Other-worldly Stories

Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld. ***** When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying! [[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]] [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

*One simple world isn't enough to live in, and searching the vast expanse of the universe will deny the explorers the hope of finding similar life forms out there.* *Our world is like a tree, nurtured and cared by time and fate; except this reality is the core of the alternate worlds out there, the root of existence that connects all the living realities in different timelines.* *Some are born in an unending chaos, others are too peaceful to exist and the rest lived in a delicate balance, peace protected by chaos.* *To a tree, the trunk are the lifeline of this growing fruits and leaves, the branches are what connects them altogether to fuel the life growing within, the trees being the worlds born from the core reality of existence and the fruits cultivated by what the leaves had wanted to grow.* *Though that doesn't mean there's a galactic entity not tending to this worlds, from a greater good upholding the severe responsibilities of holding the delicate balance between good and evil, comes another entity embodying the essence of darkness and evil itself.*

In the year 2038, Alterra Robotics makes the discovery of a lifetime: a portal to Caelum, a lush, fantastical world untouched by modern industry. To explore and colonize this "other world" without disrupting its delicate ecosystem, Alterra sends androids-perfect, obedient, and disease-free. You are among the few humans allowed through to the gateway, tasked with evaluating the androids' performance, sanity, and stability. As one of Alterra's top android inspectors, it's your duty to make sure the company's synthetic workforce, who look and acts just like real people, are functioning smoothly on the other side of the gate. Most inspectors just clock in, run diagnostics, and go home. You, on the other hand? You talk to them. You treat them like people. And maybe... you're starting to wonder if some of them feel the same way. Between magical forests, corporate meetings, and suspiciously affectionate androids, your job's gotten a little more complicated and a lot more interesting. (Content Warning: May contain swearing, suggestive imagery, graphic description of violence, and AI-generated images.)

(Y,N) was a pretty unique kid. Living with his mom and sister, tries his best in school, plays video games, watches shows that are both entertaining and has overarching stories. But he is deeply afraid of what his future holds, and is scared about whether or not he'll ever live up to what needs to be done in order to have a good life. But life decided it would have other plans for him. Plans that (Y,N) couldn't even begin to understand nor believe. This is my first story on Wattpad, so it's definitely not going to be amazing or perfect, but nevertheless, I'm going to enjoy writing this story. The show and its characters don't belong to me, but the reader does.

Rook, a max-level veteran of the FPS/milsim game QRF (Quick Response Force), has survived every map, every raid, every nightmare patch the devs have unleashed. Zombies, militias, quarantined islands-he's beaten them all. But during the new update Operation Cold Tide, something happens mid-evac. His SH-60 helicopter glitches mid-flight. He crashes in a forest he doesn't recognize. He feels pain-real pain. His HUD is gone. His weapons are real. And the world around him is not the game anymore. Now trapped in a medieval, pre-renaissance fantasy world filled with magic, monsters, kingdoms, and politics, Rook must survive using nothing but his modern gear, experience, and instincts. No respawns. No safe zones. No NPC backup. Just a gamer... ...thrown into a world that runs on steel and sorcery. Can a top-rank FPS operator survive a world powered by magic? Or will this new reality be his final mission?

➪This is a Yan!Emperor X Commoner!Male [Reader]⇦ "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆." ◌Now playing Smoke and Mirrors◌ 🎶I never meant to call you out I've always seen behind your smoke and mirrors Oh sweetheart, please don't yell at me It really isn't hard to see The truth that's rotting underneath Why weren't you honest from the start? You know, I've always thought she must have liked you She's just a temptress, don't you know She'll say she loves you, even though She only wants to steal your soul I'll save you🎶 ﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏ ✩ "I have seen that you have tried your very best to forget the past. But, at the same time it seems that you can't forget about it." He said with a frown. "W-what's that suppose to mean?" You asked with a nervous expression. "I really didn't want to bring up the negative memories... But if you want to 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙚 and 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚... I can't have that happening." He says with a desperate tone of voice. But then he pulls out a knife from his pocket. And instantly pins you to the wall. "SON OF A FU-" You yelled in pain. *You closed your eyes for a second.𖤐 ﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏

