Writathon - April 2025

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          The City of The Forever-Peace  witnesses a pale young Buddhist Monk fighting his fearful thoughts of whether to cross the borders to Nepal and India against the death penalty. Why would that matter? In that September Autumn night of circa A.D.655, Emperor Táme’ Tie’-Zeon has been ruling an empire spanning 13,000 miles from the East to as far as the Baikal Sea in the Western Regions bordering the Middle East kingdom and the Rome Empire. Meanwhile, news has traveled that his Dharma-Son, Pan G. Monk faces an incredible Guillotine Execution that will chop off his waist in halves.

    The Empress Wǔl Zénder-Tan’ couldn't be careless. Why would that matter to the imperial family? Monks are just officials with equal vicarious duties and privileges. She would then spare her resourceful energy to maintain the fruitful relationship intertwining The Grand-Khan Jurchen-Warlords Clans in the North-East Desert in attempts to affirm her fate as the first and only female-Emperor, in the Medieval Ages of the Great City of the Dragon.

    Whereas The Abbot Master Xend'-Zeon of the Jade-Lotus Temple faces factions of religious politics. Particularly in the present, the Empress needed to manipulate the Master’s reputation to desperately seek life and/or the after-life merits. She decreed to be addressed as The Old Buddha Grand Father.

    The Master has had ideals of service to sentient beings since he was young. He could have traveled the Silk Road to the Far West entrance-point bypassing the five beacons as shortcuts save that he lacks the pertinent travel documents.

    Instead, he chose to cross the 800-mile овь-Gobi Desert that is as vast as the Baikal Sea, on foot. A route that is impossible in the history of the Buddha dharma. His heart never withers to support the mage of the red lotus that promises the Enlightenment of the Buddha-Land. Except that no one has ever endured the latitude of the heat. The pain. Alive, out of the desert sea.

    But he is also vulnerable to recognize the un-staticity of The Truth, The Truth itself, and the truth of seeking passion and mission for compassion in humankind. The mind and body reciting The Sūtra and The Heart, A phenomenon they knew better as if souls in chemical layers of their physique.

    Realizing enhanced mind training attaining controlling powers of life and death.

    Realizing the transformation of the unbearable pains and grievances he thought possible.

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      Meanwhile, dreams have been watching him to open The Third Eye, at The City's Amethyst-Jade Palace of the Second Emperor, Third Emperor, and Fourth Empress. 

    Old Monks at The Nālandā Temple at the Far West Buddha Land; Householders Masters and Kings of the Jeek’-Foot Mountains of The City of the Naga-Dragon Twisted; in the Far West of The City of the Ever-Peace witness adventures of The Master. Lives at brinks of suicidal choices slaughtering ordeals.

    Who have inadvertently neglected the Master's karmic inflictions that would paradoxically affirm in a point of Near-Death Experiences; The Two-Profound-Reflective presented upon attaining The Deep-Active-Meditatitive Flow of Equanimity Samādhi. Eventually, The Seer Consciousness sees the Active Heart that is replete with The Latent Unconditional Love, Compassion And Empathy; that had been so close to us that we could not see it; as if one cannot see her own face.

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      Meanwhile also, the Imperial Criminal Affairs Clerk Ewen Hawk-Jean suffers too much seeking possession of desires and relief from a certain situation. Pan G., the Assistant Dharma-Translator to the Abbott Master Xend'-zeon has voluntarily or otherwise fallen into the supposed conspiracy or plain indifference. The imperial family's agenda of the Imperial Family of The Fang’-Chucks of course longs for a waist cut in halves not simply as souvenirs. Awaiting the Abbot Master is to come out from the disturbance.

      Incredibly transformative factors of the Mind-Transcendence-Samadhi are profoundly desired to spare the Monk Pan G. from the Post-Autumn Guillotine Execution that will chop off his waist in halves......

          …But why would it matter to You?

The unwanted second prince of a powerful but corrupt Kingdom in a world of monsters and magic is set on the dangerous path of vengeance. Prince Ren Drakemore, under the protection and guidance of his demonic maid, works to covertly gain power, influence and allies in hopes of eventually killing his own father, brother and anyone else who stands in his way. Initially he hopes to right the evils perpetrated by his kingdom, but as he grows in power, he will also struggle to maintain his own humanity. Will he be the hero to save them all or the monster that consumes them. Only time will tell.

