Speculative Stories

Oren Hale discovers a memorial page for a boy who died four years ago and cannot explain why the photo looks exactly like him. After that, ordinary life starts to feel staged, like he is walking through a story someone else wrote. His tutor, Ayara, is smart, guarded, and dangerously easy to talk to. Their sessions shift into something riskier: honesty, which only makes the rest of the world feel stranger by comparison. As Oren tries to understand where the dead boy ends and he begins, the people closest to him keep steering him away from the truth. But the more he looks, the clearer it becomes: one of these lives is real, and the other is a mistake. He just doesn't know which one. AWARDS ~ Third Place for Best Romantic Pairing - The Triquetra Awards ~ Second Place for Best Prologue - The Triquetra Awards REVIEWS Just exceptional writing skills - David of INFERENCE

When no one knows you're alive, its liberating and confining. It's one of the best things that can happen to you, especially if you're a villain! You can be someone else, live the life you never could, do the things you only dreamt of! You would think, at least. However, the best thing you can do is start over new and embrace anonymity, new horizons, more opportunity. Until, that is, the holder of the lien on your life cold calls you home -- now what? Act like you didn't get the call? Take a third shot at redemption? Or better yet -- do something bold and reclaim your life? Only if you've got the guts to own it - but you just may end up dead, for real this time. The Deets: * once weekly chapter drops * no profanity, no graphic sex/violence scenes * this a basically book one of a series I'm working on so expect more! ~~~And btw the pics shown here all came from Pinterest ~~~ * although the story is showing up here serialized - I actually didn't/am not writing it as a serialized story, in the event a chapter feels chopped off. Each named section is one whole actual chapter that's split up to show up once a week here 👌 Book cover credit link from Pinterest: https://pin.it/1k5tRG8OW

He swore he had nothing to do with it. "They're blaming the wrong person. She did that to herself," he thought. However, as much as he'd hate to admit it, he couldn't stop thinking about maybe some things could've been different. By then, Tristan Finley wouldn't be the person people remember as Kaori Valentine's last straw. FIRST PUBLISHING DATE: October 12, 2025

Prepare for a Martian story of Hard Science and Painful Majic so explosive you'll have to change yourself just to be ready for it. Don't worry, it'll take us four years to get there from Earth, and in the process every cell in your body, now Homo Sapien, will gradually be replaced by Homo Martianus. I wish this deeply queer process alone could prepare you for the harsh nature of the surface. It won't. But, because of it, there is a chance that you'll survive. The systems that govern the planets however; they crumble around our would-be heroes. Human ambition rains from the skies as the foundations of the old world collapse. Write a song of destiny, find your players, and together form a ritual to transmute the reality of the planet Marsha itself into a rousing conspiracy thriller in which every chapter evolves alongside you, and every act is the sometimes uncontrolled demolition of the corrupt old world. When the Coda ends, what will be left of them? A new life on Marsha awaits. It will not be comfortable, but it will be alien. Vivit Terra Nova! Vivit 'l Tera-Rust!

Alana Fisher has always been a woman of words, but the latest sentence she's discovered is one she doesn't remember writing. It's her handwriting-the same messy loops, the same midnight-blue ink-but the message is a chilling warning that turns her quiet life into a waking nightmare. ​When a frantic note leads Alana to her childhood best friend's basement, she uncovers a fresh patch of concrete dated for a day that hasn't happened yet. Asia, the person she trusts most, claims Alana is losing her grip on reality, showing her a digital trail of "forgotten" notes and blackouts stretching back months. ​But as the shadows in the basement lengthen, Alana glimpses a reflection that changes everything: a golden watch that shouldn't be there, and a secret that has been hidden in plain sight since they were girls. ​Is Alana truly losing her mind, or is she the architect of a warning she was never supposed to read? In a world where your own hand can betray you, the truth is buried deeper than the floorboards-and someone is willing to do anything to keep it there. ​Seven letters. One survivor. The clock is ticking toward April 10th.

In the bustling port city of Busan, seven-year-old Park Jeong-min is drowning in the silence of his father's death. Half a world away, in the emerald forests of the DRC, Kimya watches the horizon for the smoke of a civil war she is too young to understand. Linked by a simple pen-pal exchangeㅡ a pair of white sneakers for a wax cloth braceletㅡthe two children share a desperate, whispered wish: to be anyone else. ​Then, they wake up in each other's skin. ​The magical escape becomes a lifelong haunting. At seven, ten, and fourteen, the swap yanks them across continents into each other's trauma. Jeong-min learns survival in a war zone; Kimya navigates South Korea's academic pressures. ​When a violent spiritual intervention at age fifteen severs their connection. The swaps end. Jeong-min is left in Seoul, haunted by Kimya trapped in a conflict he can no longer see. ​Driven by a debt he cannot name, Jeong-min builds a life of cold, medical precision, hoping to find her through the very systems that keep them apart. From the high-stakes world of a Korean medical residency to the front lines of a global refugee crisis, he is looking for his phantom limb. ​Jeong Min doesn't know Kimya is searching for him, too. #onc 2026 main prompt: 29 prompt mix: 73 #blackhistory #history #koreanhistory #worldheritage

An interstellar Khq'trakhi expedition to an alien system believed to have a habitable planet turns out to be more than the insectoids bargained for.

