Keireen Birt was raised with love an affection along with the respect and admiration of his families kingdom. He only ever knew Kindness and love but found out how life can destroy people within minutes by meeting some new friends. (This story takes place just before my Isolation chapter in the main...

Little did Rose know that being a player would be met with a long-standing evil. This is a short story centered around Rose and Kay, in one of the alternate universes within the "Zeroth Knight universe." Volume 1 of the first series can be found here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/16079/zeroth-...

Jack is finishing his last quest for the company when a mysterious old man brings him on a journey into the depths of a sorcery and deadmen ridden dungeon. The only way out is forward and it is sure to reveal more than one secret of the world. Tillon wants to rise through the ranks of the Swords of ...

Life is complicated.  By the year 2597 survival has taken new meaning.  After a devastating war with forces barely comprehensible, humans are now extinct.  A new species has emerged, blending the remnants of humanity with their alien warmongers, the Atra. Both humans and the Atra died off centuries ...

If a new law enforcement agency appeared in your city and the crime rate dropped to zero, would you want to know how they did it? What if knowing the answer cost you your very existance? A two-part short story.Constructive criticism is always welcome....

A short stort about two world-weary men making a desperate journey into the heart of winter. They need to retrieve the fruits of a doomed merchant expedition or they will all starve. But dark creatures lurk in this forest, and the winter has sapped the heart of their magic and left them with nothing...

The world is different now. Darker. Much has become a desert, permanently poisoned by radioactive fallout. Nature has reclaimed the rest. Humanity endures, barely, in underground refuges and fortified city-states. It is a time of great hardship. As if that wasn’t enough, mankind is now beset by a ne...

A sci-fi short story. Because this is a short story (10-ish minutes to read) it is difficult to give a synopsis without spoilers. So instead, I simply hope you enjoy it, and ask you to leave a comment at the end expressing what you thought about it....

A butcher's son gets lost in a mysterious way without any hint.Only one person knows whereabout of the child. But the one who knows it won't speak. Is his son dead or alive? The person won't tell but will instead let the poor butcher linger in grief. Till a new grief arrives. It comes in night and c...

Subject #150, Codename: Mewtwo. The strongest Pokémon ever created, a being of fury and destruction unmatched by anything else. But was he always meant to be that way? Perhaps, once, things could've gone differently...Backstory supplement for the main story written by Viroro-kun. Main story knowledg...

Time stood still when all the cogs of society meshed well enough. There were those who tolerated less, but still, life and work were monotonous for the most part in the gruelling megapolis of the Hub. Those who stood opposed would be met with an unpleasant visit from the no-nonsense authorities of t...

Tobias lives the life everyone wants... though that's only on the outside. At home, he faces abuse and awful, unloving parents. That is, until the fateful day when he dies....

"The past should remain in the past. What do you think?" In the world of magic and technology, a lady found herself in an abandoned aircraft. She remembered nothing except her former humanity. With the body of an Arachna and the mind of a human, she was forced to side with the Arachna to survive. Gr...

Yannick is out of the game. He's retired, and that suits this old mage just fine. That is, until the Archbishop summons him and twists his arm into one last crawl through the mythical Suthsea tower; a trap-filled dungeon deep in the heart of enemy territory. Completed, for now - but I'm working on a...

El tiempo se detuvo cuando todos los engranajes de la sociedad encajaban a la perfección. Había quienes toleraban menos, pero aun así, la vida y el trabajo se hacían monótonos en la petrolífera megápolis del Hub. Aquellos con la voluntad para oponerse se verían con una desagradable visita con los of...

From a sundered Universe, a Sorceress is made to reborn. But a human, the Sorceress is no more. Born an insect, a vermin with a mere 90 days of life, the Sorceress seeks reasons to live. Suffering the curse of unending starvation, the Sorceress must ceaselessly eat or die.Meanwhile, Kiran leaves his...

If you need a synopsis, just reread the title....

Andy Bowman obtained the power to generate and control wires from an accident that took both of his parents from him. Emancipated, lonely, and looking for attention, he latches on to a man named Gaston. Hired for a mission with the whole world on the line, or at least the moon, a mercenary is born....

Spawned within the bowels of the Temple of Razors, the Scarlet Thorn is an ancient martial Path of unfathomable power and limitless malice, and Ko'ais is its most promising prodigy in a thousand generations. Now, she seeks to flee the Temple and its murderous Razor Acolytes. Fortunately for her, she...

Runt is a PT:DRVG (Pigmy Troll: Domestically Raised, Vat Grown) Trooper for a corporation known as Megacorp, in the Dastardly Dark Empire of Evil Bas...erm, Baddies.The world he lives in is locked in a proxy war between the aforementioned nation and a nation known as the United Nations of Good Guys ...