Disaster Stories

When aliens invade, four baristas are forced to become the saviours of the world. Grab your double-shot of java and strap in - it's going to be a bumpy ride! ***** In the Earth's darkest hour, unexpected heroes are stirring... their coffee, that is. Four baristas on a camping trip are under-qualified to save the world from an alien invasion. But thanks to a hologram with no fashion sense, newly developed superpowers and an alien with a guilty conscience, they've landed the job anyway! So grab your double-shot of java, your blueberry muffin and strap in - Hasta barista, baby. [[2018 Wattys winner and twice featured]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Please note this is a sample of the book, which has been published and is available for purchase: Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKFVKQJ Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1644342154

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

In the future, everyone who's bitten by a zombie turns into one... until Diane doesn't. Seven days later, she's facing consequences she never imagined. * * * * * As civilization collapses under a relentless wave of zombies, Diane and her friends take shelter in a military base. However, while she's rescuing another survivor, Diane gets bitten by one of the monsters. She hides it and runs away, knowing she only has days left to live. But she soon discovers she isn't turning into a zombie - she's turning into something else. --------- Excerpt: I looked up and stared. My reflection looked back at me in the mirror of the dark room. My eyes were literally glowing, there was no mistaking it. It was not a reflection of light, or any of the other excuses I had used or others had assumed. They were glowing a light sapphire blue color. It was not a bright glow, but it was definitely a glow. Glowing eyes were not normal. Okay, at this point I had to admit it, I was no longer normal. What was I then? For that, I had no answer [[Word count: 495,000]] Copyright August 2016. All Rights Reserved. Readers may not copy, alter, or steal this story. Fanfictions are allowed to use my *world* and *zombie rules* as long as credit is given. Cover was lovingly made by JimenaVivancoo.

Because some of us fail at love. | WATTPAD PICKS 3/2/18 |

It's April, 1912. Mr. Charles "Charlie" Francis Spring, a humble and hard working young man who is nearing his 19th birthday, is about to embark on a journey onboard the R.M.S. Titanic with his group of friends who all look for a better life in America. Charlie, Tao, and Issac head to the new world carrying little, aside from Issac who couldn't seem to bring enough books with him. His older sister Tori is joining them as well. Charlie's excited to see the new world, but more so to begin anew now that his turbulent childhood was behind him. It was a second chance, a new beginning. On the other side of the English Channel in France, Mr. Nicholas "Nick" Luke Nelson and his mother, along with their dog Nellie, prepare for a holiday to the United States, and they can't possibly wait any longer to tour New York for the first time. Nick had been looking forward to this for months as he viewed it as a long break from his life of assisting his father and older brother with the family business, taking no real interest in it. Having the opportunity to leave it all behind for nearly a month and tour New York City, with two Atlantic crossings surrounding the holiday seemed like the journey of a lifetime for him. It was only more exciting due to the fact that they'd be sailing to New York on the Titanic, the largest and grandest ship in the world. Both Mr. Nelson and Mr. Spring could not wait to see what the future had in store for them. They just had no idea... All characters belong to Alice Oseman, author of the Heartstopper series Warning: Some Strong Language in Some Chapters Images are from Titanic Voyage RPG This story is also available on AO3 under the same name(though it is currently in progress)

If Chaos and Disaster had twins named Sass and Sarcasm. A set of twins who are the unluckiest human beings in the whole wide world just wanted to live a normal life, of course life's a bitch so it said, "Haha...nope." Or UA, along with a certain detective had received the blessing of meeting the two most troublesome human beings in the world. Will they survive? They, as in, everyone, the twins included. *** Alternate Titles: - I blame the Godzilla - Fuck the Godzilla - Sass and Sarcasm reincarnated as twins - My clumsiness is deadly - Godzilla, shades, and klutz - We don't know what to write here so please just read it A collab with @nomekuni

