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There is only one way to survive the trials; kill them all.- c o m i n g s o o n…

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Death was once something I feared, an illusion that brought darkness with it, but now I plead for its mercy in this time that survivors have come to call, The New Order.•••It was only a cough to began with, something so simple, it had happened a thousand times before, but with in a few days it was so much more then just a mere cough, it become lethal, and it spread like wildfire.Twenty year old, Naseria Friedelinde never thought she would be alive to see the world that she grew up with, collapse right before her very eyes, but on the 22rd of August, that was the new harsh reality that she was unexpectedly thrust into, along with her fourteen year old sister, Eliana.They didn't know how or why the virus had spread and affected everyone they once knew, but Naseria knew that she needed to get her sister as far away from the other people as quickly as possible. But being stuck in the middle of the city was going to make that a tricky situation to get around.And it didn't help that the virus turned its victims into something else, something they couldn't just run or hide from, something that craved chaos, a creature that sort out death.•••My entry for the Open Novella Contest for 2024!Prompt used -52. "And that is how that world was lost and a new one, our world, was born."…

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Esmeray Thornton is just a twenty-year-old woman trying to piece together her life after a tragedy shattered what little she had managed to build over the years. With no other choice, she has to drop out of her dream university in the bright, glistening city of New York to move back to her old home in the middle of nowhere, Dankin Vally, and find a way to keep her childhood house.You could say she isn't adjusting all that well.To add to the surging fire in Esmeray's life, the one job she could find in her old hickory town was at a women's strip club, ironically enough.With no other choice, she's made to submit to her new life as one of the Vixen's candy girls, but all is not terrible when she meets two of her coworkers, the dark-haired one who works behind the bar, with the dazzling hazel gaze that feels a though its piercing through her being, but is nowhere near as razor shape as the words they spit. And then there's the girl on the pole, who makes it seem as effortless and elegant as a ballet dancer glides across a stage, leaving Esmeray breathless with each interaction they find themselves falling into.How will these two people change the very course of Esmeray's life forever? And will it be for the best, or will they tare down the rest of her already rumbling life?…

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Darkling Academy only has two rules. Number one; don't die on the first day. Number two; try not to die over the next three hundred and sixty five days.Hayden Mikkelsen, a seventeen year old, already had enough to deal with as a teenager with a supernatural gift that she knows nothing about, but after she finds a mysterious app on her phone, her world is thrown into chaos as she stumbles across a hidden academy full of elves, witches and vampires.You know, just all the things that could kill you without even trying.And to top it all off, people from her home town, including her one of her best friends, have gone missing without any trace of where they could be.Will Hayden be able to find them, whilst also trying to survive at her new school?------------~ My entry for The Open Novella Contest 2020 ~~ Prompt used is number 55 ~WARNING - This contains mild mature themes related to violence and gore…