Opennovellacontest2019 Stories

Earth, 2070 AD. 18-year-old Kai and his twin sister Zel are survivors. Two years ago, they lost their parents in an apocalyptic environmental disaster that ravaged Earth, killing many. Kai and Zel now live a scattered, nomadic existence along with other survivors. On a planet left devastated with few natural resources available, Kai and Zel work hard to stay alive. But while Kai goes deeper into Earth for answers, Zel looks to the stars. She is convinced that their time on Earth is limited, and that in order to save humanity, they must travel to Mars. And when a Martian spaceship crash lands into Earth near the Blue Ridge Mountains of their childhood home, Zel sets out on a journey to find a new home on Mars, the Red Planet. *Cover Design by @CelticWarriorQueen17 *Longlisted in Wattpad Open Novella Contest Winners, April 2019. *Second Place Winner for SciFi, Majestic Universal Awards, May 2019. *Second Place Winner for SciFi, The Creativity Awards, June 2019. *Winner, Most Engaging Characters - Fiction, The Futhark Awards, July 2019. *Second Place Winner for SciFi, The Grace Awards, July 2019. *Entry for Science Fiction in the Wattys, 2019. *Featured, Wattpad Science Fiction's Space Opera Reading List, 2020. Stacie Eirich @spacetodream

A woman whose sister is her world. A man with an agenda and does not hide it. ___________________________________________________________________________ Jove Athers. Cian. ___________________________________________________________________________ Every year, a girl vanishes into the woods. Jove Athers never had a care for it until her sister disappeared. She knows she has to be the one to search for her sister. No one else will. She knows. ___________________________________________________________________________ A vanished girl. A trial of red petals leading nowhere. ___________________________________________________________________________ "What will you give me in return? Will you give me what I want?" ___________________________________________________________________________ "Becoming one of us does not mean to not feel. In some ways, we are the ones who feel more alive than humans. It's time to let go, Jove." ___________________________________________________________________________ My entry to the Open Novella Contest 2019!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Suspen fiction Prompt 5, Red Petals ©2019 Oon Jia Wen. All Rights Reserved

Displaced Corvus Queen Orinthea has turned to Detective work in order to make ends meet and claw back her throne. Between petty cases, an Emissary of the Thorn King arrives requesting Orinthea's help. The Thorn Princess has just been murdered and the Thorn Court is in disarray. Orinthea immediately accepts the case, but it isn't long before other Princesses start turning up dead and dark truths point towards a culprit Orinthea doesn't want to contemplate. In a world ruled by different courts and powerful Royals ready to go to war, can Orinthea solve the case and prevent chaos or will her most dangerous case be her last? Written for the Open Novella Contest 2019 Fantastical Fiction Prompt 6: Supernatural Detective

Ever since everything she loved was ripped away from her in The Woods, Olive hasn't exactly been the heroic type. If anything, with her newfound abilities, she's been pursuing chaos and revenge compared to good deeds for the sake of good deeds. However, when a cop with questionable motivations and even more questionable abilities makes her an offer she can't refuse, she forms a reluctant alliance and realizes there may be a bit of a hero in her after all. Okay, maybe that's pushing it a little. Anti-hero. That's more like it.

*MADE IT TO THE FINALS OF ONC's SHORT LIST* One makes, one nurtures and one extinguishes - thus, a balance is maintained on Tellus. But what happens when the scales topple?

Ava doesn't want to survive in this so called 'Earth' planet anymore that is if it even is going to be a planet for any longer. She smiles, she makes others smile and even she herself is happy. But in a flicker of a moment, notes from an anonymous stranger who ends all 'his' notes with the line 'I LOVE YOU, keep going' tells her otherwise about her being happy -as well as it telling her that someone in this school of 2,000 children can see right through her soul, right beneath her happy face. In fact right now it is indeed the only thing that is keeping her going in this planet. *Cover made by me(which why it's horrendous/image not mine) *DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THIS IN ANY WAY *NO COMMENTS THAT ARE(do I even have to say it....) (2019 © Perfect Prisoner)(All rights reserved)

