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Lost in a field under a star-spangled sky, a woman searches for an answer. She meets a swing-set and there, four individuals who'd may have the answer she needs.

She holds a love in her heart that's poison to her soul. She must break her secret to rid of her curse, but to do so is to forfeit her love, and everything she'd ever worked for.

What would the four say?

And what is that 'thing'?

SSSC V Entry (Third Prompt)
(I'm never the one to do short stories, much less excel in it. But as they all say, how would you know if you hadn't tried? So I say to them, why the hell not?)
Discord: https://discord.gg/aAuCwJkkrz <<less

This story abut two human beings that looked out of the world of everyday life and saw their imminent death. The death changed their idea of yourself and they stepped in the insane way of imprudence search. As a result of this search, these human beings were transformed into unfamiliar forms, dared to venture beyond the world of common sense and became the part of the grim inhuman universe.... more>>

The story has:
* gore
* horror
* profanity
* cosmicism
* traumatizing
* sexual content

The story has elements of:
* dark fantasy
* dark gothic fiction
* dark science fiction
* dark supernatural fiction

Small spoilers and rules about two main characters only:
* they released(or excluded) from sex(no exceptions)
* they released(or excluded) from harem(no exceptions)
* they released(or excluded) from domination(only in complicated situations)
* they mostly released(or excluded) from almost all sort of love(with a few strange exceptions, like stars or clouds, and of course there is no place for romance love)
* they involved in strange inhuman boundaries with each other. There is no love between them, but sort of unusual unconditional narcissistic sismance(mutated bromance)

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He was the champion of underground fighting in his world. He was young, handsome, and rich. Recognized world champions were no match for him. He had her, the love of his life…
He lived for her and for battle…
However, in a moment, it was all gone.
He lost his life and his name. His dreams were taken away from him. The one he had been in love since childhood had betrayed him and plunged a knife into his heart…
In a world, very different and distant, a boy lying in a muddy ditch suddenly opens his eyes. A new life has been awakened in his empty body.
What will he do with an offer... more>> for a second chance at life?
What path will Kai follow in a world where power and skill reign supreme?
In a world where your worth is determined by your martial arts.
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As one of the hit novels of the new wave of Russian LitRPG novels, Heavenly Throne follows one of the greatest underground fighters of the 2010s, who has found himself in a world much different than his own. He had thought that he had nothing more to lose, but fate is a fickle and cruel mistress.
Now, he must fight for his place in this new world as he advances on the path of martial arts and force cultivation.
The winner of the Russian National Wuxia Contest, Heavenly Throne provides readers with a refreshing take on cultivation stories.

The book will be coming to Amazon on May 5. <<less

Merrick is a Thief for hire in a dystopian future, making ends meet In the poverty-ridden streets of Van Soren, a large industrial city that... more>> has suffered a horrible economic collapse. When a strange girl calling herself Luna hires him for an unusual job, the two uncover a plot by the New Governing Order to clone and replace the people of Van Soren. This revelation sends the pair on a journey to uncover the truth behind their new overlords, and become inseperable along the way. <<less

Ever since he was a child, Marcus Daimon has been cursed with a sense of duty.... more>>

Dragged by its current all his life, only his loving family anchors him.

But a political undertow soon takes him far away from that family.

Called on by The United Federation of Earth and coerced by his powerful father-in-law, Marcus is put into cryostasis and sent on a mission light-years in distance and decades in duration.

Bound by duty and forced to abandon his wife and daughter, Marcus wants nothing more than to finish the mission and go home.

That's the plan anyway.

