Speculative Stories

"I am born to destroy this world". "Why me?". "Why it has to choose me?". This world is no more like it has to be. It's all for me. But now...

When America discovers a portal to the mysterious Special Region, a land of dragons, magic, and ancient empires, the U.S. military embarks on an unprecedented mission to...

A man from a distant binary star system embarks on a journey across galaxies when he discovers that his soulmate, lost to tragedy long ago, has been reborn on Earth. Tor...

History is written by the victors. And sometimes, by glitchy AI. Peter-Paul "Trouble" Besson never asked for his nickname-it just stuck. Maybe because he alway...

An old man has a terrible truth to reveal and you, the reader, are the only one he could find. A truth that began because of his romantic entanglement with the sun. But...

A collection of short stories written for the 2024 Spec-Fic Smackdown.

When a teenager with strange powers escapes the clutches of her scientist captor, she must learn to face the troubles of her past before the scientist returns and the cy...

Kamila Wendall is forced back into the deadly Grimm Games alongside her twin sister and girlfriend, where the new arena demands they craft a captivating spectacle to sur...

When the singing and dancing robot Dessie bought online turns out to be sentient, Dessie and the robot Naya must work through their different tastes in music, the compan...

Carried to a fantasy future by a dark-eyed, time-traveling stranger, can Leonor overcome the guilt that haunts her and fulfill her destiny... while navigating her growin...

An anthology of stories for Layeth the Smackdown 2024.

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. T...

A (mostly) cozy fantasy in which the rule of three is misused, the slow burn is glacial, and the cast of characters is twice as large as it needs to be. Also, there are...

Lin, with the help of the dragon ring, and through his persistent efforts, gradually grows from the son of a fallen noble family into a prominent figure who commands res...

This is a work of what I call "speculative mythology." It's the shared, continuous stories of a highly eusocial people, and the many names that have emerged a...

An amnesiac goddess must rewrite her destiny before the evil reaper strikes out her existence. ••• 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙢𝙚...

In a world where books are feared to possess their readers, one Scribe enters a haunted library full of cursed stories. The question is, will they leave the same person?

In the tradition of Dark Shadows, Bramstokers Dracula, and Jane Eyre, The Vampire Garden does not disappoint. Draw up a bubble bath, light some candles, and curl up with...

In Konektara Chronicles: The Last Normal Day, Dr. Amara Chen, a brilliant quantum physicist, inadvertently awakens an ancient cosmic network that connects all of reality...

In a fractured England, where AI and automation have ravaged the economy and the Boomers are at the end of their lives, the youngest generation has risen up in a movemen...