You can now find this book in paperback and kindle formats (with corrections and enhancements) on my website https://indigoleomax.com! The Pride is a quiet faction dedicated to protecting anthros wherever they are hunted. Their newest asset, a pirate frigate stolen from the Naraka during a covert operation near the Kuiper Belt and renamed The Pride's Claw, now returns to Earth with one mission: recruit a crew willing to risk everything for a chance at survival. Earth is breaking. Storms, quakes, and eruptions strike without pattern as an unexplained phenomenon tears the planet apart from within. Millions are dead. Science has no answers. For anthros, safety is rapidly disappearing. Human extremists demand their eradication. Diggercorp, the corporation responsible for creating them, remains silent. Across collapsing cities and fracturing borders, runaways and outcasts begin to hear rumors of a ship offering escape. Some seek refuge. Some seek purpose. All of them carry secrets that could decide the future of their kind. Survival now is not only about outrunning destruction. It is about identity. It is about choosing who you stand with when the world decides who is worthy of existence. The Pride's Claw offers one final possibility. A future, if they can claim it.

Science fiction short stories *** Warning: Some of these stories include suicide and bullying. Please use your judgement. *** Stories include Echos: A high school basketball player and his girlfriend trapped in a time loop where one of them dies. Scavenger Hunt: Lily, a recent college graduate, is a player of the phone app Scavenger Hunt which gives prizes and money to players who complete a task. She's one task short of having enough points to reach her goal of 5,000 points and cashing out. But the app is not what it seems and Lily's final Scavenger Task might be her last. Door 1203A: A billionaire buys a company that has invented a time machine so he can visit his college girlfriend. Level Up: A story about a gaming company researching AI learns that real life and gaming life have more in common than they ever knew Let me know what you think!

Box is a science fiction story set in the near future, blending cyberpunk and mystery elements. At a high-tech border station, Box, a unique AI, assists Lieutenant-Colonel Aydin Cain in investigating a drug smuggling operation. As Box evolves beyond its original programming, it becomes crucial to the investigation, testing the boundaries of AI and human collaboration in a world of crime and suspense

🥇 1st Place Best Antagonist Winner of the 2022 Brine Awards 🥈2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Writer Appreciation Awards 🥈 2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Lotus Awards 🥈 2nd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Phoenix Awards 🥉 3rd Place Sci-Fi Winner of the 2022 Brine Awards 🥈 2nd Place Best Epilogue of the 2022 Auctor Award 🥉 3rd Place Best Fight Winner of the 2022 Auctor Award ------------------------------ In 2056, SCOPE is a legendary virtual reality game played all over the world in underground arenas. One of these devoted gamers is Eniola Adeyemi, a clever San Francisco teen keeping her gaming career with her SCOPE team Rogue an enormous secret. When the chance comes to prove herself and her gaming career to her Nigerian parents and the gaming world, she leaps at the chance to go to Los Angeles to compete with her friends in the SCOPE Championships, a 10-day competition inside the massive and immersive VR universe. However, something deep lurks inside the SCOPE and the mysterious hacker and vigilant Paradox might be behind it. When they further investigate and get pulled deeper by new daunting discoveries, Eniola and her teammates are now reluctantly held down with a new challenge to fight and take them down.

A star-faring religious cult has created an army of robotic zealots designed to follow holy scripture. As the robotic menace spreads across the galaxy, it takes prisoners to be 'excommunicated': hooked into a neural simulation of eternal torment. Captain Rolland Barron leads the Sol Federation Starship Excalibur on a diplomatic mission. Cassia LaCroix is a wormhole hunter, earning a living scouring the galaxy for valuable tunnels through space-time. Prince Zoojin, a psychic alien from a distant galaxy, must prove himself worthy of the throne of Paxis Prime. The paths of these characters converge as they pursue their own motives, leading them towards the mechanical legion that is sweeping across the galaxy. COVER BY: rentachi AUTHOR'S NOTE: this is an early draft of the novel. I am very grateful for your readership and your feedback, which I have taken into consideration for a major rewrite. The new novel is completely different. If you liked the book, then please look forward to the release of the finished novel.

Aviva Arlington has never seen the world the way everyone else does, but she's always been very content hiding behind half-inch thick frames. She was raised to ignore her abilities and channel her energy elsewhere, but one day she has to make a life-altering choice, she can continue to ignore her abilities, or she can use her talents to help everyone around her before things continue their violent spiral out of control. Follow Aviva Arlington on her adventure navigating school, her two new CEO best friends, and being a metahuman. *Book One of the Mavericks Series ** Faith (Book Two) Is the sequel and is posted to completion *** Aegis (Book Three) Is posted to completion *** Influx (Book Four) Is posted to completion *** Winters (Book Five) Is posted to completion Highest Rankings: SummerZodiacAwards 2020 Sci-Fi: FIRST PLACE MoonStone Awards 2020 Sci-Fi: THIRD PLACE # 1 in science out of 32.2K stories # 1in Lesbian out of 89.6K stories #12 in superhero out of 36.4k # 10 in science fiction out of 93.3K stories #12 in GirlXGirl out of 76.9k stories

Werewolves, Cryptids and Night Terrors By Cami Lee Serena A collection of short stories about Werewolves, Cryptids and Sea Monsters. Run As A Beast- A father takes his children to the doctor to receive their final vaccination against their BEAST. And Then There Was One- During the devastating CZU Lightning fire of 2021, a CalFire crew cutting a fire line in the dense forests of the Santa Cruz mountains fight for their lives against the Dark Watchers and their allies, the Dark Elves. Dear Krampus- A girl writes a letter to Krampus hoping he'll pay the boys who bully her a visit this year. Run- In a fishing village, a father and his son must undertake a right of passage together and face the sea monster that plagues their people.

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Don't have Sex in Texas and other Stories have sex! Twists! Murders! Cheaters! Lovers! Love Found and Love Lost. Plus a little skinny dipping? Why not? Go crazy! I'll post a new story each week. If you like it, I hope you let me know! Short stories of betrayal, heartbreak and love. Stories Include: Don't have Sex in Texas: A college graduate travels to Texas and finds out. (Near and dear to my heart. Let me know what you think!) None of that Happened The Night We Met: A woman on a starship finds then loses her true love. (Ever meet someone and wish the night had gone differently????) A Roll of the Die- A twenty-sided gaming die bought from a comic book ad may have a dark and deadly past when a teenager's secret romance is discovered playing Truth or Dare. The Shopkeeper: A man goes lingerie shopping. (Every girl loves a little silk and lace. Am I right or am I right?) A new story each week (or so) Hope you like them! Covers and images generated by Google AI. I love them! What do you think? That punk rock girl LOL.

A collection of short stories written for the 2024 Spec-Fic Smackdown.