A collection of random shorts and musings to get the creative juices flowing...

This book has a very controversial past, due to offensive wording. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River."

This classic has been banned for various reasons, including the animal's abilities to use human language to communicate. Alice in Wonderland is an 1856 novel by Lewis Carroll. "It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures."

Anastasia of Eldonia once had a loving father and slept on a mattress and pillows at night with a fire on the hearth. But when her father dies, her stepmother, Olga of Dorre, shows her true colors. She forces Anastasia to work for her night and day. It is the only way she knows how to channel her grief and self-pity. One day though, when Anastasia is suffering from her stepmother's wrath in the form of wounds, one of the Princes finds her and brings her to the palace to help her recover. As Anastasia stays with the royal family and gets to know them, she finds herself drawn to both the prince and his twin brother. She finds she can laugh again. She discovers love again. Is this the perfect life she's worked so hard to achieve? When the prince falls ill, it is all Anastasia can do to keep from dying another small death. First her father, now the man she loves? But who does she really love? What will she do if he dies? How will she hold her already-fragmented heart together?

Being 17-years-old, haunted by the memory of my dead parents and older brother, and living with my close to senile grandparents, I find my life pretty hard. But to be lured into a small kingdom by a devilishly handsome man, forced to sleep on a huge pile of mattresses, and then to pass his bizarre test to see if I felt a small pea under all those mattresses, tops the cake! And now, he proclaims I’m his future bride—a princess-to-be... Lovely.

A retelling of Rapunzel- set in a historical setting, young Cherie grows up as a servant, forbidden to utter a sound except to the King. Her life filled with many parameters that keep her constantly busy. Growing up different is hard, especially if you can't talk to defend yourself from the spiteful comments of others. The back story of her origins are unclear to her, yet the King seems to know everything. Secrets from the past slowly come together, revealing the truth about who she really is. With trouble brewing in a neighboring kingdom, a marriage is arranged in order to restore peace. The man she once trusted, the King, uses her as a pawn to get revenge on a Lord. Broken hearted, Cherie complies with her duty and does everything she can to make her situation better. Can she bring the two kingdoms to a better standing? And fixed the wrong doing of others?