Adventure

The Stone Garden: The Secret of Tiana’s Restaurant
In 1920s New Orleans, there was talk of a cook whose gumbo could make you forget your sins. Patrons called her Tia, and her restaurant was never in the same place twice.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
Feathers and Steel: The War of Pocahontas
Before she was mythologized as the noble girl who saved a stranger, she was Matoaka, the child warrior of the Powhatan Confederacy.
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The Painted Face: Sleeping Beauty’s Forgotten Curse
In the 14th century, artists at the court of King Philip IV were commissioned to paint a portrait of his daughter, Aurora. The painting was said to “glow in the dark,” her skin so lifelike that onlookers swore she was breathing.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Blood Apple Orchard: The Real Curse of Snow White
In 1532, a German nobleman commissioned a glass coffin for his daughter, Maria Sophia von Erthal, after her death from “poison of the mind.” Locals claimed she was cursed — her stepmother a practitioner of “mirror magic,” known to consult reflective obsidian during storms.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Lighthouse of Moana: The Drowned Queen
In the 14th century, Pacific sailors spoke of Moana Ahi, a chieftain’s daughter who defied the tides to save her people. When her island began to sink, she built a tower of coral to hold back the sea — a “lighthouse of souls,” said to burn with the hearts of ancestors.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
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 Sand Palace: The Death of Jasmine
In 1820, a British explorer named Henry Cartwright claimed to have found “a city made of glass and gold buried beneath the Arabian dunes.” His journals mention a woman he called the Desert Bride — a queen who ruled without shadow, whose palace rose and fell with the wind.
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The Feast of Shadows: Tiana’s Last Supper
New Orleans, 1925. Jazz was loud, hunger louder. Tiana LaRue ran the most famous kitchen on Basin Street — people swore her gumbo healed grief, that even ghosts lined up outside.
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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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The Glass Waltz: The True Death of Aurora
In 1768, an epidemic swept through Provence — a “sleeping sickness” that left dozens of young women comatose but breathing. One of them was Aurélie Duval, a marquis’ daughter known for her beauty and her voice.
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The 100: Season 2 — The Mountain and the War
Previously on The 100 Season 1… The Earth was reborn in fire. A hundred young prisoners sent from the Ark landed on a devastated, toxic world and discovered they were not alone. Wars erupted. Alliances were tested. Clarke Griffin emerged as a reluctant leader, fighting not just for survival, but for the very soul of humanity.
By kashif khan3 months ago in Chapters
The 100: Season 1 Humanity Returns to a Broken Earth . AI-Generated.
S “Survival isn’t who you are. It’s who you become.” Earth is silent. Once filled with life, laughter, and color now it’s nothing but ashes and ghosts. Ninety-seven years ago, humanity destroyed itself in a nuclear apocalypse. The air turned poisonous, the ground burned, and the oceans boiled. The few who survived escaped to space, living on a massive station orbiting the dead planet. They called it the Ark.
By kashif khan3 months ago in Chapters