Speculative Stories

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.

THE DIVIDE One school. Two worlds. One terrible secret. At Westbridge Academy, the rules are simple. Students either pay tuition or receive financial aid. The two groups never meet. They never share classes, eat in the same cafeteria, or even walk the same halls. Questions aren't encouraged, and curiosity has a way of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old Lark Foster has spent her entire life accepting that some things simply aren't meant to be understood. But when a chance encounter leads her beyond the invisible boundary separating the two student populations, she discovers that the divide isn't about money. It's about control. Behind the walls of Westbridge lies a hidden world where students aren't just educated; they're studied. Every test score, every emotion, every decision is part of something far larger than anyone could imagine. Someone has been watching them all along. As Lark and a small group of unlikely allies race to uncover the truth, they find themselves hunted by the very institution that raised them. And the deeper they dig, the more terrifying the truth becomes: The experiments were never the goal. They were only the beginning.

Cosmic horror and Epic saga based in the World of Darkness this dark reimagining of the Monday's Child folktale follows the Days of Fate, 6 cosmic beings that control the destiny of the universe and they have decided it is time for the Apocalypse to begin. Opposed by the Light Wednesday Child of Woe and Frigsday Child of Sin week to free the Cosmic Wyrm the primordial force of destruction that will bring about the End of Days.

In 2062, all students in the UK must take The Future - an exam that selects the smartest, most creative and resilient 17 year-olds. The top 1% are allowed to marry one another in order to produce the elites of the future. The bottom 99% are immediately sterilised. For the top 1%, a life of family and lucrative careers awaits. But for Portia, Richard, Naomi and Justice - successful 1-per-centers - the problems are only just beginning. They, and their competitive families, will battle for the best marriage match-ups, whilst surviving in a world of climate chaos, violent migrant crackdowns, and AI systems that dominate public life. Can the young adults of The Future find love in the present? Or will secrets, corruption and heart-break ruin their lives and everyone's around them?

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

She crossed the world to escape her past. Instead, she found herself at the center of a global conspiracy. While world leaders fight over the future of artificial human cloning, Rosandra Ferguson is haunted by visions of past lives, mysterious supernatural beings, and a love she can't seem to leave behind. Now trapped between destiny and free will, East and West, loyalty and desire, Rosandra must make a choice that could change the future of humanity forever. Some fairy tales grant wishes. Others start wars.

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.

Dr. Cally Medlin is having a bad day. She's so close to finding a remedy for Tauria's decades-long crop failure, but now the planet's central government has collapsed, people are rioting, her uncle has disappeared, everyone's after her research notes, and she and her five-year-old daughter have just been kidnapped by a half-Taurian soldier in dirty fatigues, who now insists she marry him. "We have to become attached," says Major Taschereau, using the Taurian word for marriage. "It's the only way to keep you both safe." "Why would we be any safer after I marry you?" Cally protests. "Because the Clan lords respect the concept of private property." "Oh, yes, of course," she says with all the contempt she can muster. "Wives and children are property here. How could I forget? But what about the Technicians? The Conglomerate? None of them will give a damn whether we're married. They'll grab me the first chance they get." Tasch half turned towards her. His pale Taurian eyes examined her every curve and a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "One power-hungry group of megalomaniacs at a time, Doctor. My job is to get you and your daughter and your research through 1000 miles of clan territory first. This is the safest way. I have to claim you." Cally looked at the rough and ready man before her and thought of the millions of ways this plan of his could go terribly wrong - or terribly right.

Sequel to Book One. Parallel worlds. guardian angels. alien abductions. One girl caught between destiny and free will. And the more Rosandra learns about reality... the less reality makes sense.

Elias Mercer arrives at Wendy Gazab's office carrying his own death certificate. According to every government record, every transit authority, and every department that matters, he's been dead for six weeks. The only problem is he's standing in front of her asking for help. As Wendy digs into the impossible case, she discovers that Elias wasn't just murdered. His death was officially approved before it happened. Someone filed the paperwork first, then made reality obey. Every answer leads deeper into a city where forgotten departments still issue orders, dissolved agencies continue operating in secret, and bureaucracy has become powerful enough to rewrite history itself. Witnesses change overnight. Records edit themselves. Buildings that no longer exist keep processing official documents. The closer Wendy gets to the truth, the more reality begins correcting her investigation out of existence. To save a man the world insists is already dead, Wendy must uncover who turned paperwork into a weapon before she becomes the next name quietly removed from the system. A dark mystery blending bureaucratic horror, cosmic conspiracy, razor-sharp satire, and impossible investigations, where the most dangerous words in the world are "Your paperwork has been processed."

