The River Named Its Daughter
- Reads 6
- Votes 1
- Parts 1
From an artist's nightmare of nothingness, an entity is born. Something impossible.
There exists a realm where fears take shape. And Lethe was born in it, a child of emptiness, a Fear too human for the world she belonged. On the banks of the endless Styx, creatures feed on dreams to survive. Lethe found a roof that liked her, guided by outlaws and watched by enemies, she was slowly learning the rules.
But the balance was tipping... because a mortal wanted to define biology.
All Rights Reserved
#10
softhorror
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
At the Fields of Fire and Blood
The world is dying. Heaven and Hell have broken and collapsed, creating a post-apocalyptic landscape that is part purgatory, part platonic world of ideas, blighted by the horrors of the human mind. The sun lies dormant in the east, atop God's tower, while the west is plunged into darkness and haunted by all that lives there. There is no day and night cycle, nothing grows, nothing dies, nothing changes, unless magic is involved. Angels hunt creatures for their blood, to feed it to God so he can finish gestating. Demons kill and destroy aimlessly, their origins inexplicable and unknown. Stranger beings wander the ruins of what's left of the world. Humans need not eat or sleep, caught in a state between life and death. They cannot die or be born naturally, but they can be killed and they can be made. The few that survived with their sanity somewhat intact have locked themselves into warded cities, but their protections are feeble and often ineffective. The Order that united them is long gone, broken into factions known only by the sins for which they have fallen. The Houses that protected them are crumbling, falling into ruin as their members were culled down by angels and demons, as well as their own mad quest to save the world; the Pilgrimage, a vain attempt to steal into Eden and murder God himself. Soon, only the Scions will remain. Those that were left not due to merit, but because they were the last choice for being heroes. Those whose memories and minds are as damaged and eaten through as their world. Those who agreed to take on the mysterious Archons within their bodies and, through that contract, had ancient relics and rituals passed down to them. They converge onto a long forgotten neutral ground, trying to save themselves. A heroic journey through a nightmarish wonderland. A pilgrimage to God's tower, to make the world whole again. To cleanse the world of the horrors infecting it. To kill the God who will doom them all with his birth.Complete
Lucid
When a disillusioned young man meets a stranger in his dreams, he discovers that the world behind sleep is real - and dangerous. - A man who lives in self-dejection and daydreams of the grandeur of being a successful writer, Bartholomew struggles with self-acceptance and all the pangs of existence. One night, his consciousness descends into the dreamworld, allowing him to experience his dreams as one would in reality. But when Inoue, a fellow Dreamshaper, explains his latent abilities, he finds out about the wildness the unconscious world holds and its mental and metaphysical effects. Inoue spontaneously decides to mentor him, introducing him to Mind Eaters - beings born from the amalgamation of repressed trauma, encompassing stress and griping depression - and the community that exists for their kind. During this, their relationship blooms, and they develop romantic feelings for one another. With his newfound powers and friends, Bartholomew slowly finds the strength and drive to come out of his shell and progress his writing journey - but this is derailed when he encounters a Dreamshaper who uses his abilities to cause harm, as well as old acquaintances that were splinters of pain he hadn't been able to remove. Bartholomew must prevail over cynicism and be bold enough to face his inner monsters before they consume him.Complete
Monogatari
What happens when the mundane world you despise suddenly shatters around you? Kitsuka hates his predictable college life, the fake smiles, meaningless friendships, and endless routine. But when mysterious fighters tear through his classroom ceiling and a faceless entity drags him into another world, his boring existence becomes the least of his problems. Waking up in a strange realm with impossible skies and deadly creatures, Kitsuka discovers something has changed within him. When he should have died, he didn't. When he should have been weak, he wasn't. As his friends lie unconscious in a cave, Kitsuka faces a choice that will define who he becomes in this new world: cling to his past self, or embrace the darkness that whispers of power and freedom. Sometimes the monster you become is exactly what you needed to be. A dark psychological fantasy about transformation, isolation, and the price of power. Content Warnings: Violence, blood, psychological themes, morally gray protagonist IMPORTANT: NO AI Use in the writing or even Image in this story.
