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(Dragon Dreamer 1) Dragon Dreamer | J. S. Burke | [
"fantasy",
"dragon protagonist"
] | Chapter 19 | Scree felt the distinctive crash of the summoning stone. Only a dragon could lift it from the raft and drop it into the sea, to strike the rock below. It was not the full moon, not a standard time for dragon visits. There must be a problem. She grabbed her bag and headed for the raft, followed closely by her apprentice... |
Bloodrush | Ben Galley | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 72 | There was a sickly air in the saloon. The swinging doors did nothing to keep the stench of the dead at bay. It roamed freely, heavy and sour. The crowds of tired workers, sweaty and bloody from their work, did nothing to quench it.
Merion looked around the busy saloon, at the dirty bodies that had wandered in to drink... |
The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | [
"historical fiction",
"mystery"
] | TOWARD NONES | In which William has a very erudite conversation with Severinus the herbalist.
We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. I could still hear Ubertino's words, all of them, buzzing in my head. "That man is... odd," I dared say to William.
"He is, or has been, in many w... |
(Supers 6) Ex Heroes 6 | Jamie Hawke | [
"nsfw",
"superheroes"
] | Chapter 20 | Hadrian met us in the planning room, with a group of other supers who were in mid-discussion when we entered. He nodded first to Andromida, then greeted Sam, and turned our way.
"At last." A look of confusion came over him when he saw how beaten up and bloodied we were but moved on with a gesture to the other supers. ... |
Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood | Algernon Blackwood | [
"fantasy",
"horror"
] | Chapter 206 | "A DAY WILL COME"
They went into the house as though wafted—thus does a shining heart deduct bodily weight from life's obstructions; they had their tea; after tea they played games as usual, quite ordinary games; and in due course they went to bed. That is, they followed a customary routine, feeling it was safer. To d... |
Axtara Banking and Finance | Marx Florschutz | [
"dragons",
"fantasy",
"dragon protagonist",
"banking",
"commerce",
"young adult"
] | Collecting | "Ow." Axtara's exclamation was quiet, but not unnoticed. Across the room Mia's head snapped up, away from the book the princess had been reading. Or maybe pretending to read. Axtara wouldn't have put it past her.
"Are you all right?"
Axtara held back a sigh. She's just worried for you. "I'm fine," she said, trying to... |
(The Marshes of Mount Liang 5) The Scattered Flock | Shi Nai'an | [
"China",
"historical fiction",
"dark"
] | Chapter 17 | So Song Jiang and his army advanced on Jingnan. They covered twenty miles a day before stopping for the night. In the places they passed the people suffered not the slightest aggravation. The cavalry finally made camp in the region of Mount Ji.
Mount Ji, north of Jingnan, had great strategic importance. It was guarded... |
(New Century 3) Tiger's Eye | Alexander Shaw | [
"scifi",
"furry",
"anthro protagonist",
"alternate Earth",
"felines"
] | Miguel: On The Whale | Every second of the day and night is a moment of razor sharp tension. I have never been so exhausted. Back when Hrao was watching over me during my sickness, all that was expected of me was to survive, to push through. Today I must play a part in a grand theatre of cruelty, and should my subterfuge ever be suspected I ... |
Dungeon Core Academy | Alex Oakchest | [
"LitRPG",
"fantasy"
] | Vike | The folks who lived under the ruins called themselves the Shielded Republic. Vike stayed with them for a while, enjoying the company and warm meals. A while became months, and months became years.
Their hospitality wasn't free, but warm meals and shelter weren't the only things on offer. All the elders ever talked abo... |
Cage of Souls | Adrian Tchaikovsky | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 96 | Two days after the raid Faith disappeared for a whole day, and a week later, for a day and a half. It took no stretch of the imagination to guess where she was going. Greygori was taking her into his forbidden laboratory.
I eavesdropped, the once, and heard him expounding something in terms so abstruse that I could no... |
King | Dimitrios Gkirgkiris | [
"LitRPG",
"fantasy"
] | Scarborough Fair | My first instinct was to refuse and tell him that he'd spent way too much money on us, especially on something that we didn't absolutely need. However, having gotten to know the dwarf over the past months and all that we had been through together, I was sure he would get mad at me if I told him that. This was a gift th... |
The White Assassin | Hilary Wagner | [
"fantasy"
] | Spirit of a Lion | Everyone gathered in the Council Chamber. Vincent, his leg broken in several places, stood uncomfortably on the crutches Virden had fashioned for him. He looked around at his friends. Everyone was banged-up, scratched, bruised—battle-worn, but in good spirits. "Today's the big day, then," he said, nudging Carn's should... |
Magic Strikes | Ilona Andrews | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 28 | THE ROWS OF SEATS, EMPTY AN HOUR BEFORE, were filled to capacity. Individuals in their own lives, here the spectators melded into a single entity, a loud, furious, excitable beast with a thousand throats. The night was young and the beast was fickle and bloodthirsty.
