He gave her his heart... and now he wants it back. Delilah is running for her life. And from it. Six days ago, she made a terrible choice, one that has endangered every person she loves. Her only chance to protect them is to stay as far away as she can, with only the pulsing shard of crystal in her pocket as dre...
ONC 2024 LONGLISTER SIEGE /siːdʒ/ a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender. **** Three people-two women and an old man-were left in the middle of a desert as a punishment for a grave crime each of them c...
The world has been destroyed by a virus outbreak. Years after having her own heart annihilated by the event, a woman doesn't expect her deceased feelings to return to life after a disastrous encounter. Aria was a scientist who worked at a research lab in Los Angeles. The morning she received news of a possible project...
Jade is on the run. To escape her old coven, she pretends to be normal. Just some run-off-the-mill witch. Certainly not someone powerful and especially not a life weaver. Taking on the position of the town witch in a seemingly idyllic, quiet, and desolate town seemed like the perfect plan to lay low for a while until...
Entry for ONC 2024- When I took another step back, my feet found a round structure instead of the flat floor that I had been anticipating. I realised, too late, that I had collided with the rolled rug and before I could regain my balance, I crashed down, the chalice spilling its contents right over my head, drenching...
ONC 2024 entry- London Hartley has had enough of the high school experience. With a crush who never notices her, bullies who always do, and a former best friend turned queen bee who acts like a superior, stuck-up princess, London can't wait to get over with her senior year, already. On the last night before her senio...
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...
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...
[ONC2024] Lunette, the former lover of a renowned hero, finds herself ensnared in the crossfire of her ex-lover's bitter rivalry with a notorious villain. Unexpectedly kidnapped, she becomes an unwilling pawn in their dangerous game. Yet, amidst the peril, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to her captor. ~~•~~ Pro...
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...
Dreams are the greatest power of mankind. In our waking hours, we dream of more, imagining our futures as they teeter on hopes, hard work, and a little luck. But when we sleep, our subconscious mind takes over, and it is a beast that cannot always be tamed. It takes that which is strongest inside of us and unravels it...
OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 (Prompt #6: Your life as you know it is over. Somewhere in Limbo, you're met with the message: "Something went wrong. Please try again) ************* ONC 2024 Round One Qualifier ONC 2024 Round Two Qualifier ONC 2024 Longlist ONC 2024 Shortlist ************* My name is Hezekiah Chamblee. Sev...
❝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 LONGLISTER| The year was 2078 when a sun flare destroyed half of the world. The order the world had, the chain of command: everything fell. It took only one day for the world to break and only one day for humanity to fall. Humans, when desperate to survive, will do anything they deemed wrong before. TW:...
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...
Ever since her rich family disowned her, Amelie's been surviving as a part-time assassin. Her secretive nature leads her friends into thinking she's a recluse who desperately needs a boyfriend, but the fact is, she wants nothing to do with romance. At all. It's stupid. And annoying. Then she gets a new job: she has t...
A dark family lineage. Secrets hidden away within rotting walls. And a mysterious Book that binds it all together... Oliver Wendell was only ever meant to write stories, lost within his own worlds of imagination. He was never meant to be a soldier. He was never meant to see his brother die. Yet in the midst of the fir...
After stealing money from her wealthy but controlling stepfather, Nataly Collins makes the bold decision to run away with her four-year-old sister. But as she does, she crosses paths with an escaped convict from the local penitentiary, and he plans to keep the sisters hostage until he can safely cross the Canadian bor...
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...
A merchant's daughter must join the grueling Frostwing Academy and learn to ride the mighty gryphons to save her family from financial ruin. ------------ Seventeen-year-old Herleva Montrose has lived a life of privilege, but her family is plunged into debt when a business deal goes wrong. Determined to fix her father'...
Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't g...
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...
Fated for heartbreak or lucky in love? -- Juliana Guo's carefully planned life has gone off the rails. Her once promising legal career is dead, her chances for love lie in tatters around her, and her painstakingly penned magnum opus - an investigative nonfiction book about the Japanese mafia - has been stolen by a hom...
"And what will you do if you have to destroy an entire planet to end this war? Are you really willing to become a monster?" Nierhæ turned towards me, a sombre look on her face. She already had an answer to my question, and it was one I wouldn't like. "I will become as monstrous as I must." °•°•° Take the Heretic to Se...
Amesh is the fourth and youngest child of the Suriname family, a family of well known superheroes that protect not only their world but others that surround it. While his siblings are out saving the world, Amesh is at home playing Mango Life. Unlike his siblings, Amesh has no interest in being the hero of the story, h...
All Rights Reserved: Aleksandra Mihaleva /@justthebadassme/ 2024 Open Novella Contest 2024 >>> O N H O L D <<< > 2000-word milestone completed The city is seductive, but yet so cruel. And still, it hides me from anybody's eyes when all these hundred millions of windows are watching. Maybe billions even! A mur...
~~~ONC 2024 Shortlist~~~ ~~~ Alaric, the King of Silmarea, recently married to his beloved husband, needs an heir of his own blood to secure the throne. With the help of Emrys, his court magician and best friend, he recalls and discovers a daughter he once had with a woman he had loved in The World...
A cold-hearted assassin must choose between loyalty to her organization or love after falling for her charming target. Ava became a KSD assassin at only sixteen years old. Fueled by anger, hate, and the hunger for revenge, Ava has forgotten what compassion or sympathy even means. Until she meets a sassy beam of sunshi...
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...
Imogen thinks she may have found The One. For years she's been waiting for the right guy to come along. But now that he has, she's realised something about herself. Something that might ruin their relationship forever, she's Asexual. Most people don't even know what it means, so how will her boyfriend understand? Lia...