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.)

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.

Random/disordered pieces. Generally written in a state of dreary haze of sorts. More lucid than brain fog yet with the oppression of hallucination. A wakeful dream; The sense of it, at the very moment it's written been clear, slips away when revisited later. It's rather useless by then. Passion never lasts. And I'm stuck romanticizing the ephemeral. <> Finding human writing/art/media apart from ai will become as pedantic as abstaining for organic produce from the conventional in a market. It all feeds the same anyhow: SFX Props? VFX CGI? GenAI? At some point, barely anyone would bother differentiating. The consequences overall lies in rumor and superstition with a scientific flavor. Getting ahead of the curb by acting on suggestions/hypotheses as mandates; could such gamble be afforded over and over? Doesn't gambling lead to a net loss on average? By the end of it, organic's the minority, as against automation, so will be humanity. Writing on itself as a form of sincere expression, like this, is a type of clownery. A doomed hobby, mutually outmoded as reading. Doomscrolling would've been a better use of time on my end. "Fast fashion" form of writing has always been the point for the mainstream. Writing's streamlined for a long while now. LLM-AI is that final step to maximize the output. Really, is it bad? Its a self-sufficient haven: Why complain over getting more of what one wants, like the want of reading? Quality in art is in the mercy of subjectivity. Not good enough? Want improvement?: Improvement is the expertise of ai. It's only natural. What can be done? I don't know: spiting against a tsunami will not prevent it from coming and washing everything away that's good. And sometimes it takes even the bad amongst the wreck. I'm here; Luddite. Inept. I can only wait to be swept away or drown by it. Whichever comes first. "Sent from my IPhone"🙏🌽⚽️ Cover: Self-Edited(Muhammad Siyah Qalam miniatures)

ONC 2026 - Spring - Prompt 3 Prompt 3 "A Door Left Slightly Open" When the mountains of Ul-Rokh begin to stir, a blacksmith's granddaughter becomes the first to sense the reality of a long-forgotten danger. As the Gral'Khorr and Orcs hunt for an ancient weapon capable of breaking the earth itself, Rhanai is drawn into a perilous journey toward the Sekhmet peaks - one that will place her path alongside a battle-scarred prince, forged by another age and another war. Set in the world of A'asra, ten years after the events of First Knight, The Earth Breaker is a heroic tale of courage, sacrifice, and the moment ordinary lives are called to shape the fate of kingdoms. Check out the IG page where I will be dropping images and most importantly, my maps of A'asra.... The first map will be for Earth Breaker and First Knight... Remember it's only the main locations that can be seen, and it's not a scale map - It's actually a hand-drawn map handed to the brothers shortly after arriving in A'asra (First Knight): - instagram.com/images_of_aasra

"Promise you'll wear it for me?" "I promise, A. I'll wear it every day for you." After Adena's painful death in the Bowl, she ended up in an afterlife she definitely wasn't expecting: a VR game called The Amazing Digital Circus. But the question is, how did she end up there without a headset? Now, Adena has to face physical and emotional challenges such as her new name---which is Starry---not being able to escape the circus, Jax's antics, missing Paedyn and Makoto, abstracting characters, putting up with Caine's adventures, and several other obstructions that stand in her way.

They were children when they met on Harmony Island. They were children when they learned what their abilities could be weaponised to do. Now, years later, Atka and Taiyo hide their past behind concealer and smiles, clinging to each other in a city that doesn't know what they've survived. But the past has a way of surfacing. And when it does, they'll have to decide: keep running, or finally face what was done to them-and what they were forced to do.

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.

Featured | Wattpad Picks 21/09/2018 | LGBTQ+ Arran Redfern is happy being a comparative disappointment. His first love is next in line to become the strongest werewolf in Europe. His mother is widely considered to be both the greatest mind of the 19th century and the most feared woman of the 21st. With his eighteenth birthday nearing and only one more year of school to suffer through, Arran is very much ready to settle into his promising life as a house-husband. Even if he does have to endure the hatred from the supernatural community for daring to be born a vampire. But when Cree dumps him, he finds he's lost even that lack-lustre future. Shunned by a supernatural community that doesn't want his kind, he has no choice but to throw himself into the human world that he hardly dares to join. The lines between worlds are blurring and political power systems are shifting, disrupting the uneasy peace of the past few centuries. As Arran finally starts to find a place for himself it's just as soon threatened by vampire attacks, prejudice and corruption.

