Magical Realism

At Arm's Length
Theo knew from the brochure that Hill Academy was quite large. The brochure, however, did not give the school an ounce of justice. The sprawling campus had more acreage than students. Among its many buildings set aside for core classes, Hill Academy sported a baseball, football, and American football field, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, two tennis courts, and a running track. For those less athletically inclined, there were computer labs and music rooms galore, as well as a massive library and an auditorium to rival the Apollo.
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A Fresh Start. Top Story - November 2025.
Theo Quill had only one goal for his senior year at Hill Academy: survive. The more invisible he could be, the better. Especially after what happened at his old school.
By Natalie Gray3 months ago in Chapters
The Child of Two Shadows
She glowed softly, belonging to both.
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The Garden Between Seconds
Lovers age only when they leave.
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The Letters in the Wind
Every autumn, the wind in Valehaven carried scraps of paper through the streets. No one knew where they came from. Some were love letters, others goodbyes, others pleas.
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The Apartment That Only Existed in Mirrors
When Nadia moved to Prague, she found a perfect apartment — central, affordable, and newly renovated. Except it wasn’t listed anywhere else. No neighbors. No records. No mail.
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The Rose That Drank the Moonlight
In the ruins of an old monastery, a single rose grew — black as ink, luminous as frost. The monks who tended it swore it drank moonlight instead of water.
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The Girl Who Swallowed the Sea
She was not a princess, not even human — just a girl who envied the ocean too much. When the sea whispered to her, she answered by swallowing saltwater every night until her veins turned brine. They said she was cursed when her voice changed — not gone, but deep, echoing like waves.
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The Mirror of Smoke: Snow White’s Final Reflection
After the queen’s death, the mirror was sealed in the royal vault. Snow White ruled wisely, aging gracefully, until her eyes grew clouded and her hair silver.
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The Frost Bride: The Forgotten Truth Behind Elsa
Before there was Arendelle, there was Arenfjord, a real 17th-century Norwegian settlement lost to a winter that never ended. In diaries recovered from the ruins, one name appears again and again: Elsa of Nordlys, a girl who “walked with frost in her breath.”
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The Siren’s Bell: The Real Story Behind Ariel
In 1803, a whaling ship named The Melusine vanished near the coast of Iceland. When it reappeared months later, its deck was covered in coral, and only one man remained alive.
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Mountains of Flame: The Dragon-Girl’s Gift
I remember the first time I felt the heat under my skin, though I did not understand it then. It was subtle, like a pulse in my veins that would not be ignored, a rhythm foreign to my own heartbeat. I was sixteen, though I could not yet know that I carried something ancient and terrible within me, something that had slept for centuries, waiting. The mountains had always been my refuge, a jagged fortress that the wind scoured clean of noise, of people, of prying eyes. It was here that I learned to be alone, and it was here that he found me.
By Panagiota3 months ago in Chapters