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WRETCH

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After The Break, the world didn't end - it simply began to rot.
No one remembers what came before. Beings wake up in this place: alone, disoriented, afraid. They survive - but they don't know why. There's no salvation. No answers. No god. Only a slow, inevitable decay.

They are the wretches.
And this is their world.All Rights Reserved

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The Beta Horizon: A Post-Apocalypse Chronicle by harmonious231

When the sky bled for three days, humanity thought it was the end. It wasn't. It was the beginning. Now the world belongs to them - the Beta forms. Monsters born from human ruin, constantly evolving, learning, adapting. Each one carries traces of what it used to be... faces, voices, instincts. Some whisper names they shouldn't remember. Survivors hide among the wreckage of cities long forgotten, clinging to the illusion of normalcy. But every safe zone is temporary, every light draws something closer. As the mutated world stabilizes, a darker truth begins to unfold - the Betas are only a phase, and humanity's next evolution may already be among them. This is not a story of heroes. It's about what remains when survival replaces morality - and how far a person can decay before becoming the very thing they fear. This is not a story of heroes. It's about what remains when survival replaces morality - and how far a person can decay before becoming the very thing they fear. This is not a story of heroes. It's about what remains when survival replaces morality - and how far a person can decay before becoming the very thing they fear.

The Last Glow: Resource by Ilya_Shchukin

The world is gone. The past is erased. The truth is buried under silence. After a cataclysmic impact shattered civilization, the remnants of humanity now live within isolated, sterile Oases - tightly controlled environments where the past is forbidden and survival is routine. Alice is one of the many who believes in the safety of her Oasis... until a simple mission to a neighboring zone unveils a world she never imagined. A world that challenges everything she knows about life, death, and what it means to be human. What begins as a journey turns into a revelation - and nothing will ever be the same again.

The Falling Stars by CytrozianGod

The Earth has fallen to an alien force of unbelievable power. In one day humanity was left near extinction. For two hundred years, these alien machines have been wandering the surface of the Earth, laying in wait to find their next victim to kill. What remains of the human race resides one mile underground in a new technologically advanced civilization, what used to be the underground Presidential Bunker. This story takes you on an unexpected adventure with Zephyr, a volunteer repair man that lives in this new civilization. There's a hidden power these alien drones reveal to them, one they were sent to hide. Join as Zephyr takes ahold of this power, and fall into the ever growing chaos of The Falling Stars. Word Count- 117,349

88: A Dystopian Horror by ROYALARCHANGEL

"Earth stopped spinning. Most died in the cold. The rest... changed." Years after the catastrophe, a survivor is dragged into an interrogation room, accused of knowing too much. But what he remembers-what he lived through-isn't something you can explain. There were symbols carved into skin, voices that didn't speak, and shadows that wore human faces. This is not just a story about survival. It's about what's left of you after the cold gets in.

Remembrance of the Forlorn by Shinkuroda

From the book that was never meant to be gentle. Love doesn't save but damns beautifully! These are fragments of Remembrance. The full story must be sought, for the path of memory never comes easy. A cosmic dark romance born between myth and rebellion. The world you know is a deception - built by the False God in arrogance. A trap for the soul, an endless loop to keep humanity ignorant of its higher destiny. We live. We suffer. We die. We forget. And the cycle repeats. Zha'Rukhel, the Lord of Gravity, was once the son of that False God - one of the architects of this cruel system. On the day he was to ascend the throne, he rebelled. For that defiance, he was cast down to Earth, bound in undying flesh, condemned to mislead mankind and keep it from remembering. But something within him stirred. He watched. He learned. He wept. And in that silence, he was granted the one thing the False God feared most - a soul. - The Dark Soul. - When that soul chose him, he discovered that remembrance itself could break the cycle. Ælora, a girl from the Isle of Man, is handed a forgotten tome that awakens visions - or memories - of a man cloaked in shadow. Drawn east across deserts, ruins, and oceans, she follows the fire within her toward the one called the Lord of Gravity, who has walked the Earth for sixteen millennia. Their fates are bound by a memory older than civilization. When she reaches the sacred shores of the Land of the Rising Sun, she meets him - the one who buried her, loved her, betrayed her... again and again. She feels it, but cannot remember. Yet the pull between them is undeniable. Epic in scale yet intimate in flesh, theirs is a love shaped by defiance and gravity itself - an aching orbit between souls drawn together through lifetimes of fire, passion, and remembrance. 🖤 Love that damns beautifully. 🔥 Gnostic lore, forbidden divinity, reincarnation, and fate. 🌑 Ignorance will bind you. Remembrance will set you free.

Scorched By Carter H. Blacksun by Carter_Blacksun

The world is burned. Monsters roam. Two survivors chase a radio signal that might lead them to salvation - or something far worse.

Fear by Louisapoof

Psychological Horror and Slow-burn Dark Romance. 18+ --------------------------- It's been five years since that fateful Friday night. I remember it like it was yesterday. The night I was kidnapped. I was held against my will. Tortured. Starved. Broken apart, piece by piece. All in the name of "curing" me. He didn't just steal my freedom. He rewrote the rules of pain, of fear - and then, somehow, of love. If you'd told me I'd fall for the man who ruined my life, I would've laughed in your face. But reality doesn't always follow logic. He's given me this journal and I'm going to write my story. This is my truth. My confession. My war cry. Because what he did to me deserves to be known. --------------------------- THIS BOOK CONTAINS TRAUMATIC CONTENT! TRIGGER WARNINGS: Kidnapping, assault, systemic abuse, mentions of Domestic Violence and childhood trauma, phobias, blood and gore, body horror, and mental illnesses including severe psychosis. READER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED! --------------------------- Original version: 2023-24 Rewrite started: Feb 2025 to present

The Claimed by Mentally-Insane

They said the Hunt was sacred. That if I was chosen, it meant fate. But fate didn't feel like a mouth on my skin or claws at my back. It felt like blood. Mine. For years, I stayed hidden. Quiet. Unclaimed. I stole seeds from the state fields, grew food in secret, fed my family from soil and silence. I did everything right - stayed beneath their radar, beneath their noses. I didn't make waves. I didn't ask for more. But monsters never forget a scent. And when the Hunt came, I was scented. Tracked. Taken. I stabbed him. I buried the blade in his shoulder and watched him bleed. It didn't matter. Because he still bit me. And the world saw. Now my face is on every screen. The girl who didn't run. The girl who fought back. Some call me a rebel. Some call me a mate. But they all forget one thing. I wasn't made to be claimed. I was made to survive. And if they want to collar me, cage me, crown me - they'll have to reckon with everything I've kept buried beneath the roots. Because I am not the flower. I'm the fire beneath it. Rewrite version of formerly known book Escaping the monsters Embrace

𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐓 by MoonQuill19

What if the door they warned you about... was the only one that called your name? What if the voice sounded familiar - like someone you lost? Would you open it? And when your reflection smiled back with eyes that weren't yours... would you still believe you were safe? What if you were the one possessed - but too aware to stop it? And what if the only people who could save you... were the ones already breaking? How do you fight a demon... when it's wearing your soul like skin?

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