Countdown Stories

Zero does not mean the end; zero means the beginning!

The second act of last year's countdown has arrived! I loved doing it, so I it was no question if I repeat it this year with the class of 2026. But if you weren't here last year, I'll tell you what this book contains. This is a countdown to the first semi final of Eurovision Song Contest 2026 where each day, I give you some information about the songs and artists, and yap about my opinions, giving you a place to do the same - all in the order of my top 35! So if you're a fellow Eurovision fan (or even if you're not) - take a look! (About Eurovision: it's a music contest, where the countries from (mostly) Europe pick an artist to represent them at the festival with a song which they will sing in the semi-finals and (if they qualify) in the grand final. Eurovision Song Contest 2026 takes place in Vienna, Austria. The semi-finals will be on 12th and 14th May, with the final happening on the 16th.)

As professionals clean up the rubble and demon's blood from the capitol of Las Aminour, President Aron Firehand shifts all operations to the city of Ariororon. However, a secret order rears their masked head and threaten to reveal the president's secrets. This story deals with a devil with a smile, a reunion of heroes, a hidden underground city, and a president with secrets of death.

In a futuristic world where science has achieved a way to accurately predict the time when someone will die, teenagers Jamie and Abigail are determined to stop the 'Clock'. No one has ever succeeded and the repercussions are supposedly catastrophic, but, when Jamie's life is doomed regardless, what do they have to lose? *Best Plot Winner of the 2018 Bold Gold Awards* *First Place Winner of the Moon Awards* *First Place Winner of the 2018 Bold Gold Awards* *First Place Winner of the Golden Arrow Awards* *Second Place Winner of the Midnight Sun Awards* *Second Place Winner of the Creativity Awards* *Second Place Winner of the Blossoming Story Awards* *Second Place Winner of the Ocean Blue Awards* *Third Place Winner of the June Purple Apple Awards* *Third Place Winner of the Recognition Awards* *Third Place Winner of the Geranium Awards* *Third Place Winner of the Winter Dusk Awards* *Third Place Winner of the Galactic Awards* Thank you so much to @niranju98 for the cover!

Haruto never asks for much. Not attention. Not popularity. Not drama. Just one normal night. One honest chance. One prom. Then the school cancels it. No explanation. No warning. Just rumors, secrets, and a whole lot of chaos. What starts as a harmless attempt to save a single night slowly turns into something bigger - hidden motives, wrong assumptions, and feelings Haruto didn't plan for. With friendships tested and emotions tangled, Haruto finds himself pulled into an investigation where every clue leads to another question... and every crush makes things harder. Because solving a mystery is complicated. Falling in love is worse. And when time starts running out, the truth might cost more than a broken plan.

A shaft of ruddy, reddish light sliced through a sliver of a window, boarded up with rotted planks. The scarlet strip landed straight across the face of the pocket watch, as though the gaze of an evil eye had glanced in from Outside and landed on the stray object. The inner workings of the little pocket watch hesitated, contemplating the silence of a century, then began to work, gliding into motion. Its soft, accentuated movement spoke to the silence, ponderous...deadly. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Twenty-four hours... ~~~~~~ Something draws my eye. A pocket watch lies on its back on a low shelf. It's unassuming, small and copper, illuminated in a sliver of light. It-it's nothing. I shouldn't be staring. But something about it is different. Something's wrong. What, though? What, what, what? I'm paralyzed, can't move, can't think. And then it hits me: the clock is moving. The miniscule minute hand is ticking away softly, counterclockwise. Like a countdown.

Nobody took the warning seriously. They did when it ended someone's life. During a packed morning assembly at Brookside High, the lights cut out without warning. Students laugh it off until every screen in the auditorium flickers to life with a flashing skull and a distorted voice demanding $50,000 in one hour. Most assume it's a prank... until exactly sixty minutes later, a student is found dead. The countdown resets. The ransom rises. The rules shift. And the anonymous hacker behind the threats seems to know the school's secrets better than anyone. Seventeen‑year‑old Blaine Ellison, the child of a local detective, refuses to stand by while classmates are targeted. As Blaine digs into the victims' hidden connections, a buried tragedy begins to surface-one the school hoped would stay forgotten. Someone is using the countdowns to send a message. And Blaine is determined to uncover the truth before the timer hits zero again.

The Kirby series is one of Nintendo's most iconic games. From the original Kirby's Dream Land all the way to Triple Deluxe, I'll be counting down the ten best Kirby games. WARNING: SPOILERS WILL BE PRESENT!!!

At the end of their first year in the hero course all students get a number. that is how long they have left to live. what will happen if Denki only has one month left. I do not own any of the MHA characters. I actually don't know who Denki's family is but i made them up for the story Kudos to @Its_Denks for the amazing idea that made me want to continue this further ik they aren't on here anymore but they're responsible for any further chapters :)

Preview prerelease of Chapters 1 - 6 • Hard SF first-contact thriller with techno-procedural suspense. A The Martian-grade craft meets Arrival-style rule puzzles; no hand-waving, crisp stakes, humane restraint. Perfect for readers of Watts, Crouch, Tchaikovsky, Weir; viewers drawn by Netflix's 3 Body Problem. Back of Book Copy: Far from Earth, a mining ship pings a ring that should be dead. It answers with headlines: markets that will crash; storms that will land; timers that do not miss. The rules are brutal and simple: output only; no queries; clocks are sovereign. When the first anchor reaches zero, the world proves the relay right. A joint task force locks the site. Custody passes to Daedalus. Mirrors roll. Hoods go up. Every word is logged. And then the relay prints a new line that turns procedure into a countdown no checklist can hold: CASUALTY IN ORBITAL INCIDENT IDENTIFIED: DR MARA VEGA. To save a life the crew cannot ask the system a single thing. To keep humanity calm they must remain boring while private actors, politics, and the sheer weight of truth press in. The Relay is a hard-science thriller about proof, restraint, and the cost of being first to hear the future. If the artefact only speaks in headlines, what do you risk to change the story.

It's a new season of Love Island. This time its a blend of all countries of Love island original series. It is an International Love Island. Islanders from all over the world from all walks of life will spend two-weeks of the summer in a villa. Each have a chance to find love or something close to it. It is loosely based off of Love Island game and television show, with its own twists and turns. All new islanders. It is an original fictional story.

Cursed to never find love, Sandhya steals a forbidden spellbook and breaks every rule of magic to rewrite her fate before it gets sealed on Valentine's Day - only to discover that the magic answering her might be the same magic destroying her.

Chloe and her friends race against the time to escape the evil Mr meseek and the rest of the brain washed army before its to late. Mild language

kids who are born with a necklace that contains a count down till they find they're soulmate. Enjoy, Iris P.S

Imma count down the 6 annoying things that little kids do. if you have any suggestions on count downs, leave them in the comments.

Sorry!!! This book is now discontinued!!!

A 165 day countdown (I CAN'T HELP THAT I'M OBSESSED) to ACOFAS!

Everyone has a countdown timer on their wrist, counting down to the day they find their soulmate, this book is short stories of just that. (Disclaimer, I was asked to write about this, it's not an original idea, though, all the stories are)

All of these animals could kill you if they wanted to and some of them want to very very much