"His name was Daimon. I rather have him a pleasant-sounding name. But he was a demon, just like his name. Through and through. He enjoyed our suffering with a pitchfork and a black wavy tail on his sulfur-filled habitat." Simons gnashed his teeth.... more>>

"I looked at his side profile. Charming and serious. Girls always loved a handsome and cool feminine boy. But grownups always picked the serious type with a sense of humor. Just like Daimon. His eyes closed. The flutter of his eyelids seemed more elegant than a woman’s. His tasty lips. Well-fit body, as masculine as Adonis. I could look more and more, and I couldn’t get enough!" Karen thought while unconsciously licking her lips.

“MOTHER FUCKER!” Arnold seethed and wanted nothing but to mutilate this bastard! He could care less about the plan! Only by killing Daimon he could face Xiao in the afterlife!

“Jeez. You scared me!” Agathon said to the man who was carrying a coffin on his back yet he looked like he was in a park. Still, the weariness in his face stood out. "When I glimpsed your figure from the distance, I thought I was seeing God. But then, I saw your eyes. I also thought you are a Ghost. But with your vibrant complexion, I crossed it out.”

Join each protagonist in their quest while battling their inner demons and keeping their sanity. Warning: profanity and heavy modern philosophy.

Note: Photo not mine. I just put a text on it. Credits to the owner. <<less

The time has come. The story begins again... more>>

Five thousand years ago, Amneris Topanga sealed Enliatu in the Void, the place between places where no one can return from. Though she didn't know it at the time, ten items had the magic of the spell imprinted on their forms. Once found by Amneris, they were hidden across Creation in the hope they would never be found again, they would never be used.

A new threat has risen to the Dark Throne of Terpola, causing the hunt for the ten items to begin. The stakes: Enliatu's freedom and the destruction of Creation as he brings in the Age of Darkness - the mission he failed to complete five thousand years ago.

Amneris her her Court must retrieve the items before the Terpolites can free their old Ruler, only things are never that easy when it comes to keeping the Balance. And the items aren't the only thing the Terpolites are after this time.

Will our heroes put a stop to the new threat?

[This is my original work and I have made it available on Wattpad, Inkitt, Royal Road, and ScribbleHub] <<less

Vildra is a simple dragon. All she wants to do is to dig out a nice little den where she can sleep through the winters. A home fit for someone like herself!
So what if the mountain she chose just so happens to hold riches unseen before. She'll ignore it as she always does, like with that city next door, or those "suitors" who graciously feed her, or that voice that whispers to her in her sleep.
The only things she won't ignore are those centipedes that always seem to find a way in. If only they weren't so cute!... more>>

Read the rest on Royal Road under the same name. <<less

A young provincial thief of no particular renown has his life of crime changed in a day. He ‘stumbles’ upon a huge pile of gold for starters and soon after a dead man carrying a letter of 'royal' interest. Literally. While at it he ‘earns’ a title of sorts, along the promise of a life out of the gutter. Before he can properly appreciate the dramatic turn of his fortunes, he’s drawn into a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to embroil two continents in a devastating war.... more>>

The whole affair seems to cry out for a gallant hero of old, or failing that a cunning diplomat, but he’s neither. Perhaps a lying scoundrel, which our lad definitely is, would have to suffice. He does ‘acquire’ a dagger that knows a dead language after all and that must count for something.

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I) Touch O' Luck is the prologue (or opening act) to the Old Realms series of novels
(Hint O' Magic,
Lure O' War,
Wings O' Fate volumes 1-3)

II) All tags are relevant, but most chapters are not too extreme. Fair warning dear reader, this is an 'unfiltered' story, sometimes sweet, others bitter, touching some heavy subjects or problems, like crime, war, betrayal, lust, pride, politics, revenge etc set in a Epic Fantasy backdrop with shades of Grimdark. In its heart of hearts though, it is an adventure.

I) chapter specific maps of the Realms
https://theoldrealms.blogspot.com/p/maps-of-realms.html <<less

A short story written for LLoyd's Pen Slam short story competition in Scribble Hub. The theme is time travel.

A reverse type of ‘Aladdin’ Story.
(Book 2 of TLCsDestiny Fairy tale books)... more>>

Rangcew, the capital of Commorda, might be flustering about with the upcoming marriage of Cid and Princess Bethany but that doesn’t mean everything is going according to plan for Prince Elton.
Prince Elton, the next in line for the throne, has serious plans to disrupt and force his own father to abandon the title of ‘King’. With this, Prince Elton finds what he needs to make this goal to finally happen!
…The ‘Little Pillager’ knows and has evidence that he needs! He must obtain it without fail!
But to woo the woman, he is in the unknown and feels like he’s the one being wooed instead!