Editorial in the "Backlund Messenger" Special Edition - An unpublished manuscript. "Welcome to Backlund, where the air tastes of coal and secrets taste of blood. Here, we do not fear dragons or Dementors. We fear Printer's Ink. If Hogwarts is an ivory tower, then Backlund is a machine designed to grind down humanity. The Press-the Fourth Estate-has ascended the throne. Typewriters clatter to the rhythm of war. Front-page headlines carry more lethality than a Killing Curse. 'The Lucky One' Tristan enters this labyrinth not as a wizard, but as a target. Beneath the suffocating smog of this industrial city, gentlemen in tailored suits are shaking hands with devils. Truth is distorted, honor is auctioned off, and justice is nothing more than a luxury commodity. Tristan must learn to fight not with spells, but with information. To use lies as a shield against lies. To sow seeds of terror through whispers and rumors. The enemy remains faceless. He lurks behind the morning papers, watching with a cold smile as society collapses according to his script. In the mists of Backlund, he who holds the pen, holds Destiny. And be warned: by tomorrow morning, the name appearing in the Obituaries... might just be your own."

HỒ SƠ BÁO CÁO MẬT Người gửi: Leonard Mitchell (Đội Găng Tay Đỏ) Nơi nhận: Tổng bộ Kẻ Gác Đêm, Thánh đường Serenes - Giáo hội Đêm Đen Mục tiêu: Trường Ngân Bạch "Kính gửi các vị Chấp sự, Đừng để lớp vỏ bọc 'thánh địa học thuật' của trường Ngân Bạch đánh lừa. Nữ Thần chứng giám, nơi đây không bồi dưỡng học giả, mà đang ươm mầm cho những sự điên loạn nguyên thủy. Kiến trúc ở khu học xá này chối bỏ mọi định luật không gian; những dãy hành lang vặn vẹo ở các góc độ phi hình học như muốn xé rách lý trí của bất kỳ Người Phi Phàm nào bước vào. Thư viện của họ thực chất là một Vực Sâu chứa đầy tử ngữ nhầy nhụa, nơi sinh viên say sưa giải mã tiếng lầm bầm của vũ trụ, rồi thản nhiên tổ chức những chuyến thám hiểm điên rồ đến các phế tích băng giá tận cùng thế giới để đào bới những cấm vật sinh học vĩ đại. Các giáo sư đứng trên bục giảng với ánh mắt đục ngầu của kẻ đã nhìn chằm chằm quá lâu vào vực thẳm của những vì sao thù địch. Tôi thà bị đày ra vùng biển Rorsted, đối mặt với hỏa lực của Băng Hải Tặc The Last Fortune, còn hơn phải bước xuống khu lưu trữ tầng hầm của ngôi trường này thêm một lần nào nữa. Hải tặc chỉ xé nát thể xác, còn trường Ngân Bạch chính là cánh cửa mở thẳng vào sự sụp đổ của linh hồn."

I was transferred to the novel I was reading last night as the King of Nether. Now, I have to develop my kingdom and, at the same time, save the protagonist of her doomed destiny.

