Ah! Aythryn City. Truly a mess of neon and trash all supporting the psychopaths that live here. Desire is the name of the game in such a bright place, as anyone on the streets can verify. Whether it be the gangs roaming the streets, the corpo rats in their tall towers, or the people just trying to get by; everyone wants something. ... more>>

Then enter me: a poor thief turned investigator just to make enough for end’s meet. Or at least, that’s how it was supposed to go down. Now though? Now I’m caught in several shit storms between stealing from one of the Big 7 to a weird interface telling me what to do. I just hope I can survive long enough to get out of this cursed city with enough Rayn to make a better life.
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Outrun will be a long run, heh, with plenty of post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk world building sprinkled in. <<less

One hundred years ago, being diagnosed with the "affliction" was the kiss of death. Whether by mutation or firing squad, Linnaeans lived notoriously tragic lives. The few that lived suffered from irreversible mutations. These creatures, few as they were, inspired legends of werewolves, mermaids, and sirens. ... more>>

Then came the treatments for the Linnaean affliction. The discovery of temporary gene repression meant that the development of mutations could be slowed and managed. This created an "unholy" new race that shared the DNA of both humans and animals.

Feared and hated by the outside world, they created a stronghold to develop their medicines and amass their power. Today, Linnaeans from all over the continent live in the City of Mendel and train under the renowned Professor Corax, a brilliant and eccentric geneticist.

Just before her eighteenth birthday, Ember is diagnosed with the affliction. Suddenly, instead of moving into her dorms and studying with the brightest in the country, she is whisked off to the City of Mendel by government officials who are as scared of her as she is of them. As she contends with a new city and her own treatment, she'll also have to face the tension of the half-baked treaty between the Linnaean people and the outside world.

There's no doubt - life won't be easy in a city where the population is able to harness the abilities (and instincts) of animals.

*Also available on RR and SB forum. <<less

In the sprawling shadows of a futuristic metropolis, the slums are a place of forgotten people, and survival means everything.... more>>

Fii was just another kid in the slums—scrappy, quick, and determined to make it through another day. You don't get a second chance in the slums. But when she becomes the subject of a forbidden experiment, she gets something far more dangerous than a second chance—power.

Now, she must face not only the dangers that come from the streets but also the responsibility of wielding power in a place ruled by the law of survival. Fii is no hero; she's just trying to make it through. But in these streets, power changes everything.

What to expect:
- MC's steady progression of her superpower and skills
- Somewhat of a soft sci-fi approach to the MC's superpower at the beginning
- Immersive world-building (dystopian)
- Cinematic action scenes! (after MC's training arc). Moments of visceral violence
- Interesting cast of characters
- Multiple POV (not too many, just within a few important characters)
- Minor political intrigues and mysteries

Explicit Language: A few instances, here and there...
Graphic Violence: Some <<less

Feodora Cicer is a rare dark vessel in a world of elemental users. A loner by nature, she is caught up in a missing persons investigation within the capital of The Radiant City. To clear her name, Feodora sets off to find the true culprit for her freedom.... more>>

There are six romance heroine stories to choose from after volume 1.

Route list: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129989636
Chapter 1 of volume 2-7 here: https://www.scribblehub.com/read/1598882-radiant-prism-gl/chapter/1624724/

This story reads like a visual novel. Volume 1 is the common route while volumes 2-7 are focused character routes that can be read in any order. Volume 8 onward will bring all route stories together and finish the tale with the epilogue.

Volume 1, 2-7 are complete and can all be read in any order you wish on Patreon and Kofi. (336,000 + words after volume 1).

Updates at 6:08AM once a day. <<less

Waking up in a trashcan was the easy part…... more>>

Mark was just another guy from NYC—until he finds himself dumped in the gritty, neon-lit nightmare that is Sin City, a wild world ripped straight from a 90s comic book. It’s a place where crime wears capes, justice carries a badge and a plasma rifle, and everyone’s playing for keeps. As Mark discovers his own mysterious superhuman potential, he’s faced with a choice: rise up as a sanctioned City Super, vanish into the shadows as a criminal mastermind, or carve his own path in a city that doesn’t play fair.

In a world of vigilantes, villains, and vices, what does it mean to be a hero?

Will he follow the rules… or become a Renegade?

1 Chapter a week guaranteed on Friday with there usually being 2 per week. I will dump the first 5 chapters on release then another 1 per day for the first 5 days.

There is quite a few NSA situations and eventual harem but the story comes first and the harem/sexual elements is at most 15% percent of the story.

If you are looking for a story where the MC is awesome but everyone doesn't just bend over backwards and fall on him then this is the story for you.

