SinceBecomesWhy | mystery | Complete
In the near future a news reporter uncovers an interplanetary story he hopes will mark a high point in his career.
1.40 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:41
This is a short story.Warning: contains traumatizing content, if this will cause you stress please avoid it. Setting: underwater Two siblings, a boy and girl, have always spent their time in the ocean. They are merfolk, rather than mermaids: they’re tailless. Their time is spent vaguely, and their neighbors are mysterious. Unlike most oceans, they are in some enclosed environment. Why? They’ll never know. But things get too much for them. What’ll they decide on? Enjoy.
0.40 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:33
----EMMM---- | contemporary | Complete
Getting home in one piece to have a drink with your friends is a good thing. Figuring out how to make the design of a corn research shed interesting while getting there is even better. Especially when your studio professor is out to get you!
0.44 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:12
SooperDude24 | tragedy | Complete
An alien seeks guidance to understand the actions of his human subordinate.
1.96 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:46
Elizabeth Tschereda | horror | Complete
Deep in a tangled forest spilled out from a sleeping god live our protagonists, Cassie and Angus. Cassie lives a normal village life; Angus lives a life filled with evil cultists, gods, and magical powers. When their lives collide Cassie is forced to flee the only home she has ever known. Can they work together to make up for the mistakes of the past, and defeat the evil cultists once and for all?
19.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:00
Welty | contemporary | Complete
A long-awaited reunion of two former lovers. James a now married man encounters his first girlfriend on the streets of a foreign city. Years have separated them as time often does, but how much has it diminished their love? Or has it grown in that time? How will James face his lustful desires when faced with the girl who owns the flame of his old passion?
2.46 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:24
Yuuenchi | one_shot | Complete
Aihara Ryuusuke was always cleaning up after his childhood friend Kajika Seriko especially those childish origami cranes of hers that had been her obsession the past 2 years. Unbeknownst to him, Seriko was folding 1000 cranes so her special wish would be granted. But she was forever loosing her precious cranes, forcing her to start over. And then one day she walks in on him... Previously published on FictionPress
3.99 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 19:03
NicholasDuval | one_shot | Complete
A young spellcaster is banished from her community for witchcraft and exiled into a dark, ancient forest. While lost among the trees, she discovers a lonely devil. Together, they form a bond that could blossom into love... and save their new home.
11.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 19:02
Stephanie Van Orman | contemporary | Complete
Fall in love with a ghost, but wake up to a real boy... and he's yelling at you.
3.69 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 14:12
Basil wants to propose to Della. But Gemma won't let the two of them be alone. Then Basil's friend starts a fight with Gemma's husband. And nobody can work out who Wanda really is. It's a night doomed to be a total disaster, but in the middle of it something magical happens: one perfect moment that they will all long remember.
2.72 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:35
NolanConrey | horror | Complete
The Craton and her crew return to the Sol System, the original home of humanity. For many of her crew, born far from the cradle of our species, it is a unique event, to see the world that nurtured us into existence. For those from Earth, though, a harsher reality is known, as the history of our world is not one of tranquility and peace. With a pending trial against him, Brooks confronts his past on Earth, while Apollonia gets a dream both crushed and fulfilled. This is the calm before the storm, for people to look inward and come to grips with themselves and their reality.
27.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:38
Tokage Noshipo | historical | Complete
Notes for a forthcoming work that have been cobbled together to form a historical narrative from the distant past. A first attempt at world building, the setting is an alternative Earth/Isekai and is written based on the common sense of that reality. I anticipate many changes may be made as this is only a draft, and the primary work is still a ways off from completion, but I place it here for practice, and if any soul chooses to take it on, notes and advice would be greatly appreciated.
4.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:31
ArDeeBurger | historical | On going
This story is a tale classic in its tragedy, about the foibles of Man and how he destroys the things he loves, all to prove himself superior over the Universe. In a quest to defeat Hilter during Wold War II, Winston Churchill and Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt barter with a race of serpents who come from outer space. There are a few inconveniences for the leaders of the West when dealing with these creatures. For one, they can't even talk to them, for the aliens 'speak' by manipulating light. But in exchange for the knowledge of how to build an atomic bomb, all the monsters want from us is to live in peace at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. What could go wrong with that? * * * This story is my entry in The Royal Road Community Magazine Contest * * *
5.76 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-04-02 14:59
Brandon Dee | contemporary | Complete
Nico Moretti was a young man with no direction in his life. But that all changes when his mob boss grandfather gives him access to a System that seems tailor-made to transform him into the perfect mafioso. Will Nico be able to hold onto his values, or will this lifestyle and system bring out a darkness that he didn't know he had? Join him as he levels up and walks this dangerous new path. New chapters every Friday
24.43 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 17:01
Yousureimnotarobot | one_shot | Complete
Earth is in a hostile galaxy and we tried to tell them to stay away. They didn't listen. I wrote this for HFY in chapters and this is a rewrite, including a lot that was left out or skipped over.
6.88 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 15:26
jc431 | psychological | Complete
Lilly is an attractive, young, goat-woman, in the prime of life. But she is in mental and physical decline. She has become increasingly isolated, living alone. Her sustenance and shelter are covered by a stipend she receives from her parents abroad, in exchange for working as the superintendent of their apartment building, where she lives, and for attending college. Although she is intelligent, she has stopped attending college due to her boredom with the subjects, her declining ability to concentrate, or even to communicate. She fills her empty hours with her art' projects, and preying on middle-aged salarymen.
21.37 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 14:47
Fox Bluereaver | drama | Complete
Subject #150, Codename: Mewtwo. The strongest Pok閙on ever created, a being of fury and destruction unmatched by anything else. But was he always meant to be that way? Perhaps, once, things could've gone differently...Backstory supplement for the main story written by Viroro-kun. Main story knowledge not essential, but reccomended. Ties in with Chapter 37.
11.19 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 14:45
Herko Kerghans | one_shot | Complete
Sergeant Gonzal had a very good nose for trouble. But this time, rather than the Cloning vats, the reek of things rotting came from the Mess Hall. *** "Off the Vat" is a complete, very short novel (around 20,000 words across 7 chapters), inspired by the recloning mechanic that Sci Fi MMOs like EVE Online or The Repopulation use to explain why players respawn.
12.46 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 13:47
Fay Voss | one_shot | Complete
A thirteen-year-old girl's destiny is to become a vessel for the Goddess of her village.
0.46 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 13:46
panda___god | romance | Complete
A short story about what could have been. Author's Note: Each chapter is supposed to be read as a diary entry. An indeterminate amount of time passes in between each day, but the day numbers provide a rough frame of reference. All of the chapters can be read in a few minutes, but each day has its own chapter.
1.10 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 13:33