Someone, probably Jim or Derek, had found a narrow ... |
Taiko | Eiji Yoshikawa | [
"historical fiction"
] | Chapter 188 | The town of Inuyama and its castle were directly on the other bank. The river in that spot was the upper reaches of the Kiso. Echoes of the water beating against the boulders or splashing through the shallows reverberated through the air, but wrapped in the deep vapors, the moon, the mountain, and the water appeared to... |
Journey to Armenia | Osip Mandelstam | [
"travel",
"Russia",
"Armenia"
] | SEVAN | On the island of Sevan, which is conspicuous for two most dignified architectural monuments that date back to the seventh century, as well as for the mud huts of flea-bitten hermits only recently passed away, thickly overgrown with nettles and thistles, but not scarier than the neglected cellars of summer houses, I spe... |
Claws of the Cat | Susan Spann | [
"Historical Fiction",
"Mystery"
] | Chapter 54 | The front door of the teahouse banged again as Nobuhide's voice yelled, "Mayuri!"
Hiro barely had time to race across the common room and duck through the door of Sayuri's room before footsteps scurried through the house and Mayuri's voice called, "Just a moment."
Hiro was impressed. It took a lot to make an entertai... |
Ka Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | John Crowley | [
"animal fiction",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 14 | This was when Dar Oakley was one among the thousand who roosted in winter in the trees of the islands rising in the river. They had long since ceased to migrate south; the riches available here never ceased being produced, and now springs came sooner, summers were longer than they once had been, winters warmer. Young C... |
Shadowland | Peter Straub | [
"Horror"
] | Chapter 116 | But before we can really look at Rose Armstrong through Tom Flanagan's eyes and travel with these three young people through their final convulsive months at Shadowland, I must introduce a seeming digression. Up to this point, this story has been haunted by two ghosts: of course one is Rose Armstrong, who in a black ba... |
Waiting for Morning.txt | Margaret Brownley | [] | Chapter 2 | Chapter 1
Dobson Creek, Colorado
April 1896
Something was wrong. Molly Hatfield felt it in her bones. She cast an anxious glance around Big Jim's Saloon. A couple of regulars were already passed out; others sat staring into amber drinks. It was one o'clock in the afternoon, a time when most men were at the mines.
O... |
James S A Corey | [
"The Expanse 0.5"
] | Chapter 5 | "What happened on Anderson Station was that I did my duty," Fred said.
"Your duty," Dawes echoed. He didn't make it a question. He didn't mock it. He just repeated the words.
"Yes."
"Following orders, then," Dawes said.
"Don't even try it, asshole. That Nuremberg crap won't work on me. I followed orders in that I w... | |
The Broken Road | Patrick Leigh Fermor | [
"adventure"
] | Chapter 53 | Isolated shepherds with little flocks, looking very tame after the Sarakatsans, were the only other people I saw for the remainder of the day; these, and bumping along the invisible track, an aralia, one of those little Turkish carts, flat as a tray, with a low balustrade of spokes all round, drawn by an old horse. A T... |
Dungeon Core Academy | Alex Oakchest | [
"LitRPG",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 23 | My dungeon was almost complete. Of course, any core worth their essence is a perfectionist, and no core would truly think his dungeon was ever finished. I bet that not even Bolton, when he made the great Necrotomitlita dungeon, felt he was done. And that was one of the best dungeons ever made.
Still, I was keenly awar... |
Bloodfeud | Ben Galley | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 67 | The lordsguards shoved the hooded figure up the stairs and into the grand atrium. They gave him no time to look up at the marble or the arching stairs. He was hauled and harried with all haste. Dizali did not like to be kept waiting.
The boy kept silent the entire way, as he was told; eyes down and feet moving. The ca... |
Wolf of Wessex | Matthew Harffy | [
"historical fiction"
] | Chapter 34 | "Look at that," said Aedwen, awe in her voice.
The River Exe was a wide thread of silver before them. Wherries and cogs dotted the water as fishermen and merchants plied their trades. To either side of the river were broad flat meadows of lush grass and summer flowers. Butterflies and insects fluttered and droned in t... |
Pure | Jennifer L. Armentrout | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 22 | I DID SLEEP IN MY BED, IN THAT TERRIBLE ROOM.
And I did so alone.
It'd taken every ounce of my self-control to convince Seth that sharing the same bed wasn't a good idea, which was difficult, mainly because my body had thought it was an awesome idea. Surprisingly, my brain had won that battle.
