns | ONC 2025
    330 92 8

    As water is depleted for its magic, a vigilante uses a cold heiress to infiltrate high society and steal their water before the world--and her family--burns. 🜄 After washing up in the desert, nearly dead and with no memories, twenty-something-year-old Lana had a feeling she was involved in something dangerous. "Vigil...

  • I Will Always Protect You | ONC 2025
    160 51 6

    28-year-old Calista's life took an unexpected turn when her parents died and left her all of their fortune. Her fiance Trevor came at an opportune time and helped her heal from their loss. Now, she is engaged and having the time of her life at her bachelorette party in Mexico with her friends. All that changes when sh...

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  • Beneath
    329 107 6

    A professor and a detective must pair up to discover the secrets of the bog behind the former's new home. *** The Autopsy of Jane Doe meets Predatory Natures by Amy Goldsmith in this tale of folk terror. Following an incident at her workplace, professor of psychology Raisa Thorne decides to take a sabbatical at her...

  • Warm Hands
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    Esme and Matt can't stand each other, even if they have to play nice for the cameras. As public speculation about their chemistry heats up, they're forced to confront what's real versus what's just for show. ***** Esme Mendoza is everything Matt Crain...

  • Where the Star Weeps | ONC25
    344 59 6

    Running from a war-torn world, Aulka and her pack find refuge in a Dream where there is no suffering, no pain, and no death. It's a well-needed reprieve...until Aulka discovers that the dreamer, Maikai, is dying and the Dream along with him. When Aulka sets out, she runs into the mysterious, Dream-dubbed "hero", Kaone...

  • Fairy Logic (and Other Matters of Academia) ✓
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    Entry-level magic professors aren't supposed to be responsible for fixing the generations-long problems that come from a library haunted by fae. But when the administration sweeps the dangerous situation under the rug, Constance Wylf sets out to expose the truth. Armed with logic, a cart of books, and her personal-com...

  • A Flame Upon Still Water | ONC 2025
    283 67 6

    She's an angel. He's a demon. What could go wrong? Most angels would balk at setting foot deep into demonic territory -- not Siah Umbrath. When the Angelic Council appoints her father as ambassador to the demonic kingdom, Siah sees it as a thrilling opportunity. As a history buff, she eagerly awaits her enrollment at...

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  • Ruin and Reign | ONC 2025
    287 71 8

    A forgotten goddess, a love torn by fate, and a war that shattered the heavens-Elaria must choose between power, love, and the future of existence itself. 🔥🔥🔥 Eleanor thought she was human-until her soul bond shattered, awakening powers no mortal should possess. As memories of her past life return, she discovers sh...

  • The Devil's Heir: Books of Caedis | Volume One
    120 19 2

    [ONC 2025 Entry] In a world where knowledge is a curse, a child raised as a vessel becomes the greatest threat to the gods above. *** In the depths of a ruined castle, a child is born--one whose fate is bound to the rise of an ancient, forgotten power. Locked away in darkness, Aleksei is raised as nothing more than a...

  • Our Dying Shadows [ONC 2025]
    104 27 4

    Saoirse Rowan has just one wish: to escape with her best friend from Saltwood and begin a life anew. But there's a problem: the town of Saltwood is cursed. No outsider can step inside, and while the folk can venture out, one way or another, they always come back. As Saoirse and her friend start planning their escape...

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  • Never Say Die, Alyson Gardner
    229 44 14

    AN OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 ENTRY A misfit actress must give a performance of a lifetime before her true identity gets uncovered and her hidden empire crumbles down. ⋯⋯⋯ Alyson Gardner, the misfit daughter of the Ocalira chief, is a master...

  • How Do You Die, Agatha Fairbard
    180 42 13

    AN OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 ENTRY A misfit witch must find her missing twin before everyone finds out about her heritage and her family's deception. ⋯⋯⋯ Agatha Fairbard is a mystery. Having lived in a mirror dimension all her life, she was...

  • A Heart for the Clockwork Curse | ONC 2025
    398 83 10

    Bound to a magical bangle and a demon, sea drifter Ninnette has only three days to break the curse--or die trying. ---------- Ninnette is a sea drifter with the power to command water, dredging shipwrecks and salvaging lost treasure. But when she braves a wreck no one else dares to dive, she finds no gold, no jewels...