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  • From Below  by inspiredflower
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    In the aftermath of a failed Cold War-era super soldier project, a mutated species bred in secret beneath the earth. Decades later, their existence is uncovered-not by scientists, but by the cities they rise to devour. © 2025 MM. With collaborations of Gemini and Chatgpt All rights reserved.
  • Monster File Chronicles Guardian of the Swamp  by Sinon2023
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    He doesn't just live in the swamp. He IS the swamp." Deep within the Amazon's "Green Hell," the water has turned to poison. The Seward Initiative has returned to the site of their 1954 failure, armed with "Protocol: Cinder"-a chemical fire designed to burn away the ancient world and claim its secrets. They are hunting Asset #007, a biological anomaly they believe is an evolutionary dead end. But the Gill-Man is no animal. He is the planet's immune system, an apex protector who has slept for seventy years, waiting for the air to clear. When the Monster arrive to stop the slaughter, they find a nightmare of moss and teeth that reacts to the very scent of fear. In a world of fire and oil, the Council must prove to this ancient guardian that they aren't just more "fire-men" coming to despoil his home. The water is rising. The forest is screaming. And for the soldiers of the Seward Initiative, the last thing they will see is the golden glow of a god who has finally run out of patience. Fear the Water. Respect the Green. Survive the Tide.
  • The Price of Tomorrow by inspiredflower
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    They always said disasters were natural. As if storms were accidents, as if the earth woke angry for no reason. But storms feed on warmth, and the warmth was man-made. Floods rise where levees are neglected. Fires burn where budgets are cut. And when the alarms stopped ringing, we didn't notice at first. We trusted the silence. It was the silence that killed us. © 2025 MM. With collaborations of Gemini and Chatgpt All rights reserved.
  • The Superspecies Two: A Haunting Sci-Fi Horror Mystery by GordonByron
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    A young girl is brutally abducted by a bloodthirsty grizzly, forcing a group of scientists to mop up a genetic engineering operation that is out of control, threatening any and all who enter the woods. One question remains: are the animals really dangerous for no reason at all or does their enhanced intelligence simply make them recognize something damning about human nature that needs to be understood before it's too late? Harmonious coexistence with an emerging highly-intelligent species competing for dominance over the earth or total destruction of humans and animals alike? Those are the two options now. Two groups of scientific researchers are sent to a forest where bear attacks are frequent in order to study what is happening only to find themselves attacked and outsmarted (in part) by the animals themselves. Two environmental action groups also find themselves at odds over the fate of the dangerously genetically-enhanced creatures. One group wants to see the beasts wiped out completely and the other wants to preserve them at all costs, even at the expense of human life. The two sides are locked in an impasse, unable to resolve their differences in an amiable way which leads to ever-increasing tension, animosity, kidnapping and murder. Entire forests are quarantined in an attempt to control and contain the beasts but soon holes are discovered in the operation as key players start disappearing in addition to animals eluding their hunters, fighting back and changing the field of battle to their own terms. Ambushing their pursuers on more than one occasion. As the "pro-beast" and "pro-human" sides chase to their own interests with the unfortunate bears caught in the middle (struggling to establish themselves in a human dominated world), the animals learn more and more to rely on their expanding awareness to survive and thrive in an entirely new world...to evolution shattering effect!
  • Thirst by inspiredflower
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    The rains vanish. Rivers turn to dust. Animals grow desperate-breaking into towns, circling schools, stealing every drop of water they can find. Dr. Elena Marquez warned this would happen, but no one listened. Now the drought is pushing more than animals to the edge-it's changing people too. Thirst makes neighbors dangerous. Cities erupt into violence. And when the last rain finally comes, it won't save anyone. 🌑 An eco-horror about denial, desperation, and survival when nature turns against us. © 2025 MM.With collaborations of Gemini and Chatgpt All rights reserved.
  • APEX SPECIES by ainikambo
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    "When the world fell to the fungus, survival wasn't living-it was hiding." The world has rotted. Cities lie hollow, their bones threaded with glowing veins of fungus. Forests breathe spores instead of air. Humanity survives only in pockets, hunted by an amalgamation of creatures neither fully human nor fully spore-kind. ***** All Noa has to worry about is graduating high school, her non-existent love life and enjoying one last year of high school before she has to go to university. But all that changed overnight, when fungi-kind covers half the world. Leaving her and her family fighting for their lives.
