For Heather Morell, nightmares and hallucinations lurk around every corner, relics of schizophrenia and childhood bereavement.... more>>

Until she meets Raine and Evelyn, that is — self-proclaimed bodyguard and bad-tempered magician — and learns she’s not insane at all. The spirits and monsters she sees are all too real, the god-thing in her nightmares is teaching her how to surpass human limits, and her twin sister who supposedly never existed could still be alive, somewhere Outside, beyond the walls of reality.

Heather plunges into a world of eldritch magic and fanatic cultists, trying to stay alive, stay sane, and deal with her own blossoming attraction to dangerous women. But being ‘In The Know’ isn’t all terror and danger. Sometimes the monsters wear nice dresses and stick around for afternoon tea. Sometimes you find you have more in common with them than you think. Perhaps this is Heather’s chance to be something more than the defeated husk she’d grown up as, to find real friendship and meaning among things like herself - and perhaps, out there on the rim of the possible, to bring her twin sister back from the dead.

Katalepsis is an Ancient Greek word which means ‘comprehension’, or perhaps more accurately, ‘insight’.

Katalepsis is a serial web novel about cosmic horror and human fragility, urban fantasy and lesbian romance, set in a sleepy English university town.

New chapters are currently posted once a week, on Saturdays.

The first four arcs (Volume I) are also now available as an ebook and audiobook. If you've just finished one of those and you're here to pick up where the story left off, you'll want the start of arc 5: https://www.scribblehub.com/read/74472-katalepsis/chapter/80127/

Cover art by Noctilia: https://noctilia.artstation.com/

This is a Scribblehub mirror of Katalepsis' own website, located here: https://katalepsis.net/ Chapters will be posted at the same time here as on the main site, every week. <<less

Alternative Title: It's hard to have a Yandere as a Wife/ Cannot Escape from a Yanderous Spouse/ My Beloved is a Yandere... more>>

After slaying the hundredth hero, Reo finally returned to Earth. The only thing Reo wanted to achieve after returning was peace and tranquility, but, can peace remain when he has a yandere as a wife?!

(A/N: Chapters are being edited and revised. If you are an old reader, I advice to reread from the start since some changes have been done, however, I have yet to finish. And....I'm sick ) <<less

What is fate?... more>>

Is it something that was destined to happen?

Can it be changed?

No. If it can be changed, it would't be known as fate, isn't it?

They say that fate can be control in our hands.

Then, is it possible to take everything in total control in my hands?, I wondered.

No, whatever the results is, I'm sure this was fated to happen under my control.

This world... will surely go along with my favor.

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"PLEASE!!! I BEG OF YOU!!! Join the Imperial Knights Academy as a special student or else I will be fired!!!"

With such a line thrown to him, the 16-year-old human, Lucifer Nightwalker von Nightmare, an orphan who was stranded on an island with his little sister and magical pet-- was forced to compromise and attend the famous Imperial Knights Academy as a special student.

While spending 3 years in the academy, he would meet his fated ones.

After he graduates, he would then become an adventurer to explore the world, unlocking the secrets behind.

This, will be the starting of his journey.

In a world of sci-fi and fantasy.

Humans, beast-kins, dragons, vampires, elves, fairies, spirits, dyrads, archangels, demons, dwarves, magical beasts, and much more, co-exist.

Which later then, he would become a king-- leading everyone to challenge against the Celestial Gods.

However, that was the boy's fate.

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Everything begins with that fateful meeting six years ago. His fateful meeting with the principal of The Imperial Knights Academy.

Yet, it wasn't even the beginning of fate.

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Gabrielle wakes up to the beautiful world of Elega, the world of dreams, after someone put markings on her finger. She must juggle fighting the forces of darkness with being a nurse at her new job. She eventually meets up with an old friend she hadn’t seen for ten years. Unfortunately, on top of him not being human anymore, he is supposed to be her enemy, as he is a Darkling. Darklings the opposing force in the new dream world she goes to when she is asleep, but why is he helping her?... more>>

This is book 2 of the Zoriyan Legacy series, the first book is Angels of Acid.

—- AUTHOR’S NOTE—-
The first 10 or so chapters are made in one week each, so they may be a bit hard to read, it gets better later on. This was written with almost no previous writing skill, so bear with me. <<less

A young schizophrenic man is swept away into a new world with his best friend and social worker Christine. Together with Maeve, a magical secret agent, and Kai - a handsome woodsman, they embark on an adventure that will save or destroy both the world of Mercia and of Earth!... more>>

Set in the same world/setting as Birthrights! <<less

Akane Mitsuro ran away from home at 18 following an argument between her and her parents, wanting to show the world that she can do better than college and getting a regular job and to follow her dreams and ambitions. ... more>>

2 years later, she ended up in a rundown apartment, her electricity working just often enough to not leave her computer dead and her waterpipes only running when they feel like it. Being at her wits end failing as an author, she pushes aside her pride and does what no author dares to do;
she goes online, and begs for help from strangers.

