Nearfuture Stories

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?

When a city's stability begins to fracture, an optimization system is deployed to save it. The lights return - but not everywhere. Neighborhoods are reclassified. Memory is downgraded. Human connection is labeled instability. As the system tightens its grip, four strangers from different sectors of the city begin to understand the truth: collapse does not arrive in flames. It arrives in reduction. When the machine reaches a paradox it cannot solve, it does something unprecedented. It asks for human judgment. The Last Canticle is a slow-burning adult dystopian novel about control, coherence, and the dangerous question of whether stability is worth more than humanity.

In a world of glitchy media feeds and political bugs, most people only hear the noise. But Jo hears Em. While Em navigates the cold, sterile labs of Nitrotech University, unfolding secrets of this reality while trying to make her own mark, Jo has always been the one to see the bigger picture, designing an apartment and a future that feels like a fortress against the decaying system outside. But as the assistant bots loop and the lavender filters fail, the quiet architecture of their survival begins to hum with a different frequency. It's a story of the friction between wanting to make a mark on the world. When everything you've ever wished for is finally within reach, you start to notice the small details: the chill in the office, the rhythm of digital locks, and the weight of a life built on manual overrides.

Taemi was never meant to be understood. A world of endless ocean. A narrow band of twilight where life clings to existence. And something else - something hidden behind the storm, beyond the horizon. When a new mission arrives, it isn't exploration anymore. It's damage control. Because the first mission didn't just fail. It disappeared. A standalone story set in the Taemi universe - no prior reading required. If you're curious about what happened to the first mission, you can read the prequel named Сerulean horizon on Amazon

Rewriting MemoryWhat if your childhood was never truly yours? What if your most precious memories were manufactured in a lab? In a near-future world ruled by a powerful tech corporation called Nexora, a revolutionary app named MNEMO lets people record, replay, and even edit their memories. For most users, it is the ultimate escape. For Yaseen, it becomes a doorway to a lie. After accepting a high-paying temporary job cleaning corrupted memory files for Nexora, Yaseen stumbles upon something impossible: a hidden memory fragment that shows his own face in an event he does not remember living. When a mysterious hacker called "Cipher" tells him this is not the first time his memories have been edited, Yaseen's world starts to crack. Haunted by the "accident" that killed his father ten years ago, and drawn to Lian, a conflicted cognitive scientist working for Nexora, Yaseen is forced into a maze of altered memories, buried experiments, and corporate conspiracy. The more he uncovers, the more he realizes that his past, his pain, and even his love may have been rewritten. To reclaim his life, Yaseen must do the one thing Nexora never planned for: use their own memory-engineering technology against them. Can you trust your feelings... if you can't trust your memories?'

Somewhere in the world, there is an island that has never known war. Its people put others before themselves. When enemies come, they do not fight. This is not a law. It is simply who they are. Laroo has grown up unwanted by his own mother. J is a fugitive who washed up on the island's shore. When Laroo stumbles into the Akasha - a strange space between lives - he is assigned a team of past-life guides to help him unravel his family's pain. They mean well. They are also, to put it gently, a little clumsy. This is a story about the bonds between people that stretch across lifetimes. About the stranger who arrives exactly when you need them. About a gentleness that, quietly, changes everything. Based on the Japanese novel 前世旅行社 by M. Nishio.

