SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONC2023 CHALLENGE! One dark and stormy night a family went missing, they left taking absolutely nothing with them. When their disappearance was reported, nobody, including the police could figure out what happened. The mystery has gone unsolved for almost 10 years, then a call comes in from an unkn...
It's the summer of 1969, and Gwen Harris will leave for college at the end of the month. For her eighteenth birthday, Gwen's older sister suggests they take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to a music festival, Woodstock. Three days of peace, love and music.
🏳️🌈ONC2023 Shortlister [A queer retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in modern day California.] Tate Parker and Alex Benitez are sworn enemies, but it's not a battle line they've drawn. As the sons of warring co-workers, the pair are destined to be at odds by association. With this comes inherited rumors and social s...
B, powerful entity, in charge of doling out punishments and maintaining law and order in TCHM, aka The Central Headquarters of the Multiverse, is bored and looking for entertainment when she overhears the latest gossip about how two managers, who are Gods of their respective worlds, are causing a ruckus trying to one...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
His voice is the sweetest dream. Reminding me of Beltane celebrations. Luke O'Brien's joyful musings were warm. Like bonfires signifying summer's approach. They conjure up visions of wild forests and flourishing fields. Of the sun dancing against one's skin. I'd never had the privilege of gazing upon Luke's undoubted...
[Complete] An old mansion. A stranger with a gift. And a mysterious disappearance of a family. ***An Open Novella Contest 2023 Shortlister*** ***2nd Place Best Cover at The Massive Awards*** ***Bronze Winner at the Throne of Awards*** ***Third Place at Glorious - Awards*** Ten years ago, all the four members of the Be...
A Curse crawls inexorably across the Elysium Realm, turning everything it touches to lifeless stone. Alana, a powerful young witch, vows to stop it, but became herself infected and disfigured. After his mother goes missing, Micah, an unaware college student, finds himself drawn into an alternate world where magic rule...
[Grand Winner ONC India 2023] Bhairavi, a staunch devotee of Shree Ram, is a tourist visiting Kashmir with her daughter. One night she is going through the pictures she has clicked during the day and stumbles across one that shocks her to the core. It's the picture of a girl Bhairavi knows has been dead for almost a y...
Three women. Three tangled lives orbiting Mars aboard the Phobos Transit Space Station. Val loses her station operation engineer job under false pretenses, Exo-biologist Cassy is blackballed for doing the right thing, and ex-marine Kate suffers a broken heart. Fortunately, Mavis, the owner of the Starlight Tavern and...
A supernatural romance story written for the ONC 2023 This cover was made with Canva's QuickGen app.
Liha wants to avenge his family. If he has to become one of the king's men to do this, he will. But in the capital Penira, the golden city, he learns fast a man has to prove his worth. Sword in hand, if needs be. Dánirah hates the city, and people of her tribe are not welcome there. But she must deliver a message to o...
ONC 2023 Shortlister His features had haunted her for years; a boy with silver eyes peering out from beneath a mask of bone. His body cloaked in darkness, a wicked grin upon his lips that spoke of treachery-- a smile that had broken countless hearts. And in that instant, in the midst of this game of life and death, Lu...
When his vampire blood begins to poison him, dhampir Elio Starling falls into hallucinations. As the delusions get darker, and the line between reality and dreams blurs, he believes he is losing his mind. There is only one soul he can confide in, a mermaid and part-time lover named Lux who suffers from an intolerance...
The purpose of the trip was to get away from the chaos and discord of the city-not to return as its epicenter. After a fourteen hour layover, a dead pair of AirPods, and a spilled overpriced vanilla cream cold brew, Avery Gallo is desperate for two things: replenished coffee and the ever-comforting voice of her best f...
Born the son of a lowly hunter and abandoned as a child, Zhenxing never expected to be brought to Heaven and become the most treasured attendant of the mighty Tiger Immortal, one of the twelve Zodiac Guardians appointed by the Jade Emperor. But the world is tumultuous and not even the Heavenly Realm resides in peace f...
SHORTLISTED. Paul Finn 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 remember what happened... My story for the ONC 2023, a thriller scifi adventure, with a touch of romance. (SciFi /Adventure / LGBT)
When Ava is sucked into her grandmother's mirror, she is thrust into a world of her worst nightmares. Alone and surrounded by friends turned enemies, escaping seems like an impossible task. Grímhildr is a spirit tied to the mirror. Once a beautiful and powerful sorceress, centuries of confinement have taken their toll...
**ONC2023 Shortlist** Everything is controlled from the top down. You plug into the mainframe, it's your only escape from everyday life. Some of your friends completely exist in the mainframe. One day the call is made to shut it down. How do you save your friends when the government is calling for a complete purge o...
𝗟𝘂𝘀𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. Steadfast paladin Séa and half-elf rogue Tash duck into an inn for a well-deserved sex marathon, but their carnal delights are interrupted by the king's guards...
A deadly fae assassin needs to uncover the truth about her existence while also carrying out the task she's hired for. Only, she never planned to fall in love with the biggest adversary in her mission-or rather fall in love at all. 💜💜💜 Larkspur is one of the deadliest assassins the fairy world has ever seen. Consum...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] Everyone in the Calistian kingdom fears the cruelty of the winter spirit, Sefah. They whisper to each other that his heart is as cold as the ice he wields, and he is forever a step away from unleashing his wrath upon the world. So when the people of Calistie fall prey to a strange, icy disease...
||WATTY WINNER 2023🌟|| Two strangers pretend to be a couple to win a dumb bet. The wager: they must enrol in couples therapy and fool their counselor. _________ Updates every Friday at 2pm (BST) _________ Six non-refundable couples counseling sessions. That's how many Clementine booked for him and his girlfriend to...
**OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST SHORTLIST** Even if she is killed, she is never dead. ***** She'd spent many, many years in the same body, getting used to her quirks, her mannerisms, learning how to survive through the ages. Yet Josephine wakes up one night and realizes she's been asleep for a century: it's now 2023, and her l...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] Welcome to a tale of mystery, romance, and the dark side of happily ever after. *** In this thrilling YA fairytale mystery, star-crossed lovers find their happily ever after cut short by a midnight murder. Join a rebellious princess and a runaway prince as they race against time to catch the kil...
An angel becomes a guardian for a human haunted by a dark curse. ***** Azrael, a Seraph, is one of the last of her kind, haunted by a centuries-old curse that turns her people into monstrous Revenants. When she meets Adira, a human targeted by the same evil forces, Azrael's own darkness compels her to protect the youn...
Axel thought his life in a quarantine zone was safe until he sees a girlfriend he thought had died and can't stop thinking about her flesh... *** The quarantine zones were built to keep the virus away, to protect the survivors. But when Axel sees Riley in an alley, after thinking she died from an inf...
[ONC Shortlister - 4x Featured] Professional thief and smuggler, Nio Barn, lives by one rule: break them all. When his criminal past finally catches up to him, he's faced with a choice: win the world's most dangerous racing competition in exchange for freedom or face a lifetime in an overcrowded prison cell. As he en...
"There's something in the forest," was Charlie's response. "What?" Will squinted but aside from trees he saw nothing. "There's nothing there Charlie." When the girl shook her head, the beads from her braids clacked together. "Mr. P, there's something in there." Later, Will would wish that he had listened to her. Wha...
Legend speaks of a man with crows in his hair and stitches in his lips who will teach you his greatest trades. Some call him a monster. Most call him the Needle-Mouthed Man. But only the shadows know his true name, and they call him Master. As one of the dead, Minseo Park is a creature of the night, doomed to eternal...