From the streets and a dark past, she found solace in arms of a vampire. Under his protection, a neko girl begins a healing journey,... more>> while finding a love that tender. Sure, he may not be perfect, but he's willing to learn - to adjust, for her betterment. His intentions are not to cause her harm whatsoever... unless she wants him to. <<less

"Come my dear friend, taste the sweet wine of the past, eat the fleshy meat of the future and lets dance to the eternal rhythm of Cud Rues Osmium."... more>>

- Daunts Roams, Somniat praeterita, 6891 SC

"History is littered with rotting carcases of once glorious empires.
Future is created from dreams of an eternal empire.
And the present is an interim hell that threatens to swallow us whole."

- Emperor Egnier IV, Laslik empire, 5608 SC

Cover image attribution : "Theology (from the Tarocchi, series C: Liberal Arts, #30)"
by Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian, 15th century) is licensed under CC0 1.0 <<less

10 students got a mysterious invitation, inviting them to an one week vacation at a hotel. They all thought that one of them was the one that invited everyone. However, none of them admit that it was them who invited everyone. They soon brushed it off as the inviter been too shy or something. ... more>>

Then, things became more complicated when one of them was found dead the second day, and they also found out that they seem to be unable to escape the place nor get outside help.

This is something I started on Snapchat for fun, now I’m rewriting this on here. <<less

David was a sad champ, a mess, and an academic genius. By genius, I mean an A+, no effort type of a genius. He is... more>> that child that every parent kneels and prays to God to have. You know them, those that society admires. And are held closest to heart. But he was still human. <<less

This is a tale of a young woman, whose memory was lost, fighting her way out of The Tower.... more>>

When the woman woke up in The Tower, wire rope had already tied her limbs, and she couldn't move an inch. After a conversation with someone who promised to be her Guide, she then realized that regaining her memory was the only way to escape The Tower. <<less

Xia Shuangliu, leader of the Huiyue sect, receives an unexpected visit from his estranged shidi Xiao Yunjiang. Due to their conflicting morals and turbulent past,... more>> the two get into a fight, which in turn leads to an unfortunate event that permanently alters the course of their complex, tangled relationship. <<less

"In the final chapters of life, sometimes the saddest endings are the ones where the heartache lingers, where the echoes of unspoken words haunt the silence, and where the dreams once cherished fade into the shadows of what could have been."... more>>

In the city of Leeds, twins Jake and Allen couldn't be more different.

Despite facing harsh struggles at a vulnerable age, Allen's the definition of perfection, resembling the flawlessness and beauty of poems, while Jake struggles with the unfiltered and rasping realities of life.

Born into the world with the thread of life tying them together, Jake and Allen's bond is shattered when they are torn apart at birth. They led exceedingly different lives. Jake was served everything on a silver platter like a grand feast fit for royalty, meanwhile Allen was condemned to the raw and jarring life of poverty.

A gripping tale about love, detest, loss, guilt and an unbreakable bond between life and death.

Would Jake survive? <<less

After a coalition of planets in a distant frontier declared independence, The Terran Federation of Planets deemed this improperly conducted, illegal and an act of terrorism. When a force sent to the hub of the revolution meant to quell it was destroyed in a catastrophic battle, The Sovereign Empire was formed. Initially, the "Empire" moniker was simply an ironic joke; a play at Federal propaganda. With time, the "Emperor" became a legitimate figure of authority, with a legitimate line of succession.... more>>

Centuries later, in the midst of never-ending war between the Federation and the Empire, some people manage to find peace in a region of space thought to be completely empty. A massive, Earth-like habitable planet, colonized peacefully by the people of both the Empire and the Federation, leaving their allegiances behind. Slowly but surely, word of mouth and breadcrumbs of shrewd merchants lead more colonists to settle in what seemed to be the only inhabited place in the galaxy devoid of war and strife.

Until now. The no man's land becomes a contested battlefield, and the worst of the worst are sent there, to deny the other side supremacy and a base of operations. This is not a story of simple people struggling to survive, or war heroism.
It's a tale of hungry dogs of war devouring their prey. <<less

A collection of short tales and stories.
Because most people don't get happiness in life.

The only constant in Hide’s life was his favourite drink at the pub. Attractive broads and money in Yorkshire came and went, but it was nothing more than a dull existence. None of them were Makhi.... more>>

Charming, driven, and confident, the ideal qualifications for employment away for the smoggy city—and Hide. When that job came into their lives, Makhi left. The country moved on.

But not him.

His only lead was the shy, strange young man, Loukas Asbjorn. However, the more he learned about the youthful aristocrat, the more he could not help but be charmed by his sweet personality and growing sadistic tendancies

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Cover and art created by Bittersweettaste
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In an unnamed country, twenty years after a violent revolution, Carl has carved out a comfortable, low-key life for himself as a servant of the new regime. Then trouble creeps in. He's falling for his pretty young protege—who's off limits for more reasons than one. His boss is making some dangerous assumptions about his personal life. And an encounter with a strange political dissident is threatening to reveal the secret Carl has kept for his entire career.... more>>

Content note: The events of this story include nonconsensual sexual sadism, torture, domestic abuse, police brutality, workplace sexual harassment, and endemic homophobia. Many scenes are written in the POV of homophobic and/or sadistic characters. There are no smutty or otherwise explicit sex scenes.

Cross-posted on FictionPress. <<less

A dark secret on the continent of Arsmoor will shake the very foundations of the Human Empire.

