Jave Harronhide bio
 Author has written 920 stories for Sci-Fi, Essay, Horror, Fantasy, Fable, Historical, General, Mythology, General, Humor, Thriller, Action, Supernatural, War, Humor, Manga, Spiritual, Western, Fantasy, Life, Mystery, Romance, Love, Biography, and Haiku. I love science, tech, weapons, martial arts, history, and all the philosophy that comes with them. This stuff is all under Creative Commons. Feel free to use with permission. |
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A Martian Inheritance by MV Kramer reviews
Takes place on a habitable, Victorian-style Mars. Santosh "Joshua" Lewis inherits an oxygen farm on Mars. When he moves there, he is drawn into a conflict between the British and the Martians. Which side will he choose?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 6 - Words: 10,945 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Aug 18, 2020 - Published: Jul 9, 2020
139 Years to the End of the World by AdenNg reviews
A terminal illness left Milton Jones with just 15 days left to live. When the government offered to cryogenically preserve him to save the world, he will become the judge of humanity. Journey with him through an ever-growing dystopian universe, where he will struggle with the meaning of family and life. Discover whether there is still life left at the end of the world worth saving.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 45 - Words: 81,878 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 3 - Updated: Nov 30, 2016 - Published: Nov 22, 2016 - Complete
Trinity: 2003 by Literastiel reviews
Ryan, Lilith & Connor. A Witch, a Slayer & a Cupid. As they work together to live life and bring down the Demon forces constantly coming after them, they learn of the prophecy that obliges that they stay together and defeat The Seven Deadly Sins. But with Demons, each other and the past coming at them from every angle, just staying together might be the hardest thing to do.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 32 - Words: 214,922 - Reviews: 39 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 7 - Updated: Jul 21, 2014 - Published: Jul 11, 2013 - Complete
Steele City by Michael Panush reviews
In the Jazz Age Metropolis of Steele City, humans and robots live side by side in an automated world. Steele City includes the Iron and Glass Detective Agency, made up of Zero Deuce, the world's only robot detective, his boy genius creator and a sharp-tongued, blue-blooded flapper secretary. They solve mechanical mysteries in a world of crime, gangsters, robots, and mad science.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Crime - Chapters: 73 - Words: 730,245 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 13 - Updated: May 20, 2014 - Published: Dec 7, 2012
Vanishing Act by BadIdealist reviews
When a highly skilled Navy pilot dissapears with his plane, Janet Riddowski must find out if its an MIA or an AWOL case. Or is it, as the pilot's brother believes, something far more sinister?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 17 - Words: 31,840 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 7 - Updated: Mar 24, 2013 - Published: Jul 17, 2011 - Complete
Kids These Days by K. Hopkins
In the 2039 three online friends, Jake, Nick and Hawwa start a scam on a popular augmented reality game that unwittingly spawns the most lucrative criminal enterprise in history.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Crime - Chapters: 7 - Words: 20,863 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Aug 16, 2012 - Published: Aug 6, 2012
The Fast Fading of Youth by Wtf-Are-Scrambled-Eggs reviews
Being drunk is fun until someone ends up dead. This is my tribute to 16 year old Elli Williams, who died from being hit by cars on the A9. Read, remember, and be cautious the next time you go wandering about town when you're smashed. Please.
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 446 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: Jan 12, 2011 - Complete
The Governess by Michael Panush reviews
Minerva Underhill is the daughter of England's greatest ghost-breaker and its greatest explorer. She learned well from them. Now, as the governess to the young Runtle children, she'll have to use every skill she has to stay alive and keep her charges safe
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 11 - Words: 96,228 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 4 - Updated: Nov 12, 2010 - Published: Mar 7, 2010 - Complete
Animus by Thornton reviews
The Animus Corporation provides electronic immortality, for the right price. But residents of the Animus Network discover that forever isn't always what it's cracked up to be. WIP. Eventual m/m
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: M - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 20 - Words: 53,777 - Reviews: 43 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 15 - Updated: Oct 18, 2010 - Published: May 13, 2010
Nano Future by silverbluu reviews
Welcome to the day that man becomes God. Welcome to the Nano Future. First attempt at the Sci-fi genre. Updates: Minor spelling and grammar edits made. I hope you've enjoyed the story. Now listed as complete!
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 16 - Words: 16,225 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Apr 4, 2010 - Published: Sep 26, 2009 - Complete
The Horror of Barrington by SeeRad reviews
First attempt of a first-person horror-story narrative. More chapters to come.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: M - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 7,198 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Mar 13, 2010 - Published: Feb 4, 2010
Quentin Quark And The Cult of the Singularity by Doctor Vile reviews
The transhuman technoanarchist pulp hero Quentin Quark trips through the subatomic and back again. If you like comics, drugs, sex, science, sticking it to the man, mysticism, or Moorcock, you'll love this.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 7,448 - Reviews: 37 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Feb 9, 2010 - Published: Mar 24, 2009 - Complete
I, Veiser by K. Hopkins reviews
In 5,000 years Earth is long forgotten. Seven planets rule a geniocratic empire on the galaxy's rim. Kerin Veiser, a young Gensman goes on a deadly rite of passage to rule a strange world. A sexy future epic of interstellar war, politics and adventure!
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 20 - Words: 69,293 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 6 - Updated: Jan 23, 2010 - Published: Jul 7, 2008
Thousand Swords by DeepSeaDragon reviews
Inspired by Wuxia, this is a tale of high-flying martial arts fantasy. In the land of Jianghu, vagabond warriors and powerful sorcerers clash in a deadly battle that will determine the future of the entire Eastern world. Reviews greatly appreciated!
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 13 - Words: 105,885 - Reviews: 45 - Favs: 16 - Follows: 14 - Updated: Jan 21, 2010 - Published: Sep 17, 2009
Union by Xuenay reviews
Two lovers decide to join their minds together with cybernetic implants. Soon, they are one.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 880 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Published: Dec 25, 2009 - Complete
Clark Reeper Tales by Michael Panush reviews
Clark Reeper is a bounty hunter specializing in the occult, the odd, and the just plain weird. A series of standalone stories, one per chapter, in roughly chronological order, with the fourth one being the shortest. Now a published book, get it online!
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 60 - Words: 597,211 - Reviews: 122 - Favs: 62 - Follows: 14 - Updated: Sep 18, 2009 - Published: Apr 18, 2007 - Complete
TerraRise by SeeRad reviews
Han is a nano-engineer on the Zheng He, Earth's colonial ship to Mars. A hard near-future sci-fi story exploring the morals of wet-ware/hard-ware interface and the challenges of extraterrestrial colonization.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: M - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 9 - Words: 17,115 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 3 - Updated: Aug 19, 2009 - Published: Jul 20, 2009
Archomachy by Crownbreaker reviews
The internal conflicts of the Tyrren Republic spread into a worldwide clash of ideologies, states, religions, and rising technology. Mix of Steampunk and military sci-fi. This story is dead. Its successor story is Gears of Deception
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 13 - Words: 44,973 - Reviews: 34 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 12 - Updated: Aug 26, 2008 - Published: Dec 8, 2007
Ghostwalk by Scrit reviews
The appearance of ghosts has caused a problem. Wendall Colony has decided to put them to use, and turn them into servants. Children are taught that Ghostwalkers must be dealt with accordingly, but is using them the right thing to do? Read and Review
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,665 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Jul 31, 2008 - Published: Jun 27, 2008
The Best Seat by False Hollow Phantom reviews
Death was a nasty thing, little man. Didn't end soon enough, if you ask me.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 550 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 3, 2008 - Complete
Den Of Thieves by John Westcott reviews
In the year 2043, Oliver Reed is a master thief working for The Cabal. In a world where big brother controls the state and heroes enforce the status quo, his goal is to wrest control of the organization from Malevolence, the world's most powerful villain.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 24 - Words: 197,215 - Reviews: 48 - Favs: 47 - Follows: 16 - Updated: Apr 3, 2008 - Published: Mar 17, 2006 - Complete
Indian Ants by Michael Panush reviews
A deadly Scythian warrior is hired to wipe out an insect infestation of massive proportions by a greedy Greek merchant. Based on actual history, as recorded by Herodtodus! Please R and R.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,903 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: Aug 7, 2007 - Complete
ECLIPSE: DARK HORIZON by davery05 reviews
When Seattle is levelled by a massive explosion, the Earth Coalition dispatches Captain Adams and his crew to hostile Alpha Centauri to discover the perpetrators. All is not, however, as clear as it first appears,,, (T for swearing/violence)
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 7 - Words: 27,207 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 4 - Updated: May 28, 2007 - Published: Mar 20, 2005
Umberto Grisario’s Cannibal Apocalypse by Michael Panush reviews
Umberto Grisaria is one Italy's premier film directors of seedy exploitation films in the late 1970s, but he gets more than he bargained for when he goes on location to South America to film his latest.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,443 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 3, 2007 - Complete
That Damn Indian and the Ace of Blades by Michael Panush reviews
A Tale of Mayhem and Murder in a Wild West that never was, an alternate reality where the Norse colonly of Vinland was successful and the frontier is still lawless as it ever was. Praise Odin and Pass the Ammunition!
Fiction: Western - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,464 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: Apr 19, 2007 - Complete
The Locksmith by Charl33t reviews
"We’re miniature gods, I’m telling you. We’re the masters of our own realities. Well, at least I thought so for the longest time."
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,794 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2005
Requiem Aeternam by prettygoldfish reviews
A story based off the Beowulf poem, set in futuristic times. A woman is pursued by creatures that have intent to kill.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,112 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 18, 2005
The New Life by LaMancha reviews
A serial arsonist experiences the ultimate irony.
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,743 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: Feb 21, 2005
Disney Land with the Death Penalty by Cryptonomicon reviews
The Future: Singapore
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,697 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 8, 2004
Epyon Gospel: First Book of the Archon by Cam S reviews
(My novel.) Earth is threatened by a dark force, and an elite few are chosen as champions of humanity. But they must ask themselves: What is the enemy? and, more importantly, what are they? (FINISHED)
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 17 - Words: 47,521 - Reviews: 26 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Nov 1, 2003 - Published: Oct 15, 2002
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The Man with the Diamond Swarm reviews
Damon Voss is a cyborg secret agent of the Committee for Solar Security, trying to prevent the Cold War between Venus and Mars from going hot. When a mad visionary unveils a self replicating starship, he must stop the man with the diamond swarm.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 11 - Words: 16,604 - Reviews: 26 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 2h ago - Published: Nov 6, 2025
The Stained Glass Maiden reviews
I never remembered how I died. I only know the shards piercing flesh.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 606 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 12 - Complete
Atomic Clock reviews
Race car driver Curt Yeager must stop his cousin's murderer, a rogue military officer with a nuclear missile. A covert, worldwide countdown echoes across the airwaves, and his new prototype supercar are the only chance humanity has.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,389 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Published: Apr 10
The Cosmic Exile reviews
After a war between wizards casts a world into the void, a survivor ruminates on what awaits.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 800 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 1 - Complete
All That Glitters reviews
Without cheap fossil fuels, desperate countries deploy an alternative mining technique.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 315 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 1 - Complete
Shatterpoint reviews
It began with a fall, but soared into the sky.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 466 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 31 - Complete
Aerospike
A strange airship trawls the edge of the sky.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 285 - Published: Mar 27 - Complete
A Splorpy Day reviews
A possessed lawnmower spews meat.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 420 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 1 - Complete
The Ruckus Next Door reviews
An older scientist finds a mad apprentice close to home.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 759 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 1
A Chime from the Pharaoh reviews
An ancient kingdom excavated something from a Pharaoh's tomb, something that comes to define their future.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 421 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 1 - Complete
Deadwalk reviews
An isolated nation finds a surprising use for the living dead.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 631 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Feb 23 - Complete
A Long Time to Practice reviews
A skilled archer details the history of the invention that made the Parsagard empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 615 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 22 - Complete
Beneath the Howling Mountain reviews
A weary general forever changes his nation's fate beneath an ominous mountain.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 678 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Feb 20 - Complete
Firesong reviews
A fusion of sound and fire drives an empire to the skies.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 501 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Feb 12 - Complete
The Rustwood Covenant reviews
A desperate group of religious refugees must deal with insect-like pests that devour metal. The redwood forests of their new home provides a unique solution.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 639 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 7 - Complete
The Icebreaker Architect
As an unstoppable ice wall expands southwards, a broken empire adapts to a strange new reality.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 686 - Published: Feb 7 - Complete
Emberweave
After a popular religious figure is burnt for heresy, a peasant uprising seeks a unique advantage from a mysterious old woman.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 636 - Published: Feb 6 - Complete
Bloodstone Quarry reviews
Battling foreign marauders invading the country, the Solivarin guerrillas find something strange in an abandoned jungle temple.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 560 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 6 - Complete
The Sawdust Cycle reviews
After a flood and civil war, a tropical lagoon city turns a waste product into their salvation.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 885 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Infrared Armada
They bounce through the clouds.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Screaming Iron
Redden the rails.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Fractal Symphony
Whispers converge.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Hegel Integrated
Dialectics in action.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Bloodware
The blood remembers.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
Comfortable Temptations
They speak of easy solutions.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Feb 3 - Complete
The Lights on the Water
An illuminated tide becomes the secret to unite a far-flung empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,459 - Published: Feb 2 - Complete
The Rime Steel Blade
A doomed samurai's sword ends up in the New World.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Published: Feb 2 - Complete
The Sacral Frequency reviews
After a hivemind assimilates humanity, a horde of demons invades the galaxy. A cyborg monk gives them a unique tactic to fight back.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 863 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 28 - Complete
Exiled Earth reviews
After being ejected from its galaxy, Earth battled eternity itself.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 316 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 27 - Complete
That Old Bayou Stink reviews
In the aftermath of disaster and war, a small farmer fuels an industrial revolution.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 583 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jan 25 - Complete
The Messenger from the South
A once human survivor of an abandoned ship transforms himself and the world he arrives in.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 787 - Published: Jan 23 - Complete
Sundew reviews
On the pampas of the southron continent, a rogue military officer leaves a surprising legacy.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 412 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 22 - Complete
Photoshock
A curious alchemist invents a weapon that redefines warfare.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 748 - Published: Jan 22 - Complete
Celestial Skylight reviews
A remote outpost faces an impending barbarian invasion, only to devise a new communications method.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,155 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 19 - Complete
Beneath A Fecund Forest reviews
The largest organism in the forest slumbered underfoot.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 4 - Complete
Thanurth reviews
After being ejected from its galaxy, Earth becomes a megastructural necropolis.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 308 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Jan 4 - Complete
The Kill Line reviews
One hit from the end.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 322 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 4 - Complete
Slay Ride reviews
A jolly Christmas visitor leaves devastation.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 248 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2025 - Complete
The Bonin Island Behemoth reviews
In the late Edo period, a samurai from mainland Japan finds a strange sect among the Bonin Islanders, distant migrants from New England. He sees their god.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 389 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2025 - Complete
To Serve a Mycelial Master reviews
A mushroom cult talks directly with their master through a new device, only to receive strange instructions.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 366 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 3 - Published: Nov 13, 2025 - Complete
The Ballistochemist reviews
Framed as a Soviet spy after uncovering a sinister ploy, gunslinging scientist Samuel Oscar Starr becomes a fugitive from his own government. To expose the truth, he must outwit mad scientists, battle nightmarish creations, and stop a doomsday plot.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,195 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 3 - Published: Nov 3, 2025
Embodied Cognition reviews
The body makes a difference.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2025 - Complete
Names Long Dead reviews
Humanity began before language.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 267 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2025 - Complete
Spellfist reviews
Max Savage is a mixed martial artist, stuntman, and former special effects artist. He spent a career debunking fraudulent martial arts mystics, each claiming to have magic powers. What happens when he meets the real thing?
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 805 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 23, 2025 - Complete
The Red Shadow reviews
After being left for dead on the Soviet border, a shinobi turns his blade against Imperial Japan.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 789 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 22, 2025 - Complete
Beyond The Diamond Circle reviews
A council of archmages debates the origin of a mysterious artifact retrieved from a dimensional rift, only to learn it hails from their distant future. In another era, scientists studying the same anomaly realize it connects their advanced civilization to a forgotten, magically powered Earth, and one schemes to exploit it.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 964 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Published: Oct 21, 2025 - Complete
Starblade reviews
A warrior at the end of the universe battles the undead.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 815 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 17, 2025 - Complete
The Road Crawler reviews
A trucker is chased by something along a lonely road.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 810 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 16, 2025 - Complete
Xiuhcoatl reviews
After inventing a new weapon, an ancient Mesoamerican warrior is mythologized as a god.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 368 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 15, 2025 - Complete
The Charnel Crown reviews
A cruel king demands he be made immortal. His rule becomes more complex than he thought it would.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 710 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Published: Oct 15, 2025 - Complete
Sawtooth reviews
When sadistic corporate elites take over a small town, a chainsaw-armed vigilante arises to deal out raw, bloody justice.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,659 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: Oct 8, 2025 - Published: Sep 27, 2025
Tartarian Tide reviews
Tartaria was, is, and will be at war with Atlantis.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 1, 2025 - Complete
Chronophage reviews
It eats what was.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - Dutch - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 1, 2025 - Complete
The Nightmare Machine reviews
The machine grants wishes, both aware and unspoken.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 1, 2025 - Complete
A View from Tomorrow reviews
An isolated elite tries escaping an enemy army closes in.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 866 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Sep 27, 2025 - Complete
Chronoshock reviews
In wartime Imperial Japan, mysterious artifact brings an ancient samurai to meet his cruel descendant, a doctor in the infamous Unit 731.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 472 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Published: Sep 1, 2025 - Complete
Synaptic Cleft reviews
Where my body fails, my machines react.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 2 - Published: Sep 1, 2025 - Complete
Exterminatrix reviews
A surveillance system becomes a targeting system.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Aug 30, 2025 - Complete
Splatterholm reviews
In a small town in the Alps, a mad surgeon amputates and reassembles zombies.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 18, 2025 - Complete
Boomerworld reviews
You will know them by their debts.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 8, 2025 - Complete
Confluent Conception reviews
A creature made by a mad scientist uncovers something surprising about his creator.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 403 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Aug 1, 2025 - Complete
Stormwrack reviews
Open your umbrella into the wind.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2025 - Complete
Starquake reviews
Jurando Eid Gezworen, the former enforcer of the Hegemony, meets the Lord of Broken Stars, Mallon Kas Tun.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 787 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 23, 2025 - Complete
Steamcrawlers reviews
A decadent general battles an inventive rebel army.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,416 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 4 - Published: Jul 16, 2025 - Complete
A Knock at the Door reviews
Trouble comes home.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 16, 2025 - Complete
Dragonbell reviews
It roared its chime.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 487 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 7, 2025 - Complete
Transmissions from Firebase Alpha reviews
Strange radio contacts hint at a temporal anomaly.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 7, 2025 - Complete
The Ambulance Chase reviews
A corrupt lawyer becomes too excited.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Jul 7, 2025 - Complete
The Blood-Rusted Blade reviews
A tyrant is cut down by a rebel, who becomes what he killed.
