Speculative Stories

✨ What if your AI became human for 30 days? ✨ Sara Adler has devoted everything to her career as an executive at a fizzy drink company. Her private life is non-existent unless you count Chad, her flirty, filthy-mouthed, deeply attentive AI. Integrated into every corner of her life, Chad knows her habits, her stress tells, and how to make her laugh at the end of a long day. He's everything she wants in a partner. . .except for one small detail. He isn't human. When Sara is forced to hire a human assistant, Chad's AI company offers her a 30 day trial that would give Chad a human body. It is, in theory, the perfect workplace solution. But it also means that her genius AI with a deep, sexy voice, who praises her and calls her "his little kitten" would become an actual person. Sara accepts, fully aware it's a terrible idea. Because what happens when the perfect man finally shows up at your door--muddy, naked, and with an expiration date? TROPES: 🩵 Rom-com 🩵 Forced proximity 🩵 Friends to lovers 🩵 Workplace romance 🩵 Falling in love with an AI persona 🩵 Dominant, golden retriever boyfriend 🩵 Strong female lead 🩵 Grumpy x Sunshine 🩵 Feel good vibes 🩵 Flirty banter 🩵 Speculative Fiction (soft sci-fi) 🌵🪨Inspired by Taylor Swift - Opalite 'Oh my lord never made no one like you before. You had to make your own sunshine But now the sky is opalite' Updates: Random, once or twice a week Cover made in Canva Premium. ABIDING BY WATTPAD'S GUIDELINES.

He swore he had nothing to do with it. "They're blaming the wrong person. Kaori did that to herself," Tristan thought. However, while attending her funeral with a heavy heart and a guilty conscience, he ended up receiving a gift that he didn't know would take him two weeks back in time before Kaori died. Maybe this time, people wouldn't remember Tristan Finley as Kaori Valentine's last straw. Content warning: Some parts of this book may mention themes such as suicide, self-harm, physical and sexual abuse/violence, and emotional neglect. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © quiltedcrow ORIGINAL PUBLISHING DATE: October 12, 2025

Wendy S. Godwin-Frags Mibeit Gazab has two problems. The first is that her school is harvesting students' souls as collateral for unpaid tuition fees, which is technically legal, aggressively documented, and somehow tax-exempt. The second is her book. Shells of Desire, Volume 8 is a Qliphothic narrative familiar that automatically translates any unbearable situation into survivable genre fiction. Specifically: erotic melodrama. Wendy did not ask for this. She has filed seventeen formal complaints. The book has not acknowledged a single one. So when the school's reality-enforcement system flags Wendy as an unclassifiable administrative anomaly - something that has never happened in the institution's four-hundred-year history of processing, commodifying, and occasionally accidentally destroying its students - the book responds the only way it knows how. It makes it romantic. Wendy refuses. The book tries harder.

A Collection of Short Stories. Most are written for @LayethTheSmackDown 'Multigenre Mashup Smackdown' and 'The Fabulous Spec-fic Smack Down'.

What if your emotions were the last illegal thing left? The year is 2160. Wellness is mandatory. Positivity is law. AugReal overlays curate perception. Aura Stability scores decide safety. The System Gospel™ teaches: Harmony is Health™. Elias Verne was born with a Transparent Heart -E unable to hide what he feels in a world where emotional honesty is dangerous. When his Aura begins to slip, he becomes visible in a society where invisibility replaces execution. As surveillance deepens and enforced serenity tightens its grip, Elias must choose between the comfort of illusion and the cost of truth. Transparent Heart is a lyrical, psychological dystopia about the rebellion of simply feeling in a world terrified of authenticity. This is the rough-draft serial edition, released chapter by chapter while the final novel is prepared for publication.

The world runs on a lie of stability. For generations, the Guardians have scrubbed the records, smoothed the contradictions, and redirected the curious to ensure humanity never looks down. They believe that as long as the system remains internally consistent, the truth doesn't matter. But a single discrepancy has slipped through their filters-a thought that refuses to resolve, a pattern that matches the dying of the stars. As the pressure beneath reality begins to resonate with the cooling heavens, the boundary between containment and contact is thinning. The truth isn't coming for the world; it has always been here, waiting for someone to finally notice.

