Talesofthedeep Stories

[COMPLETED] When a mysterious stranger turns up in the small town of Mullion, Serena is desperate not to make an impression. She has enough things to worry about with a complicated home life, trying to balance university and her job at the local library. Not to mention her closely guarded secret, the only thing keeping her together in this stressful world of humans. So when the new comer starts turning up everywhere, prying into her life and making her wonder what else is out there. Thing's get messy. Copyright © Jenna Cook 2014 All Rights Reserved EXCERPT: They scraped at my mind as gravity took hold. But no fear passed through me. I wanted to fall, the blue rushed towards me like a welcome embrace as I passed through the barrier. And suddenly, silence. No, not silence. Music. The ocean wrapped around me, chasing away the demons. Eliminating all the worries of the world. Until just me, and the sea remained. All the weight of the world was carried away on the tide as I sank into the blue. The rising sun filtered down through the water like a rainbow after rain. Now most people would be worried right now. Realising they're out of breath and dying. But it's part of the reason I keep to myself, let people think I'm not normal. Because I'm not normal. I'm just even more not normal than they fathomed. -------------- Completed! But slowly editing Thank you for reading! If you like it please remember to vote and comment! Serene Of The Sea is my property, if you should find it anywhere else please let me know. Cover photo belongs to me. Chapter photos are not mine, found via google

Celtic mythology inspired short story. When Neil finds an outlandish girl who had been washed ashore during a storm, he decides to take care of her. Once he falls in love with her, he hopes that the Sea will never claim her back... Will his love be strong enough to keep her with him? Will it be strong enough to let her go back home...?

The tale of Persephone is well known throughout Greek Mythology, however, the real tale hidden beneath the myth of a Goddess stolen away from her mother is that of Alena Cali - the Cursed Siren. Forever cursed to lure sailors to their deaths with their beautiful voices, Alena is banished to live out her days on Cape Pelorum in servitude to the gods for the unpayable debt she earned in losing Demeter's daughter. Now powerless to the curse that causes her to drag innocent men to their watery graves, Alena sees no escape from her doomed existence. However, when the opportunity to save Persephone arises, she only has one option left: gain the help of a lone sailor to right her wrongs, or lose her friend to the clutches of the Underworld once and for all. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ **Cover made by @ShadowedRain** **Featured by the official Retold Wattpad page, on their "Rethology" reading list" **Winner of the "Ultimate Undiscovered" in the FCRA's 2016 ** **Highest Ranking #250 in Fantasy**

🅚🅐🅘🅛🅐 is a scorned siren. A disappointing failure to the Queen. Sent on a mission to prove her worth. 🅒🅨🅟🅡🅤🅢 is a compassionate sailor. Strong-willed and as stubborn as iron, he is determined to fight for his freedom. 🅐🅝🅓 🅦🅗🅔🅝 🅣🅗🅔🅨 🅜🅔🅔🅣 a series of unexpected events and revelations take place.

With summer coming to an end, Luke and Heidi have to say goodbye to Daniel and Ariel and have to go back to Florida. When they go back to Sweet Water High everything is completely great, well great for high school. But when November comes that is when the problems start. Luke starts to ignore Heidi. And Halloween makes things get even crazier. Is their friendship falling apart? And what happens when Heidi starts to see Monica around her small town? Who are the 2 mysterious new girls? And for Heidi how will she juggle soccer, high school, and mermaids as if being a teenager isn't enough?

Do you think you can create a character that can withstand any and all hurdles? If yes, you're in the right place! A few of our community profiles have gathered together to test the mettle of your character with each collaborating profile presenting a different challenge for them to overcome.

After years of absence, a young woman returns to her island home, revisiting demons she thought forgotten. This story was originally written for "Dark Dreams" an anthology by @tenebris_somnia. After been expanded to enter TNT's horror contest, it made the top 35. 😄

Open your sails and search the seas for untold treasures and ancient artefacts with @WattpadAsianFantasy and @talesofthedeep's thrilling treasure map adventure, Shiver Me Timbers, this fall. Shiver Me Timbers is a choose your own adventure contest where we bring you a wealth of prompts to choose from. Your task? To navigate the treacherous waters by following our map where you will be expected to write your way out of each stop until you make it to the very end.

