Folklore Stories

Taylor Swift has always lived in the spotlight - touring cities, writing songs, chasing the next big moment. But fame comes with a cost. Thirteen-year-old Jackson has spent most of his life on the sidelines, quietly building walls between him and the mother who seemed to choose her career over him. When NFL star Travis Kelce shows up at a concert, all the football-obsessed teen wants to do is meet him. What Travis finds is a boy longing for someone who actually sees him. As Travis slowly becomes a bridge between mother and son, Taylor is forced to confront everything she's missed and everything she might still lose.

After the death of her estranged grandmother, Líorria Faul is summoned from her bleak life in the capital of Salvareth back to Kinsend, a remote village perched at the edge of the world, and a past she never meant to face again. Her inheritance is no gift. The apothecary her grandmother left behind is crumbling, buried in debt and bound by a deadline Líorria cannot outrun. If she can't settle what is owed before the Solstice, her only chance at a better future will vanish with it. As Líorria reconnects with old friends, forges uneasy alliances and uncovers the secrets her grandmother kept buried, something else begins to stir in the nearby Netherbough Forest. Magic Líorria believed long dead is awakening in her blood, and the forest knows it. In Kinsend, legacies never stay buried. And destiny always collects its due. **** Copyright © G.B. Fitzwilliam 2025 No part of this story may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ආත්ම ගාණකට පස්සේ මාව ආයෙම මනුස්සයෙක් කළේ උඹගෙ ඔය ආදරේ...

Pond Naravit Lertratkosum, brilliant biomedical engineering student, infamous playboy, and chaos magnet, arrives as a new transferee determined to prove that rural monster myths have scientific explanations. Dragging his equally chaotic friends, Joong, Phuwin, Gemini, his younger brother Fourth, and the rest of their loud research group, he brings them to the remote island of Koh Lanta to investigate legends of the Suea Saming, human-eating shapeshifters said to hide among villagers. Then Pond meets Dunk. Beautiful, mysterious, and impossibly lonely, Dunk lives deep in the forest and quickly becomes Pond's greatest distraction... and his greatest danger. Because the legends are real. The town is full of monsters. The students were never guests- only prey. And Dunk, the creature meant to lure humans to their deaths, has made the one mistake his kind cannot afford: He fell in love with Pond.

"When dreams become reality, love becomes the ultimate connection. in this mesmerizing tale, a chance encounter in a shared dream sparks a passionate romance between two strangers. as they delve deeper into their subconscious world, they discover a mysterious link between their dreams and the waking world. But as their emotions intensify, they must confront the ultimate question: can their love survive the transition to the real world, or will it remain forever trapped in the realm of the subconscious?"

In the mist-covered hills of Devagiri, some secrets refuse to stay buried. Priya has spent her life running from something she cannot explain-an ancient hunger that wakes in her dreams. When she arrives in a quiet hill town surrounded by forests, caves, and whispered legends, the past begins to stir. The hills remember. And something in the darkness has been waiting for her return.

On his thirteenth birthday, Finn Madden escapes his bleak Irish foster home to study at the Grove Academy in Tír na nDraoi, a magical dimension rooted in Celtic mythology. He quickly discovers he is a Weaver, capable of manipulating Aether, the fundamental life-force threading through all matter, and the last surviving Guardian of the Western Waters, a bloodline sworn to protect the legendary Cauldron of Rebirth. !! Story completed offline. Updates twice weekly (Tuesdays & Fridays) !! Feel free to send your feedback directly to dmn.writes@proton.me

A girl with a life-changing, out-of-the-ordinary curse grows up believing she's normal. A boy from an ancient bloodline is sent to befriend her, gain her trust, and stop her magic from awakening - even if he has to pretend to care for her. But as their relationship starts to build, her powers begin to unfold, and the one person meant to stop her is the one she feels safest with, and that's when he realizes. 𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.

"A Poem For Random People" The 8th Part of Thoughts & Feelings Poetry Book

Ryazan, one of the grandest cities in all Rus', lays along the war path of thousands of Tatar warriors eager to seize the spoils of a short-fought campaign: the women of the city and gold from its treasury. Having set up camp on the riverbank outside the city, they await a reply from the envoys of Grand Prince Yuriy. As the Grand Prince deliberates, his brothers both caution and counsel him. If Ryazan falls, the rest of Rus' may be next ─ an outcome his people grow ever more wary of, turning to priests and heretics alike as rumor and fear run rampant inside the city walls. Finally left untended, the Polovtsian princess Yanay, conquered once before, now belonging to one of the Grand Prince's brothers, quietly observes these developments. She prays to her old gods when she can and aligns herself with a young Tatar captive, all the while secretly seeking her freedom and revenge. ──────── ☽ ◯ ☾ ──────── A retelling of the Siege of Ryazan complete with rageful women and warrior princes; gods both kind and cunning; and sin aplenty. Copyright © 2026 Elle Chaika Open Novella Contest 2026 | Prompt No. 45 »Kings have honor, soldiers are brave, poets have heart, and all I have is rage!«

A fairy-tale-esque short story, which deliberately adopts folklore-like writing, using personified cosmic forces to explore love as mutual illumination rather than possession. No placement, but this tale has gotten a 95/100 in the Triquetra Awards Short Story category!

