The well-learned, sweet, and innocent Tang Daiyu's world crumbles around her when her family's reputation falls. Her father, a disgraced official, and her mother are both executed by Emperor Jianyuan of Chang. She is left struggling to care for her toddler brother, Baobao. Then, two eunuchs from the...

|7X FEATURED · AMBYS 2023 SHORTLIST|  Twelve-year-old Will is a dragon. He's a member of the Water Clan that thrives in the Bermuda Triangle. His parents abandoned him seven years ago and never returned, leaving Will with just a magic necklace and the Ocean to guide him. Alone on a tropical island, ...

A short story about the importance and irrelevance of choices....

For as long as there has been faith, there have been the unfaithful. Persecuted for nothing but her doubts (and reading the wrong books) one girl has a chance to start a new life on a new planet. But wherever there are cities, there is the presence of the Novoastrian Church. Unable to even go to sch...

In the not too distant future, the Earth's population spends most of their time inside their homes, occupying a virtual reality called the System. One day, the System goes down indefinitely. Marie Joyce used to play piano in the System and struggles now to pick up the craft in reality....

The debut pulp novel from Absurdist Press chronicles the fifth year of Pittsburgh superheroes Siren and Cobalt as they navigate crime, murder, and violence throughout the city. Written by Jude Profit with cover art by 13...

Jericho, the land of humanity, writhes in pain. Magic has been forbidden for centuries in this so-called "Age of Silence." Arcane knowledge has been presumed lost and irrecoverable, and the echoes of God's Will grow fainter with each passing year. Many have succumbed to despair, others are driven ma...

After their fateful misadventure in the mountainous Norther Reaches of RUNDAO, a dark new threat to all of RUNDAO has been revealed to the mercenary band of THE CREEPING BAM and their newest member, half-orc bandit SHAYLINE SWIFT-KILL.  Returning their hard-won cargo to THE SILVER ORDER in their cit...

It is a super short horror story about Erania, that may or may not be end horribly wrong....

After barely surviving their encounter with the sleeping Leviathan twenty-five light years from Earth, Captain Brooks and his crew search for an individual whose mere presence may protect them from the reality-warping abilities of the beings.  While officially called Cerebral Readers, they are known...

Jack loves his life. Yeah, he lives at the edge of a warzone between armies of monstrosities. You call it dangerous. Jack calls it Tuesday. Folks in town aren’t too keen on a fourteen-year-old running the only bar, but Jack has it under control. Maybe his customers trash the place more than he would...

[Participant in the June Royal Road Community Magazine Contest] At the psychic power training school known as Vyse Academy, two students seek to go beyond the boundary imposed by nature and society. Sarika wishes to overcome death and resurrect her sister; Ruta just wants to avoid any trouble with t...

When Lynn steps up to be the sole defender of The Dragon Gem, her world is turned upside down as her life becomes filled with a sea of pirates and death-defying feats....

"Remember, Eli. She is the key to your honor."Eli, an aquatic, human-like creature, has always called the underwater Tognir Kingdom home—a kingdom subject to the mysterious Eltana, who demands a human sacrifice on each month’s new moon. He’s living the life of his dreams— capturing humans for the ne...

In Japanese, "私の最愛の蠍座に". Another classical edition written that blends in horoscopes and astrology signs into the story.  Surrounding the 4 elements (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth) of the Western and Sidereal astrology, what happens when Scorpio ♏︎ meets Virgo ♍︎? Let's reveal the mystery in this spec...

Sabban Vint & his fellow graduates of the 117th cadet core, are exhilarated at the chance to serve alongside the legendary ace pilots of IAFS - However they will soon learn that not all soldiers are heroes nor all pilots aces - Someone needs to don the redshirt, to bellow the Wilhelm-Scream - To pil...

Just when they thought their relationship couldn't get any worse... Under mysterious circumstances, Yuzuru and his sister Sara find their lives uprooted as they are brought into Arcadia - a fantasy game world unlike any they can imagine. Separated and lost, they must each come to terms with their ne...

This is a series of short stories for the characters of the Existara series, including backgrounds and side stories. Part 2. The story of Ira and Devona continue on after the events of "Emerald and Wykren"The story continues on to show the new struggles and challenges of the Noxian Trio, or what's l...

The world's favorite Magical Girls return in this gritty sequel to Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon🌙 SYNOPSIS: Five years after a tragedy changes our young heroines' lives, a new evil threatens the planet. Can the Sailor Soldiers find a way to put aside their feelings and come together to face it? Or w...

After being scarred by a dark lord, a mouse woman partakes on a quest to obtain three ancient and powerful artifacts. Whether reward or ruin lies at the end of the road, she cannot be certain, but either way, it's all the same to her, as she partakes on a  journey of exploration, loss and experience...