Yoichi has been a social butterfly all his life despite one abnormal adversity: a mutated disease that pushes people away like a forcefield. Imposing a huge risk on everyone around him, he’s forced to rely on the barely-fulfilling world of online socializing. That’s until they discover Verónica’s ca...

Lu’s world is full of secrets, secrets she craves to uncover. Stalida, is a crazy old lady that no one believes when she tells them her stories. However, when Lu starts talking to her great grandma Stalida, Lu starts to realize that the stories that Stalida tells Lu, is one hundred percent real. Giv...

Dorothy has lived far longer than she expected. Especially when her husband passed to leave her alone in their cabin amidst a goblin-infested forest. But she might regret not listening to her son and moving somewhere safer when she hears goblins screeching in the middle of the night. Saving a scrawn...

[Participant in the June 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest] WOLF thought she was done with her One Last Job—had botched it so thoroughly that she could live out her days in peace and solitude, free from anyone or anything she cared enough to fight for. But the past has a way of catching u...

When Lisa plays a practical joke on the Elders of her settlement, they retaliate against her family. Determined to fix what went wrong, Lisa turns to the forest, where for centuries the goblins have lived in hiding, hoarding forbidden knowledge which has the power to change the world as she knows it...

Gnal has a cushy job cleaning up other people’s messes. Anytime an eldritch summoning goes wrong, she’s called in to seal the resulting rift between dimensions. While the life of a night rift manager isn’t anything glamorous, it’s predictable – and comes with perks, like novelty pens! That is until ...

In a world where the magic of your childhood was real but only the old-timers can actually see it, who do you call about the monsters?...

The great god Khirotsan’ahn the almighty held trials for the heroes of all worlds. When it was finally Earth’s turn, his goblin arbiters randomly selected three… grandmas? Really? Do three grandmas stand any chance in vicious trials filtering out the strongest of heroes? Can they stay indifferent be...

Betty thought her life's last chapter would be taking care of her son and grandchildren. Inexplicably, fate had something else in mind for her. She is transferred to a world with a system.  While this gives her a brand new lease on life, it does so by making her one of the lowest of the low: a gobli...

Gertrude had been retired for years when she decided to move out of her home and into a retirement home of her choosing. What she hadn’t expected was that she would never make it there. Did she die? No. She was rescued against her will by a powerful being calling himself the Spirit of Isekai. Isekai...

Old completed outdated version originally created for the Goblins and Grandmas Community Contest 2024. Leaving for historical purposes. Will one day be rewritten, but not likely before 2027 !!! Edna long ago went into retirement. She and her cat Warfrost have lived in hiding. When the old house cat ...

A short time ago, in a game store not so far away, four gamer grandmas gathered. What's that, you ask? Were the grandmas themselves gamers, or are they grandmothers of gamers? Both, of course, though as responsible grandmothers, their reasons for showing up to the anniversary event for the world's s...

Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas. [Participant in the June 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest]...

A reluctant leader of the city guard enters into a pact to take down a smuggling operation. Written to participate in the June 2024 writing contest: Goblins and Grandmas....

Eight-year-old Stella Wolfe lives in a world where extraordinary magic is ordinary. But her life is far from a fairy tale. With skin that can heal from any injury, Stella always looks like the perfect daughter. But appearances can be deceiving, and even her visions of the future can’t guarantee her ...

Barbara Jollymont did not fancy herself as a general, but now she has no choice. After a routine walk around Sunny Hill Retirement Home results in her defeating a crazed green monster, Barb must lead her platoon of Grandmas to victory against a Goblin Invasion. They've got magical gardening equipmen...

Briar, Briar, you old liar. You led us down this path. Expect: Goblins and bread.Grandmothers and magic.Some dark undercurrents, but overall an optimistic story.Death but not despair.A self contained short tale, from start to conclusion. Participating in Royal Road community magazine, June 2024...

Zroz hated his teammates for their greed, stupidity, and sadism. He also hated the forest. And he hated scouting.  Nothing good ever happened to goblins scouting.  When Zroz and his teammates found an old woman and her hunting dog, Zroz didn't share his teammates' enthusiasm. Call him a pessimist, b...

Matriarch Zara of the Skeletal Grove has acquired all she wished for, but now her grove is under attack, and an opportunity arrises. While the rest of her coven rushes to the grove's defence, Zara prepares to start a new life with her goblin child. But her past is determined to follow her.  A Royal...

If you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss will stare into you. Climbing, caving, and diving are Odessa’s bread and butter. She makes her living by strapping on a camera and taking the viewers, sitting comfortably at home on their couches, to the highest peaks and down into the world’s darke...