Lowfantasy Stories

Mira, an avid player of otome games, suddenly finds herself in the world of the otome game she's just finished. As if that on its own isn't bad enough, she's become the game's villainess, Blythe Ridge, destined for execution once the heroine attains the good ending of whichever love interest she chooses. As a connoisseur of isekai web novels, she's convinced that all she needs to do to escape from certain death is to turn over a new leaf and stop bullying Daisy Willoughby, the heroine of the otome game. Easy peasy. Unfortunately for her, she soon finds out that she has no say in the matter-her body moves of its own will whenever certain game events have to take place. Everyone around her is bemused by her frenzied scrambling to claim that all her malicious actions, and even some of her speech, are a complete and total accident. Mira--no, it's Blythe now--just wants to escape from the 'villainess' label to keep on living! ----------------------------------- "Born to be a pacifist, forced to be a villainess. Such is the story of my life!" "What in the world are you talking about?" "It's a meme, a meme!" ----------------------------------- (third person, past tense, slowburn clean romance, LOW fantasy) ----------------------------------- Note: An otome game often refers to a romance visual novel, targeted at women, with a female protagonist and male love interests. Some include stat-raising aspects. ----------------------------------- Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays. Read 20 chapters ahead on Patreon! ⭐️ (Cover art by ME. I illustrated it.)

What would you do if you were fifteen again? Welcome back to 2005! In the space of one week, fifty-five-year-old Damian Dove has managed to let a serial killer walk free, get caught with a sex worker, anger the media, and get himself fired from his law firm. But a new client walks through the door and offers Damian something unusual. One wish. And the chance to change his life forever. Damian Dove doesn't deserve a second chance, but alas, he got one. The next morning, Damian wakes up in his childhood bedroom. It's 2005, he's fifteen years old. His phone is a Nokia brick. His hair is aggressively gelled. And MSN Messenger is the place to be. Armed with forty years of hindsight and a lifetime of mistakes, Damian assumes this is his chance to fix everything. To make better choices. To become a better person. To find out if anyone cared about him. But as he tries to control old friendships, finds out not many people like him, relives parts of the past and experiences childhood again, Damian realises that the serial killer he managed to let walk free was at school with him this whole time. And he might have a chance to rewrite the past. Watching from the edges of it all is Hale. The strange client who granted the wish in the first place. To be fair, Damian Dove has spent most of his life-giving people very good reasons not to love him. But before Damian's story is finished, he will be forced to confront the question that has followed him across two lifetimes: Can the past be changed, and ultimately, Who Loved Damian Dove?

After a devastating defeat, humanity was forced to give up their land and relocate to two isolated continents that were labeled as impossible to live on. After hundreds of years while the rest of the world focuses on agricultural and living conditions. Humanity had focused on its weapons and military. As years of isolation were broken and tensions rise, the fate of the world is left uncertain.

Book One, Crater: After Lilith's mysterious disappearance, Ivy must follow her mother's last instructions, leading her to a bizarre land with new and foreign people. Unbeknownst to her, the people of that land are aware of her eventual arrival. However, they are also wary as they've received a prophecy that Ivy could be the savior of their colony or the one who destroys it. Book Two, Stygian Tower: Still, Zoe is left feeling distracted and distant several months later. Hope is not lost as she receives surprising news that she may(if she plays her cards right) be able to see Ivy again. ---------------------------- Next Up is that one dream we all had when we were kids. When we would leave home in search of adventure and all sorts of creatures in our imaginations ran wild in this world. ----------------------------- I will update this story twice weekly, on Monday and Thursday, now at 12:12pm CST. Criticisms/suggestions are always welcome!

All their lives, the tainted threat loomed. While Rossi and her village faced attacks--a single tainted's destruction, before they could burn them--Bianca lived among the tainted and every day faced the Shadow in her own body. They feel compelled to risk the unthinkable, go Downtown to find the crack between universes. Their journey won't actually take them far from home, but that's the problem. Everyone close to their hearts is threatened. This is a story of challenges: the challenge of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. But also, the challenge of working with people under stress, often through pain, some you don't like, some close friends you take for granted, some new friends with a totally different worldview. There are multiple seasons before the primary goal is resolved. Regularly scheduled programming every 2nd and 4th Wed. Wherever you see Rossi's journal is a "bookmark" to help you when you need to step away, giving you an eye-catching way to pick up where you left off. Every episode is a 20-30 min read (4000-6000 words), but bookmarks / scene breaks are around 1400 words. All seasons are written, but I'm still editing! Stick with me, and you will see the completed story. For fans of post-apocalyptic hopepunk! If you enjoyed Station Eleven or Sweet Tooth, then I hope you'll enjoy this character-driven saga of found family and long lost friends enduring wasteland survival with Practical Magic style witchcraft. Font Cult of the Toucan by junkohanhero used with commercial license. Mesmerize font by Typodermic Fonts (both found on Dafont). Main cover design composited of photos: Peter Mason, Thomas Galler, Gabriele Stravinskaite, kilarov, (I haven't located the photo for Bianca. I know it was Unsplash, I believe by Shojol Islam) (Also, the same content I published as ebooks through Draft2Digital (aka Books2Read) and Amazon. I also was on Substack "Dark but Magical Stories", but due to "conflict" rules at my day job, I had to stop the subscriptions.)

