Ceit is a young girl working on her family's dairy farm, trying to find her path forward after a traumatic experience.
9.34 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 10:59
lightpurplelilies | tragedy | Complete
**this is part 3 of a 3-part story. parts 1, fear-driven, and 2, renegades, are up and available on my profile** sacrifice synopsis: back home, on the beach, and all to find aber's sister again. well, they've found her, and it's not quite what they've expected. the world is upside down and backwards and the only way to make sense of it is to find the people who make sense of you. a reminder of the characters (plus a few updates): ABER -- he has spent all this time trying to get away from his wife and back to his sister. but now that they are here and he has to choose, the choice is harder than he thought. AVA -- she's a miracle. she's a brat. she's the most important person in the world. she has no idea what she's doing. she's losing her mind. she is going to save them all or die trying. again. NUA -- he got away. he went back. he must be out of his mind. ABIGALA -- what has she been doing for the past year? isn't that the million-dollar question. PENNY -- family reunions are never fun, per se. especially not this one. BAYAN -- everything happens the way it was meant to happen. but why was this meant to happen? and LILLY -- everything comes down to her.
33.18 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 11:03
Andrew_Udell | tragedy | Complete
Every year on her birthday, Mirus tries to rescue his mother's soul from the underworld. Every year for a decade, he has failed. As the dark magic he practices threatens his position as the king's court mage, the highest honor an elf may obtain in a land of humans, he stands on the cusp of losing everything. Once his assistant, Syma, uncovers his dark secret, they work together to pierce the veil that separates their world from the underworld. They encounter mad professors, wicked monsters, and challenges that put their very souls at stake. With his goal in sight, the salvation of his mother's soul, he's forced with a sacrifice that makes him consider the price. [Series Complete] (Cover by Vlad Bagacian and used per the conditions from Pexel.com)
19.22 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 11:04
Shouldilaughorcry | action | Complete
Edward never appreciated his boring repetitive life on Earth. One night he has a strange dream and suddenly wakes up in another world teeming with monsters. Witness his struggles and achievements in a world where he doesn't have any other choice but to grow stronger or perish. Currently under heavy editing to improve the story. The story has been edited up to chapter 60. I should finish the edit around september, but the plan is then to move the story to kindle.
211.95 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 13:43
Prince Rain | drama | Complete
A world divided sharply between low and high deck citizens. An alien race is introduced tothwart the balance. PART 1: THE L. D. ANGELS The sole survivor from a winged race attempts to expose the Nobles' schemes and thus this reason, forms the L. D. Angels terrorist group.
34.92 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 13:44
Shizzle Blitz | mystery | Complete
Wight Wolloughbin arrives at the village of Whistone, ready to establish some order in the forgotten village. What he finds however, is a mystery that leads him to team up with a priest turned Historian. Can they solve what happened to the ruler of Whistone?
5.53 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 13:58
Luna only has one more heist left until she can put her life of crime behind her. When she accidentally gets caught up in the schemes of rival nations, this girl from the slums will need to use every last trick from her troubled past in order to save the ones she loves most.Cassian is the prince of Enthamere, so why does he wish he could be anyone else instead? Sheltered and treated like a child, he dreams of exploring the world and going on grand adventures. He learns how quickly dreams can turn into nightmares when circumstances force him to flee his homeland.
60.15 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 14:27
Radiant Summer moon (TravisW) | mystery | Complete
In the far off Galaxy there is a planet that is 90% water. There are small villages throughout all of the water. These villages were small stilted building's cylinder in shape consisting of two to three levels where people lived a culture based around the water they live above. They pray to fish and monster beings that are said to thrive in the oceans deep. These are ancient people that are descendants of the land; the old ones speak of a Time when men fought over cities and land. Now people pass their time fighting each other over fishing territory and remnants of their distant past. This is their story.
9.80 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 14:22
Blaine Arcade | comedy | Complete
A new kind of warfare dawns in the early years of the twentieth century, planned and perpetrated by a mysterious individual known only as the Challenger. Rumor has it this challenger could fit in the palm of your hand. This won't do for the residents of Minimil, a city in a barn that has a reputation to keep up. Filled with shoulder angels and devils, fairies, enchanted toys, Lilliputians, and every other kind of small magical creature, they can't simply stand by and watch as the name of the tiny is smeared. So they send out an elite team including a gingerbread soldier haunted by battlefield visions of the nutcracker and mouse king, a tiny automaton built by Leonardo da Vinci, and a ghost of a not-really-notable Christmas past to investigate in this novella inspired by Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. (The full novella and its sequels can be found here.)
60.15 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 14:59
EveForward | comedy | Complete
THE MUSTACHE STORY : A wandering traveler gets help from an unusual fungus friend. This is the original 'adventure' that led to the talking mustache in "The Trashscarf Tales" (I haven't posted those chapters yet). Most of this is my own work, but the parts that are Sudowrite have been left in BOLD, for transparency.