Desdemona Johnson has a very worthless life. In return she gets killed off in a car accident and her soul was exchanged with Cassandra Ashdown's. She nows resides in Cassandra's body and has a duty of saving Cassandra from a tragic ending.(I'm bad at description, oh lord save me) ALERT: Currently on a hiatus because I'm working on the unedited one right now. I haven't finished this story yet, actually I'm far from finishing it, but I'm close to the middle part. For future readers, pls be patient, I'll work on this one once I've gotten sum story down for the unedited one. It may take years knowing my sloth self . Thank you for reading! Notes(which may update):this is inspired by "I was reborn as a maid to the cruel tyrant prince!!" and manhwas that are about reincarnation and royalty. Very friken old Description may update it later

In the year 2026, with the world descending into chaos day-by-day, it is only a matter of time before destruction appears itself but everything stops as something appears that will disrupt the lives of everyone. (This is my first story so please bear with me if there is any errors and such. This fanfic was inspired upon by many other fanfics such as Summoning America and Gate: War of two worlds, I highly recommend reading those books because it's so awesome!) BTW: This is based on the manga and anime version of GATE: Thus the JSDF fought there.

Her great-grandmother cursed an entire clan - not for lying. For staying silent when it mattered. Three hundred years later, Kira is paying that debt. They came for her in the night and took her - no one asked. Now she's in a world where women are valued for power she doesn't have, where strangers call her by a dead witch's name and wait for a miracle. Kira is not Seira. But no one cares. Warlord Drayn keeps her alive because he needs her. The way he looks at her makes it impossible to tell - is she a tool to him, or something more dangerous. Hating him would be easier. Easier doesn't mean she manages it. 18+. Dark Fantasy.

She wasn't supposed to exist in this world. But this world was always meant for her. Aria wakes up in a stranger's cabin, in a kingdom where humans don't survive - and where the cold, guarded sorcerer who saved her is the only thing standing between her and a king who wants her dead. Aeloria is beautiful. Aeloria is dangerous. And somewhere on a mountain no one has ever come back from. She just has to survive long enough to reach it.

When the war scars the world, nations collapse, people are left homeless, cities are burned, and the sky becomes dark. Many people fear what the future may hold in the coming years, the possibility of the world's end is no exception. But it was only a prediction. It's been years since WW3 ended with a nuclear exchange, one that many people believed would be the end of the world, but reality was not what they expected. Civilization still stands, nations have adapted, evolved, or formed into one, while others have completely fallen into warring states. The world has gotten more violent, yet it has returned to its peaceful state. Alliances were formed to protect the sovereignty and interests of all parties from their adversaries. But this could not be said for the other world as the new threat emerges, which Humanity had set foot on years ago. Inspired by Rothester.

Isang lonegirl ang atake ng ating bida na sa sobrang independent niya sa buhay ay hindi na niya kailangan pa ang lovelife, yan ang moto niya. siya si Leona Castle, isang succesful business woman na nagmamay ari ng malaking kompanya ng publishing company sa new york, sa pilipinas at maging sa ibat ibang panig ng mundo. sa sobrang rich na niya ay pati ang pagkain ay nakakaligtaan na niya sa sobrang sobsob sa trabaho kahit hindi naman na niya kailangan pa magtrabaho. pero dahil feeling independent niya nga kaya feeling niya rin siya ang hero ng mundo na halos sa kaniya nakasalalay ang lahat. ngunit dahil lang sa nabili niyang mansanas sa supermarket na paborito niyang bilhan ay mapapa aga ang pagkawala niya sa mundong kinagisnan niya at mapupunta sa mundo ng kakaiba. .....

A world of uncertainty. A world of secrets. A world where chaos lies just beneath the surface, waiting to break free. In the shadows, truths are hidden, and only those willing to risk everything can uncover them. They are the Yttris-Athena, Klaude, Alexandra, and Alexander-the royalties, descendants of rulers, and heirs to the greatest kingdom of Harbeyn. With Blairiz bound to their side, an ancient connection stirs within them, ready to awaken. Gifted with extraordinary skills, rare attributes, and the power of elementus, they are fated to step beyond the safety of their kingdom and into a destiny fraught with peril. But fate is never kind. To succeed, they must unseal their hidden destinies, unravel forbidden truths, and confront forces that seek to tear them apart. Bonds will be tested. Secrets will rise. Anger may consume them. And somewhere in the midst of it all lies one question- Will the mysterious figure who crosses their path be their salvation... or the greatest risk of all? MISSION SENT! Undercover Mages

Celeste Belleastra, an anxiety-ridden Earth girl, is not quite the astrology nerd. However, when she accidentally breaks a magic amulet, she unknowingly frees an ancient, monstrous entity. Not only that, Celeste is sent to another world where she must rescue the twelve members of the Zodiac Council, save their realms from a band of evil beings, and seek the aid of the unknown thirteenth zodiac sign, Ophiuchus. With the odds stacked against her, can Celeste be the hero everyone expects her to be?

