Otherworldy 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]]

Cassandra Blake knew how Attack on Titan ended. She knew who would die. She knew who would betray humanity. She knew which screams were coming before the people around her even learned to be afraid. Then she fell asleep in the modern world and woke up in Shiganshina on the day Wall Maria fell. Trapped inside a story built on sacrifice, Cass joins the 104th Cadet Corps with the weight of the future locked behind her teeth. She knows too much, moves too carefully, and somehow always seems to be in the right place when death comes reaching. To the military, she is suspicious. To civilians, she becomes something dangerously close to hope. To her friends, she is the girl who laughs with them, fights beside them, and refuses to let go when the world tells her she should. But fate does not break quietly. Every life Cass saves changes the path ahead. Every secret she keeps draws sharper eyes toward her. And in a world where survival already demands everything, Cassandra Blake will have to decide how much of herself she is willing to lose to keep the people she loves alive. Because knowing the future is not the same as saving it. All credit for Attack on Titan and its entities belongs to Hajime Isayama. I only own Cassandra Blake and pieces of the divergent plot.

"IN THE DARKEST HOUR OF THE NIGHT I WILL COME AND GET YOU.. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM ME.. BECAUSE MY EYES ARE ALWAYS ON YOU.. EVERY MINUTES AND EVERY SECONDS...." The Park family is a mystery. No one outside the world know the darkest truth that had been hiding under that old gothic style mansion. Let's see what is the mystery that Jimin's family hiding and what is Jimin's role in all of these.. A Yoonmin dark love story... THE DARKEST HOUR By Author AMMU

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Mimi's life was as uneventful as anyone else's. Her death, however, was quite a different story. Mature parts will be published as a different chapter, so the book can be read clean.

Aru Shah and her friends have finally defeated the Sleeper, and the thought of having a break was soothing itself. And then, out of nowhere, Loose Tooth comes, trying to report something. Something about a "certain someone's" soul. Someone they had indirectly killed. Once reported to the Council of Guardians, The Potatoes are sent on another quest into realms they had never imagined of before. Will they be able to save all those horses and mares? Or will they fail and risk awakening the Sleeper's most dangerous accomplice? Continuation of Nectar of Immortality! Also a LOT of Aruden, Some, but not cold Mindy, and Brynne getting to know Hira! BTW, Kara might just be back. :D

A broken world, barren, and hostile. With naught but a single being left on its surface which endured endless hardship. A broken man who continues to fight a war that had already ended centuries ago. To someone who has lost everything and lives for nothing. What would happen if they were plucked from their meaningless struggle, and placed into a new environment?

What happens when you're suddenly in the middle of two worlds at the same time? I had been marked by him once, and I was being marked again. Will she go through with it. Her life or her revenge?

At thirty-two, Marjorie Rhae Winters is tired of surviving a life that no longer feels like hers. She spends her days exhausted inside a warehouse and her nights in the cottage that once belonged to her grandmother-the one place she hoped might help her feel like herself again. With only her beloved dog, Samson, beside her, Marjorie has learned to live with the empty spaces left by those she loved and lost. Then one night, the wall begins to ripple. Not crack. Not open. Ripple-like water. When Marjorie reaches out to touch it, reality bends beneath her fingertips. Moments later, she and Samson are no longer home. They are in Brightmere-an impossible realm where castles rise among modern cities, magic exists alongside everyday life, and strangers seem to know more about Marjorie than she knows about them. Even more impossible, Brightmere has given her back something she thought death had taken from her forever. But this world holds other familiar faces, too. Faces Marjorie never expected-or wanted-to see again. And deep within Brightmere waits an ancient portrait of a red-haired woman who has been mysteriously aging for generations. A woman who looks exactly like her. People bow when Marjorie passes. They call her Your Majesty. And they insist their True Queen has finally come home. There is only one problem. Marjorie has never been here before. As the line between memory and reality begins to blur, Marjorie must uncover why Brightmere knows her, why pieces of her past seem to have followed her across worlds, and why a realm she has never seen carries traces of a life she thought she understood. Because in Brightmere, the past doesn't disappear. It echoes. And this time, Marjorie has no choice but to listen.

Mare lives a long, fulfilling life before dying peacefully and being reborn as a princess in another world. Retaining her past memories and intelligence, she can speak as a baby, causing her parents to fear she is a demon. As she grows, Mare discovers magic and begins exploring her strange new world.

Eighteen-year-old David Willoughby has never given much thought to what he wants out of life. Raised by his grandparents on a remote homestead in the Alaskan wilderness, he has always been more concerned with what needs to be done-tending the animals, helping around the homestead, and making himself useful wherever he can. But when a fishing trip to a nearby lake goes horribly wrong, David awakens to a life that isn't his own. Stranded among a tribe of therians, he finds himself in the place of someone they already know-and someone whose reputation has left behind more than a few fractured relationships. With little more than the survival skills his grandparents taught him, David must learn to navigate an unfamiliar world while repairing bonds he never broke and living with the consequences of a past he never lived. Yet the farther he travels from the life he once knew, the harder it becomes to ignore the question that has followed him all along: What does he truly want for himself?

