Onc2025 Stories

Markus has left everything behind to live in a remote cabin near a lake. He wants to be alone, but in the middle of a snowstorm, a stranger knocks at his door and asks f...

In Imperia, power is a delicate, all-consuming game. So when young Lady Sylnavi's father commissions her to quietly destroy a political rival, she's thrilled. Impress, a...

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 administrat...

The worst thing about working at a dating agency is being constantly surrounded by love, even when your own heart is broken. That's the case for Liam. Still, he hasn't g...

✨First Place + Grand Winner of ONC 2025✨ (thank you!) In the wake of her estranged mother's death, Maricel Ferrer returns to her childhood home to confront the dark secr...

Supermodel Kaia Keene has the perfect life-until she uncovers her footballer boyfriend's infidelity and shady charity dealings. Refusing to be just another scorned ex, s...

**ONC SHORTLISTER 2025** Sixteen-year-old Cas is clever, sporty, and on the brink of a bright future at university. His best friend Vish has no such prospects. A painf...

As a princess takes her final steps towards her inevitable sacrifice, her only thoughts circle around the idea of death. A death predetermined by a prophecy. One that wi...

Adeliza of Normandy has only ever wanted a place to belong. The illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Normandy, she never was certain there was a place for her. Orphaned...

Salt destroyed the world. Now, he must sacrifice his wife to save it. -- A fatal drought ravishes the land after Salt insults the water god. Jaded, reluctant, and driven...

An up-and-coming violinist entangles with a renowned ballerina, and their lives will never be the same. ⋆☆⋆ Leah Dellman needs a stellar grade in her performance seminar...

"There's no denying it-either I'm hallucinating or Cole Winton is standing on my porch." Jamie is used to putting pen to paper. She's been doing it for years...

Cory and his brother, Tuck, set out on a quest to cross off everything on Tuck's bucket list. There's just one thing Cory wonders, concerning the rules of bucket list en...

🏆 ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 Two teenagers embark on a cross-country music tour to outrun the threat of war and curtailed creative freedom. ...

Ellery Mazick -a low grade shifter tasked with guarding the missives of war generals and commoners alike- never expected to be drafted for war. When General Valerus, a s...

When Rosalin arrives in the imperial capital, Livia, she carries with her a burden of secrets. Her purpose is not what she says aloud. But Rosalin is not the only one...

---ONC 2025--- Princess Selene has lived her life within the safe confines of her kingdom's walls, her destiny sealed by an arranged marriage to the Demon King of a neig...

[ONC 2025 SHORTLISTED] An amnesiac goddess must rewrite her destiny before the evil reaper strikes out her existence. ••• 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣...

Round 3 Ambassador Pick Finalist: Top 4 Once, you were a character in a story, your life crafted by an unseen hand, your destiny inked into pages. But that story was del...

When college student Celine Marlowe finds a piece of a shattered unicorn horn in the forest, she doesn't expect it to contain ancient magic connecting her to its owner S...