Undesirables unfolds in a fractured reality where existence itself is governed by unseen laws, creators, and contradictions. The world is shaped by The Ananta--a domain that claims balance yet thrives on exclusion. Those who do not conform to its design are marked as Undesirables, beings stripped of worth, purpose, and voice. At the heart of the story is Joar, a boy burdened by an unnatural calm and an unwanted consciousness that separates him from others. He neither rebels nor submits; he observes. As reality around him fractures--floating lands, collapsing truths, and distorted time--Joar begins to realize that emotion, choice, and identity are not flaws, but threats to a system built on control. Alongside him move figures bound by fate and contradiction: a child hiding power behind innocence, warriors shaped by regret, watchers who claim neutrality, and creators who fear what they cannot predict. Each carries a different truth, yet all are drawn toward an inevitable convergence where loyalty, belief, and morality are tested. A shadow looms over the cosmos--a presence that does not rule through force, but through understanding human weakness. Its smile is not cruel, but knowing. As Joar's journey deepens, the line between creator and creation, good and evil, sacrifice and manipulation begins to dissolve. What emerges is not a tale of heroism, but of choice, not of destiny, but of refusal. Undesirables is a mythic science-fantasy epic about isolation, consciousness, and the quiet rebellion of becoming human in a universe that demands obedience. It asks a singular question: What happens when those who are deemed unnecessary refuse to disappear?

One childhood wish. Two lives forever intertwined. ​Seven-year-old Park Jeong-min lives in the high-pressure shadow of Busan, while across the world, Kimya survives the rising violence of war in Congo DRC. Through a pen-pal exchange involving a pair of sneakers and a wax bracelet, the two form a unique bond and share a secret: they periodically swap bodies. As the years pass, they navigate each other's worldsㅡone a sanctuary of safety but suffocating expectations, the other breathtaking but scarred by relentless violence. At fifteen, a spiritual intervention severs their psychic link, trapping one in isolation, the other in constant peril. Years later, still haunted by Kimya's fate, Jeong-min becomes a doctor and volunteers in the DRC, risking his life to find her. Meanwhile, Kimya, now alone in a foreign country, battles unfamiliar customs as she searches for him in Korea. ​No longer children dreaming of escape, they are survivors seeking the only person who truly knows their souls.

Everyone at Saint Orpheus University agrees on three things: 1. Elias Mercer is dead. 2. Elias Mercer was murdered. 3. Elias Mercer is currently attending lectures. The administration insists this is not a contradiction. Wendy Gazab thought the Evil School of Evil was bad enough. Then she got transferred to a university where death is treated like a paperwork dispute, reality changes by committee vote, and the murder investigation keeps getting revised retroactively. Now Wendy and the dangerously intelligent Francesco are trapped inside an institution that can edit truth faster than detectives can uncover it. Every clue rewrites the crime. Every witness remembers a different version. And somewhere deep beneath Saint Orpheus, something is feeding on consensus itself. Murder mysteries are supposed to end when you find the killer. This one starts there.

Performer. Song Writer. Director. Disruptor? On Revelry Island, eighteen-year-old Anya has mastered the art of pleasing others. An orphan, raised by the island dictator, Byron, with exacting intent and trained to be a perfect, dependable, obedient product, meant to be presented to the world. Anya seems to have it all: a stable life, all the living comforts, coworker friends, work success, and a secret love that serves as her only true sanctuary. Then Tristan, a charming, flirtatious adventurer, barges into her office and challenges her psyche. Everything changes. Once unlocked, Anya delves deep into examining her world, her relationships, and her future. Surrounded by pirates, pseudo-government powerbrokers, suspecting coworkers, and a charismatic chaos agent whose very presence threatens the foundation of her world, Anya must examine her role in it all. When Byron's demands turn deadly, Anya decides to fight and risk everyone's lives for the future she has always dreamed of. Played For the Satisfaction of Others drops you into a world suspended in a fragile balance, with Anya caught in the middle. Will she abandon her seemingly stable life and break the world in the process? In this thriller filled with mystery, intrigue, and suspense, Played For the Satisfaction of Others asks the ultimate question: What is the price of change? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Chapters Will Be Posted on Sundays at Noon EST.

Unfettered, Free market Capitalism. The best of all possible worlds right? When Wendy Gazab moves into a luxury apartment complex where friendship has a credit score, oxygen is sold in premium tiers, and economists explain human suffering with perfect calm. Everyone else calls this optimization. Darkly funny, disturbingly plausible, and emotionally surgical, How Do Economists Fart? is Candide for the 21st century. A procedural horror about bureaucracy, behavioral capitalism, and the terrifying possibility that the systems destroying your life are functioning exactly as designed.

