Retellingsunite Stories

A book of short stories: Within the world of faerie tales, therein lies a secret Society of mystical assassins, hired to write a different story. Follow these new, yet familiar, characters on their dealings with the Society. Will these short stories end the way you once knew? find out as these faeries tell us a different tale.. Mad Hatter and Alyce Beauty and the Beast Rapunzelle Cinderella The Little Mermaid To come: Snow White and the Huntsman Peter Pan

A rose by any other name is just as deadly... When young women in the mortal world start vanishing, no one suspects that the culprit lies in another dimension; one filled with magic, lies, and betrayal. In Faeriedon, three women become entangled in a deadly game of vengeance and escape. Jeanne, the bitter Beauty, seeks to exact revenge upon the father who sold her to the Beast. Caileigh, tormented by Beauty and hunted by the Beast, desperately yearns for a way home. Andrae, haunted by dreams and whispers, is determined to rescue Caileigh despite the cost. The touch of a rose brings forth every secret, every desire, and no hand is left unstained by blood. Fay- ri- don. Faerie - fairyland, the world of faerie. Variant of fairy. *A Fairy-tale Re-telling* Amazing cover by the even more amazing @seventhstar

A silence to keep and a wicked queen to defeat. An exiled princess returns to her kingdom, bent on slaying the immortal sorceress, the Queen in the Glass Mountain. By her side is the Caster, guide and protector. Perils await them on their quest, and will test not only their strength but their hearts as well. Yet how will such thirst for vengeance serve the Princess, if not to lead to her own ruin? Follow the story of the silent Princess, from the fairy tales "Seven Ravens" and "Six Swans", retold as one of grief and hatred, of lost dreams, and above all, of how love can emerge from even the darkest of places. Cover art by Oliver Barcelon: http://oliverpaulobarcelon.daportfolio.com/

***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!

I took a breath and quickly wiped a stray tear from my eye, "I'm tired of living in their shadows, waiting for them to finally realize that I still exist. I tell myself to be strong, to ignore the pain that they cause me, but I can't. I love them. I love them and they don't love me." His face softened as he put a hand on my cheek and rubbed away another tear. I gave him a helpless shrug, "When will it be my turn for a happy ending?" ********* Everybody knows the story. Peter Pan flew to the nursery window of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling and took them all to Neverland where they had marvellous adventures filled with flying children, evil pirates, and mischievous mermaids. Most would call it a classic. But there is nothing classic about this tale. Little do story tellers know, there was a fourth Darling child who lived in the nursery. Ophelia Darling was seemingly forgotten when her siblings flew to Neverland, and now she's more alone than ever. Her siblings have shared an experience and made memories that she will never be able to compete with. Ophelia decides that there is nothing more vile in the world than the boy named Peter Pan, who stole her siblings from her. Join Ophelia Darling as she fights her way back into her siblings lives, and somewhere in the process, discovers that life is nothing like the way stories say it is. It's much more complicated. Copyright 2015 © | Oncers4life | All rights reserved Enjoy!

GENEVIEVE has been cursed with a cold heart. For years, she has been ruling her kingdom with cruelty, feeling empty inside. ELLIOT is a blacksmith. He and his sister, LEAH, were orphaned when they were children, and have been striving for survival ever since. But when Leah, who works as a servant in Genevieve's castle, is caught stealing and is sentenced to death, Elliot volunteers to take her place. As his execution date draws nearer, and as his inevitable death comes closer, Genevieve is Elliot's only chance at survival, and at getting back to Leah. But can Elliot break Genevieve's curse on time, and save not only himself, but her as well? Or is it too late for Genevieve to put together her broken pieces? [retelling of Beauty and the Beast]

Fairy tales are so often boxed into good and evil. Just for fun I'm trying on a new set, a little darker in some corners, but still hopefully keeping the heart of the characters themselves. What if princesses were serial killers and fairy god mothers were really evil? Hmmm

The second star to the right and straight on 'til morning led to the island that never was and never will be, with many untold stories. Such was the story of the eighth hole in the Neverwood. Follow the story of an infamous character, who played an unwanted role in the land that never existed, Neverland. A child who was forced to grow up, forced to walk down the path of adulthood, forced to fight his own fate, then forced to succumb to the cruel nature of destiny and lose the new found happiness. But does that mean he is defeated? *********************** Highest ranking #16 in historical fiction.