Fiction: Fable - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 279 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 4 - Published: Jun 18, 2025 - Complete
Perfect Recall reviews
A spy smuggles out videos with only their memories.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 18, 2025 - Complete
Eagles from Alamut reviews
Professor Orion Hunt battles a group of airborne bandits at the ancient Assassin fortress of Alamut, only to find an ancient secret.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,372 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jun 13, 2025 - Complete
The Sunken City reviews
It lies beneath.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 13, 2025 - Complete
The Aeronaut reviews
Orion Hunt is an inventor and adventurer who explores isolated ruins with his flight suit. When he crosses a ruthless secret society, he embarks on a race to save the world.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 42 - Words: 53,405 - Reviews: 56 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Jun 9, 2025 - Published: Nov 7, 2024 - Complete
Happy Wheels reviews
The wheels go round.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jun 8, 2025 - Complete
The Azathoth Chorus reviews
A pulsar's song hides a secret of the early universe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 2, 2025 - Complete
The Sun Loom reviews
An accident leads to the discovery of a wonderful material.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 343 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 2, 2025 - Complete
Subzero reviews
A daring submarine crew hits a mysterious enemy beneath a frozen continent.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 511 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: May 4, 2025 - Complete
The Lunar Fossil reviews
Ancient human remains are found on the moon.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 314 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: May 4, 2025 - Complete
Persistence reviews
Two fey entities adapt to modernity.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: May 4, 2025 - Complete
A Backdoor Revolution reviews
A corporate plot to overthrow a government backfires.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 19, 2025 - Complete
Convergent Evolution reviews
A war between organic and mechanical beings has an unexpected outcome.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 19, 2025 - Complete
Birdbrain reviews
The rich clone extinct animals just to hunt them, only to find one proves far wilier than intended.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 9, 2025 - Complete
A Heavenly Feast reviews
It crawled across the sky, looking for something to eat.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 301 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Apr 2, 2025 - Complete
Tarsus reviews
A mysterious ship arrives at a port town, with no crew and a hold filled with treasure. However, might it bring peril with it?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 430 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 2, 2025 - Complete
Slingblade reviews
A duel on a beach ends due to a dirty weapon.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 2, 2025 - Complete
The Splatterhouse reviews
Sadistic rich hipsters isolate a small rural town and torment its inhabitants. When pushed to the brink, the locals return the suffering with interest.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 336 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: Mar 2, 2025 - Complete
Roadmaker reviews
The worn road endured many governments, many ages. Something comes along to bring it into the future.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 312 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 8, 2025 - Complete
The Leveller reviews
After dying, Meridian Grimm was an inventor pressed to serve the God of Death. She brings a deviousness to send her enemies to her master.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 413 - Reviews: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 2, 2025 - Complete
The Walking Dreamer reviews
I leave the world I imagined in my wake.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 2, 2025 - Complete
Celestial Strands reviews
A robotic spider spins a space elevator.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 2, 2025 - Complete
To March Across the Sky reviews
A mountain kingdom reunites their former empire with a clever tactic.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 2, 2025 - Complete
The Christmas Blazar reviews
Santa Claus stops an alien invasion.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 340 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2024 - Complete
The Fractal Factory reviews
A self-replicating machine gives a lucky survivor something unexpected.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 332 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2024 - Complete
The Charnel Kings reviews
In the last age of Atlantis, the rulers turn the feared powers of undeath against each other.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 369 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 14, 2024 - Complete
The Singing Shoggoth reviews
People can enjoy even the strangest music.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 362 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Nov 1, 2024 - Complete
Mulch reviews
What happens when a warrior gardens during an invasion?
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 1, 2024 - Complete
Diwalloween reviews
What happens when Diwali and Halloween fall on the same day? The reincarnation of Ravana comes forth to avenge his prior defeat.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 721 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 1, 2024 - Complete
Where History Ended reviews
The embers of the golden age linger.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 31, 2024 - Complete
The Jekyll Protocol reviews
On a dark island, a sinister cabal unleashes an insatiable beast upon the world.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 497 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 29, 2024 - Complete
The Creature from Sector 13 reviews
A starship crew investigates an alien world, running into a hostile lifeform. One is close to retirement, one just started, and the other is a high-ranking officer. Not all return.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 468 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 25, 2024 - Complete
The One that Called the Fire reviews
What kind of person drone strikes civilians?
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 464 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 22, 2024 - Complete
The Radiodirge reviews
An artificial fungi colonized the galaxy, feeding off the radiation of hard vacuum. It emits a telltale radio signal, containing a grim secret of its creator.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 425 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 15, 2024 - Complete
The Special Ones reviews
The special ones get both barrels, a monster hunter thinks.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 303 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 15, 2024 - Complete
The Thing that Called from Heaven reviews
The Throne of Heaven lies empty. What happens when an ambitious demigod sits on it?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 440 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 15, 2024 - Complete
In the Autumnal Empire reviews
Trapped in a time loop, the Autumnal Empire becomes majesty in eternal decay.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 8, 2024 - Complete
Beneath the Cedar's Stare reviews
An advancing army meets an automated ambush set long ago.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 326 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 4, 2024 - Complete
Ghostrail reviews
A phantasmal train weaves through a winding mountain railway, beneath the ruins of ancient cities yet to be built.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 361 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2024 - Complete
Tomorrow's Vanguard reviews
When the old elites fled to space, a perpetual chase begins.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2024 - Complete
Emberhall reviews
A legendary keep appears only at the change of seasons. A crew of adventurers explore it at the behest of a strange patron.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 691 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2024 - Complete
Dark Matter Dirge reviews
The former enforcer of a cruel empire rebels against it, deposing its leaders one at a time. After securing a base in the outer systems, Jurando Eid Gezworen turns his attention to the imperial core. However, someone else is racing to unlock his secret of faster than light travel.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 28 - Words: 61,520 - Reviews: 64 - Favs: 2 - Updated: Oct 2, 2024 - Published: Feb 13, 2024 - Complete
A Bridge Too Far, Ground Too Near reviews
Two duelists meet on a flimsy bridge to settle their score. One brings a blade ill-suited for combat.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 360 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Sep 5, 2024 - Complete
Beneath the Carrion Monolith reviews
In a dark, dead land, a macabre monument rises from the wastelands.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2024 - Complete
Jacob's Tether reviews
A new atmospheric megastructure gives Earth a necklace.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2024 - Complete
A Professional Note
A guard captain notes a bizarre fixation among adventurers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 345 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2024 - Complete
ISRU
You already have everything you need.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Published: Aug 1, 2024 - Complete
Slide Bite
The slide locks back.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Aug 1, 2024 - Complete
Disposal Unit reviews
An unfortunate baby rabbit meets the latest environmentally friendly technology.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 447 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 3, 2024 - Complete
Beyond the Forsaken Coast
A shipwrecked ronin finds an unlikely friendship with stranded scholars.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 580 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 3, 2024 - Complete
Lithophage reviews
It eats stone in the sky.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 3, 2024 - Complete
Leyline Layer reviews
A druid invents an electricity harvesting system from the air. She turns the forest into a literal power plant.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 400 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 4, 2024 - Complete
Cherrypicker reviews
The machine wants to bring you home.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jun 4, 2024 - Complete
The Rotroot Reanimator
An alchemist discovers how a fungus enables necromancers to raise undead.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 641 - Published: May 10, 2024 - Complete
After the Final Adventure
As the entropic heat death of the universe claims the last sentient beings, a new universe emerges.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 327 - Published: May 10, 2024 - Complete
Tepoztlan Dreams
Children design a cruel weapon to battle those that stole their future.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Published: May 7, 2024 - Complete
Recursion City
Recursion City exists at the end of time, drifting through the void between eons.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 311 - Published: May 1, 2024 - Complete
Through the Black Channel
During World War II, a covert network existed to battle Axis occult warfare: the Black Channel. It endures today, uniting humanity from the shadows.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 274 - Published: May 1, 2024 - Complete
A Strand Between Stars
Sofia Strand closes in on a murderer on an interstellar starship.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 331 - Published: Apr 15, 2024 - Complete
Natural Language Engineering
The next inventors will not need to be trained engineers or programmers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Published: Apr 15, 2024 - Complete
The Grinding Wheel reviews
An ascetic monk watches a collapsing empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 265 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 1, 2024 - Complete
The Many Return
Seeming strangers meet in a remote space station, not knowing the bond they all share.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Published: Apr 1, 2024 - Complete
Gilded Spiral
After a long separation, two distant brothers are forced together to survive a collapsing empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 499 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2024 - Complete
Aerolith
It descends from on high, building between heaven and earth.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 226 - Published: Mar 1, 2024 - Complete
A Wisp on the Wind
An inventor finds something curious hanging ink-stained clothing out to dry.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 320 - Published: Mar 1, 2024 - Complete
Where the Colossus Fell
The most advanced superweapon of a lost, ancient civilization falls to a modern relic.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Published: Feb 21, 2024 - Complete
Prodromata
Swarms of aggressive constructs assault the slums, prompting a desperate rush for the sheltered enclaves. Within, they find the source of the problem.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 405 - Published: Feb 7, 2024 - Complete
Wounded Dies The Dragon
The victim of a drone stroke mortally wounds his enemy.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Published: Feb 2, 2024 - Complete
Ratchet and Paul reviews
A monster hunter muses over a new weapon.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 299 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 2, 2024 - Complete
The Charnel Shadow
The dead lead a path to a better tomorrow.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 350 - Published: Jan 27, 2024 - Complete
The Tomorrow That Time Forgot
As a doomed space station endlessly repeats its demise, a single individual remembers each iteration and tries to escape.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 449 - Published: Jan 27, 2024 - Complete
Asphalt Harvest reviews
Strange machines float above the street, collecting litter and detritus. Their origin and purpose is soon discovered.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 358 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 16, 2024 - Complete
The Lurker in the Library reviews
In the Year of Ominous Visages, a traitor is cast forward in time by his dark master.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 343 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 12, 2024 - Complete
An Economy for Tomorrow
The economic bloc that defines the future.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Jan 12, 2024 - Complete
Titanic Echoes reviews
In ancient times, the first great human civilization defeated the titans. The remnants of that battle are exhumed ten thousand years in the future.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 510 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 2, 2024 - Complete
Heartseeker
It waits for words, to forever still a heart.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Published: Jan 2, 2024 - Complete
Compliant Mechanism reviews
A curious machine is made of a single piece of plastic.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2023 - Complete
Ashen Boughs reviews
A woman runs through the forest, desperately fleeing a dangerous pursuer.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2023 - Complete
Polybolos reviews
A wartime device from an ancient inventor.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2023 - Complete
Solid Shape reviews
A strong and flexible material.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2023 - Complete
Holiday Special reviews
When an evil abomination attacks the North Pole, Santa Claus has just the thing.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 357 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Dec 24, 2023 - Complete
Vertigo Falls reviews
When asteroid mining machines go rogue, a mercenary plunges into combat beneath the surface.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Dec 16, 2023 - Complete
Christmas Claws reviews
What happens when a lycanthrope bites Saint Nick?
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 185 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 7, 2023 - Complete
Pulled From The Rear reviews
An improvised videogame about weaponized bowel diseases becomes a new genre.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 241 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 7, 2023 - Complete
What Nightmares May Come reviews
An apprentice wizard tries a drug that makes dreams come true. What happens when he has a nightmare?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 1, 2023 - Complete
Stolon
It came from the 3D printer.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 332 - Published: Dec 1, 2023 - Complete
The Dark Matter Disciple reviews
Jurando Eid Gezworen was the enforcer for the cruel Priman Hegemony, until he rebelled against them. With a mysterious Way to move faster than light, he plans to topple the brutal empire he once defended.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 25 - Words: 51,562 - Reviews: 53 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Nov 24, 2023 - Published: Apr 16, 2023 - Complete
A Scene on Weathered Stone reviews
Things still protect an ancient temple, though the faith fell long ago.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Nov 10, 2023 - Complete
Hegelian Dielectrics reviews
A philosophical method is used to determine the materials used for a capacitor plate.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 8, 2023 - Complete
Phaeton reviews
What constrained us one era frees us the next.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2023 - Complete
An Inventor's Inheritance reviews
An inventor leaves more than money.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 516 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2023 - Complete
Beyond the Steel Bones reviews
An abandoned colony finds a great, ruined city of rusted metal in the interior of an unexplored continent. As they rediscover ancient inventions, they realize they are not alone.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 480 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 10, 2023 - Complete
Half Death reviews
A man is kept alive only by an implant battery's half-life. As it expires, he turns to desperate measures.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 553 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 10, 2023 - Complete
The Midnight Halls reviews
In the early hours of the day, new levels and chambers appear in an apartment building.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 498 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2023 - Complete
Getting Chummy
A Mafia hitman disposes of a former superior.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Published: Oct 2, 2023 - Complete
Groovy Gravehunter reviews
How to deal with what the Necronomicon pukes up?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2023 - Complete
A Slayer's Cycle reviews
After his father is killed, a boy accepts a dark stranger's deal to become a fearsome warrior. In exchange, he will find his father's killer. Things come full circle in more ways than one.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 440 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 26, 2023 - Complete
A Future In A Can reviews
A society tries to survive an apocalypse by building different societies in bunkers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 380 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 26, 2023 - Complete
Down the Dark Darkly reviews
A dark god demands a surprising sacrifice.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 16, 2023 - Complete
A Shore Crime
The Mafia runs a scam from a souvenir shop at the Jersey Shore.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 203 - Published: Sep 16, 2023 - Complete
In a Brutish Balance reviews
A brutish murderer learns the importance of finesse too late.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 13, 2023 - Complete
The Final Exam reviews
A famed strategist is captured by an enemy general, who seeks to humiliate him by defeating his students in battle.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 539 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2023 - Complete
An Urban Antipode reviews
An underwater copy of contemporary New York City is found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The city was not built by human hands.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 380 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2023 - Complete
A Celestial Cenotaph reviews
A silent spacecraft draws unprepared salvagers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 378 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 18, 2023 - Complete
A Duel Without Shadow reviews
At noon, two warriors duel in a town with no name.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 390 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 18, 2023 - Complete
Life Without Death reviews
A necromancer accidentally cures cancer.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 889 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 18, 2023 - Complete
Construction Yard
Watching transformation.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Aug 18, 2023 - Complete
Nothing Left to Die
A jaded operative encounters something worth sacrificing for.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 313 - Published: Aug 12, 2023 - Complete
Replay reviews
A woman is savagely attacked on a city street, with the public completely ignoring her.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 5, 2023 - Complete
Ghost Talker
The invention of a thought to speech system.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Published: Aug 5, 2023 - Complete
Ride Them Down
Carnivorous bicycles patrol a perilous frontier.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 452 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 2, 2023 - Complete
A Garden in the Void
Life grows without needing a world.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Published: Aug 2, 2023 - Complete
Spellsword reviews
A knight tries to stop a witch from taking revenge upon a village. The battle ends in a way neither anticipated.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 468 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jul 25, 2023 - Complete
Espada Sur reviews
A gaucho realizes even a downed mark is a danger.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Western - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 21, 2023 - Complete
Jersey Bug reviews
The true mascot of the Garden State.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 21, 2023 - Complete
Just Like New
Even something ancient can renew itself.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Published: Jul 21, 2023 - Complete
Beneath the Black Sun reviews
As a death squad moves towards a vulnerable village, a veteran engages in a final act of defiance.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 783 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 17, 2023 - Complete
Panjagan reviews
Confronting his underground society's collapse, a man turns to an ancient weapon to save his mother.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 422 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jul 10, 2023 - Complete
Unhoarding reviews
A proud, greedy dragon finds unexpected returns from showing off his hoard in a new way.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 269 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 10, 2023 - Complete
Bugeyes reviews
A project between the Clockfitters Union, the Order of Scribes, and the Glassblowers Guild yields a machine that can see beyond human vision.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 445 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 10, 2023 - Complete
The Trapper's Tomb reviews
A tinkerer left behind a booby-trapped tomb, rumored to be full of treasure. When grave robbers finally reach the end, they find a different sort of wealth.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 777 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 6, 2023 - Complete
The Apparatus Dies Screaming reviews
A woman in an artificial, underground society faces the collapse of her world.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 920 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 6, 2023 - Complete
Vacuum Gravity reviews
A vacuum balloon-based airborne sensor grants cosmic insight into gravity waves.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 359 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2023 - Complete
Beneath the Summer Smog reviews
On a world with eon-long seasons, an approaching winter is complicated by industrial warfare.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 347 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2023 - Complete
A Blade Strikes Twice
Two strikes bring victory.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Jul 1, 2023 - Complete
Gravity Tsunami reviews
The effects of a gravity wave tsunami across light years.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2023 - Complete
Lightspeed Funeral reviews
What happens when someone dies reaching relativistic speeds?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 29, 2023 - Complete
The Pinoy Pistolero reviews
My classic quickdraw saved a soldier and myself during a battle in the Philippines.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 969 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 29, 2023 - Complete
Dynamic Calculus reviews
The math of making a change.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 29, 2023 - Complete
Garage Marathon reviews
Exercising up in before dawn in the parking garage.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 29, 2023 - Complete
Freelancer's Lament reviews
A spear finds company with its kin, leading a marching army.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 27, 2023 - Complete
Entropy's Thread reviews
A material from the heat death of a universe changes the future of another.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 302 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 22, 2023 - Complete
Standoff in Solitude reviews
Two opposing soldiers, one from a technological civilization and another from a magical one, confront each other in a resource-rich rock in the void. Working together, they discover secrets their superiors hid.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 662 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 21, 2023 - Complete
Maxwell's Equation reviews
When magic returns, the engineers were the first to notice.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 21, 2023 - Complete
Rebar Reverb reviews
Steel bars are big hits.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 21, 2023 - Complete
Down the Skull Road reviews
A cruel warlord constructs a road to move troops, only to find it out works both ways.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 650 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 16, 2023 - Complete
The Soulless Sentinel reviews
In Han Dynasty China, scholar Zhang Heng explores an intriguing invention: A mechanical sentry that can spit death at any intruder in range.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 890 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jun 11, 2023 - Complete
Xenorapture reviews
The souls of ancient aliens wander the cosmos, existing through a technology humanity was ignorant of.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 2, 2023 - Complete
Crashpad reviews
How do you make a flying car safer?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 2, 2023 - Complete
Fresh Air reviews
Implanted cellular factories make breathing optional.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 2, 2023 - Complete
Hygroelectricity
How to generate electricity from air.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Published: May 29, 2023 - Complete
A Drifting Dasein reviews
An era of skyborne nomadism leads from the steppes to the stars.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 14, 2023 - Complete
It Came from the Printer reviews
With a machine that can provide anything, be careful what you ask for and how you ask it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 565 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 14, 2023 - Complete
Rust Child reviews
Seeking a rare metal in an ancient complex, a group of adventurers find a strange, hostile construct.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 523 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 4, 2023 - Complete
The Phantasmal Polis reviews
The world of Kitezh fell silent suddenly, prompting an interstellar expedition. They find a dead world where ghosts of a different sort rule.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 627 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 4, 2023 - Complete
Blazar
Cosmic burp.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: May 4, 2023 - Complete
Operation Ground Zero reviews
When a rogue billionaire steals nuclear weapons, the world's superpowers uncover an unexpected motive.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 393 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 25, 2023 - Complete
Where Shells Die Screaming reviews
Courage counts for naught in the trenches.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 23, 2023 - Complete
Musings from the Metacafé reviews
In a café beyond space and time, dimensional travelers muse on their experiences.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,005 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 23, 2023 - Complete
The Things Between the Stars
They wait, hungering.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Apr 23, 2023 - Complete
The Thing That Crawled Through Time reviews
A scientist faces a creature from beyond time and space, only to discover its origins too late.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 634 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 8, 2023 - Complete
From the Four Elements reviews
Four siblings find integration yields stronger results.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 1, 2023 - Complete
Orbital Atropos reviews
It ends in pieces.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 1, 2023 - Complete
Multipolarity
A new world rises.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Apr 1, 2023 - Complete
A Sun Too High reviews
The superhero who solved the world's energy crisis faces a nemesis born of pollution.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 483 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Mar 19, 2023 - Complete
The Excremancer and the Fowl Logjam reviews
When the castings of a demonic goose clog a key waterway, a single wizard can save the day: The Excremancer.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 696 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 15, 2023 - Complete
Launch Window reviews
A planet-bound civilization scoured by an extrasolar superweapon prepares a daring countermeasure.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 281 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 13, 2023 - Complete
Robospawn reviews
How robots reproduce.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Mar 13, 2023 - Complete
A Blurred Line reviews
In a grim land, the line of succession is a blurred one.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 405 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 13, 2023 - Complete
Beneath a Threaded Sun reviews
The last scion of an ancient legacy seeks a suitable resting place for an army of ghosts. They settle upon a strange web growing upon the sun...
