The werewolves of Marrowbone Village are all dying...slowly. Excruciatingly. And unfortunately for the rest of the pack, the only wolf immune to the terrible plague-their last hope to find a cure-lies with the runt, Amelie. With time running out, Amelie desperately scours the surrounding forests, clinging to a fading fairytale in search of the one thing she knows can save her pack...a unicorn's horn. But one night Amelie finds Nia, the unicorn who might be her salvation... And her pack's ruin. *** 12. While hiking through a forest, you stumble upon a unicorn's horn. 85. A sickness descends upon your pack, and you're the only one immune. As the Alpha succumbs to the illness, it's up to you to find a cure before it's too late. A werewolf/unicorn shifter gxg romance.

Burnt-out influencer Wynne Mayfield gave up on her social media dream five years ago. But a new sponsorship deal might be her second chance, even if it means returning to the island she has tried to escape. When she crosses paths with her former best friend, Sienna, Wynne can no longer avoid her. With only twenty days before the sponsorship deadline, Wynne plans to drown her feelings for Sienna--but the more their hi온라인카지노게임 resurfaces, the more the two find they understand each other better than before. **** Written for the Open Novella Contest 2025 (ONC), using prompts 110 and 120. * Cover by the wonderful @-MilaSteele !! *

ONC 2025 - LONGLISTER, SHORTLISTER, 2x AMBASSADOR PICKS AND HONOURABLE MENTIONS Reverse Handmaiden's tale set in a fantasy medieval land. *** Fynn of Teleni is an orphan born and raised within the Great Kingdom of Teleni. The particularity of his home is its rare breed of virgin male soldiers. Currently stationed in the same barrack for nearly five years, Fynn is determined to climb in grade and become commander. Seileia is from the Eleenora's wood, an uncharted forest and the last unconquered territory by the Kingdom of Teleni. Descendant from a race of powerful witches and dragon riders, Seileia fears being the next one like her many sisters who have gone missing, taken by the Kingdom of Teleni. With no proof to attest to her suspicions, Seileia storms into Fynn's barrack on her dragon to rescue them all. The plan should have worked as she comes disguised as one of Teleni's soldiers; however, Fynn catches her, and the two of them fight with Fynn exposing her naked body to everyone and calling her "a demon." To fall in love with a demon is the last of their wishes, and yet, outnumbered, the Kingdom of Teleni captured Seileia and leaves her under Fynn's sole guardianship. *** ONC 25' Prompt 2: To be in love with a demon was the last thing on your wishlist. Prompt 61: The silence in the room is deafening, as though it has a life of its own. It's time to rewrite the fairy tale, but this time, the ending will be yours, and it won't be happy. ROUND 1 - 10.03.2025 ROUND 2 - 10.04.2025 ROUND 2 AMBASSADORS PICK - 22.04.2025 LONGLISTER - 21.05.2025 ROUND 3 AMBASSADORS PICK - 23.05.2025 SHORTLISTER - 01.06.2025 HONOURABLE MENTIONS - 25.06.2025 *** CW: Depictions and mentions of violence with a bit of foul language but mostly a war of the minds over the ones of the bodies. Sensible chapters will be marked with *** at the end of their titles.

[Pride Awards 2025 Shortlist] Aleksei was born for only one purpose: to die, forging a path for their father to enter the world. But when they find the secrets hidden within the catacomb walls, they realize that their purpose is far greater than the cultists had them believe. *** Locked away since birth in the catacombs beneath a ruined castle, Aleksei was created for a single purpose: to die so that their father, a fallen god, may rise again. Raised by a fanatical cult and watched by a cryptic familiar that whispers comfort and control, Aleksei has only ever known isolation and obedience. But when they discover a hidden library buried deep in the walls--its cursed books whispering secrets long buried--they begin to question everything they've been told. The catacombs are not just a prison, and Aleksei is not merely a vessel. As the day of the ritual draws near, and gods and monsters close in, Aleksei must decide: will they follow the path carved in blood...or shatter it and bring ruin to those who made them? ✟ Gender Ambiguous MC ✟ Demon Cultists ✟ Speculative Fiction ✟ Dystopian Horror-Fantasy ✟ Word Count: 39,908 ─────────────────────────────────── ✵ Numenverse year: 537 2025 © Tate Csernis

Supervillain Ranvi De Witt is somehow not in prison yet, but her superhero nemesis is. When he asks her to consult on a murder-case that could free him, at first, she's thinking only of the money (well, at first, she laughs in his face, but after that, she's thinking only of the money). But when her dim-witted minion (and actual best friend) is brainwashed to act like a fairytale princess, she realises this murderer is targeting her as well as her nemesis. He's got a lot of power, even if he's literally butchering the fairytales he's forcing his victims to recreate. And he's supposed to be dead. 'Surrounded by Idiots' is a comic fantasy novella about morally grey areas and the power of stories: how some of them can cage you, while others can set you free. ONC prompts: 50. A supervillain has a midlife crisis and decides to become a superhero. But redemption might be harder than they imagined. 59. I am the pages of the past and the ink of the future. I course through the veins of many, though few truly notice me. I am what they search for in others, yet I cannot be bought. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end. Tell me your 온라인카지노게임, and perhaps I'll grant you the love others have failed to find.

