Low-fantasy Stories

Mira, an avid player of otome games, suddenly finds herself in the world of the otome game she's just finished. As if that on its own isn't bad enough, she's become the game's villainess, Blythe Ridge, destined for execution once the heroine attains the good ending of whichever love interest she chooses. As a connoisseur of isekai web novels, she's convinced that all she needs to do to escape from certain death is to turn over a new leaf and stop bullying Daisy Willoughby, the heroine of the otome game. Easy peasy. Unfortunately for her, she soon finds out that she has no say in the matter-her body moves of its own will whenever certain game events have to take place. Everyone around her is bemused by her frenzied scrambling to claim that all her malicious actions, and even some of her speech, are a complete and total accident. Mira-no, it's Blythe now-just wants to escape from the 'villainess' label to keep on living! ----------------------------------- "Born to be a pacifist, forced to be a villainess. Such is the story of my life!" "What in the world are you talking about?" "It's a meme, a meme!" ----------------------------------- (third person, past tense, slowburn clean romance, LOW fantasy) ----------------------------------- Note: An otome game often refers to a romance visual novel, targeted at women, with a female protagonist and male love interests. Some include stat-raising aspects. ----------------------------------- Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays. Read 16 chapters ahead on Patreon! ⭐️ (Cover art by ME. I illustrated it.)

In a society of gods and goddesses, Chrona found herself dissatisfied doing what she was told, until circumstances lead her to a life of seeking meaning whilst trying to get by on the streets of Olympus. In the city, Artemis spends her days overworked, hunting down members of a newly emerging cult on the streets and alleyways, whilst trying to get to the bottom of what is really going on. Meanwhile, Narita struggles with dissatisfaction with the role society has decreed to her. Trying to work out why everything about a life that should be ideal, feels wrong. The way these three women's lives intertwine may rock the foundations of Olympian society to its core.

Genesis de Valois has been cursed from a young age, one that constantly reminds her of the wretch that she is. Every morning, she wakes up to the catastrophe of trouble she's caused her whole life. Every night, she sleeps to the suffocating smell of her wrongs. When a man appears on her flower field near dead, Genesis knows that this could be her chance. This could be her chance to do something good, something right for once. But healing and helping this man would prove harder than it seems. Especially when he seems so intent on dying. Graphic by caralogues/seertostar/ @toruinagod -------------------------------------------------------- Main prompts: 10. Every time you've failed something, a flower appears in your yard. You now have the most spectacular flower garden in the neighborhood. But all you want is grass. 28. Self-love often starts small, like planting a single seed. With time, patience, and a bit of light, it will grow. Sub-prompts: 7. One morning, the ocean washes up a message. One you've been waiting for your whole life. 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints on your heart.

After a devastating defeat, humanity was forced to give up their land and relocate to two isolated continents that were labeled as impossible to live on. After hundreds of years while the rest of the world focuses on agricultural and living conditions. Humanity had focused on its weapons and military. As years of isolation were broken and tensions rise, the fate of the world is left uncertain.

The water moves when it shouldn't. River ignores it. He ignores a lot of things, like the way his chest tightens when Oleander is too close, or how his thoughts keep drifting back to him. He doesn't have a name for that feeling. He doesn't want one. Olea watches anyway. He notices too much, asks too little, and stays just close enough to matter. Until one night turns something unspoken into something real. Something secret. But as rumours begin to spread and River's blessing starts to unravel, it becomes harder to tell what's slipping faster, his control... or whatever is growing between them.

In a world carved by crusade, betrayal, and fragile miracles, A Saga of Forsaken Banners follows warriors and wanderers whose lives are bound by blood, violence, and the choices that break them. The story begins in blood and mud: a nineteen‑year‑old routier knight named Asger crawls from the wreckage of a slaughter he was never meant to survive. A boy refuses to abandon him - the first flicker of grace in a life shaped by brutality. From that moment, Asger's path winds through shattered loyalties, unlikely friendships, and the slow, painful work of becoming something other than what the world made him. But far from the battlefield, Jerusalem trembles. King Baldwin IV - brilliant, young, and dying - holds the kingdom together with a will stronger than his failing body. Sibylla stands poised between duty and destiny. And beneath the palace stones, something moves: Templars shifting in silence, informants disappearing, letters diverted, a clasp passed between men like a whispered vow. Into this shadow steps Hemming - Asger's elder brother, a templar shaped by pride, shame, and the belief that glory belongs only to those who seize it. He is the kingdom's blade... and its fracture. Asger seeks purpose. Hemming seeks destiny. Jerusalem stands between them - and it may not survive the brothers who were never meant to meet again...