Katie Stewart has been drawing, daydreaming and playing make-believe for as long as she can remember. In her own world of Katie Land, anything is possible. An invisible T-Rex called Fred? Yep! Chocolate rivers? Of course. Unicorns? In abundance! But Katie's reality isn't so perfect. Teased at school for always being alone with her imagination, and constantly scolded for never paying attention to anything means that she has resorted to her imaginary friend for comfort. One fateful day, an incident at school gives Katie one purpose. To prove to the world that unicorns do exist. Cover by @stellardreams-

OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST ENTRY A missing little sister. A mysterious neighbor. Trails of red petals. A confused man. Will we ever find the truth?

[COMPLETED] (OLD) Leaving the comfort of your own home is one thing, but travel around the state in just one week is another. William is the type of person to never go wild and follows every rule. He has never left his home city, until one night where he met a very odd stranger named Benji. Benji takes William on a very crazy adventure to who knows where. They go from place to place, but what William keeps asking himself. Is why would Benji be driving around to such odd places? What is Benji trying to accomplish? Where is Benji really going? You'll see how one very strict human being and one very optimistic person travel around the state with humor, sorrow, and love. Only to find what is at the end of the road. ••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°•• Cover Photo: © kevkinghorn (Tumblr) Cover Design: © IzTerp (me) Cover Sticker: © OpenNovellaContest (Wattpad) Prompt: (Thrilling Fiction) 9. Animal Adventure ➤ Round 1: February 12, 2019 (qualified) ➤ Round 2: March 13, 2019 (qualified) ➤ Round 3: April 18, 2019 (qualified - long list - short list) ✓ Featured on: @lgbtq (Reading List - Trillseekers) ✓ Featured on: @OpenNovellaContest (Reading List - Long List) (Reading List - 2019 Short List) WARNING: This story may contain strong language, slight violence, slight sexual content, and mentions of death that others may find offensive, viewer discretion is advised. Word count: 22,821 Started: January 4, 2019 Ended: March 31, 2019

In a poor village outside a large kingdom, there's a young girl in danger. She's being hunted for her unique abilities, passed down by her family's prophecy...or curse. She must save herself and the kingdom from the evil thriving in the darkness. Her name is Luna, and she's the girl with white hair; the one who possesses Luellyn's Foresight. ~ will eventually rewrite ~

Just this year, Paola has finally achieved her dream of owning a plant nursery, but the amount of work overwhelms her. It's time to hire someone. Requirements for hiring: 1. Punctual 2. Eager to Learn 3. A Love for Plants As she looked for the perfect employee, she noticed an application from her university obsession. Bonuses for hiring: 1. Great Distraction From University Bullies 2. Mysterious Background Equals Lots to Learn 3. Attracted to Paola?! What could go wrong with hiring him? The answer to that is more than Paola expected.

Cover Credit: @ILoveMusic060803 Alexia Kemp was probably one of the most kind, pure girls that her friends, and family knew. She was always there to help, even when she had a lot of things on her plate. Little did they know about the feelings growing inside of Alexia. Heck, little did she know about them- dark feelings that she couldn't shake. As everyone, Alexia has a dark side, darker than most. Does she have the power to release the darkness when her family and friends are at stake? Is she willing to take the risk summoning the dark will have?

The year is 2113, and almost all the world's problems have been single-handedly solved with a shocking breakthrough - of how to store and transfer souls. At a certain price, anybody can buy a prolonged life, or a never-hungering body, or eternal happiness. However, despite the prosperity of the world as a whole, only a few rich enough can afford extra souls for themselves. And Owen Milano, left with nothing but a bare minimum of resources and his young daughter, can only dream of such things. Owen is stricken to discover that his daughter has fallen to a disease that will kill her in a short period of time. Not willing to lose anything more, Owen sees no other choice but to steal a soul to preserve his daughter's life. But it appears that the souls have a much darker truth behind it... [Submitted for ONC 2019] [Prompt: SUSPENSE FICTION #7, Soul Sickness] [Shortlisted!!] Cover by the amazing @hayakiu

Captain Halton or also known as Stefan who was sent to Planet 14 with a team of researchers to seek new information, returned with an extra memory in his mind. Being the only survivor on Planet 14 for five months alone had brought much torment in his body, mind, and soul. Stefan kept humming a melody unknown to mankind on Mars and mumbled about an existence. On his ride back, Stefan realized that being rescued from Planet 14 means more than just surviving.