But when Marcus wakes to find the UFE Arcadia silent and seemingly empty, he learns firsthand that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. <<less

Seth wakes up inside a small box with no way out and no idea how he got there. The journey to understand where he is and why will question identity, choice, and fate as he and others find each other, confront dark forces, and try to solve the puzzle of the box.... more>>

Cover image is from a stock image by LeWelsch DeNyon https://pixabay.com/users/LeWelsch-9421439/ as seen here https://pixabay.com/photos/monument-mirroded-concrete-stairway-3506681/ <<less

A lonely girl has a really bad day, maybe something scary happens next. ... more>>

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we're only doing what we can.

but what's past the edge isn't always preferred to what waits behind, something really is better than nothing, but aren't we owed more than that?

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there are a lot of tags, sorry if i missed a lot. <<less

The dbug agents are trying to get rid of the bugs.... more>>

They are trying to get the bugs out of the system
but the system is riddled with bugs. <<less

A Private Detective gets hired by a mysterious benefactor who wants to work alongside him. She is both his client and partner for this case, so he can't very well refuse her. What makes her peculiar is not that she obviously is wealthy, but rather that she has a supernatural air about her.... more>>

The protagonist of this series, however, is not the detective. Oh no, it is in fact, the mysterious girl! <<less

Etɔrnam, the assistant of the most powerful female swordsman at his time was cursed never to have a pleasant reincarnation.... more>>

That is, he would never reincarnate into a new life as a living being with new opportunities but would be stuck as an inanimate object for eternity, be it a stone or a house this curse simply didn't care.

Having a deep love for her assistant, the great swordsman provided her legendary moon sword as a vessel for his next life right after she had been killed in one of the greatest wars in history; the war of blood and turmoil.

She used the remaining part of her life as a source of power that would prevent her dear subordinate from ever breaking...

Now, war after war the sword is used and discarded. This went on for ages... until, the thirst for war was forgotten thus, leaving him in a deep slumber beneath the soil of the land used for the purposes of technology.

Cover Art isn't mine, check out:
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The 'plex is Alice's world - concrete, neon-lights, and a place of bloody and brutal conflict. While the halls of the fancy might be... more>> gilt and polite, the streets are raw and untamed, a place of bloody trades and constant conflict. Alice is a trader and merchant, eking out a living on the edges, barely enough to survive, or to keep her own demons at bay. And then, she comes into possession of something she shouldn't, something she doesn't want, and finds herself the prey, hunted across the city. She must fight to survive, using her old skills to kill those that want her dead, in a desperate struggle to survive. <<less

Alex a young man who lost everything in the past but was picked up by his grandfather who after he became old enough to live on his own left,
years later now, after an airsoft battle alex is the only survivor of a massacre, later taken to POW prison but his stay doesn't last long because he encounters a curious battle droid... more>>

Ps: as it is very common lately this is my first series so if you find any grammar errors (and there will be (you are warned)) please by all means let me know <<less

It is the year 2248.... more>>

More than 150 years after World War 3 ended in the "Night of the falling Stars" large parts of the world are an inhospitable wasteland marred by biological and nuclear weapons. Decades after the 3rd north american civil war finally ripped the great country appart.

Powerful corporations have taken control of many nations left standing and are fighting a neverending war behind the public awarness.

In this world, a young woman is forced to leave her home for another city, another country. 

She is trading one hell for another.

Cover image is not from me:

Image from Pete Linforth at Pixabay

Schedule is Thursday <<less

Cover: https://i.imgur.com/GhGrA2d.png
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- 400 Years into the future -
Humans have ventured beyond the confines of Planet Earth, spreading across the Milky Way Galaxy.
Governments and archaic societal structures have all collapsed, and unrestrained capitalism has found firm footing in human civilisation.... more>>

In this dog-eat-dog society, where value of human life can be assigned a monetary value, we follow our protagonists:
- a group of unassuming orphans with a dark secret,
- a bastard scion of a massive multi-system corporation,
- and a 'garage start-up' comprising of optimistic and starry-eyed inventors setting out in the unforgiving free-market,
in their adventures and exploits across the galaxy!

