In a grand tapestry of existence, two parallel universes exist side by side, each with its own extraordinary inhabitants and distinct purpose. In one universe, human beings are born into a world teeming with magic and supernatural powers, their destinies entwined with the very fabric of reality. The...

Soon after a suicide in a small town, an elementary school is sieged by an unseeable threat....

Following the aftermath of a supervillain trying to destroy a nuclear reactor, Transfemme movie worker Serenity Eden gets kidnapped by an unknown group of people, who then torture her for being queer. However, the torture had a really bad side effect (for the people who kidnapped her), as she and 15...

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 ...

Some day she’ll be free from her...

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...

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...

A woman wakes up in the middle of a dark tunnel of flesh. With no memory of how she got there, her only choice is to move forwards and discover what this place is. This is a (very) short story made as an assignment for a university writing course...

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 ...

A collection of short stories that tell the journeys and actions of Cal Gunkrate a mercenary from a ruined world that somehow found himself trapped in a land filled with magic and devilish creatures. As he traverses the land searching for anything that could get him home....

Ranma is a martial artist, and a teenage boy. At least, she used to be. After an attack leaves Ranma trapped in a feminine body she never asked for, and unable to take a hit, her life as she knew it is over. She runs from her home and her abusive father, and after spending a few months homeless in ...

In the beginning, the three children of Primordial Chaos overthrew their mother and created the multiverse. Yet the peace would not last, as bickering and rivalry drove the cosmic deities apart over the eons. Still, their great work of creation endured, and eventually reality would settle into a new...

To meet and fall in love with a mermaid seemed to be the climax of all my fantasies, but living with her only led me to uncover secrets that no human being should know. This is my testimony of the horrors that dwell beneath the waters. This is a Lovecraftian, short story. There could be more of this...

This is my testimony about the day I discovered the horror that lived in Cerro Alto. I wanted to forget about the matter as soon as possible, but today, I believe my words could serve the world. --- Hello! Davel here. This is a Lovecraftian, short story set in my country (México). The events of the ...

Would you burn the world to protect your sibling? Kings, Tyrants, Nobles, Mages... They all slaughter innocents in their pursuit of immortality. But this Immortality is nothing more than a myth, one that has drenched the world in blood. Grace finds herself fighting to survive as she and her brother ...

John, Cain and Thomas seem normal enough. Crass. Uncooth. They eat greasy food, drink cheap beer and when the mood takes them they watch questionable videos from the curtained off section. They're not the best guys... but Lilly is their friend. She forgives them all their foibles, all their shortcom...

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...