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We weren’t supposed to find out.
The files, the documents, the truth.
We thought we were only meaningful when we’re hurting.
He corrupted our minds like a computer virus.
Used our emotions as data.
we had to struggle.
to break.
We had to learn to stay with eachother like our wrists were bound.
We had no other way.
We refuse to surrender.
We know what you’ve done.
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VOSS: BREAK (Book 1) by TeresaSmith
Fandoms: Original Work, No Fandom, Original - Fandom
18 Jun 2026
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Harper Voss had built something worth keeping in the gutters of East Halworth. A crew. A home. A reason to get up in the morning. It only took one night to lose all of it.
When a routine job turns into a bloody ambush, Harper is captured by Commander Brock Lawson and dragged into the heart of the organization that killed her father. What follows isn't imprisonment so much as systematic destruction: interrogation, loss, and the kind of violence designed to leave nothing standing. And it works. One by one, the people she loves are stripped away, until she's left with nothing but her own name and a floor to bleed on.
Then the gun comes out. And the man who broke her is the one who stops it.
Brock Lawson doesn't do mercy. What he offers Harper is something colder: ninety days to become a weapon worth keeping, or ninety days until she dies. The choice isn't really a choice. But survival never is.
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- Part 1 of VOSS
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So I was thinking about the modern AU again, and decided Madara could not have been a barista, actually. He’d rather be… a mechanic. Bike mechanic. And Hashirama would’ve come on his ridiculous huge car… and then they’d bump when Madara came out for a smoke, and… OH. MY. GOD.
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No Magic Left to Bleed by lacrisun
Fandoms: My Little Pony Generation 4: Equestria Girls (Cartoon 2013), My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship Is Magic (Cartoon 2010)
17 Jun 2026
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Canterlot City is a shell of its former self.
The streets are ruined, choked by the dead and the abandoned husks of a world that failed to contain them. With their magic gone, the girls are pushed to their absolute physical limits, risking life and death just to see the sun again.
There is no help coming. The only things left are the friends beside them, the weapons in their hands, and the terrifying realization that the undead might be the least of their problems.
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"I will let you up when you drop the axe. Do we have an accord?"
Waking up in a crumbling chapel with no memory is bad enough. Waking up next to a towering, axe-wielding brute who solves every problem by charging head-first into it is significantly worse.
Soma, a pragmatic Samurai from the Land of Reeds, relies on tactical footwork, anatomical leverage, and a perfectly drawn longbow. Yngrid, a boisterous Hero from the Badlands, relies on raw, unadulterated brute force and absolutely zero self-preservation.
Thrown together in the unforgiving Lands Between, they must learn to combine their drastically different combat philosophies. If the monstrosities don't kill them, their clashing egos just might.
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The Crimson Thread That Led Me To You by Personwhodoesthingstheylike
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
17 Jun 2026
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"'I hate you!' a gruff voice called out as I was walking down the halls with a pile of paperwork.
I couldn't look away.
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I squinted, 'Who are you again?' A cold wind of silence rushed through the air, one of my papers blowing with it. "Toya Aoyagi is the obedient yet strict student council president of Kamiyama High! In the unforgiving halls of the 1980s, how will Toya react when a defiant queer boy challenges his entire worldview?!
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I have been working on this fic for years now (Through different rewrites and procrastination...) , but I'm pretty sure the idea initially hit me while I was listening to Heathers, so, take that as you will.
Also, An gets better, I promise!
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Oh, and of course, all characters, except for a few original side characters , belong to Sega and Colorful Pallet and this is a transformative work!!! The cover for this work is subject to change!
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Marcus Tilman followed the red line because someone wanted him to. Nick Valentine followed it because someone else was watching them do it. The Railroad doesn’t recruit with riddles. It recruits by deciding whether you should be alive by the end of the day. But in the end, everything is about the choices you make…including who you keep choosing over and over again.
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Waiter, There's a Head in My Soup by eelkat
Fandoms: The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane, The Pink Necromancer Series
17 Jun 2026
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The UnSeelie Court has stopped at a random tavern to rest. Quaraun and BoomFuzzy, have stayed at the tavern to order dinner, while the rest of their crew has gone off to scout the area. Quaraun just wants to eat a quiet meal... preferably one without the local entertainment.
