Little kobold apprentice Degra is sent to find an answer to a curse-laid illness on her people. Fair enough task for a student of magick and alchemy; but to her dismay, she is told the answer lies among one of the more dangerous and choatic races. She will have to seek out humans....

Amelia lived a peaceful life in an ancient village of immortals who called their bodies "Vessels". Vessels never got sick or hurt. They experienced mild hunger satiated by the food grown in the village. Anything they wanted they could create with a power called "Source". When the population of the v...

"Escort the Federation team. Keep them out of trouble." Those were Octavia Tiberius's first orders out of cryosleep. As a Guardian of the Amaranthian Empire, it was her duty to represent and protect her people. She expected it to be just like the simulations; guns, ships, explosions and the like. Wh...

Exploited by their employers, abandoned by society, and left to die... the girls don't....

In a world where everyone lives an everyday life, some have mastered the art of spirit manifestation. Separated from society is a school where kids with the talent to manifest these superpowers go. But the school holds secrets many seek. After the arrival of some new kids, the atmosphere becomes mor...

The Sapient Union city-ship Craton, twenty-five light years out from Sol have an encounter with a terrifying life-form.  The giant entity, known as a Leviathan, has been asleep for deep ages of time, but now . . . they may have woken it up. Other-Terrestrial is a hard sci-fi story with cosmic horror...

Often referenced simply as the The Great Book or The Epic, these are the stories of grand figures, princesses and adventurers, sorcerers, jinni and lesser men. These oral traditions and penned works have and continue to emanate from the greatest empire the world has ever seen; these are the stories,...

In TRANSCIETY, people live their lives in a way not unlike our own. Everyone has grown accustomed to being videotaped and surveilled—so much so that they willingly wear electronic wristbands that chronicle their every move. Drones peer down from the sky at all times, while doorbells and streetlights...

People disappeared. And nobody remembers. Florence lives in Truthsend Village, her life governed by two principles: - Nobody leaves - Nobody lies But when Outsiders come to the village, she begins to question both of these Truths....

The secret to eternal life has been discovered, and it will destroy the world.In a dystopian world where the ancient elite rule over the hungry and weak, Elise Matherstone, the youngest of the immortals and a Guardian of the wall, must fight back the encroaching Flesh Breakers that live in the desol...

Ostensibly a story about an angel answering a prayer....

A Girl ran through a forest shrouded in a deep fog. She was a young swordsman with long blue hair flowing behind him as she moved. Above his hempen clothing, he wore light iron armor and an iron forehead protector. The sword in his right hand, though somewhat small, was sturdily made. Why she was ru...

17 year old Liana is not as surprised as most people would be when she meets Inaya, coming from another world searching for a mysterious danger that could be disastrous for both worlds. She's always seen things others could not see, and she often finds it easier to befriend strange creatures from dr...

A highschool girl discovers she has powers when she transfers after a mysterious incident at her old school....

Every person you meet leads an intricate life, one history barely ever tells about. In The Magus Wars, we follow a story of Iska, obsessed with reviving his dearly departed Angelica, aswell as the fates of both those who support him and those who oppose him. But as often is the case with history, th...

When a Little Gnome Finds herself in a little trouble. she's soon thrown into a world of adventure that she neither cares for nor wants. Forced to deal with it whether she likes it or not.  Screaming definitely in the face of the horrifying and the stupid. Whats a girl to do in the insanity besides ...

Submission for The Royal Road Community Magazine Contest: June Edition #1 The land of Quewilrth is dark and unforgiving. The weak are trampled underfoot without a second thought. If you can't pay your debts with money, blood is willingly accepted. Everyone is out for themselves, and there is no tru...

Betrothed before she was even born, Mel finds herself bound to the Chief of the bear tribe. Winning his affection is the least of her worries when she learns the real reason for the arranged marriage.  A reason that might make her stay in Orion not so welcoming, especially when she is to wed a beast...

Nikola is an NPC in The World of Wills, a video game where players can feel sensations as if they were truly there. She leads a life of bloodshed and murder - that is, until one day she wakes up sapient. Just as she begins thinking real, non-scripted thoughts and making connections, she and the play...

A young princess is recruited to capture Kuinkazner, a warlord using an ancient but unraveling enchantment that allows him to evade capture by moving from one body to another....