Alison, a thief with a cause, ends up in trouble, only to be caught in a web from the very same person that had brought her family down. Suddenly, she’s become a daughter to another family, with nice dresses and yummy food…This was all to ‘tame’ someone…It is all to woo the Prince…
With reason to ‘play along’, Alison finally finds evidence to reclaim her family’s innocence but…Never thought that she’d ‘stupidly’ fall for the son of that man!
It all just seems so impossible and wrong to go down a certain path, it’s a romance that can’t even be thought of, yet alone acted upon! Then…Why is she so easily lying and pretending like she does want this? Sometimes she even forgets who’s she’s supposed to be entirely and gets swept away by the idiot who claims himself to be a Prince!

Without knowing, they help the other. Without knowing they both become greedy for a certain person’s presence and affection…
Can a thief strive for the position of Queen? Can the Prince speak the words that need to be said?

*I will also be posting this story on RoyalRoad <<less

A dream made real.
Katsuto Ookubo, a third year in high school, visits the town he grew up in up north. There, for the first time in six years, he stumbles onto one of his childhood best friends, Iyo Fukunaga. ... more>>

After a tear filled reunion, Iyo confesses a phenomenon that had been occurring to her lately. Every few days, she has a dream of a random person in town. Although she doesn't fully remember the dream, she does remember their faces. It just so happens that whenever she has those dreams, that same person goes missing the next day.

Worried for his best friend, Katsuto agrees to help her discover the truth behind those dreams, and what it could all mean.

(This is a short story was was written as part of a month challenge on another website) <<less

Five moons rise over Evanir, each in her own cycle, and each moon is also a god, one of five sisters.... more>>

Many gods create spirit attendants and companions, brought forth fully-formed. Long ago, the moons worked together to create a lineage that are, instead, humans transformed by the mingling of blood.

They intended them to be long-lived and to draw their strength directly from the light of the moon who chose each individual. The five sisters had different goals in mind – one wanted it to be a blessing for scholars and artists, to give them more time and fewer physical distractions; another wanted them to have an animal form, different for each, to keep them more in tune with nature so they could serve as guardians of the wilderness.

There are drawbacks to their children having human lives and personalities before being chosen: not all share the goals of their divine mothers, and some choose to put their gifts to darker uses.

A few carry the blood of one woman who fled the corruption in search of a quiet life. Some joined the family by choice, some by accident; they come from highly varied backgrounds, and have diverse skills. Looking out for each other, unable to settle anywhere for long, they try to help humans when they can. Ultimately, there is no greater threat for them to tackle than the other children of the moons.

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Moonblood isn't so much a novel as a series of adventures of varying length. They involve a core group of people, which does grow over time. They take place in a low-magic world, but despite that, our core cast are directly connected to the moons and have various abilities, including limited shapeshifting to a single individual animal form.

As with all my work, unless gender, orientation, or other aspects of sexuality are explicitly stated, I suggest not making assumptions. Probably most significant, I think, is a major trans character who appears about 80K words in - no spoilers, just a note for those who care about that one way or the other. <<less

Jane's a teenage weirdo. She's awkward, plain, anxious, and above it all, a hacking prodigy.
Ryder's the quintessential high school hero, or so it... more>> seems. Dark secrets that threaten their lives are uncovered when Jane decides to snoop into Ryder's private life, fueled by her loneliness and romantic ideation.
Will their love bloom amongst intrigue, lies, and crime? Or will they manipulate each other until the bitter end?
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[ALREADY COMPLETED]
Chapters will be released Fri/Sat/Sun :) <<less

Sabine has spent the past decade hiding from the Wild Hunt. But when a charismatic stranger recruits her to retrieve an invaluable artifact, she’ll have to finally reveal her identity… and her dark secrets.... more>>

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The darkness holds more than just secrets...

Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago.

But the Wild Hunt will never give up.

It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else -- not let her glamour drop.

Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart.

When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she’s tasked into helping steal a rare artifact.

Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets.

Unfortunately, the Fae aren’t the only ones hunting her.

And the most dangerous monsters aren’t always confined to the dark. <<less

On the 16th of October, 2022, the end of the world began not with a whimper, but an overpowering bang.
Who, or what, was behind this attack, there is no way of ever knowing for certain.
What we do know with great precision however, is how it happened.
These are the records that attest to humanity's downfall.... more>>

(Hey reader, I decided to stop writing this story before it really began. Frankly there just doesn't seem to have been much interest, which I understand; it was pretty experimental. It was fun while it lasted.) <<less

A human office worker meets her dragon CEO. They work together to undo the results of an ancient crime.