The Milky Way is caught unaware by the System, which prepares to integrate it into a whole new fantastical multiverse.

Except one planet is causing problems for the unremarkable galaxy that's stuck in the back end of nowhere.

But it's not really the planet's fault. Everything doesn't start the way it's supposed to. There is an order to these things, tropes to obey, but that's not exactly how it plays out for the planet.

It all comes down to one individual who was just trying to get a good night's sleep for once.

Perhaps a little too optimistic that he hasn't gone completely mad; he eagerly accepts the system. Hoping it will change his miserable life for the better, he jumps right in with everything he has.

Unfortunately for him, everything goes from bad to worse as the system integration process goes completely off track. Stuck in a loop, he gains the attention of a System Authority, and a System Anomaly is born that might just shake the multiverse and the core of the System.

What to expect:
- High fantasy with a litRPG (system) veneer.
- "Levelling up" based on cultivation.
- Skill progression based on understanding, exsperimentation and training.
- Weak to strong gradual progression.
- complicated, non-monogamous relationships.
- Pop culture references and trope acknowledgement.

One false god. Four broken souls. A world primed for manipulation.

Four mortals, involved in an accident. Fate or folly, who can tell?
Amidst the turmoil there arose Croxeus. A god, or so they thought.
Desperation breeds faith. They knelt. They worshipped. A religion was born.
Too bad the god whom they worshiped was a fake.
Yet belief? That was real. Real enough to shake a world.
Faith is like fire. It consumes. It waits not, nor does it bother. It burns, reshapes, and cremates, leaving only but two choices, be the flame or be the fuel.
As these four mortals played priests to a hollow god, the world changed.
For better or worse?

Ard, the agnostic genius, sought connotation in the lie. Tiya, the pragmatic atheist, found nihilistic amusement in devotion. Rex, the broken superhero, saw salvation in purpose. And Ronny, the depressed fool, prayed purpose would pity him. All followed by a clueless God.

What To Expect:

A slow burn fiction that starts with philosophical diatribes regarding gods, religion, and faith. (It takes time to start a religion so glorious)

A medieval world with convoluted affairs. A system of magic based on science. A dark isekai. (Like Overlord).

Characters which transform. Not just grow, but break, rebuild, and turn in response to their choices.

A religion born of lies. See it spread. See it grow. See as faith is hammered out, used, and manipulated like a tool. Dogma, doctrine, deceit. See how it moves the masses, inflames war.

The first volume will be the platform, building: characters, beliefs, the rules of the world.
The second volume is where the religion starts to spread and a civil war breaks out.

(I have planned around 7 volumes)

Upload Schedule

Updates on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

[Participant  in the plotgenre.com  Writathon challenge]

1,000,000 Monsters VS 1 Sixteen-Year-Old British Schoolboy

Not all at once; that would be insane!

Elijah slipped on his way home from school, transporting him to another world… nearly.

A three-headed dog charges him, claws out, muzzles snapping. He dies. He comes back: again, and again, and again. The System won’t let him escape to the game-like world of magic and wonder right outside. Each time Elijah clears a level, ERROR messages fill his view. With the sound of exploding fuses, he is forced to run from a fresh horror.

Death is only a temporary setback.

Thanks goes to LBJames for helping with this synopsis; very snappy writing, go check his stuff out!

Hoplite Thirty-Seven had thought he was going to die, that his long career of serving Terna and the Eighth Arm had come to an end after the antimatter bomb had detonated... Yet that had not been the case. Instead, he had ended up on a back-water world where nothing made sense.

Magic wasn't supposed to be real, neither were elves or other fantasy creatures... yet here on Ahkoolis, that was reality.

When young Rose Cible comes to pay her final respects to the late Master of Dross Manor, she finds herself alone with the master's body. Sure that no one will hear her, she sends him off with a final wish, unaware that in life, Master Dross had always been sensitive to wishes. His corpse opens its eyes, promising to grant that wish. 

Three years later, the manor is inhabited again by two gentlemen whom only she can see. These ghostly denizens have specific instructions from the old master as to how to prepare Rose to complete her wish—with only one stipulation: that she never enter the manor after dark. 

