A scribe falls prey to the sway of an enigmatic elder, A maestro whose past is shadowed. This narrative weaves as much a tapestry of... more>> the tumultuous odyssey of artistic birth as it does a haunting narrative reminiscent of a vampire's sinister fable <<less

Before [Alexander Creed: Re-life] there was this story.... more>>

I give you... 70s Alexander Creed...

An inspiration and version before Alexander Creed of [Alexander Creed: Re-Life] became what he is!

It's going to be crazy, whacky, offensive, and just plain trashy.

Welcome to Hollywood Creed: 1st Draft!

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This is a work of trashy fiction before my other trashy fictions... so don't bash my trashy work too much.

Also, this is just a fictionalization of things for entertainment and just sharing for free. Hope I don't get much trouble for it and hope I don't get sued or whatever. <<less

A mangaka falls in love with the model or so he thought... more>>

TW: abuse of power, censored body parts, and vulgar words <<less

Ava is a semi-popular author on a fiction-sharing website. She recently fell for her best friend Paige, as a way to process her feelings she begins to write a self-indulgent story based on her real life experiences. Soon after, one of her online author friends/rivals begins uploading a suspiciously similar story to hers that sets off alarms of plagiarism in Ava's mind. ... more>>

(This story was written for a Secret Santa event, which you should definitely check out!)
https://itch.io/b/2211/stwl-presents-santas-secret-transfic-stash-vol-4 <<less

Would you take your keepsake to a shop with half-baked signage?... more>>

Phillens does. He has an item he wants to deposit.

Not with a bank, but a consultancy complete with a surface-to-air train.

Only a keepsake for the vault is the last thing Jay and Jo want. That kind of heat could invite an apple town's worth of trouble... <<less

Near the end of a busy shift at the diner, she was approached by a person who wanted to know how to become a woman.... more>> She thought she would give her a bit of advice after she got off work, and that would be it, but it was an encounter that would change her life. <<less

Chou Usagi is an up-and-coming author who always has a spring in her step, capable of switching her mood whenever the situation demands it! There is nothing that she can’t adapt to – apart from romance. When her editor asks her to write a romance novel, the young rabbit girl is stumped. Chou is aromantic, making her incapable of feeling romantic attraction, and her love of trashy rom-coms and erotica can only get her so far!... more>>

But when all hope seems lost, and the bunny considers calling it quits, she is met with an unexpected love confession from her coworker Fumihito Inugami! Thus, Chou forms a cunning plan: accept the man’s confession and incorporate their dates into her writing!

Hop to it, Chou! The world of authoring is a cut-throat industry, where only the best writers will be published!

Cover art by Kuromaru. <<less

Londoner Jackie Wordsworth is a fairly ordinary young adult. Single. Unemployed. Sharing an apartment with her twin sister. A bit of a geek. As such, she couldn't be farther from most people's perception of a warrior.... more>>

But all that changes when she encounters a powerful witch from another dimension named Sumire Shakespeare, who spirits her away to the world of Phantasia, a place that feels as if it was lifted straight from the pages of Jackie's favorite fantasy novel.

Why does Sumire want Jackie specifically to become a warrior? And what is Phantasia's connection to the magical land featured in Jackie's favorite author's books? As Sumire and her maids teach Jackie how to channel an alternate-persona known as a "kinkind", the answers to these questions and more become ever clearer as Jackie and her kinkind find themselves fighting for their lives on this dangerous fantasy stage, where all the demons and witches are merely players...

Cover art by u/Jsjs102 <<less

In this urban fantasy novella, you will follow Julius. He sells water filtering systems in Algeria. There is a slight hitch with that, the systems are knockoffs. So, one night, a vampire local comes to him, and attacks him in retribution. That sends Julius on a journey to find aristocratic vampires, who can show him the ropes. How come the vampire who turned him can't do it? ... more>>

A vampire turning another into a vampire is deadly for them. Follow Julius as he travels, and ends up in Hungary, where he meets Ferenc. The very picture of an aristocratic vampire. There is another problem in Julius's life, though. He is fat, and Ferenc is so out of his league, that it is not even funny.

The novella has been written in 1st person, by the perspective of a blogger narrator. It is complete. The updates will be daily.

Disclaimer: This is a comedic piece. Nothing inside of it has been written with the intent to insult someone. Not that I did more than point out some things about my own country, and some commonly known stereotypes. <<less

Colour King demands the shunning of Challenger from Crayon and his friends. If they refuse, Colour King will challenge Crayon and his friends to a... more>> fight. <<less

Colour King has sent in Colour Administrator to defend his opinion first against Crayon and his friends.

