trevorm | contemporary | Complete
In the quiet English town of Marrenforth, the dead are returning to life. The zombie apocalypse has begun. Zombie Shards is novella built from a collection of linked short stories and vignettes. These follow the early stages of the outbreak through an assortment of characters. Some will survive, others will not be so lucky; join them in their battle against the undead. This book is for over 18s only.
12.01 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:35
DWS | contemporary | On going
Hideki is a young man who lives with his grandmother after the loss of his parents. Despite the tragedy he finds simple pleasures in his everyday school life and playing with the music club, of which he is a member. He greatly admires the council president, Reina, who he meets in the corridors after school. Hideki's life is turned upside down once again and he finds himself drifting with nowhere to go. Reina offers him a chance, an evening meeting between the two of them leads to Hideki taking on an entirely new life as her second sister, Miyako. But not everything is as it seems - and accepting the mercy of another isn't always easy.
30.81 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-04-02 15:00
SonaLiv | contemporary | Complete
When Minyook sees a short, blond guy, he kind of forgets to shut up. That's where their friendship begins. Jinxi usually doesn't get what he wants. So he fights for it. Desperately. A feel-good, rainy day, easy read to escape the reality of everyday life.
14.53 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 13:53
QuasiTemporal | contemporary | Complete
A war in the future is spilling into our present. Enter Carrie Waterson, a teenage girl who ends up witha time machine. In using it, she learns thatshe istied to a future destiny. What does that mean for her now? Who in her high school can be trusted to help out, given how some of her friends have their own agendas and mystic connections? Most importantly, how might Carrie fight against the future, when the future is herself? (ASIDE: Cover was an old commission from Sabrnyan.)
205.99 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 17:07
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
----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
rkgoff | contemporary | Complete
Emerra Cole died just short of her twentieth birthdaybut that won't stop Jack Noctis, the embodiment of death, from asking for her help. Not that Jacky raised her from the dead. He says she came back on her own. He only dug her up, pulled her from her casket, and gave her a place to stay. While he hates to impose, he hopes she'll lend him a hand with a murder that's been giving him trouble. The anthropology professor, Trevon Wayde, was shot in the chest. The police are looking for his murderer, but Jacky wants to know why his soul is missing. Emerra returned from death with the Eyes of the Sphinx, a legendary ability that allows her to see things others can't. Jacky thinks her new powers could be useful when it comes to uncovering what happened. When Emerra agrees to look around, she's dragged into a world of magic and monsters. There isn't much time for her to adjust. She'll have to get her bearings while working side by side with a vampire, making friends with a wolfman and a bog-creature, and learning how to deal with an abrasive teenage witch. Thank god the mummy is there to help. Life after death is going to be interesting.
53.82 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 18:51
MDW | contemporary | Complete
Greetings. Nowadays, I call myself Cat, short for Catherine. I usually don't use her full name for reasons that will become clear soon enough. It's been a few months since I became her and I'm still adapting to my new reality. Being in someone else's shoes, especially someone with a life so complicated as her, was a challenge. One I must overcome or perish. I finally accepted there is no way to go back to my old life. Yes, old life. I was named William Cooper when I first came into being. I was 30 years old and about to marry when Catherine accidentally killed me. This is the story of how I became her and beyond. How Catherine was reinvented. I guess I should start on the day of my fateful and forceful meeting with Catherine. I apologize for talking about myself in the third person, but I'll try to keep this narrative impersonal. Trust me, my head nowadays is a huge mess and 100% too crowded. Cover credits (public domain): Hernan Sanchez, https://stocksnap.io/photo/architecture-building-MI902J0X1H
102.21 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 11:05
EldritchPotato | contemporary | Complete
Eva Diaz, a marine biology student, has always loved the sea and the orcas that call it home. This makes her summer job a dream come true for the struggling university student. When an opportunity arises to check out her uncle's current project, a very rare specimen of cetacean, in the top-secret research facility of Ocean Land, she can't resist learning more. Except this specimen is a lot less whale and a lot more creature of myth. Mermaids shouldn't be real yet now it's her job to befriend one. Gripped by uncertainty she must choose whether to be a warden or to heed the call of the orca's serenade.
37.00 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 15:31
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
Scott H | contemporary | Complete
"Pippa's Passing" is the fictional memoir of Jeff Carter who learns that an old love, Pippa Bailey, has died and he relates their story together from their first meeting in high-school up to eleven years before her death when he last saw her.
