by GogaGogbe
At 28, Kali has lost his job, his dreams, and almost everything else. With only $13 left, he receives a mysterious invitation to an impossible job interview. The job is simple: become a Boundary Detective and protect the border between two worlds. But in a world he never knew existed, Kali may finally have a purpose—or discover that he belongs to neither side.
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, 10:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 10:48 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
24%
Two or more lists
15%
Likely threshold order: Short Story → Mystery → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery + Short Story (11%).
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
#735 of 12,211 · 685 below RS #50
By genre
beats 78% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 30% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
