Gritty Stories

574 Stories

Hyenas  by b-m-roberts
Hyenas by B. M. Roberts
Power isn't loud, is patient I'm not sure I can call myself a writer. But I've carried this story with me for years. I've rewritten it in my mind a hundred different wa...
God Under His Nails by meatcries
God Under His Nailsby ⠀⠀
He's dirty, he's filthy, he's sprawled on the altar.
The Island  by Judah0429
The Island by Judah
In the final days of World War II, a group of American soldiers stationed in Okinawa find themselves living in an uneasy paradise-sunlight, silence, and nothing to do bu...
Completed
Judah Kuhn's VX-11 by Judah0429
Judah Kuhn's VX-11by Judah
Zone X was supposed to be dead. But something still moves in the ruins. Unit 616 is deployed to clean it. They don't ask questions. They can't. Built to obey, stripped o...
Mercy Street by davidonahue
Mercy Streetby davidonahue
Jonah Graves has seen enough of the city's underbelly to know when a crime scene is a lie. Jack Flynn-a washed-up accountant with bad habits-was found dead in an alley...
Strife by KevinJJCarpenter
Strifeby Kevin J.J. Carpenter
The demon spice has returned. The Guardians are fracturing. And the town of Othilia is beginning to rot. In a forgotten corner of a fading Empire, something ancient stir...
Precarity by Nicholas_Haggard
Precarityby Nicholas Haggard
WIP. A collection of short stories. Primarily dark sci-fi focused on characters struggling to navigate the uncertainness of dystopia, apocalypse, and alien worlds. New S...
Shadows Of The Block by BleuStories6
Shadows Of The Blockby Bleu Stories
In the heart of East Atlanta, where hope flickers dimly behind shadows and sirens, a young boy named Marcus "MJ" Johnson fights to survive the streets that rai...
Completed
Blood on the Water - Gritty Urban Fantasy by DMZiebarth
Blood on the Water - Gritty Urban...by DM Ziebarth
Nash Fuller hunts magic like it's personal-because it is. Cursed with the ability to see through lies, he's spent a decade chasing things that shouldn't exist and trying...
Love Letters to Empty Rooms by Le_Bateleur
Love Letters to Empty Roomsby Heathen Lad
Love Letters to Empty Rooms is a deeply personal collection of poems written in the quiet spaces between heartbreak and healing. I write from the inside of silence-where...
The Cunning by CLHarper
The Cunningby C
Everything changed the night they took her. Ripped from her mundane life, Madison is thrust into the violent world of trafficking, where her only choices are to adapt-or...
Westwood by DanBorowitzki
Westwoodby Daniel Borowitzki
She was dead for five years. Then she returns-barefoot, bloodstained, and broken. Then the bodies start turning up. When sixteen-year-old Kim Westwood disappeared on her...
NO JUSTICE by angel_nnabuife
NO JUSTICEby Angel
Emah Ayirioritse Majemite was a force in the courtroom, a rising legal star in Lagos. When the opportunity to prove herself lands in her lap-a controversial case involvi...
RE-RISE by ani45art
RE-RISEby Ani akaeva stories
Starscream ended up thinking he could have finally gotten everything, with his leadership and abilities. After all, Megatron was quite an obstacle. He thought he finally...
Who Is Sinclair? by eldenwoodchapters
Who Is Sinclair?by The Eldenwood Chapters
Who is Sinclair? Sinclair doesn't know. For three years, he's worked for the Occult Oversight Bureau-solving the cases no one else can, investigating anomalies laced wit...
We Were Stardust Once by rrrick_grimesss
We Were Stardust Onceby wes_ward
They were born from the stars, but the world refuses to let them stay. It has been three years since the Genesis Flares, the solar phenomenon that gave birth to Astrans:...
To Know Truth of Thousand Lies by TeriLovesRainWorld
To Know Truth of Thousand Liesby TeriLovesRainWorld
The slugcat, a shockingly intelligent creature. Its creators, geniuses of extinct renown, yet forgotten to all but the walls that hold their ancient dialects. Yet, more...
RWBY: The Hellspawn (Spawn x Rwby) by AL9662
RWBY: The Hellspawn (Spawn x Rwby)by A.L
Al Simmons a man with everything lost it all in a single second. His life, and with that his love, job... identify. Because of Al corruption the dark god punishes him by...
Celestia's Deity: Echo of Remembrance by starxtrin1ty
Celestia's Deity: Echo of Remembra...by Rixx
Celestia's Deity: Echo of Remembrance aka the Celestia's Deity shitpost project aka a compilation where I write short stories from my AU Celestia's Deity. It might-it wi...
The Hungry Ones by AuthorAvafrace
The Hungry Onesby AuthorAvaFrace
A group of outcast start a club and over the years it grows and evolves into a cryptid study club. Watching scary movies and going ghost hunting is just a normal week fo...