This is a complete/finished Short Story. There will be nothing more added to this story.
Every story in this set is a stand alone/none continuing story.
You can read any story in any order.
I have been writing this series since 1978, and there are over 3,000 short stories published on various places online.
These are not chapters of a larger story. The "collection" will never have a "finished ending" because I never stop adding new stand alone self contained short stories.
The author is Scottish and Shaetlan Scotts is her first language. There may be inaccuracies of spelling and grammar in the American English parts.
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- Part 2 of The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane aka The Pink Necromancer Series (A Short Story Collection)
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For six months, Roza has lived in the dark, obsessively tracking the meticulously sterile life of Imi, a corporate consultant who appears perfect to the world but is secretly driven by a paralyzing phobia of human filth. Driven by a desperate need to connect with Imi's pure world, Roza uses her self-taught lock-picking skills to break into Imi's minimalist penthouse. Instead of finding a sanctuary, Roza discovers a horrific crime scene: a bound, beaten man bleeding onto the pristine bathroom tile, and a plastic-apron-clad Imi punishing him for bringing "dirt" into her home. When Roza accidentally makes a sound, Imi stops scrubbing the blood and locks her cold, analytical gaze directly onto the hidden intruder.
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The Professional by OwanRJaskel
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - Expanded Universe
17 Jun 2026
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In the shadows of a bankrupt colony world, identity is a fluid commodity and survival is a daily transaction. For the marginalized Clawdites and Balosarians living in the margins of galactic society, the grand politics of the Republic are a distant myth. This is a story of the unvarnished honesty found in the dark, and the grand hypocrisies of the daylight. Part 1 of After Contract: A Star Wars Anthology.
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- Part 1 of After Contract: A Star Wars Anthology
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- English
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The Phantom of Crest Hill by xfkaacornx
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Bruce Wayne - Fandom
15 Jun 2026
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All you wanted was a one-way ticket out of Gotham. Your plan was simple: dance at a sleazy club, hoard every dollar, and escape to Metropolis. You never expected Bruce Wayne to walk into your club, hand you a stack of cash for a dance you didn't want to give, and offer you a job redecorating the decaying East Wing of Wayne Manor.
Now, you’re working for a billionaire phantom who you barely see. But the shadows of the city have a way of following you, even behind iron gates. When a break-in forces you to seek refuge at the manor, the lines between employer and employee begin to blur. He’s covered in scars he won't explain, you’re hiding a past he judges, and the sudden, suffocating gravity between you two is becoming impossible to ignore.
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- Part 1 of The Phantom of Crest Hill
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Emerald, Beskar, and Bone by HandOfJustice125
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
15 Jun 2026
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An all but failed Jedi padawan and an elite Null ARC Trooper find themselves at cross purpose on the planet of Coruscant during the height of Fete week celebrations, leading to a series of adventures that take us through the levels of Coruscant for a tense thriller noir styled adventure, full of action, intrigue, and a little dash of romance.
So this started as a little Noir style military fiction short story, Based in the world of Karen Travis's Republic Commando series.
I wanted to focus on a small intrigue adventure with a pair of Original Characters but it rapidly expanded into a trio of adventure stories that happen in the background of the novels. I love "In the margins" style stories that happen side by side with the main storylines of legends and modern canon. Star Wars is such a full expanded world that weaving tales in those margins is so much fun!I have the full trio of stories written and a couple of interludes that go inbetween. I am going to be updating a chapter or so every few until its done. I have several more stories already in the works and I plan to continue a long running series.
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Revan: The False War by SilentWalrus52
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Comic), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
15 Jun 2026
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The Age of Heroes is dead. The Age of War is coming.
In the decades since the ruin of the Great Sith War, the Jedi Order has turned inward, sealing itself within the bright halls of Coruscant, fearful of the darkness without and the darkness within. But in the Outer Rim, a true war is being quietly born: The Mandalorians, silent and savage, wage a campaign of terror the Republic refuses to acknowledge.
Amid this mounting dread, young Jedi Knight **Revan** is sent with his closest friend, Alek, to a silent outpost behind the fray. His mission to find a lost Master is the first step on a road paved in good intentions, leading him and his generation directly into the horror they were sworn to prevent.
