When a young girl is confronted with the truth of her own past, will she find the strength to save the world... or destroy it? Note: This is a short story written for the Royal Road Community Magazine contest. It will be as complete as it's going to get by the end of January 2023....

Years after the disappearance of most of humanity, Mark travels a blasted desert wasteland in the hopes of surviving to the next day. Then, his routine is shattered when he stumbles upon Horan, an exiled prince of a race of superpowered immortals called Primoi. Now with a golden opportunity to turn ...

The God of the sea finds the diary of a young woman whos wish it was to see the unknown behind the horzion of her small island....

"You can either die a nobody, or become a spacer. The alluring riches of space can be yours — today, tomorrow, forever. The only question is: Are you brave enough?" — Old Dominion recruitment poster, c.17,000 years ago A farmgirl and cityboy from two different planets are entwined in an unlikely fr...

Ava is part of Humanity's last, desperate attempt to save itself from an alien enemy. Six small ships with three hundred survivors between them set out for the closest refuge. Their destination is The Shattered World, an oceanic planet that only just makes it onto the lowest level of the Possibly Ha...

A story about the fifteen year old teenager named Will who was somehow reincarnated as a spirit wisp in an unknown and mysterious world after dying from drowning by a mysterious entity. Come and join Will on his journey of discovering who or what was responsible for his reincarnation as a spirit wis...

An android and exorcist, Takiya Naru, plunges alone into the horrific mysteries of the Halcyon Abyss. The Abyss is a space station entirely filled with water, originally constructed as a marine habitat imitating the abyssal deeps of alien oceans, a place to preserve potentially useful aquatic monst...

The Endless Seas where wishes are granted and the impossible is possible Countless ancient ruins and treasures are buried amongst the waters. Strange, aberrant, cursed things… Abyss, catacombs, ancient gods, mythological races… Remnants of forgotten arts and crystallizations of ancient mysterious D...

The warnings were all there but we chose not to listen.  In the end, corporate greed won out and our planet paid the price.  The polar ice caps melted, moving beach-front properties several hundred miles inland, and solar radiation microwaved anything left on land.  The brightest and wealthiest were...

The System's Descent is only 7 days away. Its coming will herald rapid mutation for wild animals and the appearance of blood-thirsty monsters. Drew Wright is a progenitor, one of a thousand random selectees forewarning of the approaching apocalypse, and now he has the delightful task of somehow conv...

Taking place in an alternate timeline of the Destiny multiverse, Arita is a guardian that was exiled from the Tower, forced against her will to be an experiment for The Queen of the Awoken Mara Sov. As the experiment is successful, she gets sent back to Earth for a rude awakening....

All I ever wanted was to live a normal life.  But I guess the gods had other plans.  Plans that I didn't ask to be apart of.  They screwed me over twice, but that won't stop me from living my normal life.... Right?   First few chapters are basically info dumps about the world.   It's an apocalyptic ...

Brayden Hawthorne woke with a jolt, his bed shaking so violently it threw him to the floor. Rubbing his bruised head, he stood up, legs unsteady. An explosion and another tremor brought him to his bedroom window. Brayden lived in a loft above the library of his mentor, James. Looking out his second-...

[This is a Contest Entry for the Royal Road Magazine] A rapture-like apocalyptic event has transported players of the NeuReality (Neurological Reality) game CONQUEST through a portal to an alien planet inhabited by the Leviathan, a loathsome creature whose insatiable hunger until now has been fed b...

A wish upon a shooting star was all Aiden thought it was. An innocent, selfish and admittedly silly prayer for something more in his bedridden life. Perhaps too selfish. What he gets in return? Exactly what he wished for in the most twisted way possible. A wish upon the world's destruction, when sta...

There are two kinds of people in the world: Sanctified, who uphold morals and traditions,and the Damned, who are condemned for their special abilities. Melanie is a Sanctified-born girl with a loving parents and gentle community, however, when their tradition reveals her true power, Melanie loses ev...

Random, most likely unrelated one-off pieces written for the purposes of RP campaigns etc. etc. Tags are purely for purposes of creative liberty in posting....

This isn’t going to stand. Someone is going to do something. The federal government won’t let this happen. The state government won’t let this happen. It's the twenty-first century. Even liberal folks in a town like Macon come to expect racism, homophobia, and general Bible thumping, and tend to thi...

All Adam wanted was to join the US Marines and escape the ghetto. The omnipotent Goddess of the space colony Astraea decided otherwise.  Marked as Her Chosen, Adam is loaded up with futuristic tech and shunted into an alternate world, where the skies bleed red and corruption seeps into the land. His...

Destiny doesn’t ask your permission. Sixteen-year-old Niah, and her younger sister Wish, are both clones. Together with a quirky artificially intelligent robot they are the only ones left on an ancient starship. With no memory of the mission, and her clone DNA disintegrating more every day, Niah is ...