Four girls, one destiny: Hacker, Arsonist, Recluse, Thief. Cara, Siouxsie, Red and Jenna may appear to be ordinary teenage girls, but they're anything but. As delinquents, their paths collide when they're given up to an experimental juvenile rehabilitation program known as The Pandora Project. However, upon arrival, t...
This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024! Dragons and magical beings. A bond like no other. In a town in the middle of the continent, Silver City is home to some of the most powerful magic wielders. Layla Arclight, an ambitious young magus, who possesses the unique trait of being able to wield two elem...
[ONC2024] Everyone can read minds except for Ethan Langdon. And Ethan Langdon has the dumbest (and cutest!) thoughts Lukas Hoffmann has ever heard. ____ Lukas Hoffman's life in Brambleburg is about as boring as you'd expect for a town where everyone can read minds. He's used to his routine of dusting the LPs at the r...
The last person Victoria Beaumont expects to be singing the grease soundtrack alongside, is a serial kiler. Sasha Vaughan is not a serial killer, a fact she's made abundantly clear to absolutely nobody, because, quike frankly, she's good at her job. The lives of Victoria and Sasha intersect one night as they catch e...
Final Chapters Coming Soon! A kingdom ruled by a king hiding a dark secret becomes the target of a vengeful sorcerer when he transforms the princess into a clockwork automaton. Only an act of true love can break the curse, but what if the princess herself doesn't remember what love feels like? A sapphic fairy tale abo...
[#ONC2024] ❝I hate you so much, I can't bring myself to kill you.❞ Self-proclaimed master of thievery, Vincent Costa has nothing to lose. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor: a modern day Robin Hood, if you will. Vincent and his friends develop well-thought-out schemes to earn a lot of cash and fast. They su...
: ̗̀➛ Open Novella Contest (ONC) - Entry ༘♡ ⋆ *ೃ༄ Prompt 22 - You get ready for work one morning as usual. When you arrive at your car, which is parked in the street, the windshield is covered in blood.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...
❝𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖?❞ Asael didn't want to marry, let alone be forced into it by his parents, with a woman he didn't know. But to avoid any conflict and continue being the good son in their eyes, he gave in and set up a prayer of adoration to ask for God's blessing on his...
ONC 2024 ENTRY |ONC 2024 LONGLISTER| The holidays are over but the murders aren't. *** Deep in the city of Ikoyi, blood has become a daily alarm. With the amount of people being killed rising and the numerous calls to fight against this insurgency, the residents are doused with fear as the city tips between peace and...
When Elven assassin's enslave a Fae Queen within her own mines - Chyrie is blood-sworn to forge the very iron meant to strike her down. With only a few months to sever the oath, her only hope lands in the palms of a forgotten Captain and his Sea Wyrm. ...
Bad boy Adam Lawson is cursed never to know love until he's placed in a Mormon foster home and meets Thomas, an innocent boy who dares to love a monster no matter the cost. [Frankenstein meets 1985, the AIDS epidemic, and a bad boy desperate for love.] ONC Main Prompt: 17 (chapter 1) ONC Side prompt: 95 (chapter 6) No...
Ever since she was a child, Tala Brillantes has considered herself to be the best. Born with the rare ability blessed by the stars, she's used to hearing praises. Be it from her family, to her friends, to even her teachers and peers in school. While being in the limelight can get tiring after a while, she wasn't one t...
Danilo's life is a mess, from the drinking to the smoking to the nagging of his mother. It seems nothing is ever going right until he meets Dulnuan, a ghost who lived during the time of American imperialism in the Philippines. He befriends her, and she becomes a light at the end of his dark tunnel with the promise of...
[[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...
Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has felt adrift. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter. Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent Regency family, Cordelia tries to find other wa...
24th February 2025, marks the date, where the sun had vanished, plunging us into an abyss of darkness, the immediate concern wasn't how we would survive. Survival was not the answer; modification was. It was the day, we became Oxy, altered humans integrated with parasitic plants designed to produce oxygen in a realm...
|| ONC 2024 || Artist Adwin's life in the sleepy town of Shadow's End changes forever when she meets Ciaran, a man with a dangerous secret. Bound by a mystical curse, Ciaran is both her heart's desire and her deepest challenge. As passion and dark histories entwine, Adwin must choose between a burning quest for venge...
One is a journalist who writes about movie stars. The other is a movie star who hates journalists. Now their worlds are colliding. Reagan Porter is a small town journalist married, in every sense of the word, to her work. When everything that could go wrong before her Valentine's Day vacation does, she jets off early...
In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. *** Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl...
When Bryony -- herbalist extraordinaire -- goes missing, Bella knows one suspect stands above the rest. The village's aspiring second witch, Daphne, comes from a family that's tried to take Bryony down before, and Daphne seems determined to carry on that legacy. For someone who's always been terrified of Bryony, she's...
Kamella is the youngest sibling, and only girl, in a family of superheroes. That means that everything is about the three older brothers and their weekly heroics that save the city. But when it comes to spending time with their kid sister, they couldn't bothered, they have more to do. Even mom is too busy manning thei...
ONC 2024: Prompt #17: Your curse is to love so much and crave love more than life, but never be loved. Those who dare to love you will be subjected to the worst of fates. Fedya Zaravyrzhik is a siren--a cursed one at that. While most sirens are designed to seduce and kill, Fedya is flawed--he loves love. Fedya's curse...
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...
[ONC '24 SHORTLISTER] When a group of assassins is onto her irritating escort, a happy-go-lucky bodyguard must ensure they survive their trip before his escort's past demons catch up to them. * * * No one expected easygoing Aspen Mendoza to be accepted into Interpol as a field agent, but she couldn't be any more ex...
Heems is an energy vampire, a parasite. Working as a doctor on dwarf planet Eris, Heems feeds on xeir unknowing hosts -- Eris's sickly hospital patients -- by draining their energy with a single touch. Caused by a tragic glitch in xeir meatware, the brain implant given to Eris's citizens at birth to enable them to en...