Write a fairy tale about an outsider trying to fit in.

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“The others” by Scott Skinner

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Once upon a time, Yeti was mean to Baby Bear. Yeti had a smile stitched onto his face, but when Sophie wasn’t around, Yeti snarled. It was clear he was one of the ones who didn’t act how he looked. He wasn’t a unicorn cat, a tiny penguin, or a beanie baby skunk; you always know what you’re going to get with one of those. Yeti was different, he lived with the others, but he was more of Sophie’s dad’s toy than Sophie’s. Whenever they played with the stuffed animals, Sophie’s dad was Yeti, and Yeti always STOMPED and SMASHED. This had a ma...

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“The Secret Ingredient” by Elise Volkman

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At the edge of the wood in the province of Jade, a crooked little house leaned over the edge of the Ravine of Eid. A field of grass lay between the house and the woods, and in that field, a single cherry tree stood like a sentinel. It was early spring. Cherry blossoms fluttered through an open window and drifted lazily onto a wooden counter dusted with flour. The pink petals settled into Zahra’s mixing bowl and landed on her forearms like polka dots. She dropped the petals onto the counter and dug her hands back into the sticky mess of d...

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“A Witch's Guide To Being Human” by Elizabeth Cat🌟

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STEP ONE: Understand and wear the common human fashion of that time. I shut my note book where I wrote all my notes down in. It’s a simple checkered spiral notebook, similar to the ones in the human world I suppose. I hear footsteps hit the cold stone floor of our cave. It must be Mom, she’s a witch like me. She must be returning home from one of her trips. My mother always goes on trips when she’s feeling uninspired. Mom is a writer she writes thick novels about magic and witchy adventures and sells them to the human world, I’ve r...

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“An Unlikely Hero (Part 2. Memories.) ” by Phoebe DeNeve

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Piper laid in the mud, unconscious. Her mind couldn't seem to wake up, due to being lost in a fog of memories and flashbacks. -*- An 8-year-old pixie skipped happily next two other pixies; her mother and father. "Piper, stay close!" called the mother, as the little pixie began to chase a beetle. "I won't, mommy." Piper called back, jumping over a rock. As she continued to chase the beetle, Piper's foot caught on a root, and she rolled down a slop. "Piper!" she heard her father shout, as she hit the bottom. Piper's face, arms, and legs was...

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“The Man who Lost his Face to Find his Place” by B Easton

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Long ago, back when the trees were still learning how to grow, a man learned made a decision that caused him nothing but woe. For he was a lonely soul, living with his brother in a dreary hole. He never knew the kiss of a woman or the gentleness of a friendly hand. Half-man half-troll is what they called him, and no matter how short he trimmed his claws, his appearance made th...

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“Mason the Mighty” by Cole Lane

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Mom must still be at work. At least I don’t have to lie about the dirt covering my clothes. Carl and his band of jerks beat me up again.I unlock the door and step inside.The bruises are tender, Carl is good at inflicting wounds where they don’t show. He learned it firsthand from his dad. At least that’s the school rumor.Walking by the kitchen, I notice a package addressed to me.Removing the brown paper wrapper reveals a book, a really old one from the looks of it, along with a note in my grandmother’s handwriting.‘Dear Mason,Hoping your scho...

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“A Change in The Blueprint” by Naomi Pledgure

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Since the beginning of time, humans have been the only creatures to roam the earth. Well besides animals of course. Except humanity has never been that accepting of new things. They're afraid of things that are different. And god forbid you're something that they've been taught to hate. So when Alex learned that there was more to the multiverse than just earth she had to take the chance to escape. She had already known since the time that she came out that she wouldn't be accepted. And considering that she's already African American she wa...

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“The Conductor's Intent” by Cassandra Durnin

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Note: This is an older piece, but I didn’t have the energy to spin a new one this week. Feedback is appreciated, and please pardon this one for not being as up to par. It very loosely fits the prompt. [Please listen to Opening, by Craig Armstrong while reading] It had just been this quiet, low melody following her. Through the market, through the alleys, along the canal, everywhere. It drove her mad, and just like anything else, she wouldn’t stop until she found the source, traipsing all around the foreign town, listening. She felt lik...

