Riposte

Etzoli | drama | Complete

No雔 is known across the city of Portlandand not by choice. Under the care of the richest man in the city and just transferred to a new high school, she's already making close friends... and bitter enemies. A chance encounter on her first day plunges her headfirst into a secret underground tournament. Between suspicious classmates and utter strangers, No雔 soon gets a taste for the addictive rush of the duel, but questions of love and trust complicate every move she makes. Cutthroat games with grim consequences await her in a shadowy world of competitors all dueling for the greatest prize imaginable. A new story from Etzoli, that one butterfly who writes things. This is a side-adventure I've written during the pandemic, as I've been having a lot of trouble getting into the correct head-space for writing my main series (The Last Science). Expect some rougher bits. Schedule is sporadic, but this will be a shorter one (closer to Snipe or Epilogue in length). I hope you enjoy it! Full-size cover art [Discord] - come hang out and chat sometime with etzy and other readers!

77.75 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 11:24

The Soul Engine - (Isekai/Fantasy)

Cambrian | drama | Complete

Summary: Being summoned to another world is supposed to be fun. Or at least exciting. Either you find yourself in a Church being given a divine mission, or you wake up in a forest and have to survive off of the land. And if you're lucky, you get some sort of System as well, or at least a handy Cheat/Power-Up. Waking up in a prison cell with nothing but a pair of pants to your name is NOT the way things usually go. Unfortunately, nothing about Mikael's adventure in another world is going to be 'normal'. An attempt at taking a bunch of well-trodden tropes and ideas and putting my own special twist on them that will hopefully be engaging and exciting! Warning: This story has erotic scenes sprinkled throughout it. Based on feedback I received, each lewd chapter will be marked as such going forward. Update Schedule will be every weekday MONDAY-FRIDAY, with Saturdays and Sundays off!

101.30 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 17:32

High Crew

SourCream | drama | Complete

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

Frontier Crisis

Anthony Ellison | drama | Complete

Two veterans of the most recent galactic war have struck it rich. A whole asteroid richer that is. In a time where metal is in short supply from the war, their discovery could mean the downfall of the Federation they fought to protect. What will these hardened men of war do with their find? How will this discovery affect the balance of power in their corner of the universe? Join Tony Delgado and Sam Forzet on their cargo haulerLone Wolfas they discover the answers. This novel is mostly action with some drama. I would classify it as Space Opera. The cover art is by Michael Oberschneider, used with the company Six Foot's permission. � Grey Box, 2018 Copyright,� by Anthony Ellison, 2018. The novel is completed and will soon be available on Kindle Unlimited. Due to the limitations of KU, only the first three chapters shall remain up. Thank you for your understanding and I hope you enjoy the preview.

6.91 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 11:31

Bookworld Online: The Rogue Necromancer

Bokuboy | drama | Complete

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

Just One Look Won't . . .

Cai Tan | drama | Complete

About an orphan orphaned by noble stupidity over spoiled cheese. She's capable, curious, definitely opinionated, but not entirely consistent. Her name is Sammy and this is the story of her doom. Sammy's head whips around and she says with wide, surprised eyes that quickly narrow with suspicion, "Huh? What?!" [I am planning to submit on Saturdays and Sundays, with unscheduled drops as I so desire.]

68.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 16:55

Gods of Space

Elizabeth Tschereda | drama | Complete

After an unfortunate run-in with a strange alien liquid, ten humans from the beginning of the age of space colonisation are forced into Immortality, worshipped as Gods and trapped in their own Godly personas. Lae, a normal human interplanetary postal worker, doesn't really care that much about Gods. Or aliens. And while she used to be all for adventure, she's really had enough of it. All she really wants to do is to find her way home... CW: torture, kidnap and murder (non-descriptive)

