Science Fiction
The Vessel - A Halloween Flash Fiction
The Vessel © Sai Marie Johnson A story often begins out of nowhere – a walk into a hike, a day into night. And for Elias Royal, it was a bit of a lifetime spent building his world out of concrete and equations, and he liked to think that’s all it was ever going to be. He wasn’t the sort of man who was looking for eventful, but he did want to leave some sort of honest work legacy in his life – and that led him to becoming a genetic engineer. He was a man who believed in the structural integrity of science and the irrefutable logic of mathematics, and there had never been any real room for faith or spirituality in his life. He viewed it as a crutch – something people needed to get through the harsh realities of life. But, as life would happen to throw some harsh realities at Elias, it hit him like an anvil in a cartoon when his seven-year-old son, Leo – ended up being the one whose body was failing the quiet, devastating fight against juvenile cancer, and it was efficiently unspooling his boy’s thread right before his eyes.
By Sai Marie Johnson4 months ago in Chapters
The 100: Season 2 — The Mountain and the War
Previously on The 100 Season 1… The Earth was reborn in fire. A hundred young prisoners sent from the Ark landed on a devastated, toxic world and discovered they were not alone. Wars erupted. Alliances were tested. Clarke Griffin emerged as a reluctant leader, fighting not just for survival, but for the very soul of humanity.
By kashif khan4 months ago in Chapters
The 100: Season 1 Humanity Returns to a Broken Earth . AI-Generated.
S “Survival isn’t who you are. It’s who you become.” Earth is silent. Once filled with life, laughter, and color now it’s nothing but ashes and ghosts. Ninety-seven years ago, humanity destroyed itself in a nuclear apocalypse. The air turned poisonous, the ground burned, and the oceans boiled. The few who survived escaped to space, living on a massive station orbiting the dead planet. They called it the Ark.
By kashif khan4 months ago in Chapters
Fragments from the Veil — Chapter 6
The events of this past weekend weigh heavily on me. Kristen ... Mandy ... Joseph ... and the light — the light that encompassed me ... that transported me ... that stole my memories. I’ve been rejected ... abandoned ... beaten ... shamed ... perhaps even violated.
By Marcellus Grey4 months ago in Chapters
The Emotion Dealers
In 2092, feelings were no longer spontaneous — they were streamed. The company Sensatek had revolutionized humanity with its neural chips, allowing users to download emotions directly into their brains. Love, joy, courage, serenity — all available for purchase in the Emotion Store.
By GoldenSpeech4 months ago in Chapters
Inversion - 10. AI-Generated.
Chapter 10 The cabin sat at the end of a dirt road that barely deserved the name, thirty miles from the nearest town and a thousand miles from anything resembling civilization. Laurel had found it through a classified on a prepper forum: “Off-grid retreat, solar power, well water, absolute privacy guaranteed.” The owner, a grizzled ex-Marine type who went by Hendricks, had asked no questions when Laurel paid for six months’ rent in cash and asked that the location remain confidential.
By The Myth of Sysiphus4 months ago in Chapters
Inversion - 9. AI-Generated.
Chapter 9 The synthesizer looked like the bastard offspring of a microwave and a particle accelerator. Maya had spent weeks cannibalizing parts from the teleportation equipment, repurposing quantum field generators and matter rematerialization matrices to create something that had never existed before: a device that could invert the molecular handedness of food.
By The Myth of Sysiphus4 months ago in Chapters
Who's the real Monsters?
Making my way to Aunt Patty's office I saw that she was burning the midnight oil. Moving through the shadows in complete stealth. I reached into the filing cabinets again, this time looking into the people who were in the solitary area. Eric's name came up first. Looks like it's not just his brother who's been detained here, his girlfriend as well.
By Lucy Torralba4 months ago in Chapters
"How to Get Kids to Love Reading":
How to Get Kids to Love Reading: A Journey into the World of Books It was a quiet Saturday morning in the Parker household. The sun streamed through the window, casting a warm glow across the living room, where the family was gathered. Dad was sipping his coffee, and Mom was sorting through the mail. Their son, Ethan, was sitting on the couch, staring blankly at the TV.
By Muhammad Azeemullah5 months ago in Chapters
Inversion - 8. AI-Generated.
Part III: Quantum Chrysalis Chapter 8 Maya’s lab became Laurel’s second home, though home was perhaps the wrong word for a place that looked so much like a hospice. Two weeks had passed, and his weight loss was only declining faster despite Maya’s attempts at intravenous nutrition. The IV solutions helped a little, but they weren’t going to save him in the end.
By The Myth of Sysiphus5 months ago in Chapters
The 48-Hour Invasion. AI-Generated.
The invasion took record time to start and end. It was a matter of two consecutive twenty-four-hour days - the span of a weekend spent with friends or a holiday away with a loved one in a cozy cabin. Two freaking days, and the world ended.
By DASL Writer5 months ago in Chapters
