How did Lina meet Nyra? How did Malrick become such a well renown sheriff? How did Aaric save Neptune? In this collection there will be Novellettes featuring the characters of Steel and Scale and a glimmer of their life DISCLAIMER: Reading this is not necessary to understand the main story but it's better that you do because a lot is described and explained here.

This is a makeshift D&D inspired campaign where readers can adventure at their own pace. No need to wrestle with complicated schedules. Each week, a new chapter is posted, giving you the chance to step into the story, make choices, and shape the journey alongside fellow adventurers. Want to join the fun? Hop into The Gemme Community Discord! Under the DnD tab (in the Fandoms section), you'll find everything you need to get started from character creation, instructions, and a welcoming group of storytellers ready to journey with you. The Gemme Community also offers so much more: book clubs, side quests, daily activities, writing spaces, and a place to share ideas with other creatives. So grab your dice, sharpen your blade (or tune your lute), and let's begin our adventure together! We will be posting new chapters every week on Sundays. So please have your responses to the journey posted in the comments by Saturday evening.

After being kidnapped and thrown into a VRMMORPG, 17-year-old Suzuki Mato must find the line between his real and in-game personalities before it kills him. ***** Following the death of his popular online persona, seventeen-year-old Suzuki Mato decides it's time to retire from professional VR gaming. However, his plans are abruptly cut short when he's kidnapped from his high school and forced to be a guinea pig for Genaco Gaming, the world's largest esports and entertainment company. Armed with nothing but his wit and a new online persona, he's thrown headfirst into the virtual reality of "Live No Evil," a VRMMORPG littered with overpowered bosses, secretive NPCs, and backstabbing gods. His mission? Find a way to conquer this new world and get back at the company that took over his life, all while avoiding 'Parallel' -- a condition that would make it impossible to separate his real and virtual personalities. Because in a world obsessed with VR gaming, Parallel means death, and Suzuki just doesn't have time for that... [Parallel Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 out now, Vol. 3 coming soon] Content/Trigger Warning: some transphobic language

Sarah's life changes when Ibrahim moves into town. Both of them are striving to be better versions of themselves every day, by getting closer to Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) and doing everything they do to please Him. However, not everything goes according to plan and the smooth path gets disrupted by some rocky obstacles. How will Sarah and Ibrahim navigate these obstacles while striving to reach their ultimate goal: Jannah? Or will they perhaps end up following the footsteps of Staytan to their doom?

The world's glitching-and it's no one's fault but mine. Or, well, kind of mine. Zay, my ex-best friend (maybe something more?), had this idea-upload his mind into some corporate AI thing to save humanity. Spoiler: it didn't work. Now he's gone. Or, at least, the real him is. But the glitch? It's messing with everything. It's not just machines talking to me anymore. It's memories, my memories, bleeding into the world, and every time I hear Zay's voice, it's like I'm about to lose myself, too. I'm supposed to fix this. I don't know how yet, but I'll find a way. I have to. It's a race against time, a deep dive into digital hell, and a fight to save what's left of the world-and maybe figure out what happened to Zay along the way. - #1 snarky <3

This is the story of Karlist, the youngest of five elemental warriors sworn to defend the land of Spirits, With a bright personality and supernatural ability of shield, she's the glue holding her found family together even as her haunting visions show them falling apart. But when a mysterious guy crashes into their world and planting something dangerous in the soil. That's when the world falls apart His name is Casper. He was raised in a cold, brutal kingdom where children are taught to kill before they can feel. Bound to a cruel brother who holds his fate in his hands, Casper has one mission: unleash a deadly virus across Spirits in exchange for his freedom. As trust breaks, and power awakens under a full moon, Karlist and Casper are thrown into each other's paths. But when love and war collide, only one thing is certain, Not everyone will make it out alive. this is a story I imagined back in 2023, was bored in class and told my friend abt that story and she recommended me sm to write it, I don't really read books but still I wrote it, despite all the books I've read, some of my friends guided me through it, the story is mine and it's completely fictional, it's a movie inspired, so its very different from the books I've read, I will be really glad and happy if you like it or jus give it a read, love ya sm if u like my yapping

Good morning, I'm Kalliope Aoidós (yes, spelled like this: Καλλιόπη Ἀοιδός... pretty impressive, right?), Technical Account Manager at a company in... well, I'm sure you don't really need my CV for this. Let's try again. Hey, I'm Kalliope Aoidós, and I've got a little problem. Okay, more like an incurable, family-heritage problem. Technically, it's genetic-something my family has been conveniently passing down for centuries. One of my great-great-great-great-grandparents thought it was totally appropriate to insult his muse, calling her a "good-for-nothing" and a "sellout." How charming, right? Too bad that muse was THE Muse after whom I'm named. Apparently, she's not exactly the warm and fuzzy type. So why on earth do I have the honor of carrying the name of the one who cursed my entire family tree? Oh, that was my grandmother's brilliant idea. In a way, they "sacrificed" me to her by giving me her name, hoping it would change her mind about the curse. Spoiler alert: It didn't. So here I am, just like hundreds of my ancestors, stuck in the same lovely swamp. I'm a Book-Jumper or, as my grandmother (who has a flair for dramatic epithets) likes to call me, a βιβλιοποδητής, which basically means "walker of books." And these are my stories. Or, more accurately, my delightful misadventures. Copyright 2025 AnemoneMarino. All Rights Reserved. Note: All the pictures I've used in this story are not mine; they belong to their respective owners. The cover and banners are made by me.

[Amazing cover by @shedrawscartoons] BOOK 1 OF THE HORKOS TETRALOGY Four teenage friends make a pact to commit suicide together when their family struggles have them stifled to no end. Ten years later, they reenact the pact following their school's jubilee cum reunion, only to awaken a malevolent entity known as The Horkos. 🍀 A decade ago, four teenagers; Ha-ra, the perfectionist drowning under her mother's cruel expectations; Kiel, the star athlete masking his father's violence; Yosef, the survivor grappling with guilt and suffering recurring nightmares; and Cyan, the unwilling heir, etched a suicide pact in Waltham High's old derelict gym. They survived the attempts they took, but the scars never faded. A decade later, back to the school's gleaming campus for its jubilee slash reunion, a drunken push leads them to reenact the pact, laughing through tears. But when the new oath settles, something changes. The Horkos awakens. Form shifting between shadow and a version of themselves, they are left to grapple with the weight of their oath. It feeds on everything they give; their regrets, guilt, the oath itself, twisting the vow they longed to abandon into a curse. Complete the pact, or watch everyone you loved die in your place. But as the entity tightens its grip, the friends uncover a darker truth. Their pact was never private. The Horkos has lurked in Waltham's soil for centuries, binding oath-breakers to its ledger. To survive, they must commit to their oath or let one bear the full cost. Death had never been a choice for them. Only a sentence.

This is a collection of short stories. Some of them are inspired by the enthralling prompts of different contests, while others are the result of my dreams and my imagination. I hope you enjoy them!

a collection of oneshots from writing challenges