Ensemble Stories

In Daisy Grove, everybody knows your business. Briar Quinn thought she knew hers, too. She had the bar she inherited from her father. A boyfriend she'd been with for years. A life that wasn't perfect, but at least it was predictable. Then Genevieve Hawthorn showed up with a secret that shattered everything. One scandal later, Briar is single, furious, and the latest headline in a town that lives for gossip. The last thing she needs is Graham Lane. He's charming. He's complicated. And from the moment he walks into her bar, there's something between them neither of them can ignore. For the first time in years, Briar feels seen. Wanted. Maybe even cared for. And then Briar discovers exactly who Graham is. Suddenly, their chemistry isn't just inconvenient. It's impossible. Because in a town where secrets have a way of crawling into the light, one wrong move could blow up more than just their hearts. Sometimes the person who makes you feel alive is the one person you're not supposed to want. And this spring, Daisy Grove is about to get very, very messy. Cover photo credit: sydney s (unsplash.com)

A thousand years ago, Earth vanished. Ripped from its orbit by unknown forces, it was dragged across the void and bound to a mysterious purple star alongside sixteen other stolen worlds. The star became known as Papuru, and fear forged what diplomacy could not, an uneasy Coalition of planets desperate to understand their captivity and reclaim their lost skies. They never escaped. Instead, they adapted. Now, one thousand years later, the Coalition celebrates its survival through spectacle. Every ten years, the galaxy turns its attention to Coalition Carnage, a year-long, planet-spanning martial arts tournament where champions clash across worlds, environments, and impossible odds. For civilians, it is celebration. For Superstars, it is fame, fortune, and legend. For winning planets, it brings something far more valuable, blessings that keep entire civilizations alive. But Coalition Carnage was never just a tournament. Beneath the cheers, sponsorships, and hero worship lie truths the Coalition has buried for centuries. Secrets woven into the rules, the powers, and the very star that binds them together. Truths that, if uncovered, could unravel the Papuru system itself and erase every stolen world in a single, final catastrophe. This is a space opera about power, survival, and the cost of entertainment. Featuring superpowered combat, planetary politics, rival champions, and the long shadow of a mystery older than human history. The 100th Coalition Carnage is about to begin. Some will win. Some will die. And some will learn what the Papuru Star truly is.

A better rebooted version of the original gde.

By unknown means and for unknown purposes the planet Earth is ripped from its orbit around the sun and placed in a near perfect, synchronized orbit around a mysterious purple star. The Earth isn't alone; 16 other planets underwent the same ordeal. Dubbed the Papuru Star, the G4 sized ball of energy was viewed with fear and awe by the inhabitants of the kidnapped worlds. The leadership of the planets form an uneasy Coalition to understand what the star is and find a way to put the planets back in their original spaces. Now, over a 1000 years later, the 100th annual Coalition Carnage Competition is about to begin. Held every ten years, the year long, galaxy spanning martial arts tournament is the special event the inhabitants of nearly every planet eagerly await, cheering their planet's chosen champion. The tournament is fame and fortune for the superstars who compete, entertainment for the masses, and "blessings" for the winning planet but holds dark secrets within its shadows, secrets that if exposed, could lead to the destruction of all life within the Papuru Galaxy.

New World Arc: A new adventure begins! Alissia and the Supreme Primordials depart from Earth, guided by a mysterious escort, while those left behind face their own challenges. Embark on an exhilarating journey with the Primordials as their universe unfolds in an epic new saga! I will be uploading the series on Wattpad, Penana, RoyalRoad, and on the series' Patreon page. All of it will be under the username: OtherWorldsJT

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The sky doesn't keep secrets. It just waits for someone reckless enough to go looking. Two engineers, one who follows the manual and one who's never finished reading it. A pilot with a sharp eye and a sharper tongue. And a mechanic of few words. Bay Twelve is a story about the family you build out of strangers, the horizon you never stop chasing, and the things that wait past the edge of the map. For fans of old-school sky-pirate adventures and animated epics with a little wonder in them.

Oliver Kral is a competitive gamer who just washed out of a Prague esports tournament. The loss stings, but it's nothing compared to what comes next. Within days, Oliver and a woman he barely knows are ripped from their lives and strapped to examination tables inside a featureless white chamber. Their captors are small, silent, and unmistakably not human. No explanations or demands. Just restraints, sedation, and routines designed to strip away everything familiar. He's not alone. Other captives have been here longer. An intelligence agent. A mob boss. A medic. A linguist. Each one carrying a different piece of a puzzle none of them asked to solve. Together, they begin mapping the patterns of their prison, looking for cracks in a system built by something far more advanced than anything on Earth. Then a voice appears inside Oliver's mind. It calls itself Shadow. It claims to be a fragment of something their captors tried to destroy. It offers knowledge, perception, and a way out. But freedom has a price. And Shadow isn't telling him everything. Set in Central Europe, Xenoforming is a grounded first contact story about ordinary people pushed past every limit they thought they had. Survival, adaptation, and the growing suspicion that their abduction was never random. This is the first book in the Xenoforming series.

