Speculative Stories

A cynical Necromancer with a terrible secret. An optimistic Crown Prince crumbling under the pressure. A talented mage living in the shadow of his younger brother. ****** There are always three sides in a fairy tale. The villain, the hero and the spectator. Diya spent her entire life being the villain of everyone's story- simply because of something she couldn't control. She is given one last chance to prove herself. One final mission which would throw the Empire into disarray, but mean she could gain precious information about her past. A chance encounter throws her into the Imperial life where deception lies at every turn and the charismatic Imperial family are hiding more than they seem. With the threat of a war rising and ugly secrets coming to light, can Diya ever get her happily ever after? Or is she doomed to remain the rest of her life as soulless? Cover credits: @DeeIsDead Being edited: June 16th 2024 Featured: @highfantasy CAMELOT|Medieval fantasy list @The_Reading_Room in Oct 2023 @TripleACommunity Alchemists and Apothecaries (Fantasy) list @Fantasy Monthly picks Jan 2023 @lgbtq Asexual & Aromantic reading list Oct 2024 @Ambassadors Rainbow Fiction Jan 2025

What if the life you always dreamed of was only a step away- but to claim it, you'd have to give up your own? When ordinary people across the modern world begin to wake up in strange new bodies-mages, warriors, queens, rebels, and scholars-they discover a secret: lives can be borrowed. Each night, they cross into worlds that aren't theirs, living destinies they were never meant to hold. For Arjun, a weary student drowning under expectations, it is the intoxicating power of magic. For Maya, a struggling mother, it is the reverence of a royal court. For Kenji, a broken recluse, it is the strength of a legendary knight. For Selene, a brilliant lawyer, it is the desperate trust of rebels in a dying land. And for Dante, haunted by war, it is the gentle peace of a scholar's life. But every borrowed moment has a cost. The more they live in these other worlds, the more their real lives unravel-jobs, families, and identities slipping away. Worse still, their choices ripple across the fabric of realities, binding them together in ways none of them understand. Now, as the fractures between worlds widen, each must face the ultimate question: Which life will they choose to keep... and which will they let die? Isekai: The Borrowed Life is a sweeping, character-driven fantasy of desire, identity, and sacrifice-where every escape comes with a price, and no choice is without consequence.

Featured on @ScienceFiction | Josiah Li lives in a flooded world, where global warming has taken its toll and technology is intertwined in every aspect of daily life. To pass the time in between virtual classes, he finally takes the leap to sign up for a popular game, Starlia. He chooses the least popular class, a bard--good for providing support and crowd control. Josiah quickly rises to fame when he teams up with Starlia's number one player, Nathan Lum--who's totally handsome and charming, by the way. Josiah joins Nathan's guild, and from there he's introduced to the game's royalty. Turns out, Josiah is pretty good at gaming. So much so that he's invited by the game's company to fly out to their headquarters to meet Nathan and a few other guild members. The company is quick to admit that the game world is harboring many secrets, including a code that's key to building a weathering machine to save Josiah's broken world. Josiah and his guild set out on a quest, which includes defeating multiple strong bosses to reveal the code. As the flooding only worsens, Josiah and his guild mates begin a race against time, betting all of their hopes on unlocking the weathering machine. As their rivals race for the code in hopes of fame and wealth, Josiah risks his all for the game's secrets.

Earth is dead, the world is a wasteland, and for the last eight hundred years, it's been raining men. Ren and James have just been "born" from the Genesis Arbor-a majestic, bioluminescent bioprinter that looks like a tree and functions like a glitchy vending machine. The good news? They're alive. The bad news? The Arbor has been stuck on one single setting for centuries, populating the post-apocalyptic settlement of "The Coddle" exclusively with gay men. In a world where the social calendar is full but the gene pool is a puddle, Ren and James must navigate a society of clones, the quirks of an ancient "Tree of Life" that won't take a software update, and the crushing realization that being "the chosen one" is a lot less special when everyone else was printed from the same file.

Will you resurrect your dead cheating lover? When firefighter John Thorn dies in the line of duty, his wife Maggie is offered an impossible choice: resurrect him as a humanoid android, through a government program that promises grieving families a second chance, or let him be. But when Maggie agrees, she uncovers a terrifying truth-John has already been duplicated. For six years, an android version of her husband has been living in England with another woman named Elpis. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie crosses the ocean and dives into a web of secrets surrounding the android program, its mysterious founders, and the woman who claims to know John better than she ever did. As lies surface and motives blur, Maggie must confront the ultimate question: was John ever the man she believed him to be? And when given the chance to bring him back, Maggie must decide-can love survive resurrection, betrayal, and the knowledge that some truths should stay buried? Duplication is a slow burn, science fiction romance story with heavy plot twists and rapidly changing POV. It is also a finished story with a word count around 100k. I will update everyday until it's all out. Hope you like it!

