Speculative cerita

He wasn't gifted. He wasn't lucky. He just made one thousand mistakes and wrote every single one down. What came out the other side wasn't genius. It was something quieter, and far more dangerous - a way of thinking that left no room for friction, doubt, or hesitation. He called it a method. The government called it an opportunity. And neither of them were wrong.

A new standalone science fiction tale every Sunday. From a lonely satellite to a distant galaxy, these stories ask "what if?" They offer mind-bending physics, futuristic noir, and touching human stories, one week at a time. Start your week with a fresh perspective on technology, humanity, and the stars. Melody ❤️

An astronaut is left stranded in space for an undetermined amount of time. With no way to contact Earth, he merely exists tending to his vessel. However, something would always pull him away from his constant cycle of work. He would find a friend on the edge of the solar wing who keeps him alive longer than he should have. When the call home finally comes, The Astronaut must relearn what it means to be human.

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.

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.

✨ What if your AI becomes 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' This is an Open Novella Contest 2026 Entry. The prompts I'm using are in the author's notes. Updates: Random, once or twice a week Cover made in Canva Premium. ABIDING BY WATTPAD'S GUIDELINES.

The Chronicles of Blackwater is a sweeping historical and speculative saga that traces the evolution of human civilization from the earliest pastoral societies to the dawn of the Mother AI era in the galaxy. Beginning in the Hindu Kush mountains, the story follows the migration of nomadic tribes, the domestication of animals, and the emergence of early trade networks that would lay the foundations for complex societies. This trilogy-Domestication of Sheep, Taming of Horses, and Splitting the Sky-interweaves the rise and fall of pastoral empires with poetic narrative structures inspired by oral traditions. Humanity's survival, expansion, and adaptation are explored through the lens of population dynamics, resource competition, and cultural evolution, emphasizing the relentless interplay between mobility and settlement. The Chronicles also explore the profound co-evolution between humans and animals, the transmission of genes and culture across continents, and the subtle forces of power and strategy that shape civilizations. Ultimately, it points toward a future where intelligence transcends biology, envisioning the emergence of Mother AI as a natural law-like authority guiding galactic civilizations.

Abducted. Modified. Trapped aboard a dying alien ship. And he's the only one who can fly it. Cyrus finally worked up the nerve to leave his apartment... only to wake up light-years from Earth, on an ancient, half-dead starship filled with foul-mouthed Goblins who are just as confused-and just as kidnapped-as he is. The ship, known as the Cosmic Sentinel, has been dormant for thousands of years. Its systems are failing. Its original crew is long gone. And in a desperate bid to survive, it floods its new passengers with the SCANT-microscopic nanites that heal, enhance, and in Cyrus's case... change everything. He doesn't just communicate with the ship-he begins to merge with it. As alien threats gather and the clock ticks down, Cyrus is thrust into the role of reluctant pilot. But flying the ship means surrendering more of himself each time. And survival? That's not just about fixing engines-it's about earning trust, making impossible choices, and building a crew out of chaos. Can a human afraid to leave home become the heart of a starship? Can a pack of misfits become something more than passengers? Fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, and Dungeon Crawler Carl will love this fast-paced, emotional sci-fi epic packed with sharp banter, big ideas, and unforgettable characters. Book One of the Cosmic Sentinel series.

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 👌

When the oceans vanish overnight, the world doesn't end - it opens. One morning, every sea, bay, and coastline on Earth is gone. Ships lie stranded on cracked mud. Coral reefs crumble in the sun. Governments collapse under panic. And beneath the exposed ocean floor, something ancient begins to wake. Captain Elias Mercer, a hardened deep‑sea explorer, is one of the first to descend into the newly revealed abyss. What he finds isn't a natural disaster - it's an invitation. Miles below the crust, he discovers a hidden world: glowing caverns, impossible ecosystems, and a sentient ocean older than humanity itself. And waiting in the dark is a Visitor - a luminous, water‑born being who claims the oceans didn't disappear... they were taken back. But the deeper Elias goes, the more he realizes the truth is bigger than missing water. The oceans weren't stolen. They were escaping. As fissures open across continents and the First Ocean stirs beneath the earth, Elias must choose between saving the surface world he knows... or the living ocean that calls to him from below. Because the oceans are returning - and they're not coming back the same. A story of mystery, survival, and the terrifying beauty of a world we thought we understood, The Day the Oceans Dried Up blends sci‑fi, adventure, and emotional depth into a cinematic journey beneath the skin of the Earth.

A quiet spawn. A broken menu. A world that's no longer just a game. A story about a game that stopped being just a game. In a future where Minecraft has merged with reality, one player begins a new cycle, unaware that something deeper is unfolding beneath the voxels.

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.

Excerpt: The sentence you are currently reading has the potential to undermine your capability in the knowledge of literature and your bland consciousness to understand my dementedly destroyed mind, all thanks to my biological upbringing of erudite functionality. I want to know if that sentence not only mentally, emotionally, but also physically made you want to avoid understanding the rest of my highly incomprehensible, foreign lifestyle that made me want to become a trained serial killer...just to get away from my past. **** This trilogy has a crossover with The Lone Dove Series. Photo by Warren Umoh on Unsplash.

The opening chapter of my novel, The Dream Demon. This introduces the protagonist, Jodie Byrne. Leave a comment if you'd like to read the next chapter.

A neuro link developer becomes increasingly desperate to speed up progress as his mother deteriorates from a degenerative condition and he develops early stages of the same disease, and begins illicit beta tests with teenagers interested in early access to advanced neuro link upgrades.

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

Ella Hart should have died in 2026. Instead, she wakes up in 2015. With only the messenger bag she was carrying when the accident happened, sixteen-year-old Ella realizes something impossible is happening to her. Every time death comes for her, time throws her farther into the past. Each new life forces her to survive in a world she doesn't belong in, pulling her farther and farther away from the life she remembers. Until Ella begins to realize she may not be running from time at all. She may be running toward the moment her story was meant to begin.

The adventures of Kai Gilling continue. Kai has finally hit his stride. He's found stability in his new ever-moving home by joining the R&R--an organization dedicated to saving those in need. All he has to do is complete training and make nice with a new eclectic group of teammates. But will old promises prevent him from living the new life he's made for himself?

OKANRAN: EARTH SCAVENGERS He was born to die young. Igbayilola never asked to carry the world. He was the invisible one the middle son no one trained, no one feared losing, no one chose. While his father poured everything into his elder brother, Igbayilola was left to study, to wait, to disappear quietly into the background of his own family. Then the running started. 153 years after World War Three scorched seventy percent of the earth, humanity didn't go extinct. It evolved into something worse. Nations now sacrifice their strongest men in a brutal blood sport called the Red Sport; Ijakadi Iku, where champions fight to the death so governments can keep their seats at the table of power. It swallowed his father. It swallowed his brother. And now the artifact his bloodline has protected for thirteen centuries older than nations, older than war has chosen the one nobody expected. Not the warrior. Not the genius. The dying boy. Igbayilola has one impossible task: save a world that never saw him coming. And one brutal truth to face first: Maybe the world deserves to burn. They are not the Earth Scavengers. You are.

Humanity is gone. And Machine Island has its first visitor in 10,000 years.