urban fantasy

Treachery of Images 1: In Which A Cat Is Present You awaken with a groan, the protests of stiff muscles and the cries of hunger pangs from your stomach competing for the worst feeling award, as you push yourself up from where you had fallen asleep next to the couch. It isn't long before the...

If you are reading this, I am most likely dead. It may be because of a lava-spewing platypus that ate it's way through some camp counselors because they hiked into it's territory. Or I may have been caught between the Mega Squid and the Dual-Headed Dire Eagle, torn apart in a battle to see who...

Congratulations! Perhaps a fairy civilization exists, and want to meet us. Maybe a portal to another world has opened! Maybe aliens have landed, and wish to meet us! Or maybe, something else. Problem. It's not in America. So a massive, life-changing, world shifting event. Something that will...

The Gods and Goddesses of old still exist on this Earth. They may have nowhere near the numbers of followers they did at their height, yet they remain, reduced to the form of Masks. To regain their power, these dead-god masks seek out wearers, High Priestesses who would speak for them once...

Summary: Joe Average to his friends, and Joseph Average to his parents, is a big fan of CYOAs. He's filled out dozens, if not hundreds. Using his excess of imagination, he's created his own fiefdoms, redesigned his body, selected magical powers, and found countless convenient loopholes. Not...

It's been a while since you felt this way, hasn't it? You closed your eyes, allowing the gentle heat of the sun to wrap you up like a blanket, letting the wind carry the entirety of your breaths, and giving yourself the pleasure of sinking deeper into the soil on your back, crunching crisp...

… … … … … ... Everything is dark. My mind is foggy. What happened? What on earth happened? I remember being with my sister. I remember being happy. We came to Catrya Isle, to my family’s retreat. Everyone was smiling. Everyone was … happy. Happy. Yeah, that was it. I felt happy. Then...

Bureau of Statistical Analysis US Goverment Document 732 Gamma From: Director Marisa Getrovitch To: Incomming Aplicants to the Gamma program. Introduction: Having received this message you should be made aware of several things important to the BSA operation and goals. Starting with the...

(I've previously posted most of this here. I'm posting it here as well, since I'm also interested in SV's input.) TL;DR version: A bunch of random characters from various Urban Fantasy settings (to be clear: most of the Refugees are not PC-types, but rather rank-and-file guys) are thrown into...

When I was a kid, I used to dream about all sorts of magic and wonder. I was the Warrior Queen of the Secret Grove, traveling to far off playgrounds to bring back the rare herbs my people needed to perform their rituals. Then... well, I grew up, as we all naively hope to do. I studied hard in...

You are on your way to school. Today is the first day of the school year, and you are looking forward to an eventful year in high school. You are now a second-year student, being a seventeen-year-old teenager. You still have much time left before you can start worrying about looking for a...

It's an alternate universe, in the year 2030. For the past 100 years, magic has been steadily growing, and the power of the man has also risen. The truth about magic is that it has always existed. Long before man evolved from the primal beasts that are his ancestors, magic has existed, at least...

Hi there. I'm just now getting into creative writing, and so I thought that maybe I could post a short story I wrote here today in search of feedback, positive or negative. I can take blunt stuff, so don't worry about me! I'm here to learn, after all. Hope I'm posting in the write place, this...

Author's Note: I know, I know, you probably took one look at the title and said to yourselves "Really, another Quest about Shin Dragon-Slaying High School Diary Epsilon? Geez, like that anime hasn't already spawned like a bajillion Quests!". However, I do think this Quest should have a different...

No, Tarsus, don’t! It can’t be true! Don’t do this. You open your eyes, pain fading away as you push the past away. As you do so, you collect yourself. Push yourself up out of bed. Got to meet the day, right? At the very least, you’ve got to take care of yourself. Your therapist would...

Demon Job Quest You are a demon, a creature of the Abyss born to corrupt the souls of mortals and hoard power until the end of days. When the world breaks and the pit opens your descendants will be in the hordes of hell that march to war against the Celestial for the fate of all that exists...

This quest has been rebooted here Fool's Adventures: The Reboot and the update in the spoiler below is now just a historical piece.

You knew a Fairy Godmother from the Marchen Kingdom would be here in only a couple of hours, there to give anyone eligible and willing to take on the Pokemon League their Starter, yet your oldest sister had sent you upstairs to clean the attic, even locking the attic trapdoor below you until she...

"See the world as you wish for it to be, and become a magical girl!" You know where this is going. Your name is Mari Hoshiori. And right now, staring at the tiny fluffball of a contractor that looks a little too much like a StrexPet, you wonder whether you should pity it or chuck it off the...

Exorcist Academy. Doing some brainstorming for a story, and I want to see if there's any issue with the world building. I'm brainstorming an urban fantasy world where Exorcist act as law enforcement/ paramilitary forces defending humanity from hauntings like in several horror movies. I...

To whom it may concern: If you are reading this, you are our selection for the CEO of a corporation based upon... unnatural resources. Due to your own experience and encounter with the paranormal, we, as your future Board of Investors have judged you to be the most qualified to lead such...

Story- Thousands of years ago Eight Dragons fought for dominance over the world with little to no regard for the destruction they caused and the humans that possibly got caught in the crossfire. Their conflict nearly drove the human race into extinction, until a young mage from a sisterhood of...

"There's a crime spree on, and what do these ne'er-do-wells target? Your very mind! Yes, lock your house, turn off the computer, and yet you still won't be safe from the Phantom Thieves" "You would've seen them in the news lately: 'Phantom Thieves'. But what exactly do those words mean? Well...

Awake. Empty black darkness. Fall into an abyss, shining hexagons of colored glass. A round platform. Looking up. A girl sits on the edge of a hexagonal platform, watching from above. You try to visualize her in a way that can be described, but something is blocking you. A deep endless...

The world is a much stranger and more fantastical place than most ever realise. The Gods still walk the Earth - mingling with mortals and drawing sustenance from worship. Spirits move unseen by all save by the few chosen, performing their duties and nurturing the land. Magic is real and not the...