24.80 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 13:01

Blood for Wages

Joe Coates | drama | Complete

Fia McCrae looked past the ancient oak with its brace of blood-stained bodies spinning peacefully in the slight easterly breeze. The light was seeping out of the evening sky, leeching the colour from the yellow gorse that covered the southern hills in such profusion. "Where's the ruddy comfort in dyin'?" the slumped man bleated miserably at her feet. "Well," Fia said over her shoulder as she walked away, "you've a fine evening for it." Exiled and grieving, Fia McCrae has spent the past eleven years wandering the island nation of Fallaros, with its numerous seperate tribelands, trying to atone for a mistake that has come to define her life. Raised in privilege. Fallen into disgrace. She rides the lands trying to redress those small wrongs that she can, using her innate ability to find that which is lost. Torsten Gunn is the most infamous outlaw to ride the roads, valleys and hills of Fallaros. Unencumbered by the notion of law, and accompanied by his loyal crew of bloodthirsty longriders, he has made it his merciless mission to make the lives of any Counts and Countesses that ride the roads of Fallaros a living hell. Chafing impatiently as he waits for his mother, who sits the High Seat of Fallaros, to die, Redmond Marr plots on how he will be the first man to subjugate all five tribelands. It is a feat that has never been attempted before, but to accomplish it the ambitious Marr has made a deal with an unknown power from across the sea. A power who has more than the dominion of a single island nation in mind. As Fallaros falls into chaos, witches are burned in the streets, longriders roam the roads, and dissent amongst the peasantry begins to boil over. As the threat of war from across the seas draws nearer, an unwilling Fia soon finds herself coerced back into a life she'd thought she'd left behind. What starts as a simple hunt for a wanted man quickly escalates as hidden truths start to emerge. Before long, Fia is confronted by a revelation that might bring her to her knees, even as the people of Fallaros need her to stand and fight. "You can't try do good without rubbin' someone up the wrong way," Fia said. "Folk'll do some truely disgustin' things for pride. Only thing they'll do worse things for is pay."

51.37 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:32

Extra Life Online

McKeep | drama | Complete

Sim and virtu modder Joel is plucked from his outland life and throwninto ahyper-enhanced reality tournament.The stakes are the highest. Battles for survival in high-immersion virtual and augmented reailties against hardened opponents seem to befor life-and death stakes, but Joel suspects it could be worse than that. Joel’s fear growas he begins to guesswhat the ultimate purpose of the contest might be.

28.24 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:21

Other-Terrestrial Episode 11 - "Masquerade"

NolanConrey | drama | Complete

The holiday Darkeve has come, and the crew of the Craton get to relax, dress up, and have a good time! Apollonia Nor is able to experience the first real holiday in her life - if she can get left alone. For Pirra and Tred, a happy day may turn out to be less than they had hoped. While for Captain Brooks, an old friend comes calling to settle on a debt . . .

22.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 13:48

The Explorer Saga

KestenH | drama | Complete

The Explorer Saga is also available on Amazon. A race of violent aliens known as the Aggressive Intellectuals have been at war with humanity for over 400 years, but Wander Locke's never given the conflict much thought. Not until it claimed his parents. His sister's body was never recovered, leaving him to believe that she's still out there somewhere. He's made it his personal mission to find her and bring her home. A mission supported by the President of the First Division, who tasks him with retrieving an experimental shield generator from a mysterious group of rebels. What was meant to be a simple task evolves into a life-changing fight as Wander discovers that the galaxy has as many secrets as it does stars. He's not just searching for his sister anymore, he's looking for answers about his family, his enemies, and himself.

182.10 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:06

Angelic Bond

Jojeez | drama | Complete

Angelic Bond tells the story of Yonuro, a 16 year-old girl, who's told that she must return an Angelic Veil (a cloak) she found randomly after school to an other world in order to restore ''balance'' and save the universe. Immerse yourself in Yonuro's journey and discover the world's sophisticated nature and mysterious lore.

48.41 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 18:37

Pokémon Reset Bloodlines Sidestory - Mewtwo Interlude

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

Other-Terrestrial Episode 13 - "Dark Star"

NolanConrey | drama | Complete

Deep in space, a relic temple of an ancient, seemingly lost civilization has been discovered. 25,000 kilometers in width, the station dwarfs even the Earth itself. Captain Brooks must join up with adventurer and explorer Nadian Farland to take the first steps into a place where man was not meant to tread. A place where reality twists and warps, and the echoes of the past still rebound. Into the heart of madness and death.

41.40 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 14:45

Peculiar Soul

TMarkos | drama | Complete

Not everyone gets a soul. The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming upward, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations. The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody war against their ancient enemy. Not everyone gets a soul, but Michael must - for he is the scion of a lord, and the soulless cannot hold such a title. For five years he has tried to tempt one of the souls freed by its vessel's death. Five years of pain and failure, earning only his father's contempt. At last, one more opportunity to earn his soul has come. But not everyone gets a soul quite like his. Updates weekly on Wednesdays. Cover art by Harry Rowland.

