Истории Speculative

Lily is a snow witch with powerful magic and a quick temper. Not the best combination. But she keeps to herself, and the few people she lets get close know she has a good heart, and that's enough for her. She doesn't need any drama in her life. Except she never knows what to expect from her next-door neighbor, who is a mad scientist. Then there's her meddling family back at the North Pole. Minor irritations, but they may or may not trigger her blizzard-inducing rage from time to time, resulting in out-of-season snowstorms, snowbound towns, and confused meteorologists worldwide. Good thing she has a fairy godmother. Or is it? When a forbidden paranormal romance brings secret magic and an unspoken curse to light, the weight of the world lands on Lily's shoulders. Break the curse, save the world. Fail... And she'll destroy everything.

If you had a second chance, what would you change? Logan never believed in karma. But as his already shit life starts to fall apart, he starts to change his mind. The final blow comes when he finds out the kid he used to bully, Dakota, committed suicide. In an act of dispair, Logan jumps from the same bridge Dakota did. But instead of dying, he wakes up ten years earlier. 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬: 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲/𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦, 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥

(8 of 17 stories are published. I will be releasing one per week just in time for Halloween!) Step into the Darker Side of Dusk! Seventeen supernatural short stories of sinister suspense. Ordinary men and women. Familiar streets and workplaces. Yet lurking within every shadow, something strange awaits. Ghosts. Demons. Creatures unnamed, and things unexplainable. Forces that warp the perceptions of reality and bend the edges of sanity while penetrating through the cracks of our world. Inside this collection, you will encounter a parent's worst nightmare while playing tea time, a deserted roadway along the railroad hiding something far worse than abandoned cars. A painting with a cursed history, a police officer's career unraveling amongst impossible screams, sudden rain, and fallen ash. A mysterious tattooed woman's subtle smile, a stalking statue. A strange, flickering, panic inducing glow along the shore, each becomes a threshold to the uncanny and paranormal. Each story twists from the known to the unimaginable, revealing endings that leave you questioning the reality and experience of the characters and the events. The sun is setting. The time is now. The world as you know it fades. Dare to cross into the Darker Side of Dusk.

Society loves a blueprint. If you fit the mold, doors open; if you don't, your fundamental rights-even your right to exist-are up for debate. Meet a protagonist whose uniqueness defies every category you know. Your subconscious bias will try to build an avatar. But until you strip away every label you've ever been handed, you will never truly see the human inside.

Urla's people live on the edge between forest and valley. They hide among the trees, living a mostly peaceful existence. They only fear traveling to the outside villages. They have very little to trade with the outside world, surviving for years on the work of their hands. Urla's father is a weaver and a tailor. His work is a wonder and a trick to the eye as the fabric dances before those who see it. He makes traveling clothes for those who risk the outside world. The trick is to be noticed and unseen. Yet, Urla lives a carefree life. If only Frederick would leave her be, then life would be perfect.

The Earth is finally dying. Humans have been doing wrong time and time again, failing to understand their mistakes. Eventually, history closes in on itself. Now selfish and arrogant, humans fail to understand the importance of history and nature. Benji is a walking contradiction. He empathizes, but embodies selfish behavior. One day, his entire life changes with a selfless, yet simple action. Little does he know, this could give him just what he needed all along. Maybe with his story, humans can also understand the wrongdoings of their actions. Maybe we can learn how to heal ourselves and the world. _________________________________________________________________________________ Now fully completed

Growing up, all she ever wanted was a normal life- to go to school, learn, make friends, and experience the world beyond her front door. But her father believed the outside world would corrupt her, so he kept her inside the house for most of her childhood, convinced he was protecting her from a broken society. Everything changed when Nathan came into her life. For the first time, she found love, hope, and the future she had always dreamed of. She finally believed she was building the ordinary life she had been denied. Then a new president was elected. As her country slowly unravels, she watches in real time as everything she once believed in begins to disappear. Rights are stripped away one by one. Freedoms vanish under the promise of "security." Neighbors turn against each other while many refuse to believe anything is wrong until it's far too late. Women are among the first to lose their place in society, rapidly being reduced from equal citizens to second-class people with fewer rights, fewer opportunities, and little control over their own lives. Those who speak out are branded terrorists. Those who stay silent hope the nightmare will pass. Most are simply too afraid to risk everything. With every new law and every executive order, the government tightens its grip on the nation. As the life she fought so hard to build slips away, she must decide whether staying silent will keep her safe- or whether speaking up is worth risking everything. The Good Wife Act is a chilling story about the slow collapse of democracy- not through one dramatic event, but through one law, one signature, and one act of silence at a time. It is a story about love, fear, denial, and the devastating cost of realizing the truth only after your freedom is already gone.

