Onc2021 Stories

A woman suspects that her government-imposed birth control implant is controlling her. As reports of uncharacteristically violent female behaviour begin to surge, it becomes evident that the mandatory implant is wreaking havoc on women's impulse control. Is the rage she feels bubbling within a natural reaction to an unjust society or is there something more sinister at play? --- Readers say: "A roller coaster of a story!" "I just loved this story. A fascinating insight into the gender question nested within a fascinating sci-fi premise!" "...a strong and powerfully written work by a skilled and mature writer. I highly recommend it!" -Elveloy, Wattpad Ambassador Featured: Amby Awards Winner Dystopian July 2022 Wattpad AdultFiction Book of the Month April 2022 Speculative Fiction Awards 2022 - WINNER Wattpad AdultFiction Lit List December 2021 Wattpad Stars Feature List September 2021 Contemporary Fiction Awards 2021 SHORTLIST ONC2021 LONGLIST Note: this novella describes a contemporary feminist dystopia and includes non-graphic scenes of sexual predation and violence. [[22,000 words]]

A badass pirate girl. A crew of bickering men. A missing captain. An iguana. A treasure map. Add to that a mermaid, a bunch of manatees, and perhaps a capybara or two. These are the ingredients to a crazy and unexpected adventure across the seven seas. Will the crew stop bickering? Will they find the treasure? And how did the iguana end up as the captain of the ship?

When fierce, reckless Nika Adair is sent to take The Ravens Academy For Young Villains entrance exam by her mentor, she's confused as to why she's been enrolled in the biggest villain school in Kavanhar instead of the biggest heroes school; The Pheonix Academy For Young Heroes. Both of her parents are heroes . . . right? *** Darkest Daring Divine is a gripping YA Fantasy set in a Dystopian world. Where villains fight heroes, Wyzards mentor others, and Nika Adair discovers the missing half of her soul.

I felt a sneaking suspicion crawl up my spine. "The exam was way too easy." About 100 years ago, a strange meteor crashed into the Earth's surface, and a baby boy with special abilities was born shortly after. Since then, only fifteen percent of the children born after the meteor's landing had unique special abilities. Many of those in the newer generations trained to use their gifts to help humanity. But where there is light, there will always be darkness. Kenzo Langston enrolls into Dysnomia Academy, a school known in the underground world for its ruthless entrance exam and rigorous courses. With a variety of personal reasons, each student strives to be a villain that can stand up against the high and mighty heroes. What does Dysnomia Academy have in store for its students? Why did Kenzo enroll into a villain academy instead of using his powers to become a hero? How far will he go to achieve his goals? TW: violence, death (it is a villain academy after all) Cover by @writers_cubby Open Novella Contest 2021 entry Round 2 Qualifier

"Kidnapped by the police" Now that's something we don't hear often. Even much less "to another dimension where Cinderella could be your grandma." And Blaire Williams is fortunate enough to experience both. ~~~~~~~ "You're under arrest." I went still for at least a minute. The voice on the other side of the line coughed awkwardly. "What I meant by that is, if you don't answer the doorbell and open the goddamn door right now, then good luck replacing the latter." --- Open Novella Contest 2021

Ricardo Torres has spent most of his twenties chasing the bohemian lifestyle, right down to the paintbrush that seems permanently attached to his hand. In his quest to capture the damage wrought to his beloved Lake Fúquene on a canvas, Rico once again finds himself lakeside. However, he soon discovers that the lake has been hiding a secret beneath its waves. With the water all but gone, a stolen Botero sculpture emerges from the cracking, muddy lakebed. Shortly after the police are called, Detective Sonia Mendoza arrives on the scene, eager to warm up this cold case. But as soon as Ricardo and Sonia are back at the police station in Bogotá, they learn that the lake was hiding one more secret. Now this unlikely pair must team up to solve a mystery neither of them anticipated. [[[ONC 2021 Longlister]]] [Based on Prompt #5]

Open Novella Contest 2021

A coming-of-age thriller about a lonely girl protecting a family secret that could get her killed. Fourteen-year-old Sydney Blaze does everything to satisfy her parents, even attend the prestigious Razor Stone Academy for villains. Her endless training prepared her for this moment. Socially inept, Sydney struggles to fit in as her classmates shun and bully her. Complicating matters is the family secret she's uncovered and hides from everyone-a secret that endangers the lives of her and her family-she's descended from a famous hero. While she navigates her attraction for fellow student Yasuko Noguchi and the usual pitfalls of high school, anonymous death threats appear in her belongings. After a failed attempt on her life, she doubts who to trust. The roommate who doesn't have time for her? The teacher who takes her under his wing? Yasuko's bullying friends? Yasuko herself? Will pleasing her parents cost Sydney her life? ⚠🛑Content and Trigger Warning🛑⚠ There are depictions of death and murder within this book. Mental, emotional, and physical abuse are mentioned or shown. There is strong language. Prompt 84. This academy isn't a typical boarding school. No, it's where kids train to become villains - if they pass the entrance test, that is. Nobody at the academy knows you're descended from heroes, and that's the way you'd like it to stay. 4. You're a weapon, and weapons don't weep.

