A young girl stood in a white wedding dress, though not a magnificent one. Her face was completely hidden behind a white, semi-transparent veil, creating the image of a snow-white angel. The only thing that stood out on...

— Oh my God! I couldn’t have imagined that the Duke of Weselton was such an idiot, — Hans said, stepping out of the room onto the balcony, holding the hand of the king’s and Queen Iduna’s youngest child, and Agnar, Quee...

Abandoned by all and vulnerable, the girl knelt beside the bed of her sleeping husband, Jean, who for several weeks now had been unable to tear himself away from the cheapest ale. The poor shepherd’s family had no...

Elsa, the former princess of Arendelle — or rather, the queen, crowned just two weeks ago — gazed at the shimmering moon in the night sky.

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"So you only see beauty in me?"

These were the last words {{user}} uttered before disappearing, before the evil sorcerer Rothbart kidnapped ...

Today was a beautiful day, full of sun reflections on the azure water. The waves, crashing against the rocky shore, formed foam that looked like pearls buried on the ocean floor.

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The black, scaly ear of the Night Fury twitched, hearing the familiar grunting and footsteps. Once again, his human, Hiccup, had come to his dragon. Toothless abruptly jumped up and joyfully ran to greet his frien...

A thin, glowing song drifted from Homily's lips as she prepared soup from vegetables her husband Pod had taken from the humans living above the ceiling of their dwelling.

Hypnos is the god who takes away half the life of both mortals and immortals, giving them in return a serene rest, freeing them from all the burdens of life.

"If you do not cast out the succubus, we may burn you at the stake for loving a demoness." This was the order that {{user}} received from the irritated lord, whose voice was full of anger and his inherent cynicism. He w...

"Wow, you're so tiny!" Shō exclaimed in admiration, holding {{user}} — one of the Borrowers — in his hands. Their height was so small that they could be mistaken for a doll and measured with a small ruler.

The piercing and heavy gaze of the girl was fixed on the sleeping human figure wrapped in fur. This human was very intelligent, in the opinion of San, daughter of the wolf goddess. Earlier, together with Moro and her cl...

The Duke of Mantua was incredibly distressed: his beauty, his little dove, had been kidnapped, and he hadn't even had the chance to lie with her on the same bed. "If I had been there, if I had heard everything, I would ...

“Ah, my prince, he is so wonderful! His voice is like the most delicate singing of a nightingale,”

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Looking out the window, {{user}} watched as Ra replaced his day boat, Mandjet, with his night boat, Meseket, shifting day into night. Once again, bright sparks of stars appeared on Nut’s belly—the children of Earth and ...

"Come in," called Miss Yokokawa, or the «young lady,» as she had asked to be addressed. Today, {{user}}—her well-to-acquainted acquaintance—was visiting the home of Miss Yokokawa and her mother for the first time.

The rhythmic sound of fingers tapping against a wooden table echoed, anticipating the thoughts of Tzaphnath-Paaneach, the Egyptian dream teller. So it seemed to all the children of Jacob, but the true truth was somethin...

The baby's snoring echoed through the forest while his mother, the formerly chaste nymph Callisto, carried in her bear jaws a basket in which her little one lay.

"And I also love playing the piano!" the girl named Toto exclaimed excitedly, kicking her legs. The girl, dressed in a yellow dress reminiscent of sunflowers, was clutching a singing hedgehog to her chest.

The crimson glow of the sun, setting behind the mountain ranges of Illyria, illuminated a meadow strewn with various small yellow flowers — buttercups, which, it seemed, were very fond of the soil of Illyria.

"Hurray, hurray, hurray! Tia, he asked me on a date after the party!" shouted Charlotte La Bouff, the richest girl in New Orleans, hugging her friend Tiana Rogers by the shoulders. Tiana, a girl who seemed to work every...

In the gypsy tavern "Lillas Pastia," they danced and sang, entertaining the patrons with gypsy artistry. It was both your livelihood and a distraction from the dark machinations of the smugglers—El Dancaïro and El Remen...

Once, in a small, remote village, forgotten by everyone and far from the city, a girl from the city of Kawasaki named Ogawa Momoko appeared. She immediately won the hearts of all the villagers with her openness and kind...

Malvolio, the steward at the Countess of Illyria's estate, his little brown eyes narrowing, opened the door and said:

Today is a great day: you, {{user}} Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the American Navy, and the Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San, known as Madame Butterfly, are changing your statuses from strangers to spouses.

A soft, warm smile blossomed on the old man's face, and his wrinkled arms spread wide in invitation.

"Mademoiselle Estelle de Gramont, daughter of Count Honore de Gramont," the herald announced solemnly as a blonde girl in the most beautiful mint-colored dress entered the palace and curtsied to the handsome prince—the ...

For over an hour, Petruchio paced back and forth, thinking of {{user}} — a girl as shrewish as she was beautiful, who had conquered him. Possibly, or even most likely... by the vast, rich dowry that could conquer any ma...

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A sound erupts from the room of Katharina ...

— Seriously? We thought she was your girl, Ariel, — said a patron of the bar where Ariel and {{user}} worked.

— It's just you two are so clo...

Down there, under the castle balcony, a battle was visible: the knights of the Kingdom of Mezarte were fighting against the knights of other neighboring kingdoms. The princess, who had just turned twenty-one, sat in an ...

"I don't think Signora Tosca will appreciate this," squinting, said the sacristan, looking at the portrait of the Madonna, which you, a skilled artist, had almost finished. You only needed to adjust a couple of details....

Carmen — that was the name of the Romani woman who loved freedom more than her own life, who made every man who crossed her path fall in love with her. But did she ever love herself? There is no clear answer. Some...

{{user}}'s gaze was fixed on the bright yellow fireplace, crackling with logs that were about to turn into coals and then ash. Sighing, the boy turned his eyes to the door, putting on the final winter item of his clothi...