Scikick Stories

A collection of short stories, Fantasy, SciFi, and HistFic-written for various contests-or just for fun. Contains "Rome's Splendour" - winner of #AimToEngage's historical fiction prompt.

Seventeen-year-old botanist Isla Blume believes every life deserves a chance to survive, even in the apocalypse. So when collector droids kidnap her mom, she knows she has to fight back to save her life. No one returns from being collected, not even her boyfriend Daniel, and after a failed attempt to combat the droids, Isla is captured too. Just when she's sure she'll suffocate inside one of the droids, a group of renegade scientists, the Deathless, save Isla and her mom. They tell her that that droids have been harvesting survivors as forced labor for the government. After learning Isla's name, the Deathless become suspicious of her, and soon she hears why: A familiar voice to Isla repeats over a transmission from the bunker, "Find Isla Blume." Determined to reconnect with those she's lost, Isla faces her fear of fighting and joins the Deathless' first attack on the government. If only she could trust them to help her. A Wattpad featured story! Follow Isla's journey through post-apocalyptic US with the trilogy! Now you can read the whole trilogy here, including bonus material and extras! For the complete Deathless experience, read THE BLAST and STORIES OF THE DEATHLESS too! Beautiful cover by @MulanJiang

Maybe my entry of the scikick contest? (I know the cover is messed up)

A devastating blast destroys civilization as Beatrice knows it, forcing her to face an entirely new kind of life. But life after the blast has more wonder and hope in it than she imagined. ***** After a series of atomic blasts force Beatrice Hicks and her family into their prepper bunker, they emerge to discover they are among the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse. Soon they find themselves clashing with rogue groups and contending with death in their quest to survive and build a new life in this daunting world. Amidst it all, Beatrice must fight to maintain her humanity, so that she can learn to see the beauty in her life after the blast and even find love where she least expects it. 2014 Watty Award Winner! Content Warning: death, gun violence, and assault

Amazing cover by @MulanJiang :) The only world Ansley has ever known is filled to the brim with devastation, toxins, and murderous search droids, but she wouldn't have it any other way. Or so she thought. She's thrust into a new world, where she learns one thing... SOME THINGS CAN BE CHANGED. [CURRENTLY ON HOLD DUE TO LACK OF INSPIRATION]

*Updates weekly* Dreams of ruin haunt Ailysia. In the dreams, she was a dragon, charged with protecting an alien planet. She ruled the sky with strength and fairness, but error of judgment led to a broken oath, which in turn led to the civilization's end. As Ailysia explores the dreams, she discovers a shocking truth. The dreams are memories--her memories. But why would an earthling girl share the past of an ancient alien? And will she also share the same apocalyptical destiny?

"There was no denying it. Rein was alone, staring into the grey horizon of the world that made no sense. Again." Time is at a stand-still. The sun is set in its place in the western sky, never flinching. Everything else on the island remains frozen in time. Until Rein touches it. The problem is, he has no clue how he got there. He has no memory of things being any different than they are now - broken. The one thing he does know is, if things stay how they are, there is no way off of the island. Thousands of cycles have proven it true. The only thing he can do now is wait... wait and hope for something to change. Oh, how he wished that things would just change.... Until the day they did.

Every living thing is dying on earth. Organisms, plants, insects, birds, man and, everything else that's a living thing, is dead or dying. An ancient disease has waken in our bodies that has been around since the beginning of earth. Anything that breaths in earth's air or, drinks the water or even has been born on earth were all doomed. So, the last of the humans have sent a time capsule into space, hoping and praying that anyone would find the capsule and find the heart to help the living things on earth. Maybe even give them Another Way to live... ~~~ "It's ok to show that your upset, Jillian. Deep down we're all suffering, just that some people show it more than others." Aavet tells me. She's right. We're all suffering, but when we're forced to abandon our only home we've known for so long and leave all our love ones to die, kills apart of you that you'll never get back. FROM CHAPTER 6/PART 2 Beautiful Cover made by @stardust24601 Highest Ranking in Science Fiction #51

My villain vs. superhero story; in less than 200 words!