Patreon(5+ Chapters ahead and access to generated images for all of my released chapters)

patreon.com/ValenWoods

Check out my Discord for more story updates.

https://discord.gg/TkYJTWUawu <<less

Ivy Crawford has done her best to put Craumont, and her past, behind her. She’d much rather live life as a Delver, exploring rifts in the world itself, battling monsters with her claws and magic in equal measure. ... more>>

But the past has come calling, and Ivy finds herself back in the city she once called home. Back to where the magic is quaint, and the Mages can be counted on one hand— but new shadows cling to familiar buildings, and old mysteries have only deepened. Ivy has changed, too, with scales, claws, and a tail earned from years of magic and Delving.

Something has sunk its claws deep into Craumont, and just won’t let go. The Church she so loathes still looms large. If Craumont is to survive, Ivy has no choice but to slowly unravel the darkness over her old home.

Art by Patchesy: https://vgen.co/Patchesys <<less

CLAD IN METAL AND STEEL, A POWER ARMOR IS ALL YOU NEED.... more>>

Hunted by terrorists, the military, and the secret police, academy student William Dunn must unravel the deadliest terror attack of the decade—all before graduation day.

September 2, 2190
The sky was burning. Thousands of planes plummeted in flames—and in one of those doomed flights lay the weapon that would change everything...

William Dunn, a bunker factory kid, dreamed only of graduating and getting his family out of the Undercity slums. But when he witnesses a devastating attack orchestrated by a shadowy group known as the Revenant, his life is thrown into chaos. Now, with a superweapon lost among the wreckage, ruthless factions will stop at nothing to reclaim it.

With graduation day fast approaching, William must risk everything to save his family. A deadly game of cat and mouse begins. Can Will outsmart the forces hunting him, or will the weapon cost him everything?

The powers that be have set their sights—all ready to Fire at Will.

What to expect:
- Precog MC
- Weak to strong
- Heists / Covert Ops
- Mechs / Power Armor
- High stakes / real consequences
- Coming of age
- Strong friendships <<less

In pirate waters, strange winds can arise. Follow where they blow if you dare.... more>>

A band of young Adventurers set out to explore a wide new world... of ancient and forgotten places. What will they discover, delving where the gods can no longer see?

You don't need to have read In the Key of Ether to join up, we will be telling a whole new story.

If you do get curious, it's all right over there... The whole million and a quarter words of it. <<less

There is a womens' dormitory attached to a small but prestigious college in St. Almsworth, Essex. And under it - the infamous "basement," where the worst examples of toxic masculinity are cured of it. By removing the masculinity. Socially. Medically. Surgically. ... more>>

And for most, the once miserable, toxic little boys become happy, well-adjusted women.

But not for everyone. Some of them, quite frankly, don't make it.

And Craig Blair is about to find out what happens to those who don't.
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* Fan work of Alyson Greaves "Sisters of Dorley" | https://www.scribblehub.com/series/421879/the-sisters-of-dorley/
* Continuation/Sequel of "D.B. Cooper - A Dorley Story" | https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1181728/db-cooper--a-dorley-story/ <<less

Celosia Barnes, a troubled human girl who has a habit of dragging herself into violent conflicts moves to the Island of Flamel with her family following a family tragedy.... more>>

As Celosia get's accustommed to her new situation, she discovers that the students of her new school, and to an extant, most of Flamel are supernatural in some way and befriends Haruo Machida and his family of kaijus.

The family are in hiding from hunters who see the supernatural, especially kaijus, as beneath humans, forcing the kaijus to fighting back against them.

Finding out their business in not just fighting back against these hunters but to also hunt down the worst of both the supernatural and humanity across Flamel. Celosia joins Haruo and his family's business known as the Hitman Detectives in order to protect her new friends and Flamel from the various threats that threaten both humans and the supernatural.

No matter how much blood is spilled, Celosia and Haruo will ensure that the innocent will live another day. <<less

Synopsis: Volume Two:... more>>

Huijin raised the boy. Watched him step, hesitant, into the place meant for his older brother.
But the boy is no longer a boy, and Huijin no longer knows how to reach him.

After the haunting at Caodi village, Yin Yue returns to Yuchi Court changed. The old monk Huixin believes a strange talent stirs within him, a power Yin Yue refuses to name.

But there is little time to seek answers in the quiet arts of Sheng. When an honored friend is taken by brigands, tensions with Clan Mao threaten to ignite a war. Yin Yue, ever softer than the world allows, pleads for peace. But peace is brittle in a land so full of ghosts. What awaits in the brigands’ lair is not mere man’s cruelty. When an ancient presence awakens, not all leave the mountain alive.

