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Delphine P Snow

Die Pretty

2 min read

Signe was resigned to her fate. She did not have any more fight in her. She was going

Emmanuele Massimi

The Daylight Spectre

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The light was dimming, slowly, and then all of a sudden, as it’s always the case for

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She was pretty

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She was pretty before. Turning heads in every room she walked in. Now, the tabloids t

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Godsoup

3 min read

I have always dreamed of revolution. Something that would send ripples through the wo

Oliver

It Wasn’t Me.

1 min read

_Bam_. I stare at the man standing in front of me, staring at the hole in his stomac

Olivia T. Thomson

Welcome To Reality

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Edric Ivory VS The Apocalypse - Chapter 2

FroggyLTea

5 min read

Edric was ready. He had prepared himself like his mentor had instructed, by getting a good nights sleep, and he was determined to do things differently this time. He was currently standing in the field that he usually trained in, the dew nestled in the grass as it was every morning, and the breeze of the new day rustling through his hair. His mentor, however, was not on time, which seemed highly u...

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Action

A Behavioural Programming Oversight

Leeron Heywood

4 min read

The tide of war turned when Automatic Robotic Soldiers were deployed. Sleek, faceless killing machines dubbed “the future of combat”.

They didn’t tire. They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t need training, carrying all basic combat knowledge in their operation system and capable of learning from enemies on the fly. Best of all, there was no need to pay them nor pesky human rights to fulfil.

If they lo...

Science fiction

The Interpreter

Penny Dreadful ☠️ 🦑🧜‍♀️

1 min read

Just one more mission, they told me. Or I think that’s what I heard. The music of war had muffled my ears and it was getting harder to interpret. I had to look at mouths, eyes, facial muscles.

They sat me in the middle of a battlefield, the Martian landscape red with ancient ores and recent spilled blood. Earth commanders would be on one side, Mars on the other.

Once we were all the same. But ...

Science fiction

Drama

Sleeping Beauty

M R Iverson

7 min read

Remember the Brother’s Grimm story about sleeping beauty? How she was cursed at birth to fall asleep on her 16th birthday along with the rest of the kingdom she was born into? And how true love’s kiss was to break the curse? Well if only it were true love’s kiss that woke me on my 4,000th birthday.

Back before i was put to sleep, the earth was on track to implode and we has humans needed a way ...

Science fiction

Action

When The Stars Fell

S. T. Halk

1 min read

When the stars fell from the sky… I knew it was over. I had ignored all the signs before hand. When the mountains all crumbled into the sea? I dismissed it! Mrs Laninham said “Bobby did you hear about all the mountains”??? I waved her off… “It happens every year Mrs Laninham, there’s nothing to worry about Mrs Laninham. When the skys filled with cicadas and grasshoppers and it was deafeni...

Humour

Science fiction

Worlds Apart

𝔏𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰𝔞𝔶 🧚🏼‍♀️

1 min read

Died inside an eon ago,

embraced the endless dark.

Stubbornly survived by insisting

a purpose for my prevailing spark.

Wandering fathomless galaxies,

weaving through destructive debris.

Blindly guided toward my fate

by forces much greater than me.

But too much time without,

forces one to look within.

I wish I hadn’t spent all my days

waiting on life to begin.

I wish I’d taken my one precious li...

Poetry

Science fiction

Elvira

Etta McCafferty

3 min read

Tisho sat down heavily by the lake and turned his sunburnt face upwards. The Falling had already commenced. He could tell by the number of stars beginning to flicker softly around the edges of the solar system.

They had made it just in time.

With a grim smile, his eyes locked on the brightest light in the sky. Elvira, the final starship to carry evacuees from their dying planet. His breathing sl...

Science fiction

Lies

The cozy writer

1 min read

The first time I lied was really for a mundane reason. I was too young to realize then the truth behind only three lies. I had told my mom I hadn’t taken my younger brother’s toy and I watched a ripple of fear cross her face as she clapped her hand over my mouth. I watched with equal horror as a number three appeared above my head and ticked down to two. That day truly taught me the gravity behind...

Thriller

Science fiction

Awakening

E.G. Elmgood

8 min read

Warning: Extreme violence. Death. Language.

Read at your own discretion.

“Salvation,” he smiled, “is inevitable. Our Time is inevitable.”

It felt cooler beneath the huge makeshift tent, contrasting the hot sun beyond.

Still, the crowd sweat in the unavoidable humidity of so many bodies packed together.

Jeremiah adjusted his posture and sat back straight, legs crossed, ...

Horror

Science fiction

The Sin Eaters

DjinniRB

2 min read

“Witch hunt that’s what this is,” Mr. Robert’s said, trying to keep his voice calm. “We’ve already explained Bryce’s bruising.”

Lips trembling, Mrs. Robert’s twisted the hem of hey pencil skirt. Her husband patted her knee. Subtly she moved away to smooth the fabric. Mrs. Robert’s cleared her throat. The teacher still hadn’t made eye contact since the Roberts sat down for the parent teacher confe...

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