There is a place between sleep and dreams where fortunes fly at the whims of the dice. Where people from all walks of life can gamble for more than just money; they can wager their talents, their health, their family... so long as they own it, they can put it on the table for the chance to win the i...

Jamie, twelve year old recluse and bookworm, is the target of a group of bullies, Dean, Lukas, and the chief of the three that goes by Snake. After news of the arrival of an alchemist in town, Snake and his goons force Jamie into breaking in the alchemist's mansion and looking for a potion of streng...

Urushibara Luka, aka Lukako. The mannerisms and the voice of a woman... No. More feminine than any woman... But he is a boy. About Lukako and what would happen if he had been the one with the Reading Steiner, ability to preserve his memories from one timeline to the other, instead of Okabe....

Life was happy, where every moment was filled with laughter, games, and love for Effryn. But the moment the strings of life played its song and took away Evvryn, life's path was thorned.  After the incedent, Effryn finds himself at a hospital in an unfamilar town. After one insanity after another, c...

A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world - one which seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The mo...

Sarsaparilla is an older teenage girl living on Mars. And, like many other young people around her, she has a super power. Or, rather, she is supposed to have a super power. Only she has never been able to activate it, she doesn’t even know what her super power is. This annoys her, tremendously. But...

Awaken Online begins with the brutal slaughter of a simple warrior named Chris. This is his story. Raising his sister alone has been tough, especially since she started falling in with a bad crowd. Chris’s only escape has been video games, but when his sister’s situation escalates to potential jail ...

A story I wrote for a writing contest. The paramaters were as followed:      Setting - An ancient city found under the ocean      Word count - 250 to 1000+      Main Points - Some sort of drama/suspense The downfall of the city How it ended up below the sea What type of people lived there and w...

The entities known as the Beings of Old have long since staked claims to most of that gem-shaped manifold which is existence. Their alien, furtive, and impenetrably distant politicking has ebbed and flowed throughout past ages, beyond the awareness of most thinking creatures… and recently, it has be...

Rejected yet again, Alice falls far enough into despair that she downloads a visual novel dating sim to try and learn how to better appeal to men. However, she inadvertently fell for a troll game, the “good end” being her character’s untimely death. Exhausted and quite drunk, she passes out. What ha...

Sebastio the Effulgent has been Lord of Pennat Gate for more than a hexadecade following the events of that day called the Western Sunrise. In the pyres that lament the many deaths of that tribulation, the place he has worked to turn into an asylum for the downtrodden has prospered. Some of the Yrdk...

The duaghter of a Navigator house, with all of the obligations and connections that imples, and a few more besides. House Dannan has many obligations and competing interests, and you get to play a part in resolving at least some of them. How much trouble couly one yopung Navigator possibly get into?...

Driven by hatred, Song fights to free him and his partner of the Shadow Palace's clutches. Though he yearns for a life free of killing, his Emperor has other plans for him....

Ellie is excited to go to university and finally make friends after a difficult time at high school. However, she’s a little worried when the book club has her read a really awful historical-fantasy story about what sixteen-year-old Eleanor gets up to at a “prep school” for the children of nobility....

A utopia endangered. A follow-up to Sheer Heart Attack. Now united, the group of heroes takes a train to travel to their destination in peace. But alas, it is not meant to be. Danger is inevitable, but it is not just contained in this new world of Eden....

After killing the only father figure he had, along with losing his enitre family of the orphanage, Effryn must carry the burden for not only himself, but for his only survivng brother--Gale....

First Book of the Mind - Celesi Veil Trilogy A Remembrance of one's Life, or a Life of one's Remembrance, four girls from different corners of a fantasy world's upper society are suddenly faced with memories of earth. A story of another world, these four girls, awakened to memories of another life, ...

Sylvester van Rouge has a peculiar super power where he can win anything he wants from a claw machine....

After a malevolent spell intended to turn her into an animal goes awry, Cherry finds herself stuck as a plush toy. She now has to cooperate with the warlock that tried to transform her in the first place as her latent magic goes out of control and starts to change the warlock in unexpected ways. Con...

We, at the Kindness Institute, desire your participation (willingly or unwillingly) to unlock the cure for all of mankind’s sicknesses. We crave the participation (given or taken) to advance our research. Then came along Naomi as she fell into our laps. What follows is her subjective experience with...