R.Kain's Fantasy Stories
![The second story in the Wands and Vials series is now on sale!
Flames danced as the incantation left the witch’s lips. Her heart was set ablaze and the spell surged forth into a wild fire that consumed all despair and desperation. What started as a normal day of work, school, romance, and detention ended with Alice Pyralis venturing into the forest where predators and monsters of all kinds lie and wait, racing to save a classmate that she would like nothing better than to fry herself.This action-adventure fantasy novelette sequel to Wands and Vials: An Alchemist Sets Out contains over [11,000+words] and follows two days in the life of Alice Pyralis, a witch and student at the magical academy of Amadeus Magica in the world of Trimagus. Included is a Bonus Excerpt from another work of the author.
Get it on sale at your online retailers for $1.99!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/d975103f8a83d21b9a5a8d68131c1c82/tumblr_mmhvt6AWDA1rx8m89o1_1280.jpg)
The second story in the Wands and Vials series is now on sale!
Flames danced as the incantation left the witch’s lips. Her heart was set ablaze and the spell surged forth into a wild fire that consumed all despair and desperation. What started as a normal day of work, school, romance, and detention ended with Alice Pyralis venturing into the forest where predators and monsters of all kinds lie and wait, racing to save a classmate that she would like nothing better than to fry herself.
This action-adventure fantasy novelette sequel to Wands and Vials: An Alchemist Sets Out contains over [11,000+words] and follows two days in the life of Alice Pyralis, a witch and student at the magical academy of Amadeus Magica in the world of Trimagus. Included is a Bonus Excerpt from another work of the author.
![Crestfallen is now on sale and you can get the first story in the series at smashwords for free.
Summary: Sometimes you did what you had to in order to survive in a world where superheroes and villains thrived. By day Joshua was a high-school student running games on classmates. By night he was a masked thief that robbed from criminal underbelly of Nightingale City with the help underfunded genius willing to look the other way.
He wasn’t an overrated hero or crazed villain. Just a nameless and unknown thief looking out for himself and a few others by playing a dangerous game. But when a crime boss went wild and threatened one of his own, he took on a name: Crestfallen.
Now he has a covert operations team after him, one of their members being a classmate named Clare and holds powers of her own. And her assignment is to catch him and bring him in for what he stole, before the secrets he’s learned changes the world.
The first part of the Masked Thief Arc and the first entry of the Crestfallen Series, this novelette contains over [14,000 words] and a bonus excerpt from Flux Zone.
Smashwords Link: Here
Promotional price: $0.00Coupon Code: DQ94GExpires: March 25, 2013](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4e0e319ccca84b60a5b4aa26b4edbd8f/tumblr_mk3jl9VYmI1rx8m89o1_1280.jpg)
Crestfallen is now on sale and you can get the first story in the series at smashwords for free.
Summary: Sometimes you did what you had to in order to survive in a world where superheroes and villains thrived. By day Joshua was a high-school student running games on classmates. By night he was a masked thief that robbed from criminal underbelly of Nightingale City with the help underfunded genius willing to look the other way.
He wasn’t an overrated hero or crazed villain. Just a nameless and unknown thief looking out for himself and a few others by playing a dangerous game. But when a crime boss went wild and threatened one of his own, he took on a name: Crestfallen.
Now he has a covert operations team after him, one of their members being a classmate named Clare and holds powers of her own. And her assignment is to catch him and bring him in for what he stole, before the secrets he’s learned changes the world.
The first part of the Masked Thief Arc and the first entry of the Crestfallen Series, this novelette contains over [14,000 words] and a bonus excerpt from Flux Zone.
Smashwords Link: Here
Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: DQ94G
Expires: March 25, 2013
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Apex: The Infection is now available on Smashwords and Amazon, with Kobo and Barnes and Noble coming soon, and you can get it free by reading on.
Summary: That night I changed. Like serpentine tendrils of unholy light, the meteor shower carried a sinister secret and I was infected, my humanity peeled away from my body as I was reshaped into a beast that had to devour others to survive. I had become an apex—an extraterrestrial predator.
Cursed with a hunger that would never fade and struggling to maintain my humanity, I now live within the ruined confines of a city prowling with others like me. This is my tale of how it all began. The Apex Chronicles have only just begun.
This [5,800 word] short story is the prelude of the Apex Chronicles series by R.Kain, an action-adventure, sci-fi story centered on how those who have become apexes survive in the unforgiving environment they’ve been sealed inside.