The dead hand of history still grips the throat of the present. Three centuries after a meteor shower struck Earth, humanity is divided between the powered and the originals. One group changed. One did not. In the years that followed, a virus killed billions, twisted the natural world into something monstrous, and gave fear a shape to blame. The powered have carried that blame ever since. Collared, controlled, and sent beyond the city walls, they are forced to fight the mutations that roam the wilds while the originals stay safe behind the walls. Ezra, a doctor, refuses to accept the world's clean divisions. He treats anyone who needs him, believing every life has value, even in a city built on deciding otherwise. When one act of mercy toward a stranger pulls him into a hidden war, Ezra begins to uncover the truth buried beneath generations of fear. Tension between originals and powered reach a breaking point, and Ezra faces a choice that could alter the course of humanity. One where the line between saving and destroying becomes increasingly blurred.

Book 2 WYRM SHADOW As old enemies gather and impossible alliances are forged, every victory uncovers a deeper truth: It has already begun. Destinies are written. They are rewriting reality itself. The Children of Fate Series: She studies suffering like a science. He was born to destroy worlds. The universe decided they were each other's problem. Wednesday Santora is Woe made flesh - a Child of Fate who catalogs misery with academic precision and a straight razor that opens doors between realities. Francesco is a Black Spiral Dancer who ate a Technocracy kill-squad for breakfast and called it a networking event. When a demon frames Wednesday for leveling Chicago, the only thing standing between her and the assembled wrath of every faction in the dark is a wolf who finds her professionally fascinating. That's the problem. Days of Fate, not Days of Choice. Every move they think they're making was already written. Every alliance, every betrayal, every impossible thing that shouldn't be able to happen between two people who are constitutionally incapable of it - already decided. The Loom doesn't explain itself. It just pulls. Content: Dark fantasy, World of Darkness setting, morally complex characters, slow burn that burns the whole building down, no redemption arcs because nobody here needs redeeming - they need to be exactly what they are. "All our days have come. All our days have gone."

Year 3200, Decades after war shattered the nation, the village of Diganta survives through an ancient ritual performed by monks who claim they alone can keep its people fed, powered, and protected. After a bitter heartbreak, Raja joins the dying monastery for the worst possible reason: to prove that he matters. But beneath the temple lies something older than the monks, older than their rituals, and perhaps older than everything Raja has been taught to believe. As rebellion grows and forgotten technology begins to reveal its secrets, Raja must decide whether the faith holding his world together is worth preserving-or whether some gods were never gods at all.

The 1st Episode of the Haunted Mystery Series. Can you solve the puzzle before the book does? A haunted clock. A stolen hour. A family secret that should have stayed buried. When Wednesday Santora and her sister Frigsday awaken an impossible antique clock, they discover spirits trapped between its ticks and a mystery stretching through generations of their own family. To free the dead, Wednesday must solve the one question nobody has dared ask: Who really cursed the Haunted Clock? But some doors were locked for a reason. And Wednesday has always had a weakness for opening them. 🕰️🕷️

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A Scifi Anthology for The Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown Prompt Challenge. Cynthian Ludo stands among four men, recruits chosen for a retrieval mission to a long abandoned earth. The target. Five Luminous beings that looked like they had been woven of star-mesh. But these light beings were more than just translucent frames of star dust. They contained the last data logs of a peace delegation that went wrong many years earlier. And the recruits are not merely retrievers; they are grave-robbers sent to salvage the last witnesses of humanity's ruin. Cynthian was chosen by an algorithm that identified her as being an 'empathetic resonant,' but Corporal Neith believes otherwise. ━━━━━━━━━━━ A Scifi Anthology created for The Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown.

