short story of nomadic town in low fantasy setting managing defenses, food, and water adapt to life on the steppe. Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress Work in progre...

My name is Joseph Campbell and I'm just your average nerd. What's the difference between me and you? I'm about to go on my very own Hero's Journey.  What's on the line? Oh nothing really, just the most important thing in the universe... My eternal soul! *** Join Joseph on his his quest to escape da...

Ramon was a lost causeSuffering from severe depression, gluing himself together with the tears he shed daily just to last.Completely done with his life and ready to give up if the chance had arrived.The world has different plans for him though.He wakes up somewhere dark, alone and scared at the new ...

The tree of life, Yggdrasil, is the bedrock on which time and space exist. It is fueled by everlasting myths, legends, and glorious acts of heroism.The First Gods built the LEGENDARY HERO SYSTEM to ensure that Yggdrasil has eternal life. Chosen champions from the mortal world are made to recreate ep...

The first anthology from Absurdist Press chronicles the origins of several heroes throughout our shared universe...

Legends fade into myth with the passage of time, but the legacy of the soul lives on. It is born again, urged by destiny, fueled by turmoil and kindled by calamity. In a futuristic star system dominated by superior races, a human researcher develops God Formula, a technology that paves the way to om...

Erwin. Once a famous and skillful ex-special forces soldier got assassinated during peacetime. He excepted a quiet afterlife, but some beings had other plans. Gods thought it would be a waste to let him die like that and send him to another world as the Lich King, a challenging villain against thei...

Blood for blood and lead for lead in the land of the broken plains.  A battle between gods, hundreds of years in the past, leaves the land of Kalthima scarred and in a state of perpetual conflict. A slain god’s energy is dispersed and scattered, inadvertently absorbed by buried crystals all across t...

At the very border of the world reality tends to distort. Like the edges of a magnifying glass warping the letters on a page, or the swirling of the sky when you swim beneath the waves. At this fringe of reality lie three beautiful rings above a lonely mountain. These rings were symbols of power and...

Drunk and in high spirits, Remy is told by his party that they want to split. Angry at them, Remy beats all of them up. Now in debt for destroying his favorite bar and on the cusp of losing his titles and ranks, Remy must deal with the fallout....

What do you do when nothing in life works out? How do you make move forward when life itself keeps swiping your feet out from underneath you? What do you do when it seems that the universe itself is spitting in your face and destroys any progress you make? To our protagonist, the answer was simple: ...

Having recently lost his mother, and now having lost a precious locket that belonged to her, Damon and his friends venture beneath the enormous branches of their city-sized hometree to retrieve it. To recover the locket, they’ll have to search the strange and dangerous world of the forest floor....

This is going to be a bit of a social experiment. I have come up with a neat idea for a prompt and I'm not going to plan ahead where the story is going to go. I'm going to write the story based on the direction the readers want it to go. I'll be doing polls every chapter and will listen to suggestio...

Everyone knows the story of the great Arthur Leywin, the protagonist of "The Beginning After the End", after being a king of a technological world like ours, known as Grey, he ends up being reborn in a world where there is magic, and technology is at the medieval level. But what if there was another...

Isekai'd into a world they created, what happens when the story ends? A short. Art by littlemandyart...

The Gold Noir is more than just a Burlesque with benefits, they're also a mercenary corporation for hire. And that's exactly where Shalee intends to work. In order to earn her spot Shalee must travel through the Mortis Desert, the most dangerous land on the planet, and steal back from the horde of a...

a tree grows in a grove, over a small puddle. other things probably happen at some point....

Oud is a young Immanis man eager to start his first assignment as a Harii, the elite protector class of his city. But things turn dark quickly as he learns he may not be cut out for this job after all....

Living in a world wracked by constant storms, Theo Serrano encounters an abandoned Redever, commonly known as a succubus, in the streets, and immediately tries to offer her safety. This single act of kindness forever alters the course of young Theo's life. Sadly, it isn't long before Lorelei is disc...

In a world that lost its sun, humanity huddles in small towns around wells of light, shafts leading to the world's core that glow with the light of the lava below. One plant still grows, manna, a rice sized, oily leaf that falls from the sky with the rains and sustains all other life. Silas is a str...