In the aftermath, wounds fester. Trust fractures. And as whispers spread, a question begins to form:

Was this misfortune, or design?
And who, unseen, is shaping what’s to come?

Synopsis: Volume One:

Grief is a restless ghost. Left untended, it festers. Left unspoken, it haunts.

Yin Yue was never meant to lead Clan Ming. That had been his radiant brother's fate, until the former zongzhu of Ming met his end in disgrace. Now, the weight of the disgraced clan rests on his narrow shoulders, his every step watched by Huijin, the man who raised him and the man who cannot forgive him. Alongside them walks an aging swordmaster, oathbound to a boy he knows he cannot protect.

When a village is stalked by the ghost of a beast, Yin Yue is obliged to intervene. But the land remembers what men forget. Old wounds seep beneath quiet soil, and not all spirits can be banished. As the past sharpens its teeth, Yin Yue must ask himself: is the haunting in the village, or in the people he calls his own? <<less

Starscream ended up thinking he could have finally gotten everything, with his leadership and abilities.... more>>

After all, Megatron was quite an obstacle. He thought he finally killed him.

THOUGHT being the key word. He had no idea what he was going to get thrown in. <<less

The world had forgotten magic, cast Mages aside after new ones stopped being born. But Onyx, growing up under the shadow of the city tower,... more>> once a place for training mages, never really let go.
Going off of a rumour of a side entrance, Onyx finds many things still magical at the top of the tower, some things tangible, and some things Onyx never expected to confront... <<less

There has always been a war between good and evil. Trinity Academy is at the forefront of this war, it was the key for the... more>> future of humanity. A major trigger point on 06/27/3126 YDB will begin the apocalypse as the academy for developing the new generation of heroes falls from the forces of darkness. To avoid such a calamity those trying to start the apocalypse must be stopped before they can complete their mission. The gods picked their champions to purge the plague of evil out of the academy and save the world. Except every time that date rolled around, the heroes failed. Every reset and reattempt, they failed. Nine times already. The gods now only had one last chance to reset everything. A pair of young twin goddesses out of desperation began to look outside the box for some hope of changing this dark fate. They thought that perhaps someone who never originally meant to go to Trinity Academy could be brought in to change things for the better. Someone with a different view, someone with a little experience with hero work prior to entering the school. Enter Archer Griffen, residing on the opposite side of the world he was one of the few who were directly taught by the heroes of the old generation. A hero in training through and through, albeit a peculiar one. The mad dog, the sloth, the sleuth, the tick, the nightmare, the liar, the knight, are just a few of the nicknames Archer has had fortune or perhaps misfortune of earning from his peers. The twin goddesses decide that maybe a person like him could avoid the calamity. He was never supposed to be here, and his entrance does change things, though perhaps not necessarily for the better. But who knows what damage this unexpected no-named outlier could cause to Trinity Academy. Can the boy who avoided death avoid destruction for all? Only time will tell. <<less

Everyone you meet down here is doomed.... more>>

Below the habitable levels, World's End is a city of trash and floating debris. You only end up here if you were born here or sent here to be forgotten by the world above. Tritium, a disgraced military veteran, is here on a mission from Special Concerns: find out what's wrong in the recycling industry before the gap in productivity affects the war effort in the land of the living. But there's more here than meets the eye: a beautiful pilot named Phosphor who defies her expectations; unrest among the workers; and a mysterious voice she can't get out of her head. The deeper she looks, one thing is increasingly clear: even at the end of the world, you can't escape the war.

content warnings: war & militarism, psychological & sexual abuse, gore, body horror, mind control, addiction, sex, bugs/insects, disease, genocide <<less

2 chapters every week... more>>

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5 Systems.
5 Royal Families.
Greetings, Champion!

17 year-old, Collin Rex is a football player with a heart of gold. But his easygoing life is flipped upside-down when his older siblings fall into a mysterious coma and no one knows why. With no more tricks in their playbook Collin's folks decide to move back to their hometown to help him cope with the emotional shock.

At his new school he bumps into a strange girl named Helena and realize their childhood friends. Soon, Collin begins to remember things and then one day he accidentally obtains something called: The Knight System.

But it wasn't an accident...

9 years ago he was chosen to become a Maverick, a peacemaker between the mortal and supernatural community. <<less

What happens when you get stuck in a curse with your nemesis?... more>>

Alister Wyatt is someone who thrives in the shadows with alot of secrets. Among them is his dedication to unraveling the lies of the corrupt and arrogant. Followed by making them face his form of justice.

Clara Austin is the superficial daughter of an influential family with the burden of upholding their reputation and playing the role of pride and joy to perfection. She is willing to do anything to protect her family's dirty secrets, even going against the jerk who thinks he has the upper hand in this situation.