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hi guys! This novel is just a pet project of mine, to exercise my imagination and vocabulary. The regularity of uploads will depend on how well this catches on (but nonetheless, expect at least 1-2 ch/wk).
I proofread my own work before uploading it, so there may be grammatical errors or misused vocabulary. Please let me know in the comments and I'll fix it.

I found inspiration for this novel from various sources (Cyberpunk 2077, The Mech Touch, etc.) so in some places you may find some similarities. Please note that it is just an inspiration and I'm not trying to blatantly copy those works.

While I do have a general plot line in mind, the various volumes (or arcs) will be quite fluid and susceptible to influence from reader suggestions. This is so that my creativity doesn't stagnate.

I hope you guys like my work. If not, please leave reviews! I appreciate any and all constructive criticism, and opportunities to improve myself.

RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40865/2450-age-of-corporations
Webnovel: https://www.webnovel.com/book/2450---age-of-corporations_19446002906486005 <<less

Waking up captured and undergoing surgery, Pica Pugnaris must escape and find out what had happened to her. But she is not the only one searching for answers, far off in the blasted wastelands, a young priestess sets off on a path, that will bring her alongside Pica and deeper into the mysteries and conspiracies surrounding the city of Mecharia Rex... more>>

Updates sporadically <<less

Imagine a world where you can live the life of your favorite fictional characters. Where you can become a real comic book superhero, anime protagonist, video game badass, and other great characters of fiction. Where you can gain actual superpowers, live in a fantastical world filled with villains and adventures, and have fun battling it out with other fellow geeks.... more>>

In the virtual reality world known as the Escapist Dream, all of this can be possible for a price – once you get in, you can never get out.

A Japanese otaku and an American geek would become trapped inside, and forced to fight for survival against computer viruses and other crazed players that had taken over the virtual reality world. Would their new-found powers and teamwork be enough?

For what they didn't know, behind this malfunctioning virtual reality world, hides an even darker evil. One who is all-powerful, sadistic, and possibly eldritch... <<less

Our intrepid protagonist and challenge run "enthusiast" Jayce is co-opted into the tutorial for something called The Path of Stars along with the rest of... more>> humanity, but, unlike all the reasonable people, Jayce chose to join the impossible tutorial and, with every intention to make his own life harder than it has to be, sets out to conquer the tutorial and, eventually, The Path of Stars. <<less

Shadowrun: The Wild Fire Tales is a web novel based on the Shadowrun tabletop RPG and video games. It tells the story of one Leon Eagles, formerly known as "Wild Fire", a quick and deadly gunslinger regarded as one of the best "shadowrunners" in North America. If you need someone to perform jobs in the shadows of society such as bodyguard duty, espionage, or even murder, Leon Eagles is the man to call. Together with his allies Sylvia Morrow and Brandon Rivers, Leon fights week-to-week to survive in a world of arcane magic and cutting-edge technology, a world of corporate suits and fire-breathing hellhounds, and a world where some of its biggest ever surprises are... more>> still yet to come......

This is my first web novel and any comments and feedback are appreciated. Terms for those unfamiliar to Shadowrun will be in the glossary, and I'll try to explain as much of the world as I can in this story. I hope non-Shadowrun fans become interested in the Shadowrun world at large, and I hope Shadowrun fans are entertained by my take on this great in-game universe!

(Story (hopefully) coming soon to Royal Road!
Cover art done by TheWitchOfTheRock, at https://www.instagram.com/thewitchoftherock/
Also, bigger size cover image is here: https://imgur.com/ew4ZCjJ <<less

My name's Samson, and I'm a Soldier For The Terran Coalition.
Before War became my future, before it became all of our futures, earth was a peaceful place... Well not really but we did our best with what we were given. ... more>>

And then the elven Gods of another universe decided they wanted to play a game, they wanted power, they wanted the Nexus point of all creation.... they wanted EARTH. And so they brought death, They brought pain, and suffering and loss unlike any other as humanity died in the millions. But they brought magic and the system and the catalyst for the Gods of earth to reawaken, fight and defend that which is theirs.

