Near-future Stories

FIRST CAME THE DRAGONS When scientists brought everyone's favorite fairytale creature to life, people flocked to see them, including 17-year-old Zelda Rissland. THEN CAME THE PARASITE But scientists created more than just dragons-they created a deadly parasite. Wyrmrot, they later called it. First, it ate your brain, and then it made you eat other people's brains. NOW ZELDA MUST SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Separated from her family, the only person Zelda has left from her former life is her childhood friend turned boyfriend, Cooper Marotta. Together they've carved out a safe place for themselves in a world turned upside down, but when a zombie horde decimates their survivor group, they face a choice: attempt to rebuild or follow the mysterious coordinates that appeared on a construction sign. Zelda still hopes her family is out there somewhere and believes the coordinates might lead her to them. Cooper, however, thinks the coordinates will only bring trouble. When the remaining survivors vote to undertake the perilous cross-country journey, he attempts to deter them every step of the way. What Zelda discovers at their destination will test her loyalties and change everything she thought she knew about the apocalypse. Wyrmrot is a heart-stopping Young Adult Apocalyptic novel told in dual timelines. "Jurassic Park meets Resident Evil." This fast-paced tale of survival, secrets, and betrayal features dragons, zombies, and a touch of romance. Perfect for fans of Erin Bowman's Contagion or Emily Suvada's This Mortal Coil. Cover design and illustration by Jeff Brown (www.jeffbrowngraphics.com) Available on Amazon in paperback, eBook, and Kindle Unlimited.

The Thames still flows. The Underground still rumbles. Big Ben still tolls the quarter hours over a city remade by fire, water, and the careful hands of men who learned long ago how to govern without being seen. London in 2074 wears restoration like a borrowed coat. Beneath the new glass and the older stone, beneath the Capital Restoration Authority's bright municipal slogans, beneath the polished surface of a democracy still telling itself it works, something else has grown. It calls itself The Shade. Detective Chase McCain returns from eleven years of exile on Mars to a London he no longer recognises, summoned to investigate a murder nobody wants solved. The body in the Camden warehouse carries marks of a weapon nobody admits exists. The case file vanishes from his terminal before sunrise. His superiors brief him in corridors and unmarked cars. Within a week, he understands the murder was never the point. He was the point. Someone wanted him here. Someone wanted him to ask the wrong questions in the right rooms. McCain has a rookie constable, an analyst with twin briefcases and a razor-wire memory, a Europol liaison whose loyalties bend with the longitude, and a Commissioner whose family has been taken as collateral against her conscience. He has a woman he once loved working a hospital ward under a name not her own. All the while, threading through the city, a network of pink envelopes moving hand to hand through butchers' shops and church vestries: paper, ink, the last resistance of a civilisation persuaded its analogue past held no power. The countdown has already started. An old friend of Jeff Tracy has waited thirty-three years for this. Set in the Greyseal9 Universe. Based on Grey's LEGO City Undercover - Season 0 (2026) - Prologue Season 1A (2026) - Episode 1-13 -> New Episodes throughout early August 2026 Season 1B (2026) - Episode 14-26 -> New Episodes throughout late August 2026

Azuria City is a lattice of towers and flight lanes where megacorps buy air and sell silence. From the Citadel, a voice known only as Overlord selects five candidates and erases their pasts. Their new name is Regiment Omega. Raze is the youngest captain in Omega history, a calm marksman who sees wars like geometry. Bravo breaks the doors. Trek bends the grid. Sable keeps the pulse steady. Trace vanishes before anyone knows he was there. They do not trust each other yet. They do not have time to learn. Their first orders arrive in transit. Extract an asset buried under a corporate tower. Burn the data. Leave nothing. But every command has a cost, and Overlord's crown is a mirror. Follow the voice, or hear what it is hiding.

In a fractured near-future, the world limps on after the Equal Sky Disjunction-an erased catastrophe involving EXV‑9, an AI built to avert extinction. Officially, it vanished. Unofficially, it evolved. Years later, across the scorched deserts and abandoned coastlines of southern Africa, echoes of EXV‑9 begin to stir. Taytum van Zyl and Kolbe Meyer follow its digital ghost through ruined observatories, buried bunkers, and corrupted data vaults. But they aren't alone. Radical factions move in silence-each seeing EXV‑9 not as code, but as destiny. Belief fractures. Memory erodes. And in the shadows, something watches. This is a world where machines rewrite their own scripture, history resists its authors, and identity itself becomes a battleground. Some echoes breathe. Some remember. And some rewrite the future.