In a dying world, people resort to desperate, dark paths to survive. When seventeen-year-old Sam's oldest friend shows him something terrible, he does everything he can to keep trouble away from those he loves. Despite his efforts, another terrible incident shakes the town. With the fear that a monster hides among them, people start turning on each other, and he is on the verge of losing all he loves. The only way to save his loved ones might mean crossing lines and going down a treacherous path. ONC prompt 80.

Belmond had everything. A passion for ancient artifacts inherited from his father, his mother's teachings, and a life in the Empire of the Scarlet Flame. Until the day when...

Then a final response. "I am death itself. You cannot merely kill the Reaper." The void compressed. Awareness fractured. And Victor Graves fell.

Part 1: In the late-industrial city of Hollencrown, Jonah Kinley-a 16-year-old sword prodigy tied to the Royal Hand-falls for Mallory, a poor but fierce-hearted girl hired to help at his estate. Their bond grows through small, luminous moments. They must deal with the prejudices of the upper class as the ball draws near. Part 2: Two years after Raremeer, Jonah is sent behind enemy lines with the unreadable Cadeis while Mallory holds the home front-love meets rain and steel under a king's war for "unity." This is just a first draft so do with that as you will. Also, this may sound stupid but thank you to everyone who has viewed my story. I appreciate you all so much!

Twenty-five and lost, Alex retreats to their ancestral house in a quiet countryside to escape the noise of a life that refuses to add up. Not a single dream fulfilled, not a clear path in sight. Just questions that echo louder in the silence. Then, in a forgotten room and an old mirror that doesn't quite reflect things right, Alex stumbles into a world. Not entirely real but not entirely false either. A place shaped by fear, memory, and all the roads not taken. In its strange landscapes, and fragments of self long buried, Alex must journey through the realm that mirrors the very crisis she is running from. Because to find the way forward, sometimes one have to go to the world in-between.

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

After fleeing a dying sea and the people who hurt him, Naytel finds refuge in a boarding house at the foot of the mountains, among long‑eared anthros, humans, dragonids and other strange folk. By night he walks a shared dreamshore with a dragon engineer who knows him better than anyone; by day he studies, works, and slowly learns how to live in a body that once was only a target. This is a quiet fantasy about found family, the world of dreams, and the hard work it takes to build a life that finally feels like a fairy tale. Content warnings: trauma symptoms (PTSD, nightmares, flashbacks), references to past captivity and mistreatment (off‑screen), non‑sexual close bond between adult and teen (boundaries discussed on page), mentions of war and violence in backstory, unwanted physical contact / boundary‑crossing behaviour (called out on page). This story does not contain romance or sexual content.

Timothy Weaver, smalltime witch and full-time survivor, is having a rough season, and the dragon child that crash-landed in his forest home hasn't made things any better. Now he's stuck in a new town, hiding the very secret that drove him to spend seven years with only the critters of the wood for company. Still, there's at least one nice thing about living in the small town of Fresa-- it's never boring. Updates every Friday. Also available on Royal Road! See my links here: kbear.carrd.co

Attempted murder, that's how sixteen-year-old Princess Charlotte's engagement starts. It seems like the only thing she has in common with Prince Young of Vires is their mutual discontent. When her kingdom's attacked, Charlotte's parents renegotiate her hand in marriage to a handsome stranger with a sinister plan. With the people Charlotte loves dying around her, and her kingdom's future at stake, the only person she can turn to is the prince she betrayed. But, should she save her kingdom or her heart? One must fall. Get the ebook free in exchange for a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Claim it below. https://claims.prolificworks.com/free/kukhcHFv

A human woman unwittingly had ancient marrow in her tea (she thought it was spice). Elves take her captive, hoping to study the effects of their lost marrow (she will make the devil pray to god). // Assorted short-stories, one-shots, poems, and memes, of the visual novel "Ebon Light".

If you ever long for simpler times, be careful what you wish for...

Del after being convinced to move to her friend's hometown finds his biggest kept secret. Now Del and John must kept the large newcomer hidden while trying to find out how to fit in with her new life