** This is the current version ** BTS Soulmate AU In this alternate reality, meeting your soulmate activates a soul bond that is identical for both soulmates. These soul bonds can either be temporary, permanent, or only activated in the presence of your soulmate. Astra Hill has always looked up to her parents. They shared a light bond where they glowed as bright as the sun the first time they met. Of course, since it was only a temporary bond, she had only heard the stories. Both of them grew up in the same place, a small city in Canada, and attended the same school for years. It wasn't until a school trip to Korea did they happen to touch and reveal their bond. Now, it was a special place for the two of them. On a family vacation to Seoul, South Korea, 20 year old Astra doesn't expect anything interesting to happen. Yet, when her mom gets her and her sister a ticket to a BTS concert, the last thing she was expecting was to come face to face with the one and only Kim Namjoon. What's more than that, but the fact that the two of them are soulmates and they have one of the most rare bonds in the world. A bond that could be worth a lot of money to a lot of dangerous people. Story begins in June 2018

Ferelith Vance - aka 'Ms Feathers' ended her international couture fashion design career and closed up shop at the age of 28. She was tired. Tired being alone in a world full of fated soulmates. Tired of designing high-end burlesque couture for petty little starlets. Tired of hiding behind her business persona. She was tired of bashing her heart up against a cage of loss, missing those long gone. She was just... tired. So when her best friend set her up with an impromptu OE (overseas experience) that every good Australian young adult needs to experience once in their lifetime, she didn't say no. I mean, touring with a Kpop band as their seamstress while they toured Canada and America for six weeks, what could go wrong? Everything apparently. Especially when she started soul flickering into her soulmates. Very familiar soulmates. This is a SLOW BURN original character (OC) romance. Be patient when reading. First published in December 2025, set in an AU (Alternative Universe) where soulmates are a normal part of society, and finding yours is the ultimate experience. This is a new BTS fanfiction with an OC. I do not own anything to do with BTS, Hybe or other companies mentioned in the story, but most of the other characters are my own. This book is for mature audiences, involves polyrelationships, light smut and lots of swearing. You have been warned.

The woman came from the other alternate world where the world was covered with a disease that caused the human to became zombies. Died from being betrayed, she struggles to trust people. Reincarnated as the Duke's daughter Margarita Frost. Laced with the mischief and simple mindedness and pettiness of her enemies. She desires to return the 'favor' they once given her and make them all feel what suffering really feels like. But the journey is not as cold as the one from her past life. She now has people to trust and rely on. Even someone to love? ~~My original work~~

Born into slavery as nothing better than a Subhuman, unable to speak, unable to read or write and unallowed to learn such things, she works hard for her master, the Divine Magician. Then one day, as she's trying to continue her hard work, Silent Eden makes a discovery that could change the way she views the entire world. Zanthius has lived on his own since the death of his mother. As an Islander, he knows that the land he lives on is sacred, and that no Mainlanders are to step foot on the island. So when he finds the strange girl in the ruins of the Island, he doesn't know what to do. She doesn't speak the language--She doesn't speak at all! To find out where she comes from and to send her back are Zanthius' duties to his people. But is it worth it?

ONCE A CHILD SOLDIER OF THE FEMALE DOMINION, SACET LEFT THAT LIFE BEHIND LONG AGO... Now free from the brainwashing, Sacet would rather stay on the move with her adopted brother, Eno, doing her best to forget her past. When super-powered soldiers will stop at nothing to see them both caught, it becomes clear they won't be able to run forever. As the past threatens to enslave them, Sacet faces a grave choice... Will she risk both their lives to fight back? Or serve her old masters once more to keep Eno safe? - - - "Packed to the brim with danger and adventure, Sacet is the next great dystopian protagonist fighting systemic corruption. An amazing sci-fi setting and a well-established world made for a great read!" Claire, Readalot reviewer - - - A FEATURED STORY - Highest Rank #16

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(Highest rank #12 in sci-fi). When a dangerous ancient artifact hidden by the Egyptian gods activates after millennia, the long-dormant powers of a half-alien boy come alive just in time to save the Earth. But he never imagined winning over a girl would be harder than saving the world. And he may not even do that. THE LONG VERSION: Human life was hard enough for 17-year-old Gil Scott when his father suddenly disappeared from a temple dig. But when the half-alien teen uncovers a conspiracy surrounding the artifact his human dad was hunting, Gil must use his alien powers to track it down before it destroys the planet he calls home. With the help of a beautiful Oasen-human hybrid whose drive to succeed masks her private pain, Gil borrows his mom's spaceship, following the same clues across Egypt as his father. The teens battle strange weather phenomena and rising global panic as they race through the suffocating heat of the desert, through deluged ancient temples, and hidden libraries hiding more than just books. That is until it starts snowing on the Great Sphinx and they unearth a millennial-old message from Ra himself, addressed to Gil, with a choice that will affect everyone's future. Unraveling Ra's remaining clues, they rush to locate the powerful artifact in time. But Ra and the other ancient aliens' thousands-year-old, carefully mapped plan to save the Earth from the Aten has a fatal flaw, and their gamble may cost Gil the only life that will matter to him in the end. And possibly the planet itself. (Cover image: Photo of The Pyramids of Giza from Egypt combined with a Hubble image. Original photographer: Rom Srinivasan, 2005)

DreamMakers, a small portion of the population that can create and manufacture dreams. Humanity can't dream anymore, but with the help of DreamMakers, each night they can vicariously live a dream that they've purchased. Minerva would give anything to live someone else's dream, even just for a night. No one else that she knows can dream, yet she's lucky enough to have horrible nightmares. Trapped in a world of constant turmoil, her re-occuring nightmares plague her as they begin to grow stronger and more vivid. What bothers her the most is that she can't seem to shake the notion that the dreams are somehow more than that.

What happens after we run out of oil? Can our civilization survive without a ready supply of fossil fuels? What are our alternatives, and will we be ready? Energy is a short story that imagines a future where we remained unprepared to change our consumption and our use of energy sources as world population grew, and asks questions about what we might be able to do to avoid such a future. The possibilities it considers are frighteningly realistic, and the questions it asks are ones that affect everything we do.

A collection of short stories by Hugh Howey