As a smogger, Victor has the ability to control truck exhaust as a weapon. With his daughter as his truck driver, they get paid to do odd jobs. Their latest job has them transporting another smogger who happens to be a criminal. During the job they are tracked down by a group who want to take the cr...

Abused twelve year old Molly must marry Ben to save lives. Adia, a scientist who sees futures for certain people, showed her their lives up to their 40's. They were happy. Molly's healer colony saved people whom healer colonies in other galaxies could not. Earth doesn't know Zheien don't make love a...

Trapped since birth, Emilia wishes for nothing more than to escape the clutches of her guardian. Her rising powers might give her the chance she needs.  Trapped in a body of stone, Cary wishes for anything to relieve the boredom and repetition of her eternal life. An accidental summoning offers her ...

Lindsay Thomas wanted to be an actress, but that mostly meant 'acting' like she had her life together. When she gets an opportunity to help one of her acting buddies renovate a hotel for the winter, she moves to Vancouver Island to get a fresh start in a place where it rains all the time and where u...

Chicken Little has been viewed as a hero for saving Oakey Oaks. Now it is a new school year at Oakey Oaks Middle School. Chicken Little and his friends meet a new student, who had just begun to attend Oakey Oaks Middle School....

A series of suicides and seeming accidents stump detective Miller. He has a nagging suspicion that they are connected. But the more he uncovers the truth, the impossibility of it sees his sanity slipping away. And he is not the only one losing his mind....

Saddle up for a wild ride of love and redemption as Ryder, a rugged rodeo star with a scandalous past, meets his match in Isobel, a beautiful woman with a heart of gold. But as their whirlwind romance takes off, Ryder's Casanova ways are put to the test. Can Isobel tame the bull rider's wild heart, ...

Theo, a simple teenager like all others, has the special power to see the day he dies. When that day finally comes, he wants to do one last thing: confess his love, in the hopes that he will be rejected....

Yoichi has been a social butterfly all his life despite one abnormal adversity: a mutated disease that pushes people away like a forcefield. Imposing a huge risk on everyone around him, he’s forced to rely on the barely-fulfilling world of online socializing. That’s until they discover Verónica’s ca...

An unexpected phone call at dawn catapults Harlow Bennet and his team of MIT mathematicians into a classified project to decrypt a mysterious message from outer space. It quickly becomes clear the signal is not just a cosmic puzzle, it is an exploration of humanity’s place in the cosmos and how it m...

(A Novella for the Community Magazine Contest) Roberto screwed up in his life, big time. He seems left only with the option of wasting all of the days he has left to live. He has become a cynic, unhealthy, crappy individual. Metaphorically, a goblin. One late night a mysterious lunatic approaches an...

Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas. [Participant in the June 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest]...

Jimmy Byrne, a poor chicken farmer, has racked up considerable debt with the wrong kind of people. Desperate to make a lot of money in a short amount of time, Jimmy turns to his friend Scott O'Malley, an old friend that knows just where to go to make a quick buck. Jimmy is led into the world of unde...

Can a dream foretell the day ahead? For Bernadette, what begins as an ordinary morning soon spirals into a series of unsettling events, turning her day into a living nightmare. As she navigates through the chaos, she uncovers a hidden secret that changes everything. Trapped in a relentless series of...

What is the secret hidden within the walls of the old, hauntingly boarded up house? And what mysterious secrets are concealed within the long lost letter that has been discovered within its eerie confines? Bound by an unbreakable bond, best friends Julie and Amanda, accompanied by their faithful can...

The best meal of the day was the late-night snack. It was inarguable. Perhaps that's why I saw my daughter up at 3:32 AM balancing precariously on a bucket in a futile attempt to reach for the top cabinet.  I daydreamt this. All feedback is more than welcome. I sincerely hope you enjoyed what I w...

Somewhere within the Southern Hemisphere, a radio intercepts a broadcast. A message from an Antarctic research vessel dealing with the aftermath of an unknown disaster that caused it and its crew to be rendered unconscious and inoperable for several hours....

A man receives a purchased item in a near-future with the same-old mundane problems. One-shot....

After a mysterious event that leaves every textbook burnt to a crisp Ink Yang discovers that his former friends. (now sworn enemies) have discovered magic and are using it to commit all manner of crimes. Join him on his adventures to stop them as he assembles allies, some old some new and discover h...

A lone Corax, a cunning and swift-winged creature, found an uncommon bond with a valiant pack of Garou, powerful shapeshifters pledged to protect the natural order. As fate would have it, they set out on a daunting final quest, venturing into an uncharted ancient island fraught with danger and myste...