TealiciousTea | satire | Complete
The first chapter is based on a short story originally written by Robert Walzer in 1914, and translated by Christopher Middleton. It is a retelling for 2021 or the "long 2020" by me. The following chapters are originals by myself.
0.83 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:14
kylebstiff | satire | Complete
In a future of bottomline-oriented global megacorporations, some people have chosen to have their Creature removed. Once you have your Creature removed, life becomes a breeze. You can clock in, do your job, and clock out without any problems. Meanwhile, your Creature can party like an animal, stumbling through the streets, getting into fights, and humping anything that moves. It's a win-win situation! Except sometimes& sometimes Creatures go rogue. This is a COMPLETE story, one hundred percent finished.
2.90 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:15
Benjamin Mwakonya | tragedy | Complete
Life, in its every form, is invaluable. So what if a person who did not value life at all was given the responsibility of caring for billions of lives? I Got Reincarnated as a World aims to answer this and many other questions. What if a man simply known as "Eshu", a cold and ruthless hitman, died and found himself being reborn as an entire planet? What if life grew on that planet? What fate would befall that life? What to expect: � An adventure that spans the lifetime of an entire world. (The story will be divided into volumes which cover separate "Ages" in the world's history). � A cast of colourful characters who will experience all this world has to offer from the littlest of conflicts to wars that will engulf the skies in flames. � Isekai meets the entire geographical, biological and economical history of an entire planet! Schedule: I upload on Mondays, Wednesdays and sometimes Friday! (At 00:00 GMT+2) Art by - @robincmodeya
88.81 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:30
Ihdob Laprok | tragedy | Complete
Roll for power! Enril and Zelek, cousins who's bond knows no bounds, are about to come of age - a pivotal moment which will change their lives forever. In Heaven's Vale, power reigns supreme. Under the guidance of their clan, they form the one-hundred-sided object which will shape their future: the riken Filter. Not all Filters are created equal, though. Can these boys overcome their clan's lowly status and grow into power? Will their bond persevere through trial and tribulation, or force them apart in disgust and jealousy? Join these boys on their journey in growth, understanding, and self-discovery in this tale of cultivation where dice determine destiny!
30.45 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:26
[In the process of being rewritten/edited!!!] Winston June hasn't always been a potato. In fact, he used to be a normal human, living out his life as a baron in a small territory. But in the world of Erobeus, where monsters run amiss, magic is common, and a snarky god oversees the land, nothing is ever peaceful for long. Everything changes when one day, Winston finds a magic stone in his garden, and strange texts begin appearing out of nowhere. [Congratulations on your ascension! You have been transferred to the Path of the Potato God.] [Currently on hiatus!] Warning: This is a first draft and is not perfect in any sense. Season One: Rescue Mission "A potato a day keeps the doctor away" Season Two: ??? [Winner of the Royal Road Writathon challenge!] Also on ScribbleHub.
43.92 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:54
Chet is your average college student. He works at a part time job to help pay for his education and clips coupons on the weekends to help save a few dollars when he goes shopping. However, dreams of a simple life and working at a decent job are quickly tossed aside as he finds himself transported into what he assumes to be a fantasy world! Everything was going exactly as he expected it to go, as he had read a few novels describing situations exactly like the one he found himself in. But those expectations are quickly thrown out the window when the Demon Lord herself shows up for a surprise visit! Perhaps this land of fantasy isn't so fantastical after all. (Updates whenever this funky cat completes a chapter.)
28.52 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-29 18:58
MajorKerina | mystery | Complete
In the near-future, a freelance journalist is hired to write about the Mantlemay Project, a free clinic in the middle of nowhere where medical miracles happen through the use of Memetic Crystalline. But the deeper they dig into the enigmatic science and people of the Foundation, the more secrets they will uncover, which will change everything they thought they knew...as they follow the green-haired, swift girl who chases the wind. Cover by Alexis Rillera.
33.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-21 18:47
WinnieSallow | romance | Complete
Iruedim, an extragalactic planet positioned beside a wormhole, was a place where science, spellcasters, and creatures of the night thrived, mostly in peace. Then, something terrible came through its wormhole and set the world back thousands of years. On the plus side, there's lots of work for anthropologists. On the down side, the wormhole has been quiet since the last incident. When a strange artifact seems to come through the wormhole, Camellia Zaris can't understand why no one will investigate. Considering her imperiled career, she has nothing to lose and takes it upon herself to search for the answers. With her new travel companions, she finds something of more interest and danger than the artifact.
169.70 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:35
MattyMillard | satire | Complete
A mixture of light and dark. A mixture of solemn and laugh out loud. A mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. There's something in here for everyone, but each story has something in common. They all begin in the real world - but each story has it's own distinct twist. Have you ever experienced the corrupted underground scene of high school conkers? Gambling, dirty dealings, blackmail? Ever met the girl of your dreams but wondered whether she's a vampire? Have you ever met a dragon... made of cake? If no is the answer to any of these questions, you ought to know what you are missing. Matty Millard's collection of short stories is not one to be missed. Featuring the prize winning short story "Weapons of Mass Destruction", placed first in the GKBC Inc 2013/14 competition by crime novelist Tim Weaver. I've taken the majority of the chapter down now as this is due to be published very soon, but Weapons of Mass Destruction is still there to be read. I will link to the published book soon!
