Retelling Stories

Good morning, I'm Kalliope Aoidós (yes, spelled like this: Καλλιόπη Ἀοιδός... pretty impressive, right?), Technical Account Manager at a company in... well, I'm sure you don't really need my CV for this. Let's try again. Hey, I'm Kalliope Aoidós, and I've got a little problem. Okay, more like an incurable, family-heritage problem. Technically, it's genetic-something my family has been conveniently passing down for centuries. One of my great-great-great-great-grandparents thought it was totally appropriate to insult his muse, calling her a "good-for-nothing" and a "sellout." How charming, right? Too bad that muse was THE Muse after whom I'm named. Apparently, she's not exactly the warm and fuzzy type. So why on earth do I have the honor of carrying the name of the one who cursed my entire family tree? Oh, that was my grandmother's brilliant idea. In a way, they "sacrificed" me to her by giving me her name, hoping it would change her mind about the curse. Spoiler alert: It didn't. So here I am, just like hundreds of my ancestors, stuck in the same lovely swamp. I'm a Book Jumper or, as my grandmother (who has a flair for dramatic epithets) likes to call me, a βιβλιοποδητής, which basically means "walker of books." And these are my stories. Or, more accurately, my delightful misadventures. Copyright 2025 AnemoneMarino. All Rights Reserved. Note: All the pictures I've used in this story are not mine; they belong to their respective owners. The cover and banners are made by me.

It's been seven years since the Murder Drones arrived on Copper 9. The Worker Drone population has only survived thanks to underground bunkers that have since become sprawling communities. Uzi Doorman doesn't consider that living, though. How can everyone be content with surrendering their home? Since losing her mother to those monsters, striking back has been at the forefront of her mind. But no one else seems to believe in her dream of a Copper 9 free of Murder Drones. Whether anyone believes in her or not, Uzi is determined to see her vision through and sets out on a perilous journey that brings her face to face with the boogeymen of Copper 9 and forces greater than she ever could have imagined.

A retelling/reimagining of Poppy Playtime based on the events of the main video game (so far). The story follows a young adult man in his mid-to-late 20's by the name of Cameron Wallace, who interned at the Playtime Co. toy factory over a decade ago as a teenager due to his father, Patrick "PW" Wallace, working there as well. After the mysterious disappearance of the staff just days after he and his father left, Cameron receives a lead over a decade later that his former co-workers may still be alive but trapped within the factory. Following the clues left to him, Cameron returns to the abandoned Playtime Co. factory once more to see if he can solve the mystery of what happened on August 8th, 1995, as well as what was going on within the factory that led to his father's suicide years after their departure from Playtime. (This story, like the original game, may describe unsettling topics. Take caution while reading.)

System Error: Love cannot be deleted. In the sterile, perfect world of 2099, Catherine Earnshaw has everything: a wealthy husband, a high-ranking job at Linton Corp, and a bug-free life. But she is haunted by a ghost in the machine. Heathcliff is not a man. He is a corrupted AI program Cathy created in her reckless youth-a chaotic, obsessive algorithm stored on an abandoned server known as "The Heights." When the server begins to destabilize the global network, Cathy returns to the digital ruins to do the one thing she promised never to do: Initiate the purge sequence. But Heathcliff refuses to go quietly. He knows her source code better than she knows herself, and he offers her a dangerous choice: Return to her hollow reality, or upload her consciousness to the cloud and burn in the fire of eternal data with him. A Cyberpunk reimagining of the classic Wuthering Heights for the Wattpad Contest.

Sixteen-year-old Emily grows up in Blackwater House, a storm-battered home perched on a cliff above a restless sea. When Jonah comes to live there, their connection is immediate and dangerous. He is not just a boy. He is the storm itself. They are drawn together by a love that promises wholeness at a devastating cost. When a safer future appears in the form of another boy and a life far from the water, Emily must decide whether love is something that saves you or something you survive. Blackwater House becomes the battleground for obsession, sacrifice, and a bond that refuses to break cleanly. A gothic, supernatural retelling of Wuthering Heights, where love is feral, choice is cruel, and the sea never forgets.

Rumor has it, he wasn't always this way. The secrets and lies that shaped his life and fueled his anger have given him a new strategy in ruling over his new kingdom--- with a streak of revenge on the one person who seeks for peace amongst both nations, but her reign and family have been left unharmed for too long. Lots of twists and turns in this fairytale mashup with notable characters you'll find...specially placed.

