fsarbolaez | horror | Complete
While checking for squatters in an abandoned building marked for demolition, the contractors found a room containing the body of a missing tech entrepreneur, who appeared to have died of natural causes. When authorities were investigating the room, they noticed that the walls were covered in scribblings, scrawls, and old headlines. According to forensics and detective work, the following are all in chronological order:... *A one-shot story (Content Warning: Contains gore and body horror)
0.55 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:33
Michael Stanton is an overworked husband doing what he has to do to cope with the stress of trying to keep his family.
1.45 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:33
A couple passes the time in their living room, sitting on a couch together at night.After a totally normal day, on an ordinary, stormy evening...However, everything might not be as it seems. A very short story inspired by the song "Sanon Sinulle", by the Finnish band "Disco".
0.66 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:41
An action-packed zombie western lesbian romance, with some minor game-based mechanics. Yee-haw! Time to strap in cowboys and cowgirls! Things are about to get messy! How does this involve mirrors not eating people? Well I guess you'll just have to read to find out. This is the story of Casey and Dodge. A troubled girl meets a girl who loves trouble. A town harassed by the dead. Their only saviors: two priests and a band of well-armed outlaws. The Gods get together for their Saturday gaming session and Aphrodite's not playing by the rules. One thing is for sure, heads will roll. But just whose heads will they be? [Written for the Royal Road Magazine] NOW COMPLETE! Warning: despite the comedy tag this story does involve the exploration of some heavy subject matter. Reader discretion advised. Ye have been warned!
18.64 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:49
Yuanmi Latte | drama | Complete
Just when they thought their relationship couldn't get any worse... Under mysterious circumstances, Yuzuru and his sister Sara find their lives uprooted as they are brought into Arcadia - a fantasy game world unlike any they can imagine. Separated and lost, they must each come to terms with their new reality and fight to survive. But as the race to save the world and themselves begin, they come to realize there are gods at work here, and they are but pawns.
58.58 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:46
Lucas Whorley | contemporary | Complete
A husband and wife recovering from marital strife attempt to rekindle their affection with a vacation trip to Maine. In hopes of putting the past away, they look to the future, to the old couple running the bed & breakfast, and to each other. In a desperate fight for their marriage, they find themselves in a battle where the stakes are life and death.
9.79 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:55
EnhancedBeing | drama | Complete
Enhanced Beings. Humans with the ability to do something astonishing. Some learn to use it for good. Others for bad. But most are content with the 9-5 and walks with the dog.But use it for bad, you'll answer to& The Enhanced Beings Collective! USA's taskforce in the fight against Enhanceds who threaten America's national and global interests.They say it's better to regret things you've done than what you haven't done. But for our heroes, the feeling is the same and cuts just as deep whatever the reason. Volume Two: Regret, explores the aftermath of Volume One's finale and how the team moves on with their own sources of regret.With some new additions to the team and a roster of new villains as well as some familiar, our heroes are busy travelling beyond the galaxies to more Earths, making bad judgements, uncovering secrets and fighting& for& survival!Woodland Warriors Vol 2 - Kimona aka Agw� joins the team temporarily as they reel from the attack on The Lodge. There's travel to colder climates, a flashback to Tobias getting his enhancements and the team changes again! It's not straightforward keeping things balanced within the heart of America... It's forests. The Rodeos Vol 2 - Effie and Reuben find themselves learning more about their past and what it has to do with defeating Outlaw and the curse upon him. There's a hostage situation at a dog food factory, a spider bite and an clash of two different worlds as our western duo saddle up once again!
73.50 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:01
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
Jay Campbell | mystery | Complete
Epilogue to Deep Mettle Ten years before the story of Florian Flint . . . On the edge of the Rivan Gulf stands Fallstone Bastion, home of the Celestri. In the wake of Naemia's fall, its doors will close to the world forever. Below the bluffs, the harbour is silent but for two tall figures walking the grey stone.
0.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:37
VanessaFletcher | mystery | Complete
(COMPLETE STORY) 'One bite and you're gone' - That's what the boutique bakery usually boasts about its invisibility cakes but this batch has a deadly secret ingredient - so one bite really does mean you're gone...Who would want to kill the young girl no one seems to know outside Valencia Veemer's bakery - 'Spellbinding Treats'?Who is the scruffy man who they see hanging around - but who disappears just as quick?Who was the girl?Why are they trying to frame Valencia for the murder?And who has stolen her fairies? To make matters worse, no one in Spellica trusts half-witches like Valencia, it only makes their suspicions deepen.Can she and her best friend Talbot Acres discover who the murderer is, or will Valencia lose her business - and her life, trying?
