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Zaejin the Troll & Perik the Room Monster (rough draft)

Telling people it was a hard decision for you to upheaval your life and move far from what you know is a lie. It wasn’t a hard decision. It was barely a decision at all. There was nothing keeping you there anymore. The chains were broken, you could go anywhere.

Unsurprisingly, finding a new home to move into was the hard part. Well, finding something affordable was the hard part. The house you chose, which was out of the way, up a dirt road, down a steep path, was easy to say yes to, ...

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Onjondad the Lich: Part Two (complete)

Female Reader x Male Monster

Part One 

Lastly Cove never existed, or at least, it didn’t until a while ago. It was new and old all at once, lived in, overgrown, but wholly and impossibly new. You had grown up here all your life, you new every nook and corner of the world, but Lasty Cove was a final frontier.

“What are you thinking about?”

You looked up with surprise...

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Zaejin the Troll & Perik the Room Monster (special preview)

Telling people it was a hard decision for you to upheaval your life and move far from what you know is a lie. It wasn’t a hard decision. It was barely a decision at all. There was nothing keeping you there anymore. The chains were broken, you could go anywhere.

Unsurprisingly, finding a new home to move into was the hard part. Well, finding something affordable was the hard part. The house you chose, which was out of the way, up a dirt road, down a steep path, was easy to say yes to, ...

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Ria the Orc: An Alternate Universe (rough draft)

Part One: Spring

Shearing season is coming soon, you thought to yourself. You stepped into the shed, taking a closer look at the shears and scissors. Just outside the sheep were bleating and following you towards the door. You could hear them brushing up against the side of the shed and pushing at the door.

“I’m coming back out, hold on.” You fussed. “You can live without me for five seconds.” You inspect the blade on the scissors and tried to think of when they were las...

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Kahann the Naga: Part Two (complete)

Female Reader x Male Monster (contains hypnosis)

Jay decided to walk the beach before it got dark, just to see if there was anything to be found. As you sat with Kaia, facing the direction Jay left, she gave you a look then shyly turned away.

“What is it?” You asked.

“I feel silly,” she huffed.

You furrowed your brow. “Silly is a bad thing here?”

She smiled and giggled, pressing her knuckles to her rougueing cheek. “Okay, well, I don’t like fibbin...

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Ria the Orc: An Alternate Universe (special preview)

Part One: Spring

Shearing season is coming soon, you thought to yourself. You stepped into the shed, taking a closer look at the shears and scissors. Just outside the sheep were bleating and following you towards the door. You could hear them brushing up against the side of the shed and pushing at the door.

“I’m coming back out, hold on.” You fussed. “You can live without me for five seconds.” You inspect the blade on the scissors and tried to think of when they were las...

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Keir the Orc (rough draft)

Each morning the sun rises and comes through your window. The small sun charm your mother made catches the first light and casts little rainbows all over your floor. The rooster crows, signaling the start of the day, but you’ve already been up long before, getting ready for the work day ahead.

Your family owns a small dairy farm at the edge of Obresh. Each morning you got out to check on the cows, let them out to graze, and then check to see if the chicken coop has any eggs. Day in da...

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Kahann the Naga: Part One (complete)

Female Reader x Male Monster (contains hypnosis)

Nightmares, you thought, were only dreams. You believed that, as long as you were pious and good, they could not hurt you. Having been told all your life that as long as your prayed, as long as you were a behaved child and did all your duties, that only good things would come to you. Rewards were promised, but the one presented to you was far from the treasure you expected.

For years your parents had been looking for a proper husban...

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Keir the Orc (special preview)

Each morning the sun rises and comes through your window. The small sun charm your mother made catches the first light and casts little rainbows all over your floor. The rooster crows, signaling the start of the day, but you’ve already been up long before, getting ready for the work day ahead.

Your family owns a small dairy farm at the edge of Obresh. Each morning you got out to check on the cows, let them out to graze, and then check to see if the chicken coop has any eggs. Day in da...

