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A modern Cinderella story... under the sea.

Down in the depths of the Pacific, 19-year-old aspiring artist Ella Bentik couldn't care less about fashion, makeup and parties like her older sisters. All that matters is achieving her dream and getting out of this dump. Then she unknowingly befriends the very party host her sisters are always raving about: Genesis Marmoris, a young celebrity with a reputation for being crazy and aloof. Between Genesis' far-fetched conspiracy theories, Ella's inexplicable recurring nightmares, and both of their connections to the land, Ella realizes that there may be more to their relationship than she thought. She begins to question what her true purpose is... and if it's possible to have more than just one. 

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-Contains strong language and cringey fish puns
(Not actually about salmonella, that's just a fish pun)All Rights Reserved

comedy environment fairytale fantasy globalwarming gods lgbt lgbtq mermaid nblw nonbinary ocean polyamory prophecy queer romance sapphic slowburn spiritual texttospeech wlw youngadult

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Ocean Blue | gxg ✓ by Olivaughn

[Wattpad's Summer Reading Checklist 2022 Pick] "'Hella heavy' is your response to seeing me with a literal fish tail?" "Sorry. Should ... should it be something else? Wait, does this mean that you can't eat sushi?" * * * * * When Alyssa shows up in Hulhazy Front a week after wiping the memory of her partner, she's terrified of ruining everything again. Her brother and dad are convinced she'll be okay as soon as she's able to "move on", which makes no sense to her, because they sound like the exact same thing. Alyssa doesn't care about moving on--she just cares about hiding the fact that she's a mermaid from this new small town, and especially her new coworker, Elliot. Elliot has spent the past year trying to figure out how to be out. It seems that every time she finds some kind of balance, something has to happen. Her parents say something homophobic before she's about to confess her "big secret," or her old friends from the swim team make some jab about all the things they're convinced Elliot did sophomore year. She's planning on her summer consisting of working at the public pool, hiding her sexuality, and third-wheeling it up with her best friends, Neema and Duncan. Until, of course, she meets Alyssa. *cover created using graphics from freepik*

The Mermaid's Reckoning | ONC 2024 by flaxen-finch

| ONC 2024 HONORABLE MENTION | Pretie Panton, princess of Aecora and sole heir of the Panton bloodline, does not want to marry - at least, not the prince her father has arranged for, who Pretie has never met. However, when her attempt at escape is quickly put to an end, Pretie finds herself in an even worse predicament: cursed to take the form of a mermaid and live isolated from the world she has always known. Driven by the desire for revenge, Pretie seeks the help of an adventure-seeking mermaid named Ephyra, who has heard legends of a mythical stone that may just be able to transform the princess back into her human self... If it truly is her deepest desire. ｡𖦹 ° Written for ONC 2024. Keep in mind that since this is a contest entry, this is an unedited draft and, as such, there may be some grammatical errors I've missed. This story was inspired by the following prompts: (Main Prompt) 88. Your father is forcing you to marry someone you have never met. The night before your wedding you tie your sheets together and make your escape through the window. Half way down you make eye contact with someone doing the exact same thing a few windows over. 24. A desperate wish, made from the heart, is always answered. Sooner or later. 28. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Word count: 31,006 words Status: Honorable Mention

Thistle in the Sky | #NONC2022 | ✔ by SmokeAndOranges

❖ ''ZF 16 Ariomma to unknown vessel. Please identify yourself. Over.'' ❖ Farah and Kazem are twins working aboard the Ariomma, a trading airship that sails the edges of a flat world. Out here is a frontier far from civilization: a place known as the Tideless, where water lifts from the surface of the sea, and great creatures rise with it. Only some of them are known. This is not a sailing path known for its safety, but the crew of the Ariomma have rarely feared their work. That is, until they find the carcass of another ship hanging in the Tideless, decimated by an unknown enemy. Soon, their flight to safety becomes a fight for their lives, as the monster turns its attention on the Ariomma... and them. ❖❖❖ Written for #NONC2022, a community-run novella festival operating in parallel with Wattpad's 2022 Open Novella Contest. Complete. Marked mature for violence and other dark themes. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

White Silk Scarves by SnowyBreakfast

Ayda is a girl living in a world where, the second you're born, you are born with a prophecy that explains the main course your life will take. And biggest of all, there is a prophecy of a hero who will come from another world to save their's. He hasn't come yet, but everyone is waiting. Ayda is 17, and living on the streets with a 13 year old boy named Rio. Scared of dying from starvation, she asks a lone sailor if she and Rio can travel on his boat with him, and travel around the nearby Islands, which are filled with creatures of all kinds, like sea creatures and giants. Very quickly the trio get a job trying to collect seven treasures, and Ayda is more than happy to do it since it will help repay the sailor who (begrudgingly) let them live on his boat. But while this trio doesn't get along at first, as they travel the world, they start to like and depend on each other. Which is exactly what they'll need to do when their world that originally only suggested you listen to your prophecy suddenly starts turning against those that don't. The only problem is, Ayda doesn't want to listen to her prophecy. Because if she does, she's destined to die..

