Radiant Summer moon (TravisW) | mystery | Complete
A civilization on a planet starts to discover it's past Loriane gray head archeologist leading a team of researchers some hired guns and AI to study ancient ruins of a lost civilizations past.
13.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:40
Gryphon10 | mystery | Complete
A short story about someone climbing a mountain that no one has ever successfuly climbed. He will have to overcome obstacles and come to the truth of why the mountain has never been successfully climbed.
2.18 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:41
MrHatman26 | mystery | Complete
As the world ends, a group of soldiers make their way to the last human facility. Their last mission is to deliver a code for the last flower; the last hope.
0.47 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:41
Pao275 | psychological | Complete
'Tis be a part of mine desmesne, I dedicate it to communicating with a Youngling most uncertain 'bout everything, It shall be a way to reassure her that what she considers mistakes aren't, that her jokes truly are funny, and most importantly, that she is loved. I wish to see her grow happy, and not be culled in her youth age like many before her, I desire to watch this flower bloom, and there is naught I would not do for this.
2.04 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:48
Kaylie Night | psychological | Complete
It's cold. 39020 feels cold. He knows what that word means: "feel." According to his databases, it's not a word that should apply to him.
0.27 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:47
Cetonia | psychological | Complete
Anxious and apathetic, the godling Aquari locks himself away in a vault where he stays for an untold number of years, held captive by nothing but his own mind. Then, bit by bit, things happen to make Aquari break out of his self-made purgatory and learn about happiness and pain. This is an introspective story about depression and change with a Greek mythological-like setting including gods and marble temples. A short story that means a lot to me. Nothing graphic but includes themes of depression, family rejection and anxiety.
1.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:47
RyderZavianBailey | romance | Complete
Sentenced to the sea for a crime he didn't commit... Wrongly convicted of killing his lover, Li is sent off to serve his sentence in the privateer fleet of Mahlon, where he finds himself somewhere between a sailor and a pirate. He supposes it is a better way to die than wasting away in a prison cell for a crime he didn't commit. If it isn't the sea or sailing necromancers that threaten his life, perhaps it is his assigned partner, an unfriendly man named Ardlac who seems to want nothing to do with a stranger sharing his space. Li doesn't know that his unfriendly exterior masks a wounded soul suffering from a loss Li can understand far too well. But that is only one of the many secrets lurking around him and one of the many threats to uncover. CONVICTED is a low-stakes story about healing, recovery, and comfort. Originally posted on Tapas, I am now cross-posting this story on Royal Road, Wattpad, and Neovel.
27.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:57
silaslane | contemporary | Complete
Was it a dream? Was it real? What happened last night? Theo Morgan searches for these answers, but will they be the answers he hopes for? Or will he find himself down a dark path? Detective Patrick Turner is determined to find The Paperboy or will The Paperboy find him first?
8.77 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 14:48
ringe | psychological | Complete
[Entry for the June Royal Road Community Magazine Contest] A prisoner named Gemmei is gifted a chance to put her life on a better track after being transferred to the Hibiya Correctional Complex, a lower security prison allegedly intended for less violent offenders. However even though the walls keeping her in are no longer visible, plenty of barriers are in the way that prevent Gemmei from returning to the world she once took for granted. Chief among them is the Houzou Hakkyou, a special tattoo every prisoner in the system receives that alters how they can think and feel through forced sedation. The curse the Hakkyou enforces ensures compliance and docility among the inmates, but as Gemmei finds out, cruelty is born from more than emotion alone.
22.43 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:06
SahakiSen | contemporary | Complete
Sylas is a hopeless romantic to a near insane extent. Actavio is a cold hearted, apathetic asshole.So what happens when the delinquent falls in love with the country's most prolific and revered mafia boss?
20.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:54
DrpyCatty | contemporary | Complete
A short story about Cassie, an anthropomorphic calico cat who is unsure of everything in life, including their relationship. [Commissioned Work]
2.07 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:53
Kai Willow | contemporary | Complete
It's finally here, Kelly's birthday. This was finally the year Kelly would get the birthday surprise she had always wanted. Her boyfriend Mike may be unreliable and doesn't listen to her. Not to mention that her best friend Tiff isn't that much better.But for them to miss all the signs and hints that Kelly has laid out the past year. They would have to be transformed into Helen Keller.
2.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:56
DrpyCatty | contemporary | Complete
Down on his luck, Louie Sen found a job offer after visiting his friend at the local cafe. Desperate to make ends meet, he takes this strange opportunity, and comes out a new man. [Commissioned Work]
1.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:55
The value in our encounters, the ones around us and the foundation for our dreams.Matsumoto Isamu, a high school junior, is obsessed with his ambition to be remembered. To become someone great or doing something of significant impact. With strengths that he can't use properly and weaknesses that bind him, he lives his life constantly in doubt. He has also been troubled due to a mysterious silhouette appearing in the park near his home at times.What will happen when he unravels the silhouette's identity?Told mostly through dialogue and comedy, this is a story of a group of individuals, each on their own journey, and how much they influence each other without realizing it.Do humans really resonate? Or is it just fiction?
14.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 13:26
In the depths of the past a cat picked up the sword.He only knew simple jabs, and he was not driven to improve.However... Blade of Exaction is a crackfic about combat, and should be taken as such.
0.71 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:44
E.J.Lockwood | one_shot | Complete
Ardeus's existence is a cycle of countless lives, each a wheel of death, choice, and starting anew. This latest death, ended by a sharp blade wielded by wild eyes, has unlocked an unprecedented choice. The Magnificent, the overseer of his eternal journey, presents Ardeus with reincarnation options new even to the timeless being. Now, Ardeus stands at the crossroads of life, death and determining the elusive value of eternity.
4.52 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:56
Lost souls enter the multiverse.We follow the story of one of them as he rises. Novice writer of terrible talent writing in his second language.
3.55 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:56
Jeffrey B Wolf | one_shot | Complete
Kill Shotis an action heavy science fiction short story, set in a time where the rich mind-ride the combatants of intergalactic battle royale matches, experiencing everything the fighters do, whether those warriors are human, alien, or machine.
3.55 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:56
A boy from a hight-class house, specialists in golems, suffers a lot of reprimand and abuse from his family and others for being a soft-hearted child and possessing the despised dark attribute, but his mind begins to twist when his family performs an act atrocious in order to temper your heart. Timeline: The ice queen and the nobody (prequel) | not related The folly of a failed magician (at the same time) | not related Hunger of affection (at the same time)| not related 7 envoid of the end (at the same time) | not related
12.08 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:54
NotALawyer | tragedy | Complete
An experimental slice-of-life, low-fantasy creation with the narrative revealed through single moments of time, crystallised into hyper-sensory reality fragments of perfect clarity.
1.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:53