348.78 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:49

Villager Three

Kruos | drama | Complete

Kira Hawthorne was just another teenage girl until the day a 'god' told the world their 'realm' was getting assimilated, since they lost some War no one on Earth even knew about. A System is installed on the whim of a very old and capricious god. Kira immediately gets trapped in a pocket dimension, and emerges to find a once familiar world turned foreign... And very hostile.

87.82 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:43

Chronicles of the last Leïn

Not_Important | drama | Complete

This is the story of a child. One who should be dead, as nothing survives them. But the child fled and was rescued, through an act that broke prophecies and shattered Truth. Even though it was only an extended arm. Now, after excaping true horror, she faces the challenge of the grim reality. She needs to adapt; to survive, but also simply to live. Even though she was never meant to. This a world of fantasy. Magic exists, marvelous creatures roam the lands. But in no way is this reality fantastical, magical, or forgiving. It is one ruled by the Imperatrix. It takes place in an Empire that was created on the ashes of the War. And as it is true everywhere, its rules are made by the powerful, the rich and the mindless masses. [Release schedule is one chapter every two weeks on Fridays 8PM GMT+1 until I get myself in a good writing stride, and then I'll go back to one chapter per week.] (I am an aspiring author working full-time on my passion in the hope of one day being edited in either French or English, as I write in both languages.)

189.06 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:50

Hive Minds Give Good Hugs

Thundamoo | drama | Complete

A modern-day young woman somehow gets trapped on an alien planet, transformed into an amalgam of human and something more. With no way home and all the survival skills of an average upper-middle-class shut-in, how will she possibly survive let alone find a way home? Turns out, she needs to learn how to help herself... figuratively and very, very literally. Evelyn, meet Evelyn. You're going to do great things together. Updates Sat/Mon

92.19 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:47

Power Overwhelming

Vihyungrang | drama | Complete

A particular soul has gone through more reincarnations than it can remember. Used to living quiet and simple lives, the soul is told that the next life would likely be the last one and that it would have to go back home, to the universe where it was first born to live it. A universe that also happens to be the gathering place of other reincarnators and some of the most powerful beings in the multiverse. What can a soul do when thrust in the middle of an emerging conflict? Why would this be the last life the soul can live? And who orchestrated all of this?

318.98 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 17:07

The Winds of Fate B1 - The Blood of Kings

theyank | drama | Complete

The Great Winter reaches its third year and creatures of nightmare thought to be long extinct roam the land once more. The Oathbreaker stirs from hisicy prison, calling upon his servants both past and present. The wolf howls, the dragon roars and the serpent thrashes as the world unravels. Heroes will rise, for this will be the age to end all ages. The spirited girl escapes the shackles of tradition, searching for adventure, finding much more. The craven boy goes after her in the name of love. The man with no hand seeks an old friend, and the dragon searches for that which will restore her race. The hero-turned-blacksmith leaves his family to save the world. His friend the King wishes him dead. The blacksmith's son goes after his father, questioning what it means to be a hero. Their paths intertwine. They guide the Winds of Fate, weaving the song of our salvation. The Twilight of the World approaches. The Heroes of Faengard will ride again. Let the sun rise, and the world be reborn through the ashes of war. Old Synopsis: The first of the chain of events prophesied to end the world has begun. The Great Winter reaches its third year and creatures of nightmare thought to be long extinct roam the land once more. The Tree that protects Faengard crumbles, and only those with the blood of kings can restore it. As a boy on the cusp of adulthood, Ein Thoren's concerns were largely limited to which of the village girls he would marrybut when a mysterious man calls upon his father to save the world, Ein finds himself leaving behind his quiet village life to bring his father back. Along with his childhood friends and abumbling storyteller, they face a path filled with monsters and myth, swords and sorcerers, dragons and princesses, and a demon wolf that seeks to swallow the sun, all while the world unravels around them in what will be the age to end all ages. The Heroes of Faengard will ride again. Let the sun rise, and the world be reborn through the ashes of war. Release Schedule: I aim to release a minimum of one chapter a week, though sometimes I might release more. DISCLAIMER: I do not own the cover image in any way. Full credit goes to the original artist.

134.87 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 15:54