A woman seeking vengeance A detective chasing truth Death and secrets of the past following their every step 1920s, Prague Milana has lost her home twice. The first time, when she was forced by her husband to leave St. Petersburg. The second, when the last shards of fragile affection between them died in their exile. Slowly suffocated by his obsession to become a grand author, his extremist associates, and his abuse, no day passes without thoughts of escape. Finally, the chance is presented to her. But in a horrible way: When Milana's best friend and lover, Jasna, is found murdered, she learns the one investigating is none other than Matěj Graf-nothing more than a faint memory of secret notes exchanged through a copy of "Anna Karenina" until one day ago. But now, he is back in her life, and Milana might hold the key to the only case he cannot solve. And other than their favorite novel's heroine, Milana is determined to break free alive. A once novella about crime and forbidden love, in which 'Anna Karenina' meets 'Babylon Berlin', following prompts 87, 118 and 57

A soldier being eaten alive by the curse that ravages at the front. A writer who serves as the perfect mouthpiece for the cause of war. A hundred truths silenced. Cyrice Marzanne, a bright young journalist and war correspondent, prizes the word as her strongest weapon against enemies, and to wield it, she risked her life amidst battle more than once. That is, until Kristan Vrost, a battered veteran, arrives at her doorstep at midnight and presents her with a 온라인카지노게임 about a weapon turning the bodies and minds of soldiers to rot that cannot possibly be true. Of all people, he wants her to spread the news of this disease. Only that Cyrice's typewriter won't allow them to be written, and starts to raise questions about what else is being silenced. Could all the lies in the books banned and burned for decades have been no lies at all? Starting a dangerous pursuit to find the truth, Cyrice has to ask herself how much power her words hold if they are not fully her own. For fans of Violet Evergarden, Divine Rivals, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Studio Ghibli's Holw's Moving Castle an onc entry following prompts 31, 95, and 65 Cover by Chaoskuss

❝Just one night. Give me that one chance and I promise, you'll never look at the stars the same way again.❞ ── 𝟑𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 ── 𝐎𝐍𝐂 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟏 & 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟐 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐑 . . . . . ╰──╮ִ❤︎╭──╯ . . . . . 𝐓𝐚𝐞𝐡𝐲𝐮𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥. Well, what could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, everything when it involves safeguarding the love of his life, the woman he's slowly but surely deeply falling for. Not the rather non-existent figure from his original time, but the radiant woman he seemed to have loved in 1912, in a forgotten past he's desperate to remember. Irene, the girl with summer-sky eyes. Their 온라인카지노게임 becomes trapped within the lament of an ordinary yet magically potent hourglass, set against the tragic voyage of the majestic and the "unsinkable" Titanic, hurtling towards its inevitable, icy fate. Taehyung finds himself torn between his fervent desires - to miraculously alter hi온라인카지노게임 as if such a feat were possible or to save the lives of his loved ones who are now victims of his unexpected temporal displacement. All the while, he faces unexpected adversaries and finds his own existence in time profoundly challenged. It is amidst this chaos that Taehyung begins to realize that perhaps everything happens for a predetermined reason, and that, perhaps, for the sake of that very reason, he found himself staring into Irene's strikingly breathtaking eyes - the singular purpose for which he was gifted this extraordinary rebirth. ── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦ Central Prompts: A group of people wake up with no memory and find themselves adrift on an old steam passenger liner. Name? Titanic. & You remember loving a woman in 1910s and now you have

Love and retaliation conspire to foil a billionaire land developer's attempt to bulldoze a family business. Heather Clayburn owns Nuance, a thriving upscale restaurant in a nineteenth-century house in Vancouver's West End. Her family has lived above the restaurant for generations, but after her divorce, only she and her twelve-year-old daughter, Sage, remain. As Downtown spreads westward, massive office and condo towers threaten the last of the houses, and she is determined to preserve the family legacy. Strathaven Land Development owns the adjacent vacant lot, leasing it to the restaurant for client parking, and they recently bought the 1950s apartment building on the other side of the house. When Strathaven's owner tells Heather about an old verbal purchase agreement, she refutes its validity. He forces his son, Sinclair, to coerce her into selling. Sinclair becomes a regular diner at Nuance, catching Heather's eye, and while looking for ways to do his father's dirty deeds, he is increasingly attracted to her. Unaware of his motives, she moves him to the top of her dream hunk list.

Some roads aren't meant to be traveled alone... because they can kill. | On her way home after a long day of work, the most talented basket weaver in Sitio San온라인카지노게임a clashes with her childhood bullies. Luckily for Mila, an eligible bachelor from the same village comes to her rescue. Unfortunately, Lucca also happens to be the neighborhood's most notorious flirt and sweet-talking cadger. Before she could shoo him away, the road she travels almost every day of her life transforms into a dark and terrifying place. Now Mila has no choice but to rely on her equally frightened yet surprisingly protective companion. She will have to resist Lucca's rapt stares and constant flattery until they find their way home. And until they escape the monsters hunting them down.