[participant in Spr 2024 Royal Road Writathon challenge] Workaholic high school student learning programming, Ella Farnsworth, stays busy to cope with her dysfunctional family. Farley gives her a pocket computer the day SETI discovered aliens. When he offers her a ride home, he reveals her future. S...

In the quaint yet somber town of Willow's End, shrouded in an aura of lingering mist and unsettling quietude, stands the Hawthorne Estate. Its towering presence casts long shadows over the history of the town, a chronicle rife with whispers of the otherworldly. Here, the Hawthorne family, led by Dav...

Diane Winters is a practical girl. She loves her maths and she loves her sketching. She is as far from fantasy as her intellectual brain would allow her. Add in her weak heart to the equation and Diane is done.  Olivia, Diane's twin, is the opposite. She is a dreamer, and Diane has a hard time reini...

Earth, 2175. The world has ended. Then it began again, and they don't want to lose it a second time. Thirty four years after a final battle between Earth and Mars, Raptor squad - an elite unit of guerrilla warfare specialists - fights to dethrone a tyrant who's global empire rose from the ashes of t...

When two young demonhunters discover a magical map in a secret weapon stash, they decide to follow it into the unknown of Faerieland to find its treasure. *** Frankie and Meg are the best of friends. They also happen to be students at Hetchworth Hall: Demonhunting Academy, a secret school that train...

The novel depicts a matriarchal society where men are used just for work and are considered only as a necessary means for having daughters. Sons are highly undervalued, and for this reason advances in science will soon make it possible to select gender in a lab. Also, technology is going to be able ...

When being the outsider becomes a death sentence . . .  Maya Banford should have known moving to a small town meant everyone had a past . . . and secrets. But when Maya is invited to attend a party hosted by her new friends at her new school, she receives a threatening text message warning her to st...

Ceres Mara Sant isn’t here to be a hero. An assassin from a secretive brotherhood, he’s forsaken his birthright as crown prince of an intergalactic empire for life in the shadows. He thrives, now, not on politics and posturing but on getting in and getting out and leaving no evidence behind but ques...

In the woodlands of District Seven, Hazel Marlowe’s life is shattered when she and her younger brother are reaped for the 15th Annual Hunger Games. Her only goal: protect him at all costs. But to do that, Hazel will have to face not only the horrors of the arena but also the Capitol's growing fascin...

After the sinking of the Titanic, Mary (Sophia) de la Reue swore that she'd never love again. However, when she receives a second chance at life as an Aquarid, a type of Mer created when one sacrifices themselves to the waves, she's not so sure that's possible. Everywhere she goes, she sees him. Tho...

Two titans representing opposing forces fought, and died, in orbit around a forgotten planet. Their battle did not go unnoticed, as The Central Governor took notice of the clash of forces. The forgotten planet finds itself embroiled in more conflict, as planets already under the Great Veil find a ne...

After twenty years of fighting and ten years of rebuilding, Iona, High Commander of Chrysos, is desperate to close the book on the kingdom's first war in a millennium. But when she's called back to the palace for a new assignment, she finds herself face to face with the guilt and grief she's tried s...

Abby has come across a strange device during one of her travels. What is it used for? Who made it? Why was it floating light years away from any known systems? This is the first story I have ever written. Enjoy!...

Her beautiful, brilliant mind might destroy the world... or save it. The Discord server for this project is here: https://discord.gg/DFavYcvzxG The Girl A forest fire has destroyed Farisa's home, her good name, and even her memory. Those who knew her describe a loyal friend, an animal lover, and a g...

7 enthusiastic colonists-to-be die in mysterious and related circumstances far from one another. An officer of the Centre for New Colonial Affairs hires a freelance consultant with expertise in the esoteric. She must move fast to find out who’s killing them and why, before they come for her....

Sophie Clay, a young wildlife biologist, has been accepted into her dream job tracking polar bears in Alaska. However, it's a long way from home and means saying goodbye to her boyfriend for the next few months. When a spontaneous backpacking goodbye trip takes a turn, she must struggle to survive i...

A sapphic pirate short story. Mild sexual content and profanity. Non-human leads....

"Victoria's Secret's" is a captivating Paranormal Gothic tale that follows the enigmatic journey of Victoria, a young woman shrouded in mysterious origins. With an intriguing past, Victoria finds herself drawn to a remote castle inhabited by a young girl and her father. Despite their strikingly cont...

Sickly college student Becky dreams of a handsome prince to take her away, but her college dream just died and she's sick with COVID. SETI brings a prince to her door so she, with her family, travels to a new world and her husband's small colony. But it's not a happily-ever-after, unless her random ...

All heroes have to start from somewhere, don’t they? A collection of short stories telling the tales of heroes before their paths crossed. It is of siblings trying to hide the cracks in their family; of a young prodigy fighting for her place in society; of a girl who may have lost her memory but has...