Azucena was not expecting much trouble going after a group of errant animated skeletons in an abandoned mall near Sao Paolo. The Necromancer was dead. She knew because she had been directly responsible. But that derelict shopping centre and the boy waiting there would send her down a very different ...

The page of history quickly flipped to the end of the Fifth Era, the epic of swords and magic coming to a close on a single sheet. Industrial magic took root in the tangled complexities of the Four Great Empires, rumbling trains stitching the world together, secret cults and confederations in the sh...

[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] In the shadow of war, every choice can lead to power or destruction—who will rise, and who will fall? In the burning streets of Greenhaven, monsters rampage, leaving chaos and the screams of terrified citizens in their wake. The world teeters on t...

When a corporate accident tears holes in reality, an entomologist and her con-artist husband become the best hope humanity has against total destruction.  Hawk West is not the scientist we need right now. She's an entomologist, a "bug doctor", with a specialization in ants and an obsession with hone...

Everything was fine, until they were not. Forewarned only by ringing noises, the System integrated with Earth, killing 20% of its people upon arrival. Raven Dawn, a college student who secretly loved drawing and writing stories, survived, and the System gave her a powerful Class: Storyteller. But wh...

When a murder happens, the Reeve is called. When a natural death occurs, the Dedicated is summoned. And when the weird makes a man a corpse, a Warden of the weird comes to town. Weirdens are charged with maintaining the harmony between the mundanes and the creatures of the weird. In the case of a mo...

Nach dem zweiten großen Krieg zwischen den Begallen und der Noranischen Krone herrscht seit etwas über zehn Zyklen Waffenruhe zwischen der Triquetta des Südens und dem Königsbündnis. In dieser Zeit der vorsichtigen Annäherung der Völker, zwischen Gewinnern und Verlierern, erbitterter Feinde und erzw...

Cosmic horrors descend upon the quiet town of Small Pines, Maine. Police Officer Kimberly McKnight struggling to string together the clues of what's actually happening here. Nobody taking it seriously enough until it's too late. When sentient eyeballs start invading people's bodies and changing them...

Blaire is a humaroid from a dead world - earth, in it's darkest timeline - where she reaches her end at her own hand. All she wants to do is to let go... a thousand years at the top of the hierarchy in a world drained of joy has left her a dull husk. And she does, let go. But, somehow, something doe...

Dyani wakes to find that she has become the sacrifice in an ancient vampiric ritual. He wants to gain more power and she wants to live. Sabotaging the ritual was the first step, but what she did not account for was the fight for her life in more ways than one. Magic is real, and she is now confined ...

Graduating, finding a job, and then living a stable life on a decent income was Tammy's ideal goal after leaving her school and getting her diploma. Becoming the only character to never leave her party in all her playthroughs (due to favoritism, mainly, sue her, she loves her main damnit!) in her fa...

A castle adrift in the Astral Sea. A shattered defense between the realms. A heroine thought lost to time.   When Nexus, a stronghold that protected the Prime Realms from the Old Gods of the Far Realm, falls, chaos erupts. Anya, in a desperate bid to save them all, attempts to transport Nexus across...

1st person POV, with a twist or three. There is only one MC.  Nobody likes the tax collector, not even intergalactic AIs. So when they show up and draft 4 billion people, I get caught in the crossfire. Now dumped onto an inhospitable world, where the air itself want's to give me cancer I must figure...

What if you were suddenly isekai'd in another world? But you're just... YOU.You probably think, "Lucky me, right?" Especially for someone who loves Isekai stories, mysteries, and comedy-dramas—it's the perfect escape from reality. But instead of waking up as a princess, a mysterious baby, or a cunni...

Hiding my necromancy from the world should’ve been my biggest problem. Necromancy is forbidden, an automatic death sentence for witches like me. I would’ve been happy to keep my head down, do my part for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations as their only on-staff witch, and solve magical crimes. I...

The Empress of Albion, has defeated her older siblings in a ruthless civil war, bringing the once omnipotent and corrupt aristocracy under her heel and paving the way for the revitalization of a downtrodden peasant class. However, not everyone is as eager for peace as her, and jealous foreign powers...

Sol Voss wakes from cryosleep aboard Jericho, Earth’s last colony ship, carrying a precious fusion core and humanity's final hope. As the last ship Earth could afford to send, Jericho follows the faint, scattered trail of earlier vessels—most of which vanished without a trace. Only one colony, Haven...

A short collection of stories with the prompt alien societies. Royal Road participation. Has fantasy and sci fi societies/civilizations. I am mainly writing this because of overexposure to really bad hfy....

Corvan’s subterranean adventure becomes complicated by a growing dependence on the power of the lumien seeds. Kate discovers that the medallion she carries is new doorway to other cities and cultures in the Cor, but a more sinister and powerful evil waits....

In the fantasy world of Nebulan, gemstones naturally imbued with magic run the world as each nation fights to have the most powerful ones in their personal arsenals. These magical gemstones can have an infinite number of abilities ranging from slightly useful to world-altering. The most sought-after...