Ashleigh Bishop is determined about two things when she moves to NYC. 1. Not to get too attached to anyone. 2. Never to let another man treat her the way her ex treated her. But she didn't expect Ethan Clarke. Ethan Clarke, an eleven on the hotness scale, wealthy, heir and current CEO of Clarke...
#OnceUponNow Cindy was a girl who worked hard and got little recognition. When faced with an amazing opportunity in the modeling industry, she is shut down because she simply didn't fit the stereotypical criteria. However as all good tales do, Cindy's story has a twist and it wasn't because of a Fairy Godmother or a g...
❝Brown hair that is nurtured in its tresses, the chocolate brown eyes that keeps me searching for answers, every smile you send my way stresses every question of mine that is left unanswered.❞ Love, Adam Thomas Beaulieu -+- Sometimes facing your fears might mean falling in love... with silence. A boy with s...
One of the winners of the Once Upon Now contest! Feet Aren't Made for Walking will be renamed Truth Be Told and will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, on October 11, 2016 in the Once Upon Now Anthology! ---------------------------- Leo Clark is having a really bad day. He's been transpor...
One of the winners of the OnceUponNow contest! Of Sirens and Beasts will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster on October 11th in the Once Upon Now Anthology! Football uniforms and tutus do not make a pretty picture. That is what Cal's football team, the Beasts, strongly believe. So when thei...
The storybooks got it wrong. Goldilocks wasn't a weak little girl. She wasn't chased off by the bears. She was the girl with the bow and arrow who knew how to win a fight. She was going to kill the man who ruined her life. Gold's family was murdered when she was 15. After losing everything, while barely surviving...
Cover by @Ruechari "Charity Rue" Ranked #8 on Target's Fantasy ( A ) List in their #OnceUponNow Contest, You may know the Classic story of Cinderella, Well this story is of Cinderella in the modern world but goes by the name Gemma. She loves to sing, her dad is a businessman who has Gemma take care of the responsib...
The Sugar Plum Fairy is on the brink of economic failure. After a business deal gone wrong, she's looking at bankruptcy with no way out - except for her competitor, Mr. Claus, who offers her a solution if, and only if she agrees to help him on a mission, where millions of people are depending on him. The last thing th...
When one of her own goes missing, young mermaid Miranda enlists the help of a VooDoo priestess to solve the mystery. But when an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico forces Miranda and her pod of fellow merfolk to choose between extinction and transformation, Miranda will not only get to the bottom of the merfolk disappear...
-Top 25 Finalist- Our parents always warned us about talking to strangers on the internet but did they ever warn us about frogs? Highest ranking: #440 in Short Story (c) Copyright 2016 by Littleninjamari
Modern day today, meet famous fairy tale heard by children. Railine Hood (or Red what other people call her) meet Andrew Wolfton. • • Short story made for Targets Once Upon A Now contest. Word count: 5068 (Sadly didn't make top 25)
A wolf doesn't always appear with pointed ears, ragged fur, or snarling fangs. Sometimes the wolf appears as a teenage boy. That's how it was for my wolf; a boy with dark, glinting eyes and a thirst for excitement. And I was the little girl in red, clueless and hopelessly in love with the wolf, until I realized - too...
Being a Queen was considered everything to my four outrageous cousins. I for one do not care, I never want to be a ruling monarch. Never. The Princess Project was a ritual that my country had been doing for decades. The government of Amaren would choose one descendant of the five royal lineages and make her the projec...
Lily James, orphaned dog-walker to the rich, accidentally becomes a guest in the home of one rather eccentric wealthy woman and her handsome son. When she finds herself living out a fairy tale, will Lily find happily ever after? Or will the truth about her past be too much for the budding romance to handle? **This sto...
This story is my entry for the #onceuponnow contest. Please get be it a read and vote started June 14-June 2 Zinnia knew nothing more about the world other than her home and a small cabin she often spent most her time in. One afternoon while in her cabin Maximum Black stumbles upon her. He becomes intrigued by the gi...
Mallory has dreamed of, drooled over, and loved Trevor from the trenches of the Friendzone for over a year. When he asks her to help him deliver a Promposal to the new girl Jessica, she dreams of the magic of fairy tale's, but only belief in herself can help her find her wings. Can she soar from the Friendzone to a Pr...
This story was an entry in Target's OnceUpon Contest, because of this, and a 10,000 word limit all together, it is a lot faster than most stories. If you aren't into a really quick and fast paced story I suggest looking at some of my other stories. Thank you! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Untouchable... Unloved... Unwanted... Ugly. By...
*One of 10 winners in the @target OnceUponNow contest* After five years in a coma, Rose has given up on ever living her life again. It's pure torture hearing her husband's voice as he struggles to save her. All Rose wants is for Crane to be able to go on with his life and be happy. When a change in her conditi...
The Enchanted Central Forest calls out to her, and she can sense it. It's not against the law to go there, but humans have been taught to fear magic. Yet, Sadie Garcia is not a normal New Yorker or human. She can't help it if she feels the urge to explore the wonders of magic. On an ordinary day Sadie and her best fr...
Once Upon Now Grand Prize Winner published by Gallery Books. Sixteen-year-old Mira Sighansen never questions her place in the majestic wilderness of the Yukon Territory until she witnesses her brothers' oil rig explode. Refusing to believe the young men are dead, the teen's suspicions are strengthened when their bodie...
Entry for #OnceUponNow. All votes & comments on the first chapter are greatly appreciated :). A Cinderella story meets Robin Hood. When seventeen-year-old Gracie Jones gets her heart broken by a false prince charming, she declares war on senior prom. With her eye on taking down the popular kings and queens of Sherwoo...
Alex Becker doubted that someone like Dahlia Carson would ever fall in love with a street rat like him. He stole, got chased by the cops, and lived in an abandoned building with his pet dog. He thought that everything about him wasn't worthy of the the daughter of the CEO of Smart and Innovative Technology For Easier...
Maddie Nguyen is a homeschooled teenager who happens to be a maladroit employee of a family owned smoothie bar, who was supposed to have her senior year as an unquestionably stress-free adolescent. But that was before-before she ran smack into the teen acting sensation, Ash Parker -whom is apparently looking for girlf...