Our Curse Breaker (GirlxGirlxGirl) by FannyJosefina

When the poor temple girl Zinnia catches the attention of her empress, she is dragged away from her home and into the palace, forced to serve her empress and only her. She fears the empresses new arranged wife might hate her guts. Instead, she comes face to face with two power hungry royals out for her heart. Or... The Great Ophion empire is the only empire on the continent where women truly have a say in politics, with temples designed only for women, and a powerful, terrifying empress on the throne. But in truth, after nearly 20 years of war with their neighboring kingdoms, the empire is filled with traitors, and the empress' position hangs by a thread. To keep herself in power, Empress Ensi of Ophion brings peace to her empire, and with it, marries a princess from their largest enemy kingdom, the unruly Delyth of Zeleon. However, right before the wedding a poor temple girl, Zinnia, from the furthest corner of the empire catches the empress' attention, and she brings her to the palace to console herself with her ethereal presence. Taking a temple girl from a temple is highly forbidden, and so, the goddesses curse them both. A curse that binds them together for all eternity, and a curse that only Delyth can break. --- Completed 7 Jan 2025 Completed on Wattpad 19 Jan 2025 Lesbian Polyamorous 🥇temple

Turning Tides by laurendoubleu

[WLW] An ambitious scientist won't let anything get in the way of her dreams--not even death. ⚓︎ When Malia set out to sea, she expected to make a life-changing discovery; instead, she received a life-ending doom. But death isn't her end, and she's granted another chance by the very ocean that she died in. That's according to Beatrice, a thousand-year-old water spirit that shows her the ways of their kind. After all, Malia isn't the first to be reborn, and countless souls lost at sea still live underwater, tasked with saving mortals from the same fate. It's a tough job, but if Malia does it right, she can win back her life on land. However, vengeful souls lurk in the waters, determined to destroy the mortals above them. These ghouls were the ones that killed Malia, but if she wants to return to the surface, she'll have to face them in a fight for her mortal life or eternal death. ⚓︎ SURVIVAL KIT ✓ Sapphic romance ✓ Magical "mermaids" ✓ Underwater adventures ✓ Science (specifically physics) FEATURED: ★ For AAPI Heritage Month and Pride Month ★ @FreeTheLGBT Pride Awards 2024 - Grand Winner ★ @Fantasy, @adventure ★ Former Amb profiles @talesofthedeep, @CitifiedFantasy, @ReshapeIt, @mythandlegend, @QuickFantasy, @YAFantasy, @The_Reading_Room ★ @AstaniaCommunity, @PrideReads ONC 2023 ENTRY Word Count: +33k Genres: Fantasy/Low Fantasy, Adventure, Romance Written: 05 FEB 2023 - 24 FEB 2023 Published: 09 FEB 2023 - 03 MAR 2023 ★ Cover and graphics made by the amazing @MoranaInDesign! ★ This story is only available on Wattpad by @laurendoubleu.

Her Given (Editing) by tori_maye

She's an angel as bright as the sunshine, even when the darkness threatens to consume her, and she's just trying to find her place in this world to protect her Given. They're three shifters of the night, wolves wearing human skin, and they're just trying to fill in the missing pieces to their hearts-hearts that have always been owned by an angel they've never even met, an angel that isn't even aware of it herself yet. There's an evil threatening to destroy their newfound love, a being of darkness and hate and bitter resentment. Will the girl with oceans for eyes, silver for hair, and gold for a heart be able to stop this evil, along with the werewolves that love her? Or will she plunge into the darkness that's threatening to scuff out her ethereal light? ♡♡♡ WARNING! Will have cursing, sexual content, a polyamorous relationship, and themes of violence and SA. ☆☆Completed (May 4, 2019)☆☆

