The name's Sean. All I have to do is solve a mystery about twelve disappearing girls, find and haul back a certain annoying missing agent, and make sure I don't run into any of those important selkie shifters I offended. What could possibly go wrong? Honestly, probably everything. (A five-part serial short story. 1,000-2,000 words each. Urban fantasy with a fairytale twist.) First mission arc complete as of March 2021: Twelve Dancing Princesses meets The Snow Queen. Second mission arc coming soon. Hint: will involve beanstalks.

[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the bronze giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years. Prompts chosen: (25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*) (60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate. (*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"

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Angharad of Llyr is heir to a matriarchy: a line of enchantress-queens that has ruled her island for centuries. Her destiny from birth: to rule as sole authority and ensure that her powerful bloodline endures for another generation. Devoted to her people, yet passionate and willful, she faces her fate with a tension as volatile as the magic that runs in her veins. But one day a stranger washes up on her beach; a vagabond without ties of family, vocation, or title. His freedom and exuberance draw her like the tides, and the meeting of their eyes is only the first law he will break with her consent. But a princess is not free to follow her heart. When an ancient evil stalks the island shores, awakening fae-born legends long-forgotten, the fate of an entire kingdom will rest upon one woman's impossible choice...between duty and love. Maturity Rating: suitable for mid-teens and up. Suggestive scenes and implications, but non-explicit. *story initially conceived as a prequel to The Chronicles of Prydain, a Welsh-inspired YA fantasy series by Lloyd Alexander. Certain characters, locations, and plot elements are his creations, but no knowledge of the series is necessary to enjoy this novel.

When Maescia is set aside for another, she vows to take back her place at the Summer King's side no matter the cost. ********** Things have settled down since the new Elven Queen took the throne and the Winter Queen was dealt with, but not all is as happy as it seems. Maescia is lonely. Her friends promised to visit, but they never did. Then the Summer King forgets all about her and replaces her with her nemesis, Astraea. The only one paying any attention to her is Corym, an annoying faery boy she wishes would stop meddling in her plans. Maescia vows to take back her place at the Summer King's side, and so begins a dangerous game. On her quest to ruin her nemesis, Maescia discovers the Summer King has been keeping secrets. Now she must decide which team to play for: her new friends, the Summer King... or her own. Maescia loves playing games, and this might be her most important one yet. This is a novella in the Lost Queen series (Book 3.5)

EXCERPT ONLY With Marjorie's wedding, the Thornes are happily settled in the welcoming village of Ceristen. Fred has steady employment, and even Gwenda is making friends. Other new arrivals, however, are finding it harder to adjust . . . Mordred Kenhelm has spent his eighteen years surviving. Having shepherded his sister and brother to the distant promise of Orden, what happens when reality sets in? Can their family bond weather old traumas, social condescension, and a tragic accident? The Village uses the setting of a small-town drama against the backdrop of a fantasy world to explore the deepest, ugliest, and most beautiful facets of human nature. What does it mean to love your neighbor? Look for the answer in The Village.

"You have to beat the words, Marta, beat the stuttering. Learn to speak, to let your voice be heard." After her father's death, all Marta wants to do is hide. Hide from her stuttering. Hide from the world outside her home. Hide from her family who so often reminds her of him. But even Marta realizes she cannot hide forever, and staying hidden gets even harder when her mother decides they are leaving Germany for America. Trying so desperately to cling to her silence, Marta realizes her only relief is writing letters. Until she meets Emma, and the families she is forced to stay with. While the families try to help Marta find her voice; Marta realizes the only way to sail towards her family, is to sail away from her silence.

London, 1950s. Rose Kovachi wants nothing more than to forget. She wants to forget the war, the concentration camps, the mysterious violin her brother gave to her before he died. She wants to forget her poverty-stricken family, her Romani heritage. But most of all, she wants to forget her future and the expectations that come with it, including finding a respectable job or a husband to provide for her family. When she meets Ruben Faust, an upper-class German who recognizes her beloved Pedrazzini violin, Rose realizes he might be her ticket to escape. Despite her prejudices and her irritation with his nonchalant and snarky demeanor, she decides to follow him across Europe as they search for the violin's original owner. After all, it seems like the perfect opportunity to leave her own family and her pre-planned future behind. But as Rose is forced to confront her painful past, she begins to realize running away might not be so easy. She soon discovers that Ruben is in far more trouble than she ever thought and that her family is falling apart in her absence. Rose is determined to save them and get what she wants, for it seems the only way to forgive herself for failing to save her brother from the war. Yet Rose soon realizes that she can't have it both ways. But was scares her the most is the fear that nothing she does will ever be able to repair the past.

Moira feels like nothing has ever changed in her sleepy fishing village. So when the chance is offered to change everything, will she take it? What will be the consequences? A short story based on legends and set on the coast of Ireland.

(Currently Editing) Poland, 1942. When Celina Rudaski took the evening train to Warsaw, she did not expect to return responsible for the lives of two Jews. Then again, she did not expect her father to be whisked away in the middle of the night by soldiers, nor did she expect her house to become swallowed by flames of fiery hatred. Yet it all happened in the matter of twenty-four hours. A stubborn, introverted fifteen year old girl, Celina refuses to believe the many stories of the horrific genocide against the Jews, often turning a blind eye to anything that reminds her of the war. But when she unwittingly promises to hide two Jews in a home she does not have, Celina must journey across Europe with these strangers in search of lady who might be able to rescue them. They are filthy, they are broken, and Celina cannot seem to control the hatred burning inside her. Together they travel town to town, witnessing each cities own branch of horrors, even hiding in basements of strangers. In ways painfully unimaginable to Celina, these two Jews affect her life in the deepest of ways. As they dodge bullets, stumble upon an injured enemy pilot, and attempt to escape the hands of the Germans naming them fugitives, Celina must learn to face what she has been too terrified of her entire life. ***Edited by the lovely @jgfairytales