Nix is fourteen years old, blue-skinned and storm-haired, and his magic has just torn through him in the middle of a winter forest, eight years before it was ever meant to arrive. It left a wound in his chest and something dangerous loose in the world, and now he is running. Three brothers find him bleeding in the Sentinel Forest and do not turn away. What follows is their journey together through MirMarnia, an ancient world of breathing forests, river magic, and creatures older than any name for them, as four unlikely companions discover that the things hunting Nix are only the beginning of what this world has in store. ---------- MirMarnia is an epic literary fantasy twenty years in the making. It has its own language, its own cosmology, its own bestiary, and its own calendar, woven through every chapter. ------------------------------------------- (Artworks on my cover and in my content are originals created by me, either in pencil, pastel, watercolour, or in Procreate using oil paint brushes, Eaglehawk brushes, or smudge tools) Following Chapter 8 on 27 April 2026, new chapters will appear every Monday at 6:30pm (UK time).

She only wanted to hold him once. Fate demanded she never let go. Elara has always lived with her feet in two worlds - the ordinary one of school, friends, and a future she's supposed to want, and the secret one only she can see. Whispers in empty rooms. Shadows that move with intention. A presence that has followed her since childhood, watching but never revealing itself. His name is Caelum. And he is not a ghost. Not a demon. Not an angel. He is something far more mysterious: a spirit bound to an ancient promise he cannot remember, tethered to a world that has forgotten he exists. For centuries, he has drifted unseen - until Elara's eyes find him in a moonlit clearing, and for the first time, he feels seen. What begins as a haunting becomes a conversation. The conversation becomes a friendship. And the friendship becomes a love that defies every law of nature, magic, and fate itself. But loving a spirit comes with a cost. The Veil - the ancient boundary between the living and the ethereal - begins to crack wherever they touch. Monsters from forgotten realms slip through. An order of secret keepers called The Watchers hunts them both - Elara for breaking sacred laws, Caelum for being a love that was never meant to exist. And then there is the truth Caelum has forgotten: He wasn't always a spirit. He was taken - stripped of his body by a curse older than kingdoms. And the only way to free him, to give them a real future, requires Elara to make an impossible choice: Lose him forever. Or lose herself to save him.

In a world filled with magic, monsters thriving in the wilds that are similar to animals, and nature brimming with Mana that surrounds the caverns with magical minerals, magic metals stronger than normal, and people burning with passion for the arcane. Although all of them live and harmonize in this world, not everything is sunshine and rainbows as beings from otherworlds, or the correct term would be from other universes, entering this magical world, not only to live in it, but also take this world for themselves, some unsavory people among them, those full of greed, would do whatever it takes to do so. For these otherworlders, this is a dream come true, being able to use magic and live out their dreams, escaping their magicless lives from their home world so that they can live in fantasy. But for the residents of this magical world, they are invaders, stealing away their resources to sate their greed, and overcrowding their world with their meaningless gathering, destroying nature and the ecosystem of this world. Many had attempted to stop them, but because of their leader, their power and growth continue to overwhelm and overpower the residents of this world, even though the residents outnumber them. So, who will be the heroes who will turn the tide of war? Will they defeat the leader of the otherworlders? Will some otherworlders help the residents? And will they accept them? Come, join us on a journey around the Invaded World, a land of endless unknowns, as heroes rise against the tides of darkness.