Bleak Stories

249 Stories

Getting to nowhere  by dkVARETH
Getting to nowhere by D.K VARETH
Getting to Nowhere is an epic dark fantasy saga where the world itself is the protagonist - a vast, ever-shifting land shaped by forgotten wars, fractured kingdoms, and...
On Borrowed Ethics by Tapestry_of_Destiny
On Borrowed Ethicsby Vienna Honsi
by Nathaniel Nicholls Book Description: A monster with borrowed memories. A priest with fading convictions. A final prayer whispered into the dark. Once a nameless creat...
Completed
Love Pain repeat by CountDrugula
Love Pain repeatby CountDrugula
Grieving, emotional trauma, love, pain, purpose, self identity. We are all bound by our humanity, and our emotions. This is something we cannot change. What we can chang...
Harmonia Reigns by DashnaRivers
Harmonia Reignsby DashnaRivers
In a perfect world, the corrupt must die...
Completed
Everlight by NooksJay06
Everlightby Jaylon Nooks
The sun hasn't risen in years. The children cry without knowing why. Trapped in a dying village, surrounded by an ancient forest full of monsters, demons, and beauty tha...
Thoughts by fish_art
Thoughtsby sera
The thoughts of a person. In a room. All alone. _____________________ Started: 28/5/2025 Finished: 28/5/2025
The World and You by fleshtechnique
The World and Youby fleshtechnique
Eugene, a man burdened by a troubled past and lingering trauma, receives an invitation from his friends to join a winter mountain hike - an attempt to rekindle old memor...
THE BLEAK SKY by Egavas_Etrom
THE BLEAK SKYby Egavas_Etrom
She escaped the storm of her home-only to find it waiting in the sky. Mara Ellison has spent her entire life fighting to survive. The eldest in a fractured, poverty-stri...
Beyond Starboard 10 by JcNollen
Beyond Starboard 10by JC Nollen
Emily Reyes has spent her life preparing for the stars. But when a routine research mission aboard Delta 18 takes a sudden, unexplainable turn, she and her commanding of...
The Waters by RavyWillow
The Watersby Raven Willow
The beginning of poems that have been dubbed as The Waters, everything within should be taken however it is perceived.
Wasteland of Manna by Yyyelgry
Wasteland of Mannaby Y G
Mana no longer gives strength. It takes life. When magic went out of control, the world was consumed by a crystalline plague. All living things are now statues of glitte...
The Future Is Now (And Why We Probably Should Be Afraid) by HarryPotter0391
The Future Is Now (And Why We Prob...by Dos29
A book on how the future is approaching and looking bleak.
The Faceless Gate: A Dark Fantasy Short Story by CrimsonLasor
The Faceless Gate: A Dark Fantasy...by CrimsonLasor
The Door stands at the End of All Things. Only those who do not return have seen past it's grace. Four souls remain. The last embers of a dead existence. Aedric the Holl...
The Final City by Hazy_0832
The Final Cityby Hazy_0832
A one-shot short story born from a dream I've had-refined, shaped, and put to paper. A glimpse into a world I've lived through, in a way, yet one that exists only for a...
The Ember in the Ashes by abuee146
The Ember in the Ashesby Muhammad Abu Bakar
In the unforgiving realm of Nordland, two shattered souls navigate a world steeped in loss and winter's wrath. Elara, a young woman whose idyllic village is ravaged by m...
Jordie Wrenner by WriterWhoRarelyWrite
Jordie Wrennerby WriterWhoRarelyWrites
Jordie Wrenner walks the streets of New York while being drowned in the chaotic swell of his mind. With madness enchroaching on him, will he snap? Or will he overcome th...
Black Lung Shadows by Kmoosethebookman
Black Lung Shadowsby Keldon Stevers
A story about a coal mine, and a story about true fear and terror.
The Tolling Bell (Male reader X Squad Captain) by ChrisReiniger
The Tolling Bell (Male reader X Sq...by Shadow Nexus
After the Quincy assault, a special squad was formed, Squad 14. They are tasked with the impossible, to find a way to kill the immortal.
The Dead God by User55639982
The Dead Godby Maximilian Birkl
Collected ramblings of a mad man
Pathetic  by SHADIKALY
Pathetic by Chirstopher.W
This story is inspired from movies such as Fight Club and Taxi driver, and is inspired from a book, search of lost time. Go back to your high-school years as you follow...