Picaresque Stories

Saya has a special arrangement with a dragon. She gets tied to rocks. He gets the gold. They scam villages with fake sacrifices, overcooked rituals, and a convincing act of "damsel in distress." She's no maiden - just a fast-talking harlot with sharp instincts, flexible morals, and a talent for moaning on cue. He's no terrifying beast - just a very old, very gay, very arthritic lizard with a hoard, a temper, and joint pain from shapeshifting too much in the bygone ages. It's all going swimmingly until heroes start showing up. Cults get nosy. Other dragons get ideas. And Saya begins to wonder what exactly she's doing in a world where virtue gets sacrificed and livestock counts as treasure. A sword-and-sandals fantasy with scams, sarcasm, sensuality, and sheep.

In 1859, England, a misfit Irish student named Lámha L. Boggan endures ridicule at his prestigious English boarding school due to his heritage and peculiar looks. Despite constant harassment and failing grades, Lámha is promised a special "retreat." However, the trip turns out to be a dark twist of fate, where he's thrust into the brutal world. Optimistic yet naive, Lámha must now navigate the harsh reality of servitude, betrayal, and survival while traveling across the globe.

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.

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

"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.

The Mentite War is now behind him, but Matthieu Sartonné finds himself in another company of holy warriors, bound for a frontier only known to him in legend. Global Church converts in the western Qenshi States fear once again the armies of their southern neighbors, and the nations of the Southern Coalition have responded to their call. It does not matter that joining them saved Matthieu from the Grand Inquiry in Ossir, as the desire for a better world still grips him as strongly as ever. But now he has seen not only the perfection of the Bathala's island but the false paradise of Cyrnne, and questions the ability of imperfect beings to create anything that is not even more flawed than they are. This new world is one where the Global Church, under its officers and lords, works to transform a nation into one after its own pattern. Enemies of this effort are everywhere, and even the work of its allies threaten to destroy any chance at a peaceful conclusion to what had previously been a tense stalemate. Meanwhile, an impoverished priest takes Matthieu into his service, unaware that forces beyond their control threaten to destroy everything they seek to mend. In a land where the work of salvation and the work of death are so closely mingled, how can one man hope to stand against the current of the times?

The dog who didn't like his master is a light hearted, humorous dystopia about Ben, a Labrador who does not want to become a guide dog for the visually impaired and decides to run away from his training school with the help of a scheming cat named Pistachio. Set in the war torn northern town of Lambed, the novel follows Ben's adventures and his misguided conversion to the feline cause. Ben embarks on a voyage of love, betrayal and redemption which will not leave him unscathed. A tall tale/tail indeed in which the animals have become decidedly human in their quest for power and domination. With the help of Ben, a fascistic Catiphate is born but will there be room for him once Pistachio has asserted himself as its absolute ruler? To be sure this is an old tale but one with a modern twist coloured by current events on the world scene.

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.

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 called Edyria. The Lesser Lord journeys through every nation in search for the remaining Gods, in hopes of receiving answers from them regarding the death of the other 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. If you're the type who enjoys certain tropes, here you go: never spoken, always known (this trope breaks my heart and it will break yours, too). 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.

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.

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.

""Napoleanic crossed swords must dance these egging your yard skates. Something comes falling before me. Folding and falling with the grace of a sweet swooning supple sapien..."" From 2016 comes the political tale which is entirely unpolitical. It rocks and it rolls, it sweeps with its saintly music.

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.

"I shoulda written this a year ago. Two or so. Lucky for you, I remembered our talks crystal clear and could tell the story smooth as butter. Remember I said we'd all be legends some day? We just gotta die and have someone write our tales? Well, you already gone dear bud and I'm still here. Don't worry, I'll make you a legend. Just watch from up there. I'm gonna make you a legend, Dally. Theys gonna remember you and what you done for 'em." -Peter Richard Connors

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.

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.