Inspired by the Isekai Solo Leveling — Dying, alone, broke, James William Smith gets a notification from a gaming system. The offer is simple: die at 67, or reboot to a factory reset point and become a Player in a cosmic game. What do you think he chose?
The story follows James Smith, a man who dies and finds himself in a surreal afterlife courtroom, where his life is judged as "zero sum"—neither good nor evil, just utterly average. Dissatisfied with being consigned to eternal mediocrity, he manipulates the cosmic bureaucracy into granting him a second chance in a new world, where he is reincarnated as a child with his memories intact and perks... - edited by my lovely Steven.
On the planet Karola, where only women exist, sex is forbidden... Will Putty, a completely depraved sex offender, suffer the consequences of her actions? WARNING: Contains extreme scatology!
Instead of joining the ranks of the political elite, Innes Kingsford chose to join the navy, making him the black sheep of one of the great families. That wasn't enough for his family to keep from using him as a pawn as his father manipulates his first assignment as part of a political scheme. Innes finds himself in a remote system under the command of a member of his family's greatest house rivals where Innes discovers conspiracy, criminal enterprises, and possible interstellar war converging.
A Story from The Town Step back into the world of The Analyst, The Chef, The Practitioner, and The Clerk with this collection of character-driven short stories. From epilogues to unexpected new beginnings, these tales expand the lives of familiar faces, introduce intriguing new characters, and reveal that every ending is simply the start of another story. Each story differs in tone, themes, and levels of intimacy—some contain none, while others are more explicit.
Emily Thompson grew up under the shadow of her mother Laura, a woman who treated sex as both weapon and inheritance. By college she had claimed that inheritance as her own, wild, public, unapologetic. Then she fell for Jake, the only man who could match her fire. When Laura took him too, the betrayal cut deeper than anything that came before. What followed was not surrender, but a final, brutal reckoning. A dark story of power, desire, maternal damage, and the hard cost of taking your life back
He died at seventy-nine and woke at twenty, same body, same year: 2003, in Leuven, the whole thing still ahead of him. James knows what's coming: the crashes, the fortunes, the people he'll lose. This time he'll go slow, build quiet, keep his head. But a second life is still a life, and knowing the future doesn't make it hurt less when it arrives. Least of all when it's her.