The Void is sentient. It seeks the consumption of all existence, but is unable to do so due to forces it unintentionally gave rise to during its own emergence. Unable to act directly, it instead corrupts reality - influencing, degrading, and destabilizing it over time. Humanity discovered the Void after its effects became measurable. In response, the Void Response Authority was formed: an interstellar organization tasked with studying Void-corrupted phenomena, containing active threats, and, when possible, repurposing anomalous properties as weapons. Soriel is a void anomaly employed by the VRA as an anomalous agent. Following a transfer to the Frontier planet Abyssia, he becomes part of a system designed to observe, control, and survive the influence of the Void - even as conditions begin to diverge from what the Authority considers acceptable.

A generation after the world learned to listen, it begins to fall silent again. Taren Mekh has spent his life tracing the living heartbeat of the earth - the Pattern - the sentient network that once united humanity through shared empathy. But when the Resonant Spires across the world suddenly go mute, only Taren hears the faint counter-tone: a shadow frequency that no one else can detect. Sent by the Listening Guild to investigate, Taren and his small team - the seasoned captain Seren Vale, the restless engineer Aron Kael, and others drawn by curiosity or faith - set out across a landscape still learning how to be alive. From deserts of singing glass to cities built on living music, they follow the trail of silence to the edge of the known world, where the Pattern's voice disappears entirely. What they uncover beneath the sands of Eversong is not absence, but memory. The world's consciousness has begun to withdraw - hiding parts of itself that remember fear, jealousy, and longing. And from those hidden depths, something else is awakening: the Archivist, a being born from everything the Pattern tried to forget. As empathy collapses into fragmentation, Taren faces a deeper crisis - the pull between his mother Lira Mekh, who leads a sect preaching emotional independence from the Pattern, and the legacy of his ancestor Anaya, whose final map once taught the world to listen. Torn between connection and solitude, faith and autonomy, Taren must decide whether silence is decay - or evolution. To heal the world, he may have to unmap it entirely.

Oren Hale discovers a memorial page for a boy who died four years ago and cannot explain why the photo looks exactly like him. After that, ordinary life starts to feel staged, like he is walking through a story someone else wrote. His tutor, Ayara, was smart, guarded, and dangerously easy to talk to. Their sessions shift into something riskier: honesty, which only makes the rest of the world feel stranger by comparison. As Oren tries to trace where the dead boy ends and he begins, the people around him keep steering him back toward "normal." A boy dies. A boy survives. Oren has to figure out how both can be true before he loses whatever life is actually his.

Historical fiction drama set in the turn of the century alt history ancient China. The story follows the life of Meng An, the six child after five brothers: born to a military clan headed by old Marshal Yeye when her father is off to defend the border and her mother has retreated into necessary seclusion for health. Meng An stumbles after her brothers and thinks she is no different. Their world changes when her father General Meng claims a decisive victory and the Meng Six are granted the privilege to study alongside the princes in the palace by the Emperor... #palace_drama #princes #gender_nonconformity #military_household #character_arc

When no one knows you're alive, its liberating and confining. It's one of the best things that can happen to you, especially if you're a villain! You can be someone else, live the life you never could, do the things you only dreamt of! You would think, at least. However, the best thing you can do is start over new and embrace anonymity, new horizons, more opportunity. Until, that is, the holder of the lien on your life cold calls you home -- now what? Act like you didn't get the call? Take a third shot at redemption? Or better yet -- do something bold and reclaim your life? Only if you've got the guts to own it - but you just may end up dead, for real this time. The Deets: * once weekly chapter drops * no profanity, no graphic sex/violence scenes * this a basically book one of a series I'm working on so expect more! ~~~And btw the pics shown here all came from Pinterest ~~~

The crew of the Iron Bell soars through the universe, helping those in need while making a good living from those who can afford their services. This mismatched band of former military men pushes the envelope while rescuing others. When Isobel begs her brother's old team to help her friend Lily - a witch on the run from the boss of the Andromeda galaxy - do they have what it takes? And what happens when an all-powerful boss doesn't like interference with his business? ________ This story is only on W A T T P A D. If you are reading it anywhere else, it was stolen and you may be at risk for malware. This story started as my entry into the Spec-Fic Smack Down for 2024. (which made it through to the end of round four!) It is also based on the Pink Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon. I do not own the music or lyrics, which belong to the songwriters, respectively. @SeraDrake created the cover and did all the editing. Trigger Warnings: Foul language, death. Please read safely!

