Picaresque Stories

This is the tale of Guppian through the Monian lands, and taking a very large journey to meet with very unknown characters.

A ROGUE'S REWARD His plan was foolproof. Fate disagreed. Meet Finn: charming, cunning, and utterly penniless. Meet Barry: his loyal companion, perpetually focused on his next meal. When the kingdom offers a princess and a fortune for the head of the fearsome giant Goliath, Finn concocts a scheme too brilliant (and absurd) to fail. Forget slaying the monster - Finn plans to marry him off! What follows is a riotous adventure filled with tavern brawls, improbable escapes, potent wine, political backstabbing, and the most unconventional matchmaking attempt in history. But in a kingdom where everyone has an angle, the biggest con might be the one Finn never saw coming. #FantasyComedy #Adventure #MedievalFantasy #Rogue #Comedy #PoliticalIntrigue #Giant #ARoguesReward #FantasyFilm #Picaresque #Swashbuckler

A small village in the Dardaren mountains is threatened with a plague of butterflies. However, it is Timo's last chance to prove to his father that he is Jito n'Ecket - the golden netter.

Matthieu Sartonné thinks he knows precisely where life will take him. However, like the rest of the world, he is not prepared for what will come next. Decades of fear and hatred have spilled over from the nearby city of Cyrnne. The armies of the Evangelical Brethren march under the sign of the falling star, destroying all in their path and bringing with them a deadly sickness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Heilicon, the cradle of Matthieu's every ambition, is the first city to fall. It will not be the last, but if Matthieu is to see any conclusion to this war, he must escape by any means he can. He sets out into a larger world that owes him nothing and will never let him stay in one place for long. But he is not alone in his yearning for a better world. Along the way, he meets plunderers, refugees, islanders, sailors, zealots, a reluctant prophet, and a family he never knew he had. Will one of these be able to give him the peace he seeks, or are they merely imperfect men like himself? Are they even real? All he knows anymore is that some power wants him to stay alive; only time will tell if that power is God or simply his own will to survive.

Down on his luck trust fund kid, Jay Lovatt, has one last scheme for putting an end to his money worries. A mad dash to Antares 9 in a stolen space ship. But falling foul of a spiritualist cult and its vindictive leader; then becoming linked with a burned out space lieutenant, John Stevers, and his orphaned children, may just lead Jay to a mission he never wanted. Saving the world. The second captivating book in the Robot and His Boy universe. Can be read as a standalone or after enjoying A Robot and His Boy.

WELCOME TO THE LAND OF THE CURSED SOULS The Mad Maven's : "THE CURSE OF SAYRE ISLAND" Translated to New World Language by Giovanna Emeraude Genre: Mystery-Picaresque Language: English, Serrian (Geriatric Werrseindich-Castilean) "GOD IS DEAD!" When the darkness came caving in, crows started to appear more plenty than ever. The land which was as old as time withered until it was nothing more than a shadowed mystery. The Tower of Life and Death which pierced the heavens started to crack. The people feared that their God will never again hark their prayers and that the voice of lunacy was above all. On August 12th, 1913-a body of a young woman was found dead in Cursed Creek which heightened the fear of the mass. And once that had been feared was worshipped. The Church crumbles, the people cry, and Sayre was left to rot. One young maiden, named The Mad Maven-a heathen, a black sheep, a heretic and a witch-investigating an unknown important mystery, found herself trapped between the deaths of the people around her. As Dooms Day comes, and as three curious questions were asked; determined to leave Sayre, she sought to seek the root of all the murder mysteries while claiming the opportunity to erase the blood tainted on her name-also as a suspected murderer herself. Wanting to escape her deadly fate, join The Rebels as they seek the answers to these mysteries, unfortunate events and the lingering curse that had been spreading-rotting the land since the dawn began.

"The novel: parroting the morality of the times. This is the function of the novel today..." "You are living today for the saints of wisdom. Live with zest. Put energy in your step..." "Empire is created upon the face of influence. To influence one must be bold..." The tale of Empire is a high one, laid out in 2015. It will turn and move with the contours of the river of life.

"It was an easy time to be born. The year is 1982. His nose was sniffing around, his ears were listening..." The desert is a vast place, and Sane Son must deal with the Papermen. They desire documents for every action, and every one must sign. The sight of freedom is far from them, but Sane Son is journeying to uncover it.

