High Crew is a finished story, the sequel is in the works. You can follow my Instagram forprogress updates and other exclusive content. Sea Betwixt is a world full of gruesome battles, plundering raids, political intrigue, struggle for success and recognition. Only blade and wit will allow one man to rise above others here. But make few steps away from civilization and you will face evil spirits, eldritch beings, enchanted places, monsters from beneath the sea and giants from the uncharted East. A young warrior named Ymdaton will cross this boundary between gritty warfare and mystical encounters many times, as he follows his lord on a quest for dominance. Follow him on a journey to the land of Drevlyani, a small stubborn nation struggling for survival in the unforgiving primeval forest. Will our hero claim his place in legends despite the terrible price it could cost him? Read High Crew and find out! Cover art by Alexandra Roslik.
42.91 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:30
Pocket_Pigeon | historical | Complete
Left behind by the flow of time, how would you spend eternity?
0.91 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:30
Balance is everything. Where the village ends, the rainforest begins, and while children whisper legends of impossible places and heroes, the villagers know there is nothing outside except the trees and what creeps between them. The dark and the creatures it hides have never entered the village, not while sacred spirits, the anki, protect it. With his father's body wrapped and laid in the funeral clearing, Talon wants only to get back to his crops, his wife and two children, Sosa and Halo but the bronze spear hidden in his father's hut is a complication he could do without. Metal is rare, and hoarding it forbidden, but that's the least of Talon's worries. The appearance of a young boy, stained with red dye, who crashes from the trees and collapses at Sosa's feet, could threaten the delicate balance, and Talon's decision to protect him will have consequences for his family; perhaps the whole village. Talon and Sosa are about to be drawn into an adventure which, like many others, is full of heroes and claws and teeth. What those legends rarely say is how much those claws can hurt. Talon and Sosa's legend does. Warning: There is some gore and violence in this book but not an excessive amount. It's carefully placed, but it is there, just so you know!
74.39 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:42
When a cynical shut-in is summoned over to another world is everything not as it seems. He is a reluctant hero but finally finds a reason play his part. He would rather stay inside all day long reading novels meanwhile gorging himself on ice cream. This is a short one-shot story.
0.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:35
mrinocence | romance | Complete
A boy, alone in the mountains. Covered in snow. Defenseless. Hunted by monsters. On the verge of death, he discovers a black dragon egg. Soon, the hunter will become the hunted. Rewritten chapters so far: Prologue Image credit on watermark.
43.78 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:21
Gatta Darya | satire | Complete
First short story of the ThReeee Sentences Story serie by 2 people writing 3 sentences in turns live. P.S. It is a satire, don't take it too seriously.
1.45 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 12:12
SomethingNew | comedy | Complete
After scrubbing the Duke of Derrington's floors for fifty odd years, old maid Hattie decides to nose her way into an adventure or two to make up for her lost youth. You're never too old to start something new! Updates Wednesdays and Sundays, chapters are a minimum of 1000 words.
15.77 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:24
RiaCorvidiva | comedy | Complete
Twenty-nine year old ViewTube extraordinaire and speedrunner Ashley Lancaster is on the road to the big time, only to be thwarted by one small problem: she's dead. But fate has a sense of humor, and she's been given a second chance. Now reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite game,Legendary Star Odyssey, she'll be able to go back to her old life, if she can survive this one. But that's no challenge at all for this lady -- follow her journey as she uses her vast repertoire of glitches, hacks, and other gamebreaking shenanigans to beatLSO in record time. Her fans are waiting, and she's not one to disappoint! ---- [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]. Updates will be 'as I finish chapters'. Cover by Wong40k: https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/129666
30.99 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:27
RemingtonSloan | contemporary | Complete
Dave sees life as a theatrical performance; he's in the audience, but he didn't buy a ticket. He's not interested in the show, and nothing he can say or do will disrupt the story on the stage. What's to stop him from getting up and leaving? What's to stop him from walking through the door with the exit sign over it? Note: Exit Sign is literary fiction and a psychological drama. It's the first novel I ever wrote. The story is personal, and I'm proud of what's in there. It's been described as Seinfeld meets Sartre and as My Dinner With Andre meets Ralph Bakshi. My goal was to write a story full of sincerity while exploring the heaviness of the human experience. I wanted to write something that helps people wrestle with dread and meaninglessness. Writing Exit Sign certainly helped me figure out a few things in life, so I'm hopeful that it will do the same for a diligent reader. I'll write the sequels one day, but in the meantime I'm focused on my pulpier stories. I wrote Exit Sign for everyone who hates working in a drive through. Just keep going. Keep going forward. You might suffer, but if you love your friends and family along the way, it's worth it. The novel is complete, so there will be regular updates until all of it is posted.
32.62 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:40
----EMMM---- | historical | Complete
An absent-minded twelve-year-old takes on uncharted waters, changing history along the way. But what does his own history have in store?