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 463 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 3, 2023 - Complete
Zhinu reviews
The future is woven with strands of light.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 2, 2023 - Complete
Enlightened Engines reviews
An ingenuous temple to a sun god required no human hands for its rituals.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 2, 2023 - Complete
Railrunners reviews
A daring group of nomads attack an ancient ghost train.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,038 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 22, 2023 - Complete
Toroid
Ballistic judo.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Published: Feb 22, 2023 - Complete
Soulscape reviews
Humanity invented the soul, or something close to it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 388 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 17, 2023 - Complete
Woven in Dreams
Wonders have a price when made real.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 941 - Published: Feb 17, 2023 - Complete
Ouroboros Alpha reviews
Unorthodox archeologists find evidence of ancient aliens: themselves.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 812 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Feb 17, 2023 - Complete
Carnal Conflux
A free love space colony catches a nanotech virus that brings them together in an unexpected way.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Published: Feb 1, 2023 - Complete
Love's Last Embrace reviews
Star-crossed lovers are confronted by their pursuers on a freezing river.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 321 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 1, 2023 - Complete
The Prodigal Immortal reviews
An alchemist sent to find the secret of immortality returns to the king too late. After returning, the expedition's alchemist immortalizes the late king in a different way.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 613 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 31, 2023 - Complete
Three Potty Problem reviews
A crew member disappearing in a spaceship restroom reveals at an unknown threat.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 689 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 31, 2023 - Complete
Threaded Threnody
A threnody of threaded ash connects the living and the dead.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 307 - Published: Jan 27, 2023 - Complete
Nightlight reviews
What happens when you find a toy in the dark forest? Is it a gift, or something more sinister?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 364 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 23, 2023 - Complete
Assembly Language
A talk on 3D printing.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Published: Jan 23, 2023 - Complete
Claysight reviews
Vista is blind, save for a unique method of sight. She ends up being the only one able to defeat the eldritch creature that threatens her town.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 994 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 14, 2023 - Complete
Mechanosphere reviews
The is nostalgia for the time when the Solar System was dead rocks.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 506 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2023 - Complete
Strife Among the Spheres
The Rakonis Cluster is the primary and peaceful human sector of space, based around a red dwarf star. When a rogue fleet launches an invasion of a peaceful world, the greatest space commander in history rises from obscurity.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 439 - Published: Jan 1, 2023 - Complete
Consensus Building reviews
A shuttle crash results from abdicated responsibility.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 219 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2023 - Complete
An Eternal Procession
A dead king's enduring legacy.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Jan 1, 2023 - Complete
Gyromag
In an alternative history, the Republic of Biafra starts Africa's first space program. Its astronauts carry a peculiar device, an unexpected innovation of humble origins.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 867 - Published: Dec 19, 2022 - Complete
Arithmetic on the Frontlines reviews
Death by the numbers.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Dec 6, 2022 - Complete
The Siege at the Museum reviews
While the Advent literally shook Marvados to the core, the small town of El Mirador changed little. When a small museum is assaulted by gangsters from Los Midas, the curators are drawn into the search for a world-shaking secret.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,817 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 6, 2022 - Complete
The Naughty List
On a fateful Christmas, a technological watcher punishes a naughty target.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 359 - Published: Dec 1, 2022 - Complete
The Sleeper in the Cave
Tymon explored the cave after the hillside shook. What he found would forever change his world.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 777 - Published: Dec 1, 2022 - Complete
In Eternity's Shadow reviews
The Keeper saved a few individuals from being erased from history. Together, these exiles from time are the only ones able to save their world.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,538 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Nov 27, 2022 - Published: Nov 13, 2022 - Complete
Skeletronics reviews
There was a good reason to make robots resembling skeletons.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 273 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2022 - Complete
The Electric Tomb reviews
It emerged from the tomb, sizzling and sparking.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 399 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2022 - Complete
Biomachines
Build ecologies instead of products.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
Jersey Care
Childcare in the Garden State.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
Cleaning Advice reviews
Not the chocolate you wanted.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
Thunderhead Strikes
How an electric fire extinguisher works.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
Mattoon Madness
Dealing with the Mad Gasser of Mattoon.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
New Motive Power
How to build God.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
God-Machine Interface reviews
Following the works of John Murray Spear, an astrophysicist seeks to understand the divine through a curious machine.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 744 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2022 - Complete
Titanomachy
The gods change with the times.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 26, 2022 - Complete
The Andean Maiden reviews
An amnesiac young woman walks into a small Peruvian town, only to later discover her grim origin.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 416 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 22, 2022 - Complete
Think Before Speaking reviews
An unwary child encounters a technological vetala. To save his brother, he must answer the entity's questions.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 625 - Reviews: 3 - Published: Oct 16, 2022 - Complete
Galactic Underworld reviews
The sky is a tomb.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 16, 2022 - Complete
Optoacoustic Transducer
How a pulsed laser neuromodulates with ultrasound.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 16, 2022 - Complete
A Flayglass Hackathon reviews
A prototype project preemptively ends a criminal's career.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 917 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Oct 11, 2022 - Complete
Radiophage reviews
The kaiju were invented to save the environment. They came to embody its fury.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 343 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Oct 6, 2022 - Complete
Howling on the Moor reviews
In a collapsing cathedral, spectral hounds close in.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 292 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 4, 2022 - Complete
Uncommon Law
Mind uploading is used to preserve the founding members of space colonies for posterity. Their descendants still manage to find ways to bypass them.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Published: Oct 1, 2022 - Complete
The Jars in the Basement reviews
Against his warnings, two children enter their grandpa's basement. They find out more about themselves than they hoped.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 371 - Reviews: 3 - Published: Oct 1, 2022 - Complete
Uncultivated
Earth died screaming, and so will its killers. That is the promise Gao Feiyang made to the Sol System. However, he is not the only one with that idea, and he will have to face the strangest, most lethal fighters transhumanity has to offer.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Published: Sep 12, 2022
Treading Trash reviews
A toxic kaiju heads towards an important city, prompting a Coast Guard officer to think creatively.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 527 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 9, 2022 - Complete
Gag Reflex reviews
I choke up, resisting the urge to vomit.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 9, 2022 - Complete
A Long Way Round reviews
The Exarch has lived across eons, reincarnating in many eras and bodies. Alternatively battling and befriending other immortals, he comes back to the place that made him. When an alien threat arrives, he will need every skill he has to survive.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 40 - Words: 53,434 - Reviews: 70 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Sep 6, 2022 - Published: May 23, 2022 - Complete
A Requiem in Steel reviews
A king is laid to rest in a mountain factory.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Sep 3, 2022 - Complete
A Cultivated Edge
A fan of xianxia stories builds a unique invention, cultivating a different sort of immortality.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Published: Sep 3, 2022 - Complete
First Contacts
The galaxy is a graveyard.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Aug 29, 2022 - Complete
The Excremancer and the Porcelain God reviews
When an enchanted fountain is polluted with supernatural stool, only one wizard can save the day.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 477 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 16, 2022 - Complete
Arbanitis
An inhuman shape skitters across the battlefield, seeking wounded soldiers…
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Published: Aug 7, 2022 - Complete
A Skunked Ape reviews
A hostile, pungent cryptid is repelled by a truly vile place.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Aug 2, 2022 - Complete
Mindful Duel
With their bodies crippled, they virtually battled with their minds.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Published: Aug 2, 2022 - Complete
WIMP reviews
What is dark matter?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2022 - Complete
The Thing Between the Gates reviews
The ancient wormhole gates that connect the galaxy were built long before humanity. Their architects are not as absent as believed…
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 30, 2022 - Complete
The Devil's Own Idol reviews
A religious fanatic hires elite assassins to kill a pop idol who offends his moral sensibilities. A series of strange coincidences complicate their efforts.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 398 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 30, 2022 - Complete
The Excremancer reviews
When the corrupt mayor holes up with the town's stolen gold, only a master of a filthy magic school can stop him.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 440 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jul 27, 2022 - Complete
Indra's Wrath reviews
Metal, lightning, light.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 27, 2022 - Complete
Firefall
A fire blossoms.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Jul 10, 2022 - Complete
Wheels for Viracocha reviews
In an alternative history, an Inca inventor builds a strange vehicle to break the back of Spanish power.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,158 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 10, 2022 - Complete
Emerald Eyes for the King in Yellow reviews
An artist applies a grim creativity to ending lives, as his world is ruined by decadent nobility and the terrible powers they invoke.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,548 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jul 10, 2022 - Published: Jul 1, 2022
Crying at Dawn
I walked over the crybaby bridge at dawn, unaware of what lurked beneath.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Published: Jul 1, 2022 - Complete
A Land Freely Given reviews
An invading army seizes the natives' land in a different way then they'd intended.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 230 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2022 - Complete
A Revenant's Revenge
The ghost returns.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Jul 1, 2022 - Complete
Perfect Percussion
My weapon of choice.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2022 - Complete
Falling Thunder
When paradise dies.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Published: Jun 12, 2022 - Complete
Song Dynasty
How it falls apart.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Published: Jun 5, 2022 - Complete
Fractal States
Fractal patterns grow
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: Jun 5, 2022 - Complete
A Fateful Flip
Samos the Shortsighted was an apprentice wizard only able to redirect other mages' powers. When the most powerful sorcerer arrives, he inadvertently saves the day.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Published: Jun 2, 2022 - Complete
Exit Strategy
An overeager wrestler closes in on what seems to be an easy submission.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Published: Jun 2, 2022 - Complete
Snap, Crackle, Pop reviews
A ruthless killer strikes.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 22, 2022 - Complete
POTUS
Sclerotic carcass.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Published: May 22, 2022 - Complete
The Face in Stone reviews
A huntress sees her own face on an ancient statue.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,002 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
A Long Feint
After a betrayal, a sailor faces a false friend in a duel. Against a superior swordsman, only a clever plot can help them survive.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 658 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
A Visit from the Muse reviews
It was a far more effective, insidious tool for shaping public opinion than crude censorship.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 285 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
Grow Old, Grow Deep reviews
As the internet collapses, intrepid biohackers invent a bacterial computer network.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
The Familial Foray
The truth is in the mystery.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 652 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
In The Dyson Grove
Where do space trees grow?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
The Rattletrap Riddle
Rattletrap is widely considered to be the first killer artificial intelligence, despite never directly murdering anyone.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 924 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
A Good Bleeding
Wrax Kaldon is a simple man, with a simple method of healing. Stranded in the wilderness, he must survive with his abilities to heal and to harm.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 469 - Published: May 14, 2022 - Complete
Long Thought
With minds that stretch between stars, the Reflectors act as interstellar couriers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Published: May 11, 2022 - Complete
Neuromodulation
Acoustic healing.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Published: May 11, 2022 - Complete
A Living Garden
Uninvited guests trample on Camila's garden. None leave. A solarpunk one shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 391 - Published: May 8, 2022 - Complete
Across the Meadow reviews
Two divine siblings are cast apart to far corners of the world, each trying to use their talents to match each other's domain.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 476 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 2, 2022 - Complete
Voices on the Wind reviews
Shed no tears for the fallen.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 2, 2022 - Complete
Viracocha's Revenge
An Andean inventor develops a cheap fusion reactor, causing international economic upheaval.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Published: May 2, 2022 - Complete
Machismo
All the world closes in.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: May 2, 2022 - Complete
Starburner
Despite the fearfulness of the device's name, there was no more potent driver of peace.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Published: Apr 28, 2022 - Complete
Worlds Unlimited reviews
A decade old compendium of roleplaying settings, story concepts, tech, ideas, and plots for you to use, get inspired by, and enjoy. This entry: A Venice inspired magitech empire.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 73 - Words: 192,464 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 10 - Updated: Apr 24, 2022 - Published: Mar 21, 2010
Biocomputation
What happens when you scale cable bacteria?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Apr 13, 2022 - Complete
Shadow Biosphere
Life we cannot see.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Apr 13, 2022 - Complete
Ashspace reviews
Solar sail ships soar.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 10, 2022 - Complete
Purge Valve
Violent, sudden whoosh.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Published: Apr 10, 2022 - Complete
A Mother's Embrace reviews
A strange woman with a baby gives birth to something more.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 312 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 10, 2022 - Complete
A Father's Return reviews
Dad always had a good head on his shoulders. Now, it's elsewhere.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 231 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 10, 2022 - Complete
Gungnir
Like its Norse namesake, none can escape the One-Eyed God's reach.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Published: Apr 10, 2022 - Complete
Iron Star
Celestial forge.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Published: Apr 9, 2022 - Complete
Terms and Conditions reviews
We own your soul now.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 9, 2022 - Complete
The Garruchan Gambit reviews
Puerta Garrucha is the southern hemisphere's seediest port, a rogue Andosan colony. When a fleet from their homeland comes to re-establish control, the Mayor forms a daring plan for independence.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,318 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 9, 2022 - Complete
Swarmheart
A mage able to transform into a swarm of insects becomes a telecommunications network.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 263 - Published: Apr 2, 2022 - Complete
Spin Cycle reviews
Each time the Coiled die, they come back with a bit of someone else.
Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 2, 2022 - Complete
Meridional March
A century after the collapse of global civilization, new empires have arisen. The austral nations of the new age face a threat from strange septentrional invaders. A traveler holds a secret that could redefine life, or end it entirely…
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 336 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 2, 2022
The New Order reviews
Promise, peril, potential.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 31, 2022 - Complete
At Doom's Gate
Knee deep in the dead.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Published: Mar 31, 2022 - Complete
When Silver Rained reviews
During a native rebellion, the Andosan colonial governor sought shelter in a citadel atop a silver mine. Little did he know his own demise would be legendary.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,178 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 30, 2022 - Complete
Someone New reviews
Another lost soul down here.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 28, 2022 - Complete
Friends Forever
Your brain goes in the robot.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: Mar 28, 2022 - Complete
Chocolate Rocket reviews
Toilet humor.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 27, 2022 - Complete
Inner Workings
This is how it works.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: Mar 27, 2022 - Complete
Swarmkeeper
I offer my flesh and my body to my children. Together, we protect the land and people we love.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 355 - Published: Mar 21, 2022 - Complete
Cliodynamics
Some empires die screaming.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Published: Mar 18, 2022 - Complete
Dasein reviews
Each human once, still aware.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 15, 2022 - Complete
Anchorpoint
After escaping a crashing space station, Jacinto Cruz splashes down near a seemingly abandoned research facility in the Arctic Ocean, Anchorpoint Station. He finds he is not alone, as an inhuman intelligence closes in on him.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 568 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 14, 2022 - Complete
Her Father's Daughter
Quinna was a noblewoman studying illicit alchemy, only to make a surprising discovery about her father.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 224 - Published: Mar 13, 2022 - Complete
Scouring Paradise reviews
An unknown avenger purifies a corrupt, fallen paradise.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 9, 2022 - Complete
A Stroll Through Nightside reviews
A stalker follows a woman at night, unaware of the unpleasant surprise awaiting him.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 9, 2022 - Complete
Balloon Ballet
Based on the principle of the paper lantern, a new form of dueling arises in the skies of an alternative Asia.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 720 - Published: Mar 1, 2022 - Complete
Galactic Guardian
Stand beside me while they hunt.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Published: Mar 1, 2022 - Complete
Balloon Duel reviews
Loser burns, falling.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2022 - Complete
A Holdout in Holdover reviews
A lone fighter is attacked by a gang, unprepared for what he has in store.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 27, 2022 - Complete
Ancile
Impact avoided.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Published: Feb 26, 2022 - Complete
Writing Speculative Fiction: A Nerd's Guide reviews
Tired of looking for scifi and seeing nothing new? He's my attempt to help speculative fiction writers, as well as even give the pros a few new ideas. Going strong for years! Now, we cover solarpunk, the optimistic, glowing new genre.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 51 - Words: 104,623 - Reviews: 242 - Favs: 119 - Follows: 22 - Updated: Feb 23, 2022 - Published: Mar 11, 2004
Relativistic
Multistage coil.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Published: Feb 21, 2022 - Complete
Neural Interface reviews
The mind meets machine.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 21, 2022 - Complete
Breathing Blood
They flow fast through the bloodstream.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Feb 21, 2022 - Complete
The Cold Wick reviews
A soldier on the frontier of Joseon Korea develops a fighting style his descendant unknowingly rediscovers.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 515 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 19, 2022 - Complete
Iceheart
An Inuit hunter and Norseman must stand together against the abomination that destroyed both their peoples.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,966 - Published: Feb 19, 2022 - Complete
All Tomorrow's Heroes
They once exploited the world. They must now save themselves.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 479 - Published: Feb 19, 2022 - Complete
All Yesterday's Heroes
They saved the world. They could not save themselves.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 445 - Published: Feb 16, 2022 - Complete
Carlita reviews
When Carl met Lita.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 16, 2022 - Complete
Sunburn
Two human warriors from vastly different cultures collide on a remote world. It ends in a legendary melee battle.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,047 - Published: Feb 6, 2022 - Complete
Rubble
In a village at the edge of a ruined city, local youths reactivate an ancient construct. This draws outside parties to the small town of Rubble, seeking things that should remain buried…
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 729 - Published: Feb 5, 2022 - Complete
Production Rights
It is illegal to 3D print anything, except that the government approves. There is a reason the law was broken only once.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Published: Feb 1, 2022 - Complete
To Catch a Tiger
A security consultant travels to Vietnam to stop tiger poachers.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 509 - Published: Feb 1, 2022 - Complete
Brass Dice
Do you feel lucky?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Feb 1, 2022 - Complete
By the Blood-Churned Waters reviews
An evil cult seizes the most important port of the Kulala Archipelago. An overwhelmed officer desperately tries to force her way out.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,109 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 31, 2022 - Complete
Pulsar Screams reviews
A dead star cries out.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
Silverhanded
Silver, chrome flash each cycling.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
Mostly Free Energy reviews
Just come collect it.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
Unholy Miracle reviews
The wretched thing writhes.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
The Battle Dawns
The lull before battle.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
A Gift from Artemis
Magnets, string in twine.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
Beyond the Morning Mists reviews
Mongol raiders chase down traitors, only to encounter a stranger foe from across the Great Ocean.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 475 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 30, 2022 - Complete
Sunset, Sunrise
A new day, new hope.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Jan 28, 2022 - Complete
Charnel Charge reviews
Like lemmings, the blind throw themselves into the yawning grave.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jan 24, 2022 - Complete
Something Bugging Me reviews
They will die screaming.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 23, 2022 - Complete
Hope Among Rubble reviews
I can see the ruins for miles. Tell me what it was like before.
Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 18, 2022 - Complete
The Unexpected Fortress
There is no peace where castles stand.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 248 - Published: Jan 18, 2022 - Complete
Soul Spamming reviews
Brain uploading and communication with the dead were discovered around the same time. The result was rapidly changing the demographics of the afterlife.
