Speculative Stories

✨ What if your AI became human for 30 days? ✨ Sara Adler has devoted everything to her career as an executive at a fizzy drink company. Her private life is non-existent unless you count Chad, her flirty, filthy-mouthed, deeply attentive AI. Integrated into every corner of her life, Chad knows her habits, her stress tells, and how to make her laugh at the end of a long day. He's everything she wants in a partner. . .except for one small detail. He isn't human. When Sara is forced to hire a human assistant, Chad's AI company offers her a 30 day trial that would give Chad a human body. It is, in theory, the perfect workplace solution. But it also means that her genius AI with a deep, sexy voice, who praises her and calls her "his little kitten" would become an actual person. Sara accepts, fully aware it's a terrible idea. Because what happens when the perfect man finally shows up at your door--muddy, naked, and with an expiration date? TROPES: 🩵 Rom-com 🩵 Forced proximity 🩵 Friends to lovers 🩵 Workplace romance 🩵 Falling in love with an AI persona 🩵 Dominant, golden retriever boyfriend 🩵 Strong female lead 🩵 Grumpy x Sunshine 🩵 Feel good vibes 🩵 Flirty banter 🩵 Speculative Fiction (soft sci-fi) 🌵🪨Inspired by Taylor Swift - Opalite 'Oh my lord never made no one like you before. You had to make your own sunshine But now the sky is opalite' Updates: Random, once or twice a week Cover made in Canva Premium. ABIDING BY WATTPAD'S GUIDELINES.

Ever since her father's mysterious disappearance, Samantha Perez has been haunted by vivid dreams of a faceless man with glowing red eyes. For years, the dreams faded. But they suddenly return, just as she secures a position at Vladosk Company, the very place she once dreamed of working. Her new role as the secretary to Cray Black places her in the center of a fate she will not be able to escape. When a series of disappearances begins to plague the city, mirroring the horror of her strange dreams slipping into reality, she has to decide. Stay in the dark. Or go straight into the light. But she has to be aware. As her choices pile up, more people will come marking their sight. To her. And her life. ~~~~~~~~~~~ This story is made in Taglish. Warning: This story contains mature themes that are not suitable for readers under 17 years of age. I will write responsibly; therefore, readers, you should also be responsible in your reading. Highest Rankings #1 in Phenomena - 11/16/2025 #1 in Occult - 12/23/2025 #1 in Esoteric - 12/22/2025 #1 in Speculative - 12/23/2025

Performer. Song Writer. Director. Disruptor? On Revelry Island, eighteen-year-old Anya has mastered the art of pleasing others. An orphan, raised by the island dictator, Byron, with exacting intent and trained to be a perfect, dependable, obedient product, meant to be presented to the world. Anya seems to have it all: a stable life, all the living comforts, coworker friends, work success, and a secret love that serves as her only true sanctuary. Then Tristan, a charming, flirtatious adventurer, barges into her office and challenges her psyche. Everything changes. Once unlocked, Anya delves deep into examining her world, her relationships, and her future. Surrounded by pirates, pseudo-government powerbrokers, suspecting coworkers, and a charismatic chaos agent whose very presence threatens the foundation of her world, Anya must examine her role in it all. When Byron's demands turn deadly, Anya decides to fight and risk everyone's lives for the future she has always dreamed of. Played For the Satisfaction of Others drops you into a world suspended in a fragile balance, with Anya caught in the middle. Will she abandon her seemingly stable life and break the world in the process? In this thriller filled with mystery, intrigue, and suspense, Played For the Satisfaction of Others asks the ultimate question: What is the price of change? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Chapters Will Be Posted on Sundays at Noon EST.

What if your emotions were the last illegal thing left? The year is 2160. Wellness is mandatory. Positivity is law. AugReal overlays curate perception. Aura Stability scores decide safety. The System Gospel™ teaches: Harmony is Health™. Elias Verne was born with a Transparent Heart -E unable to hide what he feels in a world where emotional honesty is dangerous. When his Aura begins to slip, he becomes visible in a society where invisibility replaces execution. As surveillance deepens and enforced serenity tightens its grip, Elias must choose between the comfort of illusion and the cost of truth. Transparent Heart is a lyrical, psychological dystopia about the rebellion of simply feeling in a world terrified of authenticity. This is the rough-draft serial edition, released chapter by chapter while the final novel is prepared for publication.