Book One, Crater: After Lilith's mysterious disappearance, Ivy must follow her mother's last instructions, leading her to a bizarre land with new and foreign people. Unbeknownst to her, the people of that land are aware of her eventual arrival. However, they are also wary as they've received a prophecy that Ivy could be the savior of their colony or the one who destroys it. Book Two, Stygian Tower: Still, Zoe is left feeling distracted and distant several months later. Hope is not lost as she receives surprising news that she may(if she plays her cards right) be able to see Ivy again. ---------------------------- Next Up is that one dream we all had when we were kids. When we would leave home in search of adventure and all sorts of creatures in our imaginations ran wild in this world. ----------------------------- I will update this story twice weekly, on Monday and Thursday, now at 12:12pm CST. Criticisms/suggestions are always welcome!

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Bounty hunters surveil a bold fugitive disguised as a guard escorting slaves to market. Episode 1 - The Last Coffle Reading time: 14 minutes

Malakai has grown tired of waiting to turn eighteen. After a bad dinner with his family he finally snaps and decides to run away. When he finally comes to his senses he finds himself in Willow Wood, the strange forest outside of town that no one ever returns from. After a long night of wandering he meets two strange people in a run down mansion deep in the woods. Along with his two new friends Malakai starts to learns about magic and searches for his true father, until his eighteenth birthday when everything changes.

With a single, decisive blow, Cassandra - Shadow of Sammos, immortal warrior, and general of the Thiria - ended the war. The Emperor is dead and the Empire has fallen. Now that she is faced with the weight of rebuilding the world, Cass is blindsided by the choices of people she's never met. A Council she's never heard of demands she deliver the Emperor's head to an enemy general across the vast desert nation of Desheret. With her is a wide array of travelers from every nation, including old friends and old enemies. Cass must learn how to solve problems without her strength, violence, or her army, and navigate a world that doesn't yet know the Emperor is dead.

When siblings Lisette and Sabien Olivay are surprised by their parents with arranged marriages, they are unable to decline despite their desires to do so. Soon they are both removed from the city to the seaside town of Seldoné where they will spend the year prior to Sabien's wedding with his bride-to-be and her family. Although the hope is that Sabien will become better acquainted with his fiancé Genevieve and possibly fall in love with her, it seems that Lisette is the one who falls in love instead. Author's Note: - This is only the second draft of the story, it is my intention to improve upon what I have written. - I publish at least one part every Friday night. - Because I have a complete rough draft of the story I guarantee that I will not leave it unfinished, I have spent too much time and effort to give up on it and will continue to publish it even if there are brief hiatuses every now and then. - I thoroughly appreciate and acknowledge polite and constructive criticism. I want my story to be enjoyable to read and so I enjoy getting input from the readers. Cover art: Portrait of Two Elegantly Dressed Ladies by Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre

What happens when a mad dash for funds and renown causes an accidental apocalypse? Laureen Anston, an up-and-coming archaeologist, faces threats of defunding and disbanding her team unless she brings something of value. Upon finding an abandoned child in the dig, she discovers a ticking clock towards the end times. Now, she has to resist authorities, put her career and relationships on the line, and stop the apocalypse she may have played a part in, before her world becomes another excavation site. An entry to @LiteraryLoungeD's Gen 3 Contest. Part of the AUXPR2023 cluster of works. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2023 (First Edition) [10,000 - 20,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby]

Fariddion was meant to be a peaceful gift after death, protected by Elementals, Owl Giants, and ancient magic-but when the Stranded, the lost souls of Earth, plot to destroy the living world to flood Fariddion with deaths, everything shifts. Chosen by Fariddion itself, a young psychic girl must juggle homelife and school alongside Tibbar rabbit and Astar Ostara, to stop the coming catastrophe, and whatever else they decide. https://www.wattpad.com/list/1815460330

The City is a place where everything resets after the lights have gone out: relationships, conversations, memories. Everything is inside an irreversible loop and no one knows it. All except for one girl. ˜"°•˜"°•˜"*°• Jule, a resident of the City, is unaffected by the loop. She remembers everything that ever happened, carrying the loneliness that comes along with it. As the sun sets and rises again, Jule's life has no direction until someone changes how the day goes and it's not her. Rom, a boy she hadn't known existed, might be the key to getting out of the loop. But with a barrier between them set by the world itself, a truth Jule has to discover, and a reality that they all have to face, Jule is faced with a choice that would either save the one she loved or doom herself. Connections are formed but will eventually be broken. Can they discover the secret in getting out of the loop? Can they figure out what makes memories linger and what makes yesterday different from today? How do you change tomorrow that cannot be changed? ˜"°•˜"°•˜"*°•˜"°•˜"°•˜"*°• © 2021 (First Edition) [50,000 - 60,000 words] [All graphics are made by @Exequinne]

🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 A misfit actress must give a performance of a lifetime before her true identity gets uncovered and her hidden empire crumbles down. ⋯⋯⋯ Alyson Gardner, the misfit daughter of the Ocalira chief, is a master of disguise. It is not easy controlling the largest pleasure district in Hylsa Lyllan behind a curtain, so when a student from university goes missing in her turf, she must do everything she can to clear her ties to it even if it means shedding her masks bit by bit. But with an impatient perpetrator out for her ruin, she must turn to friends and foes alike to star in the greatest performance of her life, one that will shake her empire's foundations down to the last brick. From the author of the award-winning novella, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘈𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, comes a story of privilege, wealth, and the divide between the elite and the common. Ideals are a salvation for many, but in the quest for freedom and power, sometimes, they are the first to go. AN INSTALLMENT OF THE LYLLAN UNIVERSITY OF MAGIC AND MISFITS SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2025 (First Edition) [25,000 - 30,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• 🏆 LONGLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025 🏆 ROUND 1 QUALIFIER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2025

In a land where magic is illegal, Faye is a homeless half-fairy, roaming the streets of Acren in search of money to steal. Until she comes across a man on the run who needs her help. Despite the man's mysterious past, Faye follows him, in hopes of finding a better life, in a place where she doesn't have to hide her identity. However, the journey isn't an easy one, with King Lyon's guards after them. And that's just their first obstacle. Together, the half-fairy and the runaway must make their way out of Vustaria, and into Dorendi. But it turns out there's something else in Dorendi the man has his eye on, and Faye must make a decision on where she really wants to go.

Aurelia has won the war, but peace is far from secure. Hidden enemies lurk within, unhinged by the chaos that war brings. The newly formed King's Rangers set out to quell the turbulence, and for the youth who once left peasant life behind, duty demands more than ever before. As the hunt begins, Matthew Hurt sets out to places he's never been and learns the way life truly is in Aurelia. Sitting on the throne is a new kind of king, burdened by a kingdom still divided. Victory did not silence ambition; lords scheme, alliances fray, and trust is fragile. To heal a nation torn by conflict, he must earn loyalty not by sword or crown, but by his own wisdom and those who surround him. Whether they be friend or foe. Enemies lie within. New heroes look to shine. A new era is on the horizon as the world gets bigger. Stay tuned for the upcoming release of Enemies Within, the second installment in the A King's Ranger series by Nicholas LL Powell.

VANSEE: EMERALD ABYSS Modeled after the legendary ancient weapon "Greek Fire," this is a tale of pure human drama and political intrigue, reminiscent of the Game of Thrones series. In the medieval Mediterranean, behind the glittering facade of a prosperous port city, a taboo alchemy is performed-a weapon capable of shaking the foundations of nations. Overnight, a nameless compounder is hunted for this very secret. With nothing but a mysterious necklace glowing with an eerie green liquid, his desperate flight for survival begins. No magic. No chosen heroes. Just human ambition, betrayal, and a 100% human drama revolving around the creator of a terrifying weapon. At the end of this escape across the deep blue sea, what awaits him? And what is the true nature of "VANSEE"? (This is the first draft of the story. The final, polished version will be available for purchase on Kindle later.) #darkfantasy #humandrama #royalty #lowfantasy #politicalintrigue #powerstruggle #alchemy #survival #betrayal #medieval

Spending her whole life locked in a golden cage, unloved by her father, despised by the court, and now promised to a man she loathes, princess Belle, is desperate to find freedom. And all these wishes come true when she is abducted by one of the most dangerous crews in the five seas: The Red Rose. Far from the suffocating rules of the palace, Belle finds herself aboard a ship full of outlaws, secrets, and adventure-chasers. Where loyalty is earned, not demanded, and her name could get her killed. Hiding her royal identity, Belle must learn to navigate a life she never imagined, but always wanted to face: rough seas, bloodthirsty creatures, the instability of magic in the Mystic Pentagon and true love. But the captain is a dangerous man, not just for the price on his head, but for the way he sees through her and is enchanted by her determination and courage, even though it is far from everything she knew before. Set sail on a sweeping fantasy adventure where secrets can kill, freedom has a price, and love may be the most dangerous storm of all.