This is the story of Isaac Dorn; the man tasked with making a highly illegal delivery across the country in order to save his own skin. This certainly isn’t the kind of job Isaac would normally take, but since the bombings began three years ago, there isn’t a lot of work for a man like him anymore. And with loan sharks breathing down his neck, it seems he has run out of options.... more>>

The journey was predicted to last just under two weeks, but with danger around every corner, Isaac discovers that things don't always go to plan. <<less

The Legend of The Lonely Swordsman From The Abyss, The greatest of legends among heroes who have feats of slaying dragons, freeing a kingdom against another, against evil gods that have reigned supreme, but you asked what did he do to be amongst the top against this great mens and womens, its simple he killed them all.... more>>

Its starts in one of the normal days of Invricelm a kind festival to praise the heroes that has saved them, it was a beutiful day, flowers scatterd around, happiness is everywhere until one-by-one the great heroes have fallen into the depravity of the abyss, its temptations are beyond the wildest dreams of the heroes.

And of course everything comes with a price, their greed is immeasurable they are very corrupted deep in their souls, they have taken the temptations turning them into horrible monsters that have killed everyone in their respective kingdoms.

Some of them wandered in the abyss, corrupted by the abyss to become these so called The Champions Of The Abyss, such a name for the fools that went in the Abyss, for they do not know the dangers of it.
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The Worlds looks like Bloodborne mixed with Dark Souls I,II,III
But the rest is Original. <<less

The gods never made a creature more foul than the cockatrice. Its gaze paralyses, its breath sickens, and its bite turns living flesh into stone.... more>> But if Gould is going to get back into the good graces of his crime lord boss, he needs to capture one and bring it home alive. Is he hunting the cockatrice though, or is the cockatrice hunting him? <<less

Meighan and her family find themselves competing on the ultimate Japanese game show, Climb to Oni Mountain! But as they progress, the rounds keep getting... more>> darker and stranger, as well as more dangerous. The only way out is to win. <<less

A single assassin sits alone in a deathly silent room, conflicted emotions surging through him.

Tang Quan had never been interested in anything except his studies later in his life his work. The only exception ever was Kang Longwei his... more>> childhood friend. On the surface Tang Quan never had any romantic feelings, never had a girlfriend as if he didn't have a private life. But it was far from the truth.
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"So, you know how I never had a girlfriend. It's cause I am gay." Tang Quan was extremely frightened by the movement but he forgot the person sitting in front of him was Kang Longwei.
"And you are still a virgin!" Kang Longwei looked at Tang Quan as if that was the most important thing to him. He inched closer as if teaching Tang Quan a thing or two. "Guys, are easier than girls, then what's taking you so long? I guess I have to teach you."
That was the time Tang Quan's pure friendship turned into that of sex friends and he found himself a whole new world. <<less

This story is inspired by Springtrap and Deliah which was sadly discontinued.... more>>

It was dark and stormy when Hannah found it. She saw a yellow rabbit but there was something inside. Inside the yellow rabbit was a corpse all twisted, cut, and ripped. She stood back in horror and then it moved. "It's ok it's not real!" the yellow rabbit said its voice so human and yet robotic. <<less

Daniel pressed his lips together angrily - no doctor was going to help change his perception of Vincent, not one! Not after what had happened.... more>> There was no way to make a victim of violence love his aggressor again, no doctor could do that. And what good would that do? Vincent softened towards him only because he was suffering from amnesia, which made him forget Daniel's misdeed, and once he remembered everything in detail, he would cut Daniel slowly this time, pulling out his veins, enjoying the agony with the pleasure of a maniac. <<less

Prophet Shulman, Administrative Secretary at the Middlesbrough branch of Friar Holdings, has been on the verge of divorce for the past twenty years, almost ever since he got married.... more>>

Shagging his boss might make him as bad as his husband, but what the Hell's the point in trying to be good anymore?

Meanwhile, Vance Vixen, recently emerged from his own divorce and also the closet, when not shagging his Admin Secretary in the stationery cupboard, begins a delicate romance with a bartender named Gideon Shulman. <<less

Jessie is a 22 year-old living in the ground floor of his landlord's home with his dog, struggling to get by as a college student... more>> with a decent enough salary. He keeps having these strange dreams involving a raven-haired girl whom he's sure he's never seen before, until a fateful encounter with said girl leads him into a world he believed only existed in myths... <<less

Ms. Kol, born from the Villainous family has been faced with the task to uphold her family’s name and run their institution, but a young man from the Heroic family, Mr. Hero, has been a life long nemesis of her’s since birth. Things take an unsuspecting turn when Mr. Hero confesses to Ms. Kol that he has fallen in love with her at the wrong time.... more>>

Note:
Red Roses and Prickled Thorns is still on its first draft and most of it is unedited so most likely you will see changes in the book sometime in the future. Polls will be located at the end of each chapter to help improve my book and feel free to leave suggestions in the comments on each chapter. The image for my cover was put together by me and I’ll update the cover to a nicer one sometime in the future. <<less

Adetola Johnson a successful 24-year-old Lagosian from old money, grew up thinking that marriage equaled happiness and total submission to her husband will win the adoration of her in-laws. ... more>>

Little did she know that neither was going to be of any use, faced with a mountain so high and a sham of a marriage. Adetola Johnson must choose to either divorce or stay married to the monster that everyone saw as her husband. <<less

In the year 2430, Ether was synthesized for the first time and, with its discovery, quantum entanglement became controllable through the use of computers called... more>> skullclamps. This revolution caused a change in the galactic economy and the evolutionary course.
Now, in 2652, skullclamps are items of common use and really dangerous weapons. The story follows a crew of illegal delivery men whose job is to drop the cargo anywhere at any cost.
The leader, Marco, suffered a traumatic damage to his brain, making him incapable of stable skullclamp use. In his first job after the incident, anxiety began to loom over him and strange things began to happen... <<less