Interesting Stories
12 stories
Welltower: First Run by lesteryocum
Welltower: First Run
lesteryocum
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  • Parts 32
Long ago, the Founders built the sanctuary city called Welltower to save mankind from a global inferno of poisonous gases and mutated beasts. Now over two miles high, the fortified structure stands over the burning landscape like a colossus: unbreakable, impenetrable, and unyielding. But after hundreds of years the sanctuary has become a prison, its residents corrupted into beasts of a different kind: humans in the last stages of social decay. Young Kaehl will travel the heights and depths of this battleground city, struggling to save his fragile sister from a society edging toward destruction. Along the way he will discover his soul as he uncovers the terrible secrets of the looking-glass world called Welltower.
Straitjacket by izzywriter
Straitjacket
izzywriter
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  • Parts 93
Sixteen-year-old Sage Greene was locked in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane after murdering nearly 200 civilians. It isn't her, though - it's the voices. There are two sides to Sage: the normal, self-conscious teenager, and the Voice lurking inside her head, the one that forced her to strike out and kill. Now, both parts of Sage are being sent into space, destined for a new rehabilitation program upon Mars, with a group of the most dangerous teenagers in America. Before they can reach the red planet, however, they are abducted by a strange alien race and taken away from their spaceship and everything they have ever known to compete in a sadistic set of physical and mental tests nicknamed the Trials. And so far, nobody has survived the Trials. * {Highest ranking: #5 in science fiction as of 9/3/17} [Comment threads contain spoilers at random. You have been warned.] WARNING This is a very dark book that only spirals further down. Murder is discussed and there are slightly graphic scenes.
The Hybrid Trials by MynameisJxL
The Hybrid Trials
MynameisJxL
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  • Parts 9
I am told that contemplating death is a human tendency, so I don't. I wonder if any of the few of them left imagined that their end would be a handful alien invaders and their own cowardice. It's very likely. They know what they are. So do I. I know that I do not have the luxury of imagination or hesitation. I know what pain feels like and how much I can take. I know how to break on the inside. I know how to aim a gun and forget the consequences of pulling the trigger. I know that I am not only a half-human, but half-monster as well. I know I can be a soldier, a new weapon in this war that justified my creation. I know I will do what has to be done. And my life is over in three days if I can't prove it. http://thehybridtrials.weebly.com/
Pentagram - Volume 1: Glass by RandomNumberGod
Pentagram - Volume 1: Glass
RandomNumberGod
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  • Parts 11
- - Available on Kindle! - - When a girl wakes up in 2024, the world is not as she knew it. In the custody of a mysterious, self-proclaimed "school", she grows to find that her vivid hallucinations may be more real than she suspected, but just as otherworldly. Meanwhile, a boy encounters an apprehended serial killer and discovers a conspiracy that runs far and deep. A hunt begins for one Subject GOLD, but as expected, not all is as it appears. The first volume of Pentagram, a science fiction series that asks as many questions as it is asked in turn. PARENTAL ADVISORY: Explicit language
YGGDRASIL : Falling Leaves of the Binary Tree by RandomNumberGod
YGGDRASIL : Falling Leaves of the Binary Tree
RandomNumberGod
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  • Votes 15
  • Parts 5
The world is a simulation. Humanity has no business outside it, so ordinary life continues. Humanity has no business modifying data either, but they have seen fit to do that. Cato Wischard is dead and doesn't remember why. All he knows is that it's something to do with 269,568 materials personified into superhumans. You know, perfectly normal stuff.
STORY REMOVED: I, Leviathan  by mackenzieseidel
STORY REMOVED: I, Leviathan
mackenzieseidel
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  • Parts 1
The Sleepers | The Cave of Wonders: Book 1 by mchawkinsauthor
The Sleepers | The Cave of Wonders: Book 1
mchawkinsauthor
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  • Parts 109
Twelve-year-old Carmen has a secret: she can talk to her cat Grim. But the powerful Brotherhood has banned pets, and the penalty is death. Ward is the most wanted boy in the world. The only thing standing between him and the hangman's noose is master criminal Saint Nick. In exchange for Nick's protection, Ward must find the long-lost horn called the Oliphant, said to have the power to wake legendary beings known as the Sleepers, whom Nick believes can aid him in his guerilla war against the Brotherhood. This leads Ward to Carmen, whose family has a long and mysterious association with the Oliphant. Ward and Carmen are soon hot on the trail of the horn, but the Brotherhood are closing in on Carmen's family. Ward and Carmen realise that waking the Sleepers may be the only thing that can save Carmen's parents from certain death. If only they knew how. FOR READERS WHO LIKED Scarlett & Browne - Jonathan Stroud Fly By Night - Frances Hardinge His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Mad As A Hatter (Completed 2015) [WATTY AWARD WINNER *Featured Story*] by 3pointt14
Mad As A Hatter (Completed 2015) [WATTY AWARD WINNER *Featured Story*]
3pointt14
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  • Parts 40
Madness can only be written in blood. //#1 in Horror, #1 in Action, #34 in Humour and WATTY AWARD WINNER: One of the Most Addictive Stories of 2014 and Featured Story//A Horror Comedy by 8tracks// You can't spell 'manslaughter' without 'laughter'. An adventure in which she takes great pleasure in seeing a whole lot of blood. CAUTION: Contains sick humour and terrifying insanity. Thus, no lighthearted readers allowed. // Are you ready? Because "some say to survive, you have to be Mad As A Hatter." Cover by @xHeyItsAnnax amazing trailer by @carpe-di3m
Ask Amy  ✔ by TahliePurvis
Ask Amy ✔
TahliePurvis
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  • Parts 64
BLACK MIRROR meets PRETTY LITTLE LIARS in this multimedia thriller where an anonymous advice website gets hacked and the dark origins of the site start to come to light. (shortlisted for the 2017 wattys, #1 in mystery/thriller)
Queen of Thieves by Toxic_Wonderland
Queen of Thieves
Toxic_Wonderland
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  • Parts 61
A tale in which a thief with a double life grudgingly becomes a hero. ➳ Liana Mason has a life anyone would envy. Nobody suspects that the once orphaned girl grew up to be the city's notorious vigilante. She has been fine walking on the edge of morality for much of her life, but when an assassin arrives in her city she's forced to play a role she never imagined she'd choose: hero. A Robin Hood retelling. Trigger Warning: This contains themes that may be triggering for some readers (violence, sexual assault, etc). Cover designed by Ray Gardener