Fantasy

The Seeker and The Sorceress. Top Story - August 2024.
To search for truth has always meant to offer up one's own soul as payment, for how else can one expect to reach the sacred stone at the dead center of the hallowed valley. When one refuses to lose themselves, one can never hope to unearth the part of themselves that has always been lost.
By Insinq Datum2 years ago in Fiction
Yahweh’s Revenge of Death
Lazy clouds slung low, a corpulent, stubborn underbelly of the sky slowed to stop, stuck fast to the vault of Heaven. A heavy atmosphere, loaded, laced and ready for some cruel, as yet, unstated purpose, lay over the town.
By Ian Vince2 years ago in Fiction
Revolutionizing Creativity
The Journey of AI from Image Captioning to Art Generation. Seven years ago, in 2015, a significant breakthrough in AI research was the development of automated image captioning. Machine learning algorithms had already been able to label objects in images, but they advanced to the point where they could now create natural language descriptions of those images. This progress led a group of researchers to wonder: What if they could reverse the process? If AI could translate images into text, could it also generate images from text?
By cathynli namuli2 years ago in Fiction
The conquest
: The day started with excitement. The whole kingdom was gathered as the chosen were called to the altar where they would place their hands on the crystal stones—mystical relics that glowed when touched by someone with magic. One by one they stepped forward, put their hands on the stones. The crowd cheered every time a stone lit up, meaning magic was present.
By Akinyemi tolu2 years ago in Fiction
Zhane & Vitani Go to Camp 2
Chapter 3 New Rivals Meanwhile, Zhane, Tommy, and Michael and Jose finished unpacking their stuff. Alright the Blue Wolves are officially settled, said Michael.
By Kylecovey Smith2 years ago in Fiction
The Last Custodian
In a world where magic had waned to a whisper, lived Elara, a woman of uncommon grace and quiet strength. She was the last of the Custodians, a lineage tasked with guarding the ancient, dormant heart of the world. It was said that within this heart lay the potential to reignite magic, but also the power to consume the world in eternal night.
By Useful_Injury2 years ago in Fiction
Starbound
Dreams: The Encounter Lucas Harper, a 14-year-old with an insatiable curiosity for the cosmos, often found himself gazing at the night sky from his small town’s only hill. Armed with his telescope and a head full of space facts, he dreamed of living among the stars. He devoured books about astronauts, space travel, and the mysteries of the universe, imagining himself piloting a spacecraft through the Milky Way.
By Sam2 years ago in Fiction
Father is a Unique character chapter 2
Chapter 2... FATHER IS A UNIQUE CHARACTER: WHO RAISING HIS MYSTERIOUS CHILD After school was over, his father came to take him home from school, and Abraham walked toward the house holding his father's finger.
By Karan w. 2 years ago in Fiction
Heaven's Fall
The ones who had fallen could not have fallen far. Honestly, Dallas knew how far any could fall. The stretch between the Heavenly Gates and the streets of Brooklyn was a treacherous one, and the land he had been forced to call home for the last 7 years even broader. How was he to know Earth was so vast?
By Lizzy Rose2 years ago in Fiction
The Babe
"What is this place?" "It is a gap in the clouds between the sun and the earth where we can shelter for a while," Bernard said, vaguely.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Rebirth: My Life as a Cat in the Forbidden City II
“You're not him.” I know I'm not. “But who are you?” Wait a second, who am I, anyway? Before my mind could fully wake up, my body had already swiftly retreated into my little cat hole—damn muscle memory, yet so effective.
By Colin Gao2 years ago in Fiction
The Pale Man's Problem
Ahhhh, another day dawns. The warmth on my blankets. The sound of a thrush song. My back aches but all my bones do. That’s part of my nature as a pale man.
By Judah LoVato2 years ago in Fiction