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RUMPELSTILTSKIN RETELLING. "I challenge you to find my name, princess. Three tries." Light flickers beneath the recesses of his mask, the wooden fangs and shadowed eyes. "Think you can beat me?" *** A witch doctor, user of dark magic, terrorizes a local village, killing children and turning their blood to gold. But when he's threatened with execution, the Dukun throws out one final challenge. Whoever owns his name, owns his soul. The Dukun's all set to die, until one stubborn princess takes him up on his challenge. Her journey forces her under the looming threat of war and execution as she stays in the palace of the mysterious sultan across the sea, a man also desperately searching for answers. And when it comes to love, will she choose Zahra, the woman warrior who's sworn to protect her, or Harto, the handsome sultan with a gods-defying secret? In the battle between a witch doctor owned by the gods, a sultan marked by the gods, and a princess cursed by them. Who shall prevail? (UPDATES DAILY) COPYRIGHT 2018 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved. HIGHEST RANKINGS: #11 Mythology on July 28, 2018. #3 in Dark Fantasy on July 30, 2018. #17 in Elements on July 10, 2018. #49 in Diverse-Lit on May 9, 2018. #19 Epic Fantasy on May 27, 2018

"The Blind God walks around me, and I feel my mind prodded again like it was in the cavern, a spider weaving a tangled web. "Would you do anything to be remembered, Ode, even play a villain, the one who rises against the Chosen One?" In answer, I draw my dagger and make a slight incision against my thumb. Blood drips down, hot against my flesh. I hold my hand out as an oath, a promise. My ghouls hiss, yearning to drink. "I would rather reign over darkness than grovel as a servant to the light." *FEMALE ROBIN HOOD MEETS ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS* Ode Ngayoh is the only child of a bloodthirsty desert warlord. When the Blind God chooses her as champion, she's deemed a dark witch, a blemish against the Empire for her necromantic powers of summoning ghūls, the undead. Facing off against the prince and his handsome lover, Ode stands alone with the cursed god's favor. However, the more Ode defends the outcasts of the Empire, the more she finds herself being labelled a villain... (UPDATES DAILY) Highest Ranking Fantasy #16 on November 30, 2017 #1 in Dark Fantasy on July 13, 2018. #1 in Desert May 16, 2018 #6 in Kingdom COPYRIGHT 2017 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved.

"Farzaneh..." I pull her to me, flinching when my sleeve rolls back, her eyes drawn to the markings. On my bare skin's a map revealing a different tattoo, one for every person I killed. I hate looking at the running tally of tattoos on my body. It reminds me of how many I've murdered. Reminds me I'm a human with a death goddess. My hakama, the color blue, blends into the folds of the red cloak around her, the effect like fire and ice. I bat my lashes, flex my muscles, all wiry from climbing the rigging when I get bored. "I'm just a boy." The look on her face is cruel. It reminds me why those chains are on her wrists. We're both cursed. Dark fantasy PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN with an LGBT+-ensemble *** Trans Captain Lucky Dice's enemies know him as a gambler, playing a game with a cursed set of dice that kills the losers instantly. The only person unaffected is Lucky, who's said to have sold his soul to the Rahasian goddess of death to get the dice to kill everyone but himself. But now, on his eighteenth birthday, the goddess of death calls on him to return the favor. The Divine princess, Kaliya, is trapped in the body of an all-devouring serpent, cursed by the Witch Goddess, the Matriarch of Truth, to weaken and murder her own godly parents. The gods are dying. And the world is truly ending if a pirate, a cursed witch, a vengeful warrior, and a con artist have to save it. (UPDATES DAILY) COPYRIGHT 2018 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved. HIGHEST RANKING: #245 in Fantasy on April 21, 2018. #31 Mythology on May 27, 2018. #59 Gender Fluid Sub-Category on May 8, 2018. #22 in Journey on May 27, 2018. *** COVER CREDIT: PrinceOfRedroses and Rinmaru (further details inside)

▷cause i'm getting some kind of shake without you

Previously known as 'Knight with no Armour.' ❝their love was like fireflies. small, fragile and alive only in the dark. it made them the king and queen of the night.❞ _________ It always takes a momentary weakness to screw things up and Danuj Pradhan learns this the hard way. After cheating on his fiancée slash best friend with their other best friend, everything starts going down the drain. When push turned to shove, Danuj takes the easy way out. He runs away from his home, or hellhole as he prefers to call it, to his spinster aunt's place to just start everything afresh. What he didn't expect is to be hit, literally, by an annoying ball of sunshine in the name of Keira Wilson, who is persistent in showing him that it's okay to be a knight with no armour. But everything isn't what meets the eye. Because, she isn't exactly a ball of sunshine. And he isn't someone whose only problem was a love he lost. #VillainsArePeopleToo #ProjectNobody - - - Cover credit: yours truly Image credit: to owner Trailer credit: @ketterdams Spin-off of Is He A She?! Can be read as a standalone too. #109 [teen fiction] #60 [short story] © copyright 2016- All rights reserved.

" in which ellie tries to make a friend. " 「 #choosekind competition 」 copyright © 2017 by 15-year-old layla. all rights reserved.

