messages hidden in the wind

It was a very windy day, the envelope was shaking violently in her hands. The
wind was messing with her red hair, which looked like fire in contrast with the
grey clouds. Beneath the bridge where she was standing, there was a very deep cliff that divided the city in two, and all the way down was a river that lead to the ocean, just a few miles ahead.

The envelope was finally let go and it flew through the air. This was the fifth time that she had felt the need to fold a blank piece of paper and put it into an envelope. She carried it with her until she felt it was pointless and abandoned it anywhere. A few days later she found out that the "letters" did have a destination, and than when they arrived they all had messages in them with what it seemed her handwriting.

They were messages hidden in the wind, too weak to be heard but too important
to get lost.

She doesn't know how that happens or why it happens. It is her handwriting but she is 100% sure she never wrote anything herself, and later she starts to hear voices in the wind, whispers.

AAP by unreadstory

The Society for the Prevention of Stew

Genre: Sword and Sorcery/Comedy

Your MC is a culinary wizard. Literally. Can't fight or divine or heal, but makes the most wonderful food. Joins adventuring parties in order to give them decent meals.

MC sets out on a quest to gather rare ingredients and open a gourmet restaurant. So get the party of skilled fighters and adventurers together, because this will require venturing deep into the Haunted Caverns of Doom for mushrooms, seeking out rare herbs in the Forest of Doom, diving for sea serpent eggs on the Lake of Doom (and dodging the sea serpents), and slaying the dragon to turn it into bacon!

AAP by larelmian

story of the evacuees

Genre: pseudo-medieval epic fantasy or some other war-torn setting. Remember how heroes are always evacuating those who are too young or too old to fight out of villages that will soon be site of some battle? Write a story about the evacuees. What is it like, being smuggled into hiding while your family, friends, and neighbors stay behind to fight? What happens when they never come back - no one ever comes back - and the "too old" must care for the "too young," or visa versa?

AAP by Selah Ex Animo

Guardian of the Dragons

Soraya was chosen as a child to be a Guardian of the Dragons - the one person from her village allowed into the dragons' lair, the one who serves them and meets their every need or desire. Without the Guardians, one young woman selected by lot from each village in the valley, the dragons would have to provide for themselves. Although these dragons are strict vegetarians and would not kill to eat or for pleasure, the dragons do not much care for lives other than their own and would think nothing of burning a whole herd of cattle and their keepers, along with razing an orchard to the ground, just to get one juicy apple from one tree. As had been proven many times prior to the arrangement of the Guardians.

It has been a hard life and a lonely one, Soraya not being able to connect well with the Guardians from the other villages in their few hours off each day. But now she has reached the age at which her contract expires and after spending a couple of weeks training her young replacement, Hamila, Soraya is free to return home to her village.

But the homecoming is not all that she had imagined it would be. The years of virtual solitude have left Soraya with few social skills; none at all when it comes to dealing with young men. And although her former friends among the young ladies attempt to welcome her back, Soraya feels that they would enjoy themselves more without her.

So Soraya finds herself mostly socializing with Hamila's mother, Rahat, a woman about ten years her senior, telling her stories about what high points she can remember or manufacture of her life among the dragons in return for lessons in socialization and the occasional story of Hamila's life before the selection.

The social lessons help and Soraya begins to feel more comfortable among her peers, finding herself capable of participating in their parties and conversations at least well enough to not embarrass her friends in front of their suitors. And one of the young men, Farid, is starting to pay particular attention to Soraya. At least, that is what the other girls say.

But Soraya is also growing closer to Rahat and feels her pain at the loss of her daughter. And the stories of Hamila's childhood, as well as their experiences together while Soraya was training her, convince Soraya that Hamila could never be happy as a Guardian. And Soraya begins to feel that it is her duty to rescue Hamila from that fate. But how to do it without endangering their peace with the dragons or with the other villages in the land?

AAP by topsecret

The princess is the villain

The princess in this story is actually a villain. She arranged to be married to a certain prince using magic she forced out of an evil wizard she met while on a ride (actually, she went and broke into his tower and kidnapped his beloved cat familiar hostage until he taught her what she wanted). She wants to marry this prince specifically because he lives in a warm southern country and she lives in a cold northern one. To accomplish this, she kidnaps the evil wizard's cat again and forces him to go to the prince's country disguised as her (because she doesn't trust him not to do embarrassing things if he were to stay and she were to go) and the evil wizard casts a spell to make the prince fall in love with the princess. To get back at her, the wizard also casts the spell on a vain, extremely clingy dragon he meets on the way back and chaos ensues.

AAP by Sayaren

diabetic vampires

Vampires exist. But they aren't sex gods. They aren't even a metaphor for homosexuality. This time, the vampires are closer to diabetics, which makes their condition liveable but horribly inconvenient.

These vampires are just like everyone else. They're nocturnal and can't stand sunlight, so most of them take graveyard shift jobs like night nurse and night construction workers. They also have to drink blood, too. Except they always are nice enough to ask first, since they want to make sure that the blood they get is safe. They do not take donations from children, they don't take donations from anyone with a blood disease, and they take nothing from people that don't want to. Thay also use nothing but the most sterile collection tools and reimburse all donors with cookies and juice, telling them to rest for a few minutes before doing anything strenuous.

Anyone feel like writing a story about diabetic vampires?

AAP by Dennis Dunjinman

The disowned children are the clan's only hope

The Isle of Lewis near Scotland is home to a pack of vicious werewolves. The pack's laird, Ian, has disowned two of his three children: Ewan and Meara. Meara is weak and a poor hunter, and Ewan protects her. But when Blaire, Ian's third child, goes power-hungry and attempts to assassinate her father, Ewan and Meara might be the only ones left alive in a bloody werewolf clan war. Can they stop their mad sister before she succeeds in deposing their father?

AAP by Kandy