King Bobby and Queen Starling have challenged Crayon and his friends to the ultimate battle.

King Bobby has demanded an intervention for Warbler due what he has said Crayon and his friends have done.

King Bobby has demanded justice against Crayon and his friends for refusing to fight.

Crayon and his friends end up fighting Blackin and Blackina to the ultimate battle. Blackin and Blackina want to get married.

Blackin has declared his plans to marry Blackina, Whites will be the best man. Crayon and his friends fight Bear members.

The Bear have sent in the Smithson family, three very brutal fighters to deal with Crayon and his friends. They want to destroy the romance... more>> between Crayon and Colourea. <<less

Lost in the depths of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ranger Kates meets a mysterious hermit who may very well have a connection with the decade-old legend of the Ghost of Ontario.... more>>

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Ranger Kate wants only one thing: to see her son, whom she lost to a canoe accident ten years ago. The opportunity comes when she and her partner, Ranger Amelia, attend the 24-Hour Ghost of Ontario Challenge in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Legend has it that a ghost haunts it with his mysterious lullaby, "Lucilla", and the only way to connect with him is for two individuals to brave the lakes.

Ihaan never expected to find Ranger Kate on Red Squirrel Lake, said to be the birthplace of the ghost. He and his eagle friend, Ro, band together to win her trust, which is crucial for Ihaan's Guardian Trial. It's the only way for him to learn whether he is truly dead or not.

Fate turns to reality, and suddenly, the legend of the ghost is more real than Ihaan and Kate think. What will happen when the Spirit Animals come and try to interfere with their long-lost memories? Will Kate and Ihaan defeat them, or will they lose themselves to the hands of Ontario's Beast?

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*Ihaan is pronounced "I-an".*

Word Count: 7,000-7,500 <<less

Jacob Jones always daydreamed of being a girl. He awakens one morning to find himself halfway transformed as he wishes. Grappling with his/her new between... more>> state, Jacob finds the world around shifting and bending in other ways too. With so many possibilities, tantalizingly close, Jacob must decide what faith to place in this new world and resolve whether he is truly a man or a woman... <<less

Sometimes, it's hard to let your soul speak out. And there's nothing heavier than an empty text document, coupled with a severe crush on your adorable roommate. And when the tension builds past your breaking point, it may be time to let the truth come to light.... more>>

Just a short story I wrote to get myself out of writer's block. <<less

You ever play the game, The Long Dark?... more>>

GO play it. It is by hinterland games. It is an AWESOME game, if you like frozen, FPS survival games. The focus is on survival. It is a harsh game where you are the last surviving man or woman on a frozen earth after the sun goes crazy and destroys all technology with continuous EMP bursts. It is like wandering a beautiful watercolor painting that periodically tries to murder you.

I absolutely loved the game.

I put in over 2000 hours and survived with one character for 1000 days. I put in a mod that stopped the earth from rotating so the sun never rose again and it got down to -100 degrees Celsius. It is one of the few games where the harder you make it, the more fun it is. Well, it is for me.

So I started writing a story from the point of view of my character. There is one building that is the HARDEST base to have. The Quonset Garage. It is surrounded by violence, but if you are good with a bow, it is actually surrounded by MEAT. The saying in the game goes, The wolves want to eat you, the bears want to kill you, but the moose want you to SUFFER.

The Quonset Garage has all three.

But as I wrote the story, it evolved and changed and became sort of philosophical collection of musings. The Origin Of The Quonset Manager became a sort of Eldritch Horror story over time with all sorts of things and ideas and concepts. There is a reason the story took such a dark turn which I explain half way through, but in this version, I will move why I wrote the story to the end. It is a bit dated, but I want you to get the full effect. I won't edit the story. I am including it, errors and all, as is.

However, the story also has a number of, shall we say, Foundational Myths of the Eldritch-Verse.

When you read this I want you to look at it from the point of view as if you were a traveler. A transmigrator bouncing through life after life, traveling through a strange and bizarre cosmos, just trying to figure out what is going on in the bigger picture. Then, you find this collection of papers. They seem to be i no particular order, but what you DO know is, the local government is trying very hard to destroy every copy of this collection.

Someone doesn't want the truth known.