# ASTRA RIFT: WAR OF THE THREE WORLDS The world did not end in a single night. It began with mysterious communication failures, strange lights in the sky, and phenomena no one could explain. Raka Pradana was just an ordinary young man living a normal life in Jakarta. He was not a soldier. Not a scientist. And certainly not a hero. But when the sky finally split apart and a gateway to another world opened, Raka's life changed forever. Beyond the dimensional rift lay a world filled with kingdoms, magic, monsters, and technology humanity had never known. But they did not come to visit. They came to wage war. As Earth struggles to defend itself from the invasion, Raka is slowly drawn into a conflict far greater than anything he could have imagined. Two worlds. Two civilizations. One war. But the deeper Raka searches for the truth, the clearer one terrifying reality becomes. Earth and the invaders' world are not the only worlds connected by the rift. There is a third world. And when its existence is finally revealed, the war between two worlds may become the beginning of the end for them all. **When the sky breaks, the fate of three worlds begins.** --- **Genres:** Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Mecha, War, Drama **Status:** Ongoing **Volume 1: The Last Days of Normality**

In the mystical realm of Morefell, a tapestry of medieval wonder and ancient prophecy, humans coexist with the enigmatic elves, the steadfast dwarves, and the feared demons. Every three centuries, the shadow of a demon lord looms over the lands, seeking to shackle all creatures under his dominion. Yet, in this realm where magic users are scarce, a beacon of hope emerges from the stars, fifty heroes from Earth, a land where magic does not exist. However, they can harness the essence of 'mana', a cosmic energy that is an unseen element natural to Morefell, but not accessible to most born on Morefell. Fifty heroes, bound by prophecy, will rise to face the demon lord. The deities of Morefell gift these heroes with the ability to wield mana-fueling the formidable X-O frames that transform them into warriors. Magic, a force understood only as myth in their world, becomes their reality in Morefell. Under the tutelage of the few native magic-wielders and weapon masters, these Earth-born champions are honed into an elite force. Their epic battles against the demonic tides weave a legacy of valor and sacrifice into the very fabric of Morefell. After the dust of war settles, they are not sent back to their mundane lives but are welcomed into the embrace of their new home, their destinies forever intertwined with the land and its inhabitants. This is the world where our odyssey begins, a tale of love, loss, and the unyielding spirit that refuses to be broken. This story can also be found on Royal Road.

Hannah is reeling after the death of her mother, a renowned advocate for synthetic human rights. Blaming the synth community for her loss, she seeks a fresh start on Aella, a colony planet free of invasive technology. She was promised paradise, but when a row of broken life pods strands her on a deserted alien island, she and her fellow castaways will be lucky to survive. To Hannah's dismay, the eclectic group must rely on AERN, the ship's emergency response android, to survive. Forced to confront her prejudices, and the realities of her mother's death, Hannah's journey becomes a poignant exploration of grief, redemption, and what it means to be human.

Alice Bennett had already given up on love once. In her first life, she spent years with a man she thought she would marry, only to learn that promises, loyalty, and forever didn't always mean what people claimed they did. Then she died. When Alice opens her eyes again, she's eighteen, living in another world, and about to start university. At first, everything seems almost normal. Then she learns one very important fact: There are nearly ten men for every woman. Women are rare, protected, and privileged. Boys and girls are largely raised and educated separately. Female-only universities exist for those who want them, and families do everything they can to keep their daughters safe. Alice could attend one too. The problem is that the nearest women's university is far from home. So she chooses the local university instead. A university where almost everyone around her is male. Alice expects it to be awkward. She doesn't expect the way people react to her. She talks to men normally. She thanks them when they help her. She treats them as equals, refuses to order them around just because she can, and has no interest in using her rarity as a woman to get whatever she wants. To Alice, that's just basic decency. To everyone else, she's strange. And apparently, very difficult to ignore. Before long, men who should have had no reason to care about one ordinary university girl begin finding reasons to stay around her.

She was seven when the river took her. He spent two years learning how to breathe without her. Then he died too. He should be gone. Instead he wakes up in a body that isn't his, in a world that isn't his, surrounded by people speaking words he shouldn't understand. None of it matters. None of it, because someone tells him his daughter is alive. Not here. Not close. Six worlds away, growing up without a father, not knowing he's coming. But he's coming. Every world has a coin. Every coin holds something together. Every coin he takes leaves a wound behind him, broken wards, unprotected towns, people who helped him left with nothing. He tells himself he'll make it right later. He tells himself there's no other way. Maybe there isn't. Maybe that's the worst part. WISHING WELL - A serialized isekai light novel.

<< You are too soft to be an Alpha. You are sensible, too much sensible. You will be a victim of the succession rite >>. The Golden band 🪈... Gold fur, black skin, dark pupil, and a line of gold in their eyes. Best at tracking, overwhelming strength... The nightmare of those '' bloodsuckers ''. The strongest pack of United West Africa 🌍. They are said to be of divine blood 🩸... But the ancient power of the Stars have gone dry... Facing a constellation that appears out of the blue, in the sky, they are to go down the old path to have a chance to win the war. But the one the ancient god chose is not the favorite for the succession ahead, being the most fragile one among his brothers that are aiming for the throne...

NEW CHAPTER EVERY MONDAY!! The Salvation of Regnum Aetheris Two worlds. One forgotten connection. When Ashley is unexpectedly taken through a portal into a world of magic, she discovers that she may be very important to this world. But to prove herself, she must master the four Elementa and uncover the secrets hidden within Regnum Aetheris. Because her arrival may be the beginning of something much bigger. Four elements. Seven souls. One to connect everyone.

Urla's people live on the edge between forest and valley. They hide among the trees, living a mostly peaceful existence. They only fear traveling to the outside villages. They have very little to trade with the outside world, surviving for years on the work of their hands. Urla's father is a weaver and a tailor. His work is a wonder and a trick to the eye as the fabric dances before those who see it. He makes traveling clothes for those who risk the outside world. The trick is to be noticed and unseen. Yet, Urla lives a carefree life. If only Frederick would leave her be, then life would be perfect. #3 in YA Fantasy (9/20/26)