One night, however, Rose overstays her welcome, and is promptly dragged through the attic mirror to a wonderland of complex magic, mages in tight leather pants, flamboyant huntsmen, and romance so inevitable that it turns her head from her one and only goal—survive, retrieve her memories, and escape this place. 

Trapped on the other side of the mirror, she finds that the deceased master had plans for her long before the wish was made. She has already been enrolled in a Mages' Academy of Magic, where, being female, and possessing not a drop of magic herself—she meets neither requirement. However, the Academy is not all as it seems, and the return home comes with a steep price. The Labyrinth connecting their worlds has a job for her, and refuses to let her go until it, and her wish, are complete. 

Meredith, a witch-in-training, is spending her summer running her Grandma’s apothecary shop in a charming riverside town. With her cat familiar, Cici, by her side, she quickly learns that being a witch involves far more than brewing potions and curing boils.
When Grandma leaves for vacation, Meredith takes on the challenge of managing the bustling shop and its eclectic mix of magical and non-magical customers. At first, all is well—until a smooth-talking devil arrives, bringing trouble in his wake.
Soon, Meredith is swept into a whirlwind of adventure, where she must combat cunning foes, forge surprising alliances, and prove that she’s more than ready to step into her own as a witch.
With its charming mix of whimsy, danger, and heart, The Witch Meredith is a spellbinding tale for readers who enjoy cozy fantasy, humor, and a touch of the extraordinary.

New chapter dropping every day @8am Eastern Daylight Time/GMT-4 until the book is complete.

New chapter art inbound! 

Polls @ chapters: 14 & 20!

Surprise poll @ chapter 13!

[Participant in the April 2025 plotgenre.com Writathon]

I've started a Patreon! (One whole, entire American dollar!) All proceeds go to supporting The Witch Meredith Part 2: Eclectic Boogaloo! (title subject to change)

Lewis is resigned to never finding anything he’s good at. He hasn’t heard from his father, the High Mage, since they failed to discover what kind of magic he has. Lewis believes the test was wrong and he’s not actually a mage. His peaceful, but boring life is turned upside down when his father goes missing, leaving behind only a letter naming Lewis the next High Mage. His father’s disappearance may be more sinister than it seems. Lewis must pretend to be a well trained mage worthy of his new title. His life may depend on it.

[participant in the plotgenre.com Writathon challenge]

He was a whisper in the dark, but now he's noise in bright daylight.

Elijah had made a lucrative career of slipping secrets out from behind locked doors. A professional problem solver who never met a job he couldn't ghost once the work in the shadows was complete.

But now, somebody else has decided it was his turn to disappear. Permanently.

Freshly murdered and rudely awakened by a game-like System, Elijah quickly realises he's traded all his finesse for brute force. His hard-earned skills? Erased. Class choices? Blocked. Instead, he's been saddled with a rather unsubtle new role: Aggro Tank.

Big sword. Flashy armour. Painfully obvious targets.

Worse, something hungry is pushing its way through the thinning veil between our two worlds, and Elijah's forced career change makes him its most likely meal. If he can't quickly adapt to his new role—and unravel the conspiracy behind his assassination—both worlds will end up in flames.

Sometimes, surviving death is the easy part.

[LitRPG + Slice of Life + Weak to Strong + Modern]

“Sometimes I feel like I’m in a bad luck loop: wake up, trip on the rug, spill coffee, repeat.”

Set on Earth in the modern day (well, Earth-like… cuz lawyers), this book is a weak-to-strong, litRPG story.

So grab a Grepsi Cola and read about a guy who is literally the world’s unluckiest person….

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“Why am I sooooo unlucky?” This has been said by a million people, a million times, but in the case of Malick Tychandros, a genuinely unlucky guy, it’s warranted.

Bad things always happen to him.

Bird flys by? Poop incoming.

Car is running fine. Till it’s not.

Shoelaces? Untied.

Then one day, he gets a System that turns it all around.

Dun, dun, dun! Dramatic music.

This is a light comedy with a litRPG system. There are no dark mysteries. No global conspiracies with unimaginable consequences. Just a guy, and a System.