And so, having visited a number of shady and unusual bookstores, you find a copy of this... manuscript. he person selling it simply explains it is cursed and that you shouldn't take it. When you insist, he asks what you are willing to pay and takes it without haggling. Upon you paying the agreed upon price, he immediately pushed you out the door, turns the sign around to read, 'CLOSED', and turns off the light. You retire to the home of your most recently occupied body and find a quiet spot to consume your newly acquired prize. As you read, at first it seems to be nothing more than the ramblings of a madman, but over time, he reveals knowledge that, simply put...

He should not have. <<less

If you had the ability to hear people’s thoughts, what would you do?... more>>

After Masato Keita gets into a car accident, he spends a year in a coma. When he wakes up, he finds out that he has gained a rather strange ability: he can hear people’s thoughts when he touches them.

Kurosawa Rintarou is a rather simple-minded man, who prefers to smile and be happy. Despite the hardships he had to endure, he managed to maintain a positive outlook on life.

One can hear people’s thoughts upon touch, the other doesn’t have anything to hide. One is an introvert with an honest mouth, the other is an extrovert with an honest heart.

When someone manages to slip into your heavily guarded sanctuary you call heart, does that mean you are too weak or that he is too powerful?
Read to find out how these two, seemingly opposite personalities, interact and grow closer to each other.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with real life people, actual events or organizations is purely coincidental.
*This is a short story about healing oneself and finding that special person in your life.
It's meant to be enjoyed, so please try not to overthink it, as logic and science might be absent here and there. But if this little story of mine manages to make you feel something, then I will be very happy. ^.^

*The artwork for the cover has been commissioned from artist MagBya ^.^ (Instagram: @mag_bya) <<less

Life moved at a snail's pace for Leon Smith. Working a dead-end job while taking a seemingly indefinite hiatus from college had done wonders to... more>> demoralize the young writer whose only remaining joy was posting work to an online fiction site. One night, after a lightning storm ruined his latest chapter, he came face to face with something he never expected: one of his own characters. <<less

To lighten the wrath of his blackened readers, Frozen Milk was forced to transmigrate into his own novel to witness what *** he wrote.... more>>

What's this? One plothole, two plotholes... plotholes everywhere!

How do you counter a novel full of plotholes?
Of course, with constant bullshit, constant crap and constant nonsense!

It shouldn't be working but the result?

Terrifying!

Long live holy creator Frozen Milk!

"Damn! What the hell is this?? Wasn't this supposed to be a comedy rip off? A parody? So, why are all my characters leeching onto me? Do I look like a bamboo stick to climb and eat? To stick in between your cheeks?"

"Hello? System help?"

"System is currently on holida- undergoing maintenance, host."

"%$@#!"

Frozen Milk was nearing his despair. Bent, straight, bent, straight, bent, STRAIGHT!!!!

Be ready to have your brains fried, your life questioned and above all your integrity disappear!

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Disclaimer: profanities and innuendos
Has elements of BL
This book is pure comedy with some serious elements, if you get offended easily, please don't read

First book in the 'Scum Series' <<less

Once upon a time, in a distant land of lilies, 8 authors spun 8 old tales into new forms.... more>>

In the spires of the spinning wheel, a dragon-slaying saint charges headfirst into battle, seeking a prize no king can grant;
A forest nymph makes a human lord an offer too tempting to refuse, supported from the shadows by an unexpected ally;
Elsewhere, the lady “imprisoned” in the tower walks out the front door again, and a clam repays the woman who saved her life in perhaps the worst way possible.

With more than yuri to twist these once-familiar stories, is a happy ending still within reach?

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“Sappho’s Spinning Wheel” is the result of the second Yuri Garden anthology event, challenging writers to adapt fairytales and folktales. To see the full list of rules applying to the stories in this collection, please read the original event information here: https://forum.novelupdates.com/blogs/event-sapphos-spinning-wheel-a-yuri-garden-collaborative-anthology-event.3927/
Stories will be released once per day until completion at 00:01 GMT.

This collection contains:
1. pynkbites’ pulse-racing adaptation of “St. George and the Dragon”
2. Queenfisher’s thought-provoking retelling of “Thumbelina”
3. Toomanysorrows’ bold reimagining of “Her Mannelig”
4. Moonpearl’s witchy rendition of “Petrosinella”
5. jmassat’s powerful transformation of “John Henry, Steel Driving Man”
6. Maple-Leaf’s comedic edition of “The Clam Wife”
7. uwu_Nabong’s heart-wrenching adaptation of “La Xtabay”
8. thedude3445’s side-splitting parody of “Hansel and Gretel”

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The fairy and glass slipper silhouettes used for the cover were created using clipart from disneyclips.com. <<less