PLEASE NOTE THIS STORY IS ON HOLD AND WILL NOT BE UPDATED UNTIL AT LEAST JAN 2022 Her Highness Princess Scarlet I isn't one for titles. Short, dark haired, and armed with a cloak brighter than blood, she constantly sneaks away into the forest. Her forbidden fascination: a giant wolf, with eyes like jade and fur dark as midnight. So when the Queen needs to consult the Princess's grandmother, Scarlet immediately volunteers, planning to get through with the job, then see the Wolf and the rest of the world. But when the Woodsman saves her from an attack on the road, he asks her to repay him by freeing his cursed son, throwing a bit of a detour into her plans. As Scarlet and the Wolf set out to find the cure along with a clever thief named Jack, the powerful enchantress who first laid the curse lurks in the forest, determined to stop them at all costs. In this mix of the two fairytales, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk, Cloak, Torn continues the fairy tale saga that began with Rose, Wilted. (Formerly: Brighter Than Blood)

A cursed prince. A vain beauty. Glory is the seventh daughter of Balthazar, High King of the Twelve Kingdoms. Glory hopes that - of all her sisters - she can escape the fate of a loveless marriage. But on the night she plans to elope with the royal falconer, her world comes crashing down: Her father announces Glory's betrothal to Eoghan of the Blood Realm - a prince no one has ever seen. The prince is said to be a recluse, cursed and deformed by the gods for the sins of his power-hungry father. Yet when Glory is trapped in Blackthorn Keep she discovers that not everything is what she expected. An insulting gryphon, a persistent ghost, and a secret plan to usurp the prince keep Glory reeling. Can she overcome her vanity to learn that what you want isn't necessarily what you need-and save the cursed prince?

Everyone knows of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter--the four seasons. Who they don't know of is their sister, Equinox, or how the four seasons came to be. Equinox is the daughter and Day and Night. People always considered her to be the oddball, the weirdo, the ugliest, the runt. She didn't care. When a trip to the villiage makes her feel the need to help someone, she sneaks out at night, hoping to not be noticed. She soon becomes friends with the hunter of the villiage, Orion. When she is given an exciting choice on what type of "power" to have, she soon realizes that it comes with a price. Will she be willing to pay the price? ***WINNER of RetellingsUnite Creation Story contest*** Word count: 9,490 Awesome cover by @cleverwren Highestrank: #150 in Fantasy

**THIS IS THE DRAFT COPY AND MAY DIFFER DRAMATICALLY FROM THE FINAL VERSION** (Currently enrolled in Kindle Unlimited at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PI4BNZY . Final copy includes new chapters and content!) "I felt your sky, and it has told me much. There is a dark force at work. The world is about to change, and you... little red hen... are at the center of it." --The Kelpie of Lake Lomond When a magic acorn falls on Rós's head and changes how she sees the entire world, she believes the sky is falling. She seeks the advice of her farmyard friends, only to be sent on a quest of a lifetime. Many factions are in play and lives are at stake when she learns that an even greater evil is lurking than just the Ents in the woods. Can one little red hen save the world? In this twist on the classic tale of Chicken Little, no one is too small to make a difference. *** FROM THE BOOK: She looked down at the acorn and suddenly remembered. A dark and stormy night. The acorn rocketing from the swirling vortex like a golden, shooting star. Then... WHACK! Rós's beak gaped. A piece of sky had struck her.

PREVIOUSLY CALLED "BEAUTY'S MELODY" "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~Martin Luther King Jr. ~~~~~ In the beginning, there was a boy. A girl. And a beast. For years, legends rumor that there is a beast roaming in the Péige Forest near a northern village in the kingdom. It is merciless, ruthless, and undeniably dangerous to all those who come near. Hundreds of men have attempted to kill it only to never be heard of again. It has been a year since Mira's older brother has been gone after venturing off to kill the beast. And like all the others, everyone suspects he is dead and the pain comes right after when they find out that it is true. Determined to take revenge, her youngest sister goes off on her own into the Péige Forest to avenge her brother. Mira now has no choice but to save her siblings in a hunt that could very well end her life. But when she gets separated from her family for good, nothing seems certain anymore. Not even the strange, kind man, who never reveals his identity, she met along the way. He promises to help her find her siblings only with the condition that she would not come close to him. That one decision would change life forever, plunging her in a world of light and dark, hatred and love. ~~ A Beauty and the Beast Retelling Edited by flowergirl82 Cover by me Cover picture by Emily Soto (http://goo.gl/tYZhQP)

For years, Calissa has dreamed of her curse breaking. But when it finally does, she was in no where prepared for what happened next. >< Years have passed since she has escaped the tower and all the weakness she had formed are now stuffed inside a locked cage inside her heart. Her mission now is to stand up against the strong evil and go against the tyrant king that has imprisoned them all in a lowly society. As a member of the Masked Bandits, she will do everything in her power to stop the tyrant king from finding the Eternal Dark-- the crystal that grants all evil to the master. With the mind and spirit of an animal, her talents shine above all others. So much, that she has been chosen by the masked man to act upon her desire of protection. By the masked man's unfailing trust around her neck and her instincts of honour and loyalty bound around her soul, she is determined to put an end to the kingdom's darkness. However, along the way, her courage will be tested. Along with her heart. The weaknesses that she caged in so long ago, will threaten to spill out. Including a dangerous, unbreakable bondage between her and another that even she cannot deny. ~~~~~ A Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, and Mulan retelling. With a hint of Rapunzel. Winner of the FairytaleCommunity Mix-up Contest Cover by me Cover picture by Laura Caseley (https://goo.gl/izkOCG)

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**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.

***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