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In my very best attempt to in every way write in the style and humor of one of my favorite authors, Sir Terry Pratchett, may he rest in peace. On the Discworld, wishes are tricky things, but even the universe bends—just a little—on Hogswatch. When eight-year-old Hannah Long pens a heartfelt...

Prologue; The Blood Star The tides of the Immaterium roiled in the wake of the Cicatrix Maledictum. Powers beyond the reckoning of men and even the Demigods who commanded them. The 27th Grand Host of the Word Bearers, en-route to join the Warmasters efforts found itself first becalmed and then...

ACT I ___Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, military patrols reported on 'abnormalities' within the Cordon. Brilliant flashes of light, whirlwinds made of fire and electricity, and mutant animals too twisted to be warped by radiation alone. ___The Stalkers came in at a slow trickle at...

Adapt 1.0 Lisa Wilbourn, known to the world—or rather, to her world—as Tattletale, stared at the ticket in her hand. Oceanic Flight 815, business class. All because Cauldron, in all their infinite wisdom and resources, couldn't even think to setup base on all seven continents on each alternate...

Author's Note Dear Reader, Welcome to the world of my Western novel, a place where the familiar grit and grandeur of the frontier meld with the eerie and the fantastical. As you turn these pages, you'll encounter heroes and villains, gods and monsters, and a landscape forever changed by an...

Of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills: On This Date, the 35th Day of the Seventh...

Hello, and thanks for checking this out. This is an alternate-history story using elements from Azur Lane. It follows the career of Anderson L. Stevens, an American who is thrust into the second World War with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The questers will be in control of his actions, and his...

With a thunderous crash, the wine glass shattered into a thousand pieces, joining the jagged snowfall on the floor, gathered like dust on a shelf. "Shitfaced bastard!" Expelled in one breath came the frustrated voice of a small woman. "Running out of creative ones?" A bemused man responded...

LOG. i+49 This is a love story. Before Moving, Before Doing Anything of Note There was Pain. All encompassing and abrasive. Top to bottom. Inside and out. Controlling a body without organs often came with the impression that there would be no such thing as pain. With no nerve...

The tales of powerful beings known as "Robs" on sufficient velocity and "ASBs" in the alternate history community are one that are like fables of old age Europa, brings described with powers of gods if not even above them interfereing with the human world out of either sheer curiosity or maybe...

Call me Kathy. This is my journal. I'm going through a lot right now, so it's hard to get my thoughts in order. I'll just type them up and you can try to get them in order for yourself. So, first thing. My journal is online for a couple reasons. One, I can read and write entries from any old...

I swear to god, when my parents named me Tereda Chouju I don't think this is what they meant! Yes, certainly, fulfill my wish for an abundantly long life by making me float through outer space dying over and over. What kind of sick joke is this? I was having a nice nap, and all of a sudden...

War. War never changes. Ucross countless worlds dfirenanted by culture, technology and sometimes even the very rules underpinning reality war is always the same. No matter how just, war is always the same. A brutal ender of life. An ender of dreams. Where countless people have their life...

Hello there. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. In a position like mine, you’ve got to take the laughs where you can get them. Said position being aboard a kilometre-long dreadnought, about to do something precipitous, if you didn’t know. I guess that’s probably pretty obvious under the circumstances...

Jasper Whitlock I May 10th, 2052 As the bombs dropped, the world was thrust into chaos. News broadcasts echoed through the airwaves, spreading the grim reality of the devastation that had befallen the world. Panic and confusion ruling the streets, extending even to the once serene and...

The sword you carry is most stunning, and your technique is…acceptable. No demon can oppose you in this territory, it seems. It is quite a shame, then, that your abilities are wasted on vermin that is well below your level. You will never improve at this rate. Unless, perhaps, you choose to...

Who are you? The sticky liquid, like ink, flows through the endless river and the pale fields, a knocking sound is heard, but you do not know where that come from. It's nice sitting down and looking up upon the sky, Although people looks at you like you're crazy, but sometimes Life have to slow...

NDLS This story begins in a place that many stories would end. It begins with the ending of not one life, but many, yet it focuses on the end of one. It begins not at the ending of one world, the destruction of many others, but afterward. The self-destruction of the being known as Zion is not...

You can hear It banging on the door. Crying and begging, screaming your name. The same thing it's been doing for the past hour. “Please… Please Let me in. It's so cold out here…” It sobbed, but you know it isn’t her. You take a shaky sip from the bottle of wine you keep in your desk. It’s an...

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When Colin is six, he gets a fever. He feels cold. Shivering. He feels cold, and sleepy, and his head hurts, and he wants to practice his letters but everything hurts too much, and thinking is very hard. Colin sleeps. Colin sleeps, and wakes up in a bed that isn't his. There is a woman beside...

Brainchildren of Magnus and Teclis, the eight Imperial Colleges of Magic are newcomers in a world steeped in magical tradition. Yet for all their youth, perhaps none have changed so much so quickly. In their scant 200 years of existence, Imperial Wizards have saved the Empire, helped the dwarves...

Welcome, delicious friends ! On this fine day, I have decided to start a let's play on what might be my favorite game ever : Sunless Skies, by independant developper Failbetter Games. Since this is the first time I've done something like that, I'm open to any advice and criticism you can have...

Johnny Nash, the famous singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem “I Can See Clearly Now,” has died of natural causes at home in Houston. He was 80.

I'm a High Fantasy Tax Collector, So What? A CKII Tax Collector Quest Ah, Vinimrond, a land of myth made manifest. Underneath the sky sprinkled with crystalline shards, civilization flourishes once again. Works of the Precursors dot the land and sea, ranging from great temples of steel (for...