Onceuponnow Stories

Invitations have been sent out for the annual ball, for Prince Jeremiah Anderson it's to meet his future potential bride. Every year, the same typical vapid women claim they're the one but has disappointed him whenever they brought up money and his looks. With wishful thinking, he sits alone, hidden watching and waiting for who he will spend the rest of his life with. Katie Oster and her relationship with Sean has run its course, he's moving to Japan for his job as a photographer. She was in love but couldn't wait for him neither jump into another man's arms so quickly. Spending her days with work, eating junk food and watching TV show reruns, she receives an invite to the ball from the enigmatic Prince Jeremiah Anderson. The invitation in her hand was too good to be true, but she had to see for herself. Entry for OnceUponNow by @target Cover by @samiradange

#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 glass slipper. It was because of the purity of her heart and the little ray of hope that was provided from a boy named Jaxon.

Main Genres: Portal Fantasy / Supernatural / YA Fantasy. Subgenres: Action / Comedy / Thriller. Description: To the Muse Bureau, Judy Windermere is not a person: she's the entrance exam that prospective muses must pass to attend its academy. And to working muse officers, she's not just a glorified dreamer: she's a natural disaster disguised as a sleeping girl. For when she sleeps, she's full of dreams and nightmares, unrequited feelings and envious thoughts, which spill into the waking world. But when she goes missing and reappears hours later during a week of exams, three dysfunctional muse officers must find out where she goes. And where Judy goes, like a natural disaster, havoc follows. Status: *restarted* This a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Things were finally looking up for Percy Joyce. She had escaped the world of retail with a real job in the business world. Unfortunately, she had sent out so many résumés to corporate America she was fairly certain the US Forest Service and/or Greenpeace were going to be visiting her soon to discuss the havoc she wreaked on the biosphere and some poor unsuspecting forest. But the good news was, after deforesting half of Maine, she had landed a job as a junior mechanical engineer with The Flynn Group. She had a wonderful boss and mentor in Mr. Noble who took the time to keep her on a solid growth path in her profession and the company. But all that changed on April 1. With the Announcement. Shortly after her life and job became inexorably intertwined and quickly spiraled out of control. Eventually the Tower brought everything crashing down around her. Until ... AUTHOR'S NOTE - The story will be fleshed out more and the ending will be rewritten in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Hope Johnson is a simple, organised and innocent 18 year old student. Her life changes as the rude, arrogant player Issac Walker bumps into her life.

A fairy prince and mundane girl fall in love in a town meant to tear them apart. Don't drink the water is her only rule. Follow the rule of the court is his. Written for the Once Upon Now contest which is for a love story that alludes to a myth or fairy tale. Enjoy!

#JustWriteIt and #OnceUponNow challenge story all in one! Word Count: Enjoy the story, I don't want to spoil anything!

She was never the same, after the car wreck that left her as the only survivor. Before the accident she was a quiet, shy girl. Mostly because she hid her true self from everyone, especially from her family.

Jocelyn was just 15 when the drunk driver crashed into the front end of the car her dad was driving taking the lives of the last two relatives she had left.Joseph and Amanda were a couple set to adopt their second child.They wanted a newborn baby until they heard about Jocelyn and how she was about to be released from Stamford Memorial Hospital where she spent the last few months in a coma following a car accident.They decide to adopt her.What happens when the people that Jocelyn thinks are strangers are closer to her than she thinks when she feels so distant.

A story of heart break and new love with a little touch of magic. * * * * * "You'll meet your true love soon, my poor dear, I'll make sure of it and as you fall for him, the painful memories of the boy who broke your pure heart will also cease to exist," she said, ominously, her large silver eyes unfocused. * * * * * DISCLAIMER: Everything written in this book is entirely of the author's imagination. Any similarity in plot of real people and/or events are complete coincidences. Therefore, please do not expect me take responsibility any form of offense. I assure you that I do NOT mean to offend anyone. If the events get too offending, you may comment on your part, AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT GET TOO VIOLENT. Everyone is welcome to point out grammar mistakes or terms misused. I will TRY to fix it.

