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The 2234 Universe gathers wild, thought‑provoking stories from every corner of a hard‑won Solar System. In the asteroid belt people struggle and strive. On Ariel's ice, a battered outpost fights to reboot its lungs and its conscience. In Caleb's Vein, a belt crew chases a river of living metal through the dark, trading sleep and skin for one shot at freedom. In Ethan's Saviour, a burned‑out responder on half‑pressured Mars gambles everything on a rescue that could redeem a city or expose its lie. These are hard science fiction tales built from real physics, ruthless economics, and stubborn hope. Mass drivers sing, contracts bite, robots keep score, and people still fall in love. From frost‑bright moons to dust‑red plains, every page asks the same question: what is a future worth if we forget the people in it? Facts, opportunities, and souls, all lit by the cold bright sun of 2234. Welcome to the World of 2234.

13x featured wattpad story. Before everything, it's assumed there was nothing, but what if there was no real difference between the two? Just two extreme philosophies from the first conflict. The planet Huom has been under observation for longer than should technically be possible. The primary watcher, a bitter black hole, is excited to see that there is finally a proverbial Darkness at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, on the planet, in the freezing mountains of Empris, Lyeasrakardsul, the oldest living sorcerer, suffers from devastating nightmares. At the same time, far away in the sandstone desert of Zenon, Herschel, a man filled to the brim with weird ideas is escaping a prison filled with strange old men. What does all this have to do with arsehole Gods, hairy Dwarfs, frustrated Afreets, curious Knomes, lizard-women, and nude Áettar? Perhaps Nothing, perhaps Everything... but why can't it be both?

[ONGOING STORY] A nation can imprison a man, but not an idea. Set against the backdrop of a futuristic society ruled by the iron fist of an ultranationalist-fascist regime, a group of masked individuals are drawn together by circumstance and tragedy. Hidden behind their identities and haunted by their pasts, they become unwilling witnesses to a nation unraveling beneath tyranny, corruption, fear, oppression, decadence, and silence. As unrest spreads and the regime's grip begins to crack, they find themselves caught between obedience and resistance, survival and conviction. Bound by loss, disillusionment, and a shared longing for change, they must navigate a world where truth is suppressed, dissent is punished, and hope itself is treated as a threat. But beyond every mask lies a truth waiting to be uncovered, and some truths are powerful enough to awaken the people. A novel in memory of a long-forgotten revolution. DISCLAIMER: All elements in the story are fictional, and any real-life parallels are purely coincidental and unintentional. [Written in Taglish]

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

A collection of short fiction for the 2026 Smackdown.

In Chapter 1 - Crossways, Tony spends the weekend with his sister and her family, and gets a late start for home Sunday night. Too tired to continue, he parks on the side of the road for a short nap. He wakes up too late to make it to work on time. But, as he'll soon discover, losing his job will be the least of his worries. Chapter 1 is less than 1,000 words. I'll add additional flash-fiction stories as I write them, each under 1,500 words to stay within the flash fiction definition. I hope you enjoy them, and I'd love to hear what you think.

POST-SEPARATION CONDITIONS The distances have failed. The infrastructures that once preserved individuality; cities, satellites, hospitals, libraries, oceans, dream systems; are collapsing one by one. Humanity is beginning to remember what it once was. Not a civilization. Not a species. But a vast collective emotional organism fragmented long ago to prevent reality itself from collapsing beneath the unbearable density of shared consciousness. Now reunification has begun. People awaken inside one another's dreams. Cities drift through emotional weather systems. Memories migrate between strangers. The oceans breathe with planetary awareness. Architecture softens beneath proximity pressure. Sleep becomes collective. And somewhere beyond the dissolving structures of separation, something ancient is waking gently inside the universe again. But the return is not apocalypse. It is something far stranger. A reality attempting to survive infinite intimacy. - DISSIDENT GEOMETRY - VOL. III explores the unstable aftermath of separation: the beauty, terror, tenderness and cosmic disorientation of a world where individuality slowly begins dissolving into collective consciousness once more. Blending speculative fiction, metaphysical horror, emotional cosmology and post-human dream architecture, Volume III pushes the Von Zarkian corpus beyond dystopia and beyond transcendence into a new territory entirely: a softening universe learning how to awaken together.

