In a land where dragons must split themselves into separate entities of Light and Shadow, silver dragon Magnus teams up with dwarf warrior Hilda and human wizard Kara to confront the angry Shadowfolk looking to reclaim the lives of their counterparts. ___ This is my entry for the ONC 2022 contest. Status: completed February 18, 2022 Grand Winner of the ONC 2022! Original cover created using CANVA PRO on February 1, 2022

Jane doesn't quite believe the magic bean is real when the tooth fairy accidentally drops it into her sister's bed. She plants it anyway and finds herself climbing to the sky on a giant beanstalk, just like her cousin, Jack. The Giant catches her and gives her an ultimatum: steal her weight in gold from the dragon or never go home again. Fortunately for her, there are good friends to be had, but will they be enough to overcome an ancient dragon? Jane is determined to try.

🏆 WINNER (3RD PLACE) - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2022 🏆 The Mayaware's reign has to end. When demonic beings who hide scales and insatiable hunger for humans under their skins arose, Hesi watches her family become their victim. To avenge them, Hesi has to get close to the demons and enters the palace as a bride to the Mayaware prince. With nothing but her wits and the guidance of a servant-turned-spy inside the palace, Hesi has to wade through the sea of flesh and blood and of mysteries and truths until she is put in a position where she has to choose between her people and her heart. She has to make her move before time runs out, even if she has to cast all she is into the fire. From Exequinne, the author of the high fantasy series, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, comes a heartbreaking tale of freedom, betrayal, and the choice between revenge and formed bonds. Not all demons have wounds to heal, but every human has a blade to kill. THIS IS THE NOVELLA VERSION. FOR THE EXPANDED VERSION, VISIT MY PROFILE, @Exequinne. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2022 (First Edition) C/TW: Some scenes in this story contain depictions that might upset or trigger the reader. Please read at your own risk. Appropriate warnings at the parts containing the said scenes will also be provided. [30,000 - 40,000 words] [All graphics are made by @Exequinne]

Steampunk light/ Comedy. A terrifying new exhibit on at London Zoo is the talk of the town. Amelia Tooting-Spur couldn't care less...until the creature escapes, throwing the Metropolitan Police into a panic. With the help of some of her eccentric friends from the Mastermind Society-- including undervalued mind-reader Godwin Jones-- Amelia sets out to apprehend the marauder and its master. With explosive results! LGBT+ themes. Short chapters.

Lord Lucian Wentworth disappeared in 1819. Was he escaping a loveless marriage or was it something more sinister? No one believes the valet's story that his master vanished into an antique mirror. Not until unemployed actor, Ben Lucas, meets the same fate two hundred years later. Now stuck in Rhillion, a world full of magic and dangers, Ben needs to learn the secret behind the mirrors if he ever wants to return home. But the longer he stays, a budding romance and a bitter rivalry could easily foil his plans. Romantic/ SciFi -Fantasy/ LGBT The novella was LONGLISTED for the ONC 2022, now extended to novel length in 2024 And winner of The Glass Slipper Prize for best transdimensional panes of love :)

[ONC 2021 WINNER: 3rd place] When a car accident reveals a shocking secret even he didn't know about himself, an android finds himself hunted by his own husband. BioSynth is one half of a duology of novellas. Both follow the same sequence of events from different PoVs. BioSynth is Quentin's tale; SynTracker is Ian's. Collectively, they're known as Syn. ≡≡≡ Photographer Quentin Morgan has almost everything he could ask for. With a dream job that takes him all over the world, married to the love of his life for the past eight years, it's only his husband's line of work that leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Ian is a SynTracker, someone who hunts down BioSynths - obsolete yet incredibly dangerous synthetic self-aware weapons that can pass as humans - and returns them to the government, to be reprogrammed and repurposed. Quentin finds the job distasteful, but Ian says they're weapons, and weapons don't weep. A car crash that could have killed Quentin reveals the shocking truth: he, himself, is a BioSynth. Hurt, scared, and now hunted by the man he loves, who thinks him an impostor, Quentin is thrown into a suddenly hostile world, where the stakes are his very existence. ≡≡≡ BioSynth was written for the Open Novella Contest 2021 and is based on prompt #4: You're a weapon, and weapons don't weep. It features a romance between two men. ≡≡≡ ONC Winner: 3rd Place ONC Round One Ambassador Pick Speculative Fiction Awards, Sci-Fi Category: Winner

[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the bronze giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years. Prompts chosen: (25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*) (60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate. (*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"

Vita hates being a demigoddess. Especially now that Barnabas, the love of her life, is locked up in the Underworld, while she is stuck in an endless cycle of resurrections and new lives. Worst of all, with every resurrection Vita loses a piece of her past, as her memories slowly fade. To break this never-ending cycle, she decides to steal her own records from the Underworld. After all, without records they won't know to send her back to Earth, so she can stay and search for Barnabas. But to get those records, Vita will have to get past Hades, his three-headed watchdog Cerberus and all the guards of Tartarus. Credits to @roguehopes for the amazing cover!!

In the magical country of Ravenhall, a fire-starter named Amin returns home after years of battle. Amin begins to put pieces of his broken life back together day by day. Yet, there are lingering shadows that still haunt him.But then, a new war is on the horizon. Should Amin fight once again or flee into the unknown? ONC Prompts Used: 4. You are a weapon, and weapons don't weep. 45. The war against enemy clans has begun and soldiers are needed. You have two choices: serve as a soldier or defy the call and disguise yourself as a shepherd.