The World Beyond the Veil: Inoria
"Everyone wants to be a Writer, but no souls shall ever find salvation in a world crafted by selfish gods." And thus, a nameless deity is born... Deep within the Library of Endings, a girl awakens with nothing but her name. Inoria. Born from human desire, Inoria is an Outer One-a god-authors who craft and erase entire realities for their own designs. However, Inoria's birth was never written. Her existence is an anomaly. As she unravels the truth of the Outer Ones, their endless cycles of creation and destruction, and her own inexplicable origin, she soon discovers the true reality of the Outer Ones and the selfishness of their desires.Complete
Locked Within
Beyond the abyss, beyond countless realities, beyond all the universes..... there exists Countless Horrors.... All Unknown.Complete
The Bargain
"She was never meant to live. But he let her."When a child is born on a night thick with fog, Death arrives as promised-to claim what fate demands. But a desperate mother strikes a deal that changes everything. Years later, the girl begins to feel it: the weight of something watching her, waiting. Her thirteenth birthday approaches. So does the storm. What begins as a haunting becomes something stranger-an unraveling of the world she thought she knew and the one she was never meant to touch. In a place beyond life and death, a bargain once made must be paid in full. But some debts echo louder than others.Complete
CROSS: Blood Horizon
They didn't die. They didn't teleport. They woke up in a world that hunts them. Leo has no memories-only blood on his hands and a strength that fractures concrete when he panics. When he meets others like him-teenagers with impossible abilities and the same blank past he realized this world doesn't just want them gone
Beyond Infinity: The Convergence
The earth has been ravaged by war, and all that is left of humanity is on an iron island out in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It was a paradise, because on Olympus, they were gods, or so they were made to believe. The inhabitants of Olympus were untouchable, beyond simple human desires like greed, hate and violence. Unfortunately for them, they seemed to have incurred the wrath of actual gods, nightmares, and monsters. And so, they have been forced to flee their 'heaven' for greener pastures, but before then, they'll have to pass through hell. Monsters, demons, nightmares and gods are only supposed to exist in the world of imagination, and that's exactly where they came from. And it just so happens that to survive, they'll have to enter the human mind, they'll have to invade the world of imagination, but what horrors must await them in such a place, depraved of reason and logic, perverted by man's desires and sick mind.Complete
The Dark sickness
a normal life turned upside down after an unknown man or demon watched her all her life her world is in danger and only the man in the dark can help her. will she let the darkness in?Complete
THE AFTERHOUR
The Man woke up and found himself in an empty void. "Where am I?" - He thought to himself - "Who am I?" . He will soon realize the empty torturous Void was only the beginning, and there will be questions, many more, that are much important than the ones he had. I.The Void: III.The Arrival: III. The Tower: IV. The Creature: V. The Exit: VI. The Breakout: VII. The Lake: VIII. The Corridor: IX. The Entity: X. The Final Memory: XI. The Library: XII. The Game of Chance: XIII. The Good Life:Complete
The world is dying. Heaven and Hell have broken and collapsed, creating a post-apocalyptic landscape that is part purgatory, part platonic world of ideas, blighted by the horrors of the human mind. The sun lies dormant in the east, atop God's tower, while the west is plunged into darkness and haunted by all that lives there. There is no day and night cycle, nothing grows, nothing dies, nothing changes, unless magic is involved. Angels hunt creatures for their blood, to feed it to God so he can finish gestating. Demons kill and destroy aimlessly, their origins inexplicable and unknown. Stranger beings wander the ruins of what's left of the world. Humans need not eat or sleep, caught in a state between life and death. They cannot die or be born naturally, but they can be killed and they can be made. The few that survived with their sanity somewhat intact have locked themselves into warded cities, but their protections are feeble and often ineffective. The Order that united them is long gone, broken into factions known only by the sins for which they have fallen. The Houses that protected them are crumbling, falling into ruin as their members were culled down by angels and demons, as well as their own mad quest to save the world; the Pilgrimage, a vain attempt to steal into Eden and murder God himself. Soon, only the Scions will remain. Those that were left not due to merit, but because they were the last choice for being heroes. Those whose memories and minds are as damaged and eaten through as their world. Those who agreed to take on the mysterious Archons within their bodies and, through that contract, had ancient relics and rituals passed down to them. They converge onto a long forgotten neutral ground, trying to save themselves. A heroic journey through a nightmarish wonderland. A pilgrimage to God's tower, to make the world whole again. To cleanse the world of the horrors infecting it. To kill the God who will doom them all with his birth.
More detailsContent Guidelines