Buzz was a bad dude. A punk. A killer. He had never done one decent thing in his whole life. That was until he met Jenny. And everything changed. But Jenny became sick. A sinister being came to Buzz offering him a way to save the love of his life, but he would have to work for him. He would have to steal things that could not be stolen. Buzz had no choice. This was his anthem. Open Novella Contest 2019 Entry #opennovellacontest2019 #oncentry

These twin sisters would do everything they can to find out what happened to their friend when she was found dead in the woods with no one to help her . The cops found her body hung on a tree after a video found on Tatiana phone showed that whoever murdered her was someone she knew because she was laughing in the video as she was being tied to the tree. Unfortunately the cops ruled it a cold case. Minnie and Mickey are left with no choice but to step up and find out the person responsible except they can't trust anyone even those they love as friends .As secrets keeps on getting revealed , the twins must get very careful about who they share information with .No one is who they seem to be ..............

Marina Goodwin was a single mother. Marina Goodwin was balancing two jobs to support her and her daughter. Marina Goodwin was just an innocent, ordinary woman trying to make her way through life. So why do the suspects say otherwise? ~~~~~~ When Marina Goodwin's body is found behind her house, nobody knows what to think at first. They all knew she was struggling. They all knew she had a history, both good and bad, with most of the townsfolk. But they didn't expect someone to flat out murder her and her daughter in the cold night. ~~~~~~ Officer Ryder is one of the best officers that Courthill County has ever seen. He is well respected and admired, and it's no surprise when the biggest murder case that this town has ever seen gets put on him to solve. Between three main suspects, and not a lot of evidence, Nicholas Ryder has to piece together everything and bring justice to Goodwin and her daughter. But is he really equipped for a case as complicated as this, with next to no leads on who wants this family dead? ~~~~~~ For the 2019 Open Novella Contest- Thriller; 6. Three Suspects *Cover is mine*

When Emily wakes up in a hospitalbed after a traffic accident, she can't remember anything from her life before that. Her friends and her dad tell her things, but nothing rings a bell. Then they tell her about the Others - a savage race of people living on the other side of the forest. People with strange, magical powers. As Emily discovers more and more about her old life, she also finds out that people close to her have been lying to her. Can she even trust her own past? Why does she have a photo of an Other boy hidden under her bed? She'll need her memory back to know the truth. Prequel to The Atrament series (Can be read separately). Cover by the fabulous @KatySantiago08.

After all the war and chaos the world has seen, the Helpers are highly required, a society of devoted people who aid the communities build a system to restore their stabilities. They work for a consistently sufficient and safe life for all the citizens, and equal distribution of resources in the world. They are a symbol of hope that this world can have a functioning system that supports all the communities and their inhabitants. Janice is a highly accomplished student in the Helper Academy, earning an early Recruitment with her compassionate and determined character. Her first mission as a Helper is the Crosa Citadel, where she has to set up a structure that will benefit the community the most. Between dealing with her less than friendly partner, and working on her first mission, Janice will have to learn how to stand on her own feet for the first time.

The Open Novella Contest. Prompt: Gods Of Death Rebel is a citizen of Paradise, a virtual world where most of the human race is plugged into. But after losing all of her nine lives, she finds herself dead to the game world and a player in the most dangerous game of all. A cut-throating game to earn back her life in Paradise. First, she has to get the sword that makes you unbeatable, then fight in the arena, and most importantly not die again. But when Rebel finds out something she's not supposed to, everything changes, including the game's rules she set up for herself... Is life meant to be a game?