Two worlds, deeply entwined together spin through the endless void... one, slowly dying; the other vibrant and fairly sparking with life and energy. One steeped in the forgotten magics of ages past; the other locked in an endless struggle for mundane survival.... more>>

Elder gods and deities from nearby worlds and universes watch helplessly as two entire realities slowly begin to drift farther away, spiraling towards an unknown doom. A mighty hero, wise and bold is needed...

Gods and entities stranger than gods sing out into the void seeking the sage, mage or warrior destined to save two worlds.

They got Gary. <<less

By the orders of the Dynast, Wyrm Lord and the 3rd Army are to conquer the Ravaged Lands, before Iterna can set up another foothold... more>> in these lands. They are opposed by the Resistance, a gathering of various gangs and tribes in the Ravaged Lands, under the leadership of a mysterious person named King. Among the members of the 3rd Army is wolfkin Aranea, a former member of the Ice Fang order. She hopes to rise through the ranks and become a powerful person to avenge the death of her father and the madness of her mother. But while the war is raging, will she be able to stop herself from becoming the same person as the one who destroyed her life? Or will she become another monster? <<less

Two minds; one body.
Two souls; merged perceptions.... more>>

I thought I knew what it meant to be human, until I crossed those boundaries.
I believed I knew my limits, until I expanded all I am.

My senses mapped over hers, and I learned how incredible her alien world was for us.
Her senses mapped over mine, and she learned how wondrous my alien world was for us.
Our worlds overlap. Our minds awaken and link together. Our hearts synchronize.
Our realities hold truth, in separation and in unity.
This is all because of what she did to me, and also what I decided for myself thereafter.

She and I are the most unusual pair we've ever known, a Human and an Altiri, each far apart, yet brought together by an incredible power. This is where my story begins. It's more than a crazy romance story; our intertwined lives is the embodiment of how I live, in this crazy world we call normal, with our secrets left untold.

This is our story. It has a beginning, but not an ending. Romance isn't all about walking away in the sweet sunset; it's messy, complex, and downright terrifying at times. No life is perfect. No relationship is easy. Still, I would never trade it for anything. Join me, as I breathe life into these moments, memory by memory.

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Quick Note about the context of R18+ content: Overlap is not a story with frequent invocation of explicit content, only in certain and specific chapters, of which are also not-essential to the plot and are perfectly skippable. Part 5 of Overlap will specifically fit into the category altogether, and is entirely optional of a read. <<less

'...And it was believed Dragons came from fairy tales... who knew that they actually came from the sky and beyond our atmosphere?.... Alex Crawford is an average guy, average life, beautiful fiancée, starting an average day but he's targeted and kidnapped for some sort of experimental warfare programme involving Dragons. Next thing that Alex knows he or rather, she wakes up essentially in a prison, initially struggles to come to terms with her new body, which also subsequently has a condition that if kept unsupported will result in her death. Will her attempts to escape and gain her old life back succeed? Will she even want it back in the end? Time will tell as... more>> Alex, becomes a 'heroin' suppose you could say, that she never really planned on being. Things get rougher for her as the story continues, will she survive?...'

An action/adventure type story, with a bit of saucy romance to come later on. This picks up from exactly where my other story, 'The Shard', left off, which is a short prelude to this one, introducing a few of the main characters and their back stories, you may want to read that first to get acquainted.

(Side note: I use song titles as chapter titles (With the artist in brackets at the footnote of the chapter). These are either meant to represent the mood of the chapter or usually the song at one point or another has got me through some tough times and means a lot to me. SO... as a little disclaimer, I do not own the rights to any of these tracks, merely showing my love for them.) <<less

To live a quiet life away from high society, 14-year old Alex left home and created a new identity. She changed her name as well as her gender. ... more>>

The catch? She'd lose it all if anyone found out.

To prevent exposure, Alex stayed in the side lines and avoided unnecessary interactions. Her cold demeanor drove the other students away. They eventually learned to leave her alone. After that, it didn't take long for two years to pass by as she spent her days in blissful peace.

Her secluded life had kept her safe. 