Explanation The author, hinemos owns the copyright. The author started writing this story in May 2020 and completed it on April 20, 2021. The author published this story on the website Arcadia starting April 21, 2021. The story was updated once a day and completed as of May 10, 2022. The original text is in Japanese. The author himself will now post the English translation on the website Wattpad. It is a strange English. Because it is only a machine translation of the original text. However, I am confident that something will be conveyed. This attempt is interesting, the author feels. Summary This is a story spun by nine narrators from A to I. One of them is Dr. Albert Einstein. The most prolific narrator is a young boy named Kodama. The setting is World War II. Everyone ran through it. It was a fun time. Well then, good luck.

Verdam is a man living in the forest in the year 52,000. He must create his own feet, and he is introduced to a very serious game by the King.

Those who live in the Abyss may as well be considered confined. The Lesser Lord of the Abyss is the only inhabitant left alive. He discovers that nearly all the Gods in the mortal realm were killed... over five hundred years ago. Now, only six of the Gods remain, ruling the surviving nations of the world they call Edyria. The Lesser Lord journeys through every nation in search for the remaining Gods, in hopes of receiving answers from them regarding the deaths of the rest of the Gods and the fate of the world. However... it seems that someone is trying their best to make sure he never finds out. ⚠️ THIS STORY CONTAINS: strong language, violence, manipulation, genocide, murder/death. Started: March 2024 Finished: This story is heavily inspired by Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, The Girl From the Other Side, Over the Garden Wall, Dangerously Yours: Masquerade, Steven Universe, Howl's Moving Castle, and the bible (but I'm not religious). If you need help imagining what each nation in this story is like... First nation (Descental) is inspired by Ancient Greece (architecturally), Mondstadt (Genshin Impact) and Hogsmeade from Harry Potter (only the main city mentioned in this story). Second nation (Spyriax) is inspired by Egypt and the chasm in Genshin Impact (not very strongly, though). Third nation (Eudaemonia) is inspired by Day of the Dead and Chenyu Vale from Genshin Impact (only aesthetically). Fourth nation (Odirium) is inspired by Ancient Japan. Fifth nation (Miyeria) is inspired by Italy, France, and South American cultures. Sixth nation (Ephemeral) is inspired by Alice Through the Looking Glass.

"The year was 17,812 and the world was shown the light of mega mart." In the second part of the Mega Mart trilogy, there are more tunes than ever before. See the Slothman ride bus 29, witness the battle of Sea port city, and experience number johnson's war with the granras. It will take a real Rookie to take it all in.

I have always thought I would live out my life without any major surprises. You know, work on the estates of my parents, serve my time as a soldier, become a senator, a praetor, maybe a consul in time. I thought I will live the life that a Roman noble of my standing can count on. But this was not to be. My previously simple life got suddenly very complicated. I was taken from my home, and now I have to live in a world where no one speaks Latin, no one prays to my gods, and no one knows what the heck garum is. Before, I thought I had all the answers, but now only questions remain. Will I survive? Will I find my way back home? Will I ever be able to get the savage bastards living here to adopt the great accomplishments of Roman civilisation? Not even the gods know the answers. One thing is for sure: should I ever get home again; I will never set a foot outside of my estate without a healthy stockpile of garum.

War. What is the starting point and where does it end? This is a vexing question. By the time war is declared, it is too late. If we are to stop it, we must act before it starts. To act proactively, one must be observant and know the process. To depict this, the author started the story 25 years before the end of the war. Aside from that. In the original version, all 385 stories were presented in the form of an undivided list. The author felt that this format was difficult to read in the Wattpad version. Therefore, we have decided to present the stories up to 1926 as vol. 1, and to compose a new vol. 2. There is still a long way to go, so please take your time to follow along. At what stage would you take what action? Good Luck.

An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting, and other elements of creative work

In 1863, Theophile Gautier introduced us to the loquacious, punctilious swordsman, brigand and killer for hire Maitre Jaquemin Lampourde and his curious-looking colleague the Chevalier Malartic, assassin, criminal mastermind and professional kidnapper. They were only secondary villains in Gautier's 'Captain Fracasse', henchmen to the villainous Duc d'Vallombreuse, but they were also much more interesting than any of the main characters of the novel, and sadly received far too little page-time. To remedy Gautier's negligence, I present the continued adventures of this pair of professional criminals in the Paris of D'Artagnan and Cyrano, hoping to do for them what Stoppard did for Rosencrantz and Gildenstern, and what Macdonald-Fraser did for Harry Flashman.