[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge. Revisions pending.] Things didn't really start off all that weird, but boy - that sure didn't last.I opened my eyes, and I really wish I hadn't. I was a literal. Honest-to-god. Cel-shaded anime mage girl named Alice. With dark blue hair, purple eye...

The Age of Magic is over. From the ancient land of Arune rises great metropolises, of nations born from a new era of industry. From ancient towns of stones and farms are the great cities of brick and mortar, civilizations built on foundations of steel and brick. Factories billow smog into gray skies...

A man goes hiking alone in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, falling into a bear trap high up onto the mountain. He stays trapped there for a while, eventually realizing no one is going to find him. Or are they?...

Follow as Kadren and Nilsana begin the dificult undertakeing of traveling the contry of badail in which they live, Where something as simple as a bandit encounter could leave you dead, and the trails are fraught with danger and more things to explore seemingly lie arround every corner. Badail was ra...

An ordinary young adult of the age 20, Ryan was reborn in the modern family universe.  His cheat allowed him access to ready-made scripts for movies and tv shows as long as he participated in the modern family plot. He could get system points through which he could buy scripts.  Not to mention that ...

Camera lights flicker endlessly, cheers can be heard in the distance, security men try their best to hold back the fans, and a long red carpet stretching all the way to the theater entrance is the front stage. to Santiago Rivera. The young actor walked the red carpet with a big smile on his face and...

When one world ends, another begins. When the Age of Espers dawned, man was far from ready. A century later, the world couldn't see a time without them. Simon Tripps, born long after the age began, is one of them. Ready to turn eighteen, he's ready to take his first steps into a world full of magic...

Earth is no longer habitable...even less than before.  Levi opts to have his consciousness uploaded into a new reality. Here, he will never need to fear dying as a result of his collective ancestry's ignorance again.  Many millions of humans across the planet also completed the upload process to thi...

John J. Jameson Jr. is a man of pure unadulterated dedication and endurance, kinda. He got some real bad luck. Not the kind of luck that is constantly trying to kill you. No, he has the kind of bad luck that only comes around every 10 or so years just to say "I hope you die in a fire" then leaves. b...

Galmun, a cruel experiment conducted by the gods who have grown disinterested with the mundane creations of old. Many humanoid species were stripped of their native lands and transported to a new world of colossal size filled with dangerous fauna with one purpose, entertainment. To this end each hum...

A boy takes his fish to school for show and tell....

A poor, friendless, and talentless boy named Elwin accidentally stumbles upon an ancient secret about the gods, and is tasked with reviving their lost power to make it his own. Should he succeed, he will have unprecedented control over everything that exists, including the atoms of matter itself. Ev...

Soldiers may have a lucky knife, or lucky boots, but never a lucky sword.  Because all swords are lucky, and it's all the same sort of luck.  It points both ways.  Labeling a sword "Lucky" is taunting both the gods of fortune.  The old man who plays dice, and the ladies who do not.  There are only t...

A moderately above average adventurer dies in a dungeon delve gone wrong and learns some unflattering truths about the gods of his world. Denied a conventional afterlife he opts to join the ranks of the dungeon for the chance to oppose the machinations of the gods who got him killed. The only proble...

"Waking up trapped in a cube thousands of meters above the ocean they try to figure out what is happening. A U.S. carrier strike group is on a course from Asia and the cube enters its radar range as they approach.  When they send a jet to take a look, his wingman takes a radar lock of the cube. It f...

All dogs go to heaven, but what about grumpy middle-aged tech executives? Will lives a perfectly adequate life with his one wife, two kids, and three dogs until he gets hit by a bus. He meets an Angel who assures him he’s totally going to the good place - he just isn’t ready yet. His personality isn...

My dear friend, I have sent you a transcript of a most curious find I bought from a street peddler. In this package you may find a weird, dateless diary where the most lively and mad servant of "Lady Scarlet" details his day to day working in her impossible palace: organizing balls that have a gende...

Cliff was the kind of person who liked to imagine how the characters would end up around the end of the story. He would imagine a simple main character at the start, reaching their full potential. A mage who learnt to truly experience the arcane. A warrior who wrestled the sun. A witch, controlling ...

Jack is an old man on his deathbed. The end is near, and all he can think about is all the squandered opportunities over his long and mostly uneventful life. A last-minute prayer is heard, and Jack is offered a second chance. In the sleepy town of Yucaborough, in a world that runs on different rules...

The year is 2097. Project Rift. A billion, no, even trillion dollar project funded solely by the world's only mega-corporation. The Nexus Corporation.Project Rift's goal is to find a way to literally shatter reality and spacetime itself to force a temporary wormhole by blasting an extremely small ar...