Based on ONC Prompt No. 7. The story is aimed at children below the age of ten. The Anderson family, more specifically the Anderson siblings, are going to entertain an unexpected guest (in secret). The guest is about to ask for assistance, which the Anderson children, Zhandra (aged 9 years) and Alex (aged 5 years), will be only too happy to provide. Will the siblings be able to help Gabe, their guest, who happens to be a lost fairy, trying to find his way back home? © by GandalfofspaceAnli 2021

[COMPLETE ON PATREON] The not-so-small town of Love Lake is having a devil of a year. The lake itself is running drought-dry, hailstorms keep taking issue with good folks' shingles, and disease runs its fingers through the surrounding croplands. Even the night stars look melted in the heat. Many wallets are tight, and summer celebrations promise to be a subdued affair. Most students at Love Lake High are bored half to tears in their final weeks of class, watching their erasers melt on the windowsills and taking bets on which room of the school gets hot enough to burn paper. So when Jean Williams is first to spot a shadow at the bottom of the lake, it's no wonder the news spreads fast. Over the coming days, all eyes are on the water as it pulls back from an honest-to-god building. On the lakebed. Still standing, like the fish maintain it or something. Entertainment's hard to come by when it's too hot out to play ball, so the moment school is out, the popular kids are the first to propose exploring Love Lake's own mysterious ruin. Dante Moore is part of the team, though he wonders if he's most useful as bait. But he's not near the top of the class for nothing, and he's the first to suspect there's something more still lurking at the bottom of Love Lake... and that it ain't gonna stay under the lake for long. ❖❖❖ Complete on Patreon. Entry in Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest. Longlisted. Complete. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Picture this: You saw the prompts, you worked your butt off, plotting and drafting. You finally reached the first milestone, but there's no one around to give feedback on your hardwork. You submit it, consoling yourself that it was good enough in your opinion. Unsure of how it actually turned out. This book club is here to make sure that doesn't happen.

Vita hates being a demigoddess. Especially now that Barnabas, the love of her life, is locked up in the Underworld, while she is stuck in an endless cycle of resurrections and new lives. Worst of all, with every resurrection Vita loses a piece of her past, as her memories slowly fade. To break this never-ending cycle, she decides to steal her own records from the Underworld. After all, without records they won't know to send her back to Earth, so she can stay and search for Barnabas. But to get those records, Vita will have to get past Hades, his three-headed watchdog Cerberus and all the guards of Tartarus. Credits to @roguehopes for the amazing cover!!

Lola Castaneda never imagined herself managing the boys baseball team. She never imagined finding a family in those boys. And she never imagined herself falling for the wrong boy. Lola's day started off as normal as one should be: being stalked by her best friend's sister. As far as Lola was concerned, that was pretty normal. What she wasn't expecting, though, was to be approached by Taylor Harris, the definition of everything right in the world. She knew him because of her best friend, Sophie Jones. Since Sophie was the manager for the boys baseball team, Lola knew most of the baseball boys. It still surprised her that Taylor would talk to her, inviting her to the baseball group chat that included Sophie. It surprised her even more when her own sister asked her to fill in the vacant managers spot. Lola wanted to say no. Everything in her being told her to say no. She just didn't know why she said yes. Now her days were filled with watching the boys practice and fetching their gear, which was a little demeaning. She went along with it anyway since it would be a great addition for scholarships related to baseball. While being the manager, she befriended the worst player on the team -- Noah Dawson. He was always getting made fun of behind his back, so she decided to cheer him up by baking some cookies. That resulted in her almost killing him because she put peanuts in them. She thought he would hate her forever, but they became best friends after that incident. In such a short time, these boys became her family. And then the unimaginable happened: Lola was denounced from the managers spot. After that, everything fell apart. Until the home run kiss.

