Onceuponnowcontest Stories

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

-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)...

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 h...

When you've been playing online games as long as Devon has -- you do a lot of killing. It's what you expect. What you don't expect is for one of the creatures you've bee...

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...

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...

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...

Autumn has just turned fourteen, fantastic. One less year to wait until she's out of the foster system. But, surprisingly her birth father shows up rescuing her from her...

Shrek will always be Donkey best friend. I should know, never got paid for my adventurous Shrek, doesn't matter, for I know, it will always belong to me. This is how D...

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...

A modern take on the classic tale "Ugly Duckling". A young girl is dropped off at an orphanage after her mother simply doesn't want her anymore. This girl goes...

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...

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...

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?

#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 s...