by Maple Vermillion
A city is only as complex as its inhabitants, all of them leave a mark upon it, regardless of how grand or minuscule it may be. An artist, desperately fighting their way through the dangerous plaster of an identity they never wished for. A family torn apart by the same shared craft that once glued them together. A runaway hiding within the confines of what he once called his home They all are but a single kernel of dust within the sandstorm that is the city of Port Durlington. This is an anthology/compilation with every story (hopefully) consisting of 6 chapters each.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
19%
Two or more lists
12%
Likely threshold order: Short Story → Contemporary → Drama → Main.
Leading bundle: Short Story (6%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#7573 of 12,216 · 7523 below RS #50
By genre
beats 25% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 20% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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