What's the most you've ever lost on a job? John Connely is many things to many people, but first and foremost he is a problem solver.  Got an issue? Ask John and he will do his best to solve it, for a modest fee of course. Things aren't always easy for John, but they also are never hard, that is unt...

Despite his name, Hiro Hierro never expected to become a hero much less anyone's Champion. Yet here he was, one of the many who were called to stand between civilization and a rapidly changing world. Too bad he is very much the wrong guy for the job. The other guy missed his call and Hiro is left st...

Rose just moved to a new town for college, and a chance encounter leads her to discover a peculiar book. Unbeknownst to Rose, this book holds secrets that will unravel the fabric of her reality. Bound within its pages lies a power that will forever change her life. Rose unwittingly becomes entangled...

Two teens run away from home together scared for their lives in a repressive time during a military coup inside their country. They encountered trouble crossing the border into a neighboring country and what ensued was a psychological game of cat and mouse that was becoming more dangerous by the min...

[June 2023 Royal Road Magazine Contest Entry] This story is a work of Lovecraftian horror set in the 1920s, detailing the inexplicable happenings at the Bergen Estate, and the only one Josephine can turn to for help is a 200-year-old vampire. Though she has thwarted many smaller evils, and is not wi...

A cat and a mouse embark on a not-so epic journey, forming an unlikely friendship along the way....

A pair of lovers on the verge of an emotional split have their lives turned upside-down when the world is violently transformed into a hellish, alien landscape. They become imbued with potent psychic powers, which is their only salvation from their apocalyptic fate. Scions of Gaea is a post-apocalyp...

“…Guess the world is ending. Let’s see how this goes.” Dexter Davenport was born physically superhuman. And now that the world has been selected by the System to join the Game of the Gods, all humans on Earth have gained video game-like powers. And so, Dexter has now become even stronger and is simp...

What do you see when you look into a Mirror? Do you see yourself, the mistakes you made, your accomplishments? For Aria Litz, she saw beauty when she looked into the mirror. But, it was never enough for her. A cutthroat in the modeling industry. She wanted to be the most beautiful, a model without a...

How does one surpass their circumstances when given the chance? Sebastian had been dealt a mediocre hand in life. In a world where only some people have the power to tap into the Aether, he was destined to be ordinary, to never have the ability to change his poor circumstances. But when a freak inci...

Support me through Amazon Kindle:https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0CVFQZBG4 "Obviously inspired by stories including some shonen anime (MHA, Naruto), as well as clear nods to the X-Men. Definitely worth a look. If any kind of action-school stories are your bag, you'll probably feel right at home" -...

"The gods of this world are incompetent snobs...if they can't do their jobs, I'll do it myself." Hellam Ryūjin, an ancient Sorcerer, once gathered the powers of 9 Ancient Dragons and distributed them amongst his 8 allies, in an attempt to reign supreme over the whole world. Gathering their mightiest...

06/12/2023 Update: this series is COMPLETED. Thx for reading! When Goddess Aphrodite curses the world with devouring mirrors, the kingdoms band together to create a governmental body to deal with them. Follow the Mirror Checker, Agent Lucheng Tang, as he handles cases to retrieve those terrifying ob...

Woe is upon the town of Drezin. It knows it not. A magister had come on a hunt, invoking a prize beyond refusal and a secret not understood - one with consequences beyond the wildest estimation. Of course, no one could know that. Not even the vampire who the offer is made to. And the request was so ...

My name is Kayobi Taida...at least while I am on Earth.  And I'll make this simple, I'm what they call a 'Swapper'.  A shape shifter, as you humans refer to it.  More than that, I'm also what we call 'painters'.  In your terms, that would be an 'assassin', far too crude a word for a profession as ar...

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Except I was shoulder-deep in lemons and I had no knife. My life wasn’t the greatest, and my future wasn’t the brightest, but I tried to be upbeat about the things I did have. Like my mom, or my apartment, or the sweet florist I passed every week down t...

One day, a little girl called Lucia accepted to have a nice walk with her friend, Two. A nice walk where she lived, beyong the looking glass in her room. That day, she disappeared, and opened a door to another place that had long since locked away behind the mirrors of the world. But this story isn'...

Mirrors can't eat people. This has always been an absolute truth, after all, they lack the biological mechanisms necessary to break down and digest organic matter. But what if there was no other conceivable explanation? Imagine a scenario where a series of gruesome murders are committed, and all evi...

West and his friends must prevent the foundation from experimenting on anyone else after being exposed to the 'Blacklights Virus' by the foundation, giving them superhuman abilities....

Clay has never dared to imagine freedom from GreenerPastures, the lab where she was created and held captive for the first nineteen years of her life. Her only companion in the world is an Avian-human hybrid named Anpiel.  Everything Clay endures is to protect her.  When Clay is forced to choose bet...