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[Completed in 2025] Love is not a blessing, but a curse. In the shadowed halls of the Night Court, where vampires rule with quiet cruelty and ancient tradition, they ar...

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...

Mabel's life is falling apart. Between her long-time situationship who wants to be more than friends now, her rapidly deteriorating grades, and a group of friends who've...

Nurse Shelley Carleton doesn't believe in ghosts. She doesn't believe in the afterlife, either. But when Margaret, a patient who died five years ago, reaches out for hel...

Gorgeous Cover by @BreanneLHeureux | Long Listed ONC 2025 | Summoned to another world through a mysterious door, college student Silver Wolfe discovers a realm of witch...

| Round 2, Ambassador Pick | When media mogul Richard Langley demands his children declare their love to inherit his empire, the refusal of his youngest daughter sparks...

There's a new god of stories in charge, and he's decided it's time to ditch the old stuff - no matter the cost. All that stands in the way of this literary apocalypse is...

Dom is a worldly man who has managed to carve out a path for himself despite his humble origins: He has traveled throughout the Duchy, studied under the tutelage of monk...

What happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time? On the eve that Gabe McCall, an engineer for the National Space & Exploration Agency is scheduled to fly...

If Sirius Black had his way, the Black family would remain long-lost relatives he had nothing to do with, including Grimmauld Place which he managed to inherit, yet Grim...

Fame, fortune, and millions of followers can disappear as quickly as they come, especially in an era where getting ''cancelled'' is just one viral scandal away. Hollywoo...

The whole world including the Celestial universe has always been so calm, peaceful and harmonious. There was never a time of destruction that took place and that was all...

Tiasha Das has a particularly bad day when her boss decides to make it even worse by setting her up on a project with her rival. Simultaneously, arrives a parcel to her...

[Completed in 2025] The Kingdom of Velmoria is crumbling and on the brink of destruction, and only one person can save the dying Kingdom. Julian, a young man running aw...

When international superstar, Laila, decides to ignore all warnings and fly to her next gig in a storm, she finds herself lost on a mysterious tropical island with no ho...

🏆ONC 2025 || Round One Round Winner Cary Leong sees ghosts. Ever since his parents were brutally murdered by one, he's lived in the space between reality and the other...

Nezuko's childhood crush - a demon that wasn't a demon, yet everyone in their village deemed him one. Years pass with her becoming a demon, but it's Tamaki's turn to fal...

2025 Leighyeann A. Mies All rights reserved An entry for the Open Novella Contest 2025 (based on prompt #35) [COMPLETED ON 29/4/2025] *** The TV show "Turning Point...

"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...

Combine a mountain filled with rugged orcs with a mysteriously arrived shop serving delicate cups of tea. Could this be the start of a revolution? **** On Orc Mountain...