Until…

That shattered when Logan Parker caught her with extensions in her hair, make-up on her face, heels on her feet and boobs in her dress.

Not one to give up, Alex needed to fool him.

But how?

How will she keep this web of lies afloat? Will her true identity stay as a secret? Or will her borrowed time be over? 

Take a peek and discover the biggest secret in this fiction world!

All Rights for the final cover belong to IG users, cailinmatthews and jjiyenn, for the exclusive use of the novel "Trust in Love."

> Credit for the cover's character art goes to IG user, jjiyenn.
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If you have a very kind soul and want to boost my Cai-ffeine spirit, you can go here:
https://ko-fi.com/cailinmatthews <<less

A journal of a year in another place.... more>>

A slice of life isekai on a fantasy tropical island with occasional supernatural spookiness, told in the format of daily journal entries.

Was updated daily. Now complete. <<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

When an accident causes the early death of two young women, one is chosen to become a hero, a saviour, and a servant of the God of Heroes!... more>>

This is not her story. This is the story of Valeria, whose soul clung to her friend’s, and who was dragged into a new world where her wandering spirit was claimed by the Goddess of Darkness.

And so, one who doesn’t belong grows to become the servant of the Dark Goddess, a servant—definitely not a daughter—who will usher in a new age of despair and disgust.

The only problem is, she’s really bad at the whole “evil” thing, not that she’s unwilling to do her best to please her adoptive mom Dark Goddess. <<less

Near a remote mountain mining village, an infant is left in a circle of blue magical flames. Drawn to the fire, the villagers find this infant and see that she is a Terran, a soul reincarnated from a different world, earth. This child, which the villagers named Salis, raise her as one of their own. When Salis is older and learns the language of those around her, she finds out that Terrans have a reputation. One that means those in power will desire if they find her. The power of knowledge that could change the balance of the world.... more>>

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This story is my very first I finished so I hope everyone enjoys reading it. The first arc involves school but the second and third arc take our protag to some interesting places. The main character is also a loli for pretty much the whole story but as it isn't the focus I decided not to put it as a tag. I could also put the tragedy genre down for arc two and three but I'm not sure.

I have begun reuploading the story with a new name "Artifice: Tools of the Gods" on Royal Road and will be splitting the chapters split into smaller pieces along with more editing. Those that prefer shorter chapters should wait. <<less

|7X WATTPAD FEATURED · SPOLIGHT STORY| Saddened by her lonely life, a little girl named Victoria Christie uses her inventive imagination to write stories. Now that she's an older individual, she must find a way to share her tale with the world.... more>>

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Victoria Christie never expected to be a writer, but everything changed in 4th grade when she annoyed her mother at a barber shop. She told Victoria to write in her school notebook, which sparked her daughter's life-long passion for writing.

Now, many years later, Victoria is eager to share her story-through an interactive novel that showcases how her writing has changed overtime and what hardships she faced in order to keep her island of personality-especially after her brother's unfortunate death in 2021.

With the power of writing and her brother's legacy about her becoming a successful author, will Victoria's old stories spark the interest of an audience? Will they interact with her and tell her how her incomplete pieces should end, or will Victoria forever remain an undiscovered author?

This is an anthology of my old stories. Most are incomplete, so it's up to my audience to decide how they should end. This is the story of how I became Viktoria Fyodorova.

Let the cringe begin!

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What You'll Find in This Book:

1.) 35 fun-filled chapters of my oldest stories.
2.) 11 short memoir stories--no more than 1,000 words each--that share the most important times of my writing career.
3.) A whole overview of my history as a writer!
4.) There's also a bonus chapter about how this memoir came to be!

Genre (s): Creative Nonfiction/Coming-of-Age, with a touch of Magical Realism.

Word Count: 200,000-250,000 <<less

The Legendary Super Saiyan Broly has been reincarnated into a baby in the world of Naruto. Watch as he leaves his mark on the Shinobi... more>> World as Aomatsuna Hakuseki. <<less

This is the tale of an epic battle between the embryo of a hero and the egg of a demon lord.... more>>

Okay, so perhaps 'epic' is overselling it a bit, given that there are serious mobility issues on both sides of the conflict, but they're trying their best, bless them.

