Speculative Stories

What if the life you always dreamed of was only a step away- but to claim it, you'd have to give up your own? When ordinary people across the modern world begin to wake up in strange new bodies-mages, warriors, queens, rebels, and scholars-they discover a secret: lives can be borrowed. Each night, they cross into worlds that aren't theirs, living destinies they were never meant to hold. For Arjun, a weary student drowning under expectations, it is the intoxicating power of magic. For Maya, a struggling mother, it is the reverence of a royal court. For Kenji, a broken recluse, it is the strength of a legendary knight. For Selene, a brilliant lawyer, it is the desperate trust of rebels in a dying land. And for Dante, haunted by war, it is the gentle peace of a scholar's life. But every borrowed moment has a cost. The more they live in these other worlds, the more their real lives unravel-jobs, families, and identities slipping away. Worse still, their choices ripple across the fabric of realities, binding them together in ways none of them understand. Now, as the fractures between worlds widen, each must face the ultimate question: Which life will they choose to keep... and which will they let die? Isekai: The Borrowed Life is a sweeping, character-driven fantasy of desire, identity, and sacrifice-where every escape comes with a price, and no choice is without consequence.

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 ~~~

A generation after the world learned to listen, it begins to fall silent again. Taren Mekh has spent his life tracing the living heartbeat of the earth - the Pattern - the sentient network that once united humanity through shared empathy. But when the Resonant Spires across the world suddenly go mute, only Taren hears the faint counter-tone: a shadow frequency that no one else can detect. Sent by the Listening Guild to investigate, Taren and his small team - the seasoned captain Seren Vale, the restless engineer Aron Kael, and others drawn by curiosity or faith - set out across a landscape still learning how to be alive. From deserts of singing glass to cities built on living music, they follow the trail of silence to the edge of the known world, where the Pattern's voice disappears entirely. What they uncover beneath the sands of Eversong is not absence, but memory. The world's consciousness has begun to withdraw - hiding parts of itself that remember fear, jealousy, and longing. And from those hidden depths, something else is awakening: the Archivist, a being born from everything the Pattern tried to forget. As empathy collapses into fragmentation, Taren faces a deeper crisis - the pull between his mother Lira Mekh, who leads a sect preaching emotional independence from the Pattern, and the legacy of his ancestor Anaya, whose final map once taught the world to listen. Torn between connection and solitude, faith and autonomy, Taren must decide whether silence is decay - or evolution. To heal the world, he may have to unmap it entirely.

The Void is sentient. It seeks the consumption of all existence, but is unable to do so due to forces it unintentionally gave rise to during its own emergence. Unable to act directly, it instead corrupts reality - influencing, degrading, and destabilizing it over time. Humanity discovered the Void after its effects became measurable. In response, the Void Response Authority was formed: an interstellar organization tasked with studying Void-corrupted phenomena, containing active threats, and, when possible, repurposing anomalous properties as weapons. Soriel is a void anomaly employed by the VRA as an anomalous agent. Following a transfer to the Frontier planet Abyssia, he becomes part of a system designed to observe, control, and survive the influence of the Void - even as conditions begin to diverge from what the Authority considers acceptable.

━━ 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 ━━ New worlds. Flawed protagonists. Blurred lines between good and evil. The Arcane Universes welcomes you to an unforgettable adventure. Let this guide help you in navigating the vast imaginary landscapes of magic, wonder, and ultimately, of fate. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• All graphics and content made by @Exequinne.

Encounter Bay, South Australia, April 8, 1802 Two scientists boldly go where no white man had gone before. One French, one British. Both mapping the southern Australian coastline. A peaceful exchange despite believing their respective countries were still at war. In our world, Britain colonised South Australia. However, in an alternate universe, marching to the tune of a divergent timeline, France won the fair state of South Australia. Into this Mirror World, Holly enters. But she's not alone. And she's not safe. Furthermore, she would discover she's not who she thought she was.

The version of our world, where people hibernate for winter like animals This is slice of life story of relationship between two girls, their preparations for yearly hibernation and family relations. Story explores topics of family support, risks and benefits of hibernation in the world where it's part of human condition.