Kalydoros was never important enough to be remembered by history. A quiet Mediterranean island of harbors, mountain villages, aging hotels, and inherited routines, it survives through tourism, bureaucracy, and the comforting belief that nothing truly changes there anymore. Then the anomalies begin. At first they seem harmless. An inconvenience. Another strange story to discuss over coffee before returning to work. But as the weeks pass, citizens begin standing motionless in the streets, staring northward for reasons they cannot explain. Others develop conditions that defy every medical explanation. Entire districts adapt to events no one understands. Authorities rename what they cannot solve. Institutions reorganize around the abnormal. Life continues. Because life always continues. When Dr. Leandros Sarantis survives an accident that should have killed him, and microbiologist Dr. Irini Delimaris uncovers evidence that the phenomenon may not be natural at all, they find themselves confronting a transformation spreading quietly beneath the island's ordinary routines. Some mysteries arrive with violence. Others arrive politely, become familiar, and wait for society to welcome them. The Borrowed is a psychological mystery and literary dystopian thriller about memory, identity, adaptation, and the terrifying ease with which human beings learn to surrender uncertainty in exchange for direction. New chapters released weekly. © 2026 Samuel Harry Lorian. Thank you for reading The Borrowed. Reader thoughts, theories, and comments are always welcome and greatly appreciated.

[STATUS: COMPLETED] [GENRE:- FANTASY, ACTION, ADVENTURE, SPECULATIVE FICTION, YOUNG ADULT] ____________________✦_____________________ Peace was never meant to last. Sixteen years after a war that nearly tore the world apart, a new shadow rises-one long thought buried in the past. When Kamoor is called to the Spellcaster Town by his uncle, he expects answers... perhaps even a step closer to the path he has always chased. But what awaits him is something far greater-and far more dangerous. A name whispered in fear----Sazamor. The one who once wielded the forbidden Book of Seals... has returned. And this time, he does not come alone. Amid the chaos, a girl is taken, dragged into the darkness by forces no one fully understands. What begins as a rescue quickly turns into something far more deadly. Because if Sazamor reaches the Book of Seals first... there may be nothing left to save. With allies bound by uncertain trust-Azeal, Sierra, Hanroh, and Aslan.....Kamoor is pulled into a journey of relentless battles, hidden truths, and powers that defy everything he thought he knew. This is not just a rescue. It is a race against something far older... and far more dangerous than war.

SET IN NEAR-FUTURE SEOUL NEW EPS TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

There is a bureau that does not exist. No letterhead. No public record. No name on any government registry in any country. It operates beneath the visible architecture of the world, and the only people who know it is real are the ones who work inside it and the ones who become its subjects. Nadia Cole has spent eight years as one of its best. Senior Field Agent. Closer of cases. The woman they send when no one else can. She does not flinch. She does not falter. She does not get attached. Then they assign her Choi Minho. He is not what the file says. He is not confused or unraveling the way anomalies usually are. He has been watching the system that now watches him, and he has been watching it far longer than anyone at the bureau is willing to admit. The deeper she goes into his case, the more she finds cracks in her own record. Subjects she resolved. People who were supposed to have been stabilized and released. People who are, when she looks closely enough, simply gone. Neo Seoul stretches beneath them, all layered glass and old neon and government towers that never sleep. Somewhere inside that hum is a man who exists in multiple records simultaneously, a woman who appears in his life without ever quite being real, and an agency rewriting its own history for decades. She is going to have to choose. And you are not going to know which way she goes. © Relle H.

Updates-Every Monday and Friday: They didn't choose the journey. The journey chose them. Marcus, Lisa, Sabrina, Tyler, Tia, and Jake are ordinary people with ordinary lives- they wake up in a world that shouldn't exist. Before they can make sense of it, an unknown machine tears them away and drops them into another reality... and then another. They have no map. No control. No way back. Each world is built on a single idea taken to its extreme, forcing them to navigate societies unlike anything they've ever imagined. Some are beautiful. Others are terrifying. All of them are dangerous. The machine offers only one rule: Survive. Because with every world they endure, they move one step closer to home. But millions of realities may stand between them and that goal. Why were these six strangers chosen? Who built the machine? And what happens if they fail before reaching the final world? As the answers slowly unfold, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: They aren't just traveling through worlds. They're being tested by them. I will be posting this story on Royal Road If you ever want to email me then here: Stottsshirlene@gmail.com

FEATURED ON OFFICIAL @Creators READING LIST: FEATURED FANTASY STORIES 𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘺. 𝘈 𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘈 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳. Xanthiene Vivenca's life drones on in a cycle of finding her next meal, ensuring the house won't collapse, and surviving until the next day. Then, a boy with cloud-white hair ruins it all by crashing through her roof, along with a set of problems tying her to the fate of the island. With the Human Queen terrorizing the kingdom, friends to save after falling victim to a wicked system, and a power she could barely understand, let alone control, Xanthy finds herself working with complete strangers to bring down a regime. Secrets unfold. Certain truths are revealed. A war beneath the island's surface finally bares its fangs. Now, Xanthy has to save her friends and herself before it's too late. FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF FANTASILIA SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2018 (First Edition) © 2021 (Second Edition) [90,000 - 95,000 words] [Cover by @Moxartx ; Text & Graphics by @Exequinne]

A riveting anthology of contemporary speculative fiction exploring the thin, blurred lines between life and death, science and fiction, and the unexpected ways human minds connect when words fail. PS - Do not copy. Sometime I borrow the name of my favorite artists. Only the name ,rest is my imagination.