"He healed the enemy who came to arrest Him." Malchus was just a servant, doing his duty in the darkness of Gethsemane. But when a flash of a sword took his ear, and a touch from the man he was sent to capture restored it, his world shattered. This is the confession of the man who felt the hands of the Messiah not in a blessing, but in a miracle of mercy amidst a betrayal.

The enchanted woods around Thorne Estate are beautiful, ancient, and hungry. When Lord Thorne finds a lost child in the mist, he brings him home. Vaeren, a quiet orphan marked by survival and a magic that grows darker and stronger with time, bending the elements he was never taught to fear. Caelia, the estate's fierce heir, is the only one who sees past the silence and the shadows. Their bond forms slowly over the years. But the world outside the woods is cruel, and alliances are heavier than love. When Vaeren is forced from the estate, old wounds turn into grudges. Years later, he returns. Richer, remade by anger and ambition, carrying the belief that he was left behind by the one person who mattered. A story of longing, resentment, and love tangled in silence and storm. **Author's Note** This short story was written for The Wuthering Heights Reimagined Contest. I don't live in the U.S., so I know I'm not eligible to win the prize, but honestly, I didn't write this for that. I wrote it because I love this kind of story and couldn't get it out of my head. Wuthering Heights has always stuck with me. This is my take on that feeling, just told in my own way. Maybe one day I develop this more, instead of being a short story withso many details being left out. Thanks for reading and letting me share this anyway.

The Odyssey, but everyone has Wi-Fi and zero emotional regulation. Troy is over. The groupchats are not. Follow Odysseus, his exhausted crew, and a panel of messy gods as a ten-year journey home unfolds through group chats, pinned messages, deleted texts, and divine side-eye. Monsters get added. Gods subtweet. Men refuse to log off. Faithful to Homer. Unfaithful to silence.

The trees whisper, secrets drifting through the air. Birdsong entices all who draws near. Within the forest, stories are told. Princesses rewriting their destinies, starlets mingling with faerie folk, ghosts haunting abbeys, or even a chilling mystery waiting to be solved. In this collection, indulge in fictional realms spanning from fantasy to horror and everything in between, listening to the whispers of the woods.

"I'm going to tell you the story of Artoria Pendragon, one of the fiercest warriors who ever lived." I sat in my mother's lap, listening intently as her soft voice wrapped around me like a warm blanket. "Long ago, there was a place called Camelot. Hidden within this land was a queen who concealed her true identity from the world. She fought monsters, led knights into battle, and entrusted her life to a brilliant strategist - just as they entrusted theirs to her. This woman would come to be known as King Arthur." I tilted my head in confusion. "But Mommy, a king can't be a woman. Don't you mean she was a queen?" My mother smiled knowingly but didn't answer my question. Instead she gently patted my hair, and I leaned into her embrace, comforted by the steady rhythm of her heartbeat. "She was faster than the other knights. Her skill and battle prowess struck fear into the hearts of her enemies - but they feared the man they believed her to be. Trapped behind the mask the world had created for her, she carried the burden of her secret alone." I started to yawn, but my mother's voice pressed on, soothing and steady. "Her chivalry was unmatched, and her strength as a leader inspired others to follow her without question." Sleep tugged at me, my mother's warmth lulling me under. As I drifted off, I felt her lift me in her arms and carry me to bed. The last thing I heard before slipping into sleep was her soft whisper: "But the truth remained hidden throughout her life and beyond. Still, she never lost hope that one day, all of this would change, my dear Artemisia." Unfortunately the cover is ai art TT I don't have money to commission someone like I had wanted so this will have to suffice.

They say the forest devours what wanders too deep, but Elara Morn walks in anyway, following the desperate man she still calls father. what she finds is a forgotten castle woven from thorns and shadow, and the beats who rules it; prince Lucien Nocturne, cursed to guard a magic that keeps the kingdom alive only by demanding blood in return. When her farther steals from the Beast's living roses, Elara offers herself as the price. she enters the castle, expecting a monster, instead she finds a man stitched together with loneliness and duty, and a house that watches her as if it already knows her name. as the days turn, something fraguile begins to grow between captive and captor, like a rose blooming in winter; slow, trembling, and dangerous to touch. But the roses remember every drop of blood they drink, and once they fully remember Elara, she will belong to the curse forever. To save the man behind the monster, Elara must choose whether to break the bargain... or take it into her own heart. and in Blackthorn Forest, love is not a fairy tale. it is the price.

