Earth, 2175. The world has ended. Then it began again, and they don't want to lose it a second time. Thirty four years after a final battle between Earth and Mars, Raptor squad - an elite unit of guerrilla warfare specialists - fights to dethrone a tyrant who's global empire rose from the ashes of t...

Danny, who is only young, has to fight blood-loving creatures with his parents. Until he is hunted by the ones that raised him. Danny will use his brain and chemistry knowledge to help him survive. Will he wake from this nightmare with his sanity?...

In this country, the Authorities control everything and draft all able-bodied men under their rule. Rag'jah refuses, preferring the cold life of an outlaw. However, when he finds an escaped slave girl from the southern countries, he learns a frozen man will sacrifice everything, even his deepest hel...

After a car accident  a surgeon gets a  interesting power...

A man takes his life, his only explanation left scrawled on a yellow sticky-note: Your Fault. The five individuals remaining at his wake begin to speculate who his final words were addressed to, unearthing certain truths and redirecting blame. Surely it can't be their fault? currently under revision...

New world, New family,  New friends… and enemies, Multiple mates? Kidnap, murder. A crown she wasn’t ready to wear or wield. And a toddler to boot. Getting kicked out of the dance team, moments before the start of a tour she had planned and choreographed was beginning to look like the least of Mahin...

Tales from the Crossroads is a series of 17 micro-fiction horror stories set in the Primordial Crossroads Universe. OLYMPIAN observes the outcome of the Titanomachy and the strings that controlled all sides of the war....

In a nowhere town in northern Maine, sixteen-year-old Freya Jokela has been sinking since her freshman year. Shattered by her father’s death, and growing increasingly distant from her controlling mother Lassa , Freya is foundering in her classes and all her friends are drifting away. After her ex, M...

A student mining ice as side job while studying for college, aboard a large ancient mining ship.A finished short story...

Kaid had only known the prison Caladin his entire life. Caladin tests capability with brutal and deadly Trials designed to reveal a persons Magic. Magic was once the driving force of the world, and now resulted in permanent imprisonment  or secrecy to protect non-Magic aristocrats and rulers. Conten...

Tales from the Crossroads is a series of 17 micro-fiction horror stories set in the Primordial Crossroads Universe. RITUAL offers a glimpse into what can occur when even a long-thought-out spell goes wrong....

TRAITOR! Stripped of his dignity, his freedom, even his name. A twisted young inmate struggles to survive in a top secret pilot training program where the inept are executed. Under the brutal tutelage of the sinister Sergeant Tsuros, Traitor far outshines his rivals. Is he destined to save mankind o...

Red has lived in in the shadow of others his entire life. His father, Lance the Pokemon Champion and Blue, his childhood rival only add to his anxiety and lack of self-worth as he cannot hope to compete with them. Red is mocked and ostracized for not living up to his father's expectations he has onl...

Do you dream of going back in time? Think again. Time travel has a bad reputation. Forget the movies with their dramatic tension and happy endings. In reality, it's a messy business. And its real problems are far more unsettling. Buckle up, because this isn't your typical time travel adventure. This...

Tales from the Crossroads is a series of 17 micro-fiction horror stories set in the Primordial Crossroads Universe. PALINGENESIS delves into a far future tribe and their attempts to escape the cycle of reincarnation....

Lemongrab tries dark soda for the first time, resulting in solids forming in his urine. The Earl would rather die than request help with this medical issue....

In a society bound by laws and order, everything appears ordinary on the surface, but beneath lies a world of madness. In such an environment, one has no choice but to go crazy. This is the story of Noel, a man who not only succumbs to the madness but chooses to embrace his lunacy. --------- One cha...

Dorothy has lived far longer than she expected. Especially when her husband passed to leave her alone in their cabin amidst a goblin-infested forest. But she might regret not listening to her son and moving somewhere safer when she hears goblins screeching in the middle of the night. Saving a scrawn...

(Participant in the Royal Road June 2024 Community Magazine Contest) [THEIR FINAL STAND PITS THEM NOT JUST AGAINST MAN — BUT A BERSERK ALLY ABOUT TO COMMIT A FAR WORSE CRIME.] The Tanglesooth Druids are on their last legs. Humanity’s plague has washed over their neighbors and rivals, and the goblin...

How would you imagine two socially anxious people meeting each other for the first time? Not so much conversation right? Well thats exactly how these two meet up but as minutes went by... it became more than just conversation......