Amidst churning gears and the billowing steam, who among the Extractors can resist the madness?Amidst the rat race and the calls for bloodshed, who among the mortals has the grit to resist corruption?They are themselves deities but none dare refer to themselves as gods. Zeraki opened his eyes to a w...

“Chasing the Truth in a World of Deception: Memories of Another World and the Mysteries of Science” Is the “reality” people see every day truly real? In search of the answer, an epic adventure unfolds where science, mythology, and alternate worlds collide. Physicist Satoshi Koizumi has long been fas...

{Sign a contract to kill an immortal, or face certain death.} For Asher Whitlock, there's no time to consider the consequences. Catapulted into a realm of cultivation and cosmic powers, Asher must evolve or perish. His mentors: a colossal hunter and his lethal spouse. His first impossible task: assa...

The Broken Seal: When Gods Return When the seal is shattered, the ancient gods shall return, and the boundaries between magic and reality will dissolve. Divine forces scar the Earth, thrusting it into a new hellish universe. Joel and Jamie, armed with newly awakened powers, must defend humanity from...

In a world where ancient powers and modern technology collide, "Ringmasters" follows the gripping story of a diverse team of warriors, each wielding a unique ring that grants them extraordinary abilities. These rings, each connected to a different animal spirit, are not just sources of power but als...

A short story archive detailing the many different characters, factions, kingdoms, items, species, etc that exist in a shared fantasy world. Written from the perspective of numerous authors/scribes detailing these bits of information each short story acts to build a piece of a unified setting.The wo...

During the construction of one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the Philippines, the company accidentally awoke something beneath the earth. The victims in the incident swore they heard a thunderous groan, as if a creature were disturbed from its slumber, but because of man's greed for weal...

**Title:** Guardians of the Lost Knowledge **Genre:** Adventure, Historical Fiction, Mystery **Synopsis:**"Guardians of the Lost Knowledge" follows the journey of Amit, a 30-year-old IT professional from Patna, who is passionate about adventure, historical exploration, and uncovering ancient mysteri...

Tradition tells us that to Cultivate is to go against the natural order, to steal from the Heavens. But how can that be true when those very Heavens lick the boots of the biggest Sect around? Welcome to Vajrayana, a universe where every two-bit Mortal with Class and a Dream thinks they'll be the nex...

With his dying breath, a soldier finds himself in another body with information about cultivation that he could only ever have dreamt of knowing. Will this new information help him fulfill his destiny, or will his new body's inability to cultivate and his old ways only lead him to ruin? [participant...

Sally thinks a monster is under her bed, but he swears there is no such thing as a monster under the bed. Come along on a journey of two unlikely friends on the path of growing up. Monster Under the Bed is a wholesome paranormal story for all ages. This story was originally posted on Twitter as a mi...

Vampire lords, bloody streets, unbroken chains, and haunting pasts. When your world is ruled by the gods, how do you run? When you wake up in agony that never stops, how do you live? When you knock on legend's door, who answers? Hemlock remembers nothing of his past, only knife-precise hunger and en...

Washed-up author Callaghan McCarthy has 99 problems, and believing in ghosts isn't one of them. The ghosts of Woodley, USA find this amusing, but they need her help with a problem of their own. When she checks into Vale House, a bed and breakfast the internet claims is haunted, she hopes to find i...

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Oberon O’Connor has always had an extraordinary imagination. Born in County Limerick, Ireland, and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Oberon lives an ordinary life—until his world begins to unravel in ways he could never have anticipated. What he thought was an imaginary f...

For three long years, Cyrus Carod lay in a coma, only to wake in a world that feels as though it's three hundred years in the future. The language is unrecognizable, the culture alien, and the people? Strangers. No family. No friends. Not even a file to prove he exists. The only constant is the cry...

Shattered Realms: Arrival When the world begins to unravel, Daniel Gailor and his family are ripped from their peaceful life in Canada and thrust into a land where magic, monsters, and ancient prophecies reign supreme. This new world, Caeloria, is as dangerous as it is beautiful, filled with cryptic...

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Welcome to the Olympios Exoplanatry Habitat System, humanity's home away from Earth and the only place in the known universe where you can watch three war criminals compete in government sponsored, space age gladiator games from the relative comfor...

Merio, a boy of unknown origins wakes up injured and alone in a world he does not recognize.  Having been taken in by a kind couple working for one of the nobles of the land he begins his journey of recovering his memories and the long forgotten history of the world he now resides in, knowing full w...

What happens when the sun goes down? What happens when the wick burns out or the lamp runs out of oil? Easy. Darkness falls. Since the beginning of time darkness has been at the edge of every conscious thought, mortal and immortal alike; the proverbial end to all that is right and good. But what if ...

When people experience grief, they look at themselves and see inadequacy. One young man saw true agony when his friend died trying to keep the boundary between the mundane and supernatural protected. Living only for fury. To repay this ‘gift’ that had been given to him. But what happened after achie...