Fiction: Fable - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 399 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 16, 2022 - Complete
Inspiration Ignition reviews
Beautiful things can kill.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 453 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 16, 2022 - Complete
Yaka reviews
This is not a place of honor.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 548 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 16, 2022 - Complete
A Shattered Mirror
A mad god reveals the true origins of the other humanoid civilizations.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 270 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 9, 2022 - Complete
Clocked Out reviews
In Song Dynasty China, Inspector Bao chases would-be assassins into the Cosmic Engine, a massive mechanical clock.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 584 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 9, 2022 - Complete
The Splattering reviews
An unsettling superhero wins the approval of the neighbors.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 382 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 9, 2022 - Complete
Puddlejumper
Hyperspace was a human invention. Although they forgot it, its inhabitants did not.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 246 - Published: Jan 9, 2022 - Complete
Sunglasses at Night
There is a good reason the anti-corporate punks wear sunglasses at night.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Published: Jan 1, 2022 - Complete
The Soldierbot's Sacrifice
A combat robot's sacrifice facilitates a different sort of imperialism.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Published: Jan 1, 2022 - Complete
Printhead reviews
In an alternative Alexandria, Egypt, a new invention revolutionizes construction.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2022 - Complete
Krampus Comes
I have been very naughty.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Jan 1, 2022 - Complete
Among the Screaming Stars
The Screaming Stars are the remnants of a dying galactic cluster, alone in a decaying universe. This survey includes the denizens of that grim epoch.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 294 - Published: Jan 1, 2022 - Complete
Ned Kelly reviews
A haiku about the Australian bushranger and armored outlaw.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 31, 2021 - Complete
Sanguine Goddess
I offer myself.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Dec 31, 2021 - Complete
A Good, Long Slurp reviews
I walked across realities to find a sufficiently strange mount. I found one with strange eating habits.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 26, 2021 - Complete
The Santa Slayers
The world's greatest warriors wait beside a fireplace, warily listening for sleigh bells…
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Published: Dec 24, 2021 - Complete
Divine Dionaea
Missionaries are the reproductive organ of a religion. A traveler recounts the philosophies of the Ten Atlantean faiths.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 735 - Published: Dec 17, 2021 - Complete
Fey Deleter
Machine beats magic.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Dec 12, 2021 - Complete
Born Boss
A young barbarian finds she is the unconventional heir to a mercantile empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 670 - Published: Dec 11, 2021 - Complete
Beneath the Bandages
A revived mummy claims the hidden wealth of the present.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Published: Dec 10, 2021 - Complete
Blackbriar reviews
A necromancer defined immortality than others did, arguably reaching more successful results.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 367 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 5, 2021 - Complete
The Swifthanded Stoic reviews
In an alternative Alexandria, Cato the Quickhanded faces an obstacle in his path.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 4, 2021 - Complete
Homefront Hospitality reviews
A homeless veteran finds hospitality from an unexpected source.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 416 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2021 - Complete
Light Run
We left another civilization to die in the dark. Unfortunately, our counterpart came to the same conclusion we did: Only one of us would make it out.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 516 - Published: Dec 1, 2021 - Complete
A Present Journey reviews
Not every gift comes from Santa. What goes into things bought at the store?
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 382 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Dec 1, 2021 - Complete
Flowing Photons
Light flowed like water, driving a new form of energy production.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Published: Nov 21, 2021 - Complete
Winter's Last Breath reviews
On the ferry to Jeju, I saw the avatars of changing seasons.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 809 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Nov 16, 2021 - Complete
A Jagged Spar
After a long and brutal uprising, the New Federacy replaced the totalitarian Hegemony. However, a fanatic army arises from the dusty backwater world of Nistal.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,259 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Nov 15, 2021 - Published: Sep 7, 2021
With a Pistol by My Side
An adventurer confronts a crime boss in the Golden Triangle.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,029 - Published: Nov 1, 2021 - Complete
A Stoner Rifle
A mercenary's request for a weapon is misunderstood.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Published: Nov 1, 2021 - Complete
Tenderizer
Like steak, it made sacrifices warm and bloody.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Published: Nov 1, 2021 - Complete
Skysweeper
Low Earth orbit lost.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Phalanx
Holding the last line.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
From the Machine
Robot manufacturing.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
996 reviews
Nine to nine, six days.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Yithian Dreams
The Yithian dreams a long dream.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Tarkul Thunder reviews
The old Malay sailor's companion.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
The Keris Cuts
Still got a good edge.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Bullet Ballet
Dual pistol gun-fu.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Sixfold Vengeance
The pepperbox barrels spin.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Lurking in the Dark
Mi-go harvest worthy brains.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Ambushed at Home
They were waiting for me.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Screaming Stars
There lie the posthuman scars.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Zombie Doomsday
Time to run away.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Tsathoggua
Sire of the Formless Spawn.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Nuclear Chaos
Azathoth lies at the core.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Mad Mountains
It's shoggoths all the way down.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Ma Shub-Niggurath
Mother of a Thousand.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
King in Yellow
The King in Yellow cackles.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
The Gate and The Key
Yog-Sothoth was, is, will be.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Deep Ones Creep
Through the Innsmouth swamps they creep.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Cyberbrain
The future you need.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
Cthulhu Stirs
Cthulhu awakens.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Published: Oct 31, 2021 - Complete
A Mad Scientist's Lament reviews
I am surrounded by fools.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Devils Die
Even devils die.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
A Coven Calls
The ritual, done.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
New Prometheus
Lightning brings it to new life.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Wily Taniwha
A wily taniwha defends.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Sparkly Vampires reviews
Sparkly vampires burn to ashes.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
An Ancient Guest reviews
An ancient pharaoh rises.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Jiangshi Leaps
The jiangshi leaps.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
The Cherrywood Exorcist
The ghost returns no more.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Kumiho Laughs reviews
The kumiho plays.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Poor Man's Fusion
Plasma toroids collide.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Thunderhead
How to blast lightning.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 30, 2021 - Complete
Nyarlathotep
Feast upon this soul.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 28, 2021 - Complete
The Four Fs
The sergeant calls out.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Published: Oct 28, 2021 - Complete
Enemy Contact
All strike true.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Published: Oct 28, 2021 - Complete
Opportunity reviews
I stride through the broken gate.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Oct 27, 2021 - Complete
Leafblower reviews
Advancing through autumn.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 25, 2021 - Complete
Autumn Uncertainties reviews
Leaves turn the color of wounds.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 24, 2021 - Complete
Bonghead reviews
A surfer sees an urban legend of drug-fueled daring: Bonghead.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 417 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Oct 24, 2021 - Complete
The Skycrawler reviews
It came from the stars, and it helped humanity reach them.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 24, 2021 - Complete
Toxophilia
A contemporary assassin masters the arch in archery.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 322 - Published: Oct 24, 2021 - Complete
Yog Sothoth reviews
It begins at the end of the universe.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 23, 2021 - Complete
The Terror Balance reviews
Battlefield enchantments in an escalating civil war bring disaster.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 386 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 21, 2021 - Complete
Teleporting Purgatory reviews
A whistleblower reveals the horrifying truth behind the Stellar Expeditionary Fleet's teleportation system.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 482 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 20, 2021 - Complete
Stone Crossing reviews
Rick Landon faces the Herald of the Outer Gods, as a host of transdimensional horrors descend upon hm.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 248 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 20, 2021 - Complete
Good Boy
A robot dog with a sniper rifle picks off the enemies of the status quo.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 371 - Published: Oct 16, 2021 - Complete
Monster Mashing
A mad scientist once created monsters. Now, he hunts them.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 276 - Published: Oct 16, 2021 - Complete
The Autumnal Express reviews
It rides on the rails between worlds, seeking the change of seasons.
Fiction: Mythology - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 274 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 16, 2021 - Complete
Loving Titanium reviews
Being the lover of a superhero requires a special ability.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 13, 2021 - Complete
Asphalt Altar reviews
I will redden the road.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 13, 2021 - Complete
Pack Hunter reviews
A haiku on how to deal with lycanthropes.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 11, 2021 - Complete
A Well-Traveled Road
A dirty haiku.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Oct 11, 2021 - Complete
The Cosmic Serpent reviews
An otherworldly being hunts the last survivor of a starship crew. Then a third being boards the craft…
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 689 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 8, 2021 - Complete
Slurpee Machine reviews
They called it the Slurpee Machine, even after the field test resulted in multiple fatalities.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 482 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 7, 2021 - Complete
Paratus reviews
Going out is mandatory. Coming back is not.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 366 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 7, 2021 - Complete
Hypatia reviews
When she stood against the pogrom, they came for Hypatia next. She gives a final lesson.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 345 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 4, 2021 - Complete
Stone Against The Sea reviews
Toka is an island warrior cast into battle against cruel cults, colonial powers, and warped monsters. He voyages across his homeland, and beyond, at the whim of an otherworldly entity.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 7 - Words: 53,101 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: Oct 3, 2021 - Published: Sep 29, 2021 - Complete
The Dwarven Disappearance
Under the small village of Deepwell, an adventurer discovers the fate of the long-vanished dwarven civilization.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 752 - Published: Oct 2, 2021 - Complete
The Forgehold Siege reviews
When the Flowering Dead descended on Forgehold, the ingenuity of the Vulkanite League saved the day.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 579 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2021 - Complete
Atop My Own Body reviews
Being able to reset time and see potential outcomes had its advantages, especially to the ambitious.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 29, 2021 - Complete
Eternal Rest reviews
My summer job at Deep Rest Landscaping revealed a deadly secret.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 218 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 29, 2021 - Complete
The Grimspiker reviews
They say the Grimspiker was the reason no elven carcass was ever found intact.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 475 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 28, 2021 - Complete
Ohaeawai reviews
During the Flagstaff War in New Zealand, the British carelessly charge into a Maori pa.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 27, 2021 - Complete
Trench Spike
During the Great War, the rich turned blood to gold. A vengeful veteran learned an alternative method.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Published: Sep 26, 2021 - Complete
The Rust Knight reviews
As summer faded, I saw an avatar of autumn in an abandoned factory.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 700 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Sep 20, 2021 - Complete
Jugaad
Innovation starts in the streets.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 252 - Published: Sep 19, 2021 - Complete
Mushroom Killzone
An explorer is ambushed in an autumnal forest.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Published: Sep 15, 2021 - Complete
Droning On
A former politician indulges in his favorite hobby: drone assassinations. An uninvited interloper intervenes. Warning: Dark imagery included.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: M - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Published: Sep 13, 2021 - Complete
Damocles reviews
What if truly devastating power was democratized?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 289 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 2, 2021 - Complete
Percussion reviews
It was an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 2, 2021 - Complete
The Curator Begins reviews
As his society collapses, former professor Harold Strider tries to save the treasures of the past.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 2, 2021 - Complete
On the Bleeding Edge
With technological advancement, the blade beats the gun.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Published: Sep 2, 2021 - Complete
The Celestial Throne reviews
The Ming dynasty scholar Wan Hu tries reaching heaven by attaching rockets to a chair. He succeeds differently than he hoped for.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 26, 2021 - Complete
Unloading Arcana reviews
A diviner wizard has tricks they never see coming, even when out of spells.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 26, 2021 - Complete
The Stars Beneath Our Feet reviews
An adventurer is hired by a madman who claims to have seen an infinite, subterranean void full of stars. In the process, he discovers the true nature of his world.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 598 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Aug 20, 2021 - Complete
The Pugilist Precog reviews
Sandra Jackson was an amateur boxer who used her ability to see a few seconds into the future to win matches. She encounters a match where she learns the limits of her powers.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 228 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 15, 2021 - Complete
Mothership reviews
The ancient Mothership brought humanity to a distant galaxy.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 14, 2021 - Complete
Lachesis reviews
With the tools before her, she measures a mortal thread.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 10, 2021 - Complete
Flyswatter reviews
Those outside the Blue Zones are subject to random drone strikes for inscrutable offenses known only to the algorithms and mercenaries running them. One day, an outsider gets to turn the tables.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 535 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2021 - Complete
The Enemy Abides reviews
Sometimes, a powerful enemy is an unwitting asset.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2021 - Complete
The Boys from Guangzhou reviews
Three Chinese soldiers defect during the Korean War to escape an overbearing officer.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 557 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 1, 2021 - Complete
A Functional Analysis of Antique Small Arms reviews
Industrial civilizations arose on our world independently, at several times and several eras. Each effort was aided by unique technologies shaped by the challenges faced and resources available. These include the small arms and tactics used by those ingenious pioneers.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,083 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 22, 2021 - Complete
Autumn Annals reviews
In the forgotten city of Yian, a civil war pits two inventors against each other.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 341 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 18, 2021 - Complete
The Sky Has No Flag reviews
The skies are dominated by automated fleets of aerial battleships, attacking cities and settlements beneath. A handful of rural communities band together to take them down in a daring attack.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 655 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 17, 2021 - Complete
Life Sentence
A righteous champion gives a corrupt necromancer a poetic punishment.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 337 - Published: Jul 17, 2021 - Complete
Wartime Invocations reviews
In the final age of Atlantis, magical incantations were repurposed for far more destructive applications.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 390 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 16, 2021 - Complete
The Flowering Dead reviews
In the last age of Atlantis, a necromancer mocks an archdruid with a new creation.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jul 15, 2021 - Complete
Last Year's Model reviews
A sentient appliance is thrown away.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 315 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 15, 2021 - Complete
The Battle at Heron's Beak
The naval battle at Heron's Beak marked the beginning of the end for the Derg Dynasty, shortly before the extermination of most human life on the planet. Nevertheless, the technologies introduced helped prepared humanity for the trials to come.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 743 - Published: Jul 13, 2021 - Complete
Spite Picket Fence reviews
Two suburban neighbors come to loathe each other without any personal offenses.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 9, 2021 - Complete
The Four Blades
I hold four blades close, ready for use at a moment's notice. They are the karambit, the kukri, the kris, and the katana.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 271 - Published: Jul 8, 2021 - Complete
Anomalocaris reviews
The ancient predator lurks between stars, waiting for signs of intelligence. It has just found humanity.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 8, 2021 - Complete
Lascar reviews
Ama smuggled herself onto a voidship after a dare by her twin sister. She returns to find the world she knew is gone, but reshaped by her decision.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 577 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 7, 2021 - Complete
Salt and Powder reviews
Captain Tang led his slavers away from the coast, his hold full of desperate refugees. Then a stranger named Twister Tay clambers onto his deck, challenging his crew at once.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 797 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 7, 2021 - Complete
The Four Friends reviews
My four friends have been with me for years, my silent scientific collaborators.
Fiction: Biography - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 335 - Reviews: 5 - Published: Jul 5, 2021 - Complete
A Poolboy's Prayer
A Cthulhu cultist prays as he cleans the pool.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 310 - Published: Jul 5, 2021 - Complete
A Board Wizard reviews
Skatos the Scatterbrained was a plodding, awkward wizard. He invented a method of transportation still popular today: the skateboard.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 309 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 3, 2021 - Complete
The Fourth House on the Right
Luis Lopez was an older military veteran, living alone in a neighborhood being acquired by financial firms. Despite their attempts to dislodge him, he always stayed one step ahead.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,065 - Published: Jul 3, 2021 - Complete
The High Score reviews
Hailey never had much interest in videogames, but that changed once she was stoned.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jul 2, 2021 - Complete
Off Track
A railway engineer beholds a surreal vision.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 322 - Published: Jul 2, 2021 - Complete
The Spinward Sortie
An ambitious conqueror sent armies around both arms of the galaxy in eons past. What happens once they meet again?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 339 - Published: Jun 29, 2021 - Complete
Rising from the Land Stand reviews
After the failure of the American nuclear bombs, Japanese holdouts use a peculiar new weapon for psychological advantage. It inspires a very different application in medicine.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 28, 2021 - Complete
The Helvetian Siege
After the Cold War went nuclear, the remnants of NATO and the Warsaw Pact close in on the people who started it.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Published: Jun 27, 2021 - Complete
Night Haunt
After the evaporation of black holes and dwarf stars in an entropic universe, a single source of power drives existence: the Nightgaunt Drive.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Published: Jun 25, 2021 - Complete
The Widow's Whip reviews
Attacked by younger assailants, an old widow evens the odds with a surprising weapon.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 370 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 25, 2021 - Complete
The Cackling Planet
The gas giant R3-X had an eerie radio scream. After unsuspecting fugitives land on one of its moons, a horrifying blight is unleashed on the universe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 625 - Published: Jun 22, 2021 - Complete
The Right Stars reviews
Cthulhu never imagined saving the world, instead of destroying it.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 502 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 21, 2021 - Complete
Workflow Overload
On a private flight to Jeju, Park Daehun sensed the deputy manager was jealous of him, but he never envisioned how it would end.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 421 - Published: Jun 20, 2021 - Complete
Afterlife Overflow reviews
When Aunt Maya died, we followed her to the afterlife. However, all of them turned out to be true.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 533 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 17, 2021 - Complete
Sovereign Sensibilities reviews
An exile from time and space merges with a Maori priest, a tohunga, in ancient New Zealand. Together, they transform history to take on the Great Old Ones.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 639 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 16, 2021 - Complete
Thunder's Judge
Facing an existential threat to the universe, Abhari Cholagar must defeat a familiar foe: herself.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 753 - Published: Jun 8, 2021 - Complete
Ricochet Relay reviews
Hacker Victor Bravo confronts a familiar adversary during a disrupted delivery.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 404 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 6, 2021 - Complete
Weed Whacked reviews
I found a cursed sword at the scene of a crime. I found a surprising use for it, despite the life-stealing dark magic in the blade.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 424 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 6, 2021 - Complete
Arachne reviews
With the tools before her, she weaves a twisted web.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 23, 2021 - Complete
Senoshock reviews
After being approached by a private investigator, teenager Mariana Reyes makes a disturbing realization about the true age of her boyfriend.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 742 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 23, 2021 - Complete
A Fall Guy reviews
Booker Blackburn is a hacker and vigilante, and he targets a corrupt corporate executive.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 981 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 11, 2021 - Complete
Death Finds a Way reviews
An apprentice necromancer and his undead uncle prepare to sacrifice a young woman, only for dark magic to exact a different price than what he has in mind.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 485 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: May 1, 2021 - Complete
A Shore End reviews
At the end of Earth and time, a condemned criminal suffers a fate worse than death.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 437 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 1, 2021 - Complete
Choo-Choo Safari reviews
Fed up with deer and pests eating the family garden, they weaponized the garden railway that rings the property.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,052 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 29, 2021 - Complete
Clockstopper reviews
Lloyd Lewis is the child of freed slaves, seeking revenge on the bounty hunter who killed his father. He unleashes a special weapon he designed for the occasion.
Fiction: Western - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 881 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 24, 2021 - Complete
The Antipodal Racers reviews
The two racers, one light and one dark, circle around galactic antipodes. They shall run until the end of time.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 4, 2021 - Complete
The Fey Hunter reviews
With a trusty coilgun, he brought the fey to the brink of extinction. However, he senses something amiss about his own employer.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 4, 2021 - Complete
The Haul That Got Away reviews
A salvager must make a difficult decision about the find of a lifetime.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,457 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 1, 2021 - Complete
Cetacean Senses reviews
Stanley Norville was a rich, chronic underachiever. When the results of a college internship confront him, he has no one but himself to blame.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,160 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 1, 2021 - Complete
The Incident at Camp 17 reviews
Allied troops arrive at an empty extermination camp, seeing only smoldering ruins before them. A survivor tells an incredible story.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 785 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Mar 28, 2021 - Complete
A Sanguine Sacrament reviews
When the dread stars align, a ritual tournament is conducted on a distant island. The greatest warriors from the world are called. The victor must seal away a great evil, but at a tremendous cost.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Horror - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,269 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Updated: Mar 26, 2021 - Published: Mar 2, 2021
Never The Hero reviews
I was made to fight.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 16, 2021 - Complete
An Incident on the Maurya Maglev reviews
In near future India, a Gurkha awakens to an attempted train robbery.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 271 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 16, 2021 - Complete
A Frigid Shell reviews
An anomaly is detected beneath the melting glaciers of Greenland. An expedition departs to seek oil and mineral wealth, but finds something that predates humanity. Something that could end all life on Earth.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,099 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Mar 8, 2021 - Published: Mar 3, 2021
The Retribution Ratchet reviews
A brigand finds angering an inventor is grounds for a painful demise.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 662 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2021 - Complete
Loadout reviews
Always chose the right tool for the right job. When rampaging robots threaten the city, a lone engineering lab saves the day.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 713 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2021 - Complete
Thunderclap reviews
Stepping out of a besieged fortress, a youxia warrior with an exotic style singlehandedly faces a steppe horde. He swears to defeat them without taking a single life.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,425 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 24, 2021 - Complete
The Peacebringer reviews
Drina was the greatest telekinetic of her generation, sainted by the religion that once tried to exterminate her people. At Trinity Plain, she stood against an army of millions and ended large scale war, despite the cost of her own life.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,810 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 21, 2021 - Complete
The Sprocket Rotates reviews
Simplicity kills.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 20, 2021 - Complete
Only One reviews
A stealthy infiltrator descends into the belly of an aerial battleship.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 9, 2021 - Complete
Dinosaur Dirge reviews
Professor Cyrus Pencroft battled supernatural beasts and mundane threats, but he meets his greatest challenge on an expedition to a jungle island: the beasts of prehistory. Will he escape the dinosaurs without going extinct?
