Basil wants to propose to Della.  But Gemma won't let the two of them be alone.  Then Basil's friend starts a fight with Gemma's husband.  And nobody can work out who Wanda really is. It's a night doomed to be a total disaster, but in the middle of it something magical happens: one perfect moment th...

The life of a witch's most faithful servant isn't an easy one. Between managing the fiends of the forest and keeping an eye on the local villages, there's nothing this familiar won't do to maintain their idyllic lives. And when an amateur band of mercenaries attempts to disturb their peace, what oth...

Hal Locke is a private detective. He gets called in often to support cases. But this case is not normal. The chief is acting strange, his body is changing, and he found something very disturbing in the basement of the house he got called to. Will he survive this investigation?...

Trent Setter, a tired young man, finally gets a well-deserved break from his desk job at an innocuous cabin owned by his childhood friend. However, things rapidly go awry as this solo vacation spirals out of control....

(Unfinished spin-off from the Tales series. Currently a WIP. Description is subject to change.) What do you do do when you wake up unable to remember who you were? If you're anything like Lucky, you don't care and keep walking. And that's what this is about, Lucky, the girl who keeps walking into an...

(A Prequel to I Wish You Well) A place where unspeakable horrors begin. Darkness is rising....

Ix The Undying is a Sci-Fi short story anthology set in the shared dystopian setting of the mobile city of Ix. Home to a few million people, nobody knows where it came from or how they got there - that all happened in the distant past. Nobody knows. The cityship trundles through the Outside, a night...

This is based on a dream I had a few years ago that I ended up turning into a short story. It will be rewritten as well as beefed up sometime in the future as it ties loosely to a larger, work-in-progress series called the Tales ....

The following is a work of fiction, which includes a triple murder, bruises, a lonely house, a girl who wants to disappear, and quietness....

Dru is being hunted.  Hunted like a rat through the bowels of the space station.  He needs to find out what Commander Goul has done to all the kids that have gone missing.  Tired, cold and so terribly hungry, the inside of a decaying hulk is no place for a ten year old.  But he has to go on. He has ...

An impoverished young sewer, Evelynn has never known adventure. Her brother, Griff, always has, passing daringly through the city and securing her food through unsavoury connections. Until now, she has never known his methods. Now that she does, Evelynn is ready to join the underworld just like her ...

After losing his memory and being hired to search a dungeon for an ancient artifact by the demon Ignis, Kona ends up falling into a hole leading into a hidden room where he finds a powerful demon sealed away and ends up opening the seal. The demon unlocks his lost memory, unlocking the truth to Kona...

A serial arsonist suggests another, highly unusual, culprit for his most infamous crime. This is a complete, occasionally flawed, story of just under 5300 words. I liked the idea enough to try and push myself to polish it by letting people offer feedback (why yes, I am a masochist)....

A young half dragon looking to complete what his mother couldn't I felt like I need to say that my uploads are sparatic with breaks in between them aperrently i have to put this here: Cover Art : AI Generated by WOMBO Dream.If WOMBO Dream demands it to be put down, please message me on ROYAL ROAD....

Steve is in love with Lily but can’t spit it out. Why else would he help her with her insane plan to break into the mall and film an episode for a new amateur ghost hunting show? It's not like there’s anything to the stories of disappearances and strange figures moving around the mall at night, righ...

A short story about running away to find a new place, and a new person to be....

The intrapersonal romantics of college-dude-kind....

The Cartographers have announced that the Triton will drift over an old city. Aegan finds himself lucky enough to be ready to drop in his deep-dive submersible, the Argo, and scavenge for riches. If he can collect enough salvage, he can buy his way into the upper-decks, to the levels of peace and qu...

Hewin is a slave in the only adronatium mine in Faer Zavelin. As a lynx-man, he is able to see and work in the depths enveloping the fallen star. Hewin is used to staring into the darkness while swinging his pickaxe. But then, an entirely new kind of darkness invites him...entirely new, but, at the ...

A telling of ancient battles and heroic figures, struggling for dominance....