Speculative Stories

The dead hand of history still grips the throat of the present. Three centuries after a meteor shower struck Earth, humanity is divided between the powered and the originals. One group changed. One did not. In the years that followed, a virus killed billions, twisted the natural world into something monstrous, and gave fear a shape to blame. The powered have carried that blame ever since. Collared, controlled, and sent beyond the city walls, they are forced to fight the mutations that roam the wilds while the originals stay safe behind the walls. Ezra, a doctor, refuses to accept the world's clean divisions. He treats anyone who needs him, believing every life has value, even in a city built on deciding otherwise. When one act of mercy toward a stranger pulls him into a hidden war, Ezra begins to uncover the truth buried beneath generations of fear. Tension between originals and powered reach a breaking point, and Ezra faces a choice that could alter the course of humanity. One where the line between saving and destroying becomes increasingly blurred.

THE DIVIDE One school. Two worlds. One terrible secret. At Westbridge Academy, the rules are simple. Students either pay tuition or receive financial aid. The two groups never meet. They never share classes, eat in the same cafeteria, or even walk the same halls. Questions aren't encouraged, and curiosity has a way of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old Lark Foster has spent her entire life accepting that some things simply aren't meant to be understood. But when a chance encounter leads her beyond the invisible boundary separating the two student populations, she discovers that the divide isn't about money. It's about control. Behind the walls of Westbridge lies a hidden world where students aren't just educated; they're studied. Every test score, every emotion, every decision is part of something far larger than anyone could imagine. Someone has been watching them all along. As Lark and a small group of unlikely allies race to uncover the truth, they find themselves hunted by the very institution that raised them. And the deeper they dig, the more terrifying the truth becomes: The experiments were never the goal. They were only the beginning.

THE JUDGMENT COUNCIL is for readers who ponder questions raised by AI but suspect the most important ones are still unknown: what happens when humanity forgets how to decide for itself? Blending first-contact science fiction with literary and philosophical speculation, the novel explores the value of human judgment in a world increasingly built to replace it.

Everyone believes they're making choices. Na'Ena discovers the choices have been making them. After awakening into mysterious Space of Stillness-a realm where time hesitates and every unanswered decision leaves its imprint-she begins to see the hidden architecture governing reality. There she encounters Velorien, an ancient being who oversees the space between action and becoming. Guided by Castiel, an angel stripped of Heaven's certainty and assigned to watch over her since birth,and Lilith, whose wisdom exists beyond the stories history remembers, Na'Ena begins unraveling the truth behind her existence. But awakening isn't about gaining power. its about reclaiming authority. As the Realm of stillness resists her growing lucidity, Na'Ena must confront the systems built to keep consciousness paused. Every realization sends ripples through reality, forcing the world itself to recalibrate around her. Some awakenings change a life. Others change existence.

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Cosmic horror and Epic saga based in the World of Darkness this dark reimagining of the Monday's Child folktale follows the Days of Fate, 6 cosmic beings that control the destiny of the universe and they have decided it is time for the Apocalypse to begin. Opposed by the Light Wednesday Child of Woe and Frigsday Child of Sin week to free the Cosmic Wyrm the primordial force of destruction that will bring about the End of Days.

A collection of short fiction for the 2026 Smackdown.

This anthology was created for the 2026 Smackdown.

The Earth is finally dying. Humans have been doing wrong time and time again, failing to understand their mistakes. Eventually, history closes in on itself. Humans, now selfish and arrogant, fail to understand the importance of history and nature. Benji is a walking contradiction. He empathizes, but embodies selfish behaviour. One day, his entire life changes with a selfless, yet simple action. Little does he know, this could give him just what he needed all along. Maybe with his story, humans can also understand the wrongdoings of their actions. Maybe we can learn how to heal ourselves and the world. _________________________________________________________________________________ ***unfinalized*** this story was a narative essay that was assigned in my english class. it ends abruptly and some parts are patchy because i tried to finish it within the deadline. I hope you enjoy! If it surpasses enough views, i'll probably start working on making it longer, and fixing parts of the story. This story is also very short too! i hope that i'll be able to add more sci-fi-y elements to it soon ______________________________________________________________________________ ***Update!*** New epilogues coming soon! Cover drawing made by me (Experimenting with different cover designs)