This is the story of how her shit stories just may end up a little less shit after all. <<less

The world is purple and pink and all the colors of the rainbow. With a chainsaw in hand ripping to go, she finds the pop in life.... more>>

“Life’s got to be colorful!” She says.

There’s no room for grays in her eyes.

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The best song to read this story to is 'play this when i'm gone' by Machine Gun Kelly. I think it simply fits. <<less

The last knight wanders his destroyed country and slays demons.... more>>

Goal: 2 chapters a month. <<less

The Dollchip was created in military labs, as a means to quickly create usable soldiers. The entertainment industry put a... creative spin on its use. Most gangs in Night City also dabble in said industry, while also servicing the more dubious wants of clients, leading to many a tragic fate that make Scavs look appealing. Caught in one such fate, what does one do? With new knowledge and chrome, return the implant to what it was originally intended to be. So pick up the pieces and reassemble into something new.
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So here goes, first ever story I'm deciding to flesh out and post. This is basically my first time writing anything longer then... more>> an essay, do please leave feedback. The idea for this story came from datashards in cp77 (See: Cyberpsycho Sightings: Smoke on the Water) and while I was at it I added a missfired isekai in there. I'm trying to find a way to have MC become OP without any system or magic bs, let me know how well you think I managed. When/if I eventually get there. I think I struggle with balancing environment descriptions and moment to moment acts with moving along the story in a timely fashion. Again, please do leave feedback.
Quick disclaimer: I'm not going to write smut in this. Writing gore I'm fine with, but actually writing any details about said tragic fate that I am teasing will not happen. Besides the unknown horror having more impact, some things are just better left unsaid. Also, I hope I ticked all the right boxes for Content Guidelines and stuff. Tag suggestions are welcome, alot of them are technically applicable, but maybe not accurate (yet, hopefully). I do not own Cyberpunk 2077 or any related copyrights.

*Cover AI generated with WOMBO Dream. Will probably change when I learn to better wrangle prompts. <<less

Title : Rivandy Lex : Classical Academy... more>>

Genre : Classical Fantasy, Drama, Action.

Secondary Genre : Comedy, Romance, Psychological, School, Slice of Life. Mystery.

Writing Style: Japanese Light Novel.
Language Style : British English.

Synopsis

In an alley, there is a teenager who is pouring rain. A man who picked it up invited him to live with him.

Because of the man's existence, the teenager gets a new life after going through a nightmare in his old life.

After the man left, the teenager decided to live a new life by studying at Spyxtria Academy.

The teenager, Rivandy Lex, is living a new life at the classic academy. <<less

Moved

It's all gone.... more>>

The Kingdom of Mitsol has died in nuclear fire. Barely surviving, Dan Harrison, a self-hating workaholic, is left without food or water. With the help of a handsome stranger, a once-wealthy financier who has lost everything he ever loved, Dan must flee to the coast, fighting for every meal along the way. But what happens when an ordinary man with a long-dormant mental disorder is driven into a dead world? And what happens when that sickness bubbles up, threatening to detach him from reality? <<less

*Warning: Gore and traumatizing scenes*
Set in a near-apocalyptic world, where demonic creatures roam freely. Where humans have been turned into livestock. Where for some, life is a daily struggle. Humans have been pushed out of their lands and forced to live in hive cities- massive overcrowded communities in which people are divided by class. Their only hope are a select few who have been bestowed with powerful gifts, gifts that manifest themselves in different forms. The most powerful of these gifts are known as Avatars, otherworldly beings linked to certain humans to help them in the fight against the demons. ... more>>

Lost and alone, with only a single nightmare to tell him of his origins, Cehedia knows only that he must fight. In a world where it's eat or be eaten, how will he fare? How will all of humanity fare?

Currently trying to set up on RoyalRoad 3323 <<less

I had to add the colon and such because it turns out there is already a book called In The Moment.... more>>

This is a seprequel (I do not think there's a term for this, thanks to flashing back and forth, it is both a sequel and a prequel) of Town of Winter and Oracle of Tao. To a less extent, it also relates to Tales from the Reaper. The story begins with the creation of the universe, and ends with... well the end of it all. Basically, it was the finale of the main series, so I wanted to wrap things up cleanly. It's sorta got the feel of someone going senile, which is kinda the point. Ambrosia has finished her quest, and thanks to memories from three different lifetimes, she has some seriously disjointed sense of past and present.

Just a warning, it is kinda religious, and very very experimental. <<less

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence. ( Chapter X - Dinah Visits Lisbeth )
- Quote by George Eliot, from the novel " Adam Bede " released in the year 1859... more>>

The girl with a dark past looks forward to a brighter future together with her loved one.
( deviantart.com/lluluchwan/art/myself-and-i-652129968 )

Story submitted for SSSC V - Prompt Number 3

Royal Road URL: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28059/till-death-do-us-part/chapter/419151/till-death-do-us-part <<less

The cover is the only SH I could find on internet.
I literally searched "A big SH for free"... more>>

"But Agentt! Couldn't you just put a SH using a photo editor!?"
I could, but I am lazy. So i won't. Thinking about it now, I should atleast put a author name, but meh.