As the shadow of the Mandalorian Wars lengthens, the paths of three heroes begin to diverge: Revan's descent to the frontier; **Meetra Surik**’s desperate battle against an ancient darkness; and **Jorah**’s fierce refusal to abandon the innocent. They do not know it yet, but their separate journeys through stagnation and betrayal are all threads leading toward a single, devastating fire.
All roads lead to war. And war will change them all.
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- Part 1 of Revan
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Zyanya Mondragon, known simply as Reyna, is the Queen of the underground in Radience City. After a year imprisoned, she returns to her kingdom ready to rule it as she once did. However, there is a new Jefe in town and things are not as simple as they once were. Wei Ling-Ying is a resident doctor, having worked hard to earn her place with her status. Overworked and underpaid, her stress comes to a head when one of her friends reveals their relationship with a local gang member. The two worlds collide with a devastating force, meanwhile violence and growing police pressure threaten to rip everything apart.
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Jordan has everything lined up: top of her class in business school, a tight-knit (if messy) family, loyal friends, and a boyfriend who seems stable enough. Her future is clear, predictable, and within reach.
Then one night, on the way home from a graduation party, a routine checkpoint turns into a nightmare. Police search her car and uncover a large stash of heroin, enough to charge her with trafficking. Despite her insistence that it isn’t hers, Jordan is convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Now, inside a maximum-security women’s facility in California, Jordan is forced to navigate a world far removed from everything she knows. Survival means learning new rules, reading dangerous people, and keeping her head down.
But in a place where power is everything, staying invisible isn’t always an option, and Jordan quickly finds herself on the radar of someone who even the guards fear.
The prison’s top dog.
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He stood there, inconspicuous, confident, his hood pulled low over his face, hiding his eyes. His posture didn't suggest he felt uncomfortable or out of place. With one leg relaxed against the dirty, grayish-brown wall of the building and his hands buried deep in his pockets, he exuded a casual ease.
He's a dealer—the only one who deals in almost pure drugs. His codename: the Archangel.
When Evan first meets him, neither of them suspects that this is the beginning of something special. Something seems to connect Evan and the mysterious archangel, who hates nothing more than drugs and tries everything to keep Evan away from them.
Drawn to the archangel's freezing stability like a moth to a flame, Evan becomes the one unpredictable variable the young dealer can't control. In a gritty world dictated by addiction, violence, and shadows, they might just be each other's only salvation-if they don't destroy each other first -
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At 17 years old, Vegeta decides he's ready for the challenge of earning rank and moving up in Frieza's army...but while in the process, he uncovers a resistance movement against Frieza stirring throughout the universe. These are dangerous times, and only the strong will survive.
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In the summer before his sixth year, Sirius Black ran away from home, and he kept running. There wasn't anywhere in England that was safe. Voldemort controlled the Ministry. The Aurors were Death Eaters in disguise. If they found him, they would kill him. Eventually, he found himself on a pier in California, and the fear in his chest started to ease.
Remus Lupin wasn't allowed to go to Hogwarts. He wasn't allowed to hold a wand. In fact, he wasn't even allowed to leave the cellar until a burst of accidental magic broke the door open. Dark Creatures and Muggleborns were hunted, usually killed, and sometimes enslaved. He and Lily had found each other on the streets and eventually started working for the old man who ran the Order - the only resistance group trying to bring down Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Remus is a soldier. He goes out, he gets the job done, and he waits for the next set of orders.
And for the last two months, he's been on the sidelines because of an injury.
His next mission, one he can do even with his injury? Retrieve Sirius Black.
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A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.
Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks). Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.
Rated M (read tags). Work first published August 2022.
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- Part 1 of When Water Burns
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gray-green. by cafedeagua
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
14 Jun 2026
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𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘺-𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
...An unfortunate woman named Padmé Amidala, who lives an overall hopeless life, comes across 9.9 million dollars and does whatever she can to keep it. Obi-Wan Kenobi, a former detective, tries to uncover the truth behind his brother's death. When they find themselves thrown together by the circumstances, the two of them will have to fight the monsters and darkness around them and inside them- as well as managing the building tension between them.