I didn't know why I'd ... |
Fairytales From Verania | T. J. Klune | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 41 | David was born on the night of a terrible storm that raged above a small village that sat on the outskirts of the Dark Woods. His father—a hardworking man named Jacob who loved with his whole heart—wiped his beloved's brow with a cold cloth, her hand squeezing his own tightly as she gritted her teeth. The midwife, a sq... |
The Aeneid | Vergil | [
"poetry",
"mythology"
] | Chapter 30 | All the army now marched on the open fields,
rich in horsemen, sumptuous garb, and gold.
Messapus rallied the front lines, Tyrrhus' sons
the rear. Turnus led the column's center.
They moved like the silent swell of the deep Ganges,
fed by seven gentle streams; like the Nile's
life-giving water when it overflows, ... |
The Complete Works | Aristotle | [
"nonfiction",
"philosophy"
] | Chapter 1161 | We have already said that the city should be open to the land and to the sea, and to the whole country as far as possible. In respect of the place itself our wish would be that its situation should be fortunate in four things. The first, health — this is a necessity: cities which lie towards the east, and are blown upo... |
Excavation | James Rollins | [
"thriller",
"adventure",
"mystery"
] | Day Six | [ The Serpent of Eden ]
[ Saturday, August 25, 4:48 A.M. ]
[ Andean Mountains, Peru ]
Henry stared out the window as the helicopter banked over the jungle-stripped ruins. He had not slept all night. Worries and fears had kept him awake as their bird flew over the midnight jungles. He had yet to come up with any plan... |
The Wolf and the Raven | Steven A. McKay | [
"historical fiction"
] | Chapter 10 | The young outlaw had chosen a spot near the village of Hathersage for their new base. Little John and Will told him of a good place they had used once before a couple of years earlier, when Adam Bell had led them. On their way, they carefully scouted the area they had heard the sounds of battle coming from the previous... |
Expirition Date | Tim Powers | [
"horror",
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 2 | "...when she next peeped out, the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky."
—Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Kootie trudged back up the quiet dimness of Loma Vista Drive toward home. He was walking more slowly than he had been a fe... |
(Armello Adventures 3) The Winter Wolf | Alex Kain | [
"fantasy",
"furry",
"Armello"
] | Chapter 7 | That night, the Prince of Blades stirred relentlessly. Something about the bear, something about Fang's temperament – nothing felt right. His elder brother may have never deigned to treat Thane as any more than a pup, but even then, there was something curious about how quickly he leapt to the defense of this complete ... |
Exodus | Mel Odom | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 18 | Simon fired almost point-blank into the Darkspawn's face. He was aiming at one of the eyes and hoping that was a weak point even for the Barrett. The 50 caliber round smashed through the eye, pulping it. The demon staggered back into its mates, holding up the chase for a moment. The wounded one dropped its victim and r... |
Elements of Chemistry | Penny Reid | [
"romance"
] | Chapter 79 | Martin was in the audience. He was standing by the bar and was surrounded by people. I spotted him almost immediately when we took the stage; I explained away this phenomenon to myself, reasoning that he was several inches taller than everyone else.
But really, I found him so fast because he was Martin. I think my blo... |
Complete Collection | Tahereh Mafi | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 218 | "I am going to kill you."
"He wasn't like that when I went to visit," Kenji says to me. "I swear. He was fine. He was sad."
"Yeah, well, obviously seeing my face isn't bringing back happy memories for him."
Kenji sighs. Looks away. "I'm really sorry," he says. "I swear. But he wasn't lying, J. They were down to prac... |
Complete Works | Jules Verne | [
"adventure",
"science fiction",
"steampunk"
] | DRIFTING DOWN THE STREAM. | "Off we go!" It was the voice of Hercules addressing Dick Sands, who, frightfully debilitated by recent sufferings, was leaning against Cousin Benedict for support. Dingo was lying at his feet.
Mrs. Weldon gradually recovered her consciousness. Looking around her in amazement she caught sight of Dick.
"Dick, is it yo... |
Shield of Lies | Jerry Autieri | [
"historical fiction"
] | Chapter 18 | Ulfrik led his men in combing the surrounding lands for any sign of Hakon, but had found nothing. The longest day in recent memory had passed followed by a second evening of restless gulps of sleep. Runa had joined the search as well, and suffered the same curse of sleeplessness. In the morning, the two regarded each o... |
Hope is Not a Strategy | Various | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 10 | After directing six Peacemakers to the disabled cargo hauler, Jyrall and Larth stepped into the spacious conference room on the newly-arrived ship and were greeted as they entered by Selector Hak-Chet and Captain Dreel, a Besquith and an instructor at the Peacemaker Academy.
