This story is written for ONC 2024 and is based on prompts 84 (main) and 9 (secondary) Butter, formerly a human prince who went as His Highness Prince Dalton Buttercutter, is a kitten who has served the Woodgrip witches for the past twenty-four generations. His present mistress, (the ninth Woodgrip) Pepper, is a stre...
When Eventyr spirals into war, three young foxes from its divided kingdoms must discover themselves and their united purpose if they wish to save their home from being destroyed. -❈- A reluctant heir. A living mistake. A misguided ambition. One knows nothing but violence, one knows nothing but deceit, and the last is...
"If I had known everything would become like this. I would have never been this greedy", she says. A drop of tear escaped the corner of her eyes, as she jumped into the void. The crimson-red plum blossom mark on her forehead slowly began to fade away. Her eyes, capture the view of the person, looking at her as she des...
* Returning after editing and rewriting * 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆. Telepathic bounty hunter Jax Monroe has the dangerous task of apprehending the wanted criminal Carmen Dubois. However, when she crosses paths with several assailants and another pursuer, her life is in danger. Her ex-fian...
* Returning June 2024 * An uptight witch and a grumpy ghost stumble into a brewery. And now they're both stuck together. What's the worst that could happen, huh? Selena Delacroix, a witch with magical abilities, struggles to cast illumination spells without causing chaos. She finds solace in Renaissance-era literature...
After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies do...
[ONC 2024 Longlist] From the Forest, all life sprung. And to the Forest, it may return. Umirin's people have lived within the ancient, powerful Forest since they had sprung to life there many generations ago. They respect the land they live off and worship the Heart of the Forest, the divine beast who sowed the seed...
Prince Farris Lumenne only wanted to find out the secrets of the magical artifact he picked up during the only adventure his father, the King, let him go on. He didn't expect it to end with the elusive villager he had befriended facing imprisonment and impending death... by beheading. Based on prompt #55: You're a yo...
In a world brought back from the brink of death 150 years ago, it's now 2208. Nova is a thriving metropolis of cutting-edge science and technology in Europe. It's less modern 9 sectors are stable and beginning to flourish, even after the TL3 virus and under the terrible lightening storms. Lilith, an operative of the s...
"All I wanted was a peaceful getaway and now all I want is to get away from you!" "The feeling is mutual," he snapped. "So, stop running into me!" - - - Bethany Summers has been dreaming of this tropical vacation ever since she was little. The summer she turns twenty-six, she has finally managed to save up enough mon...
When a struggling pianist takes up an offer to play at the mansion of an elusive billionaire dollmaker's son, she is not prepared for the horrors she finds within. ♤ Trying to maintain her scholarship at Juilliard and also pay her rent, nineteen-year-old Divya Mahavant is playing at a piano bar for bejeweled New York...
I shot Cupid because I didn't want to fall in love again. Kore is a young maiden living on an island owned by the Goddess: Calypso. She has lived numerous years under the watch of Calypso and the company of other women on the island. However, only one thing is needed to convince Kore to leave her previous life. A brav...
Caitlyn Evergrove is not a fairy tale princess. And she definitely doesn't want to be either. In fact, she actively avoids the cruel curse of the inevitable ever after threatening to determine her life, like it does her best friend's. But when Jared - the charming co-worker from hell - asks a favour, Caitlyn ends u...
Elva's life was perfect. Loving parents, a fiancee she had been promised to since birth, all the dresses and jewels she could hope for. Everything is perfect until she wakes up and finds herself floating in the middle of her room, sweat thick as blood. Named one of the Xarhal, a descendant of forbidden magic- Elva is...
Khloe Rose is a hardworking girl that won't give herself a break. After carefully planning for weeks, her boss/bestfriend Christina arranged a 3 month vacation to Las Vegas. Khloe wanted to use this time to relax and have fun, but a celebrity changed her vacation plans in just a few hours. This celebrity filled her l...
[Original Story] In the dreary, short days of late January, 1970, strangers arrive at the Paradise Hotel in Arkansas. Some are here for respite. Some for work. Some for trouble. The holidays may be over, but the murders aren't.
Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has felt adrift. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter. Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent Regency family, Cordelia tries to find other wa...
Are you a mystery lover? Looking for some mysteries to solve or clues to uncover? Join Rogan on his quest to find all the answers even when things don't go as he hopes. What awaits you is mystery, secrets, and three people determined to come out as winners. Especially when losing can spell out disaster for each one of...
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...
Wren, once a young woman consumed by passion, fell in love with a lord of sin. His promises were as beautiful as his visage, and his touch as sinful as his very nature. Yet after courting her and taking all that she had to give, he stole her soulful heart. Through a forceful ritual, exchanging her pure essence for tru...
Three strangers. Two secrets. One key. Emma was perfectly happy being a driven, yet single, high school student. Until a love goddess decides that Emma needs a boyfriend- whether she wants one or not.
IN TIMES OF PERIL, THE ANCIENT DRAGON LORDS WOULD APPEAR, providing aid and salvation to the Empires of the world. Their power brought many victories against the evils that lurked from the Realm of Ruin- the plane of hellish abominations and demonic power. That was- until a new force discovered a way to seal the realm...
The narrative follows the journey of a man thrust into a bizarre quest to find his identity, only to discover someone else has taken his place. "I Am the Real One, Right?" is a mind-bending, witty sci-fi story I'm writing for ONC2024, inspired by the following prompt: Prompt 23: It's a dark and stormy night, and you'...
Being a 'difficult woman', Oklahoma farm-gal Mavis wasn't having much luck with the local dating pool. Her Pa signed her up to emigrate to newly terraformed Mars, because 'Mars needs women'. Maybe there she could find a good man to marry. But Mavis had no intention of getting hitched, despite what the legal contract s...
𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐎, Cairo Quimby disappeared without a trace. His family has neglected to speak of him since, running the slightly strange but unassuming hotel he grew up in as if nothing ever happened. Until Cairo, a lone wanderer roaming a lost and dangerous world, has a run-in at a diner with mysterious str...
A tale about a cat and a crow in search of their witch. Asha, a black cat, and her friend Kyrell, a hooded crow, are living their best lives as the familiars of the town witch Cybele. But as Cybele goes missing, their peaceful lives are threatened and they need the help of a mysterious boy to find her. My entry for t...
Libraries are places of information, mystery and wonder. They are safe spaces for all. But they may also have secrets. Powerful and dangerous secrets that should stay buried deep beneath their foundations, and the Bookery Library at the Coeus University has the biggest secret of all. *** Paige Literari has always lov...
[ONC2024 Longlister] Embarking on a second career at the age of 32, Percy Richler is well aware that love between a therapist and client is not only forbidden but unethical, even as a clinical intern. But there is something endearing about 24 year old Judah ("Jude") Prak that makes him irresistible. Jude comes to the...
Welcome to the Second Quarter Quell... When 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy is reaped for the 50th Hunger Games, he faces a surprise twist: forty-eight Tributes will be sent into the arena in place of the typical twenty-four. While battling twice the amount of deadly adversaries, and his beautiful yet treacherous surr...
~~~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...