Elteross Vass lives hidden in the woods, far from cities and history. His life is reduced to routines: gathering wood, maintaining the machines that keep his daughter alive, and staying unseen. Years ago, an experiment tore a rift open above Totenheim. His wife, a scientist involved in the project, died when the sky broke. Elteross survived, and ran. Now the past finds him. A New Order officer appears in his home with the truth Elteross feared: the rift was never sealed. The world beyond it, Naesia, still presses against reality, and his daughter is no accident of survival. Forced back toward Totenheim, Elteross must face what his wife died trying to stop-and what his daughter may become. Some doors do not open with force. They open when everything goes quiet. And then it goes dark.

On a winter night, while a storm closes in on a quiet house, a seven-year-old boy hears a name on the television: Atlas. He does not understand what it means. He only knows it is the name of the tallest thing he has built, and perhaps the name of something large enough to carry what he cannot. As the power goes out and the cold begins to enter the walls, he makes a small shelter on the living room floor and makes a wish - not to the sky, but to a distant, unseen Atlas. ATLAS is a quiet story about childhood, solitude, hope, and the moment kindness arrives when it is most needed. - A short story by Lanka Odyssey

Dimarrah Folette is a woman accused of murder and awaiting the executioner when a stranger comes for her. Together they unravel secrets that could ignite a war.

Planet Valyria, awarded by new human overlords Qaians is a promise to humanity's effort to cooperate and coexist and escape the curse their old masters bestowed upon them, that is to reproduce, conquer and self annihilate for their masters to take their place. In this action-packed short story some 25 pages long, a team called Arus struggles to fulfill their demanding missions and keep up their interpersonal relationships. How will they keep with their duty when humanity is so mutinous? How will they pay off their debt to Qaians with their rank of astral knight in a world where its easy to be called out as rebel for just surviving and fighting for yourself and what you stand for.

I'm not the first one to write about speculative zoology, I was inspired by many books and tv shows which introduced the idea to me. Those which helped me the most with this project were H.G. Wells' Time Machine and Dougal Dixon's After Man. As well, I should mention the documentary style tv episodes The Future is Wild. With all these sources I was able to finally come up with my own story: Fifty Million Years from Now.

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.

After being accused of fathering a child that couldn't possibly be his, Marin must choose between revealing a deep secret to prove his innocence, or accepting heavy consequences for breaking his vows of celibacy.

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 long-awaited sequel to "The Cosmic Broadcast" is out - all 3 of you will love this one. Probably. This is a story written by Patrick Lonergan of Village Square Publishing Company and HaHa Funny Productions. "Professor What" is a parody of the BBC TV series "Doctor Who".

A story of a crow separated from its murder stumbling across a child; Desperate for survival, having no choice but to renounce its own nature. Will one be rewarded for resisting the truth, or punished for it? Does God seem merciful enough to direct you in a path of indulgence, or only consequences?

Captain Ryn and his crew once explored the farthest reaches of space, only to encounter a living anomaly that shattered reality itself. Pulled into a realm where physics and thought obey no rules, Ryn faces fragmented consciousness, impossible landscapes, and a presence that watches from beyond comprehension. When he awakens in a new world of magic, dragons, and strange peoples, he must learn to survive-and belong-while carrying the lingering memory of the cosmos he left behind. A tale of identity, wonder, and the unseen forces that watch across worlds.

A neuro link developer becomes increasingly desperate to speed up progress as his mother deteriorates from a degenerative condition and he develops early stages of the same disease, and begins illicit beta tests with teenagers interested in early access to advanced neuro link upgrades.

'Level' is the sequel to 'Parallels,' an anthology of standalone short stories that explore the dystopian repercussions of contemporary indifference, examining the future of the human condition. This collection invites its readers to peer into the core of humanity, which encompasses a dark age mankind is apathetic and unwilling to face, but is inevitable to become. It explores the grey realities and potential threats associated with life in the 21st century, a myriad of relevant themes, and what happens when humanity is backed into a corner both of and against its own will.