For mermaids believers out there: we all have faced problems and annoying people who are nonbelievers! We all have faced those "real" spells that work, to find out that they are lying! We all tried searching up mermaid series on YouTube. This book is to help your problems and to put a smile on your face. Just remember: you're a mermaid at heart! "I just love this book!" ~ @dovelove124 "Ooohhhh! I love your website!!! I'm gonna go on it all the time now!!!!" ~ @wolflovermermaid "I absolutely love your book!" ~ @that_girl_cj Completed

Open your sails and search the seas for new untold treasures and ancient artefacts with @WattpadAsianFantasy and @talesofthedeep's returning thrilling treasure map adventure, Shiver Me Timbers. Shiver Me Timbers is a choose your own adventure contest where we bring you a wealth of prompts to choose from. Your task? To navigate the treacherous waters by following our map where you will be expected to write your way out of each stop until you make it to the very end.

Dylan Lewis is a cryptozoologist who is searching for the extinct mythical sea horse. On his journey, he met a mermaid which will lead him to the mythical sea horse. What if the mermaid tells him that a corporation caught the mythical sea horse's mother and locked it in their facility. Dylan decided he will save the mother. But, it would be difficult, as the corporation that locked the mother is very secure. He'll encounter a lot of obstacles to save it. He will meet new friends that would help him. But also a backstabber?! When Dylan is almost close to saving the mother. What will happen when someone bribes him with fame and money, so he would stop. What will he choose? All Rights Reserved April 15, 2022 Book by Leith Leison Book Cover by Leith Leison Panhellenic Games 2022 - Isthmian Games Participant @mythandlegend @talesofthedeep

#TheMermaidProject is a campaign to stop carelees humans from throwing waste into our beaches, ponds, oceans, lakes, seas, and rivers! And, help save the sea creatures, marine life, aquatic animals, and all other forms of wildlife that inhabits them! 🐠🐬🐢🐳🐋🐟🐙🐚🐊🏊🌴🚣🌊 Add our sticker to the cover of your story! http://m.imgur.com/7egFkCz?r Tag us in your story or Add #TheMermaidProject to the Discreption / Synopsis of your story to help support our campaign! And we will add your story to our reading lists! Want to read our book Tips On Saving Ocean & Wildlife? Use this link: https://my.w.tt/UiNb/awoAi8rp8J ❤ The Official 2018 Make It Your Own Contest ✔🌟 is up and available now to sumbit your story and see the rules, more information, and details to get started go to our 2018 Contests Book!❤ Use this link: https://my.w.tt/UiNb/KyPBgaibZJ Cheers! ^^ ☺

**shortlisted for Wattys2017** Technically speaking, I died when I was seventeen. What should have been just another typical day out on the water with my friends, turned ugly fast when a freak storm came out of nowhere and I was thrown overboard. Had it not been for my damned dress, I could have swam to safety, but no, every day had to be a fashion show, and my dress got caught on rocks, holding me down until I drowned. I thought right before I died I would at least get to see a montage of my fabulous life, all the parties and romantic dates with my perfect boyfriend, Asher, but nope again. Instead, all I saw was a hideous sea monster smiling to me as my lungs filled with water. When I woke up in a cave in the middle of the ocean, that sea witch made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I could go back to my perfect life, and my adorable boyfriend, all I had to do was give the sea witch two years of my service, and then she'd free me from my fate. It seemed easy enough at the time, but can the price to live actually come at too high of a cost? Highest rank #5 in paranormal

This short story is for the Mertastic Competition. At the turn of the 20th century, a merchant ship named the SS Sirens Pearl travelling from India to South Africa crashes in the Indian Ocean near a large mass of isolated land called Island 33. Decades later reports start to fly that the deceased Captain Howard was transporting unidentified treasure to an illustrious banker. The rat race begins. It stops until two brothers and a fisherman journey to the island eager to salvage treasures from the ocean floor, but what they find instead is otherwordly.

Keelan is a shipwrecked sailor, rescued by a beautiful mermaid that he immediately decides he must find again. But his search for her leads him into secrets that were carefully kept hidden, never brought to the light again. Will he find the mermaid he loves, or will that hope be lost to the ocean's depths? (Winner of Once Upon and Tales of the Deep's #MerMay contest.)

"He said that when the time was right, one of our children would find one, and become half and half." "Half and half?" I asked. "Crystal," she said "I think you're half-mermaid." Only then did I see the patch of aquamarine scales growing from under my hospital gown. • • • Crystal Waters is your average eighth grade girl. She's not too different, but maybe the tail that sprouts whenever she touches water is. • • • Started November 2016 Finished July 2017 In editing since Feb 2018

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Daria is the only one who never heard the call. The great sound her people worshipped, that of the vast sea where the secrets remain and the truth hides until you come to seek it. Disappointed, she leaves to free herself from who she was supposed to be, hoping she'll find what's she's looking in a different world.

Do you think you can create a character that can withstand any and all hurdles? If yes, you're in the right place! A few of our community profiles have gathered together to test the mettle of your character with each collaborating profile presenting a different challenge for them to overcome.