[This will be a submission for the January 2023 Royal Road Magazine Contest.] Synopsis: A human girl is used as a cosmic weapon in the Second Eternity War. The nature of this armament requires the temporary transmutation of a human soul. However once finished the original human must be returned to t...

"The Sword of Shadows" follows the journey of Aric, a young swordsman from a small village who discovers a portal to a dark and dangerous realm of magic and monsters. In this realm, Aric must learn to harness the power of magic if he hopes to survive. He sets out to find a mentor who can teach him t...

In a war-torn Japan, a skilled young samurai named Hiro fights to protect his village from the constant threat of other clans and bandits. After his lord is killed in battle, Hiro is forced to flee and becomes a ronin, a samurai without a master. As he travels the land, he struggles to find a new pu...

Official page for the [Royal Road Community Magazine] Contest. This page includes the first chapters of all entries submitted before January 10th, 2023.  Check out the first chapter for more details....

A young woman feels the tug of the sea calling her to its secret world. It is a world she does not want to enter.  This for the Royal Road Community Magazine prompt, Uncharted Waters....

To discover something new, one must not only set on an adventure to lands unseen, as that has been done before. Instead one would have to stumble upon that which ey didn't even know existed. If you get the call to adventure, to explore the uncanny and the ridiculed, would you answer that call?...

A collections of connected flash fictions set in a future somewhere. Including a slave, a zealot and more. Bitesize views of another reality where the virtual is supreme.  All characters and views expressed within are fictional, etc....

The Uncharted Waters is an action-packed LitRPG novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey into an unknown world. The protagonist, an avid fan of adventure and fantasy, purchases the new game "Uncharted Waters" and begins his journey into a vast and unknown world, full of mystery and adventure....

Uncharted Waters Writing Challenge Caliban was a fluke, something that never should have existed.  He was child of powerful earth djinn and a mortal woman.  In an attempt to flee his father's wrath, Caliban unwittingly finds himself aboard a sail ship heading out into a vast ocean.  Utterly horrifie...

An award-winning architect deliberately misses the award ceremony and instead drops in on his clients for dinner.  There, he meets a young architecture student who's doing a paper on the awarded house.  The attraction between them is instantaneous.  Will romance ensue?  Phil?  You dog!!...

A short science fantasy story. A wizard connected to the Universal Light detects a sudden violence in the universe....

*This is a writing prompt response for practice. Feedback welcome* Writing prompt: You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn't, and that horrifies you /// by user CheriGrove Thanks for reading!...

On the beautiful city of Pitesti a pair of quadruplets got born on a normal Podiatry Hospital. The four brothers and sisters have been brought to the world thanks to an eighteen-year-old woman, but unfortunately, she had to give these four children of her to an Orphanage. But the Orphanage, managed ...

An Immortal Moment Something I took over a year to finally get out of my brain on paper after reading The Wandering Inn, likely not to leave my thoughts anytime soon....

Should one live day-by-day in an easygoing manner, free from pain and exhaustion? Or should one live day-by-day in constant suffering, struggling to make sense of the world? Should one go about with a simple job, hang out with friends, sleep, and repeat until retirement? Or should one question every...

At twenty-seven, Aubree has given up her dreams of becoming a professional artist. Now she works a dead-end job at a supermarket, lives with her condescending mother, and binge-watches video essays during her free time. But a chance meeting with a young puppeteer will soon drive Aubree into an eroti...

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

All Stephen has ever wanted to do was paint. Unfortunately, in a world where artistic expression can have drastic consequences, he finds himself facing a painful dilemma. -- A one-chapter short story. Feedback and thoughts appreciated....

Fall in love with a ghost, but wake up to a real boy... and he's yelling at you....

Random, most likely unrelated one-off pieces written for the purposes of RP campaigns etc. etc. Tags are purely for purposes of creative liberty in posting....