When nations are on the brink of war, to be innocent is not enough...Fifteen years ago, Jehan Fasih designed a drug that could curb the instinct for violence (and rob the taker of their free will). Fifteen minutes ago, someone blew up the metro station to get their hands on his brainchild.Jehan must...

Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge Keoni's life was simple. She, simply, took care of plants for people and spent the rest of her time reading. A long time ago, her family had disappeared, forcing her to live alone, her only company being her friend, Ryley. Other's lives were not. As...

They said that the end of the world would be long and painful, with plenty of signs and disaster. Well, there were none. Everything was gone in less than a second. A sudden unknown electromagnetic wave swept the Earth, mutating ninety percent of humanity into fast and strong zombies. Dr William Toh ...

Welcome to the gladiocracy: a futuristic society where the strongest warriors rule as celebrity kings and tyrants. To those at the top goes prestige, power, and absolute rule. But teenage gunslinger Emilia Mori was born at the bottom. Dealt the life of a street rat in neon-soaked hell, Mori swore to...

There is a soldier. Can he become a beautiful butterfly?...

Once every two hours a person is thrown out of the pressurized habitat of Ceres into the vacuum of Space. Journalists, dissidents, ordinary criminals, assuming they are about to die, are all surprised to be given a functioning space suit and twenty four hours of oxygen before getting "airlocked" int...

Saviour or destroyer? Warrior or liberator? The inevitable… or the possible? When a mysterious disaster causes amnesiac war hero Lieutenant Zelen Athelstan to lose his ability to pilot an Eidolon, Corporal Asena Shiranui is tasked with healing his mind and bringing him back to fighting shape. Asena ...

For all of you that know me from before yes it is I. But enough about me, this is not my story.   This is a story about a young man in his early thirties who has how he likes to say bad luck. From a difficult childhood to a even harder life. Donny is a guy who was born in a world similar to our own....

John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids is generally held to be his best work - right up to the penultimate chapter! But the ending leaves a lot to be desired, with all sorts of loose ends. In this sequel which is set in the same storyline and in the same location (Labrador), I aimed to remedy that situation,...

Aboard Hades Station, families spend generations labouring in service to the Apollo Corporation. Those without money have only one path to freedom; glory as a gladiator in the arena. Axel Murray, an orphan who nobody expected to achieve anything with his life, stands on the brink of earning his free...

Among uncharted stars, the crew and refugees of Minerva's Whisper are faced with challenges they never imagined. From a malfunctioning interstellar drive to the enigmatic Benefactors, the true nature of the planet of Voracia unfolds in layers of treachery. As Valeria is seduced by the allure of this...

Centuries have passed since insects descended on earth, eradicating other species. The Hive Monoliths, the ancient insect lords, rule over this world. Sely, a girl with insect sap in her veins, seeks out her father to tell him about the sighting of a flying city. Legend of ancient human civilization...

It has been 150 years since the great war, which left cities devastated. Violet and Alex, two teenagers in the 11th grade, live in one of the few remaining cities. During a presentation by the governor, they start to question why there are so many laws restricting their rights....

Long ago, humans triumphed over dragons, imprisoning them into human mortals now known as dragonoids. These dragonoids endured centuries of enslavement at the hands of humans until they were liberated by the Dragonoid Rights Law. However, this newfound freedom spurred the dragonoids to rally their f...

Tauheen is dead, and her followers have scattered. Some of them are now helping the vicious and deadly feather mafia hunt down their own kind.Aeriels are being branded and killed, their wings hacked off and sold to the highest bidder on the black market.But after a clash between the Aeriels and the ...

Short story from Notters. Final edit made on Mar 9 2024. "And bring what headlong shewed Re-string the dreadsong bow A pledge on row, a ten ton ringing..."...

[Warning: Disturbing Content]A short story about a man and his children. as the crops whither, and the ground turns to dust.Reworked from a short story i wrote in an afternoon ~6 months ago....

An ordinary family, an ordinary life, happy parents and their children. Who doesn't dream of this? A deadly disease, slowly stealing the life of a young girl. Who isn't afraid of that? Her brother, desperate to do everything in his power to help his sister, treading a very fragile and dangerous path...

Forcés à l'exode, les colons de l'HMS Olkers débarquent sur une planète inconnue. Séparés entre terre et ciel, l'exploitation d'une ressource atomique entraîne la montée du Flux et prive les colons restés en orbite de contact planétaire. Le temps s'écoule, le vaisseau-arche est reconverti en cité au...

As Naruto struggles with the temptations of the Nine-Tailed Fox within him, his first ninja mission proves to be a turbulent trial for his morality. His hopes of impressing others enough to become Hokage and ascend the shinobi hierarchy are dampened when he somewhat chooses to work for Gato, the wor...