"Ah, two of the Academy's finest," Captain ... |
Bury the Ashes Deep | Michael Clement | [
"horror"
] | Chapter 31 | Lucy pulled up against me. I could feel the cold poke of her erect nipples on my chest.
But, it was her memories that fascinated me.
I watched as she dragged me away from the Serpent's Children.
But, she hadn't been successful.
Three of them had slipped into my pussy, right through my pants.
More were dragging the... |
(Asian Saga 3) Gai | James Clavell | [
"historical fiction",
"Japan"
] | Kyōto | In the palace in Kyōto, one of the Lord Chancellor's spies knocked on his bedroom door, waking him, and handed him the carrier pigeon message container. "This has just been intercepted, Lord."
The tiny cylinder was addressed to Chief Bakufu Palace Advisor, Saito, and bore the personal seal of Tairō Nori Anjo. He hesit... |
Daughter of the Blood | Anne Biship | [
"dark fantasy",
"fantasy",
"romance"
] | Terreille | Surreal dreamed. She and Titian were walking through a wood. Titian was trying to warn her about something, but Surreal couldn't hear her. The woods, Titian, everything, was silenced by the loud, steady pounding of a drum.
As they reached the edge of the woods, Surreal noticed a tree with a perfect branch, a tree swea... |
When Snowflakes Fall | Kayla McKinney | [
"contemporary",
"romance"
] | Mr. Bennett | I've been following Grace McKenzie all afternoon, watching covertly as she drifted from store to store, window shopping at some, going into others. More than once, I found my gaze attached to the roundness of her ass, the flick of her glorious hair catching the sun's rays. Her hesitant smile, the sadness in the depths ... |
(Arcane Ascension 1) Sufficiently Advanced Magic | Andrew Rowe | [
"fantasy",
"LGBT"
] | Chapter 17 | The real Teft was wearing a cocky expression, leaning against his cane, when I made it back to where I'd been sitting. Which was, of course, still ruined.
I chose to stand rather than sit in the crater.
Sera and Roland were still standing, too. Roland had returned to where he'd originally been seated.
Lord Teft made... |
Out of House and Home | Drew Hayes | [
"comedy",
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 41 | Exhausted as I felt, the work was far from over. While Deborah had taken care of safely evacuating the vampires, we still needed to debrief all the allies on site about how things had gone, then go through formal thanks and goodbyes. After that came meeting with the members of my own clan, checking in to make sure no o... |
Valkyrie Burning | Evan Currie | [
"science fiction",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 126 | USS Cheyenne
Nadine Brookes found herself little more than a passenger on her own ship, in her own squadron even. When the captain called the general quarters alarm, she barely had time to get herself strapped in before the drives lit off, and while she'd been a little miffed by it, she could hardly blame either Patri... |
The Dreamstone | CJ Cherryh | [
"Fantasy"
] | Chapter 42 | But one came last through the door, a long-faced man in a shepherd's coat and carrying a sword, undistinguished by any badge or arms, but marked by a quiet uncommon in Caer Wiell. His hair was long and mostly grayed, his lean face seamed with scars. A grim, wide-shouldered man came in at his back, and last, a red-haire... |
Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | [
"contemporary"
] | FOURTH MARKING PERIOD | [ EXTERMINATORS ]
The PTA has started a petition to get rid of the Hornet as our school mascot. It was the cheer that got to them. They heard it at the last basketball game.
"WE ARE THE HORNETS,
HORNY, HORNY HORNETS!
EVERYWHERE WE GO-OH,
PEOPLE WANT TO KNO-OOW,
WHO WE ARE, SO WE TELL THEM ...
WE ARE THE HORNETS,... |
The Stars Like Gods | G. S. Jennsen | [
"cyberpunk",
"science fiction"
] | MIRAI ONE PAVILION | Adlai steepled his hands at his chin and stared out at nothing. He couldn't afford to waste much time brooding. But maybe a minute or two.
The idea of ancient Asterions walking among them—friends, lovers, adversaries? He needed to figure out how he felt about it. On the one hand, Maris and Nika were the same people he... |
(Mars Colony Chronicles 1 | Brandon Ellis | [
"scifi",
"Mars"
] | MooNshinka Rock, Mars | Ozzy kissed his fingers and pressed them against Lily's picture that was magnetized to the flight console in Relic's cockpit. "You're my good luck charm, Lily-bug."
Several months ago, he almost lost her to the Martian Plague, but through a set of miracles, she survived. He never wanted to go through the thought of lo... |
Falcone Strike | Christopher G. Nuttall | [
"science fiction",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 73 | "The younger of the wives has been ... treated," Doctor Katy Braham said. There was more than a little distaste in her voice. "Not to put too fine a point on it, she follows orders. All orders. She quite literally has no will of her own."