"That day, I thought my shit life was gonna change, but man, I WAS WRONG!"
Life is full of tragedies for Zack Will. Broken marriage,... more>> alcohol addiction, no good friends to look up to, no parents— his life was literally full of everything trying to break up a man. But, he tries to start a new life when he meets Carlos Cornwallis, a spy working at Secret Agency of Investigation. But, can he really start a new life by forgetting his old one? Questions about betrayals, friendship and team-work arises for him as he starts thinking if it is really the right path to a peaceful life?
*Left Incomplete* <<less

Mocha is the Lavender Kunoichi. She is on a mission to infiltrate Omega, the last city in the world, to rescue and lead refugees on... more>> an exodus through the wastelands prowled by beasts. <<less

Commander Liao Shan gets back to the Imperial capital with his cavalry troop after a month in the badlands, to find he has a new mission: escorting a convoy of treasure to the Kingdom of Qiu, an ally of the Empire in the far north-west. To complicate matters, the treasure includes the beautiful young Sixth Prince Yan Jinhai, forced against his will to enter the harem of the vicious King. As the journey progresses, Liao Shan finds his conscience and his heart increasingly in conflict with his orders. And it doesn’t help that the young Prince, kept a virtual prisoner in the Imperial Palace, is hell-bent on escape.... more>>

As the journey continues and the relationship between them deepens, events are building which will rock the Empire and turn both their lives upside down. <<less

Dropped.

This year's harvest festival will be one for the Blackstone history books.

Story of The Detester, an organisation specialised in extracting valuable resources from all over the continent, and how their lives changed after a mission gone wrong.... more>>

The reincarnation part of the story starts in chapter 7.
The world-view of the reincarnated being changes with newfound information.

No Isekai, no OP-ness.

Inspired by the adventum contest’s second theme (reincarnated as X).
Contains minute amounts of the third theme (Combination of magic and technology).

PS: genres and tags are a pain <<less

“You sure about this?” I looked dubiously up at the towering gate in front of us, surrounded by trees.... more>>

Hector shrugged. “Did you have another destination in mind?”

“Not a city?” I suggested without much hope.

Hector narrowed his eyes at me. “Where else do you suggest we find work? We’re soldiers. Besides, this one has trees. I thought you liked trees.”

I scowled up at the massive redwoods like they had personally offended me. “Cities don’t deserve trees.”

At that moment, I never would have guessed that I would still be there two years later, holding the rank of Captain and investigator, willing to lose everything for the people within its walls, and plunged into a conspiracy that threatened to take all that I loved. <<less

Two decades before ruining his brother's 'big day,' Loki successfully pulls off a historic heist at the Gardner Museum in Midgard to procure an ancient... more>> relic at the request of an old friend. Will secrets subsequently uncovered and an immortal enemy of his grandfather, King Bor, alter his and the universe's fate? <<less

An orphaned student, an unexplained expulsion and a mysterious smiling boy…... more>>

Sophie Dayton had long come to terms with the death of her parents. Having made it through the UK foster care system, she’s happily settled into her second semester at university. Then one day a bunch of security guards show up at her dorm room and proceed to expel her from campus. The main question circling in her head is: Why?

Taking refuge on a friend’s couch, Sophie attacks the mystery head on and subsequently finds herself wading in parts of her past she’d thought long dead. Narrating the story through her diary entries, Sophie’s account is interspersed with thoughts, lists and humorous observations. <<less

A horror stalks the night, collecting its grim toll.... more>>

Elspeth MacAdams and Gregor Lythgoe are detectives, part of the secretive Special Investigations unit. Experts in the strange, occult and supernatural, they arrive on the tiny Scottish island of Raasay to investigate a grisly murder.

Darkness lurks at the heart of the tiny rural community. Soon they find themselves battling to stop unnatural rites and ancient evils. One again they find themselves the thin blue line standing before the darkness.

Can they stop the looming evil in time? Before it adds them to The Pillar of Horns. <<less

He's hot. He's feral. He demands your submission. The deal you struck with Dryver years ago depends on total secrecy, but it's not just about the money and the fame anymore; he's become so much more than a partner in crime. Will you be able to handle the pressure of holding up your end of the agreement without exposing your involvement, your butthole, and your heart?... more>>

Note: I can't believe this is the first thing I'm posting on Scribble Hub, but here we are. Welcome to insanity. <<less

Behind Closed Doors... more>>

Part crime solver, part crime causer, Cassidy Cain is a cunning heiress who uses her privilege and wits for those without her advantages as The Grandmaster of Theft.

Amid a job to steal a religious relic from an obnoxious celebrity, Cassidy finds herself far beyond her comfort zone. To escape being exposed as a phantom thief, she chooses literally expose herself to the upbeat illusionist Rebecca Maddox, one of her best friends and the girl she loves.

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The kingdom’s capital has been lost to a demon. Jusha Lale, the young king, journeys through his lands to find a warrior willing to vanquish... more>> this evil. Finally, his hope comes to rest on the shoulders of Susha Unhuor. Returning to the capital city and uncovering the secret behind the demon’s summoning together, the two men discover some unexpected similarities between them. <<less