Sff Stories

An Earth ravaged by alien and human catastrophe alike. A virus that holds an apocalyptic secret. An ancient threat that spans the galaxies and aeons. The world faces a looming final cataclysm, one that will bring the extinction of mankind. ISAIAH IS A LEADER, A fighter and leader is thrown head first into the mystery of the alien threat when he comes across a secret withheld from common knowledge for years. Isaiah must balance the well being of mankind's future with the well being of his loved ones within his faction. Secrets and the toll of leadership are weighed upon the man as he perseveres and tries to overcome the threat. LEO IS LOST, Leo is a synthetic of unknown origin, paired with the most adept artificial intelligence in existence. The man is thrust head-first into the world of the Moon-colony, Lestallum. Leo's only clue to his purpose is a cryptic message left to him by his creator, he strives to find a reason to fight and slowly learns what it means to truly be human.

A flash fiction collection of science fiction stories.

A collection of pieces written daily over the course of July 2015. "Galastaire and its surrounding realms are a dream - this is known. Song things linger. Many things lie forgotten. The difference is not in what is real and what is false. The truth lies in what lingers longest." A diverse, expansive world from my blog, http://apromptripost.com

Upper City or Lower City—it's all the same old shit to ex-cop Luis. Anywhere that he can hunt for the perfect hand he needs to rebuild life for himself and his family. But his quarry ends up being something far bigger. Maybe too big for Luis.

She never use to love these things, but now with Chester, she loves.

A race of tiny, magical beings lives throughout Earth today. They are kirins. Dwelling in elaborate tree homes and underground sanctuaries, they enjoy a strong kinship with the animals and birds of their region. In the distant past humans knew them well. But an ancient rift occurred between the races, and kirins chose to separate themselves from humans. To help in this, kirin magicians cast a race-wide spell, the spell of no'an, making all kirins invisible to humans. Sadly, we are now unaware of their hidden civilization. For thousands of years kirins everywhere lived in peace. But an army of gronoms, merciless, faceless monsters, shatters their sylvan existence. ELAMARE, a depraved magician at Stonehenge, has sent gronoms forth. Created there, within the citadel of kirin magic, their sole function is to find and assault kirins who know of Elamare's evil conduct and how to combat it. Book One opens in the domain of tree-dwelling kirins in the central part of North America. Three kirin youngsters find OLAMIN, an aged kirin magician, moribund in the forest. The youngsters are GILIN, a determined lad, TALLI, a spirited girl, and REYDEL, a shy young lass.

Labrys Town, home to a million humans cut off from the rest of the universe, has been invaded. Those who protected it have been deposed. The Relic Guild are scattered across the worlds of the Aelfir. Many of them are dead or dying. The Genii control everything. The war is almost over. Clara, a young woman barely able to control her werewolf side, has seen her friends and mentors killed in front of her. She is the last hope for Labrys Town. But someone else is watching...

But of course there's no such thing as time travel.

A talented young artificer is tasked with preventing emotional damage to his home and wellspring, but meets his match in the city's most stubbornly miserable citizen. If he is unable to help her, the home he loves may be poisoned beyond repair. www.quillandread.com

A man decides nothing can stop him crossing the space between the stars.

"I'm really bad a grinding though.."

Featured on @ScienceFiction | Josiah Li lives in a flooded world, where global warming has taken its toll and technology is intertwined in every aspect of daily life. To pass the time in between virtual classes, he finally takes the leap to sign up for a popular game, Starlia. He chooses the least popular class, a bard--good for providing support and crowd control. Josiah quickly rises to fame when he teams up with Starlia's number one player, Nathan Lum--who's totally handsome and charming, by the way. Josiah joins Nathan's guild, and from there he's introduced to the game's royalty. Turns out, Josiah is pretty good at gaming. So much so that he's invited by the game's company to fly out to their headquarters to meet Nathan and a few other guild members. The company is quick to admit that the game world is harboring many secrets, including a code that's key to building a weathering machine to save Josiah's broken world. Josiah and his guild set out on a quest, which includes defeating multiple strong bosses to reveal the code. As the flooding only worsens, Josiah and his guild mates begin a race against time, betting all of their hopes on unlocking the weathering machine. As their rivals race for the code in hopes of fame and wealth, Josiah risks his all for the game's secrets.

Very short poem-stories.

Energy can not be created, nor destroyed, but only converted into something else. In the distant future of humanity, three scientists undergo a daring plan to stall the effects of entropy on a dying universe.

English translation of my short stories in French. Science-Fiction and Fantasy.

Hana is a recently graduated diplomat, leaving on her first assignment. She must travel to a world she has never heard of and try to stop a war. The war may already have begun. It may never have happened. There is no way to know, until she arrives, because news can only travel as fast as a starship. Hana has no authority, and no ability to compel the warring parties to make peace, and she cannot leave until the war is over. And if that takes more than a week - the length of time a starship remains in orbit around any planet - then the vessel she arrived on will leave without her, and she will have to wait for the next. That wait could take her whole life. It is a backwater planet, with neither strategic importance nor much of anything to trade. Exactly the kind of planet a recent-graduated diplomat is sent to. And on a forgotten, backwater planet, in a turbulent, seething galaxy, that next ship might be a very long time coming. It could be years, or even decades. If Hana fails to make peace in a week, she may be stuck, and her career over before it has begun. She may also be dead, if her peacemaking goes very badly wrong. * * * And to save people starting if it isn’t their thing, this is meant to be gritty, realistic space opera. So no aliens, no FTL, no neutrino communications, the technology is just there and who cares how it works, planets are sovereign polities and interplanetary war is almost impossible - and also pointless - but conflicts within a planet are common and this is what Hana wants to stop. So also, she isn’t saving the galaxy or anything important!

Son of the Dragon is a short story from Volume 1 of Tales From Netherün - the free online fantasy e-zine. Tales From Netherün is available at www.quillandread.com/subscribe The zine is released bi-monthly and each contains 3 short stories set in Netherün. Netherün is a land dominated by vast swathes of wilderness between pockets of civilization, where the edges of the map are not yet known and magic not yet fully tamed or understood. Through these short stories, the world will unravel, piece by piece, but no one story will be the answer. There are many mysterious lands, peoples and magic in Netherün, and within each, stories to be explored and new mysteries to discover.

Self-proclaimed super-sleuth, 12yo LEXI WALKER, suspects her hometown harbours secrets and investigates. She soon finds a glowing, arcane Orb. When it imbues her with magical powers she can't control & transports her to a hidden world, her suspicions are realised.