Kat swallowed, tasting bile in her mouth. Princess Drusilla had explained, back ... |
The Vagrant | Peter Newman | [
"dark fantasy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 46 | Obeisance walks alone up the steps. Once, her family was larger, the role shared with brothers and sisters. Duty has thinned them out. One by one, they gave themselves in service to the Winged Eye. Her remaining siblings are too weak now, their minds transcendent, bodies fit only for breeding. She has inspected the nex... |
Extra Life | David S. Bennahum | [
"culture",
"1980s",
"computers",
"video games",
"biography"
] | Chapter 30 | Super Users and the SLUs were heirs to the ethic of the original computer club, when kids maintained the machines and decided what projects to pursue. Programming is learned by trial and error through direct interaction with the computer, and the most efficient way to manage this process is by enabling students to cont... |
Tyche's Crown | Richard Parry | [
"science fiction",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 43 | GRACE HADN'T EXPECTED things to go smooth. Things never went smoothly in a firefight. The best you could hope for was not fucked, and if they became fucked, the next best you could hope for was a decent unfuck to your fucked reality.
That was the problem with this particular reality. They had an elevator out, fine, bu... |
Magicians 03 | Lev Grossman | [] | Chapter 34 | It was like a really terrible party where on top of everything else at the end it turns out your ride bailed and you have to walk home. It was cold, and Plum kept worrying that the bird would come back at any moment with reinforcements to claim its stolen goods. Or the surviving half of the Couple, if he had survived. ... |
Earth's Children 3 | Jean M. Auel | [] | Chapter 11 | There was a lull in the activities of the Lion Camp in the early afternoon. Though their largest meal of the day was usually around noon, most people skipped the midday meal, or picked at leftovers from the morning, in anticipation of a feast that promised to be delicious for all that it was unplanned. People were rela... |
The Call of the Bone Ships | R.J. Barker | [
"fantasy",
"high fantasy"
] | What Is Given May Be Easily Lost | It was a surly boat that headed out for Safeharbour from Tide Child, rigged to look like a trader rather than the flukeboat of a ship of war. Though Joron had given up his clothes and hat of command, he kept the sword Meas had given him after they had freed the wakewyrm. It had become too much part of him, a piece of m... |
Barbed Wire | Erin Wade | [
"erotica",
"romance",
"western"
] | Chapter 163 | It was dark when Morgan woke. It took her a moment to identify the woman wrapped around her. She inhaled, and the familiar scent of the woman who shook her soul filled her mind with scenes from the night before. A dull ache started in the pit of her stomach and quickly escalated to a raging need. She lay still, not wan... |
The Shining | Stephen King | [
"Horror"
] | Chapter 7 | Love was over, and her man was sleeping beside her.
Her man.
She smiled a little in the darkness, his seed still trickling with slow warmth from between her slightly parted thighs, and her smile was both rueful and pleased, because the phrase her man summoned up a hundred feelings. Each feeling examined alone was a b... |
Lightning | Dean R. Koontz | [
"horror",
"thriller"
] | Chapter 36 | Laura and Chris spent Christmas with Thelma at Jason Gaines's house in Beverly Hills. It was a twenty-two-room, Tudor-style mansion on six, walled acres, a phenomenally large property in an area where the cost per acre had long ago escalated far beyond reason. During construction in the '40s—it had been built by a prod... |
The City | Dean R. Koontz | [
"horror"
] | Chapter 27 | I don't recollect what I expected to happen next. Perhaps memory has failed me after all these years. Or perhaps I didn't anticipate any specific act of evil, but instead lived in the shadow of general apprehension regarding both my father and Fiona Cassidy.
The Labor Day weekend arrived. I would be back in classes at... |
Overworld | Rohan M. Vider | [
"LitRPG"
] | 391 days until the Arkon Shield falls, 5 days to Earth's destruction | "No matter what your Potentials, without Traits and Feats, you'll never amount to anything more than an average player. Accumulate as many of them as you can, as quick as you can." —Anonymous Veteran.
Straight out of the gate, I stumbled and yelped in shock. I sprawled forward, and my nose buried itself into the green... |
The Stand | Stephen King | [
"Horror"
] | Chapter 98 | The day was another scorcher. They had pedaled most of the afternoon with their shirts tied around their waists, and both of them were getting brown as Indians. They hadn't been making very good time, not today, because of the apples. The green apples.
They had found them growing on an old apple tree in a farmyard, gr... |
Barbed Wire | Erin Wade | [
"Western Romance",
"Erotica",
"LGBT"
] | Chapter 115 | He stood suddenly and helped her to her feet. "Let's go swimming. I need to show you something."
