Told in 16 flash fiction vignettes, The Starcrossed & The Spectral is a mini serial soap opera set in outer space. 🪐Two lonely worlds become cosmically intertwined when Zethar and Isolde both discover a portal—and one another—across space and time. Science or fate (or maybe a bit of both) has broug...

17 people live their normal lives until blackness overcomes them and they are in a place covered by forest. An odd voice tells them that only one person will go back to their regular life and the rest will die. Who out of the seventeen will survive?...

Part epistolary, part journal, Black Purpose is a short story about the surviving crew of a shipwreck in the 1800s. Themes include horror, survival, alienization, mimicry, colonization, and othering. TW for body horror, gore, psychological horror. Written for the community magazine contest....

Does time travel exist? Did he really build such a machine? If so, why did he choose to keep it hidden? Questions like these consumed the minds of the public during the lifetime of the brilliant and enigmatic physicist, Dr. Herbert Cooper. But those questions seemed destined to remain unanswered whe...

Umar of Sadina, Grandmaster Assassin of the Order, had died. Such is life, old men die from consuming too many drugs when they are about to ascend. But now, as his mind lingers in the afterlife, Umar refuses to be taken by true death. His journey leads him not only through the uncharted parts of his...

Elias, grieving the loss of his wife, embarks on a journey through time to seek answers to the questions her death left behind. Believing that understanding the choices of historical figures might shed light on his own grief, he converses with individuals at their final moments, exploring their regr...

Completed Novella On Patreon Chapter Released Daily (20 Chapters Total) When the Fog Calls, Will You Sleep or Wander? Dr. Isla Reyes thought she’d buried the past, but when Evelyn Hart — an old rival with a reputation for making people disappear — arrives unannounced at Isla's remote Amazon researc...

Ever since the Immortal Dao perished, no one has shone more brilliantly in the Way of Investigation than the Red Book Detective, Hou Shu. But even the best detectives will lose their purpose if there isn't any case for them to solve. That is especially true for Hou Shu, who had secluded himself amon...

A macabre tale beyond imagination! When Mortician Johnathan Briggs stumbles across a copy of the Necronomicon, and dares to perform one of its necromantic rituals, he unwittingly attracts the attention of sinister otherworldly forces. Entry for the January 2025 Royal Road Community Magazine contest....

In Nova, a sprawling cyberpunk megacity ruled by Hyperion, a soulless corporation that owns everything—including its workers—a low-level employee finds himself dragged into a deadly retrieval mission. When cutting-edge tech is stolen from the corporation, he’s paired with a Collector, a terrifying b...

Some stories begin with a chance encounter. This one starts with a 'Champagne Tower'.  Nolan Rizae never expected much from his job as a server at a fancy event. But when he saves Freya Elysian—heiress and successful businesswoman—from a champagne mishap, things take an unexpected turn. Freya notice...

The Leyline Scriptorium is a haunting sanctuary where the restless souls of the departed are contracted by the librarian to write their stories to release the burdens of their unfinished lives. Kastimir Blackwood, the librarian, tends to this ethereal library, a place where the past lingers and the ...

(Participant in the Royal Road January 2025 Community Magazine Contest) [SHE IS DEAD, BUT THE COLLECTOR GIVES HER LIFE.] The Fervent Indulgent are on a pillaging spree, led on by Beastmaster, father of mutant monsters. Kamali has been murdered by their kin. Yet before her soul can depart, a monster ...

Official page for the [Royal Road Community Magazine] Contest. This page includes the first chapters of all entries submitted before January 10th, 2025.  Check out the first chapter for more details....

I have been consistently writing poetry due to lack of time to focus on a longer story. From tear jerkers that unpack my personal life, to letters to friends and observations of life, it's all here. Welcome home....

Our family has always carried the bloodline of a clan skilled in the art of fortune-telling, capable of seeing through the impermanence of life and death. My eldest sister can distinguish between good and evil in people, my second sister can predict others' lifespans, and I have the ability to see h...

The story describes the chapter scene as the background of her life story and how powerful she is to herself and others around her she is a very brave and hardworking little girl who never gives up doubt upon herself or from people she meets in her lifetime. The little girl is the main character of ...