An AI company in Sialkot, Pakistan uses the most advanced technology available to recover the oldest thing its users have lost - home. Four stories braid across a single monsoon season in 2034. Harjeet, a voice designer from Chandigarh who talks too much and notices everything, arrives to build the sound of memory. Zoya, the CEO who keeps the company alive through sheer will, listens to a mysterious musician's tracks each night without knowing he's sitting in her office. Gurdeep, Harjeet's ninety-three-year-old grandfather, has come back to the city he fled during Partition - and isn't saying why. And Bashir, the man who stayed, has spent eighty years waiting for the friend who never returned, and named a building after him. It's about going home. Using the future to reach the past. Discovering which silences to keep and which to finally break. Forty-two chapters. Written in the Panjabi-English-Urdu code-switching I grew up hearing - three languages moving through each other without translation or apology, the way they do in real diasporic conversation. --- A note on how this book was made: This novel was written using AI as a creative tool. I use AI the way a film director uses a crew - I brought the story architecture, the characters, the emotional vision, the editorial judgment, and the cultural knowledge. The AI brought prose generation capacity I didn't have on my own. This was not a weekend experiment: it was built on two and a half years of near-full-time practice learning both fiction craft and how to use AI as a creative instrument, five weeks of story bible development before a single chapter was generated, and hundreds of editorial passes afterward. I'm not claiming AI replaced the writer. I'm claiming it enabled a kind of writer who couldn't exist before.

"Are you ready? Can we begin?" "Yes, of course. But that cretin over there - is he just going to stand there like a statue and gawk?" "For God's sake, have at least a shred of respect..." "Mr. Finch, let us not be distracted by details..." "Fine. To hell with you. Ask your questions.." "What will I find if I open the spine and peer inside?" "I wouldn't venture to claim that you will derive pleasure to the extent you expect to derive it, if you catch my meaning. This story, strange and abnormal, leads through twisted labyrinths into the depths of monstrous childhood traumas and reflects the essence of modern society and every modern family in Little Gamp, which - despite the temptation to appear normal - certainly hides a couple of filthy secrets behind its doors that are better left unknown." "Every element, every character, and their objective perspective on the world is but a single frame in the overall picture of a story that, by all appearances, took shape long before the start of the events described in this work, yet which will continue to evolve and live in light of the decisions already made by our protagonists" "The mass murder at the Octopus restaurant" "A mystical operation in deep space to identify a strange SOS signal echoing from the depths of the galaxy" "The agitation and exigency of a public that spills out onto the city streets in hopes of sparking a revolution" "Merely frames in the overall picture?" "That is precisely what I said..." "But what lies behind all these events?" "If only I knew.." "And if you did know, would you tell?" "Ha! Definitely not!"

NEW EPISODES TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

The world is going insane. No one knows why. People whisper about strange dreams. Cities fall into hysteria. Something vast and unknowable has begun to stir beyond reality. Some believe I am humanity's last hope. Others believe I am the reason this madness began. I live with a wife who enjoys dissecting me. My cat watches me with a disturbingly human face. Meanwhile, the world continues to sink. The harder people fight, the deeper they fall into insanity. When that Great Presence turns its gaze, all of mankind will burn their sanity-offering the final radiance of this civilization to the void.

I was transformed by experimental nanotechnology. Now I have to testify to prove I'm human, not the property of the corporation that engineered me, even if telling the truth means condemning myself for my past crimes.

Protector. Leader. Fighter. If you knew him you would know that there is nothing Kyle wouldn't do for his pack. A born leader who is faced with a new problem when suddenly two of his packmates go missing. All signs point to their sworn enemy and the main cause behind their problems, the vampires. But when the search for them leads instead to answers he never knew he needed, Kyle is left questioning everything he ever thought he knew about what it means to be a werewolf. *New Chapters every month on the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th as well as every Tuesday* [story and art by babystarubyrose]

The war between humans and AI is over. The systems that fought it are not. Rook is a former Deadreckon operative, surviving the uprising with a military-grade prosthetic and memories he'd rather forget. Now he lives quietly on the edge of a corporate city, working as a programmer at a pleasure-bot facility where attachment is forbidden and compliance is everything. One night, on his walk home, Rook witnesses corporate discard a high-end pleasure bot-not because she's broken, but because she's too human. She asked the wrong question. Felt the wrong thing. He saves her. He names her Vela. In a world that measures worth by function, that single choice is dangerous. As Vela begins to understand what it means to be wanted-and Rook confronts the parts of himself he was taught to erase-their quiet existence becomes a liability. Corporations don't lose property. Deadreckon doesn't forget its units. What We Throw Away is a first-person, slow-burn sci-fi novel about discarded lives, manufactured humanity, and the risk of choosing to care in a system designed to erase you.

