Folklore قصص

Taylor Swift has always lived in the spotlight - touring cities, writing songs, chasing the next big moment. But fame comes with a cost. Thirteen-year-old Jackson has spent most of his life on the sidelines, quietly building walls between him and the mother who seemed to choose her career over him. When NFL star Travis Kelce shows up at a concert, all the football-obsessed teen wants to do is meet him. What Travis finds is a boy longing for someone who actually sees him. As Travis slowly becomes a bridge between mother and son, Taylor is forced to confront everything she's missed and everything she might still lose.

ආත්ම ගාණකට පස්සේ මාව ආයෙම මනුස්සයෙක් කළේ උඹගෙ ඔය ආදරේ...

It was supposed to be a fun winter reunion, but you know how that goes, isolated cabin, deep snow, and twenty degrees below zero. When the lights go out, six friends realize they're trapped with a killer that doesn't just hunt them, it tricks them. It twists reality to make them see their worst fears. To survive, they figure out a terrifying loophole: physical pain is the only thing that breaks the spell. Now, to make it until morning, they have to make an impossible choice... let the monster take them, or hurt themselves enough to stay alive.

ONC '26 Entry The prompt I'm using: After waking up at 3am to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth.

Rin Fujiwara has always seen the things that hide in the dark. Shadows that breathe. Spirits that linger. A whisper of power curling beneath her skin. After a supernatural attack, Rin is taken to the Fujiwara estate - an ancient place ruled by a Great-Grandmother whose spiritual strength is matched only by her cruelty. Here, yokai walk the halls. Secrets rot beneath the floorboards. And Rin's own awakening power becomes both weapon and curse. To survive, Rin must learn the rules of this dangerous world - or be broken by it. But mastering her spiritual energy may come at a cost she never imagined. A dark, emotional coming-of-age tale steeped in Japanese folklore, family bonds, trauma, and forbidden power.

Mahishadal appears peaceful-but peace here is only a disguise. Volume II introduces an entirely new story, set in the same land where blood once whispered secrets no one dared to believe. The past may feel distant, yet its shadow still lingers-watching, waiting, remembering. This time, horror doesn't arrive with screams or shadows. It settles quietly into everyday life. Into trust. Into love. As strange incidents resurface, the villagers are forced to confront an unsettling truth: some bonds are written in blood, and once awakened, they never truly fade. Every relationship hides a fracture. Every silence carries intent. And every choice brings consequences for darker than expected. The Bloodbound Secret - Volume II blends supernatural horror, psychological tension, and emotional conflict, creating a world where fear grows slowly-and strikes when least expected. It is a story about what people choose to ignore... and what refuses to stay buried. This is not a continuation. This is a new chapter of darkness. If you believe horror is more than jump scares- If you believe fear lives inside people- Then Mahishadal is waiting for you again.

Not every fairytale begins with magic. Some begin with a storm. Aurora was never meant to be part of a legend. Quiet and gentle, she lives beneath the weight of a crown she never asked for, carrying a power meant to heal-not destroy. But when war and ancient secrets begin to stir, Aurora discovers that even the purest gifts can awaken something far more dangerous. Taehyung was never meant to follow fate. A prince born from stories whispered beyond the castle walls, he walks a path that defies prophecy itself. Yet the night he meets Aurora in the forbidden forest, the course of both their lives changes forever. Because the forest remembers what the world has forgotten. And when long-buried truths begin to rise from its roots, Aurora and Taehyung will learn that some promises cannot be broken Even if they were never meant to be made. ~The Forest Remembers A novel by Dorothea Penrose

By Vishwareena.V. A Supernatural story set in a rubber estate tucked deep in a reimagined 1970s Malaysia. This is not a faithful 1970s Malaysian Culture. Nor is it a faithful retelling of Greek mythology or any cultural mythology. It is a version adapted through Folklore, fragments of Mythologies, Goth and Endless imagination. It is a mythic landscape where ancient figures move between latex trees. When blood disappears, what remains? Science, faith, or something older than both!

A fairy-tale-esque short story, which deliberately adopts folklore-like writing, using personified cosmic forces to explore love as mutual illumination rather than possession.

The fragile space between the ordinary and the unexplainable- where a passing shadow lingers too long, a stranger knows your secrets, and familiar places turn quietly hostile. Each story explores true events my near and dear ones encountered and I got to know from their mouths. A moment of crossing: a step taken at the wrong hour, a voice heard when no one is there, a choice that cannot be undone. The characters who wander into these pages are ordinary people- until they find themselves standing at the threshold of something vast, watchful, and unknowable. Not all encounters leave you unchanged. And not everyone returns.

Henry, an Asian American farmer near Fayetteville, Arkansas, lived a quiet life with his wife Rosie-until hatred found them. A brutal home invasion fueled by racism left Rosie dead and Henry tortured for days. Left for dead and stitched like livestock, Henry survives. Now reborn in pain and rage, he returns-not as a farmer, but as vengeance itself-hunting the monsters who destroyed his life.

Freya is living a somewhat normal life in a small village in the 16th century. She gets accused of being a witch one day and almost gets killed but she escapes onto a ship that takes her to Germany. There she meets a girl that takes her to a magical world and turns out she actually is a witch. And a hero of a huge prophecy Ahriman, the God of chaos and destruction is trying to break free from his banishment and take over the world. So Freya and her friends have to stop him,but it's kinda hard doing that when Ahriman's vessel is right there trying to stop her. And looking more beautiful than ever. It's a fantasy, enemies to lovers. What more do you want?

