Wattpunk Stories

Light up your laser beams, it's Sci-Fi Smackdown contest time! My entries for the 10th (well, kind of the 10th) Smackdown hosted by @Ooorah! Round One - Lost World, A Honey of a Streamer Round Two - What You Wish For Round Three - Hamlet and Ophelia, The Renaissance Round Four - Riding Hood (An Adventure Interlude - The Bride of Cthulhu) Round Five - When She Was Bad (Adventure Interlude - To Bestow the Crown - Winner of 1st Prize) Round Six - Win a Few, Lose a Few (Adventure Interlude - Wild Werewolf Love)

Wattpad is wattching. 60 issues ago, we invented a brand-new sub-genre: WattPunk. Imagine, if you will, that Wattpad--and writing--rules the world. Now we're doin' it again! Scary, huh?

When Eli's mother is brutally murdered, and his father, a renowned explorer, is nowhere to be found, he is thrust from his comfortable life into a world of trechery violence and mystery. He must find his father, uncover the truth about the death of his mother and above all else, he must find the ATLAS before the mysterious man in the black bowler hat.

Flying sharks? In the middle of the Bass Strait, the crew of an oil rig rescue a mysterious man. When the airborne killer- beasts arrive, there is no time for questions. *Punk Out: Wattpunk Contests and Prompt winner.

And in other, most awesome and excellent news, Ooorah brings you TK Special #4 - elveloy... Evolutionary Anomalies... That's right, another of TK's most prolific contributors, @elveloy has selected her favourite ten submissions to everyone's favourite #longestrunningwattzine and we've assembled them here so what're you lot waiting for? Get yer asses to reading!

What if Wattpad had servers on the Moon? Written for @SciKick 1000 Contest. The year is 2297. On the eve of a total lunar eclipse, an aging moon-based server farm goes dark. A pair of retired soldiers are conscripted to supply parts and technical crew. If they don't restore service, viewing parties won't be streamed and their small commune will lose vital clients. (Alternate titles: Vampire Lesbians on the Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Blood Moon, Earthshadow, Night of the Hare.) [Cover by author based on images licensed for reuse/modification. Note: not astronomically accurate.]

Well, we here at Tevun-Krus have been doin' this sort of thing since 2014. What is "this sort of thing"? Best-Of issues, of course! And 2K17 is no different-- That's a lie! Best of 2K17 is different, in that this time we wanted* to bring you 38 brand-new stories, one from every major sci-fi sub-genre we've tackled! It's the biggest TK Best-Of yet, and it's one for the ages, 'troopers! Ooorah! *may or may not contain 38 stories

"Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered." A short story written in response the Mythic Madness prompt over on WattPunk. This is the story of the last believer.

What a year it's been, 'troopers. And what a collection of short stories we've got for you this time 'round! Nine brand-new stories from the nine sub-genres we did in 2020, all written by nine of your favourite Tevun-Krus contributors!

|| WINNER OF THE PUNKROMANCE SHORT STORY CONTEST || He pursues a solitary figure through the rainy London streets only to end up being blindsided several times over. Leandre Agard's biggest worries were navigating London during his after dark missions; NOT to loose his custom-designed field glasses; and most importantly, to ALWAYS return home before sunrise. That was, until he encountered her. °°°°° Word count - 1999 Published - 10.06.17

Damien and Jay don't exist. Officially. Unofficially, they're black operatives with an impossible mission. One of their agency's best operatives has gone rogue, and they're sent to stop her. But when Damien and Jay start to experience alternate memories and missing gaps in time, they realize there's more to this mission than they were supposed to know. And their hunt for the truth will take them to some dangerous places... "Packed with intense fight scenes and dizzying twists and turns, this is an adrenaline-pumping introduction to Farrugia's explosive new series." - Thriller of the Year, Apple Books "This is a page-turner, skillfully told." - Aurealis

A one chapter short story about an entire culture living upon the water in constructed islands. Written for Wattpunk's Tales of Oceanpunk Challenge.

8. Time Management - a time travel dilemma 7. Forgetmenot - Steampunk war 6. The Dead Hitchhiker 5. Tok vs Terra - space war! 4. Dream Funk Inc - dreams or nightmares? 3. G.O.O.D. vs E.V.I.L. - a spy-fy challenge. Galactic Overlords, Operational Division comes up against Eternal Vengeance, Interstellar Liaisons 2. The Feud - what happens when a writer tries to get her revenge for a reader's comment? 1. Mike's Revenge - a time trip for dinosaurs My entries for the MadMike's Revenge smackdown - posted in reverse order of writing!

Left beaten, bloodied and bruised in a ditch somewhere, @MadMikeMarsbergen lost the Pot 1 Finals of SmackDown: The Second Coming to @torontojim (who later ended up winning the Grand Finals, too). Now he's back to get some revenge on all you competitors... in @Ooorah's SmackDown: MadMike's Revenge! Open to all. This will be the most challenging, diverse and awesome SmackDown yet, with lots of new twists. Have fun!

This month, the Ooorah crew take on a sub-genre created right here on the hallowed pages of Wattpad. Drop by and read a veritable shedload of stories, check out this month's slightly different interviews and enter our monthly caption contest!

The cyborg was huge, built like a juggernaut, and carrying a weapon the size of a rocket launcher. All to hunt down a skinny hooker, weighing a hundred pounds on a good day. It was pretty funny really, when you thought about it. She almost smiled before the terror kicked back in. Portal. A collection of Sci-Fi short stories, written for ForbiddenPlanet's smackdown SFSD 7. Includes Portal, Metropolitan, One Night at the Pub, and Star Fallen. My final entry Star Clash won the smackdown and now appears as a free download on Amazon etc

Well here we are with our second Special Edition, TK Presents Krazydiamond... What's More Krazy Than A Diamond? Herein we celebrate the dedication and awesomeness of one of our more prolific contributors, one of TK's leading ladies! Dig deep into these pages and find out what @krazydiamond has to offer!

Tevun-Krus' best and baddest come together in this 'Best of' compilation of epic short stories. Enjoy, 'troopers!

These are my entries to #SciFriday challenges proposed by @ScienceFiction