Mythical Short Stories

A collection of short and magical tales.

Oscar and Thea

The gentle young Earl of Ilmarie has his life turned upside down when he crosses paths with the fiery and wild Thea. A flash fic written for the #Shortys2024 Historical/ Romance Word count: 1921 [29/09/2024]

The House of Atreus | ONC 2023 Shortlist

The House of Atreus bears a curse. One steeped in blood and nourished by decades of violence. Klytemnestra knew this when she married Agamemnon, but being a princess in Sparta doesn't leave you with much choice, though she longs for it. The Fates spin their threads impassively but all Klytemnestra wants, is to be fre...

The Journeymen

Arise Series Book 1 and Wattys 2022 Shortlist! As man has taken a step back in the world, magic, monsters, and adventure return. Modern man vs. the monsters of old who have re-entered the world. A group of men and women, the Journeymen, work to bring unity and order to a world separated by the differences that many on...

Midnight Wonders

For Luc, life began seven years ago. It began on a bus, by the hills, beneath a black sky, with no one at his side but his sister, Cora. His world is mundane, routine, and perfectly adequate. At work, he teaches, and at home, he takes care of Cora, who has spent the last four years in perpetual lethargy, from no appar...

Power and Prey

(Various!Yanderes X F!Reader) [Y/N] is thrust into the world of high society after the tragic death of her parents in 1770. When she receives an unexpected invitation to a grand ball hosted by the Marquis of Paris, she is drawn into a world of political intrigue and manipulation. The Marquis, a man with a dangerous hu...

In the Court of the Sun King

It was not until Marie stood in the palace courtyard that the reality of her situation swept over her like a wave. She could see nothing but Lorenzo's maddened hands; grasping at her, pulling her wrists harshly, tugging viciously at her skirts. Had it not been for Hortense clinging to to her right arm, Marie was fairl...

Escape from the Sun King

Escape from the Sun King tells the fictional story of the Guillet family, Robert, wife Ruth, son Roberto, daughter Sarah, and son Lucas who are Huguenot ( Protestant followers of John Calvin) living in Paris during the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) by Louis XIV the Sun King. This edict removes the right to...

Vanity

Fourteen year old Fabienne, Cousin to the King, is living in the lap of luxury in the french royal court of Versailles. Little does she know that she is about to be caught between two sides of a revolution, will she stay loyal to her family or will she fight for what she believes to be right and the boy she loves. 202...

The Painter's Apprentice

[This story is now FREE] Florette moves to Versailles, only to discover a group of Fae are destroying France. Allying with the battled-scarred Destan, she has to save the kingdom. ***** Florette, a painter's apprentice, is finally welcomed to the pa...

Vying for Versailles: Fan Fiction!

Renee de Noailles is a scorned Marquis' daughter with no fortune and no future in 1665 France. That is, until she is forced to become an informant to the Kings valet or else her dark history will be unfolded to the public. Blackmail, vengeance, sex, murder and power quickly become a normal day for her. She must fight...

L'Ange de la Mort (The Art of Revolution #1)

{Wattys 2018 Winner - The Contemporaries} Versailles, France 1789: Where the only things more prevalent than opulence and wealth, are secrets. At the dawn of the French Revolution, Paris is divided. In the glittering palace of Versailles, courtiers party without a care in the world, but in the city, people must fight...

Monsters of Versailles

France in 1764, and monsters are about. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, or more commonly known as the Madame De Pompadour, is a woman in the king's court who, in the night, hunts those monsters to protect the king. So, when the Beast of Gevaudan comes to terrorize a town, naturally she goes to kill the beast, despite the d...

The Nymph of Versailles

A 2019 Watty Winner. For fans of Allison Pataki and Philippa Gregory, THE NYMPH OF VERSAILLES is based on the true story of Madame Montespan's rise and fall at the court of King Louis XIV. Being the Sun King's mistress is a coveted position in a court full of greedy courtiers vying for power and Athénaïs de Montespan...

Community Book | Updates, Chats, Magick {meet me in the forest}

This is my community book where you can get updates from me, chat with me and yourselves, and it will be magical. Idk what kind of community this will be, but it will go beyond announcements. Don't expect this to be a place to gush about your writing, but who knows? Maybe there will be something in here for you guys t...

Byzantine Purple

"History is a survivor's tale. It knows no villains. Only failures." A decade ago, Leudora had her major enemies eliminated - the scientist known as the Dalmatian Serpent, and his followers, who sought her people's blood. A ruthless guardian of her kin and an unscrupulous politician, Leudora lived with her guilty cons...

The Endless Rain

✩ t h e e n d l e s s r a i n ✩ ══════════ ⋆★⋆ ══════════ Two boys meet fatefully in a library, however one is cursed to be alone and the other is cursed to lose the ones he loves the most. So when they finally start seeing the light in each other a terrible consequence is met. However, there is a way for...

Company of Fools

A honking big collection of poems, short stories, photographs, drawings, and musings all by this humble Jester. {NOTICE:} Almost everything in this book is based on true events. Some details, such as names, have been altered for the privacy of the individuals involved. It has not been flagged as Mature, but there are...

God's Gone AWOL

Bentley Hellbourne was the worst demon in all of Hell. Good thing she's dead now... right? Her death at the hands of her angelic arch-nemesis ended the war between Heaven and Hell. And now, eighty-five years later, the world is finally getting used to its current state of balance. But when Bentley inexplicably comes c...

Lost In Lucidity

"Last night, I had a dream the world ended. Half the population disappeared, and unfathomable eldritch beasts shambled out of an unending darkness." In a world with no sun and bloodthirsty creatures roaming the all consuming dark, the only places still safe are the small compounds that managed to get walls up before a...

Faces of Apathy

we're all a bit insane?

Catharsis

A series of short and unrelated paragraphs and thoughts.

cynical beings✔️

most of the days I'm a museum of things I want to forget

Throes of Spring ✔️

[FEATURED] godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed

sciamachy ღ

secrecy flows through you, a different kind of blood.

sickly sweet

a love that isn't mine

Finding Ares II: The Lost Mission to Mars

This novel uncovers the terrifying secrets of the first successful manned mission to Mars; exploring the true nature of humanity when faced with unspeakable horror.

Abyss

Follow the journey of the Traveler as he ventures into the depths of the Abyss. 2x Island Winner of the Shiver Me Timbers 2022 contest hosted by @WattpadAsianFantasy & @talesofthedeep.

The Tragedy of S.S. Orion

This is the story of Julian Douglas Voorhees, in his own voice, of how he came to be a passenger on an interplanetary space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the planet Terra Nova, his trials and tribulations, and his eventual demise at the hands of the greatest silence of all - the expanse of space. The story i...