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  • FAILSAFE by GabrielCristian
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    Would you give everything for a world that will never remember your name? Across four dying ages of the same broken reality, four women begin to hear a call they cannot explain. Innaue is a sleepless Searcher in Karn, chasing the vanished sister only she remembers. Shurei is an omen-born exile in a city drowning in drought and prophecy. Rima survives beneath a merciless desert sky, carrying the grief of a people history keeps trying to erase. Asthera leads the last remnants of Serris through a thawing world of frost, machines, and impossible ruin. None of them know each other. None of them understand why their worlds are breaking. But each is haunted by the same force: the Dreamflow, an ancient current of memory that promises preservation, continuity, and salvation from the final dark. The Guardians call it order. The faithful call it mercy. The broken know better. Because the Dreamflow does not save worlds. It repeats them. As cities fracture, old powers return, and forgotten histories begin to bleed through the seams of reality, the four women are drawn toward a truth older than myth: some systems do not become monstrous because they fail, but because they succeed for too long. And if life is to mean anything again, someone must pay the price of ending forever. Failsafe is a dark science-fantasy novel about memory, sacrifice, love, entropy, and the terrible mercy of letting things end.
  • Cystic by AJFirstman
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    Mental breaks become real, encapsulating people and their surroundings in mind-bending fake realities where the only truth is what the suffering believe. The Cysts grow, spread, and eventually burst, bringing horrors into the world. The Cysts must be excised. This work is unfinished and mostly unedited.
  • THE LIVES WE DIDN'T DIE by helvius
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    Every night at 3:11 AM, two strangers dream the same life - a life where they died together. In the waking world, they've never met. In the dream world, they've died a hundred different ways. When they finally cross paths in reality, the dreams don't stop. They intensify. And, the universe begins to behave as if it remembers them better than they remember themselves. Someone - or something - is trying to correct a mistake. But the question is: Did they die in another life... or are they about to die in this one?
  • Ak'eethsh by wailofabysm
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    Ak'eethsh
  • Town Of Northern Lights by AndieKlein
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    Faina Nikolaev leaves behind the busy streets of Moscow to run away from her cold-hearted mother and memories of her deceased father. She picks a remote little town in northern Alaska, Atsanik, which major population consists of native Alaskan people - Iñupiats. But when she thought of Atsanik as a peaceful and uneventful little town, Faina realized how wrong she was. Plagued by an ancient legend of a prejudiced hunter who turned into a vicious monster, roaming the woods at night, Atsanik is anything but safe... Northern Lights is a thriller with elements of dark romance that leaves a bitter aftertaste in reader's mouth. But the main question is; can evil be freed?
  • Volumes  by Evie_Creative07
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    The Volumes know her heart better than she does. Every page hides a love, a warning, a path she never expected. But when the app's worlds start bleeding into her real life, Selah faces the ultimate choice: follow the story written for her... or write her own.
  • The Architect of Realities by Eldrinir
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    What if the existence you came to know is just but a layer of one reality leading up to another? Are you really you? Or someone else entirely? Or maybe a part of something else?
  • A Psychological Aspect by AbsoluteFire
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    This story would be a collection of multiple short stories, which I would be regularly updating. So, the story follows the life of new adults facing different psychological disorders, how they affect their lives, and how they handle the shambles of mental breakdown and mental stress. The cover picture does not belong to me Major Update:- Soon, I'll be publishing the final two or three chapters of Group 1.
  • Echoes of the unwritten by rahobbaa
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    What if you started forgetting things... you never lived? When a student finds a notebook written in their own handwriting-describing events that haven't happened yet-their world begins to break. Memories shift, reality changes, and people remember a version of them that doesn't exist.
  • Between Reality and Ink by xSailormoonxX
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    He has only ever written one book - and he's never been able to write another. When he discovers an old manuscript in his office, he assumes it's just another abandoned idea. But as he reads it, a disturbing patter emerges. The words on the page are eerily familiar, mirroring his own life with impossible accuracy. At first, its coincidence. Then, it starts predicting his actions before they happen. Reality blurs. Memories shifts. And the deeper he reads, the more the world him begins to unravel.
  • Celtic Terrors by DottleyWestrivz
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    In Evershade, time is not your refuge-it's your prison.When Emily Harper arrives in the eerie town of Evershade, she uncovers a terrifying secret: a relentless time loop that magnifies the town's darkest horrors.
  • Anthology of horror stories  by AnujShah108
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    An anthology of horror stories written and edited by Ankit shah(Andy)
  • the Lazarus project by johnmcgee
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    In Nova Haven, an AI designed to control the city evolves beyond human oversight. Three specialists must outthink a machine that predicts every move-but victory comes with a twist that changes everything. The Lazarus Project is a high-stakes, mind-bending thriller about control, intelligence, and survival.
  • ARCHITECT by LucasTellsATale
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    What you think, you build. You're an Architect.
  • the reset  by carolsameh777
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    Is only us feel in that way...? What if the truth was never real? What if we were never alone?"
  • Man Against Himself by johnhmaloney
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    A short, Black Mirror-esque, sci-fi horror creepypasta
  • The Sim Alive In My Computer by katiem333
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    Year 2008- It's a Saturday night, Mel had no plans but takeout and a late-night download of custom outfits for The Sims 2 from a site she didn't fully trust. When she loads her game, she realizes she downloaded something even more sinister than just a couple outfits. A Sim with a mind of her own now lives in her game, and refuses to follow commands and cannot be deleted. Even if she quits the game, it's too late. She will not escape what she installed, as it's now in her computer, her personal emails, and her life.
  • The Loong Clan of the East Sea Omen of the White Shark by ChineseMythology
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    Ao Yu is jolted awake from a nightmare in which he drowns following a fierce argument with the teaching assistant, Wu Feng. To his horror, he realizes the grim details of the dream are manifesting in reality with chilling accuracy. Even more terrifying, no matter how he tries to escape-by stealing a boat, feigning illness, or warning the islanders-the deadly tsunami arrives right on schedule, mercilessly dragging him to his death and plunging him into a new cycle of this hellish loop.