Onceuponnowcontest 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) Copyright 2016 by Littleninjamari

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 happened to pull a joke on the wrong person, then her life totally changed. copywrite@mariapagan

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 it. Especially with the auburn haired, green eyed, young man who seems to appear like magic. Maybe he is. Or maybe she's just crazy.

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 he read as a child will actually become reality. In a different way and different time.

"I'm dead?" He shrugs and looks back at his tablet. "Yeah." I stand despite the pain it gives me. "I can't be dead. I had my whole life ahead of me." "I'm sorry...?" He doesn't sound very sorry.

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. Her father the kings must then find his daughter. children story and adult poetry and songs

" You know what sucks about plans? They can easily be ruined." ~Renae " I'm sleeping beauty, and my prince is dead. There's no one to come kiss me awake and take me away from this nightmarish world. The world without him." ~Renae Renae just wanted to away and live in a fantasy world. The world where her prince didn't go. She was tired of everything falling apart around her. All she wanted was to keep moving forward and forget about all the bad things lurking in her past. After recently graduating Renae runs into an old classmate at a coffee shop where they begin to bond and become close friends. Slowly she realizes that there's more there than just friendship between them and can't help but feel drawn to him, but the last man she kissed....No, she couldn't let anything happen between them, her last kiss would be just that, her last kiss. But what if it's not that simple?

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 on a cruise that crashed, not all the bodies were found. She comes across a fancy bottle, that changes her life completely.

- 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 of homework. Except what if it wasn't? 16-year-old Jada Williamson lives the average life of any teenager, already far on the path that had been laid out in front of everyone before they were even born. The path of school, to job, to family, to end of life. But for her, the world doesn't seem to want to work that way. Instead, it seems more intent on completely changing her in a way that would monumentally transform everything she's ever thought could be possible. Because the world doesn't always seem to like working the way people think it should. (Short story)

A helicopter ancient changes a young girl's life forever. Things that she once didn't believe in suddenly became much clearer.

Penelope "Poppy" Icarius fell in love at the curious age of 5. Poppy never questioned her love for the lively, freckled boy down the street, not even after he moved away, leaving Poppy alone in their make-believe world. Now, age 25, Poppy faces a turning point in her high-profile fashion career. Faced with a major career decision, her sister's impending and ridiculously over-the-top wedding, and a slew of hilariously bad dates with New York's most eligible, Poppy must come to terms with the realities of the life she's living and the secrets she's keeping--even from herself. This modern-day retelling of Penelope's story from The Odyssey explores the bittersweet intersection of change and certainty, and the challenge of defining yourself in the face of uncertainty, reminding us that becoming ourselves is sometimes the greatest--and most difficult--adventure that we can choose to wander through. *Thanks so much for checking out my #onceuponnow entry! If you like it, you can vote on the first chapter starting June 14th. At any rate, I'm humbled you'd check this out and I always welcome feedback! Stay excellent <3* Cover created using materials with creative commons licensing. Boat image, entitled "Boat," from flickr user geopungo.

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 Nights, sometimes, you just have to survive one night in order to survive a thousand more. ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ ▂ [#574SS]

After an explosion leaves Charity Bosworth horribly disfigured and her parents dead, she believes that the only people that will ever love her are her two older sisters. It's been six years since the accident, and at twenty-two, she works in the back of her family's florist shop designing and creating floral sprays and centerpieces. It's a great job, one she's good at, even though her real passion is photography. The one day she is running late and hurries out of the house without covering her scars, is the one day her sisters leave for lunch and forget to lock the front door of the shop. As Cheery is photographing her latest centerpiece creation, Brax Hudson walks through the door and into her life. Brax, an award-winning photographer, sees her differently than other people do. He looks past her scars and insists on getting to know her. Her sisters encourage her to go out with him and she finally agrees to a date. But when Brax has a family emergency and has to cancel at the last minute, she realizes it was too good to be true. She isn't dating material, not that she ever thought she would be. Hurt and disappointed, Cheery picks herself up to make her weekly visit to the burn unit where she'd been a patient for two years. Speaking with one of her doctors, he reminds her that her scars are only skin deep... what's in her heart is all that matters. With a million questions on her mind, she goes to Brax's photography studio where he shows her why he is the perfect guy to see past her beastly scars and live happily ever after.

A young couple decides to protect a small boy has somehow has been lost. There are things about the small boy, that ain't from this world, or is it?

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 of death fighting death is slim, and so are the possibility of Gods and their affairs. When Gods meddle in each other's lives, plans to murder each other are struck- no matter how loved the God may be. All is fair in love and war, isn't that what they say? But love and war have never been fair- in the slightest.

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 to find love. copywrite@mariapagan2016

Petie the Rabbit must earn points to become the next Easter Rabbit But something goes wrong, and Petie will have to find courage, to be the next easter rabbit. Edited completed. copywrite@mariapagan2016

Robin is just like any other teenage girl. She loves to run, hang with her friends, and is obsessed with her cell phone. Oh, and she's known by her city as The Hood, the mysterious figure that takes down those that are corrupt and wealthy with the help of her merry men - her three computer genius friends that are expert hackers. Her current target? Richard Sherwood, CEO of Sherwood Innovations. He has a net worth of multiple billions (exact amount unknown) and has been grooming his son to be the heir to his empire. Oh, and he happens to be involved in the death of Robin's parents and the disappearance of countless other innocents in the city. So, what's a girl to do? Stand back and watch a selfish, malevolent man take down the city with his bare hands? No. She's going to steal from the rich and give back to the poor, of course. But even though she has her secret weapon, Golden Arrow, and her tech savvy best friends, stealing from the most powerful man in the city from his Sherwood Tower office building is much easier said than done. *** This is my entry for the Once Upon Now, Target//Wattpad Contest. If you enjoyed Golden Arrow, please come back and vote from June 14th - June 21st....only votes during this time frame and only votes on the first chapter will be counted for the contest. With your help, Golden Arrow could be published in the upcoming Once Upon Now anthology that will be carried in Target stores and potentially other retailers later this year.

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 it and when the opportunity to help her close friends comes up, she takes it. **Based on "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Grimm Brothers**