4.58 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 14:58
Marg_Naroth | action | Complete
Hilbert Ygdrazz White - fearless prince and a very skilled warrior - has been tormented by ominous nightmares. "Is this a warning from The Godess herself? I must step in... as soon as I can!!" The prince of Whitecastle Kingdom fears that the entire creation of Gaia might be heading towards a terrible fate, but Hilbert will desperately fight for the destiny of his treasured world. On his daring journey, Hilbert will also have the help of his dearest friends and allies to face powerful and twisted evil creatures from another dimension. These creatures of darkness are mercilessly chasing the prince for misterious reasons. This is a story of true friendship, fierce battles, joy, tears and courage.
44.31 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 15:43
Within the Eternal Worm, a world slides inexorably beneath bioluminescent suns... In the steppelands of the Bolus lives Chicken, a scout of his people, the kobolds, who are a savage lizard-like race. When an orc girl named Penelope shows up half-dead out of the desert, he and his tribe are plunged into disaster. The orcish clans are uniting under an indestructible dark lord, who has some strange new ideas, and who intends to conquer the whole of the desert wastes. But all is not well among the elite of the new city of Hurraggh, as the former khans work to steer their eccentric new ruler. Could Chicken be the prophetic hero, as foretold by Amerigo, his aquatic herald and fish-out-of-water companion? Will the power Chicken unearths be enough to save his people and fulfill his destiny? What misadventures await these unlikely pawns of fate? A Helminverse Novel. Cover and chapter art courtesy of Elchaart.
57.52 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 15:49
Ryan Geever | horror | Complete
Release Window: [3/14-04/03] Six players. One gun. One way out. Lucas Gray has no idea who he is or why he was captured to participate in the mysterious Roulette Game--A death game centered around trust in complete strangers in order to avoid being shot and killed. Pieces of the puzzle will begin to come together and a terrible truth shall be revealed. Trigger Warnings: Death, Gore, Animal Violence, Decay
44.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:12
Millions of years ago, the magical races set about exploring space. When the humans started rejecting and persecuting them, only some chose to stay and help humanity thrive. Now, humanity is coming a little too close to discovering the magical world that lives alongside them. Unable to leave the planet, the magical races retreat to places on the earth that are uninhabitable to humans. Can they contact their space faring brethren before the humans discover them? Or will there be a genocidal war?
39.48 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:43
Miles Trombley | one_shot | Complete
Tyger and his friends are a group of genetically engineered cat humanoid, raised to become star rangers for the intergalactic human federation, called the Star Alliance. Their job is to protect the human colonies and defeat whoever tries to threaten them. But everything changed when a mysterious race of alien bugs appears from the unknown and attack the planets. To order to stop the bugs, the Star Cats must find an alien artifact with the mysterious potential of stopping the invaders. They will travel to different worlds, fight different space monsters, and raid two alien temples before the bugs exterminate everyone across the galaxy. Will they be able to save humans, or will they fall? Note: There might be grammar errors I missed because this is my first draft. This fiction will also be a novella. I will post the chapters between 6 pm and 10 pm. The book cover is also AI generated from Dall-e 3.
11.42 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:46
This is a short story based in the world of Wet World Wonderland. The Machine is reborn, inspired by a great light he will journey to find it once more, giving everything he has as he upholds his prime directive.
7.99 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:44
Ruslan_rb_kg | one_shot | Complete
Going to sea, century after century, generation after generation, people have met the same things there - the wind, the waves and a ship with an elven captain coming into port just to restock the supplies...
2.75 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:44
Emersyn Hart | tragedy | Complete
This story was written for the Royal Road Community Magazine Jan 2024 Ezekiel craved one thing: knowledge to become immortal. Each day he studies in a library worn down by time, hidden away past the forest. Each day, he returns with the same information. Immortality may have existed, but it can't exist anymore. The first human girl visits his hometown. Enamoured by her desire to fill her life with adventure, Ezekiel shares the library with the traveller. What was supposed to be a simple test of resolve was anything but. Secrets are uncovered. Decisions must be made. What to Expect: - 1.5k - 3k word chapters - Enemies to Lovers Romance Side Plot - A medium paced story - Non-human x Human relationship
14.70 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 16:48
Aladar Bajusz | comedy | Complete
Curiosity, the driving force behind man's insatiable thirst for knowledge, usually needs a person, a collective, something to enact his will.Until now.Using a loophole so ancient everyone forgot about it, it hijacked a human body and took it on a reality bending adventure though the universe.The problem is, an idea is not meant to be a person.And there is only so much abuse the laws of the universe can take before it starts crumbling around everyone.Just to answer a simple question.What if? [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] [Successfully completed the Writathon challenge. Story is now complete)
43.93 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 17:25
Anthony215 | horror | Complete
A group of tourists are now forced to survive after an island that was once home to a famous resort on the beautiful island of Banoi becomes ground zero to a zombie apocalypse. They will have to navigate their way through hell on paradise and attempt to make it off the island that was once home to a beautiful resort. Will they find their way off the island and survive or will they become victims to the one thing they are running from?
20.42 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-26 17:32
