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The Rind

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Parts 11
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Reads 124
Votes 41
Parts 11
Time 1h 36m

Mature

control dystopian femaleprotagonist fiction haunting orwell orwellian post-apocalyptic scifi society trapped underground

No one remembers the first Rind. No one speaks about the Units that vanished. But when Pol, a miner in the Delving Industry, gets handed a token that shouldn't exist, the stories start to bleed secrets, and the silence they built begins to break. She will have to determine what is worth breaking the silence in a world where it is the only thing that keeps you alive.All Rights Reserved

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Ronnie Gold only has one dream. Every night for the past two years, flickering images of a bloody battlefield have haunted her sleep, and every night, she's the only survivor. She's never told anyone about it, because combined with the dissociative emotional disorder that renders empathy out of her reach, she'd be labeled dangerous. But amid rising public tensions over an artificial intelligence project she's spearheading, Ronnie's dreams begin to infect her waking life, too. With the visions starting to take on an ominous, almost prophetic quality, Ronnie must sort through the blurred lines of reality before the bloodiest nightmare finally comes true. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ #RedefineHumanity - An Open Novella Contest Shortlister! CONTENT WARNING for manipulative relationships [[Completed]]

Anatomy of Fragility by LinaMarrin

WHAT IF YOUR NIGHTMARES AREN'T YOUR OWN? The world is divided. Below is the Rim, filthy slums where every day is a struggle for survival. Above is the Aureole, a sterile paradise where everyone has a price. Mirey is a mechanic from the Rim. She believes in nuts and schematics, but her mind is fracturing. At night, she falls into a chilling void, where thousands of voices whisper and scream. She thinks she's going insane. Noah is a detached Observer from the Aureole. His career is in ruins, and he'll do anything to reclaim his power. He finds a loophole: a minor system glitch at a checkpoint, linked to a girl from the Rim. He sees her only as a stepping stone. But when he descends into the slums, he realizes her "glitch" isn't a technical error. And her nightmares are the key to the secret upholding their entire ideal world. The truth she hears could destroy everything. The lie he tells is the only thing that can save them.

Ashes of tomarrow by kr3epyk1tten

Genre: Sci-Fi | Psychological Horror | Post-Apocalyptic Drama When the world burned, four teenagers survived. Milo, Rae, Ava, and Silas didn't ask to live through the end - but they did. Now, stuck in a ruined world of silence, shadows, and memories that aren't always their own, they fight to stay human in a landscape shaped by something unnatural. But survival gets more complicated when they uncover a chilling truth: the apocalypse wasn't a disaster. It was a test. A controlled experiment under the name Project Loci - and they were its subjects. Now stalked by cloned imposters, haunted by flickers of who they used to be, and drawn toward a signal no one else is meant to hear, the group must decide what they're willing to lose to uncover the truth... and what might already be lost. Because in a world built from lies, the biggest question isn't what happened. It's who are you now that everything's gone? What will happen once one dies?

Goddess of Discord by iuripiragibe

In the year 2125, truth is a variable and chaos is the only constant. A cryptic oracle-astrophysicist on the remote Eris Station has an apocalyptic vision and whispers a single word - "Sraknova" - triggering a chain reaction that threatens to rewrite reality itself. Back on Earth, washed-up journalist Orwell Matthew becomes the centerpiece of a quantum conspiracy after a routine interview with a senator ends in murder. As his world implodes, the brightest minds of a generation are hurled into the brutal selection process of the Nova Foundation. In the shadows, General MDK of GOES plays lives like poker chips while corporate directors wage a cold war for control and forbidden technology. All paths, secrets, and nightmares converge on one name: Sraknova. As sabotage and experiments escalate, time and identity begin to fracture: entangled particles defy causality, telemetry violates relativity, paranoia spreads like a virus. The Palace - part collective unconscious, part extradimensional mind-labyrinth - starts to tether fates, memories, and ruins, as every dialogue pulses with tension over free will, meaning, and cosmic absurdity. Goddess of Discord isn't your typical space opera. Fragmented, polyphonic, razor-sharp, it blends investigation, dark humor, brutal introspection, and existential warfare. Beauty is found in disorder; the true protagonist is collapse itself - scientific, social, and deeply personal. For readers who crave cerebral sci-fi, quantum weirdness, power games, and unforgettable characters unafraid of sarcasm or symbolic violence. If you enjoyed Children of Time, The Quantum Thief, Diaspora, or Dark, prepare for something stranger. In a future where truth is negotiable and the collective unconscious can be hacked, the real question isn't "who's in control?" - but "who still believes control exists?"

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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 Underground by alluring_night

The Underground is a place forgotten by sunlight, a labyrinth of rusted metal, collapsed tunnels, and flickering neon signs choked by smoke and rot. It's where the city above dumps what it doesn't want to see-trash, criminals, the broken. But for Bryce, it's home. And right now, it's a battleground. Survival here isn't just about food or water. It's about keeping your soul intact while shadows claw at you from every direction. The gangs run wild, the enforcers are worse, and something ancient stirs in the dark. Every breath tastes of blood and ash. Every step could be your last. But Bryce isn't done fighting-not yet. She's lost people. She's bled for this place. And now, with the upper city tightening its grip and the monsters below growing bolder, she knows one thing: no one else is coming to save them. So she becomes the blade in the dark, the spark in the filth. With nothing but grit, a half-broken weapon, and a fire that won't die, Bryce fights. Not because she thinks she'll win. But because if she doesn't, no one will. The underground won't swallow her without a war.

A Silent Assassin by NoctisX

They thought it was just another day at school... until the doors locked, the alarms silenced, and strangers armed with technology beyond imagination took control. Students laughed at first-until the first body hit the floor. Now trapped in an underground base, each student faces a chilling fate: trained as weapons, their consciousness transferred into bodies not their own. Among them is a girl already fractured by the weight of her past. Quiet, detached, yet clinging to the few things that keep her human, she sees every move like a game of survival. In a world where trust is deadly and freedom is an illusion, she must decide-will she remain a pawn in their twisted plan, or become the assassin they never saw coming?

Born to Break Barriers by Sophiae1015

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