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All sci-fi is welcome. Peek inside to nominate your favorite stories and writers...
All sci-fi is welcome. Peek inside to nominate your favorite stories and writers...
M., a college sophomore, is haunted by the events of a year ago that ended another girl's life. In an attempt to clear her conscience, she writes her confession down in a battered notebook addressed to a stranger. This search for redemption is far more painful than she ever imagined, and she struggles to cope with her...
Jonah is helpless after a tragic accident leaves his best friend, Scott, comatose. Lost and alone, he is left to contemplate the limbo between life and death and the consequences of circumstance. Though Jonah is losing hope for Scott's recovery, he must make decisions that have the potential to massively impact both t...
Currently nominated for two major Australian literature awards. Sometimes, it's impossible to get home, especially if home is not where you think it is. Aboriginal urbanite Billy doesn't know much about his heritage and he's quite content to let it stay that way. One late night out changes all that. After being maroon...
Maria Garcia takes control of her own destiny. This is a 499-word entry in The Handmaid's Tale competition hosted by the Hulu profile.
A collection of short stories and contest entries. [cover by MoreThanThis- | past cover by rainbowbrook]
What if everyone, everywhere, could use magic? What if magic, as a weapon, or healing force, was normal for all? What if there was a magical, mind-bending Demon whose only reason to exist was to kill everyone, everywhere? What if every animal in the World had been warped by the Demon into a weapon, that atta...
A cellphone novel about post-life crisis. ☨ A nebbish Filipino vampire reconsiders his (post-)life choices after a fun but stressful dalliance with a party girl. ☨ RIYL: What We Do In The Shadows, Phonogram, Being Human, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies. ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ Abby Goldsmith is the author of an epic dark sci-fi fantasy series published b...
WATTY 2016 WINNER of the HQ Love Award! Strange Yarns is a ball of tangled tales. Twisted, knotted, and intertwined. Like Tales of the Crypt, the Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. Strange Yarns is not just a collection of ghastly tales, these are yarns, and yarns are sewed together. Follow the yarns and see the gra...
Each week, a new su-SPEC-t author will be interviewed. These are not the typical questions consisting of: "Where do your ideas come from?" or "What did you have for lunch?" We delve deeper, like "What are ya gonna have for lunch tomorrow?" Add to the questions and general craziness via the comments. We are: @Other...
In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar cof...
It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire.
a live collection of short stories "as they happen" here on Wattpad, beginning with the title track which owes its meager existence to @NicoleCandySLV