*Rated PG-13 for language

*No harem

*Weak to Strong MC

*Lots of humour

Posts daily

Feeling lucky? Check it out!

Book 1 is written, and Book 2 is in editing.

Guaranteed (already plotted out) will be completed, no indefinite hiatus…. Unless something unlucky happens to author.

#nodemonkings

#noapocalypse

#noyoungersisterswhoneedsaving

#nopants.noshirts.noservice.

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They are not nobles. They are not commoners. They are Rouge.
A family that has everything… except a place in history. Respected, feared—but never accepted.

Alaric, Astrid, and Ezren grew up in a world where bloodline dictates destiny. Where heritage weighs heavier than merit. But they are not here to follow a prewritten path. If the world already has rules, they’ll break them. If history is already decided, they’ll rewrite it.

They don’t seek power. They don’t seek glory.
Only a place where their existence isn’t a shadow.

And if they must burn the world to claim it…
So be it.

Let me tell you a story about coming home. It's a tale of forgotten miracles and hidden wonders. The coastal town of Mystic has forgotten the magic of bees and the glory of growing things until the arrival of a long-lost daughter reminds them of the joys of home, art, and kindness. Join me as we get cozy, rebuild a home, meet intriguing characters, plant a garden, strengthen our magic, and fall in love. A joyful love letter to those who enjoy cozy RPGs like Stardew Valley.

Participant in the plotgenre.com Writathon challenge - April 2025

In the magical land of Camelot, the fate of the realm lies in the hands of Excalibur, a holy sword that chooses the next ruler. But this blessing carries a deadly curse: every king who wields it is doomed to die after ten years of rule. Beyond the throne, the court is a treacherous battlefield of politics and power, where alliances shift like shadows and danger lurks behind every smile.

Valentina Armstrong, reeling from a recent breakup, receives a mysterious scroll summoning her to her estranged father’s estate to train as a Lady of Camelot’s legendary court. Uninterested in the life of nobility, Valentina resists—until a ninja team forcibly takes her. Escaping their grasp, she stumbles into the mystical realm of Avalon, where she learns Camelot’s legacy endures beyond time. Lost and searching for answers, she encounters a knight who claims to be the legendary Sir Tristan of Camelot.

Neil Zoltan, the world’s first legendary assassin, is ambushed and killed, only to wake up in the body of a young student in a world far different from his own. 

Neil discovers a mystery called the "Observer" that grants him strange powers. 

As he unravels the mystery behind his reincarnation, Neil must regain his strength, uncover hidden enemies, and seek revenge on those responsible for his demise. 

However, the rules of this new world are different—and so is he.

His death was just the beginning.

This story is a Participant in the Writathon Challenge.  

When two worlds collide, only one hero can mend the fragments of his soul

Kevin wants a normal life with his wife and family. But when he collapses into a mysterious coma, his oldest friend Carl reveals the truth: Kevin is the legendary Sword Master of Rowen, a hero who once saved a magical realm by wielding five elemental Power Swords against the Great Darkness.

Thirty years ago, Carl made a desperate choice that shattered Kevin's soul, leaving fragments scattered across dimensions. Now, as Kevin's body lies motionless on Earth, his consciousness has been summoned back to Rowen, where dark forces conspire to use his fractured state for their own purposes.

Racing against time, Carl ventures into Rowen to recover the missing soul fragments before the corruption spreads. But each Power Sword is tied to a primal emotion—Anger, Grief, Fear, Guilt, and Despair—and to reclaim them, both friends must confront the painful memories they've spent decades trying to forget.

With the help of unlikely allies, including a clipped-wing Spore-Beast Champion and a sarcastic holographic AI, they battle through a realm changed by their absence. As the Great Darkness stirs again, Carl faces an impossible choice: restore his friend's soul and doom Rowen, or save the realm and lose Kevin forever.

A thrilling blend of urban fantasy and portal fiction with electrifying action, deep emotional stakes, and a friendship that transcends dimensions.

Elion Hayes never planned on being hunted.

He was just a university student scraping by, no real direction, no grand purpose—until a night out turned into a waking nightmare. Because apparently, were-beasts or beast-men are real, they’re everywhere, and they don’t appreciate humans getting in their way.

