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42 Stories

  • On Our Own (gxg) by lepagei
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    The year 3137. The earth has been left by humanity for almost 400 years now. Humans habe splitted up into several large groups - each of around half a million people, each in tremendous space ships, you could even call them space cities or little artificial planets with the highest imaginable tech as standards. Hovering through the endlessness of space the ship Alatis comes across several interesting places of the universe. Rayen Finley is at the age of 20. She has lived on board of Alatis all her life, she was born there in the 12th generation of humans in space. Her father is the best doctor of the whole space ship, therefore he has not only a whole lot of money and a inquestionably high social status, he is also one of the close consultants of the President of the Alatis who is the captain of the ship if you will. The Alatis Laws rule everything on board. They for example say that you have to choose a profession at your 21st birthday. So does Rayen, especially because she is the daughter of Rilan Finley and has to act as a role model. Which profession will she choose? What will happen when she discovers unseen sections of the ship and reveals secrets that publicity has never been allowed to know about? What problem does the Alatis face when it encounters the first ever non-human species on it's aimless journey? [since I am German I am just experimenting in writing a story in English - therefore there might be grammar or word mistakes, please feel free to correct me in the comment section :)]
  • The Rising Sun by sansot_m
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    A young man, by overcoming his fears, goes from miserable darkness to happiness, marriage and peace.
  • Riding Against Ignorance by life-letters
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    Sometimes, knowledge comes from the wrong direction.
  • spiderkook  by Itsnotmypenguin
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    + this story is based on a dream I had + warning: this book will not be well-written. i'm not going to put as much effort into it as I do my other fanfics. + lowercase intended
  • 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅  by Manimusical
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    𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒊 𝑾𝒖𝒙𝒊𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒇 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆, 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆? 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑾𝒆𝒊 𝑾𝒖𝒙𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒋𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 21𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒚, 𝒐𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝑾𝒆𝒊 𝑾𝒖𝒙𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕. 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄
  • Rants, Pet Peeves & Anything, Really by KawaiiQuilava
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    Kind of like a journal, but not really. I'll write pretty much anything on here, speak my mind, rant a little. You know, basic stuff :)
  • Where Names Go Missing by Merash
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    The city never erased her. It simply decided she wasn't urgent. After a silent system update, Mira begins to notice small delays creeping into her life-missed meetings, canceled appointments, opportunities that never arrive. She's not ignored. She's de-prioritized. As Mira searches for answers, she uncovers a quiet truth: years ago, she questioned a system designed to optimize people for efficiency. The system never forgot. In a world obsessed with speed, relevance, and measurable worth, Mira must choose between fighting to be visible again-or stepping outside the system entirely. This is a story about quiet resistance, modern invisibility, and what it means to exist without permission. #The city never erased her. It simply decided she wasn't urgent. After a silent system update, Mira begins to notice small delays creeping into her life-missed meetings, canceled appointments, opportunities that never arrive. She's not ignored. She's de-prioritized. As Mira searches for answers, she uncovers a quiet truth: years ago, she questioned a system designed to optimize people for efficiency. The system never forgot. In a world obsessed with speed, relevance, and measurable worth, Mira must choose between fighting to be visible again-or stepping outside the system entirely. This is a story about quiet resistance, modern invisibility, and what it means to exist without permission.
  • Stop Signs by FurqanBil
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    Stop Signs Creative Nonfiction / Essay They call it slop so you never look. They call it soulless so you never feel. They call it flawed so you never trust it. But here's what nobody says out loud - The moment you analyze something, regardless of whether it's good or bad, it becomes art. So they don't argue against the work. They argue against the looking. This essay is about AI, art, soul as a standard nobody can define, the class conversation hiding inside the aesthetic one, and what it actually means to create when the present can't keep up with where your mind already went.