"Skinny-dipping?" She teased.
He chuckled. "Unless it would embarrass you."
Nothing about their relationship embarrassed her. She had always been completely at ease with him, trusted him. She knew he would always do what... |
The Chestnut Man | Søren Sveistrup | [
"thriller"
] | Chapter 56 | Hess slams the terrace door behind him. The air is chilly, and he can see his breath in the rain as he lights his way across the paving stones in the garden behind the house. As he rounds the corner, he finds himself at the entrance to the garage. The aroma of meatballs hangs in the air, vanishing only when he opens th... |
Citadel | Marko Kloos | [
"space opera"
] | DUNSTAN | "Well, that worked better than I expected," Lieutenant Hunter said dryly.
On the screen projection above the tactical display, the Gretian heavy cruiser drifted through space, its drive cone extinguished. Dozens of escape pods were littering the area around the hull. As Dunstan watched the feed from the optical sensor... |
Democracy's Might | Christopher G. Nuttall | [
"science fiction",
"space opera"
] | Chapter 54 | Colin pushed his shock to the back of his mind. Whatever had happened – and he knew it was impossible – he had to respond to the threat. The Shadow Fleet had practiced anti-missile tactics ever since there had been a Shadow Fleet, but they'd never faced such an attack for real. It dawned on him, suddenly, that his oppo... |
Between Two Worlds | Chris Kennedy | [
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 38 | Underwater Facility, Trigar 2-A
The guard led Thorb and his group out of the water into a large underground cavern. Overhead lights 30 feet up provided bright illumination to the area, giving it the appearance of an afternoon along a beach. The small bay they emerged from covered about a quarter of the space; the othe... |
(Judge Dee 5) The Chinese Lake Murders | Robert van Gulik | [
"China",
"historical fiction",
"detective"
] | Chapter 8 | When Judge Dee had ascended his palanquin the bearers told him that the Councilor's house was just around the corner. He hoped that this interview would prove more profitable than that he had just had with Han Yung-han. Councilor Liang, an outsider in Han-yuan like himself, would not be obsessed by Han's scruples about... |
Virtual Horizon | Kris Schnee | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 54 | Linda made it back to Massachusetts groggy and with her head still spinning. She got to lay down in bed for half an hour before having to dress for a Student Council meeting. As she tried to make herself presentable, she sang quietly, imagining the original fife and drum music.
"If ponies rode men, and if grass ate th... |
The Concubine's Tattoo | Laura Joh Rowland | [
"Historical Fiction",
"Mystery",
"Japan"
] | Chapter 18 | Standing in the doorway to the shogun's bedchamber, Oto-shiyori Madam Chizuru announced, "Your Excellency, I present your companion for the night: the Honorable Lady Ichiteru." She beat three ritual strokes on a small gong, then bowed and withdrew.
Slowly, regally, Lady Ichiteru marched into the chamber. She carried a... |
Kingkiller Chronicles 2 | Patrick Rothfuss | [] | The First Stone | I spent the next three days with Magwyn. It wasn't bad, especially considering my left hand was still healing, so my ability to talk and fight was rather limited.
I like to think I did rather well. It would have been easier for me to memorize an entire play than this. A play fits together like a jigsaw. Dialogue moves... |
How We Became Wicked | Alexander Yates | [
"horror",
"science fiction"
] | Eliza's Family | Astrid would always remember the day she and her family escaped Goldsport. The same day that their life on Puffin Island began.
They landed on the western shore, beaching the lobster boat on a narrow strip of gravel and sending thousands of terrified birds screaming into the sky. Off in the distance, they could still ... |
Parafaith War, The.txt | L.E. Modesitt Jr | [] | Chapter 25 | Trystin checked his armor and the seals on the helmet again, holding on to the railing inside the access tube. The short figure in armor arrowed down the tube toward him in the streaking bound that those experienced in min-gee affected. He caught the subcommander's insignia—not that any of the instructors were less tha... |
Saloon Lawyer, The.txt | C.J. Petit | [] | Chapter 15 | That night, as Morgan stretched out on top of the quilts, he tried to encompass all that had happened in the short time since he'd stepped off the train. He'd expected to just bury his brother and put his saloon up for sale. Then, little by little, his plans began to change until none of the original one existed. When ... |
James S A Corey | [
"The Expanse 01"
] | Prologue: Julie | The Scopuli had been taken eight days ago, and Julie Mao was finally ready to be shot.
It had taken all eight days trapped in a storage locker for her to get to that point. For the first two she'd remained motionless, sure that the armored men who'd put her there had been serious. For the first hours, the ship she'd b... | |
Beta Test | Annabeth Albert | [
"romance"
] | Chapter 61 | Tristan's heart pounded like the drum in the rock band at the gala—a deep, pulsing beat that made his whole body tingle with anticipation.