But one mistake. One cursed object. And now they are forced to make a decision. Destroy the other person after making them let their guard down...or set aside their differences, work together to investigate and find a way to be free.

Now as the curse tightens its grip, twisting their minds and enemies circle in the dark, they realize they might not have as much time as they thought.

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Hope you enjoy it. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Stories don’t just belong to the writer—they come alive through the reader.

Thanks ^_^ Take care of yourself. You’re doing better than you think. <<less

Ashes of Vengeance is a psychological mystery novel, where the naïve and kind protagonist, Theodore Granville, loses everything he loves in an arson staged by... more>> the madman of an Earl and falls into desperation. In order to get revenge, he leaves his home and chases after the culprit to destroy him.
Unfortunately for Detective Kwon Jaehwan, he reincarnates as Arthur Ashbourne — the same Earl's only heir who is destined to die before the story even begins. However, Jaehwan has no intention of letting the story keep its course and intends to live a long life instead. Using his knowledge of the novel from his previous life and the wealth from his current one, he plans to protect himself and his people.
But everything changes when he realizes the story has already taken a different direction. And what happens now, when his own father — the story's central antagonist — disappears during a secret sea expedition? <<less

She starts to accept her feelings, long after she get tired of running away from them.

Takuto, a university student in HIS second year, struggles with the loss of HIS brother who supposedly killed himself three years ago, however after men in black coats appear on campus HE dies. Takuto now thrown back to three days after that incident is forced to question everything: Do His choices actually matter? What happened to HIS brother? And who is behind it all?
_^=*' &:^ &'* &:^ (:= #-* (@!' -* -~ &:^= #@~$*... more>>

Author: Hello, I'm MEHRA. The author, I would like to thank YOU in advance for reading and would like to explain that my story is one based on choice, so YOU, the reader, can choose Takuto's actions by choosing the capitalized words in [ ] and I'm welcome to any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism or comment as this is my first work and English isn't my main language.
Thank you again for reading. <<less

Earth shatters under a cosmic System. Prisons collapse. Monsters claw through broken streets. Charles, once a CIA analyst and now a branded fugitive, drags himself free with a battered baton he took off a dead guard.... more>>

The System never drops loot for him. It only spits out Shards he can spend in a shop that reshuffles at every sunrise.

Each dungeon he seals buys humanity one more dawn and pulls him closer to the mafia that killed his family. From swamp ruins to frostbitten peaks, he swings, climbs levels, and forges his own Dao one fight at a time.

I am posting chapters everyday. I am around 10 chapters ahead, so if you want to read ahead please check my website where you can find all my works.

https://certherverse.com/ <<less

Sometimes, luck isn’t on your side. Then again, sometimes it is. ... more>>

Ben was just living his life, but fate has other plans. A single reckless decision pulls him into a mess, and the stakes are high indeed.

People are going missing. Strange things are happening. And it’s up to Ben and his loyal friends to figure out what’s going on… before it’s too late. But Ben’s starting to wonder: is he just caught in the chaos, or is he the one causing it?

Pushing My Luck is a fast-paced supernatural thriller filled with dark humor, twists, and heart-stopping action. Sometimes, bad luck is the least of your problems.

Are you ready to find out? <<less

The bombs fell in 1960, but it wasn't ideology that pulled the trigger – it was madness infecting the highest commands. Twenty years later, Aden... more>> navigates the ruins of the Atomic Age, haunted not just by radiation and mutated beasts, but by echoes of the same madness. He must unravel the mystery of this pervasive phenomenon that shatters perception before it consumes him entirely, because it is far from dormant. <<less

Arlo Maxwell is the newest detective in the precinct and wants nothing more than to prove himself to be a great addition to the team, despite some unfortunate co-workers, but when he forms a connection with a strange witness in a robbery, his life promises to spiral out of control. Elijah Asher is a complete and utter mystery, and Arlo's making some questionable decisions to get to the bottom of him. Feelings are running amok, but he can't help but notice that people are dropping like flies...... more>>

Just what is a detective to do when he falls in love with a serial killer? <<less

An unknown narrator recounts the events of 13 cases that were all solved by the same detective agency. Follow their retelling of these mysterious events and find out more about the narrator, the agency, and the many strange occurrences surrounding them.... more>>

Follow the story of Xavier Diaz, who works as a young private investigator in the fictional town of Ashbypond. After he had mostly resigned from investigating, he's pulled back in after his tenant and close friend, Amy, starts noticing a strange figure following her around.

Content Warning: The story features mature themes including but not limited to murder, abuse, eating disorders, bigotry, and more. <<less