Then perhaps it is the tale of a reincarnated magical girl lover, excited about finally living out her dreams of slaying evil with the powers of love and friendship?

But again, the way a truck-wielding goddess interpreted her request to return her memories immediately after reincarnation rather too literally means that it'll be a long time before the frilly dress fits, and the demons don't seem to want to wait.

Then it's the tale of a pair of new parents growing progressively more confused at the weird happenings around them, particularly when people start receiving involuntary flower-based makeovers? Of an unborn hero speedrunning the plot so efficiently that it'll all be over before she even gets around to being born?

Yes, that one's more accurate.

Also, some numbers go up, with accompanying dings. And one (highly important) number goes way down.
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This story was born as a complete joke on discord, out of someone complaining about womb arcs and how utterly ridiculous they were. I responded by threatening to write a story that was entirely womb arc. And then, because I'm a bit silly sometimes, I did. It's not pure skill grinding, though; I was nice enough to let her have some interaction with the real world. Nevertheless, at time of writing, I seem to be averaging two dings per chapter.

Published here, Royal Road and patreon. <<less

Kaito Miyahara is almost done with university. Only one final project remains, one that he has been putting off for three years. If he doesn't... more>> start now, he will be stuck in university for one more year, something that will further tarnish his resume. In a future where a simple failure is enough to destroy your career, he can't let that happen, but he can't think of anything.
Miraculously, he runs into Sanae and Risa, two girls whose sole goal is to become idols. For Kaito, the only way of making it work in the current world is to think outside the box. To think big. To think galactically. And so he becomes the manager of the first, galactical idol group: Blostars.
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- Edited by RedPandaChick
- Cover art by @retrosensei on Instagram
- Find more about my works on https://sosin.carrd.co/
- Also posted on Royal Road, Webnovel, Neovel, and Honeyfeed <<less

First-year student Kei Ichinose has been in love with Shizuka Sakurajima, a childhood friend, for a very long time. But one day Shizuka informs him that she has a partner. ... more>>

He ends up in the park, depressed and trying to unwind, after being dumped before getting the opportunity to confess. That is, until Arisa Kamihate, a second-year student, who is a member of his elder sisters' friend group, calls him out.

A tale of heartache brought on by a lost love that was later made better by a happy accident... A 'blessing in disguise' brings two individuals together in this wonderful tale. <<less

Akari, a young Japanese woman, suddenly finds herself in an unexpected, deadly situation when returning home from the airport. She has to decide quickly...run away or trust a complete stranger to find safety.... more>>

After accepting the offer, she quickly learns that "safety" isn't here on Earth...but on a huge spaceship near Mars. There she learns that her experience gained from playing flight simulator games, suddenly appears to be surprisingly helpful.

While slowly changing into another lifeform, Akari must find a way to keep up hope and fight against impossible odds. She chooses to fight at the side of the Vahli and puts her human morals aside to find a way to end their enemy's existence once and for all.

A series of events is set into motion that will not only determine her own fate and the fate of two warring worlds.....but the fate of humanity as well.

When she finally returns back to Earth, she quickly learns that her beloved planet is already being invaded.

Join Akari on her adventures in becoming the most unconventional Queen in Vahli history.

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Notes:

-This story is completed.
-Please note: I'm not a native English speaker.

I would appreciate it if you could leave a comment. Just for fun, or to help me improve my writing skills.

Thank you for reading, and please enjoy.
Moriko <<less

With a robot built to dance, they'll sweep the crowd off their feet... more>>

When chased through the Junkyard by an old foe, Jester finds a unique combat robot of his own.

Programmed for dance over fighting, he'll need new allies, old friends, and a passion for performance if he wants to drag himself out of the virtual gutter.

Posts: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:00 AM AEST <<less

For generations, Christian’s family have had a natural ability to see beings that are usually invisible to humans and to do magic. They aren’t, however, the only witches in the world or even in the area. When his Scottish-born mother wants to return to her family, and her husband and his widower father decide to go with her, Christian inherits the responsibility for their house and its hidden library.... more>>

Not alone, however. His family leave him with a roommate, Mark, an apparently normal human around his own age. But appearances are especially deceptive in this case.