She is the Empire's last defense. And its most dangerous weapon. At seventeen, Viviann Marie Evans called a council of generals fools to their faces - and saved thousands with nothing but her wits. By twenty, she was the youngest spymaster in history. Feared. Brilliant. Utterly irreplaceable. But when the King she serves falls dangerously in love with her, and a young man with grey eyes and a hidden past steps out of the shadows, Viviann faces the one enemy she cannot outwit: her own heart. Dark SpecFi. Slow-burn romance. Absolutely morally grey heroine.

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 ~~~ * although the story is showing up here serialized - I actually didn't/am not writing it as a serialized story, in the event a chapter feels chopped off. Each named section is one whole actual chapter that's split up to show up once a week here 👌 Book cover credit link from Pinterest: https://pin.it/1k5tRG8OW

In another world, Elara and Cait would have grown up like sisters, but that world was forever lost to the tragedies and choices of their elders. Twenty years later, that same inheritance is reuniting this scientifically-minded priestess and thrill-seeking thief in a quest to unravel the mysteries of ancient relics, find a missing father, and discover the truths that lie somewhere between unreliable memories and unconditional love. As Elara and Cait face down the dangerous traps unwittingly set for them by those who love them most, they are both aided and obstructed by the very elders whose choices set them on this path; by a stranger without personal memories and the quiet young boy who has given him purpose, and by a magical feline who oscillates between faithful protector and indifferent demigod. This tale follows a raw, character-driven path that probes the complexities of human connection with equal parts humor and tragedy. Characters are forced to question what "sacrifice" really means as they navigate the rivers of nuance that separate truth from perception. This serial is also available on: Scribble Hub Royal Road YouTube (search "Forestwalker The Wandering Souls" from within YouTube)

Jaskel is trapped in a strange room with his doppelganger, who seems to be from another universe. They share stories that were supposed to be confidential to tackle boredom.

Season Two: The Now What. The ship is failing. The injured won't last. The moment is dire. Now it's on Captain Addie-Lit to keep everyone alive. They answered their cold calls to disastrous consequences - no one bargained for any of this! Will they be rescued-or will Command finish them off? Trust is running thin and they need a new plan, ideas and a reason for hope. 48 hours - That's all you've got. Unless, of course, you actually catch a break. This picks up immediately where Cold Call ends. Stay tuned to see if any questions are answered... or if things are only just getting started. 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 ~~~ * although the story is showing up here serialized - I actually didn't/am not writing it as a serialized story, in the event a chapter feels chopped off. Each named section is one whole actual chapter that's split up to show up once a week here 👌 Book cover credit link from Pinterest: https://pin.it/6ujQwYiHN

|WATTPAD CREATORS PROGRAM| |NOVELLA/EPISODE II| As the galaxy crumbles under Rey and Ben's feet, they must face the First Order's greatest threat to find their true destinies and save Rey and the Beacerika. *** Done in with grief after the Phonolukamy Earthquake, Rey's powers are growing under the Beacerika's training, making her an easy target for the dark force tormenting her. Her desire to learn her identity and overcome her grief takes her back to Jakku, where she discovers what makes her unique and connected with the Dark side and Kylo Ren. Now, she must use her new powers to save him and the galaxy before the First Order reigns. While Rey's friends attempt to help her, they're dragged into Lando Calrissian's true intentions, which may or may not lead to an intense battle between Rey and the First Order. Will the Resistance learn to form allies with their enemies, or will the First Order destroy everything they've accomplished? *** Word Count: 20,000-30,000

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, Micah Quinn and her half-brother Miguel try to survive in a changed world. They build an odd, quirky little family of survivors: - Micah, a woman with a love of high heels who refuses to let her disability make her ineligible to lead; - Miguel, a trained counsellor and former soldier whose kindness hides behind an intimidating exterior; - Dr Iris de Vries, a tiny, temperamental Dutch research scientist with a terrible secret; - Mary 'Bowser' Jones, a Black woman who excels at most everything she puts her hand to; and - Dr Rowan Park, a non-binary, logic-driven former trauma surgeon who aims to save their friends from themselves. In a brutal new world dominated by aggressive and violent alpha males, Micah and Team Quinn struggle not only to survive but also to prove that survival is worth more when you have something to live for.