The screams of the Moorlands were meant to be a nightmare, and nothing more. Not anymore. Henry Stone thought he was free, until his past returned and forced him to make what might be a last decision; fight or flight. Henry still isn't very good at being a vampire, and while he may be avoiding Riley...

Elske wants to achieve the power of a god, but it may come with a different sort of price...

As Naruto struggles with the temptations of the Nine-Tailed Fox within him, his first ninja mission proves to be a turbulent trial for his morality. His hopes of impressing others enough to become Hokage and ascend the shinobi hierarchy are dampened when he somewhat chooses to work for Gato, the wor...

Ranma is a martial artist, and a teenage boy. At least, she used to be. After an attack leaves Ranma trapped in a feminine body she never asked for, and unable to take a hit, her life as she knew it is over. She runs from her home and her abusive father, and after spending a few months homeless in ...

Once upon a time, in the sea of stars, a royal painter and a knight commander lived alongside the king and queen of a kingdom. Though with their own problems, the family was joyful and always faced every day with a smile. The queen with her garden and the king with his stories. They were a happy fam...

In the beginning, the three children of Primordial Chaos overthrew their mother and created the multiverse. Yet the peace would not last, as bickering and rivalry drove the cosmic deities apart over the eons. Still, their great work of creation endured, and eventually reality would settle into a new...

In the far-off future of 1993, a group of professional salvagers in post-Pax Americana are hired to pick over the remains of a utopian project near-forgotten deep in the Florida swamp.  A simple job, in and out. But one that soon traps our rag-tag group of scavengers between literal corporate raider...

Would you burn the world to protect your sibling? Kings, Tyrants, Nobles, Mages... They all slaughter innocents in their pursuit of immortality. But this Immortality is nothing more than a myth, one that has drenched the world in blood. Grace finds herself fighting to survive as she and her brother ...

Cathrine Baroque was once a child with a happy life and infinite possibilities ahead of her, but after she became bedridden her life was forever changed. Now a woman, she finds herself hiding her new nature from the Runic Paladins and looking for her new place in this world. When she crosses paths w...

Captain Eric Anders thought his time in the military was over when the war with the Iprenians ended in a ceasefire. He was content to sit back, collecting his monthly pension and drinking his sorrows away. But everything changed when the government saw fit to drop one of its very own super-soldiers ...

[Participant in the Royal Road Community Magazine, January 2024] Legend tells of a vagrant hero—fearless in the truest sense of the word—for whom no opponent was too strong and no odds too steep. He travelled the Four Seas, quashing evil and uplifting downtrodden folk everywhere he went. But when h...

A goddess walks into a swamp and stubs her toe, inadvertently spawning a new species of monster. Brittle is a kindhearted bog log beast with a knack for wandering headfirst into trouble. After rescuing a knight, he uncovers a plot to kill the very goddess who gave life to his people. Brittle sets of...

By the grace of the Three, may their blessings touch you. May all around you prosper, as shall you. When you depart, may the only sin staining you be death. May your legacy not be forgot. This is very different from my usual writing. Hope it does not disappoint. Participating in January 2024 RR mag...

Prologue to the fantasy novel I'm currently writing, but also works as a nice little self contained story. Hence, will definitely be subject to change.  This will only contain the one chapter. *** Li is just trying to get through her day when her coworker (who happens to be assistant manager) decide...

Elves are supposed to be immortal. Eternally beautiful, graceful, witty, and immortal. They're not supposed to keel over and die for no reason. That's what Darrien Salthani thought prior to a chain of events that convinced him otherwise. In this alternate world of colossus trees and a mix-and match ...

When Maruble, God of Fire, gets banished from Alta, he must prove he can live as a human to return home. But war is brewing in the godlands, and with Maruble’s banishment the center of political unrest, Alta is split into two sides: the Court of Balance and the Castle of Death. This is a story about...

John struggled throughout his life. After abandoning everything, he finally attained what he desired most—money. However, the cost was steep; now 60 years old, he found himself in the hospital monthly, sentenced to die within a year. Then, a rumor surfaced: Genesis Corp was allegedly selling an immo...

There isn’t a dream Amelie can’t conjure. Those wishing to forget come to Amelie for the gift of oblivion; those wanting to remember come to remember, even entire lives that they haven’t lived; those wishing for love come to love, romancing an imagined partner within dreams that Amelie creates for t...

In the depths of an abyss, a young man awakens to a world of strange images and inky blackness, his memories lost to amnesia. With hope gone, he finally succumbs to his solitary new life when, out of the blue, a voice calls to him. "Hollis!" With hope ignited, he finds himself venturing into the unk...

Contractors, entities which deal in mortal souls like commodities. A stock, a bond, a lifetime. And our main character, Albert Carol, is about to lose his. When Death comes knocking, all is not what it seems. Death isn't some omnipotent psychopomp, he's a businessman with a penchant for calling hims...