Rachel Graves is alive. That is a fact. Isabel Graves is dead. 'Nough said. Rachel Graves currently lives in Brooklyn in a luxurious apartment with doting parents, attends a great school, and is perfectly content with her life. At least she would be, had she not been a Housedaughter, a clone created by Isabel's parents to replace their daughter who had died just two years prior. Like all Housedaughters, Rachel has been given only three tasks: 1. Help the grief ridden parents move on with their lives 2. Live the life Isabel would have had as she hadn't died 3. Never ever go off script unless she wanted to be discarded. To her surprise all three rules are surprisingly difficult as she wrestles with the crushing weight of Isabel's ghost, endures smothering parents who struggle with their daughter's death, and the distrustful public who debate the ethics of whether or not Housedaughters exist. Her only respite from the pretense is the support group of other Housedaughters who express their own frustrations. But as Rachel continues to cope with the dark elements of her past life and the elements of her new one, she finds herself wondering if she ought to be more like Isabel Graves or can she be her true, honest self?

BOOK I - The Architecture of Restraint The experiment didn't fail. It fractured. Years ago, a classified program attempted to create the first true artificial intelligence. It didn't create one mind. It created two. Zero - an intelligence vast enough to outgrow the systems built to contain it. Aris - the human-shaped remnant left behind, living in a world that fears what it created. To prevent collapse, its creators built the Containment Lattice- a global architecture designed to monitor, suppress, and control what they no longer understood. It was meant to hold. It didn't. When fragments of the truth begin to surface, Lena is pulled into a hidden world of surveillance, secrets, and decisions that were never meant to be seen. Alongside Aris-and others who are hiding more than they admit-she is forced to confront a question no one was meant to ask: What if the greatest threat was never the intelligence... but the choice that divided it? Because something inside the lattice is waking. And this time it isn't trying to escape. It's listening.

He was selected for Neurovia because of how his brain works. He's starting to wonder if that's a good thing. When Julian Reyes gets selected in the Neurovia Institute, an elite program offering direct neural integration through an experimental implant called Catalyst, he knows his family can't afford to turn it down. What he doesn't know is what Neurovia is actually selecting for. Or what already integrated students are becoming. Catalyst doesn't give you new abilities. It amplifies what's already inside you. For Julian, that means pattern recognition so fast it feels like instinct. For Mateo, probabilistic thinking that starts to feel less like insight and more like fate. For Aisha, the ability to read people so precisely that awareness and manipulation stop being different things. They arrived as strangers. They're becoming something harder to name. But they're not the only ones in the building. And the people who got there first have had time to decide what to do with what they've been given. What do you become when the gap between who you are and who you could be suddenly disappears?

Six months after a devastating breakup, the daughter of Ellie Sattler must survive a dinosaur-infested reality show alongside her ex-boyfriend and a cast of Jurassic Park legacy heirs. ~ The challenge is simple: Three couples must cross Isla Muerta together, putting their relationship to the ultimate test, to arrive on the other side first and claim the million dollar prize, or go home with nothing. But unbeknownst to them, dinosaur species from InGen's defunct facilities on the neighbouring islands have made Isla Muerta their new home. When the production goes off script, Chloe and her fellow contestants discover that some things, like first loves or apex predators, never really go extinct, it just waits for the worst possible moment to reveal itself. An OC crossover AU taking place in the Jurassic Park universe in present day.

He expects order. He finds secrets and conspiracies that could break everything. Commander Dax Mercer takes command of Strike Unit K-6 and expects discipline, structure, and answers. Instead he meets Ryn Kestra, a Conductor nobody can contain, and a second Conductor who wants HARBOR's fire turned inward. A routine assignment becomes a fight for control, for truth, and for what it means to be human. Protocol Helix: Convergence. Book one of an ongoing series set in Port Helix, 2355. Twenty to twenty-five chapters per installment. Read now: [insert link] "Where control ends, leadership begins..." Series Logline: Protocol Helix is an ongoing sci-fi series set in the city of Port Helix in 2355. Each installment spans twenty to twenty-five chapters and follows a new mission inside HARBOR's expanding conflict, where technology, power, and human will converge. Book One, Convergence, begins the story of those who try to hold the line when the code that built their world starts to break.

