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Sam--short for Samantha, if you please--has been living in Crawley, Maine for about a year in her grandfather's lighthouse. A promising advertiser, she works from home and the local coffee shop, where she gets her daily hot chocolate fix. For her, life is perfectly normal and that's just the way she likes it. That is...
Selkies are the seal people of Scottish legend.They can shed their seal skin and become human, or keep it on and remain a seal. Ronan, a selkie himself, is in love with a girl on land, Maggie. But he can't stay with her; he will die. Maggie cannot go into the ocean with him; she will drown. And when Maggie's drunk and...
Angel-Lynn came to shore for an adventure but what she found was far more than an adventure. After being put in danger can she overcome the obstacle to get back.
"No men that's the rule" she yelled at herself as she walked back the cold air numbing her hands into pain. Who was she why did she come to the door ? It doesn't matter now I have to leave the window was the best option, he didn't notice....
Macrae finds a strange child on the sand. Elspeth finds her preconceptions are not as true as fact. They find friends in each other, and want to keep that love forever. Cover made with www.canva.com
Emeline never knew why she felt a powerful connection to the ocean. She would find herself staring at it for hours on end, a dull ache throbbing in her chest. Little did the young woman realize what her adoptive father had hidden from her. A secret that explains her longing to be one with the sea.
Isla is an on again off again petty thief. She really cant help herself, it's a compulsion really. So when her sights set on the fur coat of a certain high society lady, she can't help herself. But when the theft of the fur leads to a little more than she bargained for, Isla is thrown into a world of magic, romance, a...
a short drabble from a few months ago, with an experimental writing style. selkie stories are my favorite, especially the romantic ones. i did my best to do them justice here.
Story based on the Selkie legends of the British Isles. Maisie and her sisters shed their sealskin coats and become human to dance, but a man takes Maisie's coat and forces her to stay with him on land.
Set in 1890's Cornwall, a young girl, Maya, longs to discover the world outside of her protected little beach. And by that, she longs to feel the water that is unprotected by 'selkie skins'. Accompanied by her brother and sister, they experience a night they will never forget.
As a Selkie, it is natural that Mila is fond of the sea. But when she is unexpectedly forced to become the wife of a seaman she must fight to survive and save herself from her reoccurring abuse.
Ronat's sealskin was stolen. But is the pull of the sea stronger than her connection to her family?
This was done in 2017 in one of my final classes before graduation. The ending (aka the last 3+ pages) was rushed mainly because I had found out late that there was, indeed, a page cap. I would like to edit this and make it much longer and include a lot of what I had originally intended for the story.
To steal a selkie's skin is to bind it to the land, forever cut off from the sea until they can find their skin once again. Ruv is a selfish man, and manages to see if the legends are true. A birthday gift for MayflyingMink on Twitter! Cover art by chocolatepancakes.tumblr.com
A story about the legends of the Selkies. After seven years they return to the sea, and their human husbands pay a price of a broken heart.
When your best friend ditches you at the last minute, it's hard to move past it... but sometimes they have a good reason!
An erotic short story - the King of the Sea takes a Selkie for his bride Heat index: molten lava. You've been warned.
Blame it on her singing. Blame it on fate. With a Selkie about, Islay's life is about to become a lot more interesting. FOR MATURE, ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. Short Story Completed Copywritten 2021. All Rights Reserved.
One night, a lonely young fisherwoman comes across a group of magical creatures dancing in the moonlight.
A night watchman with a past so horrific that he has been stripped of even his name. A young bride who knew the freedom of the sea until her seal skin was stolen away. Both trapped in their own ways. When they meet by chance one night, this nameless man must decide whether it's worth the wrath of his village to help h...
Upon different years in time, two children were born upon Earth, Reeve and Rheanne. Both separated by age, 33 years, and land, two different states. This is the story of how their worlds collide and found something special that they both shared. One Pelt is a story based of the mythology of the Selkie creatures. Its...
SHORT STORY / 5800 Words Lea knew what the land folk were good for - very little. They stumbled around awkwardly on spindly legs and smelled of sweat and dung. She preferred the open freedom of the ocean. To be able to plunge hundreds of feet into its shadowy depths or to ride in exhilaration along a cascading wave. B...
Previously called "My Troubled Queen" Joshua Callaway is a heartbroken single father, with a dead best friend/lover, a cute daughter and dying patients on his hands. Cotton Bryce is a lonely soul, with a job he's not proud of you, a name that isn't his and a huge debt to allow his dying brother to have the only surge...