When everything in Aira Walker's life falls apart, she hits rock bottom. Her career is over. Her boyfriend betrays her. Even the place she calls home is taken away. Her grandmother's countryside house is her only refuge. A house of fears and unfulfilled wishes. But tucked away in a room that seemed locked - but never was - a Door that shouldn't exist. One step through it changes everything. Beyond the threshold lies an endless network of parallel universes, each containing another version of Aira living in a completely different reality. And Aira starts to name them. "Happy Aira," living a life of sleek, modern luxury in an advanced city. Happiness isn't pursued. It's chosen by those who willingly comply. Then "Relaxed Aira," in an energy-driven world where nothing is ever rushed, and nothing is ever truly hers. But running through a multiverse of possibilities isn't an endless adventure. With her own timeline rewriting itself and her true memories fading fast, Aira must master the rules of the Universal Door to save "Real Aira." Every journey changes her. Every choice rewrites her memories. Because not every door leads to another world. One Door leads inward. Within. Universal Door is a heartfelt blend of speculative fiction, psychological fantasy, mystery, and emotional discovery. A story about identity, healing, family, forgiveness and the courage to discover who you truly are.

In the Smackdown, we have no idea what might happen! That includes me, as I join the @LayethTheSmackDown and @Ooorah 2026 speculative fiction Smackdown. Join me as we discover, together, where this path might lead!

ECHO//ERROR - Series Description What if the people the world forgot... never truly disappeared? Five strangers. Five different lives. One impossible coincidence. When Den, Ares, Baz, Dion, and Ace survive an event that should have erased them from existence, they awaken in a hidden world beneath reality-a place where forgotten memories are preserved, abandoned train stations never appear on maps, and mysterious beings known as Echoes continue to exist only because someone, somewhere, still remembers them. Guided by the enigmatic Conductor, haunted by relentless Collectors, and judged by an ancient force called the Auditor, the five discover that they are no longer ordinary people. They are Echoes-living memories caught between life and oblivion. As they unravel the secrets of the Archive, the Garden of Names, Platform Zero, and the forgotten history hidden beneath the world's memories, they must answer a question far more terrifying than whether they can survive: If the world forgets you... who are you? Bound not by blood but by the family they choose to become, Den, Ares, Baz, Dion, and Ace learn that love, grief, identity, and memory are stronger than fate itself. Blending science fiction, mystery, psychological suspense, supernatural fantasy, heartfelt comedy, and a moving queer found-family narrative, ECHO//ERROR is a story about the people we lose, the memories we keep, and the extraordinary courage required to choose hope in a world determined to forget. Because sometimes... The greatest miracle isn't being remembered. It's choosing to remember someone else.

My stories for the Flabbergasting Flash Fiction Smackdown run by Ooorah

The world runs on a lie of stability. For generations, the Guardians have scrubbed the records, smoothed the contradictions, and redirected the curious to ensure humanity never looks down. They believe that as long as the system remains internally consistent, the truth doesn't matter. But a single discrepancy has slipped through their filters-a thought that refuses to resolve, a pattern that matches the dying of the stars. As the pressure beneath reality begins to resonate with the cooling heavens, the boundary between containment and contact is thinning. The truth isn't coming for the world; it has always been here, waiting for someone to finally notice.

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. Humans, now selfish and arrogant, fail to understand the importance of history and nature. Benji is a walking contradiction. He empathizes, but embodies selfish behaviour. 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. _________________________________________________________________________________ ***unfinalized*** this story was a narative essay that was assigned in my english class. it ends abruptly and some parts are patchy because i tried to finish it within the deadline. I hope you enjoy! If it surpasses enough views, i'll probably start working on making it longer, and fixing parts of the story. This story is also very short too! i hope that i'll be able to add more sci-fi-y elements to it soon ______________________________________________________________________________ ***Update!*** New epilogues coming soon! Cover drawing made by me (Experimenting with different cover designs)

A collection of short fiction for the 2026 Smackdown.

I've decided to jump into the latest smackdown hosted by LayethTheSmackDown and Ooorah. This is where I'll be posting my entries. It's been fun and challenging doing these in the past and it's good motivation to churn out some stories. I haven't managed to win one yet, but in a way that's beside the point. Hopefully I can last a few rounds, but if not, that's okay, too. Good luck to all who decide to participate!

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.

In an era before the Other Dimensional Creatures (ODC) and ordinary humans become enemies, scientists have created a "human-ODCian" called Winter, whose goal now is to avenge the death of his best friend by ending the human race. Struggling and confused himself, he will meet a human being in her delicate situation that will unlock a new perspective about fighting and finding peace. #RainyduskTale #Speculative ---- *This short story has been entered in 2016 Newbbay #scificontest and been included in their Honorable Mention list. [Reboot ver. 2025]