When Marissa's poodle, Thor is snatched, the police can do nothing, so she goes to a private investigator. Their initial encounter leaves her shaken and wondering whether it's time to review her decision to avoid men. Graham gave up on women after a series of disastrous relationships, but something about Marissa stirs...
Not all fairy tales have happy endings, which Arthur is about to discover in a big way. After an especially bad day of work, he makes a wish on a star that all of the magical stories his Nana used to tell him when he was a boy were real. Life in the mundane everyday world might not always be great, but fairy tales m...
After one of the most awful days in her life, Eva Romney goes for a relaxing run on the trail behind her house. Cursing her failing life and her toxic boss, she fails to notice the clouds gathering above her. That is until she gets struck by lightning. Overcome by her luck to still be alive after the shock, she leave...
Being a 'difficult woman', Oklahoma farm-gal Mavis wasn't having much luck with the local dating pool. Her Pa signed her up to emigrate to newly terraformed Mars, because 'Mars needs women'. Maybe there she could find a good man to marry. But Mavis had no intention of getting hitched, despite what the legal contract s...
When aliens arrive on Earth and make a game out of human lives, Nina uses the quests to escape her disease, becoming the warrior the aliens desire. *** ONC 2024 Entry Using prompts: #5: Horror is in the eye of the beholder. #95: I will become as monstrous as I must. (Main Prompt) • Scifi/Horror/Thriller • EXCLU...
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 | 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 When Mara Santiago is laid off from work and dumped by her boyfriend, she moves in with her parents. Struggling to find another job as a ballerina, she begins go-go dancing at Penthouse---a high-end nightclub in San Francisco where her br...
Connor Moore is consumed by his art, struggling to find balance between the act of creation and actually living. While out for a late night pizza, he's attacked by a feral dog. Connor swears it was a wolf in the middle of the city, and his best friend Seff, is the only one who believes him. After the next full moon...
One Academy. Two Apart. Three Atrocities. Nerezza, bound by a cryptic promise, navigates an academy where mirrors reflect deepest fears. Unveiling sinister secrets, she must fight to escape a deadly destiny. *.*.*.*.*. Nerezza is a young seventeen year old bearing a secret that's as haunting as it is daunting. Bound b...
[**Slow Updates**] Lawrence thought that Count Abbot was his soulmate...until he realized that his creator had abandoned him as a Fledgeling to pursue another human. - ⥽ ✟ ⥼ - Lawrence thought he found his soulmate in Count Abbotーuntil Abbot heartlessly abandoned him. Betrayed and furious, Lawrence resolves to seek re...
| Book 1 of the Night Crawler Chronicles | After being rejected by the man he thought he'd marry, Jesse travels to DeiganLupus for the Grey Moon Ceremony. However, when the ship he was supposed to take is lost at sea, he boards the Silver Treader to reach his destination. But the Galleon turns out to be carrying more...
[ 𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑬𝑫 ] "Sometimes we love people the way we love the stars." "How?" "We love them knowing we can never have them." *** Reincarnating into a world he never knew existed wasn't what Iwan had in mind when pleading for a second chance. It didn't help that this world happened to challenge his very existence a...
When sixteen-year-old Eli Webster finds a message tucked inside a glass bottle, he doesn't expect to find himself writing letters to the mysterious Samuel Owens. With no one named Samuel living nearby, Eli fears it all to be a practical joke at his expense. Yet he finds himself drawn to the words written by a strange...
Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...
Peaky Blinders meets Bonnie and Clyde. **** Eighteen-year-old Kit Jones has spent his life on the wrong side of the law. Having grown up poor in London's seedy East End, Kit has fought tooth and nail just to survive. Emily Masters cannot say the same. Born to rich parents, she's been handed everything she could ever d...
Kindness is magic, or so they say. Gabriella has always done her best to turn the other cheek. Even when her family pushes that cheek into the mud she finds ways to forgive and forget. She's got plans to leva one day anyway so what's a few bad days? A chance meeting and a dance at a ball escalates her timeline and she...