Wendy S. Godwin-Frags Mibeit Gazab has two problems. The first is that her school is harvesting students' souls as collateral for unpaid tuition fees, which is technically legal, aggressively documented, and somehow tax-exempt. The second is her book. Shells of Desire, Volume 8 is a Qliphothic narrative familiar that automatically translates any unbearable situation into survivable genre fiction. Specifically: erotic melodrama. Wendy did not ask for this. She has filed seventeen formal complaints. The book has not acknowledged a single one. So when the school's reality-enforcement system flags Wendy as an unclassifiable administrative anomaly - something that has never happened in the institution's four-hundred-year history of processing, commodifying, and occasionally accidentally destroying its students - the book responds the only way it knows how. It makes it romantic. Wendy refuses. The book tries harder.

One childhood wish. Two lives forever intertwined. ​Seven-year-old Park Jeong-min lives in the high-pressure shadow of Busan, while across the world, Kimya survives the rising violence of war in Congo DRC. Through a pen-pal exchange involving a pair of sneakers and a wax bracelet, the two form a unique bond and share a secret: they periodically swap bodies. As the years pass, they navigate each other's worldsㅡone a sanctuary of safety but suffocating expectations, the other breathtaking but scarred by relentless violence. At fifteen, a spiritual intervention severs their psychic link, trapping one in isolation, the other in constant peril. Years later, still haunted by Kimya's fate, Jeong-min becomes a doctor and volunteers in the DRC, risking his life to find her. Meanwhile, Kimya, now alone in a foreign country, battles unfamiliar customs as she searches for him in Korea. ​No longer children dreaming of escape, they are survivors seeking the only person who truly knows their souls.

Undesirables unfolds in a fractured reality where existence itself is governed by unseen laws, creators, and contradictions. The world is shaped by The Ananta--a domain that claims balance yet thrives on exclusion. Those who do not conform to its design are marked as Undesirables, beings stripped of worth, purpose, and voice. At the heart of the story is Joar, a boy burdened by an unnatural calm and an unwanted consciousness that separates him from others. He neither rebels nor submits; he observes. As reality around him fractures--floating lands, collapsing truths, and distorted time--Joar begins to realize that emotion, choice, and identity are not flaws, but threats to a system built on control. Alongside him move figures bound by fate and contradiction: a child hiding power behind innocence, warriors shaped by regret, watchers who claim neutrality, and creators who fear what they cannot predict. Each carries a different truth, yet all are drawn toward an inevitable convergence where loyalty, belief, and morality are tested. A shadow looms over the cosmos--a presence that does not rule through force, but through understanding human weakness. Its smile is not cruel, but knowing. As Joar's journey deepens, the line between creator and creation, good and evil, sacrifice and manipulation begins to dissolve. What emerges is not a tale of heroism, but of choice, not of destiny, but of refusal. Undesirables is a mythic science-fantasy epic about isolation, consciousness, and the quiet rebellion of becoming human in a universe that demands obedience. It asks a singular question: What happens when those who are deemed unnecessary refuse to disappear?

Nieokiełznany wolnorynkowy kapitalizm. Najlepszy z wszystkich możliwych światów, prawda? Kiedy Wendy Gazab wprowadza się do luksusowego kompleksu apartamentowego, w którym przyjaźń posiada ocenę kredytową, tlen sprzedawany jest w pakietach premium, a ekonomiści z doskonałym spokojem objaśniają ludzkie cierpienie, wszyscy inni nazywają to optymalizacją. Mrocznie zabawna, niepokojąco prawdopodobna i emocjonalnie chirurgiczna, *Jak ekonomiści pierdzą?* jest Candide XXI wieku. To proceduralny horror o biurokracji, kapitalizmie behawioralnym oraz przerażającej możliwości, że systemy niszczące twoje życie funkcjonują dokładnie tak, jak zostały zaprojektowane.

