Onceuponnowcontest Stories

When three young kids are on a camping trip, they come across an Indian Burial Ground, with statues, and a large cave. One accident turns into a mission of survival.

In the heart of Castle Aanca, the museum of Fables and future sciences, stories become a lot more lively. Prince Alfil, the leading hero in his Fable, is one of the most...

What would happen Goldilocks, Cinderella, and other fairytale favorites went to high school instead? This is a collection of modern fairytale-retellings. Cover by @sugar...

"Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them...

- Short Story - Life in high school always seems to stay the same, each day following the next. Same terrible lunch food. Same boring lectures. Same overwhelming loads o...

There' a private war In the world of Genies and Witches Only one Genie was able to get away. Then the war begins. In the middle of all the hate and war, Jack happens t...

Top 25 Finalist for Target's Once Upon Now contest He's trapped. He couldn't breathe. The white walls were smothering him, the barred windows were taunting him, the tick...

Elvira, also known as Evie, aspires to be in fashion design. When she was younger her grandfather taught her to love making shoes. Now that she's older, she still loves...

When do you say no? Is it when you need too, or is it way before? Can you say no to temptation, or death? Can you defeat death? Can death defeat death? All likely hood o...

Evanth DeRoss. Beautiful. Rich. But money cannot control life. Even when you most want it to. When she falls ill, Evanth knows her time is up, and she's made peace with...

Earth have different portals that led you to different worlds, Tomas always loves to read books that contain magical stories. He never thought, that one of the stories...

-Top 25 Finalist- Our parents always warned us about talking to strangers on the internet but did they ever warn us about frogs? Highest ranking: #440 in Short Story (c)...

Have you ever seen your world suddenly turn upside down? Things that seem impossible have a chance of possibility, and stories come alive? Things in our world that is od...

ARISTA DOES NOT like monsters or dragons, but sometimes to slay a monster, you have to embrace your inner monster. In this modern day retelling of A Thousand and One Ni...

A young spoiled Princess seems to find everything funny. She loved and lived for practical jokes, especially when she was behind them. On her fifteen birthday, she hap...

A young princess refuses to follow her father wishes. She runs away, then stores away on the first cargo ship she saw. The young princess life changes indefinitely. He...

A young girl goes to visit her grandmother for the first time. Her only family that she had left. While Nora was in College her parents vanished out at sea. They were...

The Enchanted Central Forest calls out to her, and she can sense it. It's not against the law to go there, but humans have been taught to fear magic. Yet, Sadie Garcia...

*When a child reads their first fairytale, they dream of being a princess or a hero. They dream of living in a castle and having a Happily Ever After. That one fairytale...