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The Eye has seen-the world will end, unless the apocalypse is properly thwarted.Unfortunately, this task has been handed to the two worst people for the job.Gadowyn Harker is a poison-peddling witch of the Gold City with a curse: if she loves, she will lose her powers-and herself. Beau "The Beautificent" Beguile (not his real name) is a smug necromancer who cons the rich and has a lifelong allergy to love, and all its messy bits.Now they must do the unthinkable: bring a dragon and a future knight-princess-sworn enemy of dragonkind-together, romantically.The world would do well to start praying; the chances of success are slim at best. Meanwhile, the Gold City teeters on the brink of collapse, undead roam the streets (entirely Beau's fault), and the end of the world draws ever closer. Somehow, Gadowyn and Beau must save it all with love-without falling prey to it themselves.First draft written for ONC 2026 | Main Prompts 11 & 98…

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WIP|| A girl raised on a farm. A dragon stolen from his kingdom. Together, they must find out who they are beyond their birthrights, even if that means defying expectations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eleven-year-old Darby Quickness works on her family farm. There, she oversees the unicorn stables, and the selkie pond, while her little sister Alvie avoids work, choosing instead to hang out at the mermaid grotto and talk fashion. Darby's fine with her life, for the most part, until, one day, her grandmother up and leaves. With a sneaking suspicion Darby's grandmother left because of her, there's a hole in her heart no amount of chores seems able to fill. That all changes when a strange man shows up in the middle of the night with a note and an egg.To Miss Darby Quickness, it reads. Dream big. Dream of the sky and beyond. - The Librarian at ScallP. S. He tells me his name is Corbyn. Darby doesn't understand much about the letter apart from her own name. She's never visited the library at Scall, or even known that a place called Scall existed. Corbyn seems like a silly name for any egg, and she was never much of a dreamer, not when there were so many chores on the farm needing done.But the man disappears without offering any help, leaving Darby with an egg to take care of (first things first, she must figure out what kind of egg it is), and a directive to dream big, whatever that means. As a strange boy with sky-blue hair starts popping into Darby's dreams, she begins to understand the reasons why her grandmother left. And when she connects them to herself, and her own struggles, Darby realizes the choice she has to make - her family's farm, or her own dreams of the sky. 2025 || first draft ||…

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For ONC 2025 | Prompt 14A middle-aged witch. One successful murder, one less successful murder. Add a dash of yearning, and it's the perfect recipe for disaster...or romance. Lee Morose, pronounced Mo-ro-say, is an appeals witch, which means she works her hardest to get innocent magical beings out of their punishments. After almost being drowned by a lake monster, Lee gets approached by Reef Marine, pronounced Mare-in, a mermaid who's been cursed with Living Death, the ultimate punishment given to those convicted of the most heinous magical crimes. But Reef claims he's innocent, and Lee has an inkling maybe the sopping-wet man before her is telling the truth. So Lee agrees to take on his case, and together they set out to discover the the real murderer. But there's someone or something, that wants the truth to stay buried. There's also the little matter of Lee's growing interest in Reef that goes beyond attorney/client privilege. A witch's life is never easy, and Lee's just got a whole lot more complicated. For ONC 2025| First Draft…

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A woman cursed with immortality navigates a post-apocalyptic world in order to hunt down the god that cursed her...and kill him. (full blurb inside) Written for ONC 2024 | Prompt 63. In a world of curses and gifts, you find yourself cursed with immortality - in the apocalypse. | First Draft…

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One girl. Two cats. A world full of adventure. Abbernathy Tells is a twelve year old girl who prefers the companionship of her two cats and a dying tree over others her age. When a horrible tragedy strikes on her thirteenth birthday, robbing her of everything she holds dear, Abby is thrust into a world of walking, talking cat creatures on the brink of war. Accompanied by her two cats and a failing wizardess, Abby will embark on a journey to unravel the mysteries behind the magical kingdom of Aelurus, while trying to cope with loss, loneliness, and the butterflies that come from a certain boy's touch. This is Abbernathy and the Cat Kingdom. *Welcome. Please be sure to leash your dog(s).* ☆ (2/11/2019) First Draft Completed☆ Amazing GIF Banner by @winterinheaven ☆☆ Chapter Breaks by @avadel ☆…