Don't let the name fool you, odd things are happening in Sleepy Hollow. Sybil Fallow didn't yet know just how deep the trouble truly went. Until a few weeks ago, she hadn't even heard of the small, seemingly insignificant town. Now she found herself trying to piece together its dark past, her place in it and prevent the death of even more of its citizens. A task that she quickly realizes she cannot do alone. Ichabod Crane use to be a somebody in this town, his future seemingly bright, now was all a distant dream. As a believer in the paranormal and oddities, he may be the key to solving the recent murders. One thing is certain.Death has returned to Sleepy Hollow, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of it stopping...

Summary: when Mr Dark steals the Great Protoon, Rayman must jump into action to save the day and stop Mr Dark's plan to take over the world Story based on Rayman 1 Rayman Redemption fangame and OC's by Rayemani Rayman is owned by Ubisoft Story Inspiration Sonic Kingdomverse by JamesFan1991 Rayman Recharged by Tomodaphne Rayman Redemption by Rayemani Turquoisephoenix on DeviantArt slightly-gay-pogohammer on Tumblr CrazyEchidnaLady on DeviantArt Beyonda (Voodoo Mama's headcanon real name) by Esmeraydreams on Tumblr

Susan Murphy was once a normal woman but one day she was killed on her wedding day so the military rebuild her into a cyborg and she had to team up with heroic monsters to save the world from an alien invasion. Monsters vs Aliens belongs to Dreamworks

Frederica "Fritz" Darcy is a writer, famous not for her books, but for one she never wrote. When the latest Regency era revival reveals that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was a biography about Fritz's something-great-grandparents, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy's historic happily-ever-after quickly becomes her worst nightmare. Paparazzi follow her everywhere hoping for the Austen-style love story of the century, everyone back home thinks she's engaged, and to make matters worse, she doesn't have a date to her mum's annual Christmas party. So when a disastrous interview with national features reporter Elias Black threatens to destroy Fritz's career, she does the only thing she can think of to save her reputation: date him. Or at least pretend to. But as fake feelings mix with real ones, their chemistry becomes undeniably, delightfully Darcy.

"Hey hench-human, what's with the serious face?" "...I think Eliza recognized me..." "What kinda nonsense is that? She's a ghost and you're from another world." At first, Kayra thinks she's in a strange dream. But with barely enough time to breathe, she's forced to accept a harsh reality- she's somehow been isekai-ed to a "Twisted Wonderland". And on top of that, stuck in a school of mages while being the only one who can't use it. While she struggles to survive Overblots & other obstacles, odd things are happening in the sidelines. The possibility that she might have a connection to Twisted Wonderland. That she might have to save both this world, and her homeworld because of it.

Ten Years A Ward is a coming-of-age romance novel about a young protagonist navigating forbidden love with her guardian, Ethan Hayes, exploring themes of sacrifice, resilience, longing, and complex family ties within an elite boarding school setting reminiscent of the 1990s. It delves into teenage emotional turmoil, self-discovery, and the blurred lines between love, loyalty, and duty, featuring an idyllic yet emotionally charged backdrop at St. Ambrose School.

When the King of Denmark dies under suspicious circumstances, the royal court calls in an unlikely investigator: Lieutenant Columbo, a rumpled homicide detective from the LAPD who seems completely out of his depth among the scheming nobility of Elsinore Castle. Content warnings: Murder, suicide, family dysfunction, political corruption, existential crises, and at least one staged play that's designed to give a king a guilt-induced panic attack.

No one has ever gotten close enough to discover the secrets of Corbin White's troubling past. Not until he finds a group of other teens hiding supernatural abilities. They teach him how to see and manipulate the Rudin, the uncharted world of unseen energy, and how to fend off the terrifying beings that live there. But they don't have the answers he's seeking. What they do have is a deadly secret of their own. Now Corbin must confront the living nightmares of his past, survive the betrayal of the friends he trusted, and face his role in the earth-shattering events of the future. Anyone can save the world, but Corbin is the only one destined to destroy it.