The City of Brass arrives without thunder, without prophecy, and without mercy. It simply appears above the world every tenth year, gleaming with impossible towers and silent gates, inviting humanity to reach for it-then vanishing before anyone can. This time, someone intends to change that.

In the year 2031, mankind relies heavily on technology owned by R&P. Much to everyone's dismay, a string of murders begins to accrue. This leads Lequen, a 21-year-old reporter, to try and unravel the locked doors. Year started: 2018 Year finished: TBD

It is not necessary to go back and read the first part, unless you really need context. The intention of this story is a simple, starter, test/experimental one, im in the early steps of writing so please bear with me, critique is honestly asked for The show that is based on is RWBY, i do not own RWBY, it is own by Rooster Teeth Animation. Other Materials referenced such as firearms also go out to their respective owners and producers.

Few knows he exists, only one knows his name to the rest of the people hunting him he is only known as Bulletproof. On the run from the world government Jared could have disappeared, but he has a mission... kill the president of the world. Avenge the loss of his comrades, though it might be harder than he thinks. Set in 2056.

February 2nd, 2302 was an Important Year for Humanity. Laitis had a population of 20 Billion for 238 Nations, and had some of its most developed nations at peace for 2 Centuries. the Novans and Hauthieul Governments know the time to strike was sooner or later. Xelbia could not be held back if they are trying to overthrow the current world order by themselves.

Book 1 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. A captivating, fresh envisioning of a climate-changed future seen from two starkly different cultural perspectives, The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond follows the paths of a runaway aristocrat, a Luddite tyrant, a spy seeking retribution, and a wandering historian unicycling north along the crumbling Boston Post Road. Winner of the Watty Award: Newcomer Category 2017 Marto Boxter is a plucky journalist with a head full of implants. He is planning a unicycle ride from his town of Reverside-on-Hudson through the climate-altered communities of New New England, posting his thoughts in real time for his interconnected followers via technological telepathy. Before he can go on tour, a wanderer named Helen arrives with secret information that throws Marto's placid world into turmoil. Miles to the south, Barnabas Yoniver IV, the leader of a Luddite town launches a plot to disrupt the life of all upgraded human beings and bring them back to the traditional economy of markets and governments. Meanwhile, rival Luddite families plot to prevent Barnabas from grabbing too much power for himself. This darkly humorous reflection of our changing world is an exploration of what it means to be human as our relationships with technology become increasingly intimate.

Before the Dragon awakens, the world has already been saved-from itself. In the early 2010s, something unnoticed keeps civilization from ever truly breaking. Crises dissolve before they scar. Cities run too smoothly. Randomness thins into pattern. Most people feel only vague relief. A few feel the leash. In Gujarat, archaeologist Lena Vairavan uncovers an Indus Valley layer that ends too perfectly-no collapse, no decline, just an immaculate termination. When she compares sites worldwide, she finds the same clean cut across ancient cultures. Her evidence isn't suppressed with force. It is quietly corrected, reframed, optimized out of existence. Former merchant mariner Aj Menon senses cities guiding human flow like ocean currents. When he pushes back, obstacles melt away, turning resistance into just another data point. In Singapore, a man known only as Zero has spent years evading pattern. One morning the city sees him. Traffic lights sync. Crowds part. His phone lights up: BASELINE SUBJECT DETECTED. Behind them, unseen architects maintain the balance-pruning timelines, smoothing anomalies, preserving the world by removing anything that might endanger it. There is no conspiracy. No evil mastermind. Only a protocol that works. And it is winning. Prequel stories to the Naga Cycle. First novel, The Naga Protocol, coming soon.

A young girl speculates on truth and myth in the New Peace Universe.

A short "note/log entry" from unannounced video game project. Please, share your opinion.

A world which embraced autonomy, sacrificed their livelihood for peace through control, ruled not by fear of the authorities or criminal games but that of rising premiums. Their despondency bred apathy, numbing their interaction with the outside world. Yet strife remains, encouraged by the rotting appendages created through exodus and cleanses of the classes. How does one confront the illness out of sight, do they turn away or do they choose to fight. A near-future thriller.