A short-story about the mental consequences of overthinking, procrastination and writer's block....

When Brian inherited his grandfather’s house, he expected to do a lot of work to fix it up. What he didn’t expect, though, is that his grandfather’s house was once a brothel, and the women who lived there are still around. When they start to show themselves, Brian must find some way to deal with the...

In a transformed world plagued by dungeons and monsters, Ethan, a member of the Echleon organization, decides to become a player. As he embarks on this new journey, he soon starts wondering about the system's existence and the complex relationship between himself and the very creatures that haunt th...

Deacon Crawford, a young Chicago cab driver from the tough and tumble South Side, has run into a streak of bad luck recently. But his luck is about to change with a chance encounter with two fares that change his life and send him spinning fists first into a dangerous adventure filled with intrigue ...

An ordinary family, an ordinary life, happy parents and their children. Who doesn't dream of this? A deadly disease, slowly stealing the life of a young girl. Who isn't afraid of that? Her brother, desperate to do everything in his power to help his sister, treading a very fragile and dangerous path...

Enoria is preparing for war with Irithara, and the team sans Kaleth are doing the best they can to put a stop to it before it progresses even further.  Their plan? Find Mereria, get her help with killing Relioth, and save Kaleth in the process. They've been trying to find the Umbra leader for a mont...

After defeating Irif, everyone assumes that the hardest part is over, and that they can finally relax for a moment. But while flying back to Enoria, Kaleth and the others are attacked by an ancient enemy, who they thought was long dead. And he has an army of newly-turned Eternals at his disposal to ...

Kaleth and the others are finally ready to face Enor and end the war once and for all. But being ready for it and actually managing to do so are two different things. And with Enor having tens of thousands of soldiers following every one of his commands without question, it will be far from easy. De...

There are over 600 individual muscles in the human body. Who has time to train all of them when the world's ending? In the world of professional arm wrestling, there's only one part that matters: the arm. At least, that's how Chadwick sees it. His commitment to that idea has made him a freak of natu...

The screams of the Moorlands were meant to be a nightmare, and nothing more. Not anymore. Henry Stone thought he was free, until his past returned and forced him to make what might be a last decision; fight or flight. Henry still isn't very good at being a vampire, and while he may be avoiding Riley...

Immortality. It is granted only to those who are ready to kill, dissect, and literally walk over the corpses of their enemies. Cast away pity, discard compassion, and burn all forgiveness. Here, your kindness is a weakness. So show this world that you can be more terrifying than anything it has know...

Elske wants to achieve the power of a god, but it may come with a different sort of price...

In this literary-fantasy short story, an aging man visits his undead former lover to learn if life is worth living after death. As a content warning, this story includes gore, scenes of animal consumption, and mild sexual elements.  I'm quite new to Royal Road (this is my first story!) so I gladly ...

Princess Nadjela is a fifteen-year-old girl, beautiful and intelligent, as primitive as she is gentle. In her quest to save her people from the torment of a rotten land, she will meet Chester Lancaster, an eccentric and mad nobleman of high birth who has been banished from heaven for a terrible crim...

In the far-off future of 1993, a group of professional salvagers in post-Pax Americana are hired to pick over the remains of a utopian project near-forgotten deep in the Florida swamp.  A simple job, in and out. But one that soon traps our rag-tag group of scavengers between literal corporate raider...

Corvo's parents are legendary heroes. Corvo will be a hero, too. Someday. But not yet. For now he's just a little boy. And while his mother is constantly embroiled in intrigue, drama, and adventure, he's going to have to do his best to stay safe and tag along. It's an exciting way to grow up. THE C...

New chapters every Monday and Friday until the story concludes!"Factories of Core City" is a short story set in the world of Yn, where child labor is rampant. The story focuses on the life of Baylon, a twelve-year-old boy working in a factory in Core City. Baylon dreams of freedom and a life beyond ...

Under the gaze of two shattered skyscrapers of Kuala Isyarat's past, a long hunt reaches its final stages. Across rooftops and dwellings, two legends of the wasteland find that their target- a monstrous spree killer- may be more closer to them than either would like to admit. Before night falls, so...

Captain Eric Anders thought his time in the military was over when the war with the Iprenians ended in a ceasefire. He was content to sit back, collecting his monthly pension and drinking his sorrows away. But everything changed when the government saw fit to drop one of its very own super-soldiers ...

[Participant in the Royal Road Community Magazine, January 2024] Legend tells of a vagrant hero—fearless in the truest sense of the word—for whom no opponent was too strong and no odds too steep. He travelled the Four Seas, quashing evil and uplifting downtrodden folk everywhere he went. But when h...