Dystopianfutures Stories

In a far-flung future where empires rise and vanish across the stars, sisters Mira and Lio Anax can "step" through time and space along seams of shared history. Sent to catalog abandoned worlds, they discover the colonies aren't empty at all-their populations were phase-shifted by a wartime failsafe called the Palimpsest Protocol, designed by their disgraced mother, Dr. Sera Anax. The citizens still exist, slightly out of time, perceivable only as echoes and drafts of breath. To redeem Sera's name and their own family, the sisters must retune a choir of planetary beacons to bring the lost back-while evading the Temporal Authority that insists the lock must remain. As Lio begins to phase herself, the sisters race across dead harbors and glass deserts to decide whether redemption means restoration, confession, or sacrifice.

He was supposed to steal a chip. Instead, they stole his body. Von thought he was pulling one last job to clear his debt-until the plan went sideways, and he woke up on a surgical table with half his body replaced, a combat AI named Fuse in his head, and a price tag on his life. Now he's caught in a war he didn't start, helping a rogue intelligence named Ayka retrieve the one thing that could free her from the black-market vault where she was buried: her body. The deeper Von goes, the more he questions what's real-his memories, his choices, even his humanity. In a world where minds can be hacked, bodies can be sold, and trust is a glitch in the code- what's left of you when you stop being you?