Jeremy Wilkins is an ordinary ten-year-old boy living an ordinary life with his mother and older brother. Until a dungeon portal appears in his bedroom closet....

Due to constant war between Earth's nations the surface became almost uninhabitable, which forces everyone to create a new home under the surface of the ocean. Aiden is but a simple diver, working towards expanding his nations territory to the underwater kingdom, often exploring places never before ...

COMPLETE SHORT STORY During the Second World War, the head nurse onboard a U.S. Navy hospital ship recounts the haunting experiences of her crew after they find themselves drifting down a mysterious river masked by a bone-white fog....

Jane Eden, a survivor of nuclear war, spent past few decades locked in a semi-automated underground bunker. Entrenched in grief and ruminations, Jane spends her routine watches looking for any sign of life beyond the surface. How long before her and other inhabitants of the station can leave to the ...

Alvoda is a planet going through great changes. The first one is the industrial revolution started by the people living on the small strokes of land scattered around its big oceans. The second is the melting of the ice caps covering most of the planet that is exposing new territories and ancient dar...

Meet Kirby. Five years after moving to Oklahoma City to put some distance between himself and an unexpected divorce from the love of his life, Kirby finds his optimism circling the drain.  Nothing in his experience could have prepared him for the terrifying, uncanny creature he encountered one dark ...

A writer is offered a deal that seems far too good to be true. Is it? Who are the people offering him this chance. In the end what do they want, and will our hero be able to deliver, or survive the experience....

Litte girl name Rosa made big mistake in her life and she hounted by her sin anywhere...

[This is a reimagining of the story The Tutorial is Too Hard by Gandara.] (STUBBED as of 24-06-12, continue reading from chapter 77 on RRL under "A Gamer's Guide To Beating The Tutorial" or Preorder/Buy from Amazon/Kindle) On New Year's Eve, Lee Ho-Jae decides that he wants to die. The universe seem...

An age old war between the man and what lurks in the uncharted depths returns, just as the former king of Atlantis knew. Now, in the mostly normal region of Ultar and Jewel, Massachusetts, that battle returns anew with a vengeance. The young man with a mysterious treasure-seeker and archeologist mus...

Earth fell centuries ago. Invaders arrived, elves and demons bringing magic, marvels and monsters, The world and physics laws changed, forcing humanity to start again. But the invaders gave them no respite, and crushed them before they could accumulate any strength. Now, only isolated settlements re...

After a marshal captures one history's most heinous criminals, he decides to personally drive them and their partner in crime and love to their next destination. However, an incidental landslide on a mountainside road they were driving has them all waking up stranded in a deep forest. It would seem ...

In the weird, wild west, Loyd is in charge of the area known as Las Vegas just before the construction of what is eventually known as the hoover dam nearby in Boulder city. His clientele could be described as...hungry. His agenda cannot be considered purely altruistic. (Author's note: This was a sub...

[ Participant in the Royal Road Community Magazine. ] Accomplishing an end by any means necessary might not sound very moral, ethical or upright. However one can argue that survival is a fairly justifiable cause, especially amidst deep-sea monsters, cultists and eldritch gods. What lurks behind the ...

An android and exorcist, Takiya Naru, plunges alone into the horrific mysteries of the Halcyon Abyss. The Abyss is a space station entirely filled with water, originally constructed as a marine habitat imitating the abyssal deeps of alien oceans, a place to preserve potentially useful aquatic monst...

In a mysterious desert of eternal darkness and strange creatures with a forgotten purpose, a young boy chained to a corpse seeks out to chart the legendary water....

Kalea has moved to the mainland from Hawaii and is having a hard time adjusting to the cold weather, new people, and new everything. The tropical trees are replaced by pine, and the warm sand is replaced by busy harbors and fishermen. Her new best friend Molly helps her get used to a new life, and s...

The Endless Seas where wishes are granted and the impossible is possible Countless ancient ruins and treasures are buried amongst the waters. Strange, aberrant, cursed things… Abyss, catacombs, ancient gods, mythological races… Remnants of forgotten arts and crystallizations of ancient mysterious D...

A donut-obsessed college senior has a sinister intention.  A short story....

After Adam Walker’s father throws him on the grim streets of Yttrium, Walker must find a way of sustaining himself. Thus, he turns to the Population Improvement Program to complete “bounties” for the U.R government. However, after a bounty goes wrong, Walker must grapple with the biological aftermat...