Not every fairytale begins with magic. Some begin with a storm. Aurora possesses a rare and dangerous gift-the ability to heal wounds that should have been fatal. Hidden within the walls of the kingdom of Hoshimi, her power has long been used to save soldiers on the battlefield. But as war begins to spread across the land, the secret of her abilities may soon become impossible to hide. Beyond the borders of the kingdom lies the Forest of Elarenthil, a place feared by many and understood by none. Ancient, mysterious, and alive with secrets, the forest holds truths that even the kingdom's rulers refuse to speak of. Somewhere within its shadows walks Kim Taehyung-a man whose past is deeply connected to the forest and the forces stirring within it. Aurora has never stepped beyond the safety of the castle walls. Taehyung has never belonged to the world beyond the forest. But as war, secrets, and fate begin to collide, the question is no longer if their paths will cross- but what will happen when they finally do. ~The Forest Remembers A novel by Dorothea Penrose

In a village where the river remembers names and the soil listens, silence is never empty. Noziphozamandla (Gift of Power) returns home carrying a grief she does not yet understand-unaware that death has already crossed her path, that her bloodline hums with secrets older than language. At night, the drum begins to speak. Soft at first. Patient. Calling not to her ears, but to her spirit. Children chant where no children should be. Shadows move without bodies. And something small watches from the dark, waiting to be acknowledged. Rooted in South African ancestral lore and whispered truths of witchcraft, When the Drum Speaks is a slow-burning, unsettling journey into the unseen, where amadlozi (ancestors) walk beside the living, gifts are inherited in silence, and ignorance is the most dangerous curse of all. Some stories are read. Others are answered.

Yna has been having dreams about a deity soaked in blood, both feared and revered. Her memories are limited, but she feels that these dreams are anything but. Xavier came with the first wave of explorers, arrived on the shores of one of the many islands in the Philippines, and was welcomed by the Rajah. Being a half-breed, he was no stranger to prejudice, but his friendship with the prince had him questioning where his loyalties lie. Naguinid, along with her brothers Barangaw and Macunduc are the deities of war. When an outside threat arrived and threatened the Rajah's kingdom, they had to make a decision about meddling in the affairs of mortals. What they didn't expect was a war that started between them.

📘Official Synopsis: Blood Black Hole ​In a world where magic is not a blessing but a Burden that condemns its users to become Warriors of War, Neck Wylián holds a single wish: to have friends and live in peace. ​But destiny has other plans. Neck is a Triple Hybrid-bearing the cursed lineages of the Vampire (Ybytu-etè) and the Werewolf (Guará-i)-and his power is the chaotic manifestation of the Blood Black Hole. ​After nearly dying on the front lines, Neck awakens his O Manó (Zenkai) in a new form: stronger, yet vulnerable to the sun and forced to fight against the instinctual pull of the blood. ​Now, while his mentor, Guaracy (the Regent King), wages a political war against the 10 Capital Sins-the corrupted heroes who founded the Realm-Neck, his best friend Iara, and the Elven scientist Jacy must learn to control the power that is destroying them. ​His fight is not just against monsters; it is a race against time to unravel why the world was built upon a lie and how the Wylián Burden is linked to the coming apocalypse.

The folklore love triangle retell. Heartbreaks,Love and Summer. Betty never experienced love before.But she met him.Betty and James were meant to be.But teenage love always ends in a heartbreak,for worse or for better.It happened one faithful summer,where a tear in their love story changes everything when Augustine enters their world.The other lonely girl,craving for love.The girl who could not cry because it was not her love story,the girl at the other end of the story,whose love was never her's.

translation of @withorns's fanfic!! all rights belong to her. - [modern au] Memories of a fight hurt, but memories and feelings from before it destroy. It takes weeks for the apology to show up at Rayla's doorstep. Will it be too late to be accepted? To repair some wings? For her to show every part of them to Callum again? To see how Callum is trying? Or will they stay lost in memories? Who knew that a mythology project would entangle Rayla and Callum so much? - Fic inspired in Taylor Swift's Album called Folklore!

Six years ago, Alice's life took an extraordinary turn when she accidentally met Toravien, a mysterious vampire from another world called Aezar. Their fateful encounter triggered a series of strange incidents at her school, leaving Alice questioning the boundaries between reality and the supernatural. Now, a looming threat shakes her world-Aezar's vampires are rumored to be planning an invasion. Determined to stop them, Alice and her friends cross the portal to Aezar, a land of beauty, danger, and secrets. Their mission: to find the legendary Amethyst's Treasure, the only thing that can destroy the portal forever and protect their world from destruction. But Aezar holds more than answers-it holds truths about Toravien, Alice's past, and the destiny she never imagined. In this gripping tale of courage, betrayal, and self-discovery, will Alice succeed in her mission, or will Aezar claim her as its own?

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Prompt: 16.And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. (Quote by John Muir)