10th-grader Wallace Wade has a bit of a problem: he's been punning nonstop lately. Uncontrollably, in fact. Try as he might, he just can't seem to stop scraping the bottom of an inexhaustible barrel gunked with the lowest form of humor. Weird. Maybe it's karma. Maybe it's fate. Maybe it's just...

A woman has been found dismembered next to a pulp factory. Who was she? Why was she killed? Was this the work of a serial killer? Perhaps, is this a case of Headless Identity?

In a land torn apart by civil war, three strangers from enemy clans cross paths by chance — and by choice. Aislin, the daughter of a fallen mayor turned raider; Eru, a child survivor from a village razed by Aislin’s people; and Sami, a wounded royal guard with nowhere left to run. Bound by sha...

Conversations on Existence by Jessica Sanchez and Sam Holden On a quiet patio overlooking the Belizean sea, as the ice melts in their whiskey glasses and the night settles in around them, Jessica and Sam talk. Not about the missions. Not about the bodies left behind. But about being. In ...

Some ghosts don’t stay dead. Some were never real to begin with. Jessica Sanchez runs Black Orchid Investigations out of a hole-in-the-wall office in Belize — small jobs, big secrets, and the occasional brush with things better left in the dark. She had hoped to put the ordeal with Vanguard be...

[Now Relocated to RoyalRoad and ScribbleHub 👍] Sabban Vint & his fellow graduates of the 117th cadet core, are exhilarated at the chance to serve alongside the legendary ace pilots of IAFS - However they will soon learn that not all soldiers are heroes nor all pilots aces - Someone needs to d...

To Mylo Bract, the town of Edule was a dead end. His wistful eye looks south, toward the capital. But he is about to meet someone from another world, who will see this backwater he hates as the gateway to adventure. As Mylo and the hero figure each other out, Edule begins to open beneath him a...

A lone woman comes face-to-face with someone she thought was a fairytale in the heart of the holiday season. In front of the Christmas tree he sings his song of Eros, and The Endless Night. While their time together is short, even a precious few minutes may prove to be among the most impo...

Jessica Sanchez is trying to live a normal life. College classes. Coffee with friends. Nights at the bar where nobody knows her past. She tells herself she's just another student now — not Jason Carter, not an experiment, not a question waiting to explode. But some ghosts don't stay buried....

The field of eugenics thrived after the victory of World War II by the Nazis. Unrestricted experimentation led to the development of the Nietzsche Protocol which provided the framework for genetic manipulation in humans. By the year 2145 children are no longer born, but created in a lab to fit in...