Duchess Andreya Marivatan was murdered at the age of twenty-two. It was during the hours the pool of night was deepest, Andreya soundlessly asleep in silk sheets behind the curtains of her elegant canopy bed. By the time she awoke to a noise, the deed had already been done and her sheets dripped with a deep vermillion stain. That was the first time Andreya met death, and it would not be the last. The death that knew everyone did not know Andreya - not even so much as her name - and because of it Andreya could not die. So she survived and forgot, the stains on her bedsheets becoming naught but a dream. It took many years for Andreya to realize she had not grown a day older since she had died, however, and that in a society where status is dictated by age, it would not be long before she had visitors on her doorstep asking questions she did not know how to answer. The reason behind her youthful features. The explanation behind her lack of scars. Andreya Marivatan was an impossible woman who wanted nothing more than to have died the night she was killed, and Andreya Marivatan was determined to get her wish. ❉ ❉ ❉ - First draft: COMPLETE & EDITING (all suggestions welcome :>) - Shortlister in the Open Novella Contest 2021: prompts 22, 57, 62, 66, 71, and 87. Main prompt 66. - Featured Ambassador's pick: @WattpadDarkFantasy "Dark Desires" list - Highest ranking: 64 in #darkfantasy, 4/26/2021 - 1st place in Historical Fiction, Coral Awards 2021

Adrian Gonzalez knows the painful truth about liking someone you have no chance with-they never like you back and you're left heartbroken. Ever wonder why it's called a 'crush?' But when the hopeless crush he has is on Parker Thompson-nonbinary school heartthrob with an impeccable fashion sense-he can't help but wish things would turn out differently. Staring at Parker from two seats behind in Biology is fine, and praying he doesn't get a boner when Parker jogs ahead of him in gym class is less fine- -but neither are as satisfying as he wishes they were. A class group chat is all it takes to intertwine Adrian's and Parker's lives. And one impulsive, stupid, never-wish-I-typed-it reply is the turning point for Adrian's love story. ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ ☆Featured on @WattpadSocialMedia DM me reading list ☆Featured on @YARomance Friendzone Doesn't Exist reading list ☆ONC 2021 Longlist Ambassadors Pick ☆ONC 2021 Shortlist ☆ONC 2021 Honourable Mention Based on Prompt 73 Started: 5th February 2021

"who do you think you are, some sort of Robin Hood?" "No someone who wants to do the right thing." Join Etornam, a girl whose whole life has been turned upside down. This is a story of strange discoveries and betrayals. Enjoy 😊😊.

Harriet Porter was a beloved friend, sister, and daughter. She lived a separate life from her family and hid the truth for years with none the wiser. She was loved and praised by all until she was knocked into a coma and woke up two weeks later with amnesia. Everyone says it was a car accident, but as her memories resurface and her friend goes missing, a darker twist lies ahead. ___ Submission to the Open Novella Contest 2021- prompt 54

This is an official entry for ONC 2021. I have used prompt #13 This is story about Alex who finds an old dusty Manuscript in his new apartment that tells him a story about Mr. Scott who probably saved the world by stopping the Doomsday 150 years from now. Though Alex and his friends think its fiction the reality that unfolds after he puts the manuscript down is a bit more jarring than he ever thought it could be. Armed with few pages of Manuscript, an old dusty gauntlet and Michael's watch, they step out to stop the possible doomsday and save life on one mysterious Michael Scott in Future Present and Past.

When an attempted vigilante infiltration operation goes sideways, Jaime Collyn starts to question the government they've been serving their whole life. ( ((o)) ) Jaime Collyn is everything their government needs them to be-ruthless, cunning, calculated, and merciless. One of the most highly esteemed operatives in the world, they've been trained since birth to be a weapon. Jaime is ecstatic when they're authorized to go after the elusive Ivory Spiers. But once the mission begins and they meet Ivory, they find themself starting to doubt their loyalties. As Jaime grows closer to Ivory, they slowly begin to realize just what she's fighting for. When the political tension starts to rise and old loyalties are tested, Jaime isn't quite sure if they'll be able to pick the right side when the time comes. All they can do is hope. ONC Prompt #6 Cover by @outlandish-

It's a classic love story. Mindless, post-exam swiping on the next big dating app, Magique. Girl is the illegitimate love child between a wizard and a banshee with serious daddy issues, and may or may not be the victim of several assassination attempts. Boy is unwillingly on the run after destroying a six-million-dollar MRI machine and almost burning down a university. And they both swiped right. It was a match of convenience, with more strings attached than either of them had ever anticipated. Based on ONC prompt "A new dating app, matching magical beings with ordinary folk takes the world by storm"