Grumpy / Sunshine Stories

Explore our collection of 94 amazing stories tagged with grumpy / sunshine. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.

What Happened at Storyland

What Happened at Storyland

Author:Evelyn Thorne

For Elara, the dream is always the same: flying over a forgotten fairytale park, a place of rot and decay where silent figures hold a candlelight vigil. When she discovers the park was real, and its closure is a sixty-year-old mystery shrouded in silence, she realizes her dreams are not just dreams. They are memories of a childhood she can't remember. And the monster that was buried at Storyland Park is waking up, calling her back to unearth a truth more horrifying than she could ever imagine.

The Keeper of Blackwood Hollow

The Keeper of Blackwood Hollow

Author:Grimshaw Locke

For fourteen years, Leo has followed two simple rules as a cemetery night guard: lock the gates, and never, ever speak to the things trapped inside. The thousand-dollar-a-night paycheck is worth the terror. But when a new recruit with a dark past arrives and the entities change their tactics from trickery to brute force, Leo discovers the cemetery isn't just a graveyard—it's a prison. And he's not a guard; he's a warden on the brink of a jailbreak that could unleash hell on earth. The silence he's kept for so long might be the one thing he has to break to survive.

The Karma Engine

The Karma Engine

Author:Christina Robertson

After a brutal week of rejections, all struggling artist Ellie wanted was the quiet comfort of a bookstore. Instead, she found her car blocked by an arrogant billionaire in a supercar. But when a mysterious System offers her points for petty revenge, she takes the deal. What starts as a simple parking dispute ignites an obsession in the city's most powerful man. He's determined to find the girl who humiliated him, but discovers she's more than a match. It's a war of wits, wills, and a whole lot of karma.

The Fear Eater's System

The Fear Eater's System

Author:Marvin Jensen

An ordinary college student, Kael, is granted a mystical System that turns fear into power when Halley's Comet awakens his latent abilities. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden magical academy, he must survive a brutal curriculum where nightmares are weapons and failure means death. His unique fear of failure becomes his greatest asset, but also his most dangerous vulnerability. Watched by a beautiful, ruthless instructor, Kael must climb the ranks and unravel the academy's dark secrets before the cosmic horrors they're training to fight consume them all.

The Echo-Seer's Gambit

The Echo-Seer's Gambit

Author:Lydia Thorne

In the grimy Whispering Market, Elara sells fleeting echoes of the past for a few copper coins, her psychic gift a curse that keeps her in poverty. But when the enigmatic Lord Vance, a man forged from shadows and steel, drags her into the glittering, treacherous world of the nobility to solve his brother's murder, her world shatters. He sees her as a tool, she sees him as a cage. But the truth they seek is a conspiracy that could burn their city to ashes, and the dangerous echoes connecting them could be their salvation… or their doom.

The Frost-Bound Arbiter

The Frost-Bound Arbiter

Author:Silas Thorne

In the fog-shrouded city of Veridia, where a magical pact enforces truth, Arbiter Kaelen Vance is a walking lie. Bound to a frost demon that grants him terrifying power, he hunts the city's supernatural underworld. His latest target is Rhys, a shadow-wielding thief trapped by a demonic debt. But when a monstrous third party emerges, seeking an artifact that could shatter the city's very foundation, the cop and the criminal are forced into a fragile alliance. With a demon whispering in his soul and enemies closing in, Kaelen must decide which is more dangerous: the evil he hunts, or the one he holds within.

Aethelgard Archives: The Case of the Fading Phantom

Aethelgard Archives: The Case of the Fading Phantom

Author:Elias Blackwood

In the rain-slicked, gaslit streets of Aethelgard, a city where magic and mortal coexist in a fragile truce, resides Agnes 'Aggie' McPherson. A private investigator with the unique and dangerous ability to read the memories of objects, she runs 'Spectral Analysis,' an agency for cases that go beyond human comprehension. Her world is turned upside down when a desperate, fading ghost walks through her door, claiming he was murdered. With no body, no evidence, and the city's magical authorities declaring the case closed, Aggie must navigate a labyrinth of corrupt nobles, forbidden magic, and ancient secrets to find a killer who can erase a soul from existence.

The Crimson Root

The Crimson Root

Author:Seraphina Mire

A cynical psychic and a skeptical detective are thrown together when young girls vanish from Florida's swamps. But they aren't the only ones hunting the predator. An ancient, floral entity has awakened, planting strange, severed seeds where the girls were taken. It smells of rain and sugar, and it considers the kidnapper a blight to be purged. Now, they must solve the case before this mythical protector's wrath consumes the guilty and the innocent alike in a torrent of supernatural vengeance.

A Recipe for Revenge

A Recipe for Revenge

Author:Rebecca Scott

They called me a corrupting influence. A threat to their perfect daughter. Her father, a man of wealth and prejudice, declared a silent war on me. He thought he could break our friendship by whispering poison in the shadows. He didn't realize I fight my wars in the light. By befriending his sons, charming his wife, and perfecting his favorite cookie recipe, I'd make his entire family mine. This isn't just about survival; it's a meticulously crafted recipe for revenge, served with a smile.

The Mechanic's Mandate

The Mechanic's Mandate

Author:M. E. Vance

Tired of his lazy brothers turning their home into a hazardous junkyard, mechanical engineering student Alex Vance finally snaps. When his youngest brother ignores a final warning, Alex unleashes his unique brand of petty revenge: disassembling the offending bicycle with surgical precision. But this single act of frustration ignites a family war, a challenge, and an unlikely lesson in responsibility. It's not just about a clean entryway anymore—it's about building a new order, piece by piece.

The Concordance of Concrete and Chaos

The Concordance of Concrete and Chaos

Author:Clarence Roberts

Corbin Pierce, a disgraced mage hiding as a community college professor, just wanted a quiet life. But when he leaps off a skyscraper to save a mystical raccoon, he's dragged back into a world of magic and murder. A secret cabal is sacrificing souls to awaken a sleeping god beneath the city streets. Armed with a cryptic System interface and a burgeoning apprentice, Corbin is the only one who can stop them. But to save his city, he may have to sacrifice his own soul.

The Crimson Traitor

The Crimson Traitor

Author:Sebastian Evans

Born into the gilded cage of the Vampire Ascendancy, Elara was destined for a life of cold elegance and cruel power. But when she witnesses the brutal subjugation of the werewolf packs, a fire ignites within her. In a world where bloodlines dictate destiny, she commits the ultimate treason: she chooses the scorned, the feral, the werewolves. Now hunted by her own kind and viewed with suspicion by her new allies, Elara must navigate a treacherous new world where her only guide is a growling Alpha who doesn't know whether to kill her or claim her.