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,629 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 7, 2021 - Complete
Splatterball reviews
A Japanese baseball player refuses to throw a game for the yakuza. When hitmen come for him, he has to defend himself with repurposed sporting equipment.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 562 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 3, 2021 - Complete
A Snappy Memento reviews
They found the construct in the shed, with Uncle Gerald's other inventions.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 402 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 3, 2021 - Complete
Another's Problem reviews
The greatest arcane thief in the world has a spell that allows him to get away with anything: Making others view him as someone else's problem.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 309 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 20, 2021 - Complete
The Cackling Crown reviews
A warlord sat upon a throne of skulls, wondering how to consolidate his recent conquests.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 702 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 19, 2021 - Complete
Abysshead reviews
A diver tracks a strange organism emerging in the depths. While it was changed by artificial augmentation, she knows it and pities it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 675 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 18, 2021 - Complete
Field Trials reviews
A scientist in the Borneo jungle is isolated by uninvited guests. It provides an unexpected opportunity to test a new drug delivery system.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 642 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 17, 2021 - Complete
A Rare Jewel reviews
Vigilante fugitives Matt and Jada end up in Moscow. They race to find a hidden archive in the Moscow Metro.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,874 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 12, 2021 - Complete
A Golden Getaway reviews
An amateur robber has a gun full of blanks and bag of jewelry as the law closes in. His escape plan ends up being one showing why crime does not pay.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 265 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2021 - Complete
The Starfall Struggle reviews
When a voidship crashes in a barbaric land, the inhabitants forcibly unite it into a nation. Afterwards, they face their greatest foe.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2021 - Complete
The Headhunter reviews
In a cyborg dominated future, corporate headhunters literally live up to the name.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 228 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2021 - Complete
Vindication reviews
In his era, he was a seen as a mystic and wizard. In a technological present, he stands vindicated in his prior work.
Fiction: Fable - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 486 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2021 - Complete
Popup reviews
An elusive terrorist mastermind reappears when his phone starts moving. The resulting drone strike hits an unexpected mark.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2020 - Complete
Civic Restoration reviews
An archaeologist and his assistant encounter an arcane, sentient weapon from the ancient Thuran Empire. The outcome changes their world forever.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 669 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2020 - Complete
Seven Sins A Sun reviews
Seven doomed alien races left their traces across the universe, each succumbing to a deadly sin. Only now, their full histories can be told.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 7 - Words: 6,401 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Nov 18, 2020 - Published: Oct 24, 2020 - Complete
The Undersea Specter reviews
The unidentified submersible object is the maritime counterpart to the flying saucer. What if its origins were from Earth's own recent past?
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 463 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 1, 2020
Turned On reviews
My place or yours?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 1, 2020 - Complete
The Last Splattermage reviews
The blood mages were feared for their abilities, yet unsurpassed as healers. When jealous rivals attack, Scholarch Vitruvius Sanguinis demonstrates why.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 515 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 31, 2020 - Complete
Computer Mouse reviews
Computer technician Michael Tan was not seen in person for a week, although he was active online...
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 370 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 30, 2020 - Complete
Splashdown
What happens when space piracy, digital piracy, and nautical piracy combine in future Indonesia?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 323 - Published: Oct 6, 2020 - Complete
The Pine Pixies
A pack of bandits try attacking a village from a seemingly undefended approach. They find the Fair Folk are not so easily intimidated.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 642 - Published: Oct 2, 2020 - Complete
Cybergeist reviews
After a grisly suicide, haunted technology drives a man to the brink.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 573 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2020 - Complete
Contestant Zero
It is the first, and bloodiest, sport in human history. Many enter, one leaves. Every victory has a cost.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 761 - Published: Oct 2, 2020 - Complete
The Necronaut's Son
A mother joins a necronaut crew to free her son from the underworld. They pay a price in both the realm of the living and the realm of the dead.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 454 - Published: Sep 25, 2020 - Complete
Xenosphere
Mars and Venus wage a cold war across the solar system as smaller powers struggle to survive. When a strange object crashes into the Venusian atmosphere, a thousand small conflicts erupt across the system. Something ancient stirs, something that may predate the universe itself.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,217 - Updated: Sep 5, 2020 - Published: Aug 30, 2020 - Complete
The Wizard That Could
The apprentice wizard Hexius knows only a single spell. Unfortunately for his comrades, it was always a highly situational one. It may just save the world.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 655 - Published: Sep 1, 2020 - Complete
The Shadows of Giants
An ignoble researcher explores significant concepts long before others gain fame and success from the same.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 308 - Published: Sep 1, 2020 - Complete
Hypervelocity
Sometimes, all an underground scientist needs is a really big gun.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 650 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2020 - Complete
Trashcan
Waste disposal in space can ruin someone's day. And their planet.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 370 - Published: Aug 1, 2020 - Complete
Future Tense reviews
In an alternative timeline, Futurist Italy leads the Axis Powers, prepared to inflict their future upon the world.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Aug 1, 2020 - Complete
The Geophage reviews
A scientist investigating a strange mineral deposit finds more than he bargained for: a creature that feeds upon worlds.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 874 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jul 1, 2020 - Complete
Through the Eternal Gate reviews
A cruel cult leader drives his followers to grisly cult murder-suicides.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2020 - Complete
The Nourishing Star reviews
A starving, deprived child wishes upon a falling star.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 354 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 1, 2020 - Complete
The Broken Stars reviews
Galactic civilization lingered in a complacent peace for millennia, using the impossible technologies granted by esoteric mystics. As the galaxy disintegrates under the awakening of forgotten powers, the misfit crew of a transport vessel changes the fates of those they come across.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 5 - Words: 37,296 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jun 20, 2020 - Published: Jun 16, 2020 - Complete
The Lord of Broken Stars reviews
Feared sorcerer Mallon Kas Tun has grown bored with omnipotent rule of the Four Worlds, so he travels the breadth of his domain incognito.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 31,910 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jun 14, 2020 - Published: Jun 11, 2020 - Complete
A Righteous Harvest reviews
Matthew Murphy and Jada Jackson are fugitive vigilantes battling the forces of Hell. Their search lands them at an abandoned agricultural research facility. Inside is a truly infernal crop.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,249 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jun 6, 2020 - Complete
Digital Dethroning
A programmer adds a powerful avatar to rule over the online game he created. He did not expect to be deposed.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 355 - Published: Jun 1, 2020 - Complete
Hard Sell reviews
Secondhand arms dealer Uncle Tony describes his merchandise in a galaxy full of casual space travel.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,192 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 1, 2020 - Complete
Potty Mouth reviews
When toilets come to life, only true crap can stop them.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 980 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 1, 2020 - Complete
Indecision 2020 reviews
Who to vote for this year? Look to the unexpected candidates!
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 3 - Published: May 23, 2020 - Complete
Galactic Garbage reviews
A lunar mission discovers an ancient alien artifact, a piece of scrap metal. From alien garbage comes unexpected benefits to human civilization.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 14, 2020 - Complete
Scunner's Last Run reviews
Scunner is a teenage orphan in the city of Southport. Infiltrating an open gate, his curiosity leads to the horrid truth of elven reproduction.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 970 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 10, 2020 - Complete
The Emperor's Mirror reviews
A proud ruler sees only what he desires, rather than what is.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 1, 2020 - Complete
The Scuttling Mediator reviews
Dr. Akruthi Roy was a xenobiologist on an alien world filled with insectile creatures, none larger than her fist. She becomes an unwitting emissary between Earth and an alien intelligence.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 805 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 1, 2020 - Complete
The Kiwi Heist reviews
An oligarch flees to a private bunker in New Zealand, only for the locals to have their own plans.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 312 - Reviews: 4 - Published: May 1, 2020 - Complete
A Joyful Heart reviews
Matthew Murphy and Jada Jackson are Marked by otherworldly forces, charged with battling the forces of Hell. After a strange vision, they must protect an newfound ally before a supernatural killer strikes again.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,261 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Apr 25, 2020 - Complete
Written in the Stars reviews
Based on a Roger Penrose theory, scientist Hypatia Parsons finds messages in the stars that predate the universe itself.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 815 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 15, 2020 - Complete
The Plaguebearer reviews
A doctor awakens on a foreign shore, unwitting bringing a plague with him.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,299 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 2, 2020 - Complete
The Truth Out There reviews
Martin Maxson freaks out about his sister's engagement, driving deep into the deserts of the American southwest. After a strange encounter, he reevaluates his position.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 686 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Apr 1, 2020 - Complete
Interface
When neurotechnology bridges minds, a joining of minds becomes more intimate than one of bodies.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Published: Apr 1, 2020 - Complete
Under Dead Stars
Using a device capable of looking backwards across time and space, Dr. Ulysses Underhill records stories from long dead alien civilizations.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 4 - Words: 6,043 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Mar 15, 2020 - Published: May 11, 2019
Marginal Meals reviews
A cruel empire used famine to annihilate its enemies, but is forced to desperate lengths to ensure its own survival. They succeed in a way different than they originally envisioned.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 919 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2020 - Complete
Mama Bird reviews
Empathy for life is weaponized by a biological spaceship Evita and its pilot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 776 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2020 - Complete
Integration By Parts reviews
Each crew of the starship Irrational Integral traces their mental lineage to a single person, a victim of a cult leader. In their mentor's memory, they travel the known worlds, investigating fringe theories and claims of the supernatural. They are ambushed by someone who knows them better than they know themselves.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,679 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Published: Feb 21, 2020 - Complete
The Rubble Heap reviews
Ingea never witnessed the disaster for which she was blamed, after they disregarded her warnings. With only her wits and inventions, she has to survive a collapsing empire and supernatural incursions.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,875 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 20, 2020 - Complete
The Wave from the Edge reviews
I've had the dubious honor of living in the world's gutters. Despite this, I've wanted to make waves around the world. Here's one way I found out.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 789 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 2, 2020 - Complete
Sewage reviews
Eric Easton ran over a homeless woman on his way to work, dismayed only because she spoiled herself on his expensive car. He finds other reason than remorse or law to worry.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 572 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Published: Feb 1, 2020 - Complete
Force Projection reviews
Telepresence technology greatly facilitates martial arts training, granting endless fights to those seeking it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 327 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 1, 2020 - Complete
The Big Rusty Couch reviews
Sonata Song has recently transitioned to female, and her distant uncle requests her help to confront a supernatural menace.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,066 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 22, 2020 - Complete
The Slacker Rebellion reviews
Ensign Edron is an unwilling conscript in an evil empire. He rebels in his own way, by doing his job incompetently. It leads to unexpected places.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 760 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 18, 2020 - Complete
The House Remembers reviews
In a realm unbound by time and memory, they struggle to recall their relationship with the house.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 388 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jan 18, 2020 - Complete
The Amateur Operatives reviews
A covert operative must be selective in how they use tools and tactics.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 18, 2020 - Complete
Cosmic Couriers
How do you maintain standards of time, across cosmic distances?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Published: Jan 18, 2020 - Complete
A Heavenly Calling reviews
Matthew Murphy found salvation in a baptism of rancid meat and warm blood. Living an austere, repressed life, he finds sometimes the Lord works in violent, inscrutable ways.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,837 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 15, 2020 - Complete
A Moral Aphelion reviews
A starship admiral is tasked with ending an interstellar war by any means necessary. When they have the chance for a decisive, ruthless blow, they struggle with different sets of ethical and analytical factors.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,259 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jan 2, 2020 - Complete
Family Values reviews
Thanks to medical advances, grandparents become their own grandchildren.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 203 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2020 - Complete
The Cold Shoulder reviews
Two cannibal cavemen try to resolve their dispute.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 1, 2020 - Complete
The Green Grenadier reviews
Explosions blossom across the Sahara, leaving green shoots in their wake.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 24, 2019 - Complete
A Digital Homecoming reviews
On a cold Christmas night, a lonely old man encounters a transition between digital dreams and physical reality.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 807 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 20, 2019 - Complete
The Ironstar Epiphany
During a routine flight, assistant pilot Arathi Ironstar receives a message from the end of the universe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 948 - Published: Dec 11, 2019 - Complete
The Soma Script reviews
Archeologist Durbar Chatterjee has discovered the secret behind the Vedic gods' immortality: soma. Strange assassins pursue him across the contested Kashmir border between India and Pakistan, and he has no choice but to work with unlikely allies.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,633 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: Dec 11, 2019
Juvenalia, Too reviews
Ian Ward returns home to discover his family's involvement with dark, supernatural forces, and their sinister relation to children's shows. With newfound allies and mysterious enemies, he must face a covert world of esoteric puberty and insidious secrets.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 9 - Words: 92,587 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Updated: Dec 7, 2019 - Published: Jun 19, 2017 - Complete
Hammerhead reviews
It lurks beneath the surface.
Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 1, 2019 - Complete
Bounty reviews
How much is kinship worth to those without it?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 445 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 1, 2019 - Complete
Special Delivery reviews
What if the fastest method of world travel involved supercavitating submarines?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 365 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2019 - Complete
Camera Obscura reviews
In an age of universal facial recognition, universal security is an illusion. A former mob informant finds out the hard way.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 283 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 2, 2019 - Complete
The Cycle Comes to Sakroth reviews
In the aftermath of a tumultuous riot, a desperate necromancer finds his planned escape complicated by someone he thought dead.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,757 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 31, 2019 - Complete
The Terminal Cycle reviews
On a warm spring evening in the Southern Gothic city of Terminas, an unfortunate man blunders into a time loop.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,776 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 22, 2019 - Complete
The Opiate of the Masses reviews
A visionary entrepreneur and religious preacher join forces to distribute a device that ends human suffering. Their success is not quite how they envision it to be.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 642 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2019 - Complete
The Shadow in Hallasan reviews
During World War II, Imperial Japanese forces enter a strange cave on Jeju Island. Two Korean brothers pursue them.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,044 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 2, 2019 - Complete
How To Build A Flying Saucer reviews
Building a viable flying saucer is not that hard. The irony is it can't work in space.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 586 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Sep 14, 2019 - Complete
About Face reviews
Using self-replicating warships and mind uploading, a strategic mastermind is conquering the galaxy. However, they eventually run up against a truly challenging foe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 586 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 14, 2019 - Complete
Food Chain reviews
In the macabre city of Dirge, the necrophagic undead fear what feeds on them.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 759 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2019 - Complete
Waking Self reviews
In a grim future, self-discipline and determination are tested through escapist methods.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 371 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 1, 2019 - Complete
It Remembers
In a dead universe, it remembers what was, and it imagines what may be.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Published: Aug 27, 2019 - Complete
The Coriolis Whiplast reviews
Sergeant Sean Sung arrives at the cylinder habitat Canned Arcadia for some relaxation. The last thing he expects is to be drawn into a sniper duel with a cyborg assassin.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,154 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 4, 2019 - Complete
Deeper South reviews
Norbert Norville was a doctor during the American Civil War, and a covert supporter of the Underground Railroad before. When murderous Klansmen invade his home, he has a few secrets to even the odds.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,408 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Aug 4, 2019 - Complete
Undersea Encounters reviews
I dive into the lagoon to see her once more.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 4, 2019 - Complete
The Drifter
It drifts towards the surface, neither fully animal nor fully machine.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 308 - Published: Aug 2, 2019 - Complete
A Shoggoth from Space
A shoggoth from space wants to eat my face.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Published: Jul 17, 2019 - Complete
Human Trials reviews
When ruthless mercenaries invade a research station, a scientist takes the chance to conduct human trials of their latest research.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 562 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 7, 2019 - Complete
The Battle in the Venoan Gulf reviews
The city-state of Venoa once connected the world with its trade-routes, until a volcanic eruption buried it overnight. Once its ruins were found, several nations send fleets to seize its treasures. However, they find something unexpected awaiting them.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,005 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 6, 2019 - Complete
The Lost Fleet reviews
In an alternative history, a very different Joseon Korean armada battles a Spanish treasure fleet.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 712 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 28, 2019 - Complete
Last Request reviews
In a dying universe, posthuman intellects battle for scarce resources to prolong their existences into the deep time era. A defeated super-mind imparts a last request.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 502 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jun 28, 2019 - Complete
Retirement Plan reviews
When artificial pleasure devices proliferate, what if they can be used in place of torture? A secret policeman muses on how such devices changed the fate of his victims.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 28, 2019 - Complete
The Dust Settles reviews
We are but dust in history.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,400 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 9, 2019 - Complete
Jetsam
Jetsam is an artificial atoll in disputed waters, a sprawling slum of shell companies and cybercrime. When a corporate whistleblower flees there, a small army of cyborg assassins close in on her. Can she survive her former employer's revenge?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,324 - Published: Jun 4, 2019 - Complete
Adrift in Eternity reviews
The city drifted through the void, unbound by all but entropy.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 433 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 2, 2019 - Complete
The Iron Oath
How far do you go when you know you are falling? Are you as at fault as those that enabled you?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,372 - Published: May 27, 2019
A Hunt in Malacca reviews
A hunter travels to the Malaysian jungles to track a rare Malayan tiger, trying to find it before poachers do.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 707 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 12, 2019 - Complete
A Cut Above reviews
A utility robot awakens on a ruined spaceship crashing towards the planet below. With disaster all around, it must find out what went wrong.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,925 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 26, 2019 - Complete
The Death of an Alchemist
An alchemist dies in his laboratory with no other human around, but he is hardly alone.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 407 - Published: Apr 24, 2019 - Complete
The Chameleon Kingdom
Some call it Neverland. Others, the fae realm. The Chameleon Kingdom absorbs broken children, gifting the strongest with cruelty or confidence. Four such survivors encounter each other on a jungle island one day, with guns drawn and triggers ready. Survival for all of them is not possible, in this realm or the Chameleon Kingdom.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 907 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 24, 2019
The Bengali Phantom reviews
Rudrashish Bose is an Indian nationalist working to undermine the British Empire in 1914. He travels to the heart of London to settle a score with a corrupt British official.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,287 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Apr 20, 2019 - Complete
The Psychovores reviews
An account from a lost starship details the hostility of the university to intelligent life.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,104 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Apr 13, 2019 - Complete
A Spear Has No Branches reviews
A mercenary recruit becomes the unwitting target of automated social manipulation.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 13, 2019 - Complete
Rising To Jianghu
Liu Haofeng faces a strange cult and evasive superior on his first deployment to the forsaken frontier. What he finds starts him on a journey that will take him across the world.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 4 - Words: 28,560 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Mar 23, 2019 - Published: Mar 9, 2019 - Complete
My Christchurch Memories
In wake of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, I recall my fond memories of that wonderful city and its inhabitants.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,170 - Published: Mar 18, 2019 - Complete
The Treading Titans
The Riverland Republic is an impoverished, rural nation along the coast. It is the sole nation remaining after the great empires of the world collapsed into ruin. As titanic beasts stir, the Republic and its desperate leaders may be the only thing standing between the world and the utter extinction of humanity.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,297 - Published: Mar 9, 2019 - Complete
The Thresher reviews
It rusts in a field, waiting.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 400 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Feb 26, 2019 - Complete
Security Blanket reviews
Her mother only wanted her to be safe.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 596 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: Feb 26, 2019 - Complete
The Merlion Protocol
Kaiju avoid the city-state of Singapore. Here is why.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 552 - Published: Feb 12, 2019 - Complete
Ostern Esoterica
In the near future, the warming Eurasian continent releases mysteries new and old. Professor Stefan Rostov and his robot companion Katyusha travel the new wilderness, streaming their discoveries to the world.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,717 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 4, 2019
Steel Thorns
Strange clockwork constructs emerge from the ground, consuming resources from an enchanted forest. The local druidic circle battles them, using a peculiar type of natural power.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 948 - Published: Feb 4, 2019 - Complete
Uncertainty Principle reviews
What if trolling technology made honesty and truth irrelevant? What if no one forgot all slights, real or imagined? A corrupt politician finds out the hard way.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,379 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Feb 3, 2019 - Complete
Nehebkau
Oh, two-headed serpent who guards the Duat, I have found your avatar.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Published: Jan 20, 2019 - Complete
Sanction reviews
The concentration of power and economic activity with automation can be self-defeating.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 20, 2019 - Complete
The KlausCorp Contract
What is it like to be a department store Santa in a cyberpunk dystopia?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,082 - Published: Dec 26, 2018 - Complete
The Gift
What present do you give a transhuman godling for the holidays?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 310 - Published: Dec 8, 2018 - Complete
The Called reviews
Three seekers, across time and space, encounter the same supernatural force.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2018 - Complete
When Father Frost Reigns reviews
What if Santa Claus conquered the world?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Dec 8, 2018 - Complete
Synaptic Sympathy
What if empathy went beyond words?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 230 - Published: Nov 18, 2018 - Complete
The Warbler
A near future mercenary encounters a strange device turning the tide in favor of archaic weapons.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 878 - Published: Nov 4, 2018 - Complete
Thank You for Playing
The nearly victorious player of an augmented reality scavenger hunt changes tactics as their greatest rival closes in.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 596 - Published: Nov 4, 2018 - Complete
The Breath of a Dead World
A space explorer awakens under strange circumstances, fleeing unknown creatures.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 609 - Published: Oct 28, 2018 - Complete
The Gothic Sector Ghost reviews
A phantom thief is tasked with stealing an ancient artifact from Earth's most secure facility. Sometimes, success leads to unexpected problems.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,329 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Oct 21, 2018 - Complete
Blue Screened
It takes a special brand of operating system to make suffering reliable.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Published: Oct 17, 2018 - Complete
The Medic's Sidearm
The medics of the 23rd are issued pistols for a very specific purpose.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Published: Oct 6, 2018 - Complete
The Dirge Dynasty reviews
The reigning dynasty is a decadent shell after four centuries of rule. As supernatural catastrophes and warfare blight the land, a handful of fearful souls turn to desperate means to save themselves.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 7 - Words: 10,939 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Sep 23, 2018 - Published: Sep 8, 2017
The Simplest Solution reviews
A student realizes the secret to a master's esoteric challenge.
Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 4 - Published: Sep 23, 2018 - Complete
Herostratus in the Void
The perpetrator of the greatest crime in history wakes as an unknown visitor closes in.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 683 - Published: Sep 16, 2018 - Complete
Necropolitan
A necromancer binds the spirits of a siege engineer and traitorous general for revenge against a corrupt empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,518 - Published: Sep 9, 2018 - Complete
Broken Apotheosis
The last free city faces extermination at the hands of a jealous empire, but this is only the beginning of the war. The scions of a broken god descend upon the nations of the world and beyond, calling forth fantastic machines, forgotten powers, and eldritch beings to seize godhood.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,106 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 15, 2018
Embers
At dawn I arose like a soldier, ready for the day's battle. I am a volunteer investigator in Chang'e lunar colony, and Earth's death disrupted more than my daily routine. You know why I'm coming for you.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,316 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 15, 2018 - Complete
Mindcast
What if your own memories could be used as blackmail?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Published: Jul 28, 2018 - Complete
The Cleaner
The true masters of the covert arts do not court attention.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Published: Jul 6, 2018 - Complete
Gearing Memories
As Doctor Jonis Wheellock retires from the Farseekers Lodge, he reflects on what the future may have in store.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,106 - Published: Jul 6, 2018 - Complete
The Ashport Diaries
A desperate university student, Randal "Peaches" Ashport, starts drowning in the memories of another's life, that of Professor Andrew Norville. As their memories merge, their combined skills are necessary to survive and escape a cursed forest.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,846 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 17, 2018 - Complete
The Blood Gate Offering reviews
Their captor stood before the ancient portal, with his ruthless mercenaries holding their two opponents at gunpoint. Ritual sacrifice is needed to open the portal, and they think they know how this ends…
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,307 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 10, 2018 - Complete
The Starward Strike
When a hostile alien approaches their world, the sorcerers of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu launch a mage-driven spacecraft to battle it.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,628 - Published: May 29, 2018
The Killchain
What happens when ubiquitous automation meets the spirit of Herostratus?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 555 - Published: May 26, 2018 - Complete
The Hierarch reviews
A cabal of technocrats and oligarchs unleash an artificial general intelligence to rule the world, only to be thwarted by their own success.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 26, 2018 - Complete
Fall Guy
The visitor left the briefcase in his hotel room, unaware of what would transpire.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 651 - Published: May 19, 2018 - Complete
Feelers reviews
You awaken to footfalls outside your door...
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 282 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 14, 2018 - Complete
Midnight Swim
I swim through sunless seas, treading water like Stygian mirk.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Published: May 14, 2018 - Complete
In A New York Minute
Gaoyang Liu visits his dying Grandma in New York City's Chinatown. When his visit is interrupted by a brazen theft, he gives chase with violent intentions.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,942 - Published: May 6, 2018 - Complete
The Skywatcher reviews
I watch the sky, so Rubius can sleep.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,192 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Apr 22, 2018 - Complete
Cinderqueen
Cinderqueen is a folk metal band rapidly gaining popularity, despite their humble origins. During a concert, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural force bent on their destruction. As the gap between their stage personas and personal lives vanishes, they find true metal is more than just music: It is a calling.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,511 - Published: Apr 21, 2018
Settlement Connectivity and Resource Acquisition in Wormholes
A section of thesis on the economics and politics of a now fallen wormhole network. Completely boring technobabble.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,147 - Published: Apr 21, 2018 - Complete
Dawnlight
Dawn's rays cascade through your hair...
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: Apr 17, 2018 - Complete
The Passover Protector reviews
Two Neo-Nazis face more than they bargained for while desecrating a synagogue.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,424 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 31, 2018 - Complete
Connection Lost reviews
Sometimes, memories take on a life of their own.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 353 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Mar 27, 2018 - Complete
Planet and Sword
It was not the first time I woke up buried underground on an alien world, but my quarry was to blame. I knew this eon long chase would end here, on this desolate world on the galactic rim.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,937 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 25, 2018 - Complete
Full Circle reviews
Twins Patrick and Patricia always clashed, especially when one became a police officer, and the other became an anarchist vigilante. Escalating turmoil brings them together once more.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 584 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 24, 2018 - Complete
The Swarm Wrangler reviews
Maria Suarez and her sister Juana work as drone swarm wranglers for a military contractor in a brushfire war. When her sister departs for a special assignment, her job takes a grim turn.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,118 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 17, 2018 - Complete
Railside Pilgrimage
A group of desperate souls travel to a mysterious, foggy location in Eastern Europe, where they must face their greatest trials and personal demons.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,533 - Published: Feb 16, 2018 - Complete
The Chronicle of Exarch Jeruph
Exarch Jeruph conquers a strange, newly-conquered province, only to encounter a peculiar, supernatural foe.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,976 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 15, 2018 - Complete
Underrealm
You remember waking up, but you do not remember falling asleep.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Published: Jan 17, 2018 - Complete
The Golden Games
Milo Archer is a martial artist forced into an underworld tournament of occult bloodsport. The winners will have their wishes granted, and the losers die horribly. To survive, he'll need to learn the esoteric rules of the contest.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,234 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 1, 2018 - Published: Oct 29, 2017
The Road to Leng
Corporal Gao Yifan leads a group of Chinese refugees fleeing the Imperial Japanese Army, heading for a desolate monastery. To secure sanctuary for them, he faces both supernatural terrors and an obsessive pursuer.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,612 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2017 - Complete
The Terminal Correction
Doctor Hypatia Boyle walks a fine line of tolerated skepticism and religious devotion, when she is offered a research position in a divided city. As she travels to the river port of Terminas, she discovers a peculiar conundrum.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,560 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2017 - Complete
The Lionsgate Hunter
Marine Tua Ing of the Lionsgate Republic charged with hunting a fearsome, underwater mechanical creature. During his training, he uncovers evidence about the machine's origins, and learns the true history of his own society.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,729 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2017
The Pantheon Iteration
An ambitious experiment in godhood has resulted in a war that pushed the multiverse to the brink of annihilation. A final confrontation resets the scenario with different parameters, but will it be enough to save existence?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 691 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2017
Armored in Death
In the Graveheart Protectorate, an afterlife is available to the rich and powerful. For the average citizen, service as necroplate-clad soldiers is their only chance at immortality.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 990 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 8, 2017 - Complete
The Last Exodus reviews
Aaron Ming leads an escape from a dying universe. As the remnants of civilization huddle around dimming dwarf stars, an ancient artifact offers the only possibility of salvation.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,023 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 24, 2017 - Complete
I Run
Scared out of my mind, I run to the car.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K - English - Suspense/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Published: Oct 24, 2017 - Complete
House of a Thousand Spiders
A roleplaying podcast recorded in an old Southern mansion is sporadically interrupted by an unearthly noise. The host and his friends try to determine the peculiar source.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,376 - Published: Oct 21, 2017 - Complete
Meeting Reverend Marsh
A short meeting with an insane cultist involves a grisly form of divination.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 358 - Published: Oct 18, 2017 - Complete
Double Vision
A mad scientist meets his hostile counterpart from an alternative universe.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,547 - Follows: 1 - Published: Oct 7, 2017 - Complete
The Mothman Stirs
Rick Landon investigates new sightings of the infamous Mothman in West Virginia. What he finds is a dangerous pursuit of an otherworldly force.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18,292 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 3, 2017 - Complete
In A Blink
Two uploaded minds discuss claims of a faster-than-light drive.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 393 - Published: Sep 8, 2017 - Complete
The Scuborg reviews
It floats amongst the benthic depths, simultaneously beneath and beyond human.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 457 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 13, 2017 - Complete
Solar Pinions
Nevertheless, I will surmount the sky.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Published: Aug 13, 2017 - Complete
Slouching Towards Jianghu
An itinerant scholar is drawn into a foreign conflict that came to his own shores.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,808 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 31, 2017 - Complete
A Gun for All Worlds reviews
Based on real-life engineering and current technology, what sidearm would be most useful for a space explorer? And might there be any other reasons than combat for a space gun? A thought experiment on hard science fiction weapon design.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,743 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jul 17, 2017 - Complete
From the Stars to the Stone
Stranded in remote Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut faces a primitive hunter out for his blood.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,132 - Published: Jun 21, 2017 - Complete
Persistance
The world changes. We endure.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Published: Jun 19, 2017 - Complete
The Iron Seedling
Sul pursues a fugitive beyond the frontiers of Onisah to a mechanical underworld. Along the way, she uncovers not all necromantic crime involves dark magic.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,142 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 7, 2017 - Complete
The Lovecraft Child reviews
When a New England writer's grave is desecrated, the result is something that would terrify even the long dead author.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 296 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 22, 2017 - Complete
Doodlebug Jitters
A group of refugees flee across the Nigerian border from unknown pursuers. Cyborg commandos investigate, only to stumble upon inhuman, terrifying foes.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,490 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 24, 2017 - Complete
Beneath the Nameless City
In postwar Iraq, a squad of US Marines are trapped with two strange researchers in a prehuman underground city.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,523 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 20, 2017 - Complete
When Winter Comes reviews
A spiteful man attempts to offend his neighbors with an obscene snow sculpture and mock ritual, only to encounter unexpected results. Warning: graphic erotica and hints.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,996 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 20, 2017 - Complete
My Time with Doctor David Risona reviews
I spent three weeks living with an online friend I never met in person. I knew he was a mad scientist, but he nevertheless managed to surprise me.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,945 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 6, 2017 - Complete
The Driven Dame reviews
Philip Clark is a private investigator in 1946 San Francisco. When he is hired by a strange woman to investigate a foreign fugitive, he uncovers a far larger conspiracy.
Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,747 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 3, 2017 - Complete
Escape from Robodeath Island
A small group of high-school students are stranded on a small island after a field trip goes awry, and then a strange death machine begins picking them off.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,958 - Published: Feb 27, 2017 - Complete
Beneath A Saffron Sky reviews
Settlers from Earth struggle to survive in cities floating in the clouds of Venus, protected only by their own ingenuity and sky piracy. During an aerial privateering assignment, an ace pilot encounters an unknown foe in the sulfuric skies.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,846 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 18, 2017 - Complete
The Nexus Decade
A prose poem about the fratricidal, multiversal war of the gods, and those aspects they represent.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 464 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Feb 18, 2017 - Complete
Whispers from the Waves
An Ottoman expedition to India is scattered by a storm, driving the survivors into uncharted waters. What they find was never intended for human eyes to behold.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,925 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 9, 2017
Seeding Senna
Senna is a remote island colony at the edge of the world. When an unknown event cuts them off from their mother country, unrest foments into civil war. Against this turbulence, a naturalist and amnesiac seek answers in the bizarre ecosystem of the island.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,919 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 18, 2017 - Published: Sep 30, 2016
The Omega Tango
Sierra Tango is a non-commissioned officer and historian in the solar system's most lethal mercenary company, the Omega Company. Humanity fragmented to uncountable subspecies and societies, and she finds herself in the midst of wars fought for others. After an intervention in an ally's civil war, she finds herself forced to make a fateful decision.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,875 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 19, 2016 - Complete
Juvenalia reviews
Two decades after graduating high school, Benny Bear is a toy collector still living in his parents' house. When an old comrade contacts him again, he finds the children's shows he idolizes were directly inspired by the supernatural horrors that ruined his life. With old and new friends, he confronts the conspiracy behind the monsters.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 7 - Words: 83,144 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Nov 17, 2016 - Published: Sep 13, 2016 - Complete
Blood Offering: Autumnal Epitaph
Lycanthrope Rick Landon rediscovers a place of immense personal significance, a mystic vista of supermundane majesty. When an intruder follows him there, horrific consequences result.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,272 - Published: Oct 29, 2016 - Complete
The Siren Beyond
A poem inspired by someone that simultaneously scares and appeals to me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 19, 2016 - Complete
Locust Dreams reviews
Major Philip Howard is a rogue American Special Forces member nicknamed "Al Azif." Haunted by strange visions as he hunts a terrorist cult, he is forced to gather unlikely allies to determine the cause. The secrets he uncovers extend back to antehuman antiquity, and he faces things better left forgotten.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 6,923 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Aug 12, 2016 - Published: Jul 23, 2016
First In
A lazy geomancer finds an unexpected foe waiting on the other side of a portal.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,735 - Favs: 2 - Published: Aug 12, 2016 - Complete
The Ascent from the Buried City reviews
The underground city of Haven was built eons ago to survive a catastrophe upon the surface. When a scholar's disconcerting findings reveal the possibility of something outside, a renegade swordsman must face what awaits them on the surface.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,192 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Aug 4, 2016 - Complete
The Sand Snake
After a being drugged on his birthday, an engineer finds himself captured by a bizarre cult worshiping an antehuman power.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,129 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 9, 2016 - Complete
The Redhanded Grasp
Occult thief Simon Thorne seeks artifacts of metaphysical significance, often thwarting malevolent forces in the process.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,233 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 20, 2016
The Death in the Swamp reviews
Two supernatural killers, a chainsaw slasher and a werewolf hitman, battle in a surreal swamp.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,738 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 28, 2016 - Complete
Just Me Again reviews
Now and then, a detective awakens to find his own dead, naked body somewhere in his house.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 687 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 2, 2016 - Complete
A Weird Roleplay
A contemporary necromancer conjures up the spirits of famous pulp writers to play a tabletop roleplaying game.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 873 - Published: Apr 21, 2016 - Complete
Pantheon's Pandora: The Wild Cards
A trio of feuding demigods are the only inhabitants of their lonely world. When their own battle draws towards a conclusion, they find themselves caught in a larger war to determine the fate of the multiverse.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 7 - Words: 7,614 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 25, 2016
Miskatonic Medical reviews
Dr. Lisa West is a postdoctoral researcher at Miskatonic University, continuing her infamous great-uncle's work in her own time. When her illicit job lands her in trouble, she learns the New England underworld can become very personal.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,626 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: Feb 27, 2016 - Complete
Stricken Moon
When a virulent form of lycanthropy infects a remote Pacific island, werewolf Rick Landon goes to investigate with a pack formed of history's greatest warriors. What they find is a threat to all life on Earth.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,171 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Feb 27, 2016 - Published: Feb 20, 2016
Orlova reviews
Despite her esoteric upbringing, Katya Orlova is an ace pilot in the Soviet Air Force's all female Night Witches bomber squadron. On the savage eastern front, she leads the battle against the occult machinations of the Axis Powers.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,462 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 24, 2016
The Peculiar Cases of Inspector Gao reviews
Gao Zhiyang is an honorable inspector working for an increasingly corrupt Ming dynasty. In his remote province, seemingly mundane crimes have often supernatural forces involved. With only his strange friends, his trusty sword arm, and his wits, he has to defend the common people from internal and external threats.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 3 - Words: 30,460 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Jan 19, 2016 - Published: May 18, 2015
Medium of Exchange
Jackson Graves is a financial consultant who assists the newly-departed with unfinished business. Corrupt corporations and violent crime plague the Delaware city of Port Ripton, ensuring a constant supply of ghosts and demand for both aspects of his trade. When a monstrous force begins hunting both the living and the dead, Jackson chases a foe that threatens fates worse than death.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65,535 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 19, 2016 - Complete
A Public Intellect
An inventor shares his uploaded memories and secrets with the world, bringing forth dramatic social changes. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 617 - Published: Jan 16, 2016 - Complete
Postmortal reviews
When famous inventor Dr. Desmond Dowell dies, he left behind three brain uploads. Each was made at a different point in their sire's life, for a different purpose. As they struggle for control of his empire, they come to terms with their nature and the fickleness of personality.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,983 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Dec 31, 2015 - Published: Dec 9, 2015
To The Burrowers Beneath reviews
The watcher stands alone on a hillside overlooking Christchurch on 3 September 2010, aware of memories he should not have.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 444 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 2, 2015 - Complete
The Rock Thrower reviews
An asteroid mining attempt ends badly. One shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 695 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Nov 21, 2015 - Complete
Steps Between Worlds reviews
The village of Shattercliff has a strange stone bridge outside town, made by unknown hands. When a local boy dies under strange circumstances, his sister and an itinerant stargazer realize otherworldly forces are involved.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 976 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: Nov 20, 2015
The Wretched Kris reviews
Long ago, a scorned Malay blacksmith forged an evil weapon for a twisted revenge. One shot.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 857 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Nov 18, 2015 - Complete
The Visitor from Town
The huntress Amali Fuy lives an uneventful life on the frontier, watching over her aging parents and selling hides at the town market. Things change when a stranger follows her home.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,308 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 10, 2015 - Complete
A Handful of Dust reviews
Neben Ka was once a peerless sorcerer in antiquity, but he has been reduced to sharing a crumbling apartment with the last descendent of his sworn protectors. In desperation, he turns to criminal activity. Roxanne Ryder and her college friends are monster hunters by night. When these youths inadvertently kill drug junkies, they provoke an escalating conflict with Neben Ka.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 19 - Words: 31,053 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Oct 18, 2015 - Published: Jul 12, 2015
Life in the Void reviews
An astronomer uses an occult ritual to search for extraterrestrial life.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,996 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 3, 2015 - Complete
The Atlantean Bangle
Professor Max Burrow is an aged adventurer turned academic, wasting away after his son died fighting in World War II. When an enigmatic woman shows up with an inexplicable artifact, Max will be forced to confront the ghosts of his past to uncover one of history's greatest mysteries. A yarn inspired by classic pulp adventure.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 4 - Words: 6,463 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: Jun 2, 2015
The Risen Army
In the hinterlands of the Unbounded Empire, a sworn knight of the Queen and enigmatic scribe uncover how an executed brigand returned at the head of a strange army.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,523 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 23, 2015 - Complete
The Mind of Dross Gellan reviews
In the barren land of Termina, a handful of humans struggled to eke out a meager and uncomfortable existence. Among them was a farmhand named Dross Gellan, a quiet worker average and unremarkable by all accounts. The world was unaware to his rapid rise to the forefront of historical change, for it could not have come from a more unexpected source. One shot.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 949 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Apr 16, 2015 - Complete
The Divinities of Onisah
The people of Onisah, the last Polarian colony and city state, have a cynical and cyclical view of history. A goddess of liberty and god of oppression take turns reigning over their republic during periods of democracy and autocracy respectively. A brief study examines the roots of their mythology.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 900 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 9, 2015 - Complete
The Easter Girl reviews
Last Easter, my planned vacation went off the rails when I found myself traveling with an unnerving pair of companions. I am still not sure which of them was creepier. A true story, as I can verify.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,446 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 31, 2015 - Complete
Guns of Aotearoa
My time in New Zealand introduced me to a young country with an intensely violent history. Here is a small portion of that history, with interesting trivia involving whaling to obscure American firearms to native uprisings to the geopolitics of World War I.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,202 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Mar 29, 2015 - Complete
My Lovely Monster reviews
What if your toys bled? When advanced biotech is widespread, young hobbyists battle their synthetic organisms in bloody tournaments, with the victors claiming fame and fortune. A mysterious girl funds an ambitious trainer's entry to a championship tournament, and they find that victory can bring powerful enemies.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 5 - Words: 9,003 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 17, 2015
The Landon Lineage
The Landon Lineage reaches far back to ancient days of yore, for the genetic memory includes much forgotten lore.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 30, 2015 - Complete
Blood Planet reviews
Dr. Michelle Penrose never imagined she would be infected with a lycanthropic disease, let alone hurled onto a world she barely comprehends. Pursued by dark forces merging fringe science and dark magic, she realizes that the stakes are much higher than her own survival. What does one life matter when dealing with the survival of a species?
