This story was written for the Royal Road Community Magazine Jan 2024 Ezekiel craved one thing: knowledge to become immortal. Each day he studies in a library worn down by time, hidden away past the forest. Each day, he returns with the same information. Immortality may have existed, but it can’t e...

Do you think there's a chance for a  frat boy to fall in love? Ron has been in Greek life ever since he started college; he's gone to the wild parties, wined and dined the most beautiful girls on campus and had done things that his mother definitely would not approve.  However, Ron is fed up with al...

Arjun, once a diligent student from a loving middle-class family, takes a fateful plunge into the world of online gambling, guided by his charismatic friend Raj. The story unfolds as Arjun experiences the highs of early victories, the thrill of virtual games, and the camaraderie that ensues. However...

The second story in the Phoenix Saga, Phoenix Ascendant, begins 6 months after the end of Phoenix Book IV. Ranko and Akane have their own apartment, as both resume their academic careers. Ranko's pursuit of music takes a huge leap forward, and Ranko and Akane further cement their relationship. A sec...

"We know for a fact that we are alone in the universe. So why waste money on space exploration?" said the new World Government after they decided the UFO found on the moon was merely an undocumented prototype from before the nuclear wars. They wanted nothing to do with space, shut down the last inte...

Fate can be cruel, but our own mistakes are much crueler.  Meet Victor, a once-heroic adventurer now reduced to an overweight drunkard, haunted by relentless nightmares. Will he overcome his demons and mend the scars of his past? Or will he remain shackled by the shadows that haunt him? Taiyo, the d...

Iseult has died and now she must decide what comes next...

Bart has a two-week dating pattern.  He wins them over with dinner dates, evenings out, and lavish experiences, but dumps them at the end of the fourteen days.  He doesn't mind the mascara smears because they are not on him.   What will happen when his driver picks up the wrong girl and brings her t...

Seeking refuge from his everyday life, a young man travels to Heapswitch island. Unafraid of local legends and rumours, he makes a new acquaintance, one that is bound to change his life (and perhaps yours) for the days coming. The witch song calls, what's your answer, traveller?...

Set in an alternative, dystopian future In 2017, two worlds, Earth and Lumina, seemingly merged. Entire countries were wiped off the face of the planet, tsunamis the size of mountains crashed into deserts, and monsters immune to gunfire rampaged through the survivors. This was known as the Great Me...

A Note from William: This book takes place between the events of the Khasmir Campaign and the Tournament of Kings. It had all been written out ages ago. Unfortunately, I lost the documentation during the tournament and was unable to find it before I left. If Steward Benarus had not been kind enough ...

This is something I've written roughly two years ago, I made a few other attempts to write something but I always grow dissatisfied with what I've written, so I made this into a very open-ended short story to gather some feedback and possibly ideas and suggestions. So please leave me your comments.I...

Five years after a series of unfortunate events that indelibly changed the world forever… The multicultural religious militant organization known as the Third Revelation has now put their first wave into motion while bombing cities over the world.  With more nefarious tyrants being anointed, it is u...

#ShiorinStories are Fanfiction Stories made by Novelites, like myself, from Shiori Novella's Writing prompts/Story Starters posted on her Community tab. I'll be posting mine here so they can be read by more people and I hope some of you may love it, and if you also want, you can also tell me what yo...

This is my first EVER story I wrote in the Youtube comments section of this video five whole years ago. It's a complete meme, being a fanfiction for Kirby after Taranza loses his Queen, Sectonia, and becomes French (oh god, the horror). It is not good, and I am simply uploading it, and it's sister s...

| Book 1 of the Night Crawler Chronicles | After being rejected by the man he thought he'd marry, Jesse travels to DeiganLupus for the Grey Moon Ceremony. However, when the ship he was supposed to take is lost at sea, he boards the Silver Treader to reach his destination. But the Galleon turns out t...

[PREVIEW - This book is now available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book via Amazon] • Book 1 of the Numen Chronicles • Alucard's a reclusive, former god-hunting vampire lord. Zalith's a promiscuous warlord who comes from old money and an ancient demon bloodline. When the pair meet, Alucard's quiet...

Mercy has a secret: she sees things. Not in a needs-to-take-meds kind of way; she actually sees otherworldly beings – and tries to ignore them. But when she slips up, she catches the attention of a particularly striking being. It turns her life upside-down, and thrusts her into a new world of magic ...

Katherine is many things, an ex-cop, a photographer, in love with a vampire, suspended without pay, but there's one thing she isn't and that's out of time. Every time Katherine dies, she goes back to a fixed point in time and that's when she meets Eleanora, the love of her life....

Angelus wants nothing more than to enjoy his laid-back lifestyle on Portsmouth island - the home to any mutants unwilling to live amongst the humans of Gleodem that once subjugated them. Just when he thought having his girlfriend Nyx move in or not was the biggest decision he had to face,  a near-de...