The Violet Mermaid - The Mermaid Adventures Series✅ by legendaryfever

Mother once told me before she was banished, "You have to be strong, My Love. You will face great challenges but you have be brave and never truly forget what is important. You may have to make sacrifices but above all cherish your brother, he is only trying to look out for you." At that time she said those words, I didn't understand what she was talking about. But now I realized the lore of everything I taught and knew is not at all what it seems... It wasn't until after everything happened that I found and saved a human that I soon realized what was happening. But that human, Seivon Rivers, I promised to find again, but unfortunately I never saw him again... Yet he stole an important part of me that day I saved him. "Previously Known as A Mermaid's Dream" ~~~ Four years ago, Miracine mermaid princess of the Kimoshei kingdom saved a human from the sea. Now the seas are filled with dark daemons who want to take over the seas and she has been staying on land ever since trying to find the one she saved. When she moves, she attends a school trying to be a normal humanic and can't help notice one certain human that looks too familiar. When an event caused her to save the same human will they become closer than before, or will them being human and mermaid being together cause more harm than good for all of the people around them that are against it? With adventures, mysteries, of opposite worlds, and romance, join the fantasy romance of the Mermaid Miracine and the Human Seivon.

Fragile Desires [𝟏𝟖+] [𝐆𝐱𝐆] by weekendlustt

"Kiss me," I whispered, the need dripping off of my soft voice a tangible weight in the air. Renata leaned closer, sending a jolt through my flushed body. But just before our lips could meet, she paused, her gaze holding mine captive, "You first," a challenge laced in her lowered voice. I drew in a deep breath when her hand pressed firmly against my back, curving my body closer to hers. "Me?" I echoed in surprised. A knowing smirk played on her lips, "If you want me to kiss you," she began, her voice a drawn-out whisper-tightening her grip around me and easily molding me to her body, "Then do it yourself." ♛ In a world of royal alliances and high-tech mergers, soon-to-be Queen Azura finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of sex scandals and murder when she forms an alliance with the headstrong Renata Rivera, the CEO of a powerful cyber security firm. As accusations fly and dark secrets emerge, Azura must navigate the endless waters of betrayal and deceit, unaware of what truths could lurk in the shadows. And with tensions rising and alliances shifting, Azura must quickly decide who to trust. But she quickly learns to never trust anyone, especially in a world built purely to destroy anyone who dares to enter it.

Rhodoreef by SuVida777

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · 28x FEATURED · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find her human soulmate and forge a better future for her people. *** The city of Calliathron is the epitome of modern sea life--contained within a glorious coral atoll in the Indian Ocean. Yet, the ripples of the changing world beyond seep in with increasing force, bleaching color and darkening minds--but not Dea Rhodoreef's mind. That day, all Dea could think about was swimming her sea cow to the seagrass meadows. Who said life's easy for a high school teen? Even more so when one is a pastel goth gamer mermaid trying to scrape by in a modest mobile home with a grumpy grandmother, who's always complaining about the "human infestation". Maybe the troubled city-state will embrace a new dawn when merpeople and humans co-exist--a future that Dea is determined to work hard for. Noble causes aside, just getting to see a notorious human is number one on her bucket list. Now, as if school, a part-time job and a looming political career aren't enough, a chonky sea cow has been following her for days. It's time to return him to the wild--not like she'd run into a human. Right? © 2022 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Anime @ScienceFiction + 26 more WC: 105,000 Genres: Sci-Fi (Oceanpunk) x Cli-Fi x Adventure x Romance x Retelling This tale comes with mammalian mermaids who breathe air. Strap in for a roller-coaster ride of adventure, fun twists, feels, kawaii, exotic biomes, sci-fi battle, realistic tech and slowburn romance! Might bring to mind the Netflix movie Okja!

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Ocean Blue | gxg ✓

[Wattpad's Summer Reading Checklist 2022 Pick] "'Hella heavy' is your response to seeing me with a literal fish tail?" "Sorry. Should ... should it be something else? Wait, does this mean that you can't eat sushi?" * * * * * When Alyssa shows up in Hulhazy Front a week after wiping the memory of her partner, she's terrified of ruining everything again. Her brother and dad are convinced she'll be okay as soon as she's able to "move on", which makes no sense to her, because they sound like the exact same thing. Alyssa doesn't care about moving on--she just cares about hiding the fact that she's a mermaid from this new small town, and especially her new coworker, Elliot. Elliot has spent the past year trying to figure out how to be out. It seems that every time she finds some kind of balance, something has to happen. Her parents say something homophobic before she's about to confess her "big secret," or her old friends from the swim team make some jab about all the things they're convinced Elliot did sophomore year. She's planning on her summer consisting of working at the public pool, hiding her sexuality, and third-wheeling it up with her best friends, Neema and Duncan. Until, of course, she meets Alyssa. cover created using graphics from freepik