Onc2023 Stories

[#ONC2023] We're back! February 1st, 2023 will mark the beginning of the sixth edition of the Open Novella Contest. 12 weeks to write 20,000+ words - are you ready for...

As per tradition, a journal for this ONC.

After a fatal car crash, Mandy Merchant finds herself stuck in limbo. During a desperate attempt to make it back to the world of the living, she accidentally sets dozens...

Taylor West is the epitome of self-reliance. Or she must be. Relationships are fickle. Despite finally enrolling in her dream studies and thriving in them, her social li...

Harley had a bright future ahead of her, but that dream died a long time ago. ***** Harley vowed she w...

| 𝟏𝟎𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | An ex-gamer enters a self-help simulation gone rogue in order to reset the game and rescue her younger sister. ...

SHORTLISTED. Paul wakes to discover that not only is he feeling horribly sick but, more worryingly, the naked stranger in his bed isn't moving. If only he could remembe...

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。. luminesce (verb): to emit/produce light .・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。. It's Max's 18th birthday and he is alone. It's not sad but it's not what he would have preferre...

A cunning Pirate's long-lost treasure. A three hundred-year-old curse. A wicked taste of rum. ------ When dangerous paranormal activity threatens her life, teen psychic...

[ONC Short List!] Merlin is the almost-greatest-eleven-year-old nerd the world doesn't know because his name has cursed him--he's all parts nerd and zero parts magic--an...

Sindri, a Viking woman seeking to run from an arranged marriage, receives more than she bargained for when she has an unfortunate brush with the gods. Blessed with magic...

There's always that something you just can't be bothered to care about. For drug dealer Nathan Devereaux, it's the grimoire he found, complete with working magic and all...

|16th Century CE| Queen Jashoda desperately wants to escape it all. With her ignorant husband liberated from the trap of life, her children fighting over his throne and...

one night, Park Jimin got drunk. When he woke up, there was a naked Kim Taehyung next to him. Jimin: Son of a *****! Jimin escaped, resulting in an accident and he died...

It's 1893, and eighteen-year-old Catriona "Kitty" Thackery is bored out of her mind at the countryside parsonage she was raised in. All eleven of her cousins h...

[ONC 2023 SHORTLISTER & ROUND 1 AMBASSADOR PICK] Nothing shakes one's world quite like the loss of their best friend, their other half, their soulmate. • • • Bellamy has...

The sea is calling and she must go. *** An accomplished novelist returns to her hometown to seek closure for the childhood memories that have haunted her for her entire...

The year is 2040, and for the clones that were created during the brief run of a shady high tech company in the early 2020's, the time has come for them to become adults...

No one really disappears with a trace, unless you are the Phillips family. After a strange call to her office, FBI Special Agent Sophie Cline is set on a path to discove...

After their mother is mysteriously killed, Ethiel and Tifa start seeing ghosts. Their Aunt decides to move to their mother's home with them, hoping to provide them a bet...