Smashwords
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Apex: The Infection is now available on Smashwords and Amazon, with Kobo and Barnes and Noble coming soon, and you can get it free by reading on.
Summary: That night I changed. Like serpentine tendrils of unholy light, the meteor shower carried a sinister secret and I was infected, my humanity peeled away from my body as I was reshaped into a beast that had to devour others to survive. I had become an apex—an extraterrestrial predator.
Cursed with a hunger that would never fade and struggling to maintain my humanity, I now live within the ruined confines of a city prowling with others like me. This is my tale of how it all began. The Apex Chronicles have only just begun.
This [5,800 word] short story is the prelude of the Apex Chronicles series by R.Kain, an action-adventure, sci-fi story centered on how those who have become apexes survive in the unforgiving environment they’ve been sealed inside.
Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: WP77Y
Expires: February 7, 2013
Apex: The Infection is now available on Smashwords and Amazon, with Kobo and Barnes and Noble coming soon, and you can get it free by reading on.
Summary: That night I changed. Like serpentine tendrils of unholy light, the meteor shower carried a sinister secret and I was infected, my humanity peeled away from my body as I was reshaped into a beast that had to devour others to survive. I had become an apex—an extraterrestrial predator.
Cursed with a hunger that would never fade and struggling to maintain my humanity, I now live within the ruined confines of a city prowling with others like me. This is my tale of how it all began. The Apex Chronicles have only just begun.
This [5,800 word] short story is the prelude of the Apex Chronicles series by R.Kain, an action-adventure, sci-fi story centered on how those who have become apexes survive in the unforgiving environment they’ve been sealed inside.
Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: WP77Y
Expires: February 7, 2013
![Get Flux Zone (Chasing Andros) for free at Smashwords.
Summary:
In a world of super heroes and villains, having superpowers doesn’t necessarily make you a hero or villain. Sometimes you might save a damsel-in-distress on a whim. Other times you might rob a drug dealer blind and fleece an unsuspecting mark for cash. In my case, I’m simply out for revenge against Doctor Andros, a death dealer to villains everywhere, after escaping being experimented on for three years and developing powers of my own.
But I’m not alone. Several others gained abilities of their own and working alongside a team, we have to try and collect the rest of our allies before Andros gets his hands on them first. And we have to do it all without drawing the eyes of the Hero Coalition or other villains who’d love to find out just what makes us special.
This exciting action-adventure novella is over [27,700 words] and serves as the first entry into the Chasing Andros series.
Promotional price: $0.00Coupon Code: VL99AExpires: February 1, 2013](http://24.media.tumblr.com/f04bc00e8808b36cb66e2c91bc4fb129/tumblr_mhb349zurH1rx8m89o1_1280.jpg)
Get Flux Zone (Chasing Andros) for free at Smashwords.
Summary:
In a world of super heroes and villains, having superpowers doesn’t necessarily make you a hero or villain. Sometimes you might save a damsel-in-distress on a whim. Other times you might rob a drug dealer blind and fleece an unsuspecting mark for cash. In my case, I’m simply out for revenge against Doctor Andros, a death dealer to villains everywhere, after escaping being experimented on for three years and developing powers of my own.
But I’m not alone. Several others gained abilities of their own and working alongside a team, we have to try and collect the rest of our allies before Andros gets his hands on them first. And we have to do it all without drawing the eyes of the Hero Coalition or other villains who’d love to find out just what makes us special.
This exciting action-adventure novella is over [27,700 words] and serves as the first entry into the Chasing Andros series.
- Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: VL99A
Expires: February 1, 2013
This is the unedited cover for an upcoming superhero fiction story that I’m writing. The plot will center around a teenager who was kidnapped and experimented on for years and given super powers, only to escape with the help of the original group of test subjects.
But the villain behind the scenes won’t let this go and what becomes a game of cat-and-mouse will have heart-wrenching consequences. Not to mention that the superheroes and supervillains will all want to capture him for their own purposes, leaving his allies being the few other escapees who are scattered across the country.
I’m still working on the name though.
Also, I’ve got a facebook Author’s Page now. Please check it out and “Like” it to keep up with even more updates: Here.
It’s the first day of 2013 and a whole new year of self-publishing to go through. In all honesty, I’m trying to remember what happened to 2012 given how short-lapsed my memory is, but one thing I can safely say is that I learned a lot and intend have my stories reach a greater and wider audience this year if I can help it.