Malakai has grown tired of waiting to turn eighteen. After a bad dinner with his family he finally snaps and decides to run away. When he finally comes to his senses he finds himself in Willow Wood, the strange forest outside of town that no one ever returns from. After a long night of wandering he meets two strange people in a run down mansion deep in the woods. Along with his two new friends Malakai starts to learns about magic and searches for his true father, until his eighteenth birthday when everything changes.

After 500 years of searching, the immortal emperor Prvoslav has slain the final Aryyskian god. But now, he has gained a special interest in Ivory Fedotova, a girl with mysterious and powerful abilities. Unfortunately for her, he seems to understand far more about her than she does. Perhaps if Ivory can learn the origins of her powers she can learn to use them effectively. But will she be able to under the watchful eye of the government? And then, what will she do with them? Warning: depictions of human trafficking, self-harm, suicide, addiction, and violence Resources: If you or someone you know may be a victim of human trafficking the National Human Trafficking Hotline provides free, confidential help, 24/7. Call: 1-888-373-7888 If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse you can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Call: 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, the Suicide and Crisis Hotline offers around the clock help as well. Call or text: 988 Weekly updates on Wednesdays

A quiet high school student begins noticing strange abnormalities hidden within everyday life. The more he tries to ignore them, the more impossible it becomes.

Paris, born with the supernatural ability called Soul Perception, grew up within the walls of Saint Marianne's Orphanage carrying emotions that were never truly hers. Through every loneliness and hardship, Jae Won remained by her side, becoming the only person who ever made her feel safe. But everything changed when Paris was adopted by the wealthy Henry family and introduced to a life far removed from the orphanage she once called home. Years later, after turning eighteen, Paris secretly brought Jae Won back into her life and used her adoptive parents' money behind their backs to fund his education, a decision that slowly led her into financial conflict. During her second year of university, she met her new philosophy professor, the widowed Matthew Grayson, whose quiet grief drew her closer until comfort slowly turned into something forbidden. Unknown to everyone around her, Paris also worked as a midnight dancer in a downtown lounge to continue supporting Jae Won without him ever finding out. But the fragile balance of her life begins to collapse the night Victor Henry witnesses her dancing alone beneath the stage lights. What starts as admiration soon turns into dangerous obsession, pulling Paris into a web of love, secrecy, and emotional ruin she can no longer escape.

Twin sisters Kassia and Guinevere have been raised their entire lives within the comfortable confines of the Citadel, the home of the continent's religious sect. The latest of a vital bloodline, one of the two will someday be chosen to rise above their station and become a human vessel for their beloved, omnipotent Messiah. However, there is much that has been withheld from them: ancient histories, unholy evils, and the truth of the lands which lay beyond the sea.

The water moves when it shouldn't. River ignores it. He ignores a lot of things, like the way his chest tightens when Oleander is too close, or how his thoughts keep drifting back to him. He doesn't have a name for that feeling. He doesn't want one. Olea watches anyway. He notices too much, asks too little, and stays just close enough to matter. Until one night turns something unspoken into something real. Something secret. But as rumours begin to spread and River's blessing starts to unravel, it becomes harder to tell what's slipping faster, his control... or whatever is growing between them.

With a single, decisive blow, Cassandra - Shadow of Sammos, immortal warrior, and general of the Thiria - ended the war. The Emperor is dead and the Empire has fallen. Now that she is faced with the weight of rebuilding the world, Cass is blindsided by the choices of people she's never met. A Council she's never heard of demands she deliver the Emperor's head to an enemy general across the vast desert nation of Desheret. With her is a wide array of travelers from every nation, including old friends and old enemies. Cass must learn how to solve problems without her strength, violence, or her army, and navigate a world that doesn't yet know the Emperor is dead.