The universe is vast. Endless. It stretches far beyond what eyes can see and minds can grasp. Galaxies hum with life-some ancient, some just beginning. Planets orbit peacefully or burn in chaos. Among them all, Earth spins quietly in the void. A place of color, noise, war, and wonder. Known to many as just another dot in space-but it holds its own stories. And secrets. On this blue world, in the deeper shadows of busy cities and quiet corners, lives a girl named Ines. She walks softly through life, almost invisible. A mystery even to those who live beside her. Quiet. Private. Always tucked behind books, sketch pads, or medical charts. She keeps to herself, whispering prayers to walls that never answer, burying childhood ghosts beneath thick sleeves and long hair. Her life is routine: school, hospital, home. Repeat. But inside her still beats a heart full of untold thoughts and unspoken dreams. It was during one of her hospital stays, when she overheard a conversation between strangers, that she first heard the word Saiyan. At first, she thought it was just a myth-some science fiction tale passed around to entertain or scare. Yet something about it hooked her. The strength, the tragedy, the stars they fell from. She started collecting scraps of information: old books, whispered stories, flickers of aura no one else seemed to notice. Part of her was curious, part of her was hopeful. She's always been the kind of girl who believed in things others didn't. And now, as strange energies stir and fates begin to shift around her, Ines finds herself wondering- Were the Saiyans ever truly just a story? Or has the truth been waiting to find her all along?

(It all started with a nightmare... or perhaps that was the truth.) Jack awakens to the echo of a sorrowful farewell in a shattered world, amidst mysterious entities. It wasn't just a vision; it was the spark that ignited his peaceful life into a series of terrifying hallucinations. With the arrival of Nora, the new student whose eyes hold secrets beyond her years, Jack realizes that their chance encounter was no accident. Nora not only possesses answers but also carries the harbinger of a catastrophe poised to tear apart the fabric of reality. Along with his jovial friend Max and the enigmatic Nora, Jack embarks on a frantic race to collect the ten Power Stones. But in a world where destinies are written in blood, Jack discovers too late that trying to stop the end might be the very path leading to it. Can you prevent the catastrophe... if you are the secret pulling its strings? - I am also publishing this story on Royal Road under the same username StinePale and the same story title.

Max returns home after working abroad, just to rest and start over. But one morning changes everything. What he saw should not have existed in reality. And from that moment on, his life stops being ordinary.

It's been 500 years since the last tsunami. The next one is 300 years overdue. No way it's my fault, right?

The dead hand of history still grips the throat of the present. Three centuries after a meteor shower devastated Earth, humanity is divided. The powered are blamed for the virus that killed billions and twisted the natural world into something deadly. Feared and hated, they are sent into the wilds to fight the mutations that now threaten what remains. Ezra has spent his life resisting that division. As a doctor, he believes every life is worth saving. Then he comes home to find a wounded stranger collapsed on his floor. Saving the man is instinct. What follows is not. The choice pulls Ezra into a hidden war where old hatred still shapes the present, and the truth behind the world's ruin may be more dangerous than the monsters outside the city walls.

A short story following an elderly Tamara as she goes about her day.

Remember when we were kids and watched this show a lot, even online... but we stumbled across videos we shouldn't have... well... this is the continuation of the story from the "Friendship Was Magic" video, the one that didn't have a happy ending... but now it can... the story of how some of the iconic My Little Pony villains managed to win... and take over Equestria. It seems the magic of friendship can't defeat the villains... but... what if there's another kind of power capable of destroying anyone, anything... determination... Read at your own risk... it may contain explicit content...

What will happen when the earth collapses into an apocalyptic mess as two gods fight to overthrow one another? What will happen when a boy and his parents crash their family car amidst the battlefield of fleshy soldiers? Only you may find out.

The Keeper: A Survival Thriller Short Story About a Zookeeper, Escaped Animals, and Moral Choice After an Airstrike After an airstrike devastates his city and shatters the zoo he has served for twenty-six years, head keeper Marek Orlov stays behind to assess the damage and care for whatever animals survive. When food runs out and containment becomes cruelty, he makes the agonizing decision to open the zoo and let the surviving animals fend for themselves, even knowing some of them may become a danger to the people outside. His final act as keeper becomes an act of release, leaving him to walk into the ruined city burdened not by certainty, but by the consequences of choosing freedom over captivity.

Mother Nature is cruel, but humans are worse. In a world battered by colossal sandstorms, Shon has lived his entire life as a second-class citizen. There is one way out: By mastering his people's innate ability of heat manipulation, he can become a Stormrunner - humanity's last defender against Mother Nature, and the only force capable of destroying storms. But as a new wave of storms approaches - bigger, stronger, more unpredictable than anything before - Shon must rise to prove his worth... or watch his worst fears come true. What to Expect: - Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Society Themes - Magitech science fantasy, biology-based science / magic, hard science explanation - Multiple POV, morally gray characters, underdog MC - NOT a purely action-packed story, lots of other scenes, dialogues, internal thoughts, etc.

