Most stories will tell you that Persephone was a prisoner in her husband's palace. They will say that she was dragged from the world above against her will and could not speak as the God of the Underworld defiled her. They will say that she was an innocent child, and that she was weak. These were the stories Demeter wanted you to believe: stories in which her daughter didn't fall in love with a man doomed to a life of shadows and gloom. That she wasn't happy, nor capable of power ー that she couldn't possibly follow through with what was expected of her as a queen. Demeter would never tell you that her daughter was only a prisoner in the world above, and that Hades had freed her. © 2022 CASSIE GRIPP

I wish this story were different. I wish I could tell you that he survived the fall, that his head emerged from the dark water beneath him with a wide smile on his face and vitality in his eyes. I wish I could tell you that I took him into my arms and that we spent the rest of eternity together, but that isn't what happened. He hit the waves and didn't resurface, his body crushed by the impact and pierced on the ragged rocks below. Pink seafoam crashed against the cliffside, stained with his blood and the woeful realization of what could've been but never would be. My heart fell with him. © 2022 CASSIE GRIPP

A young man decides to do some soul-searching in Alaska. He knows others have come before him with this same idea, though he believes himself to be different. Whereas the others failed, he believes himself capable of surviving. Does he have what it takes? - PLACED IN #JUSTWRITEBITS ANTHOLOGY DECEMBER, 2017 © 2017 CASSIE GRIPP

On the night of her coronation, Princess Evangeline of Der Mond is brutally murdered. Since then, a series of inexplainable events have occurred at the hands of whom the kingdom's subjects believe to be the princess's ghost, or more commonly known: The Huntress. Ten years to the date of her death, The Huntress has returned to exact her revenge on her murderer. Who will come out alive? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ FIND THIS STORY ON @justwriteit READING LIST: #ALegendIsBorn JANUARY, 2019 © 2019 CASSIE GRIPP

Following the story of a man and a woman, Timothy and Susan, you will see a likeness to the shallow characteristics of the woman described in John Oates and Daryl Hall's "Maneater". - PLACED IN #JUSTWRITEBITS ANTHOLOGY JUNE, 2018 © 2018 CASSIE GRIPP