An angel becomes a guardian for a human haunted by a dark curse. *** Azrael is a Seraph, part of a dying race that is able to manipulate magic. Plagued for centuries by a parasite able to turn them into mindless monsters known as Revenants, the Seraphim homeland has been long since lost. Azrael is one of the few left...
Are you wondering what prompts we've used in past ONCs? You can find them in this book as we gathered all the prompts used in the past installments. You may use these prompts as inspiration for any story you want to write - no credits necessary! Have fun!
The 17 year old genius Juliet Weiss has recently died. At the same time, everyone in class's just received an email about her death on a mysterious app called FATE. The twist? Pieces of her mind were written on each email, alongside her wishes for each person written at the end. Some of them were simple wishes, such a...
(HONORABLE MENTION) Rik Sandro is a dimension traveller. Jumping from one version of the world to another was intriguing at first, until he discovered he can never go home. Now all these new beginnings are just a pain. Maybe it's time to stay in one place. Maybe it's time to settle down. Maybe it's time to fall in...
|WATTYS 2022 WINNER - HORROR| Shawn, a convicted criminal, never thought she'd see the sun again, let alone call another star system her home. When she's offered an out from her prison sentence, she embarks on a dangerous interstellar expedition along with 18 of Earth's most intelligent criminals. Their task is to set...
[The Nano Watt 2023 Shortlist] [ONC 2021 Longlist] The world as Evren once knew changed massively from doing homework to fighting for survival in a zombie infested planet. Countries were wiped out within months some even days. Bringing a global impact on food and resources. But the infected wasn't the only thing Evr...
"It's true what they say about you, isn't it? You really did sip tea and smile as you watched humanity fall apart." "Nope," he said. "I sipped whiskey." Eight years into the Infection, a spunky idealist convinces a hardened recluse to help him save humanity. --- For eight years, Zafaru has fought to survive the freezi...
Despite the fact their hearts no longer beat, vampires really aren't all that different from human counterparts. Some are kind, some are vile, and most are stuck trying to navigate the muddy middle. Enter our two vampires: One would never manage to fit all the candles on her birthday cake even if she desired to celebr...
Ian's senior year and all plans for the future are cut short when a car accident ends in a tragedy, forcing him to become his family's caretaker. He doesn't notice an anomaly in his new life until a cute girl enters the picture and unravels the layers of denial that have protected him from the pain of loss. There wi...
Searching through the 50 cent bin at her therapist's bookstore, Cynthia Young found a book entitled "Confessions of a Serial Killer." Except it was her name on the cover. *** Open Novella Contest 2020 Shortlister
🌟Wattys 2022 Shortlist!🌟 ~ Rayna's job is to duplicate memories for public use, but when she steals the data to help with her wife's amnesia, the crime takes a dark unsuspected turn. - - - How far would you go to be remembered? For Rayna Guzman, the path went on for miles. After a failed memory transfer at Alt-Life...
2081. In a sinister world where human survival hinges on biotechnology, an oblivious sixteen-year-old possesses the one code to undo it all. Can she survive the devious world designed to eliminate anything - anyone - out of the ordinary before it's too late? Mia Love is nothing extraordinary. Just another teenager who...
I used to be a Zombie. Until a kind stranger bought me a new brain. They told me the brain was artificial; that it had been grown in one of the continent's many brain labs. "The labs were built to help recover the human population," they said. They told me no humans were harmed in the making of my brain. They were w...
Harriet Longdale had never believed in ghosts. Despite the stories that and the noises that plagued her daily life, she always thought ghosts to be nothing more than a mind trick. Whilst preparing for a trip to the theatre, Harriet finds herself over one-hundred years into the future with no way of knowing how to get...
|| ONC 2020 || Round One Qualifier When Cara was asked out by a cute guy at school, she had no reason to say no... or to believe it would be one of the worst decisions of her life. A year later and she is still dealing with the trauma, attending a support group for survivors of sexual assault. When a fellow classmate...