Christian builds a reputation, first around the New Age bookshop where he works, then beyond that, as someone to turn to when things go bump in the night. Whether it's lingering negative energy, a lost ghost, or a dangerous infestation, he'll solve it. Sometimes, that's with the help of a powerful, sensual, and often bloodthirsty lamia who is still perplexed about how she has come to genuinely care about a human.

Throw in a group of witches called the Fellowship, who are firmly convinced that all witches should come under their authority and above all else stay below the radar; a subgroup within the Fellowship who feel that the ends for the greater good justify any means; a few supernatural threats; a friend from another independent witch family, who has a very close past history with a kitsune who says less than she does; Christian’s Dungeons and Dragons gamer group; a young black cat in dire need of a home; a colony of feral cats inherited from his great-aunt; and a couple of non-witch friends, and life gets complicated in a hurry.

Two characters in this are significantly transgender, in different ways, and orientation is mostly not a consideration. Oh, and it's set in 1998, which was when the very first, very rough draft was written.

** Trigger warnings **
This one does have more explicit sex and violence than my usual, and that's primarily all about the titular lamia herself. It's going to be difficult to be comprehensive without spoilers, but feel free to ask if you have questions, I completely understand. Broad strokes: lamias are a form of energy vampire/succubus (sort of) and actively hunt men to feed, usually without killing but also without consent - if you're okay with the typical vampire/succubus morality this should be okay. (Consent is different with humans she knows!) Lamias tend to have a very direct and physical approach to removing obstacles and annoyances; most of the violence is towards aggressive supernatural creatures (one scene came out particularly gory), but not all of it. One minor character who appears briefly late in the story endured some abuse that ends at that point. There's no harm done to children or animals with the single exception of a cat hunting a mouse. Please be careful with this one if you're prone to triggers!

New chapters Monday through Friday! Complete at 180K words, wrapping up in late September! <<less

All Astri knows about her parents is that they left her near a dilapidated building with nothing but a note and a blanket. She has had years of being passed from home to home before being put back into the foster system. On an impulse, she decides she has had enough and runs away right before her eighteenth birthday. She didn't account for the whirlpool.... more>>

When she awakens, it is to find that the world she knew is gone. In what should be an unfamiliar world, she finds the answers to the questions she has asked herself for so long. And soon, what should be unfamiliar starts to seem not so strange. <<less

A/N: This is a spinoff of my other series - Origins: How I Became A Magical Girl's Sidekick in a Craptastic World. ... more>>

It's written to be more digestible than the other work. A simple, straightforward story about survival, love, and /numbers go up/.

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Incursions, Emergences, and Chaos Events. Anathema, Nightmares, and Aberrations.

These blights have caused untold suffering and destruction for many worlds across the Great Tapestry.

Across these worlds, humanity has developed countless social constructs and [Systems] alike to combat these extradimensional incursions.

But what of the worlds that have never experienced an invasion before?

Worlds that, for all intents and purposes, are stuck in the Silver Age of Magical Girls and Villains? Worlds with no context or dedicated weapons to combat these monsters?

This is the story of a girl who would dream of a brighter tomorrow.

A dream that was cut short by her world's very first Chaos Event. <<less

Nolan is an unapproachable guy who ignores the existence of all his schoolmates and sleeps in all of his classes. Normally, this wouldn’t be Chelsea Arnold’s problem--she does her best to pay attention in class and attends gym like a good, normal student.... more>>

Unfortunately, she just so happens to be his assigned desk partner in many classes. She’s frequently forced to wake him in English class and ends up earning the unofficial title of Nolan’s Wake-up Alarm--a title that nobody in the entire school covets. The last thing she wants is to interact with him more than she absolutely has to. One day, their gym teacher sends her to bring him back to class, which he always skips for some reason. When she accidentally shines her flashlight in his sleeping face, it triggers a chain of events that gradually intertwines their lives together.

