The Zatvian Cooperative has conquered all of known space, destroying the world of Harvest in the process. For Neva Whitestone, a native of Harvest who was injured in the final battle, those years have been spent in a hospital, recovering from her wounds. Now Neva has received a mysterious summons from the captain of a ship called the Exile. Neva’s . . .
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When a monster decides to spare the life of a child, he changes the fate of kingdoms, curtails an expanding empire, restores a lost royal dynasty, and most especially, alters his own life forever. Ja’kh’redd, a monstrous Vidos, was out hunting when he came across an orphaned human child amidst the ruins of a recently destroyed caravan. Taking pity . . .
The last Ilandu Wars ended over a century ago. Yet the Diot Republic still fights to regain its former glory. Its obstacles are many, its resources few. In this Dark Age, an Ilandu cult has risen. They are promised power. They are promised control. They are promised the secrets of the Blessed. Who shall rescue the fragile . . .
Para-forensic Psychologist Dr. Mykael Xanders expected her interview at Tepes Memorial Institute, a covert medical facility for supernatural beings to be brutal. Until the sudden death of an orderly forces her to team up with Administrator Ryland Hynes, an unapologetic chauvinist who believes the best position for a female is in his bed. Together they race to uncover the mystery . . .
The adventures and ongoings of local radio personalities Cyrus McLean Scott and his friend Conrad Harris in the town of Hyperion, Michigan. Also featuring radio station intern Phil Turner, budding singer/songwriter and police station janitor Polly McIntyre, niece of the police chief. The stories are fairly self-contained but a larger storyline or two are always present. . . .
A serialised short story about a disillusioned young woman who, while attending an adolescent party that completely fails to inspire her, meets a boy who brings a much-needed element of excitement and imagination into her life. Want a world more romantic? Come cloud dancing! Other fictional pieces are also occasionally uploaded. . . .
Twenty-year-olds Liseli Luenford and Russell Markson are living mundane, disappointing, lonely lives in a small midwestern town; working jobs better suited for high school students. Both want something more from life, though what exactly they cannot name, or even begin to achieve. Liseli finds solace in the Mill, a building on the edge of town, long abandoned and all . . .
Damen is the true heir to the throne, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of a rival nation as a pleasure slave. . . .
“The House of Sever” is a light-hearted historical romance novel, following the journey of Rhema de Frees, a tomboy baroness living in fictional 19th century Gallia. Though Rhema would like nothing better than to remain happily obscure with her family and her childhood crush, Jonathan, circumstances beyond her control thrust her into the world of society, politics, revolution, and love. . . .
Ruin is a series of interconnected stories that each stand on their own but when read together form a web of stories and moments where the lives of the people are as important as the world they live in. . . .
Five dollars to mail a letter seems like a lot of money to shy farmgirl Lily MicMillian. And when she’s hired by Old Man Lynch as a cook for his stagecoach and Pony Express station, she finds out why it’s so expensive. Dropped into a whirlwind of rowdy men and boys, fast horses, and frightening conflict, and she . . .
Pulp Engine is an online magazine dedicated to fun, character and plot-driven fiction. We don’t seek to emulate the classic pulp magazines of the ’20s and ’30s, but rather create new stories that attempt the capture the spirit of fun and adventure those stories possessed, focusing on the modern world. . . .
Clarissa and James meet one winter day, and they quickly fall in love and get married. This novel is about James’s relationship with Clarissa, how Clarissa loses James, and how she recovers. In addition to this main plot, there are several subplots. . . .
Adam of Penfencer once commented that a vast majority of web fiction in our sphere is of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. I thought about that, and I realized that it was probably due to two things.
For starters, most writers on the Internet today are early adopters – geeks, tech whizzes, people [more . . .]
Ember is probably one of the best fairy tale remakes I’ve seen so far. It offers a human side to characters who were previously only flat stereotypes, and it cleverly plays these stereotypes as the rumors and gossip of other people.
The story of the Cinder Girl is just as brilliant [more . . .]