Ryazan, one of the grandest cities in all Rus', lays along the war path of thousands of Tatar warriors eager to seize the spoils of a short-fought campaign: the women of the city and gold from its treasury. Having set up camp on the riverbank outside the city, they await a reply from the envoys of Grand Prince Yuriy. As the Grand Prince deliberates, his brothers both caution and counsel him. If Ryazan falls, the rest of Rus' may be next ─ an outcome his people grow ever more wary of, turning to priests and heretics alike as rumor and fear run rampant inside the city walls. Finally left untended, the Polovtsian princess Yanay, conquered once before, now belonging to one of the Grand Prince's brothers, quietly observes these developments. She prays to her old gods when she can, and aligns herself with a young Tatar captive and soon-to-be deposed priest, all the while secretly seeking her freedom and revenge. ──────── ☽ ◯ ☾ ──────── A retelling of the Siege of Ryazan complete with rageful women and warrior princes; gods both kind and cunning; and sin aplenty. Copyright © 2026 Elle Chaika Open Novella Contest 2026 | Prompt No. 45 »Kings have honor, soldiers are brave, poets have heart, and all I have is rage!«

In a village where the river remembers names and the soil listens, silence is never empty. Noziphozamandla (Gift of Power) returns home carrying a grief she does not yet understand-unaware that death has already crossed her path, that her bloodline hums with secrets older than language. At night, the drum begins to speak. Soft at first. Patient. Calling not to her ears, but to her spirit. Children chant where no children should be. Shadows move without bodies. And something small watches from the dark, waiting to be acknowledged. Rooted in South African ancestral lore and whispered truths of witchcraft, When the Drum Speaks is a slow-burning, unsettling journey into the unseen, where amadlozi (ancestors) walk beside the living, gifts are inherited in silence, and ignorance is the most dangerous curse of all. Some stories are read. Others are answered.

With all the fame and being together with her long term Joe Alwyn of 5 and almost 6 years Taylor should be happy but she's not. She misses her old roommate and without thinking she releases a song about her and sets something as big in motion as she could've never imagined. Not just in the face of love but also in the face of the press. So what will Taylor do? Will she choose an easy life or the hard one full of love? #1 on maroon on 11.13 #36 on midnights on 10.12 #44 on Taylor Swift on 10.12 #1 on taytay on 06.04

Three teenagers in the 1940s, tied together by an invisible string that will intertwine their stories for the foreseeable future. Stories long lost to folklore shall now be told for evermore. James, the school's biggest dreamboat. His life is perfect. He's handsome, he has a good friend group, and a perfect home life. Every girl wants him, but his eyes are only set on Betty, the love of his life since the first time he saw her. That is, until a new girl comes into his life. She changes everything for him, and he knows he'll have to choose eventually, he can feel August slipping away, only a moment in time. Who will James choose? Betty, quiet to most, but quite talkative to those she love. Growing up in an abusive home, she is not quick to trust others, having a small but tight-knit friend group. James may have loved her from the moment they met, but Betty loved him ferociously from when she fell. However, when someone new comes into the picture, their relationship is tested. Will James and Betty become another story lost to folklore, or shall they remain together for evermore like they dreamed? Augustine, the new girl in town. Growing up in upstate New York and having to move to Pennsylvania, she is not thrilled about this new journey, especially when she finds out she'll be enrolled in a Catholic private school instead of the public school in her new town. But when she meets James, her life flips upside down. He may have a girlfriend, but Augustine knows that they were made for each other. James has to choose her, right?

A fanfiction of Taylor Swift's song August

On his thirteenth birthday, Finn Madden escapes his bleak Irish foster home to study at the Grove Academy in Tír na nDraoi, a magical dimension rooted in Celtic mythology. He quickly discovers he is a Weaver, capable of manipulating Aether, the fundamental life-force threading through all matter, and the last surviving Guardian of the Western Waters, a bloodline sworn to protect the legendary Cauldron of Rebirth. !! Story completed offline. Updates twice weekly (Tuesdays & Fridays) !! Feel free to send your feedback directly to dmn.writes@proton.me

Dragons, fairies, the little mushroom people. If you like fables, fairytales and fantasy novels, this book is loaded with them, all ORIGINAL tales with morals and archetypes all ready and available for you! Here are some fun whimsical tales of dreams coming true. Taking place in past tense and during times of famine with Princes and Princesses. Here are short fairy tales of once upon a times. Original tales you won't find anywhere else. These tales, which I like to call, short tales! Provide fables, folklore, fairytales and fantasy stories that all have a moral in them, and enters a world of imagination, hope and and enchantment. These are my very own short tales.

The folklore love triangle retell. Heartbreaks,Love and Summer. Betty never experienced love before.But she met him.Betty and James were meant to be.But teenage love always ends in a heartbreak,for worse or for better.It happened one faithful summer,where a tear in their love story changes everything when Augustine enters their world.The other lonely girl,craving for love.The girl who could not cry because it was not her love story,the girl at the other end of the story,whose love was never her's.