We didn’t call it a gaming hall. At least, not out loud.
Arclight students liked polished words, and the city liked paperwork even more. On the licensing placa...
2025-12-26 21:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostI called him because he did not call me.
That alone was enough to raise concern. Arclight Academy does not suppress violence involving thirty senior stude...
2025-12-26 03:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the upper terrace of my family’s estate, the capital never truly slept. It shifted, recalibrated, and corrected itself in slow, deliberate motions, as if...
2025-12-25 21:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t remember falling asleep.
I remember lying there, staring at the ceiling while the dark slowly thinned, the wards in the walls humming softly like they always did. Mor...
2025-12-25 14:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe doorknob turned slowly. The hinges gave a soft, controlled sigh. The masked intruder stepped into Father’s office as though entering a room he already owned. T...
2025-12-13 20:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostLucien
Five hours passed.
Five hours of absolute torture.
I knew Cale was coming. I didn’t know when, but I knew he was coming. I had assumed he would arrive im...
2025-12-13 19:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
Ellara
Evening settled over the river path like a warm shawl—soft and deceptively gentle. Lamps flickered gold along the water, each refle...
2025-12-11 06:38:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe divorce papers still felt warm in my hand as we walked away from the Bureau. Lin Xia moved ahead of us with sharp, decisive steps, her heels striking the pavement in a rhythm that sounde...
2025-12-07 19:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe dining room fractured into polite exits and weaponized small talk the moment breakfast ended. Chairs scraped across stone. Chopsticks clicked back into porcelain rests. Aunts gathered in a tigh...
2025-12-07 19:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostCousin Hao’s toast hung in the air like a sword. Wine pooled ruby-red in the glasses; laughter bubbled down the table, brittle and watchful.
I hadn’t raised mine yet. The ASP glowed faint...
2025-12-05 14:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I am going to complete this one in audio format for my youtube.
2025-11-09 16:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
Rade
There’s a special kind of silence that follows you when the whole Academy is pretending nothing happened.
Officially, th...
2025-10-28 21:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I know these are as good as real readers I am trying to work up the courage to read it myself. I just sound stupid. Anyway enjoy, JC
2025-10-25 13:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Next chapter
2025-10-24 20:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Some of you might have noticed a few chapters disappearing recently — and you’re not imagining things. After looking over feedback and rereading the Orc arc, I’ve decided...
2025-10-08 17:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostI hate traveling across the Kingdom.
Public transportation is reliable—subsidized by the Crown and half the noble houses through “progressive taxation”—b...
2025-10-07 21:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostZane
I’d spent the last three nights in the Crucible Realms. Not as SwordWannabe. That name had taken on a life of its own lately—challenge invites piling...
2025-10-05 06:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends I am told that Amazon reviews are important just throwing this up there again trying to get to 100 reviews. (I know thats crazy) So if you like the story please let people know.
2025-09-29 11:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue
Captain Knight Aiden Vanta
2025-09-26 20:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I am told that I need to be Kindle Prime with a bundle? So thoughts on this cover art? I dig it. I think.
2025-09-24 15:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostSophie
“You seek to aid the Champions, knowing your role must be played for them to be successful. You seek power. You seek understanding. And most of all, you seek connection. Only through...
2025-09-20 03:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostVivian
The river narrowed as they moved upriver, out of the walls of stone that stretched up on either side of the riverbanks. For what felt like forever, straight, almost sh...
2025-09-19 20:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
