2020-04 The Reluctant Princess Contest - Closed to new entries

No more new entries to contest, but new chapters of existing entries can still be posted with the tag. Voting procedures will be announced within a week or so.

The list of story squibs:

Princess Contest
2020-04 April
The Reluctant Princess Story Contest

Oh, if you use any of these ideas, you don't have to keep the details I came up with. You can invent your own, or invent your own story idea. Enjoy! - Erin

First Name, Princess

After his parents’ freakish deaths (involving a five-ton wrecking ball and a car full of clowns on their way to a birthday party), Dana finds out his first name is Princess. Worse, at 14, he’s already betrothed and, willy nilly, he’s on his way to meet his future husband, Prince Carlon of Bellefontaine. Things couldn’t get worse, could they? Well, the wedding is scheduled for… next Saturday?


A Neverworld Princess

Elvie is one of the Princesses of Neverworld, Losted Boys who disappeared into a magical place where they never have to grow up and be men, but instead, they can stay and be the little girls they always wanted to be.

It’s a magical life without end until trouble comes to Neverworld in the form of Ocie, a Losted Boy who wants to go home — and only Elvie can take him there.


The Once and Future Princess

A month before high school graduation, Cameron McPell discovers that he’s the princess of an obscure island in the North Atlantic and key to an important treaty among the NATO allies. “But I’m a boy,” Cam points out. That doesn’t seem to matter, no one cares, and the State Department insists on sending Cam off to Ys Gewaldentrop to take his spot on the throne of the quirky little principality.


The Princess and the Popstar

Austin Cleaver is a big singing star, almost by accident, and he’s just twelve! But the end of his career may be at hand: puberty looms. Still, a wacky adventure intervenes when Austin and Princess Gloriandelle of Blüffendorp discover they look exactly alike! For fun, they swap places and anything can happen next! Eventually, the problem becomes, how do they switch back -- and do they want to?


A Princess Bride

Georgie doesn’t know his real name or age, he’s been living on the streets of Philadelphia for at least six years; since he was eight or nine. When he’s taken in by a kind woman, fed, bathed and given new clothes to wear, he doesn’t object that they’re girl’s clothes. He’s done some things in the last couple of years, just to survive that he doesn’t want to talk about.

But Mrs. Vendall has a business, she finds brides for lonely men in the Far West and runs a hostel where she teaches destitute young women how to become a wife. Regular meals, a bed to sleep in, it’s almost like heaven. Georgie, now called Georgia, settles in and soon has a correspondence going with Wilson Prince, a mining foreman in Feldspar, Arizona.

Wilson seems nice and wants to marry Georgia and make her his Princess. With a new wardrobe and a train ticket in hand, Georgie realizes things may have already gone too far.


The Princess Curse

Prince Andrev Montcoeur expected to grow up and serve one of his brothers as a Knight of the Realm or something. But now his uncle has seized the throne and placed a curse on his three nephews, instead of princes, they’ve been turned to princesses! Princess Andrevya might possibly be able to reverse the curse and save the kingdom from her evil uncle. But her cousin Prince Svenbard is her uncle’s heir, and he’s asked her to marry him!

If only Sven wasn’t such a good kisser!


The Princess Files

Agent Dan Shelton didn’t think the girl with her wiggly fingers could do him any serious harm after he was rude to her on the subway. As an operative of the Department of Special Investigations, he didn’t believe in magic. At least, not professionally.

But something is happening to him…. And his partner, Wolf Belker, is no help at all. Especially after the powers above hand down their new assignment. Tracking down a series of missing princesses. One of whom Dan is starting to resemble….

“Don’t Say Impossible,” says Wolf, reminding them both of the agency’s motto.


Princess for a Day

Hilarie Doran hated his name but it turned out to be useful when he discovered a fluke in the school rules made it possible for a boy to run for Homecoming Queen. With a makeover from his sister and some slick photo-posters, he looked good enough to come in third in the contest. As a Homecoming Princess though, is he going to have to dress the part? His Homecoming Prince, Jaques Brock insists. “I ain’t standing on that float with a guy hanging off my arm!”


Princess for Life

Pretty boy Preston Lucie is going to serve three life terms for his part in a bank robbery gone wrong. His only hope of survival in prison is becoming one of the “princesses” of the King of Cell Block Six, Balderon di Brazzi. Di Brazzi likes his “girlfriends” to compete for his favors. Can Lucie be bitch enough to keep his place?


Princess from Another Planet

Auvrabrede was the Princess of the planet Ratheon but a palace coup forced her parents to hide her on Earth. She’s grown up thinking she’s Orville Brady but the twelve-year-old boy is heir to a galactic empire. And some cool superpowers!

Adjusting to her new identity is tough, especially since her best friend, Ollie Jameson, thinks she should stay on Earth as a superhero, er, superheroine.


The Princess Game

Kevin’s dad works a confidence game on a wealthy mark that involves Kevin posing as Princess Kelwynne from an obscure (fictional) European kingdom. Things get complicated. Is someone else working a con, too? They’re trying to convince Kevin that he really is a missing princess, and heir to some fabulous riches.

“Stop drooling, Daddy,” Kevin, or Kelwynne, protests. “You can’t possibly believe your own con!”

“But Princess….”


The Princess Knight

Sir Orrigan rescued Princess Delfina from the clutches of a necromancer who wanted to use the beautiful young girl to make herself immortal. The witch is dead but Orrigan and Delfina are in the wrong bodies now and a thousand leagues from home. Can they survive in their new forms and even better, can they find someone to switch them back?


The Princess Plague

A bioweapon escapes the lab and the government is terrified. This particular nanoergatronic plague is designed to turn men into women of the most desirable sort -- princesses. Bobby is pretty sure he’s caught the plague, still, who wouldn’t want to be Princess Roberta?

But he must have known it would happen…. The government says they’ve developed a cure!


Princess Planet

Wanted for crimes of confidence against the ruling class, Cody Stannis escapes by taking the first ship leaving High Woomera Station. But he may have jumped from the griddle to the deep-fat fryer. On Neocalypso, all men work like slaves and all women live like princesses. Cody hates work and enjoys the good life but if his disguise fails even once, he’s going to find out what happens in the Bathysamba mines from which no man returns.


Princess School

Kayden Winne’s family is poor so when he gets a scholarship to a prestigious private high school, he is at first happy about it. Then he realizes he knows just enough French to translate the name of the school, L’École pour les Dauphines, to English: School for Princesses.


Virtual Princess

Andrew Porter is an online Princess in the long-running MMORPG “Unreal Earth”. It sort of happened by accident but he keeps winning the contests to advance into higher and higher levels. It’s becoming a big thing, drawing attention outside of the virtual world. Now Andy has discovered that one of the Princes of the game is a classmate at his school. Mark Duke is a genius and it’s no surprise that he can excel at this. But suddenly, it’s beginning to look like someone is rigging things for Andy to win….


Voodoo Princess

Dan, delivering a non-criminal payment to an associate for his gangster father is forced to fight off thugs trying to extort his father’s debt holder, Avery.

Avery is impressed by Dan’s resolve and courage and introduces him to his very beautiful daughter Sofia, who has another problem, she needs a man to accompany her to tell her old boyfriend she is breaking off the relationship.

Dan is smitten by Sofia’s beauty, face, and figure and agrees without considering too deeply. Things go from bad to worse and Dan ends up wounded. He passes out.

He has a dream where a spirit named Papaloa explains that someone is bargaining for his life.


Were Princess

On moonlit nights, Arthur turns into a princess…

It sure causes problems with his opportunities for dating.



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