Minion is a regular guy: he's got a wife, a kid, and an app ruined his career as a henchman. Being a villain's sidekick used to be a good job: risky, sure, but well-paying and with top-notch life insurance. But Henchr has brought the tech revolution to the supervillain business. Now it's uncertain schedules and no wor...
Fourteen-year-old Debbie isn't all that she seems. Her love for money is well-known in the neighbourhood. When she is arrested, accused and wrongly implicated in a drug deal gone awry, the law sentences her to a life in juvenile prison. Through her life in prison, Debbie learns that she is the long-lost heir of the k...
[ONC 2020 Shortlister] Something evil dwells in the black lake by the misty woods, something that will claim the souls of those who dare to dive into its realm. Lynn Morris is ready to enjoy some well-deserved holidays in the company of her closest friends. And that house on the lakeshore looks like a dream come tru...
Anaya awakes from a month in a coma to find herself in an empty room - an abandoned pig slaughterhouse. Filled with horror, she tries to run only to be met with a sealed envelope drenched in blood addressed to her. She opens the seal and finds a letter with the writings, "Dear Anaya, the body you are wearing used to...
* An intense psychological thriller * All Andi Masterson wanted was to have a fun day out with her friends to celebrate her 19th Birthday. The Escape Room she booked admittedly looks a bit odd, and doesn't feel right. That's because they've just gone into the wrong place. What they think is an Escape Room will turn o...
Two aliens on the run, manage to bump into each other on a distant planet at just the right time. ✨~✨~✨ Liri Delaney, the only child of Dubrovn planetary moguls, is accused of murder. Scouring several solar systems to find the true murderer, she runs into trouble in New Seattle. Ardon Rowe, a sweet-talking High-Dracon...
They lived and loved in a world where skin contact was absolutely forbidden. One day, on what the past called the Day of the Hearts, they slipped up and held hands in the middle of the street. Three years after a deadly pandemic wiped out 65% of world's population. The Government's Mandate continues to control the...
In my world you have to be one of the Elite. After graduating from 8th grade it is a shitshow. You wait long intense nights filled with fear because you know one day they will come for you. They will get you mark my words on that. One day you will be ripped away from the comforts of your own home and shipped away to t...
❝ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴡɪʟᴅ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴀʟ.❞ One cruise. 499 passengers who try to kill each other to survive. A Riddle and six teenagers who are the only chance of stopping the Psycho behind the game and save them all. What could possibly go wrong? ☾✭♙─♘─♙✭☽ 𝔊𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔖𝔲𝔯𝔳𝔦...
While visiting a local charity shop, Dominic Ashworth is taken by surprise when his friend, Miguel Guerrero comes across a book with an interesting title: Confessions of Serial Killer by Dominic Ashworth. Finding this book starts a chain of events filled with murder, suspicion and blackmail.
Thirteenth birthdays are a good occasion for cake, presents, and demonic rituals in Olivia's case. When she and her friends accidentally open a gateway, they unknowingly call through a demonic entity hell-bent on terrorizing them one by one. When their shared trauma drives a wedge in their friendship, they feel the di...
Zoey Hungerman has aspirations, all of which revolve around outdoing her brilliant, graduated-at-the-top-of-his-class-in-Cornell older brother. She's gunning for the spotlight in her family by excelling in Oxford law school, but her ability to see ghosts puts a wedge in her plans when she moves into an apartment with...
"Please tell me that's tomato sauce and not blood." "Nonsense! Tomato sauce has a completely different texture than blood." ................. Changing her adress in the middle of a semester after a nasty breakup and to spite her father isn't the best descision on Savannah's part. But the apartment is nice, refurbished...
An Open Novella Contest 2020 Longlist Finalist Arabella W. Washington recently moved to Lower East Side, Manhattan, to do something with her life and start fresh. With the help of her grandma Wang's sizeable inheritance, she is able to rent out Apartment 10B in Windsor Hall, a small, old, and creaky building full of h...
Finley Birdwistle has never been a troublemaker, and has always strived to do good in life. But when their best friend is put into a coma that the doctors say she will never wake up from, Finley is forced to make a decision that will change their life forever.