isnt_it_pretty_to_think_so | action | Complete
In an archaic empire that rose from the ashes of past wars, 14-year-old Ko is committed to supporting his family by any means necessary. When Ko's sister falls ill, he travels to the realm's black market for affordable medicine. On his way there, Ko encounters General Killi醤, divine leader of Lady Death's formidable army. When Ko saves a child who turns out to be Killi醤's heir, he's offered an intriguing contract. To make good on the deal, Ko must survive until the end of the month. It's easier said than done. Bloodstained is a coming-of-age story with rich characters, extensive world-building, and plenty of humor. Cover art: Modified Andracor armor image used with permission.
55.41 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 16:39
LSR | contemporary | Complete
Synopsis: John Brunsen has failed at most things in his life. His most recent mistake has left him the unwilling host to an unknown lifeform that has reprogrammed his brain to pursue unending violence. With alternating cycles of pharmaceutical grade stimulants and depressants as the only means to keep his sanity in check, John is thrust into the role of Savior as the lifeform spreads across the planet fueled by a combination of destruction, evolution and ultra-capitalism. Can a man who can't hold down a job prevent an impending planetary apocalypse? Probably not! But it's worth a try. What to expect: 1)a complete book, it's already done, upload is done. 2)a pretty wild adventure story that goes a lot of places and does a lot of things3)hopefully a few laughs and an entertaining read.
55.72 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 16:50
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
Jack loves his life. Yeah, he lives at the edge of a warzone between armies of monstrosities. You call it dangerous. Jack calls it Tuesday. Folks in town aren't too keen on a fourteen-year-old running the only bar, but Jack has it under control. Maybe his customers trash the place more than he would like, but sometimes cybernetically enhanced mercenaries need to blow off some steam. With the help of Zekefriend, mentor, monkeyJack serves drinks to anyone who comes through his door. And for the right price, he might even sell you something with a bit more kick & something magical. When Corva gets knocked through the wall of his bar, Jack decides to help her out. Sure she's being chased by a pack of bounty hunters and she's got no idea why. But she can fight. Holy hell, she can fight. Jack could use someone like that to keep a little order in the bar. That should be a win-win, but Jack's and Corva's problems are bigger than either of them can guess, big enough change the course of the war. Fulcrum is a post-Armageddon dystopian science fiction fantasy with a taste of anime. Technology, magic, and a badass monkey. The drinks aren't on the house, but you're welcome to stay until last call. Chapters are released every weekday... unless they're short. Then it'll be a couple chapters that day. The full story for Season One is complete, but still in the process of being posted here. If you like it and want to support it, you can purchase Fulcrum: Season One now and read the whole story before it's posted here.
75.21 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 17:47
In a world of magic, ruled by many warring races, the human kingdoms are being pushed to the brink of collapse. In a desperate bid to gain the strength to stand on an equal footing with the other nations, they perform a forbidden ritual to summon combat slaves from another dimension. Unluckily for them, Mors Letus, recently named by their world's God of Death, was one of them. **** Warning **** This is a re-release (The Summoned) of the first book I wrote in partnership with my brother (who later forced the story to be pulled (It was released on his account here)). I have started writing my own version of the story (BOM: The Summoned) and will continue to primarily invest in that, though, now I have permission to re-release this one, I plan finish this as I have the drafts and it was close to the end of the first book. Many characters/scenes and events match/Will match BOM: The Summoned, especially in future arc's (Past Flatner forest). If you don't like spoilers, don't want to get confused between the two stories or hate first attempts at writing (god awfulgrammar/sentence structure and storytelling), I would advise against reading.
74.04 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 18:33
Jaycendus | mystery | Complete
A daring heist to steal the Sun seems impossible. . . but Caden betrays the Order of the Crown and joins a thieving crew to avenge his sister's death. Now he must steal from the knights, attend meetings with those who want him dead, and break into the palace to erase the blood-red clouds above and bring back the Sun. . .
73.00 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 18:38
Jay Campbell | mystery | Complete
'Little spark . . . you are changed.' Antissa has come under Ratheine attack; not from the walls, but from below - her ancient pipes. The flooded Hub threatens collapse of the Deep under the fortress, while the scheming Sanhedrin council creeps ever closer to removing Rusper Symphin as Viceroy; the engineer whose protection of the refugees from Naemia amounts to treason. Tool to a nation on the brink, a Naemian boy enters the desert. Armed with the Disc's arcane "Sight", Florian Flint now takes his place on a secret task-force contingent led by the High Commander Plamen. Its urgent purpose - in nine days - to locate the hidden river system by which the Rath accessed the pipeworks: the key strategic advantage in Vorth's return to open war. The Disc itself has other thoughts. Cover art by Natasa Ilincic Additional images, inc. maps: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CdNo1rEjvR7RdVzD7 Tools of Waris the 2nd volume of Deep Mettle, a 2-volume fantasy fiction. Pipes and Fusils,the 1st volume,is also available to read on Royal Road. Available from AMAZON in paperback, hardcover & e-book formats. Find out more at https://www.voidstep.com/
76.66 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-22 18:43
SingleCell | action | Complete
Karolina Grant is desperately unhappy living in a world that she can't change. When she is transported to a new world, one governed by a mysterious System, she will do her best to gain enough power to finally be able to make a difference. However, this new world is violent and dangerous, and Karolina isn't alone. Will she merely survive in this new world, or will she find a way to thrive? Ambitious Soul updates every Monday and Thursday.