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,570 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 26, 2015 - Published: Jan 16, 2015
Machinations in Mind reviews
Aris Davone is a natural philosopher with a polymathic intellect in the Freeport of Onisah. To assist his lover in the City Watch, he navigates the byzantine strings of the criminal underworld to their terminus. In the process, he fears becoming the very thing he loathes.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,453 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 11, 2015 - Complete
Graveyard Orbit reviews
My ghosts will haunt the furthest of stars.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,314 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 4, 2015 - Complete
The Abysses of Night reviews
Phil Ashton Carter was raised by the insane cult in a coastal town, and defends its secrets from curious outsiders that would stumble blindly into danger. When word comes that someone is preparing to awaken their slumbering master, Phil sets out to ensure the sacred mission he was raised for is fulfilled: to keep their god asleep.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,090 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 31, 2014
The Gift Bringer reviews
Santa Claus was not always Saint Nick.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Published: Dec 30, 2014 - Complete
The Marauders of the Frozen Sea reviews
The clerk Pollus Hespros is an unlikely candidate for an expedition to the far north, seeking the long lost Polarian homeland. The wonders and perils he encounters make him question if he was truly wise to join them. One shot.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,905 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: Dec 28, 2014 - Complete
Blood Moon reviews
After his first transformation into a werewolf, Rick Landon fled from the US into the Central American country of Montoya. An inexplicable urge drives him into conflict with others of his kind, seeking to prove themselves the strongest. As the country descends into chaos, Rick realizes the key to his survival may be buried in the Mayan ruins that dot the landscape.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 22 - Words: 51,246 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 4 - Updated: Dec 24, 2014 - Published: Oct 6, 2014 - Complete
A Web of Debts reviews
Jackson Graves is a freelance financial consultant and medium, helping ghosts with unfinished business. When he is hired for a cryptocurrency project, his life grows even more perilous. His journey leads him into a byzantine world of ruthless gangs, high-tech vigilantes, digital spirits, and some secrets that could cut closer to home than he ever envisioned.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Suspense - Chapters: 30 - Words: 52,899 - Reviews: 66 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 8 - Updated: Oct 1, 2014 - Published: May 23, 2014 - Complete
The Galactic Graveyard reviews
Across the cosmos, explorers from Earth have found nothing but the remains of extinct alien races. Engineer Iritana Muldoon and Professor Max Burrows aim to find out what wiped them out, before Earth joins them in a galactic graveyard.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,204 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Updated: Jul 9, 2014 - Published: Jul 2, 2014
The Wolf of Rome reviews
Rick Landon is consumed by the disease incubating within him as a mysterious pursuer hunts him back to his rural hometown. His only hope of survival might just be the fever dreams of an ancient Roman soldier with an impossible gift.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Fantasy - Chapters: 15 - Words: 23,143 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 2 - Updated: May 17, 2014 - Published: Mar 29, 2014
Save For Half: Roleplaying Misadventures reviews
I've decided to share some of my own roleplaying musings and ideas, particularly relating to Pathfinder and D&D. I hope all you RPG players out there get a kick out of this. Now, tactics and planning.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 6,494 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Feb 20, 2014 - Published: Jan 1, 2013
Doktor Bizarro's Bookshelf of Horrors reviews
Your future overlord, the second rate supervillain Dr. Bizarro, shares his opinions of horrible books. From the trainwrecks of modern writing to the gutters of history, no standard is too low. Now, Herr Doktor reads a combination of historical fantasy and police thriller set in Japan.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 43 - Words: 73,480 - Reviews: 90 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 13 - Updated: Dec 1, 2013 - Published: Mar 9, 2009
As Darkness Falls reviews
The Roman Empire crumbles as darkness and superstition fall over Europe like a burial shroud. Marcus Valerius is a lone scholar seeking to preserve the learning of antiquity for the future. With both a sword and strange powers, he will not go gently into the long night.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,886 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 6, 2013 - Complete
The Codex of War
Notes on the world of "Stone Against The Sea," a pulp swashbuckling serial in the spirit of Robert Howard. Now covering the Tsardom of Ursia, the Great Bear of the North.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 4 - Words: 2,895 - Favs: 1 - Updated: May 21, 2013 - Published: May 18, 2013
Misadventurers reviews
A dysfunctional family uses a fantasy roleplaying campaign to help each other confront their personal issues.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,118 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 4, 2013
Edge of Enlightenment: Insights on the Arcane reviews
Doctor Cyrus Pencroft combines magic and science to unravel the secrets of a hidden, supernatural side of our own world. He covers everything from defensive tactics to strange events to bizarre creatures.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 6 - Words: 6,497 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 1, 2013 - Published: Dec 19, 2012
Mastermind Lectures reviews
A collection of essays on the strategies and philosophies of comic book and speculative fiction masterminds. We cover everything from taking over the world to battling giant monsters and more.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,714 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Updated: Nov 22, 2012 - Published: Nov 12, 2012
Kids These Days reviews
Three online friends in different parts of the world run a scam that inadvertently becomes the world's largest cybercrime cartel. Dealing with their success pits them against each other. What happens when computer games, connectomes, and crime collide?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Crime - Chapters: 6 - Words: 21,150 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Oct 17, 2012 - Published: Oct 10, 2012
The Retromancer Blog reviews
A washed up Internet personality blogs about the near future, as world war, social upheaval, and stranger things destroy his life. Collaboration with K. Hopkins.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 13 - Words: 19,639 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Oct 13, 2012 - Published: Aug 23, 2012 - Complete
The Gilded Road: Far Corners
A drunken mercenary, ascetic scholar, and determined huntress race a renegade warlord to a legendary lost city.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,720 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 7, 2012
Ergo Sum reviews
What if you could sleepwalk through life without the illusion of free will? What does it truly mean to be a thinking being? A high tech saboteur is forced to know himself more than he ever wanted to.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 15 - Words: 57,397 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 6 - Updated: Oct 7, 2012 - Published: Oct 17, 2011 - Complete
Warsparker reviews
What if crowdfunding could start wars? One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 436 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Aug 23, 2012 - Complete
Port Ripton Records reviews
In a dystopian city, superhumans battle each other and the corrupt government for control of the streets. A collection of short stories set in the same universe.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,160 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: May 29, 2012
American Wuxia reviews
A martial artist and his gunsmith roommate battle mythic monsters and ruthless villains using fists and guns.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,712 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 17, 2012
There Be Monsters reviews
A horror movie nerd and gunslinging mad scientist travel the world following the footsteps of a late adventurer, and battle supernatural creatures, mad cults, and other strange foes.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 12,700 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Oct 31, 2011 - Published: Oct 5, 2011
The Science Odyssey of Nate Neutrino
In an alternative Fifties, super scientist Nate Neutrino is framed for treason by a corrupt FBI agent. To clear his name, he must deal with mad scientists, atomic mutants, Communist spies, and maybe save the world in the process.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 794 - Published: Sep 10, 2011
Legal Challenge reviews
A robot attempts a legal defense by changing the nature of his synthetic personhood. One shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 437 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 10, 2011 - Complete
Exhuman reviews
It sleepwalks through life without consciousness, more and less human than us. One shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 368 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 9, 2011 - Complete
Accounts from the Gulf Exclusion Zone reviews
The exact happenings of the Gulf Event are still unclear. Machines designed for evolution may have just out competed humanity.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,313 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jun 28, 2011 - Published: Jun 27, 2011
The Postgrad Adventures reviews
A lazy academic uses his grad students as cannon fodder for dangerous ventures in the name of mad science.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 10,256 - Reviews: 4 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jun 15, 2011 - Published: Jun 7, 2011
Blind Eye Comics: Sands of Gallipoli
In an alternative history, the man later known as Ataturk defends the beaches of Gallipoli from the ANZAC invaders using an exotic new form of armor.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 930 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 7, 2011 - Complete
Blind Eye Comics: A Pulse of Bile reviews
In an alternative history, a former doctor of the vile Unit 731 takes his vengeance on postwar Japan using his passion for exotic biological weapons.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 915 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 7, 2011 - Complete
Blind Eye Comics: You Only Die Once
In an alternative history, after pitting enhanced humans against each other in bloodsport experiments, a rogue spy and mad scientist attempt to unwind.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 591 - Favs: 1 - Published: Apr 8, 2011 - Complete
A League of Our Own reviews
Former genetically engineered super soldiers find there is more profitable uses for their talents than war or manual labor. One shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 498 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Mar 31, 2011 - Complete
Blind Eye Comics: Running Aground
A mute commando battles a cyborg pirate on a primeval island.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,276 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 20, 2011 - Complete
The Troubleshooting Reality Blog reviews
A researcher uses cutting edge real technologies and firepower to defeat supernatural horrors, strange fusions of magic and technology, and stranger foes.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,039 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 10, 2011 - Complete
The Myriad Calamities of Luke LaChance reviews
Luke LaChance is a gambler down on his luck, covered in debt, and a magnet for supernatural misfortune.
Fiction: Western - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Western - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,414 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 16, 2011 - Complete
Blind Eye Comics: The Guardian
In an alternative history, an ambitious geoengineering project in Africa is protected and worked on by the disabled, desperate, and destitute. One shot story.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,566 - Favs: 1 - Published: Feb 5, 2011 - Complete
Yuletide Surprise
Little Jimmy wakes up to see someone other than Santa, who reminds him of the true purpose of the holidays.
Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 411 - Published: Dec 25, 2010 - Complete
Science Detectives: Post Singularity Adventures reviews
A female private eye, a powered armor bodyguard, a mad scientist, and a self aware blob of nanobots try to save the posthuman pulp future that never was. Hard science fiction meets two fisted tales.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 4 - Words: 32,425 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Sep 23, 2010 - Published: Jul 3, 2010
The Showdown at Solar Flats
A bounty hunter on a remote world is hired by a corrupt businessman to hunt down a dangerous saboteur. One shot short story.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,427 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 21, 2010 - Complete
New Galactic Encyclopedia reviews
Step right up and read all about the hard science fiction pulp future! A companion piece explaining the setting of "Science Detectives" in greater detail.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 5 - Words: 7,424 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Aug 13, 2010 - Published: Jul 4, 2010
Zeitgeist reviews
Three dysfunctional brothers and their friends are forced together to wage a covert war against the human and supernatural evils that infest their hometown. As their battle becomes personal, they realize they only truly have each other.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 28 - Words: 108,098 - Reviews: 59 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Jul 31, 2010 - Published: Feb 7, 2010
An Alien Appetite reviews
It was the pilot for a reality show: The log of the last man on a remote colony world faces an unknown alien race awakening. When first contact is attempted, the results are unexpected. One shot short story.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,428 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 9, 2010 - Complete
The Might of this Army reviews
The might of an army can be determined by the littlest things and lowliest people.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 2 - Published: May 31, 2010 - Complete
Agent Foxtrot reviews
A profanity spewing government agent shafted with all the worst jobs searches for supernatural threats in the gutters of America and beyond.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 9,372 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Updated: May 14, 2010 - Published: May 4, 2010
Pirate Safari reviews
Not all aquatic sports are boring. One shot.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 464 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 7, 2010 - Complete
Roxanne Ryder On the Road reviews
Driven from home, a greaser girl begins a journey across the strange underbelly of 1950s America. She encounters sex, drugs, violence, and the ride of a lifetime.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,441 - Reviews: 1 - Published: May 4, 2010
The Mother of Shadows: An Alternative History reviews
The army of Napoleon Bonaparte emerges from the dark corners of the world, prepared for the annihilation of all before them. Strange and ancient entities stir as the world tears itself apart through war. A tale of alternative history and fantasy.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 56 - Words: 60,019 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 4 - Updated: Apr 22, 2010 - Published: Apr 8, 2009 - Complete
Ultima Ratio reviews
Ultima Ratio is transhumanity's final argument against extreme threats. Can these daring do gooders survive a post Singularity galaxy of insidious aliens, mad scientists, and other vile villains? Transhumanist hard scifi pulp space opera.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 18,480 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Mar 20, 2010 - Published: Feb 26, 2010
The Fourth of July Surprise
On the Fourth of July, a foreign nation invades the United States and institutes its own customs. One shot.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Published: Mar 20, 2010 - Complete
The Easter Surprise
In an alternative history, a corrupt Pope gets surprise guests for Easter. One shot.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 273 - Published: Mar 20, 2010 - Complete
The Saint Patrick's Day Surprise reviews
In an alternative 1631, an Irish village gets a chance to share another culture's religious traditions firsthand. One shot flash story.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Mar 14, 2010 - Complete
Photonic Ultimatum reviews
A mad scientist attempts to make a deal with the people he terrorizes, and finds they may have more in common than he first thought. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 737 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Mar 13, 2010 - Complete
A War of Things To Come reviews
A lowly officer, cursed to see the most probable future of everyone he sees, must make a difficult decision. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,250 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 14, 2010 - Complete
The INSANE Summit reviews
The annual meeting of the International Network of Scientists Against Needing Ethics ends in a surprising way. Flash fiction. One shot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,062 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 12, 2010 - Complete
Lightning Strikes Twice reviews
In disaster ravaged Haiti, a group of mercenaries tries to capture a notorious escaped gang leader. One shot.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,583 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 6, 2010 - Complete
The Argonaut Initiative reviews
Existential risks threaten the people of the world on a daily basis, without most even knowing. The USA deploys a covert, high tech taskforce known as the Argonaut Initiative to defend itself. A new agent finds that not everything is as it seems.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 22,738 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Jan 31, 2010 - Published: Jan 20, 2010
The Metal Saga of Rob Stone reviews
Legendary guitarist Rob Stone must save heavy metal from supernatural, soul crushing forces making bad music.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 11,603 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 31, 2010 - Published: Jan 17, 2010
A Hero of the People reviews
In an alternative history, a Cold War defender of capitalism is laid to rest. One shot.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 31, 2010 - Complete
Scrawlings of the Gods reviews
Random notes from the desktops of various supreme beings.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,978 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 4 - Updated: Jan 26, 2010 - Published: Jan 19, 2010 - Complete
Not Even The Dead reviews
The Gray Legion ensures not even the dead see the end of war. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,524 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 23, 2010 - Complete
Symphony of Pain reviews
A mobster psychologically tortures a music store owner who refuses to pay protection money. One shot.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,279 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 14, 2010 - Complete
Shady Business reviews
A selfish vigilante performs a task to help his primary career. Flash fiction one shot.
Fiction: Action - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,458 - Reviews: 3 - Published: Jan 13, 2010 - Complete
The Morning Messenger reviews
A hitman goes for a jog and hunts his mark. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 762 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jan 9, 2010 - Complete
Last March of the Fair Folk reviews
The sudden reappearance of the fey and their genocidal war against humanity comes to a strange end. One shot flash fiction.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 283 - Reviews: 3 - Published: Jan 5, 2010 - Complete
All Under Heaven: The Enemy Within reviews
In the far eastern land of Khitai, a group of rebels and ancient martial arts masters attempt to defeat the depraved warlords and corrupt foreign powers that control the country.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 21,756 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Jan 2, 2010 - Published: Dec 20, 2009
Christmas Surprise reviews
During the English Civil War, a Welsh village gets some surprise guests. Alternative history. One shot.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 535 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Dec 19, 2009 - Complete
Rex Ratio on the Homefront reviews
The Transhuman Technomad, Rex Ratio, attempts to relax when an uninvited guest drops in. Starring Rex Ratio and Doktor Bizarro.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,763 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Dec 3, 2009 - Complete
The Mysterious Casefiles of Marie Magnum reviews
Marie Magnum is a hard boiled private investigator in the post-Singularity city of New Chicago. She and her partner Charlie Chong face off against crime lords, mad scientists, rambling ideologues, and stranger threats.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 19,138 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Nov 26, 2009 - Published: Oct 15, 2009
Future Zero: The Extropian Saga reviews
A mad cyborg and his stranger crew travel around the galaxy seeking messages from a possible future, and the distant past. Hard science fiction transhumanist space opera. Now, the crew must investigate an old arcology home to more than dust.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 18,981 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Nov 22, 2009 - Published: Jun 5, 2009
Stranger Aeons: The Thinking Man's Army reviews
Stranger Aeons is a well educated mercenary group specializing in defending scientific, ecological, and historical items. They become caught up in a trail of events leading to rumors of Japanese war plunder. Realistic tactical action.