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Finch the Fae (rough draft)

Up on a hill, hidden by maple trees, was an old cottage. The place had been in your family for ages, and countless summers had been spent there. Repairs and renovations had taken place countless times since you were young, but the place still maintained the same feeling and isolation it always had. Even now as ivy grew over the mesh of the screened in porch, creating a whole new room to itself, the place felt like that hidden oasis you loved as a kid.

“I don’t remember my back hurti...

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Lucien the Vampire (complete)

Female Reader x Male Vampire

Having to go to the doctor’s so much was a pain, but at least you had a great doctor now. Everytime you go, you don’t get that sense of dread or exhaustion you used to. The Vampire Clinic, as strange as it sounds, has been the best thing to happen on your journey thus far.

Dr. Behr is your physician, and he’s been the best doctor you’ve had. You know the clinic offers ‘special’ services, but you’ve been happy just talking with Dr. Behr. View Post

Finch the Fae (special preview)

Up on a hill, hidden by maple trees, was an old cottage. The place had been in your family for ages, and countless summers had been spent there. Repairs and renovations had taken place countless times since you were young, but the place still maintained the same feeling and isolation it always had. Even now as ivy grew over the mesh of the screened in porch, creating a whole new room to itself, the place felt like that hidden oasis you loved as a kid.

“I don’t remember my back hurti...

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Dante the Werewolf: Part Five (rough draft)

Rain fell heavily upon the old tin roof. I can remember the sound so clearly, especially when I am half asleep. I was curled up on an old sofa that smelled like ass and dog with an old crocheted throw draped over me. It was the coziest I had felt in a long time. I was warm and sheltered and filled with stolen beer. My mother had found that old shack, which was a hunting cabin that was maybe used once a year. My mom took the bed while I slept on that old couch.

“It’s fine,” I told ...

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Cove the Incubus (complete)

Nonbinary Main Character x Trans Woman Monster (platonic relationship)

Living is hard. Why does it have to be so hard? Who said so? Who made the rules? Well, anyways, lamentations aside, I guess it could be a lot worse. I could still be living back home. I could have an even worse roof over my head. But I guess, it’s better to think about those things rather than the shit happening now.

“Finding a roommate was harder than I expected,” you lamented to your grandmother on the ...

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Iomhair the Centaur

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: February 14th, 2018


Your family owns and operates a massive orchard. So, every year come harvest, your father often hires help. He usually hires the same crew every year, so you’ve gotten to know them over time. One of them you’ve known since you were both children, a centaur named Iomhair. Back when his parents had started working in the orchard, his mother would make him stay at the ...

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Kurz the Orc

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: January 13th, 2018


Your family hires extra help during planting season and harvest. Your father always hires the strongest hands he can find. Recently, he’s taken to hiring orcs because of their sheer strength and their stamina. He acts like the idea was all his, but really, you were the one who kept insisting to him to hire more orc hands. You had seen the orcs who came into the village...

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Ellis the Gargoyle

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: January 4th 2018


You knew you were on the downswing of this relationship. He was making excuses, breaking dates. The phone call you just received had only just proved that. It was only a matter of time to dump or be dumped. So you decided it was time to dump. You never enjoyed being dumped over a phone call, but in this case you had absolutely had it. You told him not to worry, that he nee...

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The Mothman (a remake)

I had written my first mothman story way before an was unsatisfied with it. I was able to go back and rewrite it, creating something I much preferred. Read the original here.

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: December 10th, 2017


You have a neighbor, at least that’s what your landlord told you. You’ve never seen...

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Rube the Orc

Female Reader (chronically ill) x Male Monster

Originally Posted: December 6th, 2017

You’ve been alone for a long time now. Your husband left for the war not long after you were married. He would appear every now and then and then disappear again. It was like getting a visit from a distant relative as the years went by. Eventually, the visits stopped and you were delivered the tale tell letter wrapped in black silk. You were saddened of course. ...

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Markus the Library Dragonborn

For some reason I both remember this being very popular and don't remember it at all.

