When Cherish's father passes away, her world crumbles. Her mother, distant and swallowed by her job, offers no comfort, and a jarring transfer to a new school leaves Cherish adrift in a sea of unfamiliar faces. Then, the unimaginable happens—she awakens as an Empowered. In a world where those with a...

After Harold, ex-[Hero], dies mysteriously in a locked room, it's up to the world's only [Detective] to solve the mystery. The prime suspect is a mirror, but everyone knows mirrors can't eat people!  ...Right?  A murder mystery done LitRPG style!  [RRM Contest June '23 3rd place]...

Koemi: I knew nothing about love. In fact, I wasn't expecting love on my first day of high school. All I wanted was to do my best in my studies and maybe getting a full scholarship for a top college, and hanging out with my top BFFs, Sana and Yamato, as well as making new friends, such as Kaiya-senp...

Csialeide is the old god of the forest of whispers but even she longs for companionship...

Guy likes shooting. Now, he sucks. Then, a mirror lets him not suck... maybe. Deputy William was the best shot in the small town of Easy Breeze... until he found himself with an injury to his dominant hand. Now, without his greatest talent, William finds himself spiraling down into broken dreams and...

To be a Cultivator is to defy the Heavens - to seek to change your fate and rise up to become Divine. For many, it is a chance and opportunity to become powerful, crush their enemies and be showered in glory - but it is only a chance, as many who walk the path fall, and only a few reach the coveted ...

Mercenaries don’t get second chances. Especially someone with my reputation. My fortunes change, though, when I stumble over the body of my headless benefactor, creating an opportunity, a shot to make some real money. Just have to safely deliver the cargo, which, as I quickly learn, is easier said t...

Sierra lives in Iridon, the City of Mirrors, constructed by humanity after a Super-volcanic eruption.  She doesn't like it. Mirrors are everywhere, Light itself is controlled, and the city is based on rigid caste. Events in her childhood lead her to seek her lost sister - captured by the Man in the ...

This is my entry for the June 2023 community magazine competition, prompt "Mirrors don't eat people"  There are only 2 kinds of women Charles Knight is interested in meeting:  naive targets and potential wallets. It turns out his latest mark is neither.  When he wakes after a triumphant night out, ...

How far would he go for someone he loves? What drastic measures might take place? College student Will lives a happy life until he gets caught up in events involving time travel, a cursed prophecy, his lover (who he's obsessed with, maybe too much), and questions to his own morality as he realizes w...

Magicians have summoned demons for centuries to serve as powerful familiars or grant wishes.  When one demon learns of a recent human innovation, the wall-sized mirror, he gets an idea that could shift the balance of power. Participant in the June 2023 RoyalRoad Community Magazine....

Two famous actors are publicly known as rivals, but in reality they are secret lovers....

Samiya can become any creature she touches.  Swallowed by her sister's mirror and spat into another world, Sam is granted a unique power: biological transmutation. The first thing she turns into? A bloodthirsty squirrel. With her old life of self-pity and bills left behind, Sam embraces her second c...

This story follows Ryuyong Yotsuba, a boy adopted by the Yotsuba family in a world full of humans, demi humans, elves and monsters. He dreams of becoming the strongest mage there is. Unknown to him, he will soon become the center of a war....

Trevor isn't having a good one. For the first time in his life he's trying to read a textbook. Wouldn't be so hard if half the student body didn't bleach his notes with milk.  Wouldn't be so hard if he didn't have to work every night after additional math class. Wouldn't be so hard if half the peopl...

A horror anthology series on a world that I created. I hope you enjoy! prologue: An ancient library lay in disarray, Books lay on bookshelves slowly collecting dust. Among the bookshelves beyond time and space, sits a man. His black cloak suggests that he is a scholar from the ancient academy of Aeo...

[WIP Desc] [Temp Cover]  The beginning of a story usually starts with something interesting happening. Sometimes it’s a blossoming romance, and others are where the protagonist is summoned to another world by this so-called "Truck-kun". That's not the case for young Reiki Honoka. An average 21-year-...

Besra's life is predictable. Stable and safe. Then the abrupt death of his adoptive father overturns everything he knows. Omegaverse...

Go through the Mirror. Traverse the Fractures. Find the Emperor of Shattered Light. That is the Mirror Trial, a chance to be granted a wish, to earn abilities beyond human comparison, to serve the Emperor and his eternal rule.  Helena is Chosen, someone blessed to see her heart's desire in mirrors a...

In the elite world of prestigious academies and privileged families, Kazumi Akamatsu finds herself trapped amongst tradition and societal expectations. Yet within her, a fiery spirit yearns for freedom and the chance to shape her own destiny. Blossoms of Fate: The Elite's Dilemma is a tale of rebel...