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Fallen stars never stay on earth. Such is the case of sixteen-year-old Carmen Esmaier, citizen of planet Terra and daughter of two of its most revered heroes. Shielded...

"I'm dead?" He shrugs and looks back at his tablet. "Yeah." I stand despite the pain it gives me. "I can't be dead. I had my whole life ahead of...

A young princess refuses to follow her father wishes. She runs away, then stores away on the first cargo ship she saw. The young princess life changes indefinitely. He...

A young girl goes to visit her grandmother for the first time. Her only family that she had left. While Nora was in College her parents vanished out at sea. They were...

#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 s...

A modern take on the classic tale "Ugly Duckling". A young girl is dropped off at an orphanage after her mother simply doesn't want her anymore. This girl goes...

Evanth DeRoss. Beautiful. Rich. But money cannot control life. Even when you most want it to. When she falls ill, Evanth knows her time is up, and she's made peace with...

When do you say no? Is it when you need too, or is it way before? Can you say no to temptation, or death? Can you defeat death? Can death defeat death? All likely hood o...

ARISTA DOES NOT like monsters or dragons, but sometimes to slay a monster, you have to embrace your inner monster. In this modern day retelling of A Thousand and One Ni...

Robin is just like any other teenage girl. She loves to run, hang with her friends, and is obsessed with her cell phone. Oh, and she's known by her city as The Hood, the...

Shrek will always be Donkey best friend. I should know, never got paid for my adventurous Shrek, doesn't matter, for I know, it will always belong to me. This is how D...

*When a child reads their first fairytale, they dream of being a princess or a hero. They dream of living in a castle and having a Happily Ever After. That one fairytale...

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 bee...

Autumn has just turned fourteen, fantastic. One less year to wait until she's out of the foster system. But, surprisingly her birth father shows up rescuing her from her...

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...

"Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them...

A helicopter ancient changes a young girl's life forever. Things that she once didn't believe in suddenly became much clearer.

Earth have different portals that led you to different worlds, Tomas always loves to read books that contain magical stories. He never thought, that one of the stories...

In the heart of Castle Aanca, the museum of Fables and future sciences, stories become a lot more lively. Prince Alfil, the leading hero in his Fable, is one of the most...

- Short Story - Life in high school always seems to stay the same, each day following the next. Same terrible lunch food. Same boring lectures. Same overwhelming loads o...