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LanternZ.C. Chaos
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
Experimental Stories for someone who doesn't mind taking chances
FantasyClockpunk
117,337published words across 2 Lantern stories
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About the author
I write experimental stories. This includes trying to write novels without using names for the characters or trying out a new genre that I'm uncomfortable with.
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Stories by Z.C. Chaos
Fantasy
Arbiter of Stars
A Red Witch yearned to fly in the skies and above the dark forest and its secrets. The terror of the Hunters who burned her Grandmother and fellow Witches keeps her feet firmly planted on the ground.
When a Hunter is eaten by a Siren and his skull returned to the Witch, then his brother, a Werewolf, shows up on her step, the Red Witch's life is turned upside down.
Something is disturbing the creatures of the forest. A Death Stalker calls for the Red Witch, forcing the three of them to work together. They must put aside their hatred, prejudice, and fear of each other to find out what is causing the unnatural death of the forest.
Maybe they will see just how wrong they were about one another and discover a dark secret that started the Witch Hunts.
Fantasy, Clockpunk
Masks and Master Keys
Yuriena is the Princess, Captain, and Engineer of the Xailogarian empire.
After the General of the Xailogary army commits treason by killing the royal family, she runs to the magical Kingdom of Vidia.
Renamed and among the lowest caste, she finds Intelligence work in Vidia.
When Xailogary attacks Vidia, she must find where her loyalties lie: with the clockwork machines of Xailogary or the magic of Vidia.
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Arbiter of Stars
A Red Witch yearned to fly in the skies and above the dark forest and its secrets. The terror of the Hunters who burned her Grandmother and fellow Witches keeps her feet firmly planted on the ground.
When a Hunter is eaten by a Siren and his skull returned to the Witch, then his brother, a Werewolf, shows up on her step, the Red Witch's life is turned upside down.
Something is disturbing the creatures of the forest. A Death Stalker calls for the Red Witch, forcing the three of them to work together. They must put aside their hatred, prejudice, and fear of each other to find out what is causing the unnatural death of the forest.
Maybe they will see just how wrong they were about one another and discover a dark secret that started the Witch Hunts.
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