8.01 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 18:57
lightpurplelilies | tragedy | Complete
**this is part 3 of a 3-part story. parts 1, fear-driven, and 2, renegades, are up and available on my profile** sacrifice synopsis: back home, on the beach, and all to find aber's sister again. well, they've found her, and it's not quite what they've expected. the world is upside down and backwards and the only way to make sense of it is to find the people who make sense of you. a reminder of the characters (plus a few updates): ABER -- he has spent all this time trying to get away from his wife and back to his sister. but now that they are here and he has to choose, the choice is harder than he thought. AVA -- she's a miracle. she's a brat. she's the most important person in the world. she has no idea what she's doing. she's losing her mind. she is going to save them all or die trying. again. NUA -- he got away. he went back. he must be out of his mind. ABIGALA -- what has she been doing for the past year? isn't that the million-dollar question. PENNY -- family reunions are never fun, per se. especially not this one. BAYAN -- everything happens the way it was meant to happen. but why was this meant to happen? and LILLY -- everything comes down to her.
33.18 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 11:03
Idris lost his name when he was twelve years old. His title, his ancestral home and his freedoms were stripped from him in a freak accident that changed everything. Since then, he has worked tirelessly at the side of his best friend, Queen Cressida Naga, to become a worthy courtier for her kingdom - except the title of Court Necromancer has always brought stares and whispers. After a brutal war breaks down the barriers of the kingdom, Idris finds himself entangled in a spate of break-ins and thefts that he would rather do without. But a trip to the kingdom's edge proves to him that nothing happening in Veridia is accidental - and someone else might be harbouring similar powers to his. With his attendant Lila, Idris has to cross the country to clear his name and find out the truth behind the dark magic that threatens his home, before he becomes powerless to stop it.
49.54 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 14:47
If you are given a chance to redo will you accept it or continue in the path you've pave. Kaito is a young teen that is bored at everything. Constantly watching everything in his path repeat itself. Though one day he found something that is not within this parameters as he move, everything ends. Though after opening his eyes, he is greeted by someone giving him two choices.
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First, Spring's favorite hu-man left for somewhere and didn't return, then his pack leader met an accident and died, leaving him alone in a pack on the cusp of splitting away. He's alone and angry and goes to sleep one night, wishing for them to come back so he could play and run and bask in the sun. A miracle happens and his pack leader comes back to life! Or does he?
34.66 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 18:47
Matt Redskye | comedy | Complete
Enteico Mamorou is a struggling merchant running a failing business with his best friend, Keith. But when a terrible incident forces Keith to face the demons of his past, they begin to realize that paying rent is the least of their worries, alongside deranged customers, crazy adventurers and alcoholic horses. But all of these problems pale in comparison to our protagonist's ultimate enemy- responsibility. Will Keith sober up and finally confront reality head-on? Or will his path lead him down the bottom of his final bottle?
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JDTHEGREATANIMAL | psychological | Complete
An ordinary man who drifts through life and encounters something that links to his dream.
0.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 10:45
Hokage of Literature | psychological | Complete
The art for this cover was drawn by StarsColdNight whose account you can find on DeviantArt and BookCoversRealm for some great and splendid artwork at fair prices. Rillia flees from the Red Mountain Ant Colony and her country of Wassergras, hoping to find and explore the Primeval World, a legendary and untamed world she has only read about. However, after a surprise storm nearly drowns her, she is saved by Jason, a shrunken human with little memory of his past life. He is the first in a series of new allies she meets along with Melsil, the mushroom swordsman and Vesha the crawfish. A storm is brewing in Wassergras of political intrigue, prejudice and schemes within schemes that threaten to tear apart their world. Rillia must put her traveling plans on hold as she and her newly made friends work to defeat this threatone that has been waging since the dawn of the world between the forces that created it.
50.93 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 10:40
Nelsoa the Storyteller | tragedy | Complete
To stop the four-dimensional monster Winceim Barbey from granting the whole world Immortality, the spell caster, operator, and fighter had to destroy the dragon's heart before Winceim Barbey. It was the only way for the three agents to save the world. Most of the magical items were shattered and there was no time to wait for aid.
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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.
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DrpyCatty | tragedy | Complete
After receiving a strange package, J anxiously calls for their friend Vix to come and help them figure out what it is.
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