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Sequel to Abbernathy and the Cat KingdomOne girl. Two Kings. A Cat Kingdom on the brink of war.Two years after journeying to the Cat Kingdom of Aelurus, fifteen, almost sixteen-year-old, Abbernathy Tells has grown accustomed to a new way of living. Freshly settled in Ean, the manufacturing capital of Mirea, she lives her day-to-day tending to dying plants, delving into the complex world of alchemic enhancements and supplying the locals with steaming cups of tea. Though she's living a relatively normal life alongside her cousin, Lucy, Abby's not forgotten the heavy toll her journey to Aelurus exacted- she's lost friends to violence and family to fire. As the second anniversary of the fire nears, Abby and Lucy set out for Laos, where they'll remember the deceased surrounded by acquaintances and some enemies-turned-friends. Abby's excited to reconnect with the people she hasn't seen recently, but when one of them is a no-show, it throws her world back into chaos. All is not well in Aelurus. Tensions run high as the Cloudians continue to seek refuge within the land. With the promise of war on the horizon, Abby must once again don her ivory shoes, discover the truth, and kick the bad guys in their crotches.This is Abbernathy and the Two Kings. Please be kind and leash all dogs, human or otherwise.…

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**Sequel to Abbernathy and the Two Kings **One girl. Two loved ones missing. And magick that needs saving. This is Abbernathy and Magick's End, the third, and final, leg of Abby's journey. Seventeen-year-old Abbernathy Tells is on a mission: save her beloved cat. And no one, not two overly protective kings, or her easily agitated best friend is going to stop her. Or so, that's what she thinks, but after being informed of a friend's kidnapping, a friend who happened to be on an important mission herself to stop magick from dying, Abby has to put aside Sebbi's rescue in favor of finding Margo. Things only grow more complicated, however, when a key, a gift Lucy had given her before returning home, starts to hum, infecting her dreams with a place she's sure doesn't exist - a sea made entirely of smoke. To know what it all means, she'll have to find Margo. And to find Margo, she'll have to team up with old friends and family, who are all a little too eager to drop their royal duties and journey with her again, and go traipsing through the Eridan.WIP. First Draft. Part of the Creators Program. 2022As always, I must ask that you leash your dogs. Think of the cats.…

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The Fourth wall breaking of DEADPOOL meets JANE AUSTEN meets MAGICAL WEIRDNESSWhen a mysterious new boy comes to town, seventeen-year-old odd ball, Peneloper Auttsley, must confront the secrets of her past in order to save her present. *****At seventeen, Peneloper Auttsley has finally come to terms with her lot in life: she's weird, fatherless, hard to get to know and forever bored. Not to mention, her memories from her childhood are a little fuzzy. But once a new boy rolls into town on the back of a storm, tells her she's magical and that something wicked is out to get her, well, Peneloper's life is about to get even weirder, if that's at all possible. Cue the Phil Collins' soundtrack (Mr. Collins named Wizard Tunes Magazine's top musician of all time) because things are about to get magical, lyrical...and absurd. ☆Being Peneloper is a coming of age story with a hint of good humor, a heap of self-awareness, a smattering of romance, and several cases of mild dehydration.☆Chapter Breaks © 2020 Avadel Ink…

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Peneloper Auttsley was the odd duck of Potter Oaks, until a seventeen year old moved in to the house on Mire Hill. His love of Phil Collins and cow-shaped creamers threw her small town into chaos. But when Peneloper starts to focus more on him than her pirate fantasy and beloved Captain Stormholden, will love bloom for her? And what of Peneloper's best friend, Chantham? Will he allow her love to bloom? Or does he hide a crush as well as a few secrets behind his oceanic blue eyes? This is an adventure of the most grand design; everything included. ©OctaviaLocke 2016Cover made by @brookemcx.…