Drake is just a kid, right? So what if his parents don't give him much freedom? Who cares if people seem afraid of him? He might be incapable of producing powers like his siblings, but he's not alone in that. The Master Of The Earth cares, because they know the truth. Drake isn't Drake. He's Drazil. Someone at the center of a conspiracy that could change the fate of the world if discovered.

Elara Finch built her workshop in the narrow space between a tanner's shed and an old apothecary because no one else would make room for her. When her automaton awakens inside that workshop, the change doesn't come with sparks or spectacle, but with silence that no longer presses so hard, tools that seem to listen, and devices that respond to restraint instead of force. As Elara studies the residual effects left in the wake of her creation, she uncovers patterns that reveal this discovery is not new. Despite marks erased and records destroyed, someone reached this threshold before her, and chose to stop. Residuals of Wonder is a quiet, character-driven fantasy about unintended discovery, careful craftsmanship, and the unsettling realization that some inventions are not meant to be claimed.

In a society of gods and goddesses, Chrona found herself dissatisfied doing what she was told, until circumstances lead her to a life of seeking meaning whilst trying to get by on the streets of Olympus. In the city, Artemis spends her days overworked, hunting down members of a newly emerging cult on the streets and alleyways, whilst trying to get to the bottom of what is really going on. Meanwhile, Narita struggles with dissatisfaction with the role society has decreed to her. Trying to work out why everything about a life that should be ideal, feels wrong. The way these three women's lives intertwine may rock the foundations of Olympian society to its core.

The remains of QSMP #1 Nothing is as it was before. The world they knew has fallen. For the first time in the Island's history, the Federation allowed itself to feel fear. As control began to slip through their fingers, they decided on a final move - the Disconnection. Everything associated with the Island was meant to be erased from existence. Once and for all. But... for some reason, that did not happen. Ash wakes up in a cave on a swampy islet marked with ritual symbols, but he is not alone. Someone is with him, introducing herself as Ghosty... except his daughter no longer looks the way she once did. Ghosty tells him about the events of the recent months, explaining how it's possible that she is now with him. That she has returned. She explains to him that it is all thanks to a ritual performed by Ewron in Ash's absence. A ritual that carried immense consequences, for he who dabbles in necromancy acts against nature. And that is an unforgivable sin. Ash decides to do whatever it takes to find Ewron. Ewron sacrificed a part of himself to return Ghosty to him. Now, Ash will have to do the same to get him back.

Part 1: He was born to be the kingdom's weapon, but she might be the first thing he's ever chosen for himself. He's the kingdom's golden boy. Famous. Untouchable. A sword prodigy with a perfect name and a rotten home. She's a poor girl with dirt under her nails and a family she'd burn the world for. Mallory Dulcee only wanted work. Jonah Kinley only wanted to be left alone. But when she's hired onto his estate, their worlds collide in the most dangerous way: late-night training, stolen moments, secret walks home, and a connection that feels like sin in a city that worships status. And when the wrong people notice, "romance" stops being cute and starts being deadly. Because Jonah isn't just a noble boy. He's Royal Hand. And falling for the wrong girl might cost them both everything. Part 2: He promised he'd come back. Then the King declared war. Now Jonah Kinley is trapped behind enemy lines with a shadow team, a mission nobody is allowed to question, and a hooded monster of a commander who smiles like he enjoys pain. Back home, Mallory is left with letters... and silence. They write to survive: love, fear, prayers, jealousy, guilt. Every page pulls them closer, even as the world tries to tear them apart. And when Mallory becomes a target, she learns the hard way that being "Kinley's girl" isn't a compliment... it's a threat. Meanwhile Jonah is changing. The war is changing him. And the man pulling the strings wants Jonah to become something worse. They can survive a kingdom at war, but can their love survive what the war turns him into? This is just a first draft so do with that as you will. Also, this may sound stupid but thank you to everyone who has viewed my story. I appreciate you all so much!

Lekh sees the future. Just not the parts anyone would want to see. His visions reveal only the blood-soaked edges of tomorrow: violence, death, and despair. In Hastinar, revolution brews in the borderlands and children choke on corporate greed. Lekh's terrifying gift - the ability to foresee tragedy - could tip the scales of power. But aiding the innocent, and holding the guilty accountable, is easier said than done when perpetrators masquerade as victims. And consumed by loss, rage, and despair, victims become the monsters they once despised. In a world where every choice is a gamble, whose side will Lekh pick? And what price will he pay to see his chosen side win?

A young Madake Sorochi must navigate the world of Mages after the tragic demise of his parents. Can he make sure his loved ones have a peaceful death?

My name is Lucy. I'm a human. I save werewolves.