Entries for Fantasmical 2024. From zombies to time travel and everything in between including Vampires, a retelling of Robin Hood, and some interesting commentary on current affairs, there is something for everyone and you won't be sorry you checked out this thought-provoking humorous collection of shorts linked into a single storyline.

In which the knight is silent, the crow is curious, the queen is questionable, the princess is pallid, and the wizard is as wizards are: cryptic, crafty, and constantly two steps ahead. For Fantasmical 2024 Cover art & design by NicoAkira

Join the journey of Ulupi

Fantasmical 2024 challenge A book about my fantasmical character for the 2024 character and the adventures, the test and trials she will go through and what life may bring her during this contest. #Fantasmical2024

It's been the end of the world for about a hundred years now, give or take. A magical apocalypse something or other, and nothing is the way you and I remember it. Except for a Starbucks. There's always a Starbucks, even when there's no world to advertise to anymore. And in that Starbucks lives a quiet, bookish wreck named Kona. His life is thrown into disarray when a robbery gone awry gives him a chance to find his father, the man controlling the world. And maybe, he might be able to put the world back. Or get himself and his knew friends killed trying.

Rainsford Alezand is not a magician. In fact, he doesn't believe in magic. To him, everything can be explained with science, even instinct. But what Rainsford doesn't realize is that one doesn't simply find magic. Magic finds them. --- Written for Fantasmical 2024.

When Fae strike a bargain with the hope and despair of unsuspecting humans, it's more than a snap of fingers, that makes ominous wishes come true. Especially since the mists between the worlds have been torn loose, causing the Fae's spells to be wobbly and unreliable, not just because of their whims. It's up to the likes of Hazel, charm-ing problem solvers, to pave the way for the more powerful spells. Or, for a price, they might scratch a minotaur's horns, introduce a ghost to their grandchildren, or fetch a witch's cat from a tree. Just what you do as a handyman... excuse me... handyplant... of the magical world in a crazy, not-quite-normal post-apocalypse. ---------- A collection of short stories. Every chapter is a mission on it's own. ---------- My participation in the "Fantasmical 2024"

Join Eloise, our superpowered scientist on a crazy journey across the random realms of the world.

Opiliodas has spent most of her spiderling-hood cooped up in her mentor's study, devouring spell tomes, weaving her favorite spells into her own, and seeing the world beyond her forest colony through chronicles on silken pages. Now, as a freshly-molted wizard, she must undertake her kind's greatest coming-of-age trial: the Quest for the Calling, which demands young adult Rachmera leave their colony until they find their life's passion. Eager to see the world beyond the pages, Opiliodas gleefully welcomes the challenge-and this book contains but a few of her adventures. ******* A collection of prompt-based short stories written for the Fantasmical 2024 contest. Cover made by the talented @tiyashidas123 *:* Accolades for Fantasmical 2024 *:* "The Sea Spider's Tale" - @talesofthedeep prompt winner "Icy Webs and Scorching Stings" - @punklitfiction prompt winner "A Volcanic Delicacy" - @TheFoodCatalogue prompt winner Opiliodas - Third place, Best Characters Available only on W a t t p a d.

My entry for Fantasmical 2024, featuring a profile and stories about a Chinese fox spirit.