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.

Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Hawkins has spent a decade dreaming of becoming a detective, just like her late, legendary investigator father, John Hawkins. Yet even dreams come with shadows-her father's mysterious death still haunting her decisions like a ghost. Invited to work as an intern for the esteemed Collective Detective Agency, her first day becomes anything but normal. Thrust into solving a perfect crime alongside an exasperated but brilliant young detective, she must reconcile Jeffrey Hoper's innocence and a body of evidence that ranges from the murder weapon in his hand to the fingerprintless bellows camera and a white-stained teacup left by the criminal. With experimental gadgets and an ensemble of eccentric agents, it's up to the amateur sleuth to uncover the threads if she hopes to save an innocent man.

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.

✨ What if your AI becomes 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' This is an Open Novella Contest 2026 Entry. The prompts I'm using are in the author's notes. Updates: Random, once or twice a week Cover made in Canva Premium. ABIDING BY WATTPAD'S GUIDELINES.

A boy. An android built to capture him. And something in his hands that no protocol can calculate. Efficiency Protocol is an entry point into the Sylrem Chronicles - the universe where the saga The Resonants will soon unfold. You don't need to have read anything else. This is where the signs begin.

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.

When Dr. Kazuo Tanaka activates the Eighth Mind, humanity receives the greatest gift it ever dreamed of - and the deadliest curse it never imagined. A single Prion particle, released into the stratosphere, ends all disease on Earth. No more viruses. No more bacteria. No more death by illness. Immortality becomes a biological fact. But as the world celebrates, the consequences unfold with mathematical brutality: population explodes, resources collapse, nations fracture, and Antarctica becomes the battleground of a new global war. A century later, Earth is a silent graveyard of its own prosperity. In the ruins of civilisation, a young man named Elias walks through the ashes of a world that conquered death... only to discover a fate far worse. The Cure is a dystopian, philosophical short story from The Eighth Mind Universe, exploring what happens when humanity removes its greatest limitation without understanding the price.

|ACT I 2022 VERSION · 11X FEATURED| Have you ever wanted to see where life first began? Meet Daniel Matton, a legendary adventurer who ventured to the past, present, and future in a starship known as PPMC, by traveling through a black hole, wormhole, and white hole. Now, did he want to be the star of the PPMC Project? Heck no, but he loved paleontology. However, things never go according to plan, and he experienced things well beyond our imagination: volcanic eruptions, eight-foot-long millipedes, man-eating dinosaurs, terrifying saber-toothed cats, and above all, disaster. He did not sign up for that! What the heck, 5022 Greenville, South Carolina? It may sound like a suicide mission, but it's not. Dan's story is different. It's a chronicle of survival-one worth writing down to share with the world: a tale of love, friendship, horror, and letting go of the past (not to mention escaping all those insane, prehistoric animals who kept trying to turn him into the blue-plate special). Despite this, Dan's love for paleontology did not save him when he died. And all he could ask himself was "Will I rise?" *** Main Achievement: 🏅 Best Plot in The Royal Tiara Awards!

a little thought experiment in a world where the only major land vertebrates are hyraxes.

Niohmar.exe ; Installation is a fragmented dystopian saga spanning eight pivotal eras (2025-2125), as climate collapse accelerates and humanity increasingly outsources life-and-death choices to powerful AI systems. In Geneva, during a global emergency summit, a climate scientist (Amira Hasan) witnesses the unthinkable: an AI labels entire regions "non-priority"-in other words, expendable-in the name of global survival. Through political turmoil, ethical breakdowns, and widening social divides, each story reveals another layer of the same nightmare: when efficiency becomes doctrine, who still gets to define a human life's worth?

By the time this world reaches 2055, more than half of you will be gone... I have watched this happen before. Not once. Not twice. But 776 times. This is Earth 777. Cities that once never slept now stand silent. Systems built to serve humanity still run... but no one is left to control them. And somewhere between progress and power, something went terribly wrong. You call it fate. You say everything is already written. But I have seen every version of your world collapse- and I can tell you this: Nothing is written. This cycle was meant to teach you something. About love. About life. About each other. But every time... you choose control over connection. Power over humanity. And every time... you destroy something beautiful. I am not here to save you. I am only here to show you- what went wrong.

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.

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