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ONC 2024 ENTRY|ONC 2024 LONGLISTER||1× featured|The holidays are over but the murders aren't.*** Deep in the city of Ikoyi, blood has become a daily alarm. With the amount of people being killed rising and the numerous calls to fight against this insurgency, the residents are doused with fear as the city tips between peace and utter chaos. Zara, an ever anxious and over thinking teenager, has come back with her family from their vacation to the United States, finding their hometown ablaze with all these news of murders that have suddenly become an epidemic. But with her goal to pass her external exams in flying colors and still keep herself together despite her family's many abuses, the murders are little more than stories that cause a stroke of anxiety before she is once again swamped with her own problems.But when Zara's mother is murdered in cold blood, she is suddenly thrust headfirst into this epidemic that has ransacked her home. Nothing ever happens without a reason and whatever killed her mother may be coming for her too.Beautiful cover by @ReynaBennett…

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"Her victims burst in flames."*** Two estranged siblings, driven apart by their parents' divorce, reunite at the heart of a crime scene. The scene where their father had been found as a burnt corpse. Struck by this revelation, they must learn to put aside their differences if they want justice to be served. But with every twist and turn, they begin to see that there is more to his death than meets the eye, especially as more bodies begin to turn up. Will they be able to keep up when their fractured relationship and many differences are too hard to look past? How would they be able to conquer when the pepetrator they seek may be an age long presence that is out for blood....Cover by @_BLACKSPADESZTrigger warning: Mentions of abuse and some other triggering things would be seen in this story.…

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|3x featured|Further into the future of Nigeria, after the norther and southern protectorates have been divided, when the Chinese colonies have left them be . Stanley is one of the many living in the upper region of the Southern Protectorates, which is now Nue, of what was once Nigeria with many privileges to his name. On a fateful night, he bumps into someone staggering about with a tattered look. Not only does he notice the person behind the torn apart mask, he realizes she has stolen one of the most precious artifacts in the whole protectorate. In a desperate haste to keep her from getting arrested, he takes the locket and takes the fall for this heinous crime out of love. But he doesn't realize that by doing so, he has immersed himself in dark waters that he would have never wanted to go.…

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Winner for island 1 and 2 in Shiver me timbers 2023🥇 1st place in GYSOT awards in short story category |1x featured|SHIVER ME TIMBERS 2023Deep in the depths of Kratos, where black women are its only inhabitants. To become a transverser and fully be inaugurated into the womanhood, the girls are supposed to face a trial on the equinox. The trial involves them weathering through a number of harsh realities, as seen fit by the tribunal of true goddesses, under the guise of different individuals while trying not to die. Succeed and you have fully become a member of the Kratos society. Fail, your soul will be exiled to the isle of the lost. Ada comes from a long descent of exiled girls. Her ancestors birthed by The Woman have all failed the trial and are hence exiled to the isle of the lost. Looking to break this trance, she weathers through these harsh realities to fully enter society. Join Ada as she forces her way through different identities, harsh seas, treacherous monsters and thriving magic. Join her in this journey through uncharted plains when worlds collide.…

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The world pulses with noise,A befitting raging guise,Silence is an unwanted entity,In the world's reality,The juts of steely haste and hassle,ingrain itself into the world's paste,an introvert shuns the noisy epistle of life,loved and hated for the silence that sometimes causes her strife,her unspoken words are threaded into a veil of letterings,that create a tapestry of divine dealings,in the supposed dullness of the introvert,lies a robust county of life that seeks to impact,the magical journal of colorful rhymes and lyrics,the embodiment of her Introverted life's mystic.Beautiful cover made by @MissRoseBookwriter…

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🏆 Once Upon A December 2023 Contest Winner***Born into a family of snowblowers, in a world where the power less, the impuissant, are casted aside, to be carted off as slaves by the time they reach 18. Izel, only a few hours away from being sent to the Slave Triad is in dire need of a miracle. Coincidentally, the mysterious wishing comet takes its passage through the sky once again after its 500 year absence. In a bid to remain on the great end of society, she wishes for one thing.To manifest her ice abilities. But nothing is ever that simple. And every wish has its consequence.Amazing cover by @jianxvi…

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Poetry allows you to discover,And gives you the gift to recover,Giving you the wheel and compass,To venture through the bypass…

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Join me as we follow characters in their different journeys. A platform to experience their joys and pains, ups and downs, high and lows. In this tapestry of words, lies an adventure that breaks grounds. Myriads of tales crafted with a touch of adventure, doused with a pinch of drama and cooked with the flames of suspense…

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Born to the world for a purpose.To free the lost from the plague of The Taint. A disease released by The Shaitan that thaws the soul fire of man. The Ancients have prophesied his coming and death, long before the collapse and fall of the Castle of Old. This short story centers around the fantasy retelling of Jesus' death on the cross.…