WatchTower II : Title of Fiction

Pao275 | psychological | Complete

'Tis be a part of mine desmesne, I dedicate it to communicating with a Youngling most uncertain 'bout everything, It shall be a way to reassure her that what she considers mistakes aren't, that her jokes truly are funny, and most importantly, that she is loved. I wish to see her grow happy, and not be culled in her youth age like many before her, I desire to watch this flower bloom, and there is naught I would not do for this.

2.04 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:48

The Only One: A Robotic Flash Fiction

Kaylie Night | psychological | Complete

It's cold. 39020 feels cold. He knows what that word means: "feel." According to his databases, it's not a word that should apply to him.

0.27 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:47

A Hundred Years of Polishing a Godlings Broken Heart

Cetonia | psychological | Complete

Anxious and apathetic, the godling Aquari locks himself away in a vault where he stays for an untold number of years, held captive by nothing but his own mind. Then, bit by bit, things happen to make Aquari break out of his self-made purgatory and learn about happiness and pain. This is an introspective story about depression and change with a Greek mythological-like setting including gods and marble temples. A short story that means a lot to me. Nothing graphic but includes themes of depression, family rejection and anxiety.

1.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:47

Convicted

RyderZavianBailey | romance | Complete

Sentenced to the sea for a crime he didn't commit... Wrongly convicted of killing his lover, Li is sent off to serve his sentence in the privateer fleet of Mahlon, where he finds himself somewhere between a sailor and a pirate. He supposes it is a better way to die than wasting away in a prison cell for a crime he didn't commit. If it isn't the sea or sailing necromancers that threaten his life, perhaps it is his assigned partner, an unfriendly man named Ardlac who seems to want nothing to do with a stranger sharing his space. Li doesn't know that his unfriendly exterior masks a wounded soul suffering from a loss Li can understand far too well. But that is only one of the many secrets lurking around him and one of the many threats to uncover. CONVICTED is a low-stakes story about healing, recovery, and comfort. Originally posted on Tapas, I am now cross-posting this story on Royal Road, Wattpad, and Neovel.

27.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:57

About Last Night

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

Local Minima

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

Love and Destruction

SahakiSen | contemporary | Complete

Sylas is a hopeless romantic to a near insane extent. Actavio is a cold hearted, apathetic asshole.So what happens when the delinquent falls in love with the country's most prolific and revered mafia boss?

20.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:54

Feel Better

DrpyCatty | contemporary | Complete

A short story about Cassie, an anthropomorphic calico cat who is unsure of everything in life, including their relationship. [Commissioned Work]

2.07 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:53

Pass The Salt

Kai Willow | contemporary | Complete

It's finally here, Kelly's birthday. This was finally the year Kelly would get the birthday surprise she had always wanted. Her boyfriend Mike may be unreliable and doesn't listen to her. Not to mention that her best friend Tiff isn't that much better.But for them to miss all the signs and hints that Kelly has laid out the past year. They would have to be transformed into Helen Keller.

2.61 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:56

Y-Labs Experiment

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

Jinsei: Resonate (Volume 1)

LAHIN | mystery | Complete

The value in our encounters, the ones around us and the foundation for our dreams.Matsumoto Isamu, a high school junior, is obsessed with his ambition to be remembered. To become someone great or doing something of significant impact. With strengths that he can't use properly and weaknesses that bind him, he lives his life constantly in doubt. He has also been troubled due to a mysterious silhouette appearing in the park near his home at times.What will happen when he unravels the silhouette's identity?Told mostly through dialogue and comedy, this is a story of a group of individuals, each on their own journey, and how much they influence each other without realizing it.Do humans really resonate? Or is it just fiction?

14.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-27 13:26

Blade of Exaction

thayle | one_shot | Complete

In the depths of the past a cat picked up the sword.He only knew simple jabs, and he was not driven to improve.However... Blade of Exaction is a crackfic about combat, and should be taken as such.

0.71 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:44

Stone Ascendant

Qiander | one_shot | Complete

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

Kill Shot

Jeffrey B Wolf | one_shot | Complete

Kill Shotis an action heavy science fiction short story, set in a time where the rich mind-ride the combatants of intergalactic battle royale matches, experiencing everything the fighters do, whether those warriors are human, alien, or machine.

3.55 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:56

The false master of death

Belto33 | tragedy | Complete

A boy from a hight-class house, specialists in golems, suffers a lot of reprimand and abuse from his family and others for being a soft-hearted child and possessing the despised dark attribute, but his mind begins to twist when his family performs an act atrocious in order to temper your heart. Timeline: The ice queen and the nobody (prequel) | not related The folly of a failed magician (at the same time) | not related Hunger of affection (at the same time)| not related 7 envoid of the end (at the same time) | not related

12.08 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:54

Sparrow's Flight

NotALawyer | tragedy | Complete

An experimental slice-of-life, low-fantasy creation with the narrative revealed through single moments of time, crystallised into hyper-sensory reality fragments of perfect clarity.

1.56 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:53

Black Tears

Airam Zenemijil | tragedy | Complete

Senza is an assassin who is mentoring a young girl to become his successor by the time he dies. Khali is a teenage girl who is raised since birth to become worthy to inherit her master's name.

6.92 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:53

Never to return

The Last Tavern Open | tragedy | Complete

I wrote this piece after listening to a song by Deep Forest called Sweet Lullaby Ambient Mix (1992 version)It might be worth looking it up and having a listen to the song before reading...or not.I felt it and wrote it. I hope you enjoy it.

0.12 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:50

Kid Amnesia

Maiku_Senpai | tragedy | Complete

Just a short Radiohead story I made about the Kid A and Amnesiac universe...

0.32 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:50

Duplicate!! (Complete)

TLCsDestiny | tragedy | Complete

For one that has lost her memories and then taken into a palace for the sole purpose of duplicating' the Princess, Dupli began with no idea and to do as she was told. Having to endure scrutiny and harm from other maids and attempted assassinations over her life, Dupli is forced to grow stronger as the time goes by. With no other option to take, as she feared death, she had to run away to survive.There are short glimpses upon how her life may have been, but what she has recently gone through, is it perhaps too much to go back to way things used to be? What of the two men that want to be with her, one from her memories and one that made her smile when she had needed it&Upon discovering who she was in her past, will she be able to put it behind her and start anew, or&What path does she choose to take?

28.79 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:51