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted, November 28th & 29th


The library is quiet as you walk inside. You look around, taking in the sight you had only seen in photographs. Your headmaster at your old school had come to this academy when he was younger. His office was dripping with photographs from his school days here. You wander ins...

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Clain the Orc

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: November 27th, 2017

Every since you were a small child, you’ve been teased for the way you walk. You’ve never been elegant and graceful. In fact, your mother used to tell you that when you were born, even then you fell. You’ve always admired your friends and how they were able to dance so elegantly. It had always been your dream to be a dancer. You weren’t lost on who cruel the irony was. The girl with two left feet made of l...

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Albion the Sapphire Lich

This was one of my first long works, and I remember being real scared. I hadn't done anything long at the time in years and was worried I'd forgotten how or peter out as I wrote. But I really loved it, and I continue to love doing longer stories.

Female Reader (suffers conversion disorder, leaving her partially deaf and non-verbal) x Male Lich (pov in last segment)

Originally Posted November 8th, 9th, and 10th


I ...

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Rovil the Possessed Halfling: Part Two

Female Human x Male Halfling/Reader

Originally Posted: November 4th, 2017


I know that I’ve been gone for a long time. It’s been several years since I’ve been in this town. I’ve thought of it as home all these years. It was what kept he journeying on and kept me fighting. Well, that and you. I doubt you even remember me. All these years have gone by and I don’t see it possible that you could remember a blip of a person like me....

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Jack the Werewolf

This story brought about the legend of Big Billy. His character started becoming all the more real and amazing through this story.

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: November 2nd, 2017


To be quite honest I had never considered myself the mating type. I had seen many a courtship ritual and it always struck me as somewhat useless. It always rubbed me wrong watching my friends go out normal and then come back with their ...

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The Unicorn's Visit

I think the Unicorn was one of the hardest creatures I worked to bring to life. I didn't want it to be just the unicorn we all know, I wanted to make a real monster out of the image. he turned out to be quite the spoiled, entitled brat, but I think he was made lovable by the end.

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: November 1st, 2017

The house has been a thunderstorm since the news arrived. Everyone and everything inside had been preparing. Everything you grew up...

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The Golem King: Part Two

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: October 31st 2017


The Golem King has not been anything you had expected. Not only was he beloved leader in his kingdom, but he was charming and witty. You had expected a brute and a tyrant. If you had, to be honest, you were expecting someone like your father. You were happily proven wrong. When you sent him the first letter, declaring your wishes to end the war that has been raging between your two kingdoms, he has been n...

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Rovil the Possessed Halfling

I have such fond lovely memories of Rovil. I love this set of characters the nook of the world they take up in Obresh and the Ruby Empire.

Female Reader x Male Halfling

Originally Posted: October 30th, 2017


I had been traveling for a long time. I had just finished dealing with a mess up north. Now all I wanted to do was find a warm bed and sleep for a good solid week. It’s growing bitterly cold and I am not well equipped. It’s...

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Harun the Werewolf

I'm afraid Harun hasn't appeared much lately. He used to be a fan favorite, but I feel he's been forgotten over the years with so many werewolves added to the roster. But hopefully this will refuel some fan interest.

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: October 29th, 2017

Several years ago you had moved to a new town in order to help take care of your grandmother. Not long after you started noticing strange things about the peacef...

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The Golem King

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: October 28th, 2017


For years your kingdom has been at war with the Golem. For as long as you’ve been alive and even before then, it’s always been war. Not that your father is gone you’ve taken the crown. You’ve also decided that enough is enough. You’re tired of war. You’re tired of all your kingdom’s funds going to something you find repugnant. You’ve begun the process of ...

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Fluff the Magic Dragon

Female Reader x Male Monster

Originally Posted: October 27, 2017


You wake to the sound of a low growl in your ear. You try to keep from smiling but the low growl persists. You feel a nudge against your cheek and he nips playfully. You peek open an eye and laugh as your husband curls his lip up at you.

“About damn time,” he snarls as he kisses you.

“Since when do you wake up early?” You stretch and yawn as he nuzzles ...

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