ONC 2020 Grand Winner ~ ~ "When the halls run red with the poison of your life, I will rest. Until then, consider your ruin a promise of mine." ~ ~ Four years ago, Yin Ruwei sold her blood to the northern god Xuanwu in return for revenge. Now, after years of perfectly orchestrated deaths at hands that are not her own...
[Completed] The Royal Guard of the Empire has faithfully served Byzantia for nearly three centuries now. Hand picked from foreign lands, these guardsmen hold no political ties, carry no agendas, and bare no creeds except to those who sit upon the Onyx Throne. They are vanguards, protectors, loyalists. They are Vange...
Sunbeams dust pages of ancient poetry. Data zips across a computer screen. Between the stacks, a couple hides forbidden kisses. In the distance, a librarian hushes someone in a voice that doesn't sound entirely human. Welcome to The Library. --- A collection of short stories. Includes tales by @AnnaofthePond, @ccstar...
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What would you do if there is no reason to continue on living? Fight, of course, and make your own rules. In the year 579 of the tenth age of Thallium, a war-mongering kingdom home to the most stubborn of survivors, the Crown Prince is on the cusp - of death. Until, that is, a fateful intervention. Suddenly, the boy w...
(gxg) Aboard the Scorned Woman, there is a crew pirates that hail from all five Baethean continents. They raid merchant ships and other pirates in the dead of night and take no prisoners. Releasing captured women, killing men, and wreaking havoc whenever they are on land the ladies of the Scorned Woman are notorious a...
What are wings for if not for flying with dragons in the realm where islands float in the sky? The life of order and monotony is not enough for a winged demon like Ansgarde. When society rules suffocate her, she escapes to fantastic dreams of dragons and epic quests. If only someone qualified took on the challenge to...
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Tahro Akagi shouldn't live in two worlds at once. Yet, forced to spend his days studying by a no-nonsense mother, he longs for adventure. In a moment of desperation, Tahro's soul splits in two. While one of his selves remains in Japan, the other finds himself in Saishuu Riku, the lands of his favourite book. Engrosse...
People have demons. People have shadows. People have souls. but I never imagined I could see them or talk to them. My life changed as all lives do at some point, but mine? I must change other people's lives to save them, and to save my own.
THE WORLD IS DYING. Global warming, lack of resources, and the collapse of authority across all seven continents has caused worldwide strife. People are willing to do anything to survive. The solution? Project ERAA, humanity's last effort to preserve the planet for the future - by going back into the past. ━━...
In the war-scarred yet healing lands of Thacia, five lives intertwine in fire and dark magic, as higher forces toy with the fate of their continent and ancient secrets boil beneath the earth, primed to erupt. Leath, an aging mercenary burdened by his violent past and disregard for family, finds redemption mentoring a...
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When Andy starts a complex and steamy love affair with her new boss, she discovers there's more to his arrogant facade than she originally thought. • - • - • - • - • - • - • - • Having secured her dream job at Kelex, a company she's long admired, Andrea "Andy" Walker is more than ready for the next phase of her life...
Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679. Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Wa...
"Great power comes with great..." I raised my eyebrows at Guardian, looking his skin-tight suit up and down. "Urges to wear spandex, apparently." "Are you using altered famous superhero comic book references to insult me?" he asked incredulously. I snorted. "You bet your fucking ass, I am." *** Crown City has all the...
An orphan with a dubious pedigree strives to secure her future through marriage, but as she stumbles through the dance of courtship, she begins to question who she truly is -- and who she wants to be. ***** Edith Shepley looks like a Wyrm. She takes...
An extremely dangerous file. An awkward teenager (who'd rather think of himself as the badboy of nerds). A converted, somewhat nice criminal. And an illegal medical lab. All is not what it seems when seventeen-year-old Butch breaks himself out of the local police station, making a somewhat daring run for it with his c...
Recovering alcoholic Sam isn't quite ready to let go of his failing marriage. Gord gave up his dream to care for his dying father, and now he's trapped by an inheritance he doesn't want. When Sam's new job sends him to Gord's remote farm in the heart of the Canadian prairies, it isn't long before the two find themselv...
A century ago, the demon king drowned the world in miasma. Demons everywhere went mad. Peaceful shopkeepers tore apart their human patrons. Child demons devoured their human friends. No longer could demons speak. They had become mad beasts intent upon killing. With no other recourse, humankind retreated behind a wall...
WATTPAD VERSION *** The time has come. The story begins again Five thousand years ago, Amneris Topanga sealed Enliatu in the Void, the place between places where no one can return from. Though she didn't know it at the time, ten items had the magic of the spell imprinted on their forms. Once found by Amneris, they wer...
- Five strangers: a wizard, a knight, a banshee, an elf, and a stone golem. - One quest: locate the lost island of Aunios and retrieve a legendary dark magic weapon. - One problem: They don't get along. The wizard, Llyr, works in the library and has no experience in the field. The knight, Triskell, has terrible people...
Aiden Payne is a drifter. His only memory of home is a mysterious tattoo. While working as a gold miner, his path crosses with Amelia Rose Wagner, a sheltered girl in love with navigation and the stars. After a fatal mistake, the two find themselves running from the law. Fleeing may be their only escape, yet finding...
A city built on the corpse of a giant. a world untamed and deadly beyond its artificial sun. mercenaries are in high demand and a young man decides to test his luck. but things are never easy in the untamed lands. A discovery will lead him into a lifetime of danger. Many would hunt the power he possessed, even if it w...
Donny Sullivan is a small time bandit living in the harsh uncivilized wasteland. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, he barely exists. However, after a run in with an arms dealer from the civilized world, Donny soon finds himself rising up the ranks of his local bandit society. His deeds begin to attract pow...
An Ogre, a human, a talking lizard, a wizard who forgot his magic, a complete bitch, and an annoying asshat. And those aren't even the bad guys. Banished from every pub in the region, two notoriously unlucky brothers traverse a tapestry of treacherous terrain in search of the almighty pint. Along their journey, they...