67.65 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:17
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
RileyKifer | contemporary | Complete
Russell is a virtuous goth with a Christian upbringing. Sal is a carefree slack-off who would rather work retail than go to college. It was hate at first sight. Until they were forced to partner up in class. After their true feelings surface, Sal learns just how different he is from Russell, and all seems hopeless. How can their relationship last, if Sal is asexual? And that's not their only problem. Surprisingly unpredictable, The Riveting Lives of Russell and Sal is about two social outcasts that become the most unlikely couple imaginable.
36.42 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:15
RejectHumanity | contemporary | Complete
The threat: the destruction of all life on Earth. The agents: a young man with a system, and a military woman in charge of Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Albert woke up and saw a Quest waiting for him, from a [System] that had not come without reason. Its purpose was to give him power to fight an invasion of Earth at the hands of an unknown species. One day, one step at a time. First, he must become strong. And he is not alone. There is another: a woman of pure steel and resolve working against all odds to save humanity. Slow start, then the pace picks up. Stakes are real. Choices matter. Characters make mistakes. Progression makes sense and no power creep. No dumb villains. No plot armor.
167.30 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-20 14:48
OceansInTheSky | contemporary | Complete
Even though it's their first day of high school, Yuuko and Yuya are already late, but things begin to change when Yuya encounters a blonde boy being pummeled to the ground. "Are you okay Luka?" Can the thoughts of two strangers have any affect on a boy who has none for himself-- "You see New Kid, a community is made of like-minded people. Like-minded people work well together, they support each other.....when someone acts out from the group, they destroy the balance." --especially in a case where someone may not want to move at all?
22.12 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 15:27
PublicApology | contemporary | Complete
(I'm doing a complete rewrite as of 2/1/24. I hate the quality and the overall story changed so much that this has noncanon stuff to the petrichor series) Elizabeth Wilson commits suicide. She was the golden girl among her peers in Darkwood, Washington who stood above the pressure of her drug-riddentown. Explore the summer before her senior year that triggered the domino effect of Elizabeth's emotional and psychological breakdown that lead her to take her own life. This is the prequel to the main story, Petrichor and was never intended to be made. I wrote this because I wanted to explore Elizabeth's character and show how the main characters have changed since this event. I decided to release this first because Petrichor is undergoing a full rewrite. In the meantime, I'm writing a side story called Mourning Glory that takes place between thesecond and third act of Petrichor. Development is going rather fast so I suggest to to read that if you like this story
23.52 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 17:03
A.R. Harvett | contemporary | Complete
Years after the disappearance of most of humanity, Mark travels a blasted desert wasteland in the hopes of surviving to the next day. Then, his routine is shattered when he stumbles upon Horan, an exiled prince of a race of superpowered immortals called Primoi. Now with a golden opportunity to turn his own life around, Mark decides to ferry Horan across three continents to try and stop his power-mad uncle from wreaking untold havoc across what remains of the world.
53.27 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:19
rkgoff | contemporary | Complete
Even in a world with witches, sorcerers, and alchemists, psychics are rare. There are normally fewer than a hundred in a centurywhich is why the Torr is so confounded when they get a letter from the headmaster of an English boarding school who claims that there are over a hundred psychics studying at his school. When all their investigations turn up nothing, they call on the head of all Torrs, Jack Noctis, the embodiment of death. But Big Jacky doesn't know what to do about it either, and he's skeptical about his ability to do anything. He asks Darius Vasil, Conrad Bauer, and Emerra Cole to go in his stead. Between the vampire's super-hearing, the wolfman's amazing sense of smell, and Emerra's legendary Eyes of the Sphinx, he's hoping they'll be able to find what everyone else has missed. When they arrive, what they find is that the psychic powers are appearing more frequently and becoming more powerful every day. They need to figure out what's going on before the situation spirals out of control.
59.74 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 16:53
Methuselah | contemporary | Complete
I'm bound. I'm beaten. I ask for help. I'm bound. I'm beaten. I ask for help. The cycle renews; when the cycle renews, lights dim and sparks extinguish. This is the world of the city-cyclicals. Does anybody understand it? Do they understand it? Join Michaels, Johnny, and Johnny-boy as they digest their cycles. Will they find their peace of this world?
1.34 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 15:26
Cinn | contemporary | Complete
People are extraordinary. They are glorious, chaotic, imaginative, grim, all kinds of smart and driven. They are capable of living in harmony or incredible destruction. They can be both caring and loyal but vicious and self-centred. However, Olivia wished that the first year of her PhD didn't have to showcase quite so much of the melting pot. People. Harmony. Dysfunction. is a story that follows a research group through the drama and challenges life throws at them. It has an (unspecified) modern setting and focuses on the characters. Updates: Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
29.94 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:29