51.96 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:01
Camrad RIP | comedy | Complete
The cruel conditions of the bet put him on edge! Can the smart, energetic and fat hero find the right path to the customer? Where will the great and almighty Delivery System lead him? Translation of the original work by Michael Dulepa. The original is here.
51.29 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:12
JLBuchanan | contemporary | Complete
Robert was just an ordinary police officer, until one day while on the job, he sees something really weird. Like, sci-fi and aliens weird. The investigation leads him to make discoveries about himself and his past lives. A big crisis is upon him and if he intends to beat it, he needs to find the pieces of who he was.
60.05 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:17
A soft song, spun on the wind, torments an isolated town.A family of witches sailing across the sea, attempt a new route through uncharted waters, when the storms of fate see fit to alter their destination.What secrets haunt this silent corner of the world where no music is allowed? Are they best left as whispers in the wind? A mostly family friendly fantasy adventure mystery, sure to give you duckbumps. Sword fighting is family friendly right? TL;DR Hounds of Baskerville meets the Famous Five, but with dragons. This is written for the Royal Road Community Magazine competition.
52.07 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 10:43
Mankind's final hope for survival is with a recently self-aware machine, the old and weakened luck gods, and three young augmented teens that they have recruited, but they won't get very far if Chaos has anything to say about it.
77.12 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:24
michaelscottearle | action | Complete
Control dinosaurs.Tame women.Rule the world. Victor Shelby ends each day wondering when his life is going to get better. His parents are dead, he struggles to pay rent, and his boss at the animal control shelter has him cleaning cages instead of working in the field. His dream of helping animals seems destined to end in a mop bucket.Then Victor is abducted by aliens and deposited in a prehistoric world filled with hungry dinosaurs and beautiful alien women.He doesn't know why he is here or what his purpose is, but he finds himself fighting for survival. Most men would have been lizard kibble in a few moments, but Victor's natural ability to empathize with animals has grown stronger, and he finds himself able to control the most docile of the terrible lizards.Victor will have to use his taming powers to provide food, water, and shelter for the three women that he has sworn to protect. Success means they get to live another day, failure means a horrible death in the jaws of Earth's most deadly predators. Read the full story @MichaelScottEarle.com(Book 1 eBook and Audiobook areFREE)
70.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:38
Saga Frost | drama | Complete
After the death of her father, Jonna B鋍k struggles with her older sister's down-spiraling mental health. But after a tragic event Jonna is forced to leave the world she's used to and step into a new tragic but magical world, one that is far more destructive then it lets on. This is book 1 out of a book series. Excerpt from story, chapter 14: "Beautiful day, no?" It says with its coarse and hissing voice. "Not much different from yesterday." There is no weather in this world, each day is the same. There's no night, no rain. Not even the wind exists here. The creature laughs and pushes a gaunt-looking hand against its mouth behind the veil. "Yes, you humans with your world. I can imagine that the Eleven is too... still for the likes of you." Its grin makes the hair on my neck stand up. "Personally, I prefer these kinds of worlds. You always know what to expect. No sudden surprises... But I doubt you're here to discuss the weather," the creature says and make an overdramatized gesture.
65.33 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 13:07
A.R. Harvett | contemporary | Complete
Years after the disappearance of most of humanity, Mark travels a blasted desert wasteland in the hopes of surviving to the next day. Then, his routine is shattered when he stumbles upon Horan, an exiled prince of a race of superpowered immortals called Primoi. Now with a golden opportunity to turn his own life around, Mark decides to ferry Horan across three continents to try and stop his power-mad uncle from wreaking untold havoc across what remains of the world.
53.27 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:19
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
The Year is 2183, four years after the tragedy at Hadley's Hope on LV-426. On the edge of theOuter Rim Territories, residents of an aging and outmoded sister-station to Sevastopol are embroiled in crisis. Socioeconomic, corporate and political considerations aside, the true threat to Ashkelon Station are dark secrets taking shape as Xenomorphs. Reese Castle and Wade Barrett are partners in crime, smugglers posing as spacecraft repair technicians until they can manage to steal their ship back. Weyland Yutani terminated their lease for the USCSS Casimir, an old M-Class Bison starfreighter, but they'll be damned if they let it get away so easily. A space truckers ship is their home and they're keen to leave the station while they still can. As a series of unfortunate events create a perfect maelstrom of chaos, death and upheaval, Agent Shella Roodt of the Interstellar Commerce Commission (by extension an entity of Weyland Yutani) and Chief Colonial Marshal John Coffee have a mandate to investigate wrongdoing and save lives. When they come face-to-face with the monsters however, there will be only one outcome. A final tribulation of survival of the fittest.
77.15 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:40
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
Storyteller13 | romance | Complete
"Escort the Federation team. Keep them out of trouble." Those were Octavia Tiberius's first orders out of cryosleep. As a Guardian of the Amaranthian Empire, it was her duty to represent and protect her people. She expected it to be just like the simulations; guns, ships, explosions and the like. What she didn't expect was to fall in love. How does a cyborg soldier find a shoulder to cry on in the middle of a war? Is there room for a heart within the suit of armor? What is a person if not their soul? And what will it take to end this war once and for all?
91.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:13
ThisAdamGuy | romance | Complete
The secret war between the Slayers and Mythics is secret no longer. Porter the Slayer and Sarah the sphinx have, through their unlikely love, become the bridge between the human and Mythic races, and together they hope they can find a way to end the fighting without one side destroying the other. With incriminating evidence against the Master Slayer, Drake Mortoph, there may be a chance that they can disband the Slayers before the two armies reach each other. Mortoph has more secrets than Porter and Sarah realize, though, and he will stop at nothing to keep them from being revealed.
71.49 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:19
