As Neal navigates his anger and grief stemming from the loss of his only friend, his family must pull together to gather enough supplies to survive the deathly cold winter as the volcanic ash storms intensify. However, when a family appears on their doorsteps and offers engineering and medical exper...

Cursed with dreams, Yezen walks the gray wasteland alone. His search for another dreamer has taken him back to the city of Akolta, where he desperately hopes to find salvation amidst the dark memories of the past. But the road is long, the dangers many, and this close to the Prism the Overseers are ...

Gideon Forsythe is beyond anything the world has every seen. He created the cure for almost all the worlds diseases and disorders and the first Realistic Virtual Universe, all before his fifteenth birth day. How? He diagnosed with Gideon's Mind. Named after him, this condition is the no-stop Critica...

The forces of Yanksee have reached the dunes of No Man's Land with a great many men and machinery prepped for a Syndie massacre; a violent dispute long held over time between the continent's greatest powers. But as the conflict unfurls, other more unsettling deeds begin to emerge, as the world's gre...

I joined the first group I was in because I trusted them, I believed that following them was the right thing to do. The second group I joined was due to fear, the fear of being alone or dying, of sleeping the slightest bit too much and letting the cold take me. The last group joined was because I la...

Janus Campbell can't fight. And unfortunately for him, that's the only way to survive. Upcoming physicist Janus Campbell is trapped in the world of Tersaia, where shadow monsters lurk the streets, anyone can be monitored at any time and fighting is the best way to make a living; either through the ...

Half the world, Disappeared. The other half, Branded. With the world irreversibly changed, Blaze, Ysandra, and Theta Squad must master their Brands if they want to survive. But they're not the only ones - friends and foes alike continue to roam the ruins of civilization, and ghosts from Blaze's past...

Set over a thousand years in the future, humanity has changed. The dual narrative story Ad Novum Initium follows Ritsu Akamori and Annaliese Pastoria as they uncover the truths about the world and seek to resolve it....

Driven by the small events in life, Meera writes to express herself.  Morals, ethics, standards... nothing plays a role as big as the human mind, as complex as it is. But don't worry. Because just as in life, this book too, has a little bit of everything. A little romance, a little action, a little ...

In a world ruled by time, a body lies on the street. In a world ruled by power, the body awakes, and opens his status window to pull out a weapon. In a world ruled by death, it stabs the ground, and the weapon rends the world. In a world ruled by the System, we are but straw dogs and joss sticks, un...

How would you take revenge on your slavers? Siegmund decides to blow them all up....

Echo Three can’t remember anything except the institution, not even her real name. Every day the doctors torture her with electrical shocks and tests, trying to awaken psychic abilities they believe are suppressed within her psyche.  Tonight, she’s had enough, and she’s leaving on her own terms....

In 2021, France invaded Xiamen and launched a war with the "Zhang Faqi Incident". In Xiamen, there is a so-called "refuge" that adheres to the concept of "China can be burned, and self-preservation" has formed extreme egoism. War never changes. Liu was a junior high school student, and minors like h...

A short promo-story for GameCult Games project Aetheria. The Zvezda, the only home Mitriy Nikolaevich has ever known is making its long journey across Elysium in search of their new home, Nadezhda....

King’s College has a reputation. To Leo, the sharp but cynical rebel, it is a place where the people he cares about are sentenced to a fate worse than death—to live the rest of their days on the surface of a dying Earth. To Morgan, the bright and strict overachiever, it is a vault in which she may f...

There were two things I knew instantly when I began to exist. The Number was 1922916.12. And I had to make the Number go up. [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]...

20 years ago, on an ordinary day, the world was turned into a game in which human beings were the players. Ever since then, humanity fought against the endless swarms of the NPCs, as well as against each other. Yet in the end, it was all meaningless. The pain. The suffering. The victories and the de...

After the world is almost entirely overrun by a mysterious force known only as the Spread, individual cities struggle to survive behind Barriers with limited resources under the direct supervision of the richest among them. Accidentally overhearing a plot by his city's leader to doom a large swathe ...

When magic and mythical creatures return to Earth, The System is sparked and woven into the fabric of reality. Seeing how poorly humans handle change game savvy individuals are selected as System Support Staff and tasked with getting the clueless masses up to speed. Follow Gus as he and his role pla...

The universe has selected, at random, an untold number of men and women. These people have all been adjusted into an adult version of themselves at their prime. Their backgrounds are diverse, their stories a wide array ranging from mundane to tragic. The only information they have been provided is t...