Death is no mystery to Peggy after living as a vampire for over half a century. That doesn't mean the death of her best friend isn't devastating. Add to that the threat of someone going after that friend's great granddaughter, Maya, and suddenly death has a new fear to it. She'll have to push the boundaries of life it...
Every step away from home is a chance for an adventure and Darcy is on her first one. She's been dreaming of finding her father for as long as she can remember. He's out there and she's got a list of clues and a crappy map, but it'll do. Less than a day into her travel she's accosted by a mango throwing thief and land...
[[ON HOLD UNTIL I FIGURE OUT WHERE THE PLOT WAS GOING]]After the death of his mother, Dan is left to pick up the pieces. Most of those pieces involve a heavy load of debt and a house to sell. That all goes out the window when the strange girl stumbles into his life with a promise of riches for his help in escaping a s...
[[ON HOLD UNTIL AFTER ONC]]Grace finally has it all together. Her smoothie bar is running and generating profit, she's got a second store in the works, and no one is around to break her heart. Not this time. When her coworkers decide she needs a vacation she jets off to Hawaii to refresh and reset. The last person she...
THIS BOOK IS ON HIATUS Amintyre week is approaching, a sacred festival to the Eldritchs. Mavishyanep, "Mavi," is a young Eldritch woman, part of the many young adults who will "rise" into the next generation, and have their achievements etched in the book of Recollection. She wants to squeeze in one last accomplishme...
It all started with a miracle microchip. One that promised eternal life but delivered the end of the world. The software was supposed to prevent death, instead it brought people back to life. Now, the Risen walk the earth, and anyone who was rich enough to buy their immortality is rewarded with returning from the grav...
Sequel to "Athanasius Finch: Private Dick" Beatrix Cagliostro(pen name) thought they were done with the self-proclaimed "World's Second-Best Detective," but when he comes up with a once-in-a-lifetime-get-rich-quick scheme that would only require one hour to pull off, Beatrix pounces at the chance to make a quick buck...
"Thirty seconds. That's all you have to stop the bullshit, or your son is dead." ~~~~ Six years ago, Chelsea Doherty lost everything when her husband disappeared without a trace and left her to clean up his past. Now living in Ireland, she has pieced her life back together as best as she could and runs a small tea sh...
Anchor Morningstar owns and operates the Resting Point, a hole-in-the-wall tavern sitting right on the border between life and the afterlife where travelers catch a brief respite before passing through a portal for judgment day. For years, Anchor has lend a kind ear to those desperate souls and has offered words of en...
When the towns local Witch goes missing, her two familiars set out to find her. Matias only really likes one person, his witch, Eve. So when she goes missing one day he's determined to find her. Even if that means putting up with the annoying crow of hers. But there's only one problem, Matias has no clue where to star...
Entry for the Open Novella Contest, 2024 Prompt #36: "Fairy tales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse. After the death of her husband, Charlotte seeks a fresh start in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. She wants to do two things: work her mundane job and spend the evenings at her cabin talking to her hu...
{2024 ONC Round One Ambassadors Pick }In the heart of the bustling Bronx, amidst the vibrant chaos of Highbridge, where the rhythm of life pulses through the streets, a resilient 18-year-old Camila finds herself thrust into a nightmarish struggle for survival. Balancing the weight of two jobs to support her family, Ca...
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin meets What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, in this tale of fantasy and intrigue. *** A missing lady. A prince who is accused. A realm on the brink of civil war. Princess Maysa Memor must give her all to prevent a rebellion breaking out in Namiona. When Lord Edmund Eni cl...
High school at Crestwood Heights High feels like hell and the end of the world, and for Zoe and her friends, it might just be. Reopening after a mysterious summer "remodeling," the school now harbors a new library and a seemingly friendly librarian, Mr. Henderson. For Zoe, the library promises a haven of books and new...
Torn between following a family tradition of being a bounty hunter-one that he's not particularly fond of-and following his dreams of being a private detective, Niel has always struggled to land himself a job and put the food on his table. Few people were willing to hire an untraditional bounty hunter like him, so whe...