It’s hard to be a normal student when you start befriending the school oddball. It doesn’t help that he has more secrets than the Big Ben has stairs.
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(updates on Mondays)
(I'll also try to update on Thursdays) <<less

More than 30 stone of muscles and bones, the best of goat, cat, and squirrel (do not underestimate them) merged with a stale soul using outlawed magic; appearing on a battlefield, with more strength and endurance than the centaurs. The next step for the Kwal armies. The signs were clear.... more>>

But the capitulation came before she was awaken. And everybody's first thought was 'how cute', by unanimous vote of either children, healers, clerics, or mages. It certainly wasn't because Kiara remembered being pushed in front of a subway train during rush hour and couldn't speak a word. Even with claws out and fangs bared, their scare would last only seconds. Otherwise cute.

Now, she had to find her way to fit into a human society with her unique body. And seize the chances it offers to her.

Little fighting, heavy on medieval slice of life of the semi-human main character. No game elements.

Several chapter come with music. The full playlist is here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiQR_KZr16uuNGSeOdOzBHkaoVGWnPlI8 <<less

The Witches of Welland and their Goddess have been using magic with impunity for four years now. Reality has been changed, lives have been affected. Their actions have not gone unnoticed, and their hubris will not go unpunished. ... more>>

For centuries the Brotherhood of Diomedes has worked to keep Earth free from the meddling of petty deities, and the small upstart coven in Canada has finally come to their attention.

Now Sam and Nikki must keep their chosen family and friends safe from a ruthless, experienced enemy that threatens their very existence."

(This story is set in our Witches of Welland story universe, and it begins a few days after the last short story (A Taste of Regret) in our Tales from the Witches of Welland collection.)

Please note - this story gets dark in places and can get intense. We will preface chapters with content warnings where applicable.

Content Warnings: Contains instances of forced feminizations, nonconsensual mind magic, and identity alteration which some readers may interpret as identity death. <<less

So what happens if you feel like you belong nowhere... then find out you do belong somewhere... and that place should be impossible? There’s no such thing as magic or werewolves, especially only a few hundred miles north of Toronto, right? And what could be in Jesse’s missing past that would make him fit in there?... more>>

Jesse’s been having a tough time at home with his adopted parents, and even life on the streets, with the one friend he trusts, has more appeal. During a particularly bad moment, he finds himself some way north of the city he lives in, and things just keep getting stranger from there: Haven, the village he stumbles over, is not only primarily pagan, but a substantial percentage of the population can do insane things. Like manipulating light into doorways linking places, or fixing injuries with a touch, or changing into wolves.

The early part of his life has been a blank to him as long as he can remember, but the more time he spends in Haven, the more hints there are that a place like this is where he belongs. But how did he come to be alone several years before, with no memory? Is there unfinished business lurking in his past that can come back to haunt him in his new life? And how much danger are his Haven friends in because of him?

Very much an Ugly Duckling tale. Only with fewer ducks. ;)

This was my first finished novel. Comfort playing with gender and experimenting with other diversity came later. There *are* intimate poly relationships and a sort of non-exclusive MM friendship-with-benefits. V0.01 of Black Wolf was written during the mid-1990's, while I was in my late teens/early 20s. While it has undergone three or four major overhauls since then, updating it to take place later proved not to be a viable option. I realize some readers may find concepts like the absence of cell phones and Internet rather alien.

** Content warnings: minimal gore/violence (largely wolves fighting bad things), occasional bad language, the only sex is a non-explicit masturbation scene. The MC does start off homeless and there are a couple of mild scenes around this. References to drug/alcohol abuse, childhood abuse, and thoughts of self-harm, but not described in depth and not shown as positive. There are a few things I might do differently these days (Naomi in particular - love her but don't know that she's well-handled) so please be forgiving! ** <<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

Madelyn Taylor thinks she's nothing special. She's just trying to get through boarding school one day at a time. But after many strange occurrences, sleeplessness,... more>> daydreams and particularly violent hayfever; she realises not all is what it seems. Her eccentric Aunt, friends and unassuming allies help her through a challenging time in her life that has nothing to do with being a teenager; but something else entirely. <<less