Outrun Stories

Eleanor uley, is 15 years old after her mums death she has no choice but to move in with her dad Sam uley, there she encounters a blood thirsty vampire who only wants her and no one else, and she meets Seth Clearwater, who is unaware that he has imprinted on her.

After three decades of brutal struggle, bloodshed, and sin, Malin has finally clawed his way out of the slums and into the life of his dreams. Standing at the helm of his luxury yacht, with a stormy horizon ahead and his beautiful wife, Kara, by his side, he believes he has achieved ultimate victory. He believes the dark sins of his youth-including the desperate, violent murder of his own mother to escape the mob-are buried forever beneath the waves. But the ocean is a cruel mirror, and the past refuses to stay dead. As a violent tempest brews, Kara recounts a chilling dream about a miserable, pitying old woman bearing a jagged scar on her right temple. The description shatters Malin's fragile sanity. Paranoia takes the helm as the line between reality and hallucination violently blurs. In the howling wind and crashing swells, Malin no longer sees his devoted wife; he sees the vengeful ghost of the mother he betrayed, coming to drag him back to the squalor he escaped. Driven to a psychotic break by suffocating guilt and terror, Malin turns violently on Kara, pushing her into the churning abyss to "kill" his mother a second time. But murder cannot erase the past. In a devastating twist of psychological horror, Malin's mind completely fractures under the weight of his sins. Stripped of his wealth, his sanity, and his humanity, he is reduced to a drooling, infantilized shell. Trapped forever in the muddy decay of his childhood home, Malin is finally "home"-cuddled, controlled, and consumed by the very ghost he could never escape.

Ava was a normal teenage girl. Living a normal teenage life. Until her mom got sick and her whole family got uprooted and moved to Idaho. In comes Alex, Carter, Beau, and Lacey. Four people that will change her life forever.

Synthmark is a world full of people. Like you and me they go about their daily lives, minding their own business and dreaming of a better future. Most are common folk, they have dreams and desires, but they also need to live and survive. And for the most part, they are content. You'll meet plenty of common folk as we explore the world of Synthmark together. There is nothing overtly special about them, except their ability to get on with life. No fuss, no drama. Just life. And that is a superpower so often overlooked. Other people you meet will stand out from the common folk. It doesn't mean they are any more important or special, though a couple will be, but it might be because you relate to them better. For others the events in their life make them rise above the rest, they become a reluctant hero. While others are born with unique talents and abilities. And finally, some stand out because they simply wish to, they thirst for the spotlight and will do almost anything to rise to the top. The first person you'll meet is Judas Crook. Be careful what Judas tells you, don't believe him. He can be persuasive but be on your guard. Judas has a thirst for power and wealth, and he gets it by feeding off the unsuspecting. Stealing their data, selling their life stories. You've been warned. --------------------------------------- What is Synthmark: Volume 1 --------------------------------------- A collection of short stories that are cyberpunk themed with a retrowave art style. So while the world is dark and dystopian it's also underpinned by the themes of love, hope and joy - even in difficulty. When it feels like the world is too dark and lost, there is always hope and peace if you can find the source. --------------------------------------- Read more at Synthmark.io

The story of a hitman hired to take out a target in the year 3049.

As in the best 80s tradition, it all starts with a group of kids, a group of kids who enter an arcade. One of them, attracted by the cabinet of a game notoriously impossible to complete, decides to compete with himself, giving way to a clash that will open the glimpse of another world, in which the game's character, Driver, a pilot - warrior in charge of his last mission, will challenge his limits in a fight against time to take revenge on those who took what mattered most to him. On board a roaring 1969 Dodge Charger R / T, facing a desert and post-apocalyptic world inhabited by carnivorous fairies and anthropomorphic animals, with Almost There in perennial background, Driver and the boy at the controls will have to overcome the game and life bug itself to access the final level, the only one where it is possible to reach the lair of the enemy, who has sworn death and outrage to the last remaining pilot-warrior, heir to a glorious school. The ending will be even more surprising than the beginning, suggesting not only how free will and destiny are relative concepts, but also how the virtual and real world are separated only by a thin border ... and extremely labile.

Adeha is 16 years old with something far from a normal life, her family works for the mafia. A lifestyle they hate and not a life they want for their only child Adeha, and it's not the life she dreams of either. For some time they have been planning a way to get her out of this life safely, but when rumours start to spread throughout the mafias about girls her age getting kidnapped all of them with a connection to the mafia, Adeha takes the risk of leaving this life behind. Not having much time Adeha takes off jumping from town to town leaving little to no trace of herself, never getting attached for long and not making any friends, follow her as she tries to escape the life she never wanted.

Story of a soldier in the midst of battle, the only one left. All his comrades die around him. Slowly into the night each one - one by one appear from the grips of death and guide him to safety, or so Jacob thought - the ending proves something extraordinary.