"Yeah?" Ravi raised an eyebrow. "You know you don't have to, right? I know it's kind of a big deal for you, and I'm happy to wait. Or not at all, if that's your preference."
"I kn... |
(Chronicles of Midnight 1) The Lords of Midnight | Drew Wagar | [
"fantasy",
"based on video game"
] | Chapter 75 | <He stands in the Village of the Targ, looking north east to the Keep of Utarg.>
Corleth found little shelter or comfort in the village, it had been abandoned by its folks, fearful of the Doomguard. The desolate hamlet was nestled on the eastern edge of the Downs of Athoril, a few leagues north of the keep. A well-tra... |
Fool on the Hill | Matt Ruff | [
"comedy",
"urban fantasy"
] | PANDORA | [ HOBART VISITS THE BONEYARD ]
The hangar doors slid open silently, moved by a set of rollers and counterweights finer than anything human hands could have designed. Snow whipped into the hangar as if seeking targets, yet Hobart stood right at the opening, enduring the cold, looking down from the very pinnacle of the ... |
The Very Best of Charles de Lint | Charles de Lint | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 76 | The next day was much the same, except that tonight was the night they were leaving. Babe never made mention of it, but the knowledge hung ever heavier on Jilly as the hours progressed, colouring her enjoyment of their company. The gemmin had washed away most of the residue of her bad breakup with Jeff, and for that Ji... |
(The Anasazi Mysteries 2) The Summoning God | Kathleen O'Neal Gear | [
"historical fiction",
"prehistoric",
"mystery"
] | Chapter 30 | People flooded around straighthorn, their colorful capes blazing in the morning sunlight. He did not know most of the people who'd come from Dry Creek village, but many of them wept. Ant Woman, the Dry Creek Clan Matron, sobbed uncontrollably. Two women supported her sticklike old arms as they led her up the trail. He ... |
Pawn Of Prophecy | David Eddings | [
"epic fantasy",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 5 | The seasons turned, as seasons will. Summer ripened into autumn; the blaze of autumn died into winter; winter grudgingly relented to the urgency of spring; and spring bloomed into summer again.
With the turning of the seasons the years turned, and Garion imperceptibly grew older.
As he grew, the other children grew a... |
The Prince of Milk | Exurb1a | [
"philosophy",
"science fiction"
] | Chapter 33 | "Little brother," comes the voice from beyond the door. "Little brother, won't you get up?" Scott Appleby burrows further into his sheets. "Little brother, it's coming up for midday and you've still not eaten a thing."
"Not hungry. And it's dark out," Scott murmurs.
Silence. Robyn enters the room and looks his brothe... |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [
"romance",
"19th century",
"Russia"
] | Chapter 21 | Dolly came out of her room to the tea of the grown-up people. Stepan Arkadyevitch did not come out. He must have left his wife's room by the other door.
"I am afraid you'll be cold upstairs," observed Dolly, addressing Anna; "I want to move you downstairs, and we shall be nearer."
"Oh, please, don't trouble about me,... |
The God of Vengeance | Giles Kristian | [
"adventure",
"historical fiction"
] | Chapter 4 | SVEIN ROWED, THE oars all but snapping with the force of it as their blades pulled against the sea. Sigurd and Aslak managed to pull Olaf into the boat and he lay half drowned in the bilge, beard and brynja glistening with brine, his chest puffing like bellows. Similarly waterlogged but standing up in the boat, Sorli w... |
A Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume | [
"philosophy"
] | OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, &C | [ Of the Origin of our Ideas. ]
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciou... |
Uprooted.txt | Naomi Novik | [] | Chapter 47 | "How did this bestiary come to your hands?" one minister bellowed at me, seconded by half a dozen more. "Why was the king there?" The council chamber was full of nobles shouting at me, at Alosha, at one another, afraid, demanding answers that weren't to be had. Half of them still suspected me of having set a trap for t... |
The Rising of the Shield Hero vol. 2 | Aneko Yusagi | [
"LitRPG",
"action",
"adventure",
"fantasy",
"light novel"
] | Filo | We slept in the next day since Raphtalia had stayed up pretty late the night before. She'd held the magic book in one hand and muttered to herself until the wee hours of the night. Me? I spent the night roasting herbs to make medicines.
I wanted to make up for lost time, so I was hurrying through my morning preparatio... |
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | [
"mystery",
"thriller"
] | Chapter 46 | When Blore returned from the house with a rope coiled over his arm, he found Armstrong where he had left him staring down into the depths.
Blore said breathlessly:
'Where's Mr Lombard?'