In 2027, the world didn't change. A whisper did. Six people stopped aging. The rest of the world started dying. The sky didn't fall in 2040. It turned against us. Metal ripped from the living. Cities bent like they were never meant to stand. And somewhere beneath it all, something ancient woke up. Everyone changed. Everyone... except them. THE SIX STATICS Siana and Shauryan are still twenty-four. Still untouched. Still wrong. While the world evolved into something unstable and unfamiliar, they stayed the same-frozen in time since a day they barely remember. Now they've been chosen. Not for survival. Not for luck. For something else. Taken aboard ceramic ships built to escape a dying Earth, they begin to understand the truth hidden behind the evacuation. This isn't a rescue. It's a selection. And the ones who don't fit the future... are never meant to reach it. What if the world moved on... but you didn't? ✨ Inspired by a dream. Grounded in science. Driven by something deeper than survival.

𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒆𝒉𝒚𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒓𝒕. Unfortunately for Jungkook, Taehyung insists those are basically the same skills. What starts as a simple cooking series turns into a disaster of burnt garlic, stolen taste-tests, jealous glares and way too much unnecessary back-hugging in the kitchen. Between teasing smiles and enough unresolved tension to overheat the stove, keeping their hands off each other becomes harder than following the recipe! Because somewhere between the heating pans and playful arguments, they begin creating something neither of them planned for - 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. And maybe... something a little more dangerous than fire.

A bet. A call. And maybe something more. "Wow. Someone's excited." "Of course I am, you picked up!" "Yeah, like isn't that what you're supposed to do when the phone rings?" "At midnight? On new year's?" "Yes, some people have better things to do than shoving their tongues down a random strangers throat." "Like what? Attending a random stranger's call?" And what happens when these phone calls turn into an escape for the two strangers? One who can only hope to escape his past and the nightmares haunting him. And the other one, who needs to find out the secrets buried in the past before it's too late. •-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• Started 20/05/2022 •-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• Best Rankings: #9 (out of 419) in alittleromance #9 (out of 769) in midnightmemories #10 (out of 900) in phonecalls #14 (out of 182) in dialoguestory #22 (out of 938) in mayhem #31 (out of 1000+) in conversation #37 (out of 1000+) in disaster #39 (out of 1000+) in richkids #72 (out of 1000+) in call #81 (out of 1000+) in teenagelove #87 (out of 1000+) in pranks

Isipin mo na ang mundo (Earth) ay hindi lang isang planeta, kundi isang nabubuhay na organismo na bahagi ng mas malaking sistema sa kalawakan. Ang gravity ay ang kanyang "paghinga." Ang Koneksyon ng Antarctica (The "Mechanical" Reason) Hindi lang ito basta "climate change." Sa logic natin, ang Antarctica ang nagsisilbing anchor o "brake" ng gravity mechanism ng Earth. Dahil sa sobrang gaan na ng South Pole, ang centrifugal force (yung puwersa na nagtutulak sa atin palabas habang umiikot ang mundo) ay paminsan-minsang nananalo laban sa gravity. Ito ang sanhi ng mga bugso. The "Clue": Habang nangyayari ang bugso, tumataas ang lebel ng dagat nang dambuhala (hindi lang dahil sa lusaw na yelo, kundi dahil ang tubig mismo ay gustong "kumawala" sa mundo). First Wave (3s): Akala ng lahat ay "Internet Prank" o "Hologram." May mga mag-a-upload pa sa TikTok ng "How to float" challenges. Second Wave (13s): Dito na papasok ang "Denial." Sasabihin ng gobyerno na "Isolated Gas Leak" lang ito o "Atmospheric Anomaly." Walang magsasabi ng totoo na ang mundo ay nasira na dahil sa Antarctica. Third Wave (23s): Dito lang mare-realize ng mga tao na ang "Horizon" ay hindi boundary ng langit, kundi isang morgue. at walang makakapag sabi kung ilang wave ang darating pa . Na pwedeng tumapos ng mundong kinaklakihan ng mga tao . "Environment" (The Debris) Kapag nawala ang gravity, hindi lang tao ang aakyat. Concrete detail: Ang mga kalsada (asphalt) ay mag-i-crack at sasama paitaas. Ang mga swimming pool ay magiging dambuhalang "blobs" ng tubig sa ere na pwedeng makalunod ng mga lumulutang na tao.