In 2062, all students in the UK must take The Future - an exam that selects the smartest, most creative and resilient 17 year-olds. The top 1% are allowed to marry one another in order to produce the elites of the future. The bottom 99% are immediately sterilised. For the top 1%, a life of family and lucrative careers awaits. But for Portia, Richard, Naomi and Justice - successful 1-per-centers - the problems are only just beginning. They, and their competitive families, will battle for the best marriage match-ups, whilst surviving in a world of climate chaos, violent migrant crackdowns, and AI systems that dominate public life. Can the young adults of The Future find love in the present? Or will secrets, corruption and heart-break ruin their lives and everyone's around them?

In a distant future, humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side in perfect harmony. Sharing cities, careers, and equal rights, they believe this peaceful coexistence is how the world has always been. But when a young human uncovers an erased piece of history, a terrifying truth begins to surface: animals were not always intelligent-and the reason why has been deliberately forgotten. As the revelation spreads, fear replaces trust. Society fractures. Humans turn on animals, animals retreat in terror, and the world teeters on the edge of collapse. Caught in the chaos, a small group of young humans and animals race to uncover the truth behind the lost past-one powerful enough to either heal the world or destroy it forever. The Age of Unison is a gripping science-fiction tale about unity, fear, and the dangerous cost of forgotten history.

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.

ECHO//ERROR - Series Description What if the people the world forgot... never truly disappeared? Five strangers. Five different lives. One impossible coincidence. When Den, Ares, Baz, Dion, and Ace survive an event that should have erased them from existence, they awaken in a hidden world beneath reality-a place where forgotten memories are preserved, abandoned train stations never appear on maps, and mysterious beings known as Echoes continue to exist only because someone, somewhere, still remembers them. Guided by the enigmatic Conductor, haunted by relentless Collectors, and judged by an ancient force called the Auditor, the five discover that they are no longer ordinary people. They are Echoes-living memories caught between life and oblivion. As they unravel the secrets of the Archive, the Garden of Names, Platform Zero, and the forgotten history hidden beneath the world's memories, they must answer a question far more terrifying than whether they can survive: If the world forgets you... who are you? Bound not by blood but by the family they choose to become, Den, Ares, Baz, Dion, and Ace learn that love, grief, identity, and memory are stronger than fate itself. Blending science fiction, mystery, psychological suspense, supernatural fantasy, heartfelt comedy, and a moving queer found-family narrative, ECHO//ERROR is a story about the people we lose, the memories we keep, and the extraordinary courage required to choose hope in a world determined to forget. Because sometimes... The greatest miracle isn't being remembered. It's choosing to remember someone else.

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

Sequel to Book One. Parallel worlds. guardian angels. alien abductions. One girl caught between destiny and free will. And the more Rosandra learns about reality... the less reality makes sense.

Three timelines. One man. Jonas Vale is a loyal citizen, a wasteland gun-for-hire, and a weary teacher - all at once. But as impossible memories bleed between worlds, he must decide who he really is... before every version of him is erased.

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.

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.

The world ended centuries ago. Nations collapsed beneath atomic fire, chemical wars, and endless conflict. What survived was not peace, but factions fighting over the ruins of civilization. After losing her parents during local riots and watching her sister disappear into the arms of an enemy leader, a young girl is left alone in a starving, violent world where survival is worth more than morality. Forced to join one of the ruling factions to escape hunger and death, she discovers terrifying rumors may actually be true. Hidden in the shadows of history exist people capable of controlling a mysterious energy woven into the universe itself - a power awakened by generations of war, mutation, and suffering. These "superhumans" are feared, hunted, and weaponized by the factions. During the recruitment process, special tests are used to uncover those gifted with the ability to sense and manipulate this energy. She should have failed. She cannot feel the energy. She shows no signs of mutation. She is completely ordinary. And yet... she is chosen. As war spreads across the rebuilding world, she is dragged into a reality filled with secret clans, brutal military operations, political manipulation, betrayal, love, and the ghosts of her past - including the sister who now stands on the opposite side of the battlefield. In a dying world trying to be reborn, humanity may become something far more dangerous than human.

Read to find out.