Kael spent his entire life feeling haunted by something he could never explain. Certain places felt familiar before he had ever seen them. Certain moments felt remembered before they happened. And somewhere beneath reality itself, there was always the feeling that someone was watching over him. Then photographs begin changing. Names disappear. Memories fracture. And Kael discovers traces of a girl no one else remembers ever existing. As impossible déjà vu begins reshaping the edges of his life, he is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: Some people leave emotional echoes too deep for reality to erase. A psychological science-fiction mystery about memory, identity, loneliness, and the connections that survive even when existence itself tries to forget them.

A thief betrays his comrades in exchange for treasure. A courtesan in debt enters a desperate deal to save his lover. An adventurer embarks on a journey for a legendary secret. A faceless mercenary tackles a mysterious assignment for a hearty pay. An orphan escapes creatures born from darkness. An ex-convict uncovers forgotten history in a shadow organization. A scholar investigates strange natural phenomena in a quest for acceptance, and a deposed ruler navigates a world of danger on the journey back to power. When signs of history repeating bleed from the darkness, these paths will connect in surprising ways, thrusting them into a trial of blood and fire and the threat of an eternal night echoing from the past. Havoc is the stench of the air in Maeri Maurasi, and if they are not careful, it can stain even their souls. In a continuation of the cherished high fantasy series, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, delve into the region of Maeri Maurasi where power is not an end but a means to it, and fate is nothing but a pawn in a larger game of adventure, desire, and betrayal. Together, unveil what awaits us beyond the borders. AN INSTALLMENT OF BEYOND BORDERS ALTERNATES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2025 (First Edition) [155,000 - 165,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] NOTE: Knowledge of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢 main series is not important for this series. However, all the books are completed and available in my profile, @Exequinne.

The story continues as the mysterious warden of Zig-Zig is eventually informed about Herschel's escape. Against every principle of his precious Dalmicir school, Lyeasrakardsul submits and asks the Knomes for help before finally receiving the dreaded p-wyrd. Herschel is arrested as a chicken thief and brought to the town Stagna where he has been prejudged as a p-e-r-v-e-r-t by popular opinion, and where he will have some of the most significant encounters in his life.

The dead hand of history still grips the throat of the present. Three centuries after a meteor shower devastated Earth, humanity is divided. The powered are blamed for the virus that killed billions and twisted the natural world into something deadly. Feared and hated, they are sent into the wilds to fight the mutations that now threaten what remains. Ezra has spent his life resisting that division. As a doctor, he believes every life is worth saving. Then he comes home to find a wounded stranger collapsed on his floor. Saving the man is instinct. What follows is not. The choice pulls Ezra into a hidden war where old hatred still shapes the present, and the truth behind the world's ruin may be more dangerous than the monsters outside the city walls.

Mara came to the California desert searching for tranquility. A sound engineer obsessed with recording the hidden frequencies of the natural world, she ventures alone into the Mojave one moonless night to capture the voice of the desert. Instead, she records something impossible. When three luminous orbs appear above a distant ridge, Mara finds herself drawn into an encounter that shifts her understanding of everything. She is mysteriously abducted and undergoes a journey beyond ordinary perception. At the end is a revelation that challenges everything she knows about consciousness, existence, and humanity's place in the cosmos. The Desert Frequency is a contemplative science-fiction mystery short story inspired by real-world UFO encounters and abduction testimonies. It explores the possibility that reality is far stranger and far more connected than we imagine.

The Complex promised order. It promised survival. It promised to keep families together. Separated from her family after she is flagged for a medical issue, a woman crosses the ash-covered landscape of America to find her family and reunite with them. But as she draws closer, she begins to understand that unity comes at a price, and that sometimes getting what you want means losing the part of yourself that made it worth wanting. *** I hope you all enjoy this story. I have published this before, but after reading it through, I realized it needed a major overhaul. This story is about loss, longing, and the price one pays to get what they think they want, only to realize that circumstances have changed. -Aria