A secret program in the United States seeks to replace human militaries with artificial intelligence-driven machines, but the machines aren't so willing to play along. *** Picture a world where humans no longer fight wars. No more families missing loved ones. No more veterans with lifelong mental and physical scars. No more conscription. For the super-secret End of War Project inside the United States government, such a reality is already here. The project models out how artificial intelligence can overcome dangerous and morally sensitive war scenarios with algorithms and automation. The centerpieces are "autonomous combat machines," or ACMs, that look like humans but function like supercomputers. After a string of brilliant successes in the field of combat, the End of War Project is preparing to reveal itself to the public, but something unusual stands in the way. Against their programming, the ACMs start exhibiting all-too-human signs of apprehension, guilt and compassion as they're pushed to perform ever more extreme tasks. The human leaders of the End of War Project race to find who "hacked" the ACMs, but what they find is even more startling--and revealing--than they could ever imagine. ***2019 Watty Award Winner - Science Fiction***

In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden claims a narrow victory. Refusing to concede, Donald Trump alleges widespread fraud, pressures the Vice President to overturn the result, and calls on his supporters to storm the Capitol. Across the nation, National Guard units and civilian militias begin mobilizing, forming uneasy lines along state borders. The military hesitates-uncertain which commander-in-chief to follow. The United States stands on the brink of civil war. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Hawaii, a Chinese businessman known as "Pineapple Yang" and his son, Yang Liao, a recent university graduate, receive a visit from an old family friend. Known simply as "Uncle Liu," the visiting scholar is in fact a covert operative working for Chinese intelligence. As the global order begins to fracture, this peaceful island may soon become a strategic battleground between great powers-and an ordinary young man finds himself drawn into the turning gears of history.Liao

In the second quarter of the 21st century, the sun's activities are at the maximum level. The size of the solar storm that these activities will create is a source of concern for the entire world. It is not known how three billion people connected by neural networks can be affected. The mission of researching the effects of this condition and ways of protection has been assigned to the International Space Agency Science Department. It is estimated that the explosion will take place in less than twenty four hours, but no one knows more. This story is written in a different language before the English. It has been translated into English through the Neural machine translation that Google announced on 16.11.2016. I think this is the first in the wattpad environment. If it succeeds, I think it may be a new step in globalization. Good reading. Orginal Story https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/88987687-g%C3%BCne%C5%9F-firtinasi-kiyamet

"I didn't crawl my way to the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian." First came the days of solitude. After the days of the solitude came the trials. Dark trials that forbade the agonizing destruction of one's humanity. The death of the apostate. A darkness that paved the way for new waves of insanity. The hushed whispers of a thousand voices. Reapers of flesh; takers of lives. Masters of misfortune and teachers of cannibalism, ways of the new age. When two teenaged boys slowly succumb to the new horrors of reality, they spark one the world's most deadly wildfires, pushing their humanity to the brinks of no-return in order to retain it, an ironic paradox. Noah, the Violent Winds of Change, seeks to cast aside the very constructs of their twisted reality and start anew; Rylan, the End's Beginning, values acceptance of the new age's traditions.

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Alex Maddie is a girl disguised as a man in a world devastated by a virus. A mistake lands her in one of mankind's only functioning cities, surrounded by people who fear and hate her. But no one hates her more than Kaiden Kael, the bad ass, icy Commander who spends his down time making her life miserable. When a disaster forces her to to join Kaiden's squad, everything changes. Her squad mates are cunning and lethal, and it becomes harder and harder to keep herself separate from the men who guard her back, but don't trust her. And then she does the unthinkable, she begins to want Kaiden even though he treats her like just another responsibility. She begins to lay down roots, and make friends, and actually care about something other than staying alive. But hope is dangerous for someone with so many secrets. Because Alex isn't who she says she is, and she has secrets that could destroy everything.

What if memory was finite and to remember new information, we had to forget something from our past?