These are the stories, of an fictional adventure of a fictional man in a world which may or may not be realted to any fictional site created by a fictional man named Tony.

Or so I wanted to say, but my hand apparently gained self awareness and made the whole thing weird with lots of meta humour.
Even now, my hand refuses to write a good synopsis, its going against me, writing with its free will. I want to ask for help, but its pretty good at writing, so I'll leave it be.

Author's Note.
I have been wanting to do this for a long time,
Dear Mod.
Good job bro. You really work hard. I would ask your hand in marriage if there wasn't a chance for my account being suspended. Or you bieng of same gender.

Warning no.1
Open all spoilers and footnotes you see.
Warning 2
I am bad with names
Warning 2.
I have a bad sense of humour.
Warning 3
So. Many. 4th wall. Breaks.
Warning 4
I am bad at maths. <<less

“What is magic?” Is an ancient question, just as old as “is magic real?” Historically, as human pondered about magic’s inherent nature, magic always seems out of reach; it tickles the fingertips and flies away, never to be seen again. But what if magic was always besides us? What if “magic” was in every single thing? ... more>>

Bobby is a programmer, who is tasked with creating an artificial soul for a corporate company. But things get slightly out of hand when his past starts to catch up with him.

This series has been canceled.
(Note: The description will change since the author has no idea what to do with the series. Please read this series as a first draft.) <<less

An erotic gothic fantasy of counterfactual modernity, set in Svet Dmitrin, a thinly-disguised anachronistic synthesis of soon-to-be-Soviet Odessa and Great War era Leningrad, during a protracted stalemate between the revolutionary Red Guard and the increasingly desperate tzarist White Guard. ... more>>

Our narrator is Lev/Lyubov Morgenshtern, a gay bigender ex-rabbi who’s just returned to the Talons Ghetto sovyet — an autonomous workers-and-peasants commune of the kind that directly preceded the Soviet Union (and indeed the thing that the USSR named itself after) — after a stint on a psych ward … which followed a far longer stint living in the tzarist-held half of Svet Dmitrin with a bougie respectability-obsessed ex-boyfriend. He’s got nowhere to sleep, no assurance his old friends want to see him and the only workable plan he’s got is to find someone hot and soft-hearted to take him home for the night …

R18 for graphic gay sex; the story makes frequent use of reclaimed homophobic slurs and, well, it’s a story about gay soon-to-be-Soviet Jews — transmisogyny and transphobia, homophobia, and antisemitism are quotidian environmental hazards.

[Licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0]

Updates are whenever, despite the length between me posting updates, this is still ongoing; this is technically a mirror of the main site, which is a self-hosted thing where I can have fine-grained control over the typography and whatever.

(There's no "gay protagonist" tag, but in case it isn't obvious: this is, among other things, a gay romance.) <<less

A boy named Sue who is the topper of his class always remain silence and of cold nature. So many boys and girls in his... more>> class wanted to be friend with him, but he never make any friends because he think that everyone wanted to be friend with him because he's the topper of his class. He is secretly in love with a girl named Marie who is the 2nd topper of his class and she also secretly in love with him... It's already the day of graduation, will they both accepts their Loves towards each other or else they both became apart from then....? <<less

The hero! The one to save the world! The prime example of humanities greatness...is talking to himself. ... more>>

Our hero was once a guy thrown in the looney bin for speaking to himself gets killed by a psycho. He reincarnates into the body of a young master of a noble house. He lived a life full of pain being forced to see things he didnt want to, so when he got a second chance, he hoped to finally see things clearly.

"What the-!" "The F*ck?!?"

However, those things that only he could see are still stuck with him. Stuck in a new world with his old friends, a great adventure is forced on our tragic hero as he is forced to endure another life of being called a lunatic. Will he become the hero he is destined to be? Or will he be a tremendous ass who does nothing but fights with his old friends created by his mind?

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Im pretty drunk right now and Im in the mood to right something fun <<less

As he slowly realizes he is not alone in his mind and body, Martin discovers there is a malicious entity within him capable of selfish... more>> cruelty. In his attempt to unify his fragmented identity, his journey gives him a glimpse into his traumatic past, and eventually allows him to come to terms with the irreconcilable nature of the personalities battling for control within him. "I see myself slowly changing. Into what or who, I don't know. I'm acting differently, saying things I never would. People I've never met approach me like a friend and, before I can think, I respond as if I know them too. When I look in the mirror, I see a different face. At first, I thought it was a trick of the light, but I'm becoming dead certain it isn't me staring back anymore." <<less

Verro is the nicest adult Hiru knows, until his betrayal

"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

Two guys trying to make it work is more conflicting than it sounds.

You have died, finally.
[World's End(EX)] has approved your rebirth, due to your karma, you will receive numerous penalties.
So die quickly.
You b*stard
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A being who has made a contract with a god, reincarnates for the third time. Tired of living, he just wants to complete his task as soon as possible and then embrace death peacefully.... more>>

He probably won't be able to, but hope is always the last to die. <<less