RUN TIME
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Last published Mon, Jul 14, 2025
The clock is ticking. RUN TIME is a visceral sci-fi anthology that explores humanity's bold leap into space and the chilling, unexpected consequences of technological evolution and alien contact. Each standalone story plunges into the psychological and societal fallout, revealing how our relentless push forward might just be our ultimate undoing.
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12 Hours
We had a choice and took the money. We are two teenagers who are strangers to each other. Now everything is depending on us. We are being sent eight years into the future because World War III must be STOPPED. There's just one problem. These robots are like nothing we have ever seen before. Beyond what we consider artificial intelligence. Did they exterminate the humans?Complete
Running in the Shadows
The algorithms, they know you better than you know yourself.. They're here, they're staying, but what are we doing about it? Algorithms, once tools, now subtly dictate the very fabric of human existence, from job prospects and financial credit to social standing and personal relationships. The story unfolds in this intricate web of algorithmic control, where individuals grapple with a system that judges their worth based on digital footprints they barely understand. We meet those rendered obsolete by automation, the invisible "shadow workforce" toiling under algorithmic management, and the vast majority caught in the unfair automated decisions. "Running in the Shadows" is a timely exploration of the power and impact of artificial intelligence and big data, questioning the cost of convenience and the true meaning of freedom in an age where our lives are increasingly quantified, categorized, and controlled by unseen forces. It's a story of survival, resistance, and the enduring human spirit in a world struggling to maintain its soul in the face of perfect, unwavering, and ultimately indifferent code. This is less science-fiction, and more science-fact.Complete
The Sapphire Pass: All-Father
In a world where people have lost their will to live, a war rages between the present and the future. One side fights to enslave the world and keep it under his absolute control, the other fights to restore and liberate the world while also finding a new place to survive. As part of the Beta Team, Ophelia was used to going into that future and bringing back the things that kept the ruler of the world empowered. What she didn't know was why, and she didn't care. Just like everyone else, she never thought, she never felt, she only completed one task to move on to the next, and did only as she was commanded. Until she came back different. When Ophelia regained her will, she was terrified of what would happen if anyone discovered her secret. She knew that IF they ever found out she would be sent to one of the many centers around the world designed to keep humans from having any ambition, creativity, or instinct to live.Complete
The Luminark Cycle Book I: The Fractured Hourglass
Time is running out. And reality is hunting them. Kael and Lyra are trapped in a world where seconds can stretch into centuries, and every choice echoes across shifting timelines. Shadows move where no light reaches, and danger waits in every corner. Nothing is stable. Nothing is safe. The past, present, and future are collapsing, and one misstep could erase everything. In a realm ruled by forces beyond comprehension, survival demands cunning, speed, and the courage to face the impossible. The clock is counting down-and the world won't wait.
VEINS.
Veiny, root-like monsters evade the earth, and disaster strikes. They are able to hide underground and strategically attack their victims who have been marked by them. Scientists try to find any kind of explanation for their existence, the mode of marking their victims to no avail. Whoever is marked by them shall ultimately meet their end, regardless of any means taken to protect them. Globally, humans must unite to survive the apocalyptic-like disaster. Follow the story of Travis, a military man who loses his family to these entities and his thirst to terminate all of them in revenge. After fighting for survival for more than a year, losing friends along the way, and humanity rapidly declining, Travis discovers that revenge should be the last thing on his mind; the protection and restoration of mankind should be the goal. However, he is helpless to the veins. When a ray of hope emerges, Travis desperately grasps it to fulfill his goal.Complete
11 Hours
The fate of the world rests on our shoulders again. I thought the days of us fighting were over until I woke up inside my burning school. We're being hunted by an alien species beyond classification, mixed with multiple different species. It's up to us to stop them and make them find a new planet to inhabit. But who are they running from?Complete
Earthborn
In the future, no matter where in the solar system they live, everyone vacations on Earth. Sure, the planet is gorgeous, but the real draw is the Earthborn. All other humans are genetically engineered. Earthborn are crafted. They are beings of extraordinary beauty who are physically sustained, not by food alone, but by the pleasure of others. WILLOW has recently earned her stripes as a Peacekeeper. She is inexplicably furloughed to Earth where she learns that Peacekeepers working outside the system are trafficking Earthborn to an advanced alien species. If the quotas are not met, all of humanity will be destroyed. Some Earthborn, suspicious that something nefarious is going on are plotting a rebellion, but they are ignorant of the greater threat. When Willow falls in love with an Earthborn man, she must find a way to save the Earthborn without endangering the rest of humanity.Complete![⋆The Survivors [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]⋆](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/57950974-256-k16511.jpg)
⋆The Survivors [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]⋆
In the last few centuries, humans have pushed themselves almost to the brink of extinction with wars, famine, and disease. But we have managed to survive and persevere despite everything that has happened. The year 2147 was a year of hope for us, with the arrival of the Golik, an alien race, who were kind and wanted nothing more than to help us. Alongside the Golik, we had five years of peace and prosperity with them, both races gaining knowledge from the other and building to create a wonderful relationship with the other. After five years of peace and prosperity, then the peace ran out and the invasion began. [RANKED 1ST IN SPACE - 13th Nov 2019] [RANKED 1ST IN SURVIVING - 27th Jul 2023] [RANKED 4TH IN INVASION - 9th Aug 2023] [RANKED 26TH IN FUTURE - 1st Aug 2023] [RANKED 44TH IN ALIEN - 25th Dec 2020]Complete
We had a choice and took the money. We are two teenagers who are strangers to each other. Now everything is depending on us. We are being sent eight years into the future because World War III must be STOPPED. There's just one problem. These robots are like nothing we have ever seen before. Beyond what we consider artificial intelligence. Did they exterminate the humans?
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