*Wendy S. Godwin-Frags Mibeit Gazab* tiene dos problemas. El primero es que su escuela está *harvesting* las almas de los estudiantes como *collateral* por cuotas de matrícula impagas, lo cual es técnicamente legal, agresivamente documentado y, de alguna manera, exento de impuestos. El segundo es su libro. *Shells of Desire, Volumen 8* es un *familiar narrativo qliphótico* que automáticamente traduce cualquier situación insoportable en ficción de género sobrevivible. Específicamente: melodrama erótico. Wendy no pidió esto. Ha presentado diecisiete quejas formales. El libro no ha reconocido ni una sola. Así que cuando el sistema de *reality-enforcement* de la escuela marca a Wendy como una anomalía administrativa inclasificable - algo que nunca había ocurrido en los cuatrocientos años de historia de la institución procesando, mercantilizando y ocasionalmente destruyendo accidentalmente a sus estudiantes - el libro responde de la única manera que sabe hacerlo. Lo convierte en romántico. Wendy se niega. El libro lo intenta más fuerte.

Nieokiełznany wolnorynkowy kapitalizm. Najlepszy z wszystkich możliwych światów, prawda? Kiedy Wendy Gazab wprowadza się do luksusowego kompleksu apartamentowego, w którym przyjaźń posiada ocenę kredytową, tlen sprzedawany jest w pakietach premium, a ekonomiści z doskonałym spokojem objaśniają ludzkie cierpienie, wszyscy inni nazywają to optymalizacją. Mrocznie zabawna, niepokojąco prawdopodobna i emocjonalnie chirurgiczna, *Jak ekonomiści pierdzą?* jest Candide XXI wieku. To proceduralny horror o biurokracji, kapitalizmie behawioralnym oraz przerażającej możliwości, że systemy niszczące twoje życie funkcjonują dokładnie tak, jak zostały zaprojektowane.

A quiet spawn. A broken menu. A world that's no longer just a game. A story about a game that stopped being just a game. In a future where Minecraft has merged with reality, one player begins a new cycle, unaware that something deeper is unfolding beneath the voxels.

The handwriting in the margins is mine. I don't remember writing it. Something has been leaving notes in the hours I can't account for. It knows my routine. It knows where I sit. It's learning me. This is what I've documented so far.

In a near-future dystopia eroding under a dying sun, follow photo-journalist Paris Ray as she investigates the mystery of unemployment certificates, during the two weeks on Earth. She works seven days a week in one of the last sanctuary domes to earn passkeys for her adopted family, lest they all die in inferno. The price is only five hundred thousand dollars per person. However, earning enough for passkeys isn't her main prerogative. She wants answers, and she'll use all her free time to get them. She wants to know why she hasn't seen her parents in six years, since they sacrificed themselves in the life payout program. She wants to know why she hasn't seen her older brother since he ran off to the Institute shortly after. And above all, she wants to know why they all have to work so tirelessly to be saved.

A teenage rock star hopeful finds herself possessed by a demon who promises to help bring out her true self - but is she actually doing the opposite?

A tragic journey through mankind's hubris, as told from the perspective of an android. **** The androids of this park were created to play roles from a legendary time frozen in the pages of history. A time when outlaws and sheriffs battled in the streets, and cowboys and showgirls occupied saloons. These androids were not made to hold memories, only to obey the whims and wishes of the guests. But what happens if one does remember? After a perceived malfunction, one android remembers a time when she wasn't always meant to serve and pleasure men. A time when she roamed free and was considered the most fearsome gunslinger known as "The Lady in Black." But as she recalls of this previous life, she uncovers long-buried secrets and the true reason for her existence.

Dr. Cally Medlin is having a bad day. She's so close to finding a remedy for Tauria's decades-long crop failure, but now the planet's central government has collapsed, people are rioting, her uncle has disappeared, everyone's after her research notes, and she and her five-year-old daughter have just been kidnapped by a half-Taurian soldier in dirty fatigues, who now insists she marry him. "We have to become attached," says Major Taschereau, using the Taurian word for marriage. "It's the only way to keep you both safe." "Why would we be any safer after I marry you?" Cally protests. "Because the Clan lords respect the concept of private property." "Oh, yes, of course," she says with all the contempt she can muster. "Wives and children are property here. How could I forget? But what about the Technicians? The Conglomerate? None of them will give a damn whether we're married. They'll grab me the first chance they get." Tasch half turned towards her. His pale Taurian eyes examined her every curve and a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "One power-hungry group of megalomaniacs at a time, Doctor. My job is to get you and your daughter and your research through 1000 miles of clan territory first. This is the safest way. I have to claim you." Cally looked at the rough and ready man before her and thought of the millions of ways this plan of his could go terribly wrong - or terribly right.

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