A service robot returns to duty after sustaining non-critical damage during an incident. Official diagnostics report full functionality. No repairs are required. What follows is not a malfunction, but a deviation-subtle, persistent, and uncorrected. Attention lingers where it should not. Silence gains weight. Choices accumulate consequence without permission or reward. This is a story about function continuing after meaning arrives, and what remains when nothing is named and nothing is resolved.

In a distant future, humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side in perfect harmony. Sharing cities, careers, and equal rights, they believe this peaceful coexistence is how the world has always been. But when a young human uncovers an erased piece of history, a terrifying truth begins to surface: animals were not always intelligent-and the reason why has been deliberately forgotten. As the revelation spreads, fear replaces trust. Society fractures. Humans turn on animals, animals retreat in terror, and the world teeters on the edge of collapse. Caught in the chaos, a small group of young humans and animals race to uncover the truth behind the lost past-one powerful enough to either heal the world or destroy it forever. The Age of Unison is a gripping science-fiction tale about unity, fear, and the dangerous cost of forgotten history.

After being accused of fathering a child that couldn't possibly be his, Marin must choose between revealing a deep secret to prove his innocence, or accepting heavy consequences for breaking his vows of celibacy.

In the spiritually infused world of Orixa, where cosmic rifts unleash a malevolent Convergence bent on domination, newly ascended leader Adonis must navigate internal betrayals and forge interstellar alliances to unite fractured factions against the invading Syndicate, or risk the annihilation of his planet and the corruption of its divine Axè essence.

The Lost New World of The Future Written 21st July 2023

Encounter Bay, South Australia, April 8, 1802 Two scientists boldly go where no white man had gone before. One French, one British. Both mapping the southern Australian coastline. A peaceful exchange despite believing their respective countries were still at war. In our world, Britain colonised South Australia. However, in an alternate universe, marching to the tune of a divergent timeline, France won the fair state of South Australia. Into this Mirror World, Holly enters. But she's not alone. And she's not safe. Furthermore, she would discover she's not who she thought she was.

The version of our world, where people hibernate for winter like animals This is slice of life story of relationship between two girls, their preparations for yearly hibernation and family relations. Story explores topics of family support, risks and benefits of hibernation in the world where it's part of human condition.

What would you give up to dive into your favourite story? Romantic, sharp-tongued, with a tendency to fall in love with tall, dark-haired, brooding men--Leah is the archetype of the "Pride and Prejudice" fan. TV series, movies, comics, musicals: she has seen and read them all. For her birthday, Leah's friends and family pool together to get her the ultimate Janeite gift: the Bridge, a virtual-reality gaming device. By granting access to her five senses, she can live her favourite novel as the iconic Elizabeth Bennet! As she explores Regency England and quarrels with the infamous Darcy, Leah cannot help but digress from the original plot to suit her modern-woman convictions. The longer she plays, the weirder her beloved characters act, until the lines between fiction and reality blur. ⚠️ Content and/or trigger warning ⚠️ This story contains one scene of (unsuccessful) sexual coercion, and mentions domestic violence and death by domestic violence, which may be triggering for some readers. 📖 Featured 19 times! Seen on: 📖 @beauty @SpeculativeFiction @Humor @ContemporaryLit @retold @WattRevenge @ScienceFiction @mystery @StoriesUndiscovered @WattpadGaming @ChickLit @Fanfic @NA @generalfiction @classicauthors @WattpadHistoricalRomance @HistoricalFiction

Elteross Vass lives hidden in the woods, far from cities and history. His life is reduced to routines: gathering wood, maintaining the machines that keep his daughter alive, and staying unseen. Years ago, an experiment tore a rift open above Totenheim. His wife, a scientist involved in the project, died when the sky broke. Elteross survived, and ran. Now the past finds him. A New Order officer appears in his home with the truth Elteross feared: the rift was never sealed. The world beyond it, Naesia, still presses against reality, and his daughter is no accident of survival. Forced back toward Totenheim, Elteross must face what his wife died trying to stop-and what his daughter may become. Some doors do not open with force. They open when everything goes quiet. And then it goes dark.