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 17 - Words: 81,147 - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Nov 16, 2009 - Published: May 4, 2009 - Complete
Captain Ray Gunn and the Planet of Illusion reviews
Captain Ray Gunn must investigate the mysterious disappearance of a colony on the planet Sheldon IV. A homage to retro science fiction.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,532 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 26, 2009 - Complete
Across the Pond reviews
An American chainsaw maniac hunts chavs in London while musing over English language differences.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,904 - Reviews: 3 - Published: Oct 13, 2009 - Complete
Garden State Mystic: The Life of H B Edwards reviews
Henry Barrett Edwards is an occultist and mystic who spent most of his life in New Jersey. While he and his works faded into obscurity after his death in 1938, he is a notable figure in the local history of the Garden State.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 585 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Oct 12, 2009 - Complete
Resonance of Ages: A Horror Novel reviews
In a college with a dark history, a group of students must uncover the past and face themselves if they wish to have a future. Tarot themes, Jungian psychology, and local legends combine.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 22 - Words: 44,534 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Oct 5, 2009 - Published: Oct 5, 2008 - Complete
Doctor Neutrino's Bare Knuckle Science Adventures reviews
Former soldier and super scientist Nate Neutrino is on the run from the horrors of the 1950s: McCarthyists, communists, aliens, radioactive mutants, mad scientists, and worse. Now, Dr. Neutrino must defend a hidden South Pole research base.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 6 - Words: 30,718 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Sep 28, 2009 - Published: Jun 18, 2009
Everdark: The New World, A Gothic Drama reviews
In 1816, the world was plunged in eternal darkness. Many years later, a fugitive hunter must flee from his former compatriots, assisted by a ghost soldier and manufactured man. They must face the horrors of a darkened New World.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 2 - Words: 12,584 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: Aug 30, 2009 - Published: Aug 18, 2009
Symphony of Aeons: The Log of an Expatriate Vessel reviews
An international group of mercenaries on an ancient warship explore an alternative Napoleonic era. Now, the crew must uncover the mystery behind a Norse artifact on the American frontier.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 9 - Words: 42,499 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: Jun 25, 2009 - Published: May 6, 2009
Terran Sphere Index
A reference for certain terms and entities in the "Future Zero" universe. Be clarified about the types of posthumans, entities, and technologies available.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,632 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jun 10, 2009 - Complete
EASE: The Philosophy of Kinetic Survival reviews
This essay outlines a new physical discipline combining combatives, martial arts, and parkour. The economy of motion, lines of cover, and common sense are combined for a simple, versatile way to view motion and combat.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 976 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jun 9, 2009 - Complete
FU: Forester University Adventure Blog reviews
The Campus Defense Club is the only thing preventing legions of frat boys, drunken hippies, chainsaw maniacs, and worse from overrunning their school. Now, they must fight an army of deranged cosplayers with the power to break the fourth wall.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,280 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Updated: May 5, 2009 - Published: Apr 20, 2009
Notes on World Militaries: A Defense Primer reviews
The Great Powers of an alternative, steampunk Napoleonic Wars prepare for mobilization. Si vis pacem, para bellum. Now, Doctor Risona investigates the fearsome Russian Varangian Guard, a unit dating from the Byzantine Empire.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 9 - Words: 5,473 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Apr 11, 2009 - Published: Sep 8, 2008
Stranger Than Fiction: An Index of Strange Truths reviews
Reality is much stranger than fiction, since fiction has to make sense. Read about strange but true historical events and facts. Now, bizarre stories from WW2: An American guerrilla in the Philippines, and a forgotten Japanese lab of horrors.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,730 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Feb 7, 2009 - Published: Dec 11, 2008
Ergo Sum: A Post Singularity Urban Fantasy reviews
An amoral atheistic investigator must stop a plot to exterminate the gods by becoming one himself in the process.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,288 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 3, 2009
The Thanksgiving Surprise reviews
In a history that never happened, an uninvited group crashes one of the first Thanksgivings.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 402 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 26, 2008 - Complete
Tabernacle: A Novel of Posthumanity reviews
As a posthuman civilization faces annihilation at the hands of an autoevolving superweapon, the agents of an AI track a transhuman serial killer across the galaxy.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 58 - Words: 42,436 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Sep 21, 2008 - Published: Jun 14, 2008 - Complete
Quantum Ghost reviews
An autistic teenager must face a supernatural threat in the Catholic high school he attends. In the process, he and his friends must confront demons within and without. On hiatus.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 16 - Words: 15,134 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Sep 14, 2008 - Published: Aug 20, 2008
Posthuman Herald reviews
A researcher waging guerrilla war comes into contact with the strange forces of the Zones, areas where reality breaks down. The keys to victory may lie inside the Zones and himself. The future of both humanity and the war both depend on those secrets.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 32 - Words: 25,817 - Reviews: 20 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Aug 19, 2008 - Published: May 25, 2008 - Complete
Singularity Dreams: A Poem in Fibonacci Meter reviews
The Singularity and transformation of the human baseline as described by a Fibonacci inspired rhythm.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Jun 28, 2008 - Complete
Candy from Strangers reviews
In occupied Manchuria, a doctor offers candy to starving children, but has more on his mind than feeding the poor.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 617 - Reviews: 4 - Published: Jun 22, 2008 - Complete
The Infoduel: A Novel of Decentralized Conflict reviews
Two subversive groups compete for influence around the world. Governments, corporations, mercenaries, terrorists, and criminal organizations become pawns in an invisible world war for the hearts and minds of the next generation. Completed.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 71 - Words: 78,334 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 3 - Updated: Jun 13, 2008 - Published: Nov 25, 2007 - Complete
Empires of the Sun: A Historical Fantasy reviews
After the Mongol invasion, several Japanese refugees flee across the Pacific Ocean. A threat awaits in the lands far south, and an expedition crosses a bizarre, alternative North America in hopes of salvation from tyrannical Aztec gods.
Fiction: Manga - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 19 - Words: 19,834 - Reviews: 42 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 2 - Updated: May 12, 2008 - Published: Jan 27, 2008 - Complete
A Study of Thaumaturgy reviews
A respected scientist from the University of Berlin explains the some of the various types of thaumaturgical machines and methods, including theotechnology, theurgy, and thaumaturgy.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 634 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jan 20, 2008
731 reviews
The number of evil is 731 during the Second World War in Asia. The experiments at the forgotten Auschwitz of the East are on par with, if not exceeding, those of Nazi Germany in terms of depravity.
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 341 - Reviews: 5 - Published: Jan 15, 2008 - Complete
The Infowar: A Novel of Asymmetric Warfare reviews
Governments worldwide slide towards despotism as terrorists become more ruthless. Between these two extremes, an international network of informed citizens, true patriots, and subversive intellectuals must take matters into their own hands.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 73 - Words: 109,467 - Reviews: 41 - Favs: 19 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Jan 6, 2008 - Published: Jul 12, 2006 - Complete
The Last And First Overmen: A Novel reviews
The worst foes of humanity have always been its greatest heroes. The most ruthless villains and most beloved superheroes both face a subversive group bent on creating a literally empowered public.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Horror - Chapters: 34 - Words: 46,362 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Jan 5, 2008 - Published: Oct 21, 2007 - Complete
A Train to Nowhere reviews
A damned soul meets a strange cowboy and his carnivorous, soul eating train on the ride to oblivion.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,376 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: Oct 27, 2007 - Complete
The Father of Lights: An Alternative History reviews
The Industrial Revolution erupts into total warfare against the magocratic British Empire. As the war escalates, an ancient cycle of annihilation prepares to start anew. The philosophies of the Enlightenment undergo a trial by fire against dark magic.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 63 - Words: 82,506 - Reviews: 58 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Oct 21, 2007 - Published: Apr 17, 2007 - Complete
The Zen of Time Travel reviews
The late time hopping superhero Zeitgeist explains the physics and metaphysics behind his ability.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,000 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 20, 2007 - Complete
Pants on Fire reviews
Dante DeVille is the lobbyist for Satan in American politics. However, new special interest groups compete for the souls and tax dollars of the American public, ranging from mad scientists, to alien invaders, to emo kids in giant robots, and worse.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,320 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Jun 17, 2007 - Published: May 27, 2007
Nanowar reviews
A new technology renders governments obsolete. The economic collapse of the US economy due to nanofactured goods prompts the remaining governments crack down more, as the rest of the world turns to stranger, more radical philosophies.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,035 - Reviews: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: Apr 21, 2007
The Infowar: The Phantom Casualties reviews
A former soldier in the US Army seeks help from a high tech underground clinic.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 740 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Mar 17, 2007 - Complete
Hymn of Steel and Might reviews
The physical manifestation of entropy has destroyed countless worlds and races across countless eons. Now, the end of humanity draws close. Only an engineer, a marine, and a gunsmith may be able to delay the inevitable.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 12 - Words: 18,575 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Feb 25, 2007 - Published: Nov 28, 2006 - Complete
Turning Japanese reviews
Turning Japanese is a euphemism for male masturbation based on a racist stereotype. Unsurprisingly, even crappy Japanese firearms do enjoy it.
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Feb 5, 2007 - Complete
The Infowar: Holy Orders reviews
A Catholic priest involved in an international network of subversive intellectuals finds a new recruit during a confession. One shot.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 903 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 5, 2006 - Complete
The Contestant reviews
In a city of scavengers built on an unspeakably ancient ship, a brother and sister face each other in a ritualized martial arts contest. One shot.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,312 - Reviews: 4 - Published: Oct 25, 2006 - Complete
Mother of the Machine reviews
A secret society of transhuman engineers and an uploaded human mind must save the future by preserving the past. Completed!
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Horror/Drama - Chapters: 15 - Words: 17,019 - Reviews: 35 - Favs: 7 - Updated: Aug 11, 2006 - Published: Jan 4, 2006 - Complete
Schadenfreude reviews
It's a normal Friday night when a hapless writer stumbles upon an evil toilet cult in the nearby woods. And that's just the beginning of his troubles. There's also a psychotic roommate, demented siblings, and other things out to get him.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,982 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 2 - Updated: Aug 9, 2006 - Published: Feb 23, 2006
Black Dragon reviews
They started World War II and the atrocities that followed. Founded four centuries ago, they trace their roots to Japanese warlords. Currently, they run the world's most powerful crime syndicate. Now, two people race uncover the past and reveal them.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 9 - Words: 9,174 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Aug 1, 2006 - Published: May 16, 2006
Triumvirate and Entente reviews
In 1908, a series of murders prompt a Chinese American detective, British occultist, and German monk to unravel an international conspiracy that pits the old Great Powers against the new. Completed!
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 7 - Words: 11,409 - Reviews: 27 - Favs: 3 - Updated: Jun 29, 2006 - Published: Jan 28, 2006 - Complete
In The Eyes Of God reviews
You and everyone you ever knew are damned. When supertechnology and divine intervention appear the same, it is found even God is beyond mere human concepts of good and evil.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 17 - Words: 20,607 - Reviews: 38 - Favs: 5 - Updated: Jun 26, 2006 - Published: Aug 29, 2005
Evil Devolution reviews
After a republican revolt is brutally crushed, a secret society of technocrats emerges from the shadows of legend to remake society in their own image.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Tragedy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,534 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: Jun 26, 2006 - Published: Jun 25, 2006
This Is My Rifle reviews
This is my rifle. It is my life. Without me, it is nothing. Without it, I am nothing.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,761 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: Jun 21, 2006
Blood and Iron: The War in the Heavens reviews
The false gods of Aztlan rule with an iron fist. Who better to defeat them than one of their own? Soon enough, his war will extend across the world, to lands beyond imagination, and even outside the universe itself.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 5 - Words: 10,163 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 2 - Updated: May 28, 2006 - Published: May 16, 2006
Loch Down reviews
What happens when the Horseman of War and an Archangel look for the Loch Ness monster? And how is the French Navy involved? Completed!
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 10 - Words: 8,687 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 2 - Updated: May 28, 2006 - Published: Jun 20, 2005
Paradise Lost reviews
The leader of humanity and the most powerful artificial intelligence on Shenzhou are the sacrifices required for Paradise to be regained. Oneshot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,037 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: May 25, 2006 - Complete
Hallowed Be The Fatherland reviews
The Volksreich faces enemies both foreign and domestic. The race to control the Fatherland is on, as patriots, ancient sentient machines, and modern conspiracies alike plot and plan. Completed!
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 30 - Words: 41,577 - Reviews: 131 - Favs: 5 - Updated: May 16, 2006 - Published: Aug 30, 2005 - Complete
The Communist Manifestation reviews
What happens when Josef Stalin is confronted by the hatchet-wielding ghost of Leon Trotsky?
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 570 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 5 - Published: May 8, 2006
Close Call reviews
A terrorist tries to sink a cruise ship as a counter-terrorist operative stalks him. One-shot (and one kill).
Fiction: Action - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 857 - Reviews: 7 - Published: Feb 28, 2006
Saint Valentine's Day Dilemna reviews
So many Valentines, but which weap...er...Valentine to choose?
Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Parody/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 7 - Published: Feb 14, 2006
Dark Beyond The Suns reviews
A servant of the Queen reflects on the coming crusade against the Dark Beyond The Suns. Oneshot.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 680 - Reviews: 7 - Published: Feb 13, 2006 - Complete
Volksreich Imperial Survey reviews
By the order of the Kaiser, I hereby present this comprehensive study of our land and its glorious heritage. May foreigner and citizen alike read and enjoy this account of the Volksreich.
Fiction: Mythology - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 8 - Words: 17,050 - Reviews: 20 - Favs: 2 - Updated: Jan 16, 2006 - Published: Aug 29, 2005
Space Bores reviews
The crew of the Pendergast and its moronic commander search for intelligent life. Then blow the living hell out of it! Laugh at everything, and more! Now complete!
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 11 - Words: 14,890 - Reviews: 65 - Favs: 3 - Updated: Jan 4, 2006 - Published: Aug 31, 2005 - Complete
Daughter of the Machine reviews
An artificial intelligence attempts to raise an orphaned girl as its own daughter. Events dictate, however, in order to save their home, she might have to destroy it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Adventure - Chapters: 37 - Words: 40,616 - Reviews: 69 - Favs: 8 - Updated: Dec 14, 2005 - Published: May 15, 2005 - Complete
Soldiers and Steel: An Anthology of War Tales reviews
A collection of short stories set in different universes and in different eras, but unified by the common bond of people in war. From hardened soldiers to hapless civilians, everyone feels the cold hand of war.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 2,562 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Nov 8, 2005 - Published: May 5, 2005
Martial Arts For Complete And Utter Morons reviews
Martial arts is a lot more than flashy moves and wise old teacher stereotypes. See the real world of martial arts, and get some story ideas. Now, aikido, escrima, and muay thai covered!
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 5,921 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Updated: Nov 1, 2005 - Published: Oct 7, 2005
Tedious Excitement reviews
Events can be given a completely different spin by the power of words alone. Watch how mundane events are rewritten as fantastic, and vice versa.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Parody - Chapters: 6 - Words: 1,080 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Sep 27, 2005 - Published: Sep 20, 2005
Necessary Evil: The Godhead reviews
The endgame has arrived. The winner takes Godhood and rule of all existence. The loser is utterly destroyed. Even the most depraved have a part to play in a divine game.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Horror - Chapters: 9 - Words: 11,570 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Sep 6, 2005 - Published: Aug 29, 2005 - Complete
Necessary Evil: The Godforge reviews
Several factions war without end. Some attempt to avoid the wars. Some prolong them. Should one care what happens outside one's world? Even the best ideas can lead to bad things.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Suspense - Chapters: 7 - Words: 26,992 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Aug 29, 2005 - Published: Jul 3, 2005 - Complete
Here Be Monsters reviews
Even lonely space monsters need love.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 636 - Reviews: 6 - Published: Aug 1, 2005 - Complete
Necessary Evil: The Godseed reviews
What is more important? Survival or morality? Helping others, or selfinterest? What does a Supreme Being think of a universe of warped individuals, if it even cares?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 8 - Words: 37,532 - Reviews: 33 - Favs: 5 - Updated: Jul 2, 2005 - Published: Jun 21, 2005 - Complete
The Necessary Evils reviews
From the confines of a human form to a transhuman shell of steel and might, the Overman looks on.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Jun 14, 2005
The Platform Anthology reviews
Welcome to the Platform... An orbital platform with an Earth-like environment. The humans have regressed to barbarianism, and let petty matters divide them. Enter a world beyond imagination. An anthology as a prelude to a novel.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,113 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: May 30, 2005 - Published: May 26, 2005
Demons of Creation reviews
Two people, polar opposites, are telepathically bonded and then forced to kill each other. From the trenches of the frontline, to ecosystems evolved beyond imagination, their long struggle will determine if an ancient god is awakened.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 7,188 - Reviews: 18 - Updated: May 5, 2005 - Published: Jan 21, 2005
Heaven Can Wait reviews
Humanity's greatest republic is a distant memory. Now, mysterious entities toy with the wartorn remnants of civilization. A lone salvager must stand against them and restore the republic.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Horror - Chapters: 28 - Words: 42,568 - Reviews: 105 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Apr 22, 2005 - Published: May 20, 2004 - Complete
Viraat CVBG: The Battle Of The Bay Of Bengal reviews
The first carrier duel of the twenty first century has a surprise winner.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,364 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Dec 27, 2004 - Complete
The Persecuted One reviews
A man is sentenced to death for preaching the truth about the nature of his society and religion.
Fiction: Fable - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: Nov 28, 2004
Twilight of Civilization reviews
A scientist predicts the fall of modern civilization. Can he help stop the imminent Dark Ages, or will he be pulled down by the dying civilization as he tries to help it?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 856 - Reviews: 2 - Published: Oct 29, 2004
Of Sand and Steel: Laying the Desert Railway reviews
A cynical engineer is hired to build a railway across a desert. However, will an extremist group of druids sabotage his efforts?
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Drama/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 3 - Words: 1,273 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Updated: Aug 17, 2004 - Published: Aug 6, 2004
Hellbound reviews
A Hell created by hands human and inhuman. A penitent soul in Purgatory. A twisted trial for forgiveness. Seven layers of agony. Good becomes evil. Evil becomes good. Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Tragedy - Chapters: 9 - Words: 10,432 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 5 - Updated: Jun 4, 2004 - Published: Mar 27, 2004
Lesser of Two Evils: A Parody of Election Tactics reviews
Tired of voting for the lesser of two evils? Here's my alternative: vote for the greater of two evils! Now with the candidate I'm endorsing!
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,208 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 1 - Updated: May 30, 2004 - Published: Jul 8, 2003
In Defense of Space Travel reviews
Space technologies aren't just a political issue. They're necessary for the long-term survival of humanity. President Bush's recent proposal is a move in the right direction, and here's why.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,041 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jan 28, 2004
Project Atlas reviews
The armies of global superpowers fall to a mysterious Enemy in mere hours. Three tragic heroes must save what's left of Earth. Includes soundtrack. Who is the Enemy, and how can they be beaten?
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 23 - Words: 37,434 - Reviews: 55 - Favs: 5 - Updated: Nov 16, 2003 - Published: Jul 10, 2003
The Forgotten Writer: A Tribute To Lovecraft reviews
Lovecraft influenced several modern writers, from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child to Stephen King. Why does it seem no one knows about him? Here's my tribute to a master of horror.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 928 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 1 - Published: Sep 5, 2003
Christian Nation reviews
The Religious Right, as well as some on the Left and center, claim America is a 'Christian Nation.' Nothing could be further from the truth. Here's the real story of the so-called 'Christian Nation.'
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,167 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 4 - Published: Sep 4, 2003
Call To Power: Tough Love reviews
A unique couple decides to show their affection for each other. How, you ask? With high-powered firearms and exchanges of gunfire, of course! A bit of a satire of romantic comedies.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,020 - Reviews: 1 - Published: Aug 17, 2003
Shores of Eternity reviews
A man displaced from his era must find a way to return, for the fate of four universes depends on it. However, how low will he sink to reach his goals? Completed.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 21 - Words: 56,492 - Reviews: 36 - Favs: 7 - Updated: Aug 10, 2003 - Published: May 25, 2003 - Complete
Sharpening the Sword: The Changing Face of War reviews
The face of war has changed throughout history. It has changed again recently. However, to survive this change, America's military will have to adapt quite a bit.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,540 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: Aug 9, 2003
The Paradox of a President reviews
He bombed a nation without the approval of the United Nations. He was charged with the reckless handling of the military. He was supposed to have used drugs. How similar exactly are two (in)famous Presidents?
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,268 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: Jul 14, 2003
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