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“The Promise” by Nettle Swanson

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You screamed. I looked around, was there a wasp nearby? Your eyes were wide and your lip was quivering, you were on the verge of crying. You picked up the nearest rock and threw it at me. I dodged it. Was rock throwing a type of human game? You were backing away, chucking every item you could find in my direction. “Get away from me!” You screeched. Those words stung just as much as the sharp stone that sliced my shoulder. “Stop!” I spoke for the first time. You stopped in your tracks, as did I. I was as stunned as you were. I...

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“The Storyteller” by Deborah Mercer

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Do you want to hear one of my stories? I have a knack for knowing when people do, you know, and it rarely lets me down. But you’re looking a bit dubious, as if you think you probably would, but you’re not quite sure. Well, I think I know what’s bothering you. You’re not in the mood for something whimsical and fantastical, about beings you don’t know if you believe in and don’t know if you want to believe in, nor for my legends and myths and all that business. You want me to tell you a story that’s set in the real world. Very well, then!I wan...

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“A Broken Fairy Tale” by Nadya Garza

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The dark sky screams with swooshes, falling stardust, and an intruding aurora. Regret rags my soul in pieces as I writhe to escape time’s choking hold. I fall on my face on the cobbled ground, look up to the starlit castle uphill, and realize that the kingdom is torn between realms. Time’s invisible rope binds my hands. I feel I’m going still with the world as some wicked force presses upon me. I’m left tied by my own mistakes, my own foolishness, my outrageous compassion… I shouldn’t have trusted anyone because trusting is giv...

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“A Cat's Tail ” by Kay (:

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I’m the only cat in the entire shelter. There were only big, loud, smelly dogs. They didn’t even know how to groom themselves! I wasn’t what you considered the youngest cat, but I definitely wasn’t the oldest. I loved playing outside, but even stranger with water. It’d been my dream ever since I was a kitten to sail the seas. To feel the fresh sea air in my coat. But no. That dream died when they dumped me here at the Sandy Valley Animal Shelter. Dogs left and right, literally. My cage was next to two yapping Chinchilla's who never st...

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“Roots” by Phil Manders

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Willow marched through the woods clasping his offering tightly. He cradled it confidently, but still, a trickle of water seeped between his thin fingers and onto the floor. His path was well-trodden, although he knew it was only walked by him, his friends from the fringes were too scared to come this far into the woods. Fear, it seems, is the most powerful of deterrents. But unhappiness is an equally powerful antidote. Willow no longer felt fear. And anger was starting to overcome his unhappiness.He felt the temperature drop another degree a...

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“Forevermore” by Eden Arbon

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“Goodbye mother, I will write to you.” Everett tilted his head, and kissed the soft, pale skin of his mother’s cheek.“Yes, you had better, or I will march all the way to Camelot and pull your ears!” Everett smiled as his mother said this, and hugged her old, frail form, for what he thought might be the last time. His mother’s green eyes glittered with wet tears as she said her goodbyes to her youngest son.Her wisps of gray hair fluttered in the early morning breeze, illuminated by the first sunrays that stretched themselves over the white mo...

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“Tang of Traskia” by Blue Green

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Once upon a time, for this is a fairy tale, and that is how all fairy tales begin, there was a king who ruled over the city of Traskia. But this story is not about the king, but rather about a young man called Tang, who was as far from being a king as anyone could imagine. The sun was setting as Tang set up his camp for the night. He set his pack down beside the knarred oak. The tree had an inviting hollow at the base which was just right for his small body to curl into. He would sleep comfortably tonight, something that he often couldn’t ...

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Write a fairy tale about an outsider trying to fit in.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 173 stories

“The others” by Scott Skinner

“The Secret Ingredient” by Elise Volkman

“A Witch's Guide To Being Human” by Elizabeth Cat🌟

“An Unlikely Hero (Part 2. Memories.) ” by Phoebe DeNeve

“The Man who Lost his Face to Find his Place” by B Easton

“Mason the Mighty” by Cole Lane

“A Change in The Blueprint” by Naomi Pledgure

“The Conductor's Intent” by Cassandra Durnin

“The Promise” by Nettle Swanson

“The Storyteller” by Deborah Mercer

“A Broken Fairy Tale” by Nadya Garza

“A Cat's Tail ” by Kay (:

“Roots” by Phil Manders

“Forevermore” by Eden Arbon

“Tang of Traskia” by Blue Green

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Write a cautionary fable about someone who always lies.

Write a story about an ordinary person speaking truth to power.

Write about a prince or princess who is asked to give up something valuable as part of a deal to escape the world they come from.

Write about an author famous for their fairy tale retellings.

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