  • The Greyhaven Woods by MDTucker
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    There is magic that refuses to be named. Its use is unpredictable. In the Greyhaven Woods live those who risk attention from the Wild.
  • Bloom Walkers by AllanCoker1988
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    When the emerald fire fell from the sky, the world didn't end. It woke up. Eli Blackfox, a quiet horticulturist with a gift for coaxing life from stubborn soil, expected nothing more than a peaceful night watching an asteroid pass overhead. Instead, he and Renata witnessed the sky rip open, the earth shudder, and a strange green haze roll across the Amazon like a living breath. By morning, nothing was the same. Plants turned to watch them. Animals bowed. Even insects behaved with eerie coordination, as if answering to some unseen signal. Eli's greenhouse - once a sanctuary of sunlight and soil - becomes the first place where the truth reveals itself. The plants aren't just reacting. They're communicating. They nod, gesture, warn, and even protect. Some are gentle. Some are curious. Some are fiercely loyal. And some... are hungry. As governments scramble to understand the impact, curfews rise, and fear spreads faster than the green haze, Eli and Renata find themselves at the center of a world reorganizing itself. The soil pulses with a heartbeat that isn't human. The plants whisper among themselves in a language just beyond comprehension. And for reasons no one can explain, they look to Eli - not as a caretaker, but as something more. Chosen. Trusted. Needed. But awakening brings more than wonder. It brings danger. For every friendly bloom, there is a thorn. For every gentle sprout, a predator waits. And the ancient intelligence stirring beneath the earth has plans of its own. Eli never asked to become the bridge between species. He never asked to be the one the plants listen to. But the green is rising - and the world is listening. Some plants are good. Some are bad. And some... are becoming something entirely new. In a world reborn, survival will depend on who - and what - you trust.
  • Planted by kirathecaptain
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    First contact with extraterrestrials destroyed us. Enid endured the rise and collapse of the disease that had ravaged the earth seven years ago. It almost took her sanity and her life. -Planted- "This is amazing. You're really great at writing." -Fen Been sitting on this one for a long time. Enjoy a new edit! - Preview - Its strange form was silhouetted by the flickering light coming from the living room. Enid let out a soft gasp, stopping herself from screaming, and immediately backed up to get out of the creature's vision. It had already turned around, its large faceted eyes surveying her. It held up its hands and glanced toward the living room as she stumbled back into her room and slammed the door shut. She listened to the clicking of the thing's feet as it moved into the living room and back to her door. "Get out!" she yelled through the door, scurrying over to her bed and grabbing up her revolver. When she moved back to the door, she could hear some soft tapping but it wasn't the sound of it walking away. She screamed again. "Get out!" No response. Enid took a deep breath and slowly pulled the door open before swinging it wide and lifting her gun up to aim at the thing's chest. The creature backed up a step, lifting its clawed hands, one of which was holding a white screened tablet. Enid took another step forward, forcing the thing to take a step backward as it slowly moved the tablet toward her. "Out," she growled, ready to squeeze the gun's trigger. The thing pressed the device toward her and she finally glanced down at it. It had printed on the bright screen in capital, black letters: FRIEND
  • The Green Breath by Gorgeria
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      [Launch Notice]   Update schedule: 3 chapters/week (Mon/Wed/Fri)   He was supposed to be processed.   Classified. Assigned. Owned.   A "variable" that refuses to be defined.   Instead, he turns the procedure back on them.   If you like calm narration over a collapsing world-welcome.   ----   When plants begin to think, humans become their seeds.   In a world fractured by the Energetic Rift, life no longer belongs to flesh.   The dead take root.   And inside the trees, human minds wake-still aware, still trapped.   Lyn-The only vessel to be sown, reborn, and remembered-again and again.   He once believed he was resisting them.   Until he realized-   He is part of them.   A story about a life-form carrying human, animal, and plant consciousness-   searching for coexistence within an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth.
  • Infestation  by Musa2003
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    A new house often symbolizes new beginnings. What happens when the new house is plagued by an infestation that haunts its residents, visitors and neighbours?
  • Among The Trees by Musa2003
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    The beauty of nature is the warmth it gives us. When our lives lose colour, nature chimes in and fills them with life. But sometimes we get too comfortable and forget that nature harbors the darkest creations. Those creations do not seek comfort from us. They only see us as prey.