Onceuponnow Stories

a mythical adventure about a lost girl stuck in a unfamiliar land. how will she return home and will she want too.

The Coming Of Age Ball is something every Prince goes through and every girl from the age of sixteen to nineteen is forced into attending. My country, Kandarlia, thinks it's a great way for the Prince to choose a bride and show the commoners we're all the same. When really all they're trying to do is keep us controlled. I refuse to attend a ball and plaster on a pretty smile only to be pranced around like someone's show pony. However, I must do just that in order for me to get into the palace and take out the royal family. The only question is: how does an assassin become a princess over night?

What would happen Goldilocks, Cinderella, and other fairytale favorites went to high school instead? This is a collection of modern fairytale-retellings. Cover by @sugarcrystals / SHORT STORY / FAIRY TALE RETELLING / ROMANCE

Things were finally looking up for Percy Joyce. She had escaped the world of retail with a real job in the business world. Unfortunately, she had sent out so many résumés to corporate America she was fairly certain the US Forest Service and/or Greenpeace were going to be visiting her soon to discuss the havoc she wreaked on the biosphere and some poor unsuspecting forest. But the good news was, after deforesting half of Maine, she had landed a job as a junior mechanical engineer with The Flynn Group. She had a wonderful boss and mentor in Mr. Noble who took the time to keep her on a solid growth path in her profession and the company. But all that changed on April 1. With the Announcement. Shortly after her life and job became inexorably intertwined and quickly spiraled out of control. Eventually the Tower brought everything crashing down around her. Until ... AUTHOR'S NOTE - The story will be fleshed out more and the ending will be rewritten in the coming months. Stay tuned!

In which a father and former husband tells his daughter a bedtime story about her late mother. #OnceUponNow Cover made by @barmpot © Makenna Collette (@mack-collette) 2016 All Rights Reserved

Mike, a complete jock and girl magnet. He loves to be around other people and in groups, but hates anti-socials. He comes to school on the first day of Seattle High of his Junior year. A rough start during the school day, he meets a girl completely out of the ordinary, the type of girl he hates. Geeky, technophile, nerdy, and oddly out of the ordinary... However... just maybe.. she's enough to grasp his heart...

The story of three men and the effects their actions have on the world.

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 odd suddenly become the most normal thing on the planet? Oh, it's happened to me, alright. My name is Julianna Owens. I've experienced questions that I wouldn't ever ponder come to life. Even the things I imagined when I was little could never compare to them. How did this happen? It all started when my grandma moved in.

Short story. If I give too much I'll spoil it!

Hey it's Emma! I know I should have chosen the desk, but the teachers phone was right there. "Emma!" Yes. "They have no idea what you're talking about." Oh yeah, guess you'll have to read to find out. Hold onto your head, because my story about is gonna blow your mind.

She's about to become the leader of the Red's He's the leader of the White's's and he's been killed Now a war suddenly breaks out and we're in the middle Then that's the perfect time for the blacks to intrude causing more mayhem Read and enjoy.

Myla Lu was counting the days to turn 18. Being 18 was like having permission to do, what ever. Right now, all she could do was endure the wishes of her adoptive parents. To move out of the city of Boston and into the middle of no were. They have being driving for over an hour, after the last Motel they left behind and all she could see was green, all green. Trees,foliage,bushes,... STONES for P's sake. It was the middle of August. In a few weeks school and her senior yr should start by the time she is settled in. She never understood why her mother did not want her playing outside in the forest behind the house or in the garden of many flowers and colors of different tones. And NOW .... She wants to. Now, when she was making plans for college. Harvard made her lick her lips and wipe her hands on her faded jeans. But it was nervous good. She wanted it. Little did she know... Mother nature had other plans for her future. That's when she saw the welcoming town Sign. WELCOME TO AQUINNAH Population 311 people .... Her Jaw, was about to hit the floor. #JUSTWRITEIT #ONCEUPONNOW

What would you do if everything you thought you'd ever known changed? What if ghost and sprites were real? Would you brave that new world or hide away in what you've always known? Cassandra must make that choice. Her entire existence is not what it seems. She has unbelievable powers and now she faces a whole new world. With old and new friends by her side and dark enemies to come, is she strong enough? #OnceUponNow #JustWriteIt

This is a story of compassion,desire,and above all love.Trinity is the daughter of King Edward of Wales.She lives the life all the other girls in the world want to live.Jonathan is a peasant in their kingdom who was caught stealing from a merchant.When Jonathan finds himself in the dungeon of King Edward's castle he starts bargaining for his life.What happens when Trinity stumbles across the dungeon and sees Jonathan?Will she be the only one who can save his life?

A wolf doesn't always appear with pointed ears, ragged fur, or snarling fangs. Sometimes the wolf appears as a teenage boy. That's how it was for my wolf; a boy with dark, glinting eyes and a thirst for excitement. And I was the little girl in red, clueless and hopelessly in love with the wolf, until I realized - too late - that his sharp-toothed danger could swallow me whole. [This is my entry for @target's contest #OnceUponNow. It is based upon the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. If you wish to support this story, please remember to vote on the first chapter (prologue) during the contest's voting phase - which begins June 14, 2016 and ends June 21, 2016.]

A twisted fairy tale. Who is the hunter and who is being hunted?

New and a bit alarming... who would have ever thought that this could be? Beatrice Hanes is cunning, beautiful and destined for greatness. But after her father loses his job, greatness would have to wait. In order to save up for her dream college Beatrice reluctantly accepts an offer from her foe Andrew "The Beast" West. The request seemed simple, Andrew's mother would pay for her college tuition if she helped Andrew pass school. The problem was that Andrew was malicious and uncaring- why should Bea want to help someone like him? Will the Beauty break the Beast's mean streak or will this happily ever after, have to wait forever?