ReavingBishop | fantasy | Complete
Or: An Anthropological Expedition Into the Beyond Carza vo Anka is a recently graduated anthropologist and linguist from the renowned Court of Ivory in the city of ALD IOM. She loves her home. She loves her typewriter, her books, her peace... And now she's leaving it all behind. Because apparently she can't become an accredited scholar with her damn office unless she embarks on an expedition. A gas mask, some clippers for mutations, a pearl-handled pistol, enough currency... ...that should be enough to deal with frostbite, malfunctioning railways, contaminated air, putrid cities, revolutionaries who are physically incapable of sleeping, men made of glass who scent their passage with the finest perfumes, and other, stranger things.To strange currencies, strange grammars, and stranger food. (Cover by @vio_lenceee)
264.50 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 17:11
MajorKerina | romance | Complete
Friends Neil and Mayu find themselves drawn into a series of anime worlds when they buy drawings from a mysterious vendor at a convention. As their memories, forms, and realities are altered, a red thread of fate still binds them together as they cling to the hope they will find their way back home.Cover art by Mysticswordsman21
17.78 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 17:26
Vantonne | one_shot | Complete
He lead a relatively simple life. He studied up until high school and went to college. He had pretty decent grades but he didn't overstep his boundaries, because honestly, he couldn't give a single shit. If it weren't for the games he played and the stories he had often read with really nasty characters that showed the true horridity of the human nature, he prolly already had killed himself off. The monotony that accompanied his loneliness was far greater than any piss-off-life-is-great person could understand. It was due to this that he had found solace in xianxia novels.
6.28 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 09:54
Andre Forbay | tragedy | Complete
A teenage boy retreats into a fantasy world with his idea of the perfect girlfriend when his family starts falling apart.
13.36 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:12
NicholasDuval | one_shot | Complete
Rorik Stormcoast, a wizard of some regard, has embarked upon a new quest. He's dared to climb a perilous mountain and seek out a legendary dragon to learn his secrets. But as Rorik makes for the summit, he is joined by a strange companion, and soon finds his quest more challenging and dangerous than he ever anticapated.
5.97 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:10
A black monolith stands before my eyes, images and letters of all sort are engraved, some normal, other bizarre, many confuse and contort, pictures of beasts and monsters confuse themself in the thin white letters that are all over the monolith, I realize that they are stories, stories on the Eldrich and unknown.This is not a single story but a collection of short stories inspire by H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe and other writers of strange fiction.Read them in every order that you like. I am looking for an editor, if someone wants to help me avoid typos please contact me.
7.26 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:55
Pillage Your Village | horror | Complete
A humble man from a small village worked day in and day out. He sought treasure, levels, and a means to provide for those around him. Yet, little did he know, that a spoon would forever change his life.
2.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:57
An eerie car ride that ends abruptly. A short story//one shot.
0.30 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:57
Pianos In The Evening Sun | romance | Complete
After her previous adventures in Nightdream Academy, young witch-in-training, Phenomena Willow's first semester has quieted down, but things are ready to heat up again on the eve of a chilly winter solstice. When gifts arrive for her and her friends, Mena's eyes are drawn to one from her Auntie Grizabella, who had previously gone missing after a skirmish with the nefarious Anguish the Blood Siren. The gift is revealed to be an ancient book, unable to be opened by mortals. A voice cries from inside, calling from the depths of an "Unwritten Kingdom." It tells Mena that a ghost writer has taken control of their book kingdom, throwing off the balance of the mortal world in the process. Mena and her friends are left stumped, but intent on solving the mystery that lies between the worlds. As their new semester begins, however, a new teacher is introduced into the foldMs. Loreena Cumberson. Stern, strict and a busybody who teaches Magic Home Economics with an iron fist, Cumberson is flabbergasted by the flamboyant antics of Gemini the headmaster and aims to combat him and the whole school with a league of concerned magical moms. Join Mena and her friends as they attempt to outwit Cumberson and unlock the secret world of the Unwritten Kingdom.
30.76 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:15
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
GenXel | psychological | Complete
My website: https://putiancom.wordpress.com This is a short story about revenge or something along the lines. (This is my first story ever written so please go ham at criticising my work.) Death. It is a form of punishment or torture. And can be also be a form of salvation. Ultimately, it forms different perspectives depending on the beholder itself and on how the beholder take it as. Life. A point in time where finding your purpose. Purpose, of life itself and experience its flow, either epiphany or hell. Death. It is an end. A point of no return. It also makes the beholder feel free, breaking away from the chain of life. It makes the beholder recollect and reflect when crossing the boundary between life and death. Boundaries. A place where a path will ultimately, be chosen with or without consideration in the decision, free. . . . A place where recounting life, take it as a feeling. The joys and sorrow accumulated, playing back, making the beholder reexperience life. "Reminiscing."
9.15 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 13:24
----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
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
Orb of Night | horror | Complete
A Cold and Cruel world besiege the dammed as everything dies off. A Collection of Grimdark & Horror Stories.
1.52 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
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
In a world where demons rule, you either protect the wall or you survive inside it. Warrior-born are the nation's only defense against the demon hordes. With ethereal weapons summoned from ancient runes on their skin and added strength, they give their lives to serve the nationand their numbers are running out. Sixteen-year-old Rain Oren is a warrior-born, with secret abilities the other warriors don't have. He is the last surviving member of a once-heroic family, now branded traitors. He struggles to hide his growing powers, too similar to the demons' to be ignored. Ostracized and bullied his whole life, Rain lives for the day he can graduate from the academy and take up a quiet post guarding the wall in his hometown.To his surprise, he's assigned a coveted spot on the Elite Squad, a close-knit secret ops team of the best warriors stationed in Centrum, the nation's capital. When an increase of mysterious breeches to the wall occur around Rain, he uses his time in Centrum to find what really happened when he was a child. Surrounded by the leaders who condemned his family, he must keep his unpredictable powers hidden, survive the Elite Squad, and find a way to get sent home. Rain's search uncovers a hidden plot leading to more questions. Why are demons increasing their attacks? Is he the only warrior with these powers? What really happened to his family and will he be able to handle the truth? Updates will happen twice a week on Monday & Thursday mornings.Story is complete and available on Patreon or Ream *** Check out Book 2 - Into Darkness *** I'm super excited to share my very first completed story with you. I appreciate any feedback and would love to know what you think.I'm a huge fan of hidden worlds, other dimensions, and supernatural/paranormal manga and anime. I was inspired by Attack on Titan for the layout of this world and some character weapons from Blue Exorcist. I hope you enjoy!
59.33 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:28
Steven Rivers | comedy | Complete
Elizabeth Harding didn't want to fall into another dimension. But then she didn't want to get into trouble at school, have strange holes in her memory or nightmares with smoke monsters coming out of the walls. And it didn't stop any of that from happening either. But this time she's really in trouble. Because the only way to get back home is to steal a magical clockwork box from the top of the fearsome Darkstone Tower. So, it's a good job she has a bit of help from her new-found friends. And with a bungling barbarian, a kung-fu fighting monk, a mad professor and a bandit thief on her side & what could possibly go wrong?
26.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:33
Moby The Unpopular | comedy | Complete
Max Tenebri, a rather crude and abrasive university student (and quite healthy, not at all socially inept otaku) seems to be lacking ambition, and generally suffering from a malaise that he'd rather keep to himself. After a confrontational exchange with his girlfriend (how on earth he got her, no one knows), he suddenly gets enveloped in a cloud of dense black smoke and awakes to find himself trapped in a version of Japan that can only be described as fictional. Strangely, the fiction looks all too familiar for an anime fan like himself...
60.42 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:29
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