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[Editors' Choice 2020]In a near-future, post-apocalyptic world, a lone girl must choose between becoming the next-in-line to head a corrupt government or siding with those who wish to see the world burn. Order, suppression and lies, or chaos, truth and freedom? Whatever is chosen, one thing is clear: both sides bleed. *****Every year, the Federated United Americas tasks its elite soldiers to participate in a nation-wide Cull. Hundreds of children are taken from homes and put into one of three Facilities. While most of them will be offered comfortable lives in the forms of low-ranking government jobs and militia commandos, a few will be groomed to be the successors for the highest office the FUA has to offer: The Council.Beckett Blake is known in the Facility as Ten, and she alongside six others branded 'Liars', have spent years enduring confinement and rigorous testing in order to secure a future as head of the FUA. When a terrorist group breaks into the Facility and kidnaps Ten and the others, she's forced to re-examine her future plans.Required to become a drug runner in the mega-city known as Neon Brights, Ten must decide if the future she'd been promised since childhood is worth the lies it's built upon. Will Ten choose the future that's been decided for her, or will she carve out one all her own, even if that path leads to her destruction?Cover by @eosophobias…

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The world's hottest dating app, Happily Ever After, promises true love between humans and magical creatures. For blogger, influencer and self-proclaimed singleton Nora Campbell, it's a means to quit her crappy office job for more lucrative money. But will a chance encounter on the subway with the weirdest of weird girls leave Nora wanting to leave the single life behind? Despite the app's assertion that love is only a swipe away, maybe for Nora, it's sitting across from her, bundled in the ugliest coat she's ever seen. Follow Nora's journey as she navigates the world of #magicbad dates, while an increasingly strong desire to get to know the girl on the subway, takes Nora down a path she never expected to walk. When magic's involved, you never know what can happen. Open Novella 2021 - Based on prompt 21…

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Judgemental fifteen-year-old Adelaide Jenkins learns her neighbor and resident bad boy, Luke Mezaretti, is more than just his washboard abs. *****Fifteen-year-old Adelaide Jenkins spends a majority of her summer vacation up before dawn, ogling the neighborhood bad boy, Luke Mezaretti, as he stumbles from the woods in nothing but boxer briefs. After a stint at the Mezaretti house, playing games with Luke's younger brother who happens to also be Adelaide's best friend, Braxton, she realizes the town bad boy is shouldering more than just a little hangover. And that if he stops smoking, flirting or smirking, life in the town, and the world in general, is about to get downright hellish.…

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Contest winners and one shots.Yes, it's a Pokémon reference.…

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*Book One: Song*With the arrival of a Muggle at Hogwarts, the Wizarding World's greatest secret is about to be revealed. *****It's a new year at Hogwarts and everyone's excited about what the year will bring. But no one, not even the so-called prophetic professor of Divinations, could have predicted the arrival of Ocean Blue Turner. A fifteen-year old Muggle from America who claims everything from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, to the stodgy Headmistress of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall, sings. Songs that only she can hear. Clearly, it's not typical Muggle behavior, but there's nothing in the text books that state otherwise. Unable to get ahold of her aunt, Ocean Blue deals with her situation the only way a Muggle, whose discovered magic exists, can - when not screaming, she's in full-blown denial. But the Wizarding World is real, and Blue must acclimate to it if she hopes to last. But with the absence of her aunt weighing heavily, and a particularly harsh song rising from the tomb of Hogwart's previous headmaster, Blue and the friends she's made along the way, grow ever more certain one thing is clear:Whatever Blue is, she's not just a Muggle.***Second Gen HPFF. AU to Cursed Child. M/F. ***DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, or any of the related characters. The Harry Potter series is created by JK Rowling and owned by Warner Bros. This fanfiction is intended for entertainment only. I am not making any profit from this story. All rights of the original Harry Potter story belong to Warner Bros.…

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An X-Men fanfiction where the mutants we know and love have been reimagined as lumbering, anthropomorphic trees. WARNING: CONTAINS A TON OF TREE PUNS.DISCLAIMER: The X-Men are characters created by Stan Lee and owned by Disney (Marvel). I do not claim ownership over them or the world of the X-Men.…