Auburn Ivy runs away from her problems even if it means running away from her family, friends and familiar life. Anthony Kroff is a footballer on the rise but is lonely and lost in the new city he finds himself in. Their lives would have never intertwined if headstrong Auburn and shy Anthony hadn't chosen the same Friday to venture into a side-street cafe. For her it was an escape, for him it was curiosity and together they found something that they hesitated to call love because what if, after everything, they found themselves chasing fool's gold? Carlotta Garcia is the cafe owner and she is hell-bent on bringing them together but we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's start at the very start or, if you want me to be truthful, at the very end, with Sabah Taqvi, a bored literature student and desperate romantic. Previously known as "Coffee Shop Love". [ © circularities 2016 ]

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complete // We were there laughing and crying, hoping and dreaming, loving and losing. Growing up together, the five of us learned that the greatest love story of all time was about the love between friends and the saddest goodbye is the one to our youth. This is our story, this is us. ━ https://vivaldings.tumblr.com/TAOY cover: me ━ added to wattpad official account @YA 's reading list Love, Actually 26/08/2020 added to wattpad official account @storiesundiscovered 's reading list Tales of the Heart 04/01/2021

there's the kind of beauty you can touch and the kind that you can't. there are people that you can cross and those you should look out for. there are those that move on and others that seek revenge. which one are you? (SLOW UPDATES) © 2017, blckdarling

Seventeen-year-old Winter Chu has seen it all. Shrivelling sleep schedules, diets, his picture perfect mentor's booger, a fat zero in maths. You name it, he has seen it. Or that's what he likes to believe. Exactly why Winter cannot fathom how he failed to see how he could go from walking shoulder to shoulder with his best friend - scratch that, his ex-best friend - on the busy streets of Seoul while playfully burlesquing their mentor to running away from said best friend in the span of a single day. Or, how on the same day, he ended up moving in with three other kids who were as confused as him in a dorm that was whipped out by the mentor he had just burlesqued. Fast forward two years and Winter has made countless decisions in the span of it, some good and some equally bad. Bad being: completely erasing Liu Xuejun, his ex-best friend and everything that had to do with him from his life. So when Xuejun, now a rising star, slips back into his messy life from the shadows of busking crowds and in old sauna rooms, Winter has no choice but to go with the slippery flow. Even when his own debut is right around the corner. Even when his heart beats the wrong way for Xuejun every single time. Even when he knows none of this is a good idea. Listen, dreams are tricky things. But you know what, so are friendships. - rankings - #36 nanowrimo 17.03.2022 #36 talkthepoc 17.03.2022

"You play drums?" "Nah, ma. I play guitar." "That's too bad. I kinda got a thing for drummers."

Dalia Glees: Crybaby Extraordinaire Dalia's stuck inside of a societal time clock; knowing herself is harder than she thought it would be. But, like any girl, she knows what she wants. More importantly, she knows what she doesn't want. That is, until she meets her match: Joy and Glee Photography Suite, and the fine boy behind the lens.

In a time where few can be trusted, a knight shall rise... Raquel Ophelia Knight was a doctor, an aspiring author, and a savvy business woman before she married what some would call the most powerful man in America, Matthew Leeds. Soon to be swept up in a runaway win in Congress, to winning the presidential election, Raquel is in for the ride of her life, both literally and figuratively. Welcome to her story.

home is almost never where the heart is

{GIRLS CHASE GIRLS, Book #2} Wild Girls give love a bad name. *** 'Leather jackets and hair gel, jeans and hot rods. That's all you gotta have to be a greaser. You gotta love to ride, love a thrill, and kiss a girl.' With prom on the horizon and half the crew set to blaze into the sunset come graduation, love, lies, and heartbreak threaten to tear the tight-knit Webber Wild Girls apart forever. This spring, love is in the air...if the toughest girls Webber High's ever seen have the guts to reach out and take it. Sequel to the 🌈Wattys 2015 winner "Girls Chase Girls." If you enjoy, comment and vote! © 2018-present Idris Grey Awesome cover by @JustLyd

When Will Kang comes running down the hospital hallway with a gunshot man on his back, Iris Arlington is stunned to the point that she doesn't move. Owing to her late response to a medical emergency, she is reprimanded as a doctor but it soothes the heart of the girl that Iris was in college. Because Will Kang was everything she admired and all she ever wanted was to be close to him and years later, here he was, with thousand secrets hiding behind his sunshine smile.

complete // One person. One person can make a difference. As cliché and overused the phrase is, it's true. One person can make a difference. For me, that one person was Amelia Marsh. ━ previously posted on @vivaldings https://vivaldings.tumblr.com/caa cover: me ━ added to wattpad official account @storiesundiscovered 's reading list 01/03/2021

[completed] Harmony is empty. She doesn't speak out, nor does she do anything that could possibly spark her father and step mother's rage. Besides, isn't it better to stay quiet than to deal with the fall-out caused by expressing her fleeting emotions? She's the eldest, after all, she can't be so selfish and demand more than she needs. Then Orsai shows up. Bright and bursting with unrestrained personality. She brings with her great tales, an imagination as sharp as a whip and Harmony's crumbling outlook on life seems to brighten slightly. But why is Harmony haunted by uneasy feelings? And is Orsai really the kind and open big sister that she acts like? [ 1ST BOOK ] - loosely based on a true story - ✳ I'm slowly editing this, changing details and styling, so please bear with me ✳ Savor The Moonlight © Khadija Karimova 2018 All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, translated or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews. For permission requests, contact me and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Drew's parents were the ones to come forth with the marriage proposal. It was more like a business merger contract, but it wasn't too bad. I had heard about Drew, and he knew about me. I didn't mind being held by him, and I suppose I could imagine a future with a man like him. A few dates and conversations had proved it. Proved it, that I was beginning to fall for him. So we could do it. Marry each other, that is. The date was fixed. The dress fittings were done. The invitations were sent. We were going to get married in a week. And a week was all it took to break my heart. All it took to make me hate glitter and sequins. And Poppy. And pink. ~*~