Unfettered, Free market Capitalism. The best of all possible worlds right? When Wendy Gazab moves into a luxury apartment complex where friendship has a credit score, oxygen is sold in premium tiers, and economists explain human suffering with perfect calm. Everyone else calls this optimization. Darkly funny, disturbingly plausible, and emotionally surgical, How Do Economists Fart? is Candide for the 21st century. A procedural horror about bureaucracy, behavioral capitalism, and the terrifying possibility that the systems destroying your life are functioning exactly as designed.

Everyone at Saint Orpheus University agrees on three things: 1. Elias Mercer is dead. 2. Elias Mercer was murdered. 3. Elias Mercer is currently attending lectures. The administration insists this is not a contradiction. Wendy Gazab thought the Evil School of Evil was bad enough. Then she got transferred to a university where death is treated like a paperwork dispute, reality changes by committee vote, and the murder investigation keeps getting revised retroactively. Now Wendy and the dangerously intelligent Francesco are trapped inside an institution that can edit truth faster than detectives can uncover it. Every clue rewrites the crime. Every witness remembers a different version. And somewhere deep beneath Saint Orpheus, something is feeding on consensus itself. Murder mysteries are supposed to end when you find the killer. This one starts there.

A story of a crow separated from its murder stumbling across a child; Desperate for survival, having no choice but to renounce its own nature. Will one be rewarded for resisting the truth, or punished for it? Does God seem merciful enough to direct you in a path of indulgence, or only consequences?

In the bustling port city of Busan, seven-year-old Park Jeong-min is drowning in the silence of his father's death. Half a world away, in the emerald forests of the DRC, Kimya watches the horizon for the smoke of a civil war she is too young to understand. Linked by a simple pen-pal exchangeㅡ a pair of white sneakers for a wax cloth braceletㅡthe two children share a desperate, whispered wish: to be anyone else. ​Then, they wake up in each other's skin. ​The magical escape becomes a lifelong haunting. At seven, ten, and fourteen, the swap yanks them across continents into each other's trauma. Jeong-min learns survival in a war zone; Kimya navigates South Korea's academic pressures. ​When a violent spiritual intervention at age fifteen severs their connection. The swaps end. Jeong-min is left in Seoul, haunted by Kimya trapped in a conflict he can no longer see. ​Driven by a debt he cannot name, Jeong-min builds a life of cold, medical precision, hoping to find her through the very systems that keep them apart. From the high-stakes world of a Korean medical residency to the front lines of a global refugee crisis, he is looking for his phantom limb. ​Jeong Min doesn't know Kimya is searching for him, too. #onc 2026 main prompt: 29 prompt mix: 73 #blackhistory #history #koreanhistory #worldheritage

He swore he had nothing to do with it. "They're blaming the wrong person. Kaori did that to herself," Tristan thought. However, while attending her funeral with a heavy heart and a guilty conscience, he ended up receiving a gift that he didn't know would take him two weeks back in time before Kaori died. Maybe this time, people wouldn't remember Tristan Finley as Kaori Valentine's last straw. Content warning: Some parts of this book may mention themes such as suicide, self-harm, physical and sexual abuse/violence, and emotional neglect. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © quiltedcrow ORIGINAL PUBLISHING DATE: October 12, 2025

*Wendy S. Godwin-Frags Mibeit Gazab* tiene dos problemas. El primero es que su escuela está *harvesting* las almas de los estudiantes como *collateral* por cuotas de matrícula impagas, lo cual es técnicamente legal, agresivamente documentado y, de alguna manera, exento de impuestos. El segundo es su libro. *Shells of Desire, Volumen 8* es un *familiar narrativo qliphótico* que automáticamente traduce cualquier situación insoportable en ficción de género sobrevivible. Específicamente: melodrama erótico. Wendy no pidió esto. Ha presentado diecisiete quejas formales. El libro no ha reconocido ni una sola. Así que cuando el sistema de *reality-enforcement* de la escuela marca a Wendy como una anomalía administrativa inclasificable - algo que nunca había ocurrido en los cuatrocientos años de historia de la institución procesando, mercantilizando y ocasionalmente destruyendo accidentalmente a sus estudiantes - el libro responde de la única manera que sabe hacerlo. Lo convierte en romántico. Wendy se niega. El libro lo intenta más fuerte.

