Fairytale

Weekly Challenges

Image of a castle peeking through the trees.

Fairytale

Deadline

Create your own fairytale. Does it follow the pattern of a classic fairytale (for instance, a damsel in distress) or does it differ? Whose perspective is it told from? What magical creatures might be in your story? What is the climax, and how does it end? [Image by writerfromva on YWP]

Submissions

  • Sleeping Beauty’s Dreams

    People say Sleeping Beauty dreamed of her prince in the hundred years she slept.

    But that’s not true, not in the least.

    She dreamt of a world where she needed no prince to wake her, where she could wake herself.

  • Poetry

    By wph

    Sacred Holy Dream

    Yes, Alice thought as she drifted deeper into sleep from within that lightless and beautiful place, make it stranger now. Make it all new again.

  • A Story About A Girl

    Let me tell you story

    A story about a girl

    Who had the same longing for adventure

    As little Red Riding Hood

    And the same urge for freedom

    As Rapunzel

    Let me tell you a story

    About a girl

  • lonely days

    Once upon a lonely time 

    The moon fell in love with the sun 

    And so you see they were lovers 

    Once when they were young