One of the winners of the Once Upon Now contest! Feet Aren't Made for Walking will be renamed Truth Be Told and will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, on October 11, 2016 in the Once Upon Now Anthology! ---------------------------- Leo Clark is having a really bad day. He's been transpor...
He was in pain. I helped him break the curse. A modern twist on Beauty and the Beast.
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" W...
-Top 25 Finalist- Our parents always warned us about talking to strangers on the internet but did they ever warn us about frogs? Highest ranking: #440 in Short Story (c) Copyright 2016 by Littleninjamari
*One of 10 winners in the @target OnceUponNow contest* After five years in a coma, Rose has given up on ever living her life again. It's pure torture hearing her husband's voice as he struggles to save her. All Rose wants is for Crane to be able to go on with his life and be happy. When a change in her conditi...
#OnceUponNow Cindy was a girl who worked hard and got little recognition. When faced with an amazing opportunity in the modeling industry, she is shut down because she simply didn't fit the stereotypical criteria. However as all good tales do, Cindy's story has a twist and it wasn't because of a Fairy Godmother or a g...
This is a story about a love forbidden by heavens. A love that ceased, and will now happen. Life has always been sparkling for Reina Methem. From the moment of her birth the heaven showered her with light, blessings and a birthmark that resembled a pair of wings on her back. The mark that will turn her bright days in...
The Sugar Plum Fairy is on the brink of economic failure. After a business deal gone wrong, she's looking at bankruptcy with no way out - except for her competitor, Mr. Claus, who offers her a solution if, and only if she agrees to help him on a mission, where millions of people are depending on him. The last thing th...
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Cindy is an intern at the notorious Kingdom Magazine. Arthur is a scarred boy who hasn't been outside of his "home" in two years. At the night of the annual Kingdom ball where all the raging celebrities attend, Cindy loses the Glass Heels; the couture shoes of the century that everyone is dying to see. One thing leads...
Maddie Nguyen is a homeschooled teenager who happens to be a maladroit employee of a family owned smoothie bar, who was supposed to have her senior year as an unquestionably stress-free adolescent. But that was before-before she ran smack into the teen acting sensation, Ash Parker -whom is apparently looking for girlf...
Penelope "Poppy" Icarius fell in love at the curious age of 5. Poppy never questioned her love for the lively, freckled boy down the street, not even after he moved away, leaving Poppy alone in their make-believe world. Now, age 25, Poppy faces a turning point in her high-profile fashion career. Faced with a major c...
Midas was named after Greece's King of Gold who famed for his touch of fortune. In Midas' case, he has good luck streaks that have the ability to last for months on end. Unfortunately, his luck catches up to him every once in a while in the worst way possible. Eventually, he finds himself landed in the hospital after...
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 wrea...
When you've been playing online games as long as Devon has -- you do a lot of killing. It's what you expect. What you don't expect is for one of the creatures you've been killing to suddenly beg for its life! And when you learn that some myths thought to have disappeared from the world centuries ago haven't disappeare...
Going through a loophole. Encountering two pyscho teenagers and a man who acts like he's a little kid. Falling through a hole with only an annoying talking doorknob to comfort(or pain) her. And most of all, being in a crazy upside-down world for all of it. Now the Queen is after her head, and with only a talking doork...
A reality star turned super model, a reclusive gorgeous Hollywood power player and David Beckham's left bicep...inspirations for the retelling of the enduring love story of Cupid (Q) and Psyche (Paige) with a modern twist. Cupid & Psyche's story had been told since 2 A.D. and their love has been immortalized in sculp...
Brielle was just an ordinary college student who just finished her first year. Okay, scratch ordinary and replace it with a mermaid who lives on land. When she finds sees the new guy living in her house with her, he looks familiar. And then she realized, she has definitely met him and not on normal terms. The real cha...
She stole Cupid's arrows. She stole his heart. And she also managed to start a war. The tale of love is a legend as old as time itself. And its all thanks to the cupids: divine, winged angels working at Aphrodite's office since the dawn of time. Their daily task? Track down the world's soul mates and shoot them with...
Being a Queen was considered everything to my four outrageous cousins. I for one do not care, I never want to be a ruling monarch. Never. The Princess Project was a ritual that my country had been doing for decades. The government of Amaren would choose one descendant of the five royal lineages and make her the projec...
After a lightning storm, Andy's camping trip goes from bad to worse. Zombies and ninjas are released from his phone, and they have one mission--get Andy. To make matters worse, a wolf is Andy's only ally.
Sam a child of the system felt she never belonged. After a tragic accident that take her parents life she is taken in by her father's friends and become her foster family. At school she is a outcast and the only thing that gets her through the the days her foster brother Logan's stories about a mystical place. After h...
I'd always heard the voices. From being a young child when the doctors had long since given up trying to find a cause, the voices woke me, screaming, in the night. But then, they began to guide me. When I started to find the dead bodies - animals, children - I was called a psychic. I was used to help, but I cou...
Top 25 Finalist for Target's Once Upon Now contest He's trapped. He couldn't breathe. The white walls were smothering him, the barred windows were taunting him, the ticking of the clock was killing him. Now the nurses, of course, they were there too, they were there constantly choking him, forcing the colored pills do...
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... *Beaut...
Claire has always wanted to be a star, someone to be known. She's moved to New York from her small town in Ohio to chase her dreams, as did some of her school mates from her old show choir group. Peter, a friend who joins Claire in the dream to Broadway, has always been Claire's crush, since she could last remember. P...
Entry for #OnceUponNow. All votes & comments on the first chapter are greatly appreciated :). A Cinderella story meets Robin Hood. When seventeen-year-old Gracie Jones gets her heart broken by a false prince charming, she declares war on senior prom. With her eye on taking down the popular kings and queens of Sherwoo...
Invitations have been sent out for the annual ball, for Prince Jeremiah Anderson it's to meet his future potential bride. Every year, the same typical vapid women claim they're the one but has disappointed him whenever they brought up money and his looks. With wishful thinking, he sits alone, hidden watching and waiti...
The Enchanted Central Forest calls out to her, and she can sense it. It's not against the law to go there, but humans have been taught to fear magic. Yet, Sadie Garcia is not a normal New Yorker or human. She can't help it if she feels the urge to explore the wonders of magic. On an ordinary day Sadie and her best fr...