1.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 09:37
After a lifetime of fighting as the Hero of the Holy Gods, Althea finally managed to beat down the Darkness and Hellfire God. However, as she gave him the final blow, thinking that it was the end of her fight, the very Holy Gods that she had been fighting for, descended and betrayed her, taking her Holy Power and leaving her to die along with the defeated God, who only called her a foolish girl. From the darkness of death, she finds herself alive again in a completely unknown place, surrounded by artifacts she had never seen. Paintings that glow from black mirrors, large roads full of artifacts called cars', and an impossibly large city are the things that she is now faced with. Having her Holy Power replaced with Darkness and Hellfire, she has to choose between living free, getting vengeance, or becoming a hero once again in this strange world.
233.54 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:18
RemingtonSloan | contemporary | Complete
Dave sees life as a theatrical performance; he's in the audience, but he didn't buy a ticket. He's not interested in the show, and nothing he can say or do will disrupt the story on the stage. What's to stop him from getting up and leaving? What's to stop him from walking through the door with the exit sign over it? Note: Exit Sign is literary fiction and a psychological drama. It's the first novel I ever wrote. The story is personal, and I'm proud of what's in there. It's been described as Seinfeld meets Sartre and as My Dinner With Andre meets Ralph Bakshi. My goal was to write a story full of sincerity while exploring the heaviness of the human experience. I wanted to write something that helps people wrestle with dread and meaninglessness. Writing Exit Sign certainly helped me figure out a few things in life, so I'm hopeful that it will do the same for a diligent reader. I'll write the sequels one day, but in the meantime I'm focused on my pulpier stories. I wrote Exit Sign for everyone who hates working in a drive through. Just keep going. Keep going forward. You might suffer, but if you love your friends and family along the way, it's worth it. The novel is complete, so there will be regular updates until all of it is posted.
32.62 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:40
TEZofAllTrades | mystery | Complete
The world's favorite Magical Girls return in this gritty sequel to Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon
41.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:22
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] The Birdcage. Despite being one of the largest criminal super-syndicates in the future year G02, with agent affiliations spanning the globe, it has somehow remained as one of the best kept secrets of the underworld. Prospective affiliates are sent an exclusive invitation to enjoy the privileges of its world wide alliances and seemingly endless assets, both monetary and physical, but to forfeit the invitation is to forfeit your life. No one who enters the Birdcage leaves it alive. The Skies Beyond the Cage is a collection of stories about several characters before or after they have been extricated in varying levels to the Birdcage. These characters are agents of the primary affiliates, code-named the Clipped. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into when they became agents of the Clipped, but then again, most of them never had a choice. CURRENT STORY- WATER OF THE WOMB Seoul, Year G-19All Baek Jaehyun has ever known is a life of struggle trying to repay his father's never ending debt. His older brother, Taejun cut ties to his family as soon as he could, leaving Jaehyun behind in the process. Crisis brings the brothers back together, but as they try to repair their damaged relationship, outside forces continue to push and pull them apart. UPDATES EVERY OTHER DAY UNTIL I DIE OR FINISH VOL 1
97.39 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 12:32
The Grand Eye | comedy | Complete
A story about the complicated relationship between vampires and high explosives.
30.32 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:42
JAGuppy | psychological | Complete
The call of adventure was prevalent in Eric's mind since he was a fledgling of a boy. He loved exploring new places so much, that he happened upon a magical tome in a cave he found when he wandered around his neighbourhood. And from this tome, manifested the ghost of a dead sorceress who made a home in his mind. And so began his journey in becoming a legendary mage; and also a royal pain in the ass. NB: Just a side project made purely for fun! HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. NO PLOT! Well, maybe a little plot. Okay, it has more plot than I first intended for it to have. And uh, there's not much, but expect profanity.Check out my edgelord book:https://books2read.com/u/mgg7dD
247.77 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:33
Little did Police Lieutenant Ronald McKenzie know the consequences of his investigating the city's latest incident of urban violence. But then, no one would have. After all, who would have thought one would encounter Autobots and Decepticons, much lessanticipate what would happen to him afterwards. Some Notes: (1) This is a fanfic based on the Transformers franchise. The plot elements are from the Transformers movies, the original cartoon show, the Japanese cartoons and the comics. No declaration of ownership, direct or indirect, is claimed. This is a not-for-profit fanfic. (2) The story has also taken liberties with the Transformers characters, storyline and story elements. I hope that's okay with all of you. Think of this as Transformers on an alternate Earth. (3) The graphics here are collages of publicly-accessible material. No. I.P. infringement is intended.
34.32 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 13:38
On the fringes of human controlled space in the distant future, a weathered scientist carries out the thankless task of creating complex artificial entities— AI. Humanity needs and fears their greatest creations in equal measure, because without AI they will never travel the stars again. A team of Mercenaries, led by a demolitions expert calling herself Princess, has been tasked with bringing critical components, along with themselves, to a space station secreted within a debris field left over from a galaxy spanning war, The Synthetic Revolution. When the job's darker nature surfaces, the team will have to contend with killer robots, an unhappy client and the lingering scars of wars both recent and long past in order to finish their contract with their lives and their pay.
60.73 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 15:38
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
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
Of The Exps Author | horror | Complete
The story of a quirky assassin's shadowed past, his transformation into an other-worldly being and his adventure as the father of a guardian angel.Predates the events of The Main Character!: The Hero's Epic Journey Begins! and Guardian Angel.
54.14 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 17:15