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A servant girl who wants to go to the ball. An evil stepmother and stepsisters. A charming prince. A fairy godmother. A pumpkin coach. Glass slippers. Everyone knows this story. It's the story of Cinderella right? Wrong. Ashleigh is your average Cinderella, in fact her story begins the same as Cinderella's in every way. Except one. That one tiny detail could mean disaster for Ashleigh. Will she find her happily ever after or will it all end sour because of one little slip up?

"Take this," the silver of the knife glints in the moonlight, "you will have to slice his throat before midnight." °°° She had seen him on a ship. Hair flying majestically, eyes glinting with the ocean and crown hanging from a rope tied to his pants. She didn't know him, but she yearned for him. Yearned for legs to get to him, for she knew he wouldn't like her fin. But the legs came at a price. A price she was willing to pay until the price got too high. In exchange for her legs, get the mer-king's head. Would she kill, all for a prince she has never spoken to? * * * A short dark retelling of The Little Mermaid. COMPLETE

A modern telling of the origins of the female Peter Pan. Petra, a clever young girl living in the midst of war is doing what she can to survive. Yet her surviving tactics have shown to lead her closer to death than life will it be any different when she is left alone in the Forrest amongst curious creatures... *Beautiful cover done by @fernweraki

***FREE STORY*** Madison Hemings (1805-1877) was born to teenage slave Sally and her master at the Monticello plantation. He gave an account of his life to S.F. Wetmore first published in Ohio's Pike County Republican on March,13, 1873. CONTENT WARNING: SLAVE THEMES| ABUSE THEMES |POSSIBLE TRIGGERS

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The kingdom Dulcia has fallen. Dark creatures have invaded the palace, inslaving all those who work there. The royal family--the only ones able to stop the creatures--have vanished into oblivion. No one has seen or heard from them since the fall. There are rumors. Rumors that they escaped the castle, rumors that they are assembling an army to fight the creatures known as Muraes. Only one thing is for certain. No one knows where they went, nor do they know if they will come back. ________________________________________ Every year, Clair's family goes to the king of Arium's palace for of the most lavish Christmas party imaginable. They meet family, old friends, new acquaininces--anyone they possibly can. Clair never enjoys the huge parties. She prefers to be by herself, drawing or dancing. Until, one year, everything changes. Presented with the most beautiful gift she could possibly imagine, Clair is filled with joy. She clings to her wooden doll with her life, never letting go. When she wakes up one night and it is gone, she panics, searching for it. Only to find a hideous creature. When she is rescued by the same doll she loved, Clair is suddenly swept up into a world of magic, lost kingdoms, and lost royalty. But she is also in the world ruled by darkness. ________________________________________ "When snow falls, the kingdom dies. Light will leave, Dark will rise. It can only be stopped by treasure as pure as gold, as light as air, but strong and bold. Only then will the leader rise, out from ashes and hidden from prying eyes." ***** 2018 Wattys Shortlist 2018 Wattys Longlist Featured story Awesome cover by @elphadora ***** Loosely based on The Nutcracker (both book and ballet)

Harriet has always been the type of girl who would rather ride horses than stitch embroidery, practice her sword-fighting than practice her curtsies, and she'd rather dream about being the first female knight in all of history instead of a docile wife on some nobleman's arm. When a war between the allies of Ecrivenia and the kingdom of Carigan starts to brew, Harriet begins to wonder if it might just be her chance to become the knight she's always wished to be. Taking a chance, Harriet enlists in the King's Army, disguising herself as the red-headed, slight-figured, and quick-witted boy, Harry. However, when she is put under the charge of the handsome and strict King of Marenta, Leopold, she realizes her troubles are just beginning. Not only will she have to keep the other men from noticing she is a woman, but she will also have to put up with the scrutiny of King Leopold, the best friend of her brother-in-law. Throw in grueling training sessions, whispers of treason, and the enemy's secret weapon, Harriet suddenly finds herself thrust into the reality of being a knight in a war that might not be able to be won. ------ This is a sister novel to the first draft of Glass Slippers. The gorgeous cover is made by the amazing @solidarity_! Make sure to check her work out if you get the chance!

Kelsea Glass doesn't believe in mermaids - or rather, she didn't until she finds out first-hand not only that merfolk are real, but that the bite of a merman can turn a human into a mermaid. Now she is stuck with some guy who bit her, trying to figure out what he wants and how to get back home. --- "Fine," she said, upset. "You are a beast, a monster." The merman brushed off the insult. "Be careful who you call a beast. You are about to turn into one yourself." --- Beauty and the Beast with some fishy twists. --- ON HIATUS - will be back soon! Thanks for your patience. Update April 14, 2020: HI FRIENDS! I AM NOT DEAD NOR HAVE I ABANDONED TMD. I'm about to graduate from grad school, so give me just one more month or so before I start posting updates. Sorry for the delay. You all are amazing and I love getting comment notifications.