Maegden Elise Roberts is a simple girl living in a city full of busy people. Each day she spends her free time at the city park that lies in the heart of her city. Maegden discovers that her city is surrounded by a world far more beautiful than she ever realized it could be. But when the worlds begin to blur into one another, Maegden must race against time to save the new found world that is full of mythical creatures and magic. Can Maegden save them or will the two worlds unravel and be destroyed forever?

Part Hansel And Gretel, Part Rapunzel (Uncompleted...A Work In Progress) Hazel and Gordon have been holed up in the same apartment for their entire lives. Their entire world exists solely in that little place, and they are content with their tiny little life, as it's the only thing that they have ever known. That is, until their Father brings home somebody new. A girlfriend. The twins start to notice changes about their beloved Father, and soon they start to worry that he has started to love her more than them. Little do they know, in a place not so far, far away, a gruesome plan is being hatched just for them. A haunting story about love, trust and betrayal. Are your loved ones who you think they are?

It's election time at Hoshi High and Tokei Mei aims to win the position of student council president. The catch is though that the school has a unique election system. Follow Tokei on her journey as she recruits allies for her cause and see if she ultimately attains her goal!

Ally Imogene was your classic tomboy. Played basketball, hung out with the boys, and microscopic boobs. Not that boobs were what made a tomboy, though. On a classic, normal school morning of playing a game of softball with some boys and the girls that weren't afraid to get dirty, someone hits the ball into the woods. Ally runs out to get the ball, but has a strange encounter in the woods.

A modern-day parody of the Shoemaker and the Elves, written for Target's Once Upon Now writing contest. In this small, dying country town, all Jenny wants to do is break away. One thing only keeps her heart in her the place of her birth - her little sister, Ruby. But when an old story becomes the inspiration for a new act of kindness, might things look up? Can hope be found even in a place so forgotten?

What happens when destiny makes a mistake? Jack is forced to deal with this question as the woman he is expected to marry isn't the woman he loves.

For the OnceUponNow Contest. Words: 4152

Morgan buys a single cupcake from the quaint bakery in town every year on her birthday and makes a wish at midnight. And then on her eighteenth birthday, the cute boy behind the counter gives her three cupcakes... and three wishes.

"No, no, you must not go. I have touched you, heard you, felt the comfort of your presence - the sweetness of your consolation: I cannot give up these joys. I have little left in myself - I must have you. The world may laugh - may call me absurd, selfish - but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame." - Charlotte Brontë * Where death rules upon the kingdom, Eero is the "eternal ruler". In a parallel world, Fiorions, also known as "pure-bloods" have taken over the humans. With the Chosen ones, his loyal servants and knights, the ruthless king spends his days quenching his an unknown yearning, by shedding blood of the powerless. Until one day, when a surprising rumour runs the streets of his kingdom, he finds himself drawn into the story of two twin newborns with a destiny to change the world... Althea is trapped. Lost in her own memories of a life that was once hers, she finds herself unconsciously locked away from her true identity: one of the twins with an extraordinary fate, The one that will make Eero's inanimate heart beat again. Zander, one of his most loyal and trusted knight is charged to bring Althea to the kingdom, by the king's side. What he had not had in his mind was to be attracted to her along his way back. What would happen when Eero discovers Zander's pull to Althea? Witness this twisted serendipity as they venture the thin border between love, obsession, peace and war.

New and a bit alarming... who would have ever thought that this could be? Beatrice Hanes is cunning, beautiful and destined for greatness. But after her father loses his job, greatness would have to wait. In order to save up for her dream college Beatrice reluctantly accepts an offer from her foe Andrew "The Beast" West. The request seemed simple, Andrew's mother would pay for her college tuition if she helped Andrew pass school. The problem was that Andrew was malicious and uncaring- why should Bea want to help someone like him? Will the Beauty break the Beast's mean streak or will this happily ever after, have to wait forever?