Now we're playing their game, fighting the war that they started, staining our hands with the blood of the innocents and the Guilty alike. But make no mistake, in this war of cosmic stakes, we will be the victors! We will be the one that seats on the throne of multi-univeresal supremacy. Because we have miracles, guts and the all too annoying trait of not staying the fuck down! and there are none in all of the universes more vindictive, more destructive than humans. This is our story, this is our tale! this is our saga! Our futures, for our children! Remember it!

This novel is also hosted on royal road. Please support me on my Patreon. Updates are sporadic but at least three times a week, so please show your support. Thanks ? i also dont own the cover, got it off the internet.

https://discord.gg/tWSG5XN

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology can be viewed as magic."... more>>

Humanity has unlocked the stars, albeit in a strange way.

Though they are not alone, they managed to navigate the universe and encounter the single most valuable resource to ever exist.

Every being in known space seeks it, and the wealth that follows behind.

This is not that story. In fact, right now Darrius couldn't care in the least.

Darrius, who is quite literally the son of a sword, and born with great power, now seeks to make his own legacy and make him proud. To conquer those within his grasp and outside it, however, he'll need a lot more than a bit of talent and gusto.

"Death? Well, perhaps it's time to redefine it. Perhaps... a new post-mortem?"

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I plan on using space exploration, hidden identity, and non-mainstream weapons in differing amounts.

Space exploration will happen, but only a bit at the beginning, and much more so later. Hidden identity will happen every now and then. What I'm most excited about is getting to use different ideas for weapons and other such things that aliens use and that humanity has adapted too! Can't wait to have fun with you guys!

Oh, and expect a lot of people's heads to get bashed in with a book. A really, really heavy book.

I used this image: https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-dead-astronaut-spacesuit-geometric-element-abstract-illustration-image71031336 <<less

Palehost is humanity's ultimate creation and its last seed ship. A dwarf planet sized colossus, travelling the vast distances through space in search of a place that Earth’s remnants can call home. The journey so long across the ages, that many of its inhabitants have forgotten its purpose and what follows them. Vincent left the crew to live as a travelling merchant in Palehost's many lost zones. He just wants to live a simple life, but events might just derail his plans.... more>>

Second Tempest Contest: Choice 3, Exploration of Space

Commissioned cover illustrated by GIE https://sketchmob.com/user-profile/GIE/
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A collection of Sci-fi short stories created by a schizophrenic engineer, packed with anxieties about the coming future.

Space, the final frontier, or so we're told. The problem is things can never seem to be final in the vast never ending reaches of space. Efrem Gray has been a good soldier for nearly a decade and a routine mission to the planet Xioshaa to stop an ever growing civil war was nothing but another stop for him. Things go south when his team is ambushed and stranded in a jungle, left to argue amongst themselves about the best way to survive.... more>>

Despite the misadventure, Efrem makes it out alive, but he doesn't come back the same. Finding a place in this great big galaxy of ours is never easy. Unfortunately, Efrem has to start from scratch before he can find not just a place to call his own, but a new life beyond what he thought he knew. <<less

Six is a hyborg, a human-animal hybrid cyborg designed for one thing and one thing only: pleasure. Or at least, that's what she thought...until a particularly nasty client lays dead at her feet after awakening an ability she never knew she had. Now she's on the run from her owner, the government, and—for some reason—a shadowy cabal of masked occultists, too. The only hope she has of keeping her newfound freedom is to cultivate her unprecedented abilities and solve the mysteries behind them. To learn who really created her...and why... more>>

(I will be making major edits to every chapter of this story in the near future. This will involve resubmitting the story entirely to Scribblehub and RoyalRoad. If you’re reading this story anywhere other than Scribblehub or Royal Road, you’re reading a pirated version.) <<less

A one-off short story about an unexpected life change from cybernetic enhancement.... more>>

Written in second person perspective. <<less