"She cast one more lingering, half-fainting glance at him, and then threw herself into the water, and thought her body was dissolving into foam." ~~~~~ When people hear the name "Arielle Blue," they automatically think: the Swimmer. Arielle is easily the best swimmer in her school, and everyone knows it. Everyone thinks she wants to follow her family's footsteps and train to become a national swimmer, but she has more joy in singing and dancing. Although she plans to keep this a secret until the end, this changes after the new kid finds out and somehow convinces her to audition for the school musical. Cover by: @-midnightmagic- Update: either on Saturday or Sunday

***WINNER of the "BREATHTAKING: A FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WRITING COMPETITION!" "You are a secret kept from the world, but not from me." So begins the peculiar message found slipped under a bedroom door on the morning of May first. Theo is the heir to a powerful dictatorship. The number of people allowed to know he exists is few. He has spent his entire life walled up in the Tower, the looming stone monolith from which his father rules over the Land. Merryn is the daughter of political prisoners. She's known who Theo is longer than he would think possible, and she is taking a great risk contacting him via handwritten notes in order to convince him he deserves more than the fate his father has designed for him. She has one month to exchange daily messages with him, to answer his questions and open his eyes to the realities of a world he has never been allowed to see. A revolution is coming to the Land at the end of the month, and if Merryn's notes fail to get their point across, Theo may never live to see the sunrise on June first. A/N: The following letters were originally published each day from May 1st-31st, 2014. As you will see,Theo is allowed to write down a question for Merryn each evening, but you, the reader, won't see these within the body of the story. It may or may not be obvious from Merryn's response what Theo is asking. Part of the fun is guessing what his questions might be, but if you really want to know what they are, a list of those questions is at the end of the story. This story is a re-imagining of Rapunzel. Now, without further ado-I believe a young heir is about to unfold a slip of paper found on the tile floor near his door... Let's see what it says!

FREE STORY***WINNER of the #BigChange #FanficFriday Contest*** American spies in Islamabad are systematically being delivered into the hands of the Taliban. Carrie Mathison, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Counter Terrorism Chief has a theory, the ISI are complicit in the retaliatory street violence and abductions... Enigmatic Aasar Khan, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Counter Terrorism Chief, knows Carrie's history of operating as a loose cannon in the Middle East. If she does not operate within the letter of the law, he has made it his mission to have her expelled from Pakistan. Aasar Khan and Carrie Mathison operate in a powder keg of distrust when their personal lives unexpectedly collide... Other contest winners of the #FanficFriday #BigChange competition https://www.wattpad.com/list/314661022-big-change-contest-winners

**Featured in the official wattpad short story fairytale anthology** One defining life event can turn even the purest and most innocent person into someone corrupted. Someone driven by hatred, anger, and a desire for revenge. Anyone beautiful can become a beast. In this fresh retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast, outside appearances can be deceiving, and nothing is as it seems.

#WATTYS2018 LONGLIST!! When Sparrow snuck off to end the ransom deal with the shifty dwarf, she didn't count on having a sister kidnapped. Nor did she anticipate being roped along on a crazy quest where she finds herself in a dragon's lair, in a royal palace, and everywhere in between. All she wanted was for Augustin to propose so she could finally stop that dreaded spinning, finally have a home for her little sister and herself, finally be loved. Except maybe a small part of her still longs for the innocent girl she used to be, singing and playing in the woods with her best friend and dreaming of adventure. The part of herself she tried so hard to bury when her pap disappeared and her mam went crazy years ago. And as Sparrow discovers more secrets about herself than she ever could have imagined, she is forced to question which of her dreams, if any, is the one she really wants. From the author of Beyond the Tower comes a loose retelling of Snow White and Rose Red, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Goose Girl filled with more magic, adventure, and romance than ever before. Updates every other friday!

Camp Nano Novel - April 2017 This partial retelling is inspired by a fairy tale where the main character is 'ill-fated', encountering a series of unfortunate events before their fate improves.

• a modern retelling of the frog king • There are no witches and curses, no princesses and golden balls, no frogs and magical transformations into princes. There's just life and its struggles. But sometimes that's enough. Lives change and it all begins with a rainbow, an iPhone, and being in the right place at the right time. After all, a knight in dented armour is better than no one at all, right? • this is a story I'm writing for a school paper, and I desperately need feedback (especially since English isn't my first language). Therefore, comments and tips and even the negative stuff would be very welcome. Summary might change over time •