Sci Fi

She No Want No More. Content Warning.
GENRE: Hard Horror, Rom-com TRIGGERS: Blood, Sexual Undertone She No Want No More —Penultimate and viscosity are words that I hate.
By Gagarin5 days ago in Fiction
Non-Binary Future
Everything seems normal, but I wonder why everything is so perfect? There must be something wrong. The people in this city are looking good and there is energy. But they are hiding something. For the looming threat of nuclear war that will see sweep over us all. The climate threat, the rise of neo-Nazism. There is a sinister secret about alms I must know. Why does everyone in this city spend their nights indoors.
By Karl McBeath6 days ago in Fiction
Doomsday Clock: Why the World Is Closer Than Ever to Global Catastrophe
Doomsday Clock: Why the World Is Closer Than Ever to Global Catastrophe The **Doomsday Clock** is a powerful symbolic representation of how close humanity is to a self-inflicted global disaster. Created to communicate complex scientific and geopolitical risks in a simple visual form, the clock has become a widely recognized indicator of global instability. Midnight on the clock represents total catastrophe, while the movement of its hands reflects expert assessments of existential threats facing the world.
By America today 6 days ago in Fiction
One Unchecked Box. Top Story - October 2024.
"Republished" because it was the only way to add the embed for the newly recorded audio version of this story due to the Top Story badge. Plus it serves as a nice, informal announcement of the podcast's revival for another season (go subscribe!):
By Stephen A. Roddewig6 days ago in Fiction
Captain Michael and the Horn of Logan
“I am King David the Magnificent. The Great and Powerful. Ruler over all that is in front of me, all that is behind me. All that is to the north, south, east, and west of me. Why have you come before my great presence? Make your request now. If it sounds pleasant to my ears, I might consider granting you your request. If not, you will be fed to the lions.”
By David E. Perry7 days ago in Fiction
7 Deadly Syns
...[:{ The Reconciliation layer only exists when nothing important is supposed to happen. Low load. Idle cycles. A place the system uses to make sure its own contradictions still agree with each other.
By Kristen Keenon Fisher7 days ago in Fiction
Strange Infomercial
*TELEVISION BLIP* The salesman walks slow, stiff with borrowed confidence and an odd-colored suit. "What are you in the market for?"
By Kristen Keenon Fisher8 days ago in Fiction
The One Who Stayed in the Dream
1 It started with the dream. Every night, I saw him. It was always the same. A boy with dark hair and calm eyes, sitting across from me at a café that doesn’t exist. The walls were pale yellow, the windows fogged from the rain outside, and there was always jazz playing softly in the background.
By Yamuni Kaijumi8 days ago in Fiction
Chrome Hearts
The cowboy hat draped over one eye was black leather, scuffed and worn, like it’d seen some things, but the leg peeking through the lace slit of her skirt was brand new, chrome plated titanium, fastened together with countersunk bolts. Whoever she was, she was special. Or used to be.
By Faris Lannon8 days ago in Fiction
Layer of Permission
The first thing Mara noticed was that no one ever said no anymore. They said not available, pending review, outside your tier, not at this time; you know when the words were polite. Bloodless. They floated past her like customer service ghosts.
By Cadma9 days ago in Fiction
Lurking Behind The Stars
For many who live on the planet Earth, one of the most mysterious and magnificent wonders of life is the sky; limitless, always changing, and filled with so many things that so many of us will never see.
By EFHL9 days ago in Fiction
I am you ?
DARK is not just a series; it’s a state of mind. When I started watching it, I honestly thought I was mentally clear and sorted. That confidence didn’t last long. If you feel very sure about how life works, watching DARK slowly dismantles that certainty. And if you are already a little confused about life, this show doesn’t make things easier either. Yet, strangely, no matter how lost or mentally exhausted you feel, you don’t stop watching. I didn’t. There is something about DARK that keeps pulling you back even when your head feels heavy, because it is genuinely worth the effort. What surprised me the most was discovering that the writer of this series is Jantje Friese. I had to pause there. A woman writing a time-travel science fiction story with this level of depth, structure, and attention to detail felt both surprising and deeply impressive. Time travel mixed with science fiction, philosophy, and extreme detailing has been attempted before, but I personally haven’t seen it executed this precisely anywhere else. Time-travel stories usually bend logic when it becomes inconvenient, but DARK does the opposite. It pushes logic to its limits. The story moves across timelines like 1888, 1953, 1986, 2019, and 2053, while also introducing parallel worlds that exist side by side. Every action has a consequence, and every consequence triggers another event, creating a continuous chain reaction that drives the narrative forward. At some point, I stopped trying to perfectly track every timeline and simply let the story unfold, and that’s when it became overwhelming in the best way. Each major character exists in three versions: young, middle-aged, and old, and this happens across both worlds. Characters deceive others, deceive themselves, and relationships become tangled in ways that time itself cannot easily fix. There were moments when I had to stop and think, and moments I am still not sure I fully understand, but that uncertainty feels intentional. The familiar story of Adam and Eva, usually seen as heroic figures, is completely reversed here. In DARK, they are lovers and enemies at the same time, fighting to protect their own version of reality even if it means destroying another. Just writing about it makes my head spin, and imagining how someone even conceived this story feels unreal. My only real disappointment was the budget. If DARK had the scale and visual resources of shows like Stranger Things or Squid Game, it could have been even more visually terrifying. But what stayed with me after finishing the series was not the science fiction itself; it was a question. We often say we shouldn’t trust anyone and that we only have ourselves. But what if time challenges that belief? What if, as time moves forward, the person we cannot trust anymore is not someone else but ourselves? So here is a question I keep thinking about: if your older self met your younger self and they refused to believe you, what is the one thing you would say to make them trust that you are truly them?
By Agila9 days ago in Fiction