7.97 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:45
Thequeenoflove | historical | Complete
A story about the tragic medieval princess, Joan of England. The worst plague to ever devastate the world is unknown in England. As millions of people die, Princess Joan travels to mainland Europe and facing what poor and royal alike must face -- that death is imminent.
24.29 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:49
Kaoseto | psychological | Complete
As a budding little necromancer, I soon discovered that the world of city people is complicated. When my master kicked me out of the cave, he warned me not to talk about my "dark" magic, because people here don't like the undead. I am not really an undead, I just have a skeleton hand, but it is better to be careful. Anyway, that's not my biggest worry. In the Black Dagger brotherhood, I learn a lot of things, such as illusionist magic, which turns out to be quite handy to survive in this maze of streets: in the Cat Quarter, we have thugs of all kinds that are best avoided. But we also have good people, goodhearted "gwaks", as we say around here. Little did I know that I would soon be caught up in an infamous traffic that would entangle my life even more. With a mix of lighthearted adventure and picaresque, this story narrates the hectic life of a good-spirited street child and his companions in a medieval urban fantasy setting with some nineteenth-century influences. Updates Mondays and Fridays. This is a Creative Commons By work. It is a translation of a trilogy I wrote in Spanish between 2017 and 2018.
187.81 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 12:09
Necrontyr525 | sci_fi | Complete
What does one do when they have an indecent ammount of money, the legal ability toleave home and see the universe in all of its grim glory, and the obligation to grow the family's fame and fortune? Why, buy up an ex-Imperial Navy escort ship for a start! Then you can set about carving out your own little chunk of the back end of the Imperium of Man... as soon as you can get it back into working order, of course... and deal with the fact that buying a ship left you just about broke... You get the feeling that, somewhere out there,somthing is laughing at you.Part 1 of the Aegisverse Saga. Second Person is used throughout. If that isn't kosher with you, best to back out now. A Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader fanfictionComplete, with a total of 100 chapters and 309 pages. On the series - This series was first written as a Choose Your own Adventure (CYoA) on the /r/HFY forum. The between chapter votes have been omitted, as they are not part of the story, despite their influence on it. On the the Author's notes - These were included in the original document, and are included here for the purpose of completeness. Spelling, grammatical, and formatting changes have been made in the process of archiving this story and re-formatting it for publication on Royal Road. None of the contents of the story has been substantially affected.Cover by gej302!
49.00 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 12:26
The Grand Eye | comedy | Complete
A story about the complicated relationship between vampires and high explosives.
30.32 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:42
Mad Sadie | one_shot | Complete
A guard has a conversation with a storm. A short story.
0.52 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:38
Blue Draggy | tragedy | Complete
An adult imagining of Beatrice Santello's life prior to the events of Night in the Woods. There are no explicit depictions of sex here, though there are obviously adult themes and situations involving it. I wasn't going to post it to Royalroad as I didn't think Fanfiction was okay here - but now I see it is and I am quite convinced it is the best work I've ever done yet, I've got to see what any fans of NitW think about it! The first chapter was originally written as a short vignette and wasn't intended to be continued into a full blown story. It was just intended to be moody and evocative. Even though anyone that has played Night in the Woods has a good idea how this must end, I hope it will still be worth the read. Also, since I've finished writing it, I'm going to post it as one big chapter dump all at once. Cover drawing by GreasyMojo and colored by me (with permission!). I don't think it should be too risque on it's own but I suppose I'll soon find out.
11.25 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:52
michaelscottearle | action | Complete
After untold centuries of absence, the evil Ancients have returned. Their magic appears unstoppable and their hunger for conquest is insatiable. To protect the country of Nia, Duchess Nadea and Scholar Paug make a desperate journey to find a human legend: A man known to have destroyed these Ancient foes with a powerful army.But legends can lie.When Paug and Nadea revive their hero from sleep, his virtue is far from clear. Is he really their Savior or their Destroyer? Visit my website MichaelScottEarle.com to pick up Destroyer in eBook or Paperback (PST... The Destroyer Book 1 eBook is FREE)
72.19 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:55
Have you ever wanted to play the main character of your favorite book? Now you can! Welcome to Bookworld Online!
58.41 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 14:15
Sophia Carpersanti | drama | Complete
* Know more about the books and read earlier releases on the official site: http://carpersanti.net/gaea/ * What would you do if in this world there was a Magic Spell able to make the one you love love you in return? And what would you do if,suddenly, what began as a joke, a mere expression of a hidden desire,awoke a dangerous and cruel creature determined to make you bend to his will? Mariane is a simple and introverted Human girl. Gabriel is a powerful Deiwos used to always get what he wants. And how can these two different existences, originated from such different worlds, ever hope to learn to live together, communicate and, who knows, even understand each other ...?
164.27 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 14:27
NicholasGraves | horror | Complete
It came down in a ball of fire missing the transatlantic cruise. In a search for survivors, crewmembers find a body floating among the debris. But they also find something else. Before they realize the terror they've uncovered, it's already too late. A horror quickly spreads across the ship while its passengers are trapped in the middle of the endless blue.
16.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 14:29
