romance

The mandate is lost, those are the words that spread like wildfire, even before people truly knew what they meant. Those words, uttered in mass, were consuming the natural order and leaving only ashes in their wake. The words first arrived on a merchant caravan, claiming that the capitol had...

It was a dark, beautiful night. The stars twinkled brightly overhead, unobscured by the grey clouds, and the full moon hung majestically in the night sky, streaming down soft moonlight onto the Earth. The air was cold and almost pure, refreshing my lungs as the leaves on the trees and the corn...

Chapter 1: The temple within nothingness How long has he been fighting? How long has he been bleeding? How long has he been suffering? How long...? He did not know, his body was wounded and full of scars, his eyes before a beautiful sea green color, were now red from so much death, so much...

WELCOME TO WANNABE OVERLORD!!! The quest for power and friends in the hell hole that is the pride ring and all the shenanigans that come along with it. HERE WE GO!!!!! Darkness . . . Pain . . . And the smell of smoke and bodily waste burning your nostrils were the first sensations to hit your...

Chapter 1: The Letter from the Future Staring at the ceiling of the room while huffing from time to time. He was angry. He didn't have much to do besides his homework or reading class books, which he had already finished. His letters sent to Hermione or Ron had no replies, which also annoyed...

So, this is it. The USS West Covina—a California-class ship, my first command, and hopefully, not my last. Floating just beyond the viewport of Starbase 53, she's like the old Toyota Corolla I drove back on Earth. A little beat up around the edges, not exactly built for speed, but reliable. The...

“Trust your machines, trust your family, trust yourself.” Chloe Hughes lives on the edges of interstellar society where these principles define her life – until the day her family are kidnapped and her machines stolen. Pursued by psychics, oligarchs and government agents, Chloe has only herself...

“Papa? I’m cold.” “Just a little bit longer, my little apricot. We’ll be back home before you know it.” You were cutting it close to curfew. The sun was already starting to dip below the tallest mountains in the west. You knew better than to stay outside of Lacunosa’s walls when the light went...

Tuesday, November 16, 2010. Sophia the track star could have easily caught me, but on this day Sophia was more interested in lazily herding me than actually putting hands on me. Student after student glanced briefly at us and, understanding the situation - it's just Taylor Hebert being hunted...

Chapter One: The Pirate Lord The Sentinel drops from hyperspace, her hull vibrating with latent energy. Fakhira swells before us, a lush green orb set against the backdrop of unfamiliar stars. Even from orbit, the Force pulses with life, potential... and a lurking darkness. I adjust my robes...

POV: *Steve* In real life, I sat comfortably at my desk, headphones snug over my ears, fingers lightly tapping on the keyboard. It was just another evening on the server with friends, roleplaying like we always did. We'd been doing this for months now—acting as if we were the default skins from...

Enter ARASHI and FURUTA, stage right. Each wears a school uniform of dark blue with white ties. On their breasts is a black mountain tipped in pink. ARASHI All the lands have their story of the birth of magic! In beautiful Japan, it is said that when Ninigi descended to the earth from heaven...

The night skies above Alola are perfect in the eyes of Selene Mizuki. That isn’t to say that the skies aren’t beautiful during the day. There is a serene grace to the islands of Alola that she had come to fall in love with her first months here, and for all the turbulent times she has...

Game Thoughts “Talking” —---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I gotta log off, man. It’s opening in an hour!” A Japanese-accented voice resounded through Ken’s headphones, causing him to wince as his...

Flames. Cursed flames were everywhere. The smoke blotted out the night sky, and the ash fell like rain. It was a scene straight out of the apocalypse, as if the very mouth of hell had opened and unleashed its misery upon the Earth. Through it all stumbled a young red-haired boy, his golden eyes...

A vast, azure sky stretched endlessly above the East Blue. The sun hung low in the horizon, casting a golden hue across the sea. The gentle waves moved lazily as if the world itself were at peace. But peace was always fleeting, especially in the unpredictable seas of the Grand Line's outskirts...

Groggily, I groaned as my eyes fluttered open, waking up with my breath hitched, my head pounding like it'd been run over by a train, and my body aching as if it were only a couple of seconds ago that I was rock climbing. The faint sounds of electricity crackling intermixed with loud and...

Prologue: The Guardians at the Lair A piercing cry, reminiscent of a dragon’s roar, shattered the gloom of the throne room, filled with heart-wrenching despair. Beregon jerked awake upon his orichalcum throne, wondering what had disturbed his slumber. Yawning loudly enough to shake a mountain...

The world dissolved into a chaotic landscape of crumbling polygons and fractured code. I held Asuna close, our lips locked in a desperate kiss, a fleeting prayer for a shared future in the real world. But instead of the almost-familiar-and-not-quite-new sensation of logging out, a crushing...

Preface This work is the product of my correspondence with Margaret Graves, the Hero of Two Worlds. An American citizen, a Martian colonist turned deserter during the height of what is now known as the Lavender Scare, Ms. Graves gained notoriety as champion of the Martian city of Tish-Murabar...

1: Why my hair is pink again? You know what's the worst thing about dying? Doing it twice. Yes, dying twice sucks and Itadori Yuji would attest to that. Or was it Daniel? Well, having two names was something strange. When he was alive, he could choose to use the second one, but in death, what...

This realm had not chosen to be a battleground – it merely was. The pinprick bright stars that flared to life in the heavens took the forms of constellations of calamity and woe, foretold and foreseen, but not forestalled. Aetherships, carving through the planar barriers between one realm and...

The last thing I remember was staring straight at the most terrifying thing I've ever seen, then immediately fainting. I then wake up and sigh with relief to find that it was all just a dream. Only to look ahead, find myself face to face with that very same monster, and learn that this freakin'...

General Content Warnings: Trypophobia, Body Horror ————————— Darkness. Ever more darkness. Forever. The Crawling Rot would have found it ironic, if it was capable of such a thing. How similar this experience must be to those unfortunate victims of The Forever Blind? The Crawling Rot didn't...

Falling is second nature to me. Gravity's my natural enemy. I close my eyes and the din of the city rises before me. Yeah, yeah… second nature. The wind hits me and I dig my fingers into the wall. Whew… just… just one push. One little push and I hit the air, wind ripping through my ears, diving...