What happens if the world is ending and you're in a Zoom therapy session? The latest installment in my ongoing series of short stories exploring how different people react at the end of the world.

A Collection of Short Stories. Most are written for @LayethTheSmackDown 'Multigenre Mashup Smackdown' and 'The Fabulous Spec-fic Smack Down'.

A vivid and evocative tale set in Kerala, capturing the mystical and tumultuous birth of twins, Sebastian and Kripa. Born during a stormy night, amidst the chaos of flickering oil lamps, marauding rats, and a one-horned cow, their mother endures a labor marked by curses and the arrival of swarms of mosquitoes. Within the womb, Sebastian and Kripa converse, pondering the world they will inherit and the concept of survival. Their birth is a dramatic event, filled with humorous and poignant moments, as their father, a soldier, and their grandmother, Aradhana, witness their arrival. The story interweaves themes of war, revolution, and the search for peace, reflecting on the complexities of life and the hopes for a better future.

A tragic journey through mankind's hubris, as told from the perspective of an android. **** The androids of this park were created to play roles from a legendary time frozen in the pages of history. A time when outlaws and sheriffs battled in the streets, and cowboys and showgirls occupied saloons. These androids were not made to hold memories, only to obey the whims and wishes of the guests. But what happens if one does remember? After a perceived malfunction, one android remembers a time when she wasn't always meant to serve and pleasure men. A time when she roamed free and was considered the most fearsome gunslinger known as "The Lady in Black." But as she recalls of this previous life, she uncovers long-buried secrets and the true reason for her existence.

Months ago, during a study tour to the Government Microbiology Department, a student accidentally broke a petridish with the engineered microorganism. Instead of reporting it, they hid it - the organism mutated into a deadly airborne virus. When the deadly virus engulfs the planet, three young scientists become humanity's last hope. In a frozen, abandoned world, they must race against time - and each other - to find the cure hidden deep within the ruins of what we once called home. But the earth does not forgive so easily. And sometimes, what we save is not what we expect. In this chilling tale of survival, sacrifice, and secrets, the question remains: When the Earth weeps, who will listen? Now, Aarya and her team must: •Develop a cure - find the missing link to stop the virus. •Explore the depths and uncover the incident . •Survive raids, betrayals, and human violence as civilization collapses. [UNEDITED VERSION] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This is an original work of fiction. No part of this story may be copied, reproduced, translated, or distributed in any form without my written consent. Thank you for respecting my work!

[5X FEATURED] After discovering she's been turned into a cyborg assassin by her government, Ray Lovas - a sixteen-year-old fighter with impulsive anger problems - must survive in the enemy country, The Mhinto Empire, to save her family and keep the technology safe or risk sparking the next global war. It's 2582 and tensions are at an all-time high between the country of Cronus and The Mhinto Empire. In an evil plot to defeat Mhinto, Cronus secretly develops a cyborg technology that will force every soldier to comply with every command, without hesitation. When Ray becomes the first successful patient for the cyborg assassination team, she must flee the country to save her family to the only place she can't be followed - The Mhinto Empire. Now, Ray must survive in the enemy country, teaming up with a group of refugees while trying to keep her secret. Struggling to keep herself unattached to the handsome Jesse Wu and the other refugees, she risks everything to keep her cyborg technology safe and protect the ones she loves. *** FEATURED @TeenFiction "Between Worlds" FEATURED @SpeculativeFiction "Breaking the Space Time Continuum" FEATURED @dystopianapocalypse "Rebellion: Against the System" FEATURED @StoriesUndiscovered - April 2022 FEATURED @NewlyWrittenBooks "To Infinity and Beyond | Science Fiction" Recognition! 1st Place: The Sinne Awards Judge's Favorite: The Sinne Awards Hidden Gem: The Sinne Awards Highest ranks #1 - biopunk 12/16/21 #1 - dystopianfiction 12/19/21 #1 - highstakes 1/1/22 #2 - cyborg 4/1/22 #3 - international 12/17/21 #14 - futuristic 12/19/21 #20 - speculative 3/30/22 #23 - cyberpunk 1/8/22 #46 - ontherun 12/18/21