Armstrong said carelessly:
'Gone to test some theory or other. He'll be back in a minute. Look here, Blore, I'm worried.'
'I shou... |
(Monstrous 3) The Rycke | Lily Mayne | [
"nsfw",
"fantasy",
"romance",
"teratophilia",
"LGBT"
] | Chapter 32 | I was pretty sure I hadn't yet processed what had just happened as we stripped one of the soldiers of his clothing for Aury to wear. We gathered up any weapons, ammo and other supplies that hadn't been destroyed in Aury's rampage.
It had all just been so... fast. We'd found the kid, and the next thing we knew we were ... |
The Age of Youth in Argentina | Valeria Manzano | [
"nonfiction"
] | Let's Dance | In February of 1957, La Razón informed its readers that rock had already achieved "Argentine citizenship." The reporter portrayed the first dance contest at the Luna Park stadium; depicted the winning couple as composed of two "criollo-type youths"; and acidly asked what "the people in their pagos [the interior provinc... |
(Lost Regiment 8) Men of War | William R. Forstchen | [
"scifi",
"military"
] | Chapter 32 | The aerosteamer touched down lightly, bounced once, then settled back down, quickly rumbling to a halt.
Jurak pulled open the hatch and swung down, barely acknowledging the bows of the aerosteamer ground crew. It was an out-of-the-way position on the northeast shore of the Great Sea, near the realm of Nippon, a little... |
Monkey King - Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en | [
"adventure",
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 12 | Let me tell you now about Chang'an, which generations and dynasties of kings and emperors have made their capital, in the northwest province of Shaanxi. It was a city of great beauty, spread across three counties threaded with rivers and carpeted with flowers. When Guanyin arrived, the emperor Taizong—second of the Tan... |
The Wounded Land | Stephen R. Donaldson | [
"fantasy"
] | Or I Will Sell My Soul for Guilt | [ THOMAS COVENANT ]
"Ask for his autograph." The older man had regained his sense of irony. "Try to get him talking. If you can get inside his defenses, something will happen."
Silently she cursed herself. She knew nothing about novels, had never learned how to talk to strangers about anything except their symptoms. ... |
Mother of Learning | Domagoj Kurmaic | [
"fantasy"
] | Chapter 156 | After they had reached Lukav's house, the man penned a quick report to the nearest Mage Guild representative and paid one of the village boys to deliver it to Knyazov Dveri while they talked. Apparently the kid was a very good runner and had done such things for Lukav in the past. Regardless, it took a full hour for Lu... |
Straight Outta Dodge City | Various | [
"horror",
"western"
] | Chapter 6 | The days passed by so slow you would have thought they was crippled.
I did the work Zach asked me to do, as well as kept making coffee, because once he got started on that gun he didn't sleep much, and with all that coffee, how could he?
Among the jobs I did for him was pack some powder and a specific shot inside the... |
We, Robots | Simon Ings (ed) | [
"short stories",
"robots",
"scifi"
] | December 27, 1959 | Sent the soup-and-fish out to be cleaned and pressed. Looks like I'm going to get some use out of it, after all. We're having a big formal New Year's Eve party in the commons room and there's going to be square dancing, swing-your-partner, and all of that. When I called Marilyn, she sounded very friendly—she remembered... |
Imprinted | Jim C. Hines | [
"urban fantasy"
] | Chapter 7 | Jeneta took a shortcut through a small grove of oaks behind the library, texting Isaac and Kiyoko as she ran. The trees felt out of place in the desert environment, but New Millennium's resident hamadryad had a way with plants.
The Venture sat behind Franklin Tower, the chrome skin gleaming gold from the light of the ... |
Vainqueur the Dragon | Void Herald | [
"LitRPG",
"comedy",
"fantasy"
] | The Arrows of Light | A note from Void Herald
Since Vainqueur is done on Patreon, I'm currently running a poll there for the next story I intend to write. You can vote by clicking on this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-story-poll-41339091
The skies were bright with explosions, but Vainqueur's light blinded them all. "[Shining Maj... |
(Winds of Change 5) The SealEaters, 20,000 BC | Bonnye Matthews | [
"historical fiction",
"prehistory"
] | Chapter 10 | Urch and Wapa's Story
The SealEaters arrived back at the place where they first touched land after their initial travel across the sea. Indigenous people from the warmer mid-Atlantic region, where they'd once been welcomed, had chased them from their native land after Reg had terribly offended them. The SealEaters who... |
Lair | James Herbert | [
"horror"
] | Chapter 16 | He found Stephen Howard in the lecture hall, a large map of Epping Forest before him, with Mike Lehmann and Antony Thornton seated on either side. There were others present at the long table, but Pender strode briskly towards the research director without looking at their faces. The Centre itself was alive with activit... |
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