  • The Seven Cardinal Vices by EnigmaINK_
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    In a world where Kim K breaks the internet while the planet breaks down, have we lost our moral compass? In his thought-provoking new book The Seven Cardinal Sins, Enigma illuminates the age-old vices dangerously warped by modern society: Pride is the curated social media feed. Wrath is the fight for justice gone awry. Greed is the influencer economy run amok. With philosophical rigor and searching cultural criticism, Enigma examines how these cardinal sins have become normalized, even exalted, in today's landscape. He lays bare the hollowness beneath hubristic #goals and cheque-chasing side hustles. From the illusion of perfection to the corrosion of public discourse, Enigma insightfully probes the forces threatening meaning and virtue today. Both enlightening social commentary and clarion call, The Seven Cardinal Sins inspires readers to confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and the world they inhabit. By examining morality and vice through the lens of contemporary issues, Enigma lights the way back to the values that matter most―and the reform that modern society desperately needs.
  • The Last Note by Kshitij_Mujumdar
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    The story that makes us realize how great our modern society is. IT'S BEAUTIFUL! We always think that it can't get better. MY FIRST STORY...
  • The Slop Argument  by FurqanBil
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    The Slop Argument On mediocrity, authenticity, and who really killed art. We didn't witness the death of ambition with dramatic fanfare. It happened in silence, through a thousand tiny compromises. Feeds filled with competent noise. Songs built to hook rather than haunt. Images crafted to pause thumbs, not stir souls. What once demanded craft and courage slowly gave way to what simply performs. Furqan Bilal traces the subtle erosion of standards in the age of algorithmic abundance - where attention is currency, excellence feels inefficient, and "good enough" became the ceiling. This is an unflinching look at how we traded depth for reach, soul for scale, and what it will take to reclaim something real.
  • Theft, Death & Kayfabe by FurqanBil
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    "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Picasso probably never said that. Which means the most famous defense of artistic theft in history was itself stolen. This essay follows that irony all the way to its end - through African masks and European museums, through a dead painter who never saw a dime, through a rapper who wrote Thug Life on his stomach and meant every word of the poem underneath it. By the time we get to AI you'll realize we were never talking about art at all.
  • Labels by Bellah1313
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    Heres a poem i wrote about how modern society has to put a label and judge everyone and everything
  • Blame it on the cat. my true story summary by alexAshhunter
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    Modern day society doesn't allow you to have a personality, you have to go with the crowd because if you go against it you'll get pushed by people who do follow the crowd like a one-way path. If you go the same way as everyone else, you'll all end up in the same place, maybe drunk, maybe arrested, maybe poor, maybe hated, maybe you have to leave your friend behind because she can't keep up and is trampled by the people who follow the crowd. But you can escape the crowd if your stronger, faster or you can quit that harsh stampede with a knife. Find tranquillity, but how will that peaceful place affect others? What will people do? How will they react? You never know anything, your always questioning, not knowing.
  • The Vampires by iamjustmesorry
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    okay well i wrote this book becuase i really wanted a new vampire book and couldn't think of one. i thought about it for a while and i think i got a plot planned out so enjoy.
  • Modern society  by SuddhataKc
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    i wrote this poem for showing the reality of society .few society may not be bad but most of them are .. plz if u like this poem then hit the vote button but if u don't like and when u feel this particular line is wronge then plzzz comment me below ..
  • Apple Bitting  by wolf_Blizzy
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    Apple Biting A haunting slam poem about modern temptation, social masks, and the price of silence. In a world of glitter, screens, and carefully crafted illusions, the serpent no longer hides in the shadows. It smiles from the spotlight.
  • I'm Not To Be Messed With.. by 1fair_maiden
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    " mistress ( huff huff ) please wait! stop runni... " " ahh!! mistress " Ning Lifang - stubborn, careless, unruly daughter of a General dies while... chasing after a rabbit?? She is given a second chance to live a careful life and gets reborn as a rookie Actress in the future a place she knows nothing about. " Am I.. d-dead (tears up) "... 💥Do not plagiarize my work 💥Please comment and let's get to know each other☺️ 💥 Still Updating...
  • How money change our life by Albert_01
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    This is my first poem, please kindly message me if i made any mistake and I'm here to learn.Have a nice day!!