Eight best friends. Four love stories. One summer that changes everything. --- Francesca Hanley has spent most of high school watching from the sidelines. She was the new girl with no friends and a master at being invisible. Then one unexpected moment changes everything. Suddenly, she's pulled into a tight-knit circle of eight best friends who do everything together. For a year, the rules were simple: no drama, no mess, and absolutely no falling in love. But as summer heats up, the lines between friendship and something more begin to blur. Feelings are shifting, people are pairing off, and Francesca is desperately trying to hold onto the group that finally makes her feel like she belongs. Because for the first time in her life, she has something she's terrified to lose - and the boy who keeps looking at her like she's worth figuring out isn't making things any easier.

Fenella has never learned how to lie - not to her family, not to herself. The men who enter her life have built entire relationships on it: guilt mistaken for love, cruelty mistaken for control, silence mistaken for loyalty. As their carefully maintained fiction starts to collide with her relentless honesty, Fenella becomes the one steady thing in a world quietly falling apart - until she has to face the one truth she's never let herself look at.

Evelyn Miller lives in comfort with her father, but her smile hides pain left from the death of her mother. Soon, she's forced to directly confront her burden once events conspire to reveal the ugly truth.

He fell to his knees in agony. Whatever presence was connected to the blade now poured its anger into him, and he felt it lamenting... or cursing. "Preposterous," a voice said. "Repulsive. Egregious. Unacceptable!" Countless accusations rang in his mind. "W-what are you? Name yourself!" was all Kronos could gasp out. He wasn't in the forest anymore. Through his link with the rapier, his mind drifted to some pitch-black place where he couldn't even see his own hands. The creature, sensing him, finally shifted its attention toward him. It tried to speak in some unknown tongue. After a moment, it switched to words Kronos understood. "I am Wrath. I am the final dusk. I am the extinguisher of all life. I am your destiny!" *** An original story, greatly inspired by Shiori Novella from Hololive EN and the community. A high fantasy adventure on a continent ruled by the five immortal rulers. The protagonists are forced into a risky venture by a calamity cult's manipulation for daring to cross their path. Now the knights of the newly established city-state have to travel across the continent to the north, in the hope of finding an artefact that would save their new home.

The Gospel of my friend Josh

Gen Academy doesn't advertise. It doesn't have to. Built on a n artificial island off Singapore, it's the school no one admits their family paid for - a "sanctuary" for the children of billionaires, cartels, and criminals too well-connected to expel. Everyone here is hiding something. And everyone, eventually, finds out everyone else's secret sooner or later. And if not? They're to be belittled. Elizabeth just wants to disappear into the crowd. New scholarship student. Perfectly normal to be when you're actually a billionaire. As long as no one asks about her past, she was the perfect jack of all trades - (Maybe not without her glasses, but hey - what could go so wrong without them?). That plan lasts about a day, until she's assigned a seat next to the single most feared student on campus: a boy the entire school gives a two-chair berth to, rumoured to have taken down a Yakuza operation before he was old enough to get a PG-13 movie. What starts as an unlikely, accidental friendship - somewhere between a courtroom-drama-cosplaying set of twins and near-death chemistry experiments - becomes something neither of them planned for - two people who've spent their whole lives being feared, watched, or used, finally being SEEN. But at a school built on old debts and older secrets, kindness always has a price tag attached. And some pasts don't stay buried just because you want them to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scheduled for once every two weeks (14 days)

When Harry Grey, a former English professor at Harvard, is employed at Greenwood High School in the quaint town of Greenville, he doubts if he can fit in. Follow his chaotic and hilarious journey as he tries to blend in with the misfit teachers and levels down with the high school students.

"prince tenshouin, meet your new butler" art on cover by @/kana_dmk on twt!

Kanade Kujo was born to rule an empire. Instead, he ran away to pour drinks in a failing host club. As the heir to the Kyoshin Group, Kanade possesses a rare gift called resonance - the ability to read people's emotions like musical frequencies. But he wants nothing to do with his family's corporate dynasty. Disowned and broke, he finds himself at Starlit Night, a decrepit host club on the brink of closure. Determined to do things differently, Kanade refuses to scam guests into overpriced champagne. Armed with a psychology degree, a secondhand camera, and an eccentric team of coworkers - each carrying their own secrets - he transforms the club into something unexpected: a place where lonely people come to be truly heard. From a widowed teacher seeking conversation to a socially anxious programmer learning to speak, every guest who walks through Starry Night's door carries a story. And Kanade, for all his awkwardness, turns out to be exactly the listener they need. But his family isn't done with him. When an arranged fiancée shows up determined to drag him home, she discovers she's more interested in producing YouTube videos than marrying a runaway. And when the family resorts to darker methods, the guests - the very people Kanade has helped - become the ones who fight to save him. Funny, warm, and quietly profound, The Heir Who Became a Host is a story about chosen family, the courage to be yourself, and the discovery that sometimes the best way to find where you belong is to run away from where you don't. Welcome to Starry Night - where imperfect people are allowed to just be.

"You what?!" "This is so annoying." "I don't need this to become anymore of a problem-" "So just this time, got it?"