From the author of THE BLAST and THE DEATHLESS TRILOGY comes a book of short stories about the Deathless characters whose stories deserve to be told. This book features stories focused on the trilogy's secondary characters, providing insight into how they became the people we meet in THE DEATHLESS TRILOGY.

Before that winter, Clara had been a normal teenage girl. She spent about twelve hours a day using one of her family's many computers on an OnLife site. She'd never seen any of her friends in person. She'd hardly ever cracked a window or door. She'd never even left her own home. And why would she need to? Everything she could ever ask for was just a mere touch or simple command away from somewhere OnLife. Her necessities, her education, her career, her wants, and all the money she owns is all OnLife. But that's about to change... Somehow, one little mistake puts the US government on her tail. Clara has no choice but to leave her home and family to flee into the unknown, where she has to rely on instinct and make careful choices. Along the way, she makes interesting discoveries and is forced to wonder if everything she's ever known is real, or just a lie. BOOK ONE IN RENEGADES TRILOGY {{Highest Ranking: #207 in Science Fiction: Goal is #150}} {{Cover by @eleni_cherie}}

He's a neurotic professor. She's an A.I. with moxy to spare. They've been matched for a date in a Shared User Gestalt. Cue tension -- hopefully the good kind! ✺ Submitted for #SciFriday Challenge 28 - Hybrid Romance Prompt: "A glitch on a Dating Site pairing Humans with Non-Humans - Androids and Synthetics etc." ✺ Submitted for the Scifi Starts contest Shoutout to the @SciKick crew ✺ New cover design by @Red_Harvey

~Anchorage: the desire to hold on to time as it passes....~ Anchorage is a story about survival. Survival of a crew stranded several billion light-years from home on a ship that's falling apart. Stranded literally at the edge of space, the chance crew that reached the Destiny by accident now have to find a way to survive. Among them is Dr. Nicholas Rush, a tortured man who made it his life's mission to find the Ancients, an alien race that possesses knowledge and technology the human race could only dream of. As they fight to survive in a damaged ship, they have to discover what they have in one another, figure out who they can trust, and, more importantly, what they're willing to do in order to return home.

The second book in the Deathless Trilogy! When Isla Blume wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar place without the rest of the Deathless or any way of contacting them, she will have to find the courage and self-confidence to become the hero an entire estate of people need her to be. But as Nietzsche said, "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." Can Isla fight to save herself, Daniel, and her new followers without becoming the monster Gunther Quail wants her to be? Or will she lose herself completely?

This book is entered in a contest hosted by @Scikick. I guess it's about Superheroes and Super Villans. Coral has to face his new enemy yet: Jacksonville. How would this Face-to-Face turn out to be?

✵ S I L E N C E I S T H E M O S T P O W E R F U L S C R E A M ✵ 100 years ago in the estranged star system Iota Tallus, a supernova destroyed the home planet of a species of humanoid aliens. The survivors that knew of the catastrophe before it's arrival fled into a ship, Orchia V, designed to sustain their people for millions of years. On a constant search for a planet to call their own they discovered Earth. Conquering the planet, making it their new home and enslaving the native population they had finally found a secure future. Or so they believed. At age 16, Juliette is next in line for the Kaladrian crown and only months away from the marriage to her fiancé, Prince Sebastienne of Treopra. He's everything she's ever dreamed of and her life is the epitome of perfection as she makes her way to being the ruler of the people. Until her father does the unspeakable. The age of reproduction is moved down to 16, meaning she is required to bear a child through insemination. Sebastienne's child. Except that the child is born and it's not alien, it's human. In the first prequel to a series about a human-alien hybrid comes the story of a mother's adventure for the survival of her child. Discovering that the humans are not all she believed to be she goes on a mission to find the most influential one, the one that will forever change her future. With the universe fighting against her, is it possible for her to find safety for her child? Or will the end come even before their lives have begun. In this science fiction novella filled with love, suspense and mind-bending turns discover what a mother's love for her child truly means and the truth that lies behind this fictional world.

2230 A.D. Earth Commander Lee McDaniel is home on leave when an urgent message from his commanding officer comes. A rescue mission to an impossible system, in a galaxy not yet explored by mankind. He takes the job excited for the chance to go somewhere new. But excitement turns to a living nightmare and a fight for his lif to escape the galaxy, to escape Triangulum.