To that end, I’m giving away two of my stories if anyone wants to read them:
Arcane Advent Volume I: The Mage, The Girl, and The Ruined City (Free)
Summary: The moon was blood red. The elements raged. The demon stirred. The people died. Predators took to the streets, painting the asphalt with viscera of the innocent and the guilty, the young and the old alike to fuel a revival and in the aftermath only two remained.
The Mage who wielded the mystic arts of Norse runes. Carrying the souls of the fallen on his back, his obsidian blade would cleave through the voracious monsters for a resolution to the end of the nightmare. The Girl who could only watch as he bled for her, the sole soul that remained unconsumed. The Ruined City is where it began and ended, as the story of magick and adventure began.
This novella-length story is the first in the Arcane Advent series—a chronicle of dark fantasy tales where magick and mages do battle in the current age.
Neverliese: Hell’s Contract (Free)
Summary: He lost everything to one sorcerer. His daughter, his home, everything was all swept away in a single moment never to return. All he was left with was one desire: Revenge.
But revenge is only for those with power. So to obtain it he sold his flesh to demons of Hell itself and his sanity to the Mad Jester. Now…now he could summon dark forces capable of granting him his long awaited revenge.
The only question was would he fall into madness first?
This [9000+ word] Novelette is the first in the Neverliese series.
Get them free at the links below:
Wands & Vials: An Alchemist Sets Out can now be downloaded for free on Smashwords.
Summary: Alchemy has declined in the last few centuries in the world of Trimagus, where mystic creatures, magic using humans, and monster lived in conflict and calm. Kowler Freslight is a young alchemist with a sylphid named Aeria at his service, attending Amadeus Magica academy. In a place where highborn magi, witches, and wizards reign supreme, his best and possibly only friend is cherry-haired witch with no magical roots and an affinity towards fire named Alice Pyralis.
What starts as an ordinary day of being pestered for an illegal love potion ends with the alchemist doing what he has to in order to ensure the safety of his friend. If that meant breaking the rules, facing down magic-resistant trolls, and being expelled, so be it. Some things are worth the cost.
This exciting action-adventure fantasy novelette can be found on Smashwords and purchased for free using the checkout code below. Just remember spread the word and leave a review if you enjoy it:
Promotional Price: $0.00
Coupon Code: CG43M
Expires: January 1, 2013
Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/237764?ref=rkain
Confessions of a D-List Supervillan by Jim Bernheimer is a story about
Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal is a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his journey from being a bad guy to being a slightly less bad guy.
The story starts in the middle of an mind-control apocalypse scenario and from then on only gets better and better as the story progresses. Not only are we treated to an in-depth look into the mind of a criminal who does what he has to in order to make ends meet, we watch his interactions, his joys, his pains, and his life.
Plot: A D-List villain in a mechanical battle suit is one of the last people on the planet not under the mind-control of invasive bugs that make Yeerks look tame and ends up capturing one of the mightiest superheroes named Aphrodite. Freeing her from the mind-control gives them a fighting chance to turn others back to normal and so they begin their quest to do so…and that’s only a third of the story, which gets better from there.
Grammar: Well done.
Descriptions: The details paid to describing the scenarios were absolutely satisfactory without going into explicit territory.
Setting: The setting covered portrayed how things were a nightmare in the wake of everything that went on and the restructuring of the world afterwards. We see the world as Cal sees it, no sugar coating it at all.
Final Note: Overall, it ends on a good note with room for an expansion should the author choose to, but at the same time grants you a sense of closure.
Review: 5/5
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Wands & Vials: An Alchemist Sets Out is on sale!
Summary: Alchemy has declined in the last few centuries in the world of Trimagus, where mystic creatures, magic using humans, and monster lived in conflict and calm. Kowler Freslight is a young alchemist with a sylphid named Aeria at his service, attending Amadeus Magica academy. In a place where highborn magi, witches, and wizards reign supreme, his best and possibly only friend is cherry-haired witch with no magical roots and an affinity towards fire named Alice Pyralis.
What starts as an ordinary day of being pestered for an illegal love potion ends with the alchemist doing what he has to in order to ensure the safety of his friend. If that meant breaking the rules, facing down magic-resistant trolls, and being expelled, so be it. Some things are worth the cost.