Now, Elion is on the run with a 'cowboy' from another world (yes, really), a best friend who’s way too excited about all of this, and a growing list of reasons to regret every life choice that led him here.

At the center of it all? The Beast Rings—ancient artifacts infused with the power of monsters. Some grant strength beyond human limits. Others corrupt, turning their wielders into nightmares. And the Lord, the shadowy figure pulling the strings, plans to unleash thousands of them across the world.

Elion isn’t a warrior. He doesn’t know if he has a legendary bloodline or divine blessing. He’s just learned about Mana Gates and barely unlocked the first three of the 118 Mana Gates that allow someone to tap into their true power and to control the Beast Rings. 

Before he could gain any real progress, the Lord’s most elite enforcers—the Zodiacs—and all kinds of beast-men were already closing in.

The mission? Retrieve the corrupted Beast Rings before they fall into the wrong hands. Defy the Lord’s plan before the world is overrun. Survive long enough to figure out why, out of everyone, he’s been thrown into the middle of this.

He and Jordan may not have been prepared for any of this, but their new ally, Ronan, isn’t giving them a choice. If they don’t fight back? The world as they know it is done.

What to Expect:

[+] Weak-to-Strong Protagonist – Elion starts at zero, but survival means learning fast.

[+] Shapeshifters & Monster Battles – Think were-beasts, but worse.

[+] Clear Progression – Unlockable powers, evolving abilities, and high stakes.

[+] A Race Against Time – The Beast Rings are spreading, and humanity is not ready.

[+] Ancient Powers & Forbidden Arts – 118 Mana Gates to unlock, each one unlocking something deeper.

[+] Humor Meets High-Octane Action – Snark, survival, and a world that doesn’t play fair.

[+] Massive World-Building & Hidden Secrets – The Beast Rings didn’t start in this world… and neither did the war.

READ ELION HAYES BOOK ONE: THE BEAST RINGS NOW!

An otherworlder has been summoned to The World of Miter by the Gods, to counter the risk of a new Demon King's eventual emergence.  

One who has the strength of will to surpass any challenge in service to good.

Problem is... He's the kind of lazy bum who would put all of that willpower into getting out of a hard day's work.

This is an infuriating problem for everyone involved.

Unfortunately for Rhett, this is not merely a world of dragons and fairies, but a world of crazy people, who make bread out of sawdust, smash their own houses for fun, and have a lust for magical paperwork.

Can he survive Small Town Hospitality, Meat Elves, and worst of all, Gainful Employment?  Probably, but his sanity won't.

He might be weak and lazy, but he will never give up on his pursuit of his best Rat Life.  With an indomitably lazy will and shenanigans galore, he will nap and eat cheap junk food in a little hole in the wall, or die trying.

Haunted by dreams he can’t fully remember, shackled by a bloodline that is both a blessing and a curse, Jabari is thrust onto a path of vengeance – one born from tragedy but fuelled by love.

Still, as he grows stronger, as the fire inside him blazes hotter, he begins to realise the truth. The part of him he spent his whole life suppressing was never a weakness. It was never a sin.

It was his Pride!

And now that it had awakened, after years buried beneath hardship and survival, it would rather burn the world down before it bowed to anyone again.

For as long as Jabari could remember, it had always been him and Inayah against the world. No family. No safety. No future. Just two starving children clawing their way through the slums of the Umeme Tribe, doing whatever it took to survive. It wasn’t much, but at the very least, they had each other!

Then, Inayah got sick!

At first, Jabari thought it was just another cruel twist of fate – one more reminder that the world didn’t give a damn about them. But then the truth came out. His little sister’s illness wasn’t fate. It wasn’t an accident. Someone did this to her. And worse… it was someone he had once dared to call a friend!

On the receiving end, betrayal was of the cruellest of punishments. It didn’t just hurt – it burned. It carved into the flesh, etched itself into the bones, and branded itself onto the soul. It took something from you that you could almost never get back.

But for the dealer? Betrayal was a gamble. High risk. High reward.

Play your cards right, and you could have everything you ever wanted, and more. Pick the wrong person, though…

At that point, death won’t be a punishment – it’ll be a mercy!

Jabari will save his sister. As for those responsible?

He’ll make them wish they were never born!