by Chlobo
Yuzuko's perfect world is disturbed when she is forced to take part in the 30th season of Game of Mass Destruction, a reality tv show where twenty contestants have to fight robots and each other for a chance to become a billionaire. Each robot they destroy gives points, but extra points are rewarded for acts of sex and murder. Whilst Yuzuko is united with online friends, she discovers dark secrets about her family as she confronts the gameshow's owner the notorious Sia Bucks. Will she su…
by ChesNeko13
Enter into a lost creature's life after being taken out of cold storage after nearly half a century, floating lost in space. See through the eyes of the pilots of the Iron Maiden, and the mystery behind its unknown captain.
by East Sea Boar Demon
Where would the very limit of development achievable by a private enterprise be? Being listed among the top 500 in the country? Being listed among the the top 500 in the world? Or, becoming a boss-level entity that transcends nations, ruling the world as de facto rulers, just like those companies listed below? The Umbrella Corporation in ‘Resident Evil’, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in ‘Alien’, the Concordance Extraction Corporation in ‘Dead Space’, Gentek in ‘Prototype’, Vault-Tec in ‘Fallout…
by PR Adams
Elite mercenary Connor Rattakul can't escape his past.After choosing the wrong side in a war against the Directorate, he becomes a fugitive, hiding in the ranks of the thousands of mercenaries always desperate for the next job. But a series of mishaps force his team deep into the Talon Sector, where the Directorate holds power. Only his former girlfriend's intervention can save him.With Directorate assassins on his trail, Connor is forced to take on a job that his team might not survive from a c…
by David Selby
David Selby was born and grew up in Berkeley, California. He taught elementary school in California, Mexico, and New Mexico for thirty-six years. He and his wife live in Northwest New Mexico. He has written many short stories including the Joe the Man with Gills series. Mica is his first novel.Mica, an expert navigator, uses the currents of the Darkstream to pilot his ship across the galaxy to join his love, Olivine. On the way, he befriends Ronnie, a stowaway who can look like a coat or a firs…
by Rock Panic
A talented young man, Ren Hong, drops out of Tsinghua University to establish a technology company called XlouS.XlouS's breakthrough application software, "Real-Time Online Translator", gains the favor of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, who buys its exclusive license for a whopping 12 billion USD.This is just the start of XlouS's rise to prominence in China's technology industry. Two years later, it subsequently launches the wearable smart device, "S-1", challenging American multinational tech…
by GaryH
When two small-town women find themselves with nearly unlimited powers of mind and body, their lives get complicated. Things turn nasty as a shadowy organization attempts to use Megan and Trish for their own evil ends, and destroy them, their town and the USA in the process.
by Minus Ninety Degrees
The arrival of origin ability era. Many berserk beasts spawned. Humans with superpowers blooming like mushrooms. Su Hao is just an ordinary 3rd year high school student who had mastered a lowly grade origin ability named “Model analysis”.However, when he was creating a character model in his mind by analyzing the opposing side’s ability, a crazy idea echoed in his mind. What would happen if he creates a model of the entire world? This would imply that he… would be like a God, controlling the wor…
by Lazy Cliché
"Every time background music plays in my head, I feel like there is nothing to be afraid of." —Fang ZhaoToward the end of the apocalyptic period, Fang Zhao lost his life. However, instead of dying, he found himself 500 years later in the body of a young and aspiring composer who shared the same name. Having received a second chance at life, Fang Zhao sets out to achieve the previous owner's dreams.Armed with the experience of living through an apocalyptic age and his profession as a composer bef…
by Second General
The enthusiastic, motivated, and hardworking fourth-year biology student, Zhou Wen, was about to graduate from his program into a jobless future. Who would have thought that he would be bitten by an experimental subject that would alter his fate? He was bestowed with the ability to not only see through all sorts of DNA and viruses but could also see the properties of medicines and chemicals. Thereupon, he embarked on a journey of becoming the great Supreme Pharmacist.
by durinde
The global war ended two hundred years ago, not with a bang, but with a whimper.Nations fought until resources were almost completely exhausted. By the time a cease-fire was called, the ability to return to the pre-war industrial era was nearly impossible. With the lack of resources, humanity declined to a quasi-medieval society of city states.Now 200 years later "Metalmancers" or those with the ability to control and shape metal have started to appear. With these Metalmancers and their abilitie…
by akashvm
The world as we know has ended with an event which is described as the rise of a new dominant species. Historians and keepers of knowledge call it 'CATACLYSM'. With the end of cataclysm arose a new species of organism....well....not really organism, but a new strain of viruses called R-virus, which could take on any living body as host. This behavior of R- virus provided it with the ability to adapt to any and every conditions on earth. Human beings, known as the most adaptable creatures in the …
by August Niehaus
Author:In another lifetime, August was a punk kid running a writing-themed e-zine in 2002 and participating in online survivor writing contests; these days, she’s a punk pseudo-adult with an office job and a studio of her own.Meet Pitney Scolan. Pit, for short. He’s a decorated general and a venerated leader of the sprawling human race. He’s protected his species' colonies from vicious native animal populations and hostile alien life. He’s fiercely introverted, and he’s really looking forward to…
by Sebastian Badarau
In addition to writing books, Sebastian Badarau also acts and directs for stage and film. Most recently he has worked with film director Graham Baker (Alien Nation) adapting the novel A State of Denmark for a 2021 release.His latest project is radio-drama ¨The Uncertainty Principle¨ which he wrote and directed himself and was broadcast by Radio Iasi, last year. It tells the story of three scientists who are on the verge of a major breakthrough in quantum mechanics but find themselves in conflict…
by _Sha
Fifteen disciples.They were useless in the Academy of Magic and Witch-hunting.....An excerpt from the chapter 91The Third Son of the Magic MasterThe students after the lecture started leaving.Crag was looking toward Lui, he was observing him as usual. For him, Lui was only the third son of the Magic Master. Crag was forced to betray the third son of the Magic Master from his study, it was the only wish of his father. But deep down in his heart, he always thought that why his father was using an …
by Isaac Hess
Isaac Hess lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his family, three dogs, and evil cat. He likes to read, play video games, and watch movies when he’s not fending off ninjas or escaping alien spaceships. He currently attends Missouri State University and is also the author of The Altered Revenge series, Chomped, Speechless, and James Wallace, a novel for young adults. In a distant future of interstellar travel, planetary colonization, and rampant strife, super-powered humans once known as A…
by Nicole MacDonald
Nicole MacDonald is a thirty something year old Kiwi who loves to read and moonlights as a novelist. An avid reader from a young age, writing only occurred to her a few years ago after reading a book that didn’t quite hit the spot.Daily scribbles eventuated into the BirthRight Trilogy, an Epic Fantasy Romance with women who know how to wield a sword, AND swing a punch. A literary journey that included six months of long sword training, as well as ju-jitsu lessons, and self-defence lessons for Ni…
by Derrick R. Lafayette
I've been published in such publications as Suspense Magazine, Lycan Valley Press, The Fictional Cafe, Drunk Monkeys, Red Fez and others. I've currently self published three novels. I plan to release more shorts and novels. Honestly, I'm just a wisp of smoke gliding across the astral plane, purposely creating thoughtful stories to keep you up at night.All of humanity resides on Saturn’s rings known as Lustrous Utopia I, ruled by the diplomatic HighPriestess. The top quadrant of the planet is res…
by dinosaur_prince
Too many possibilities that all of this could go wrong.But there are also possibilities where all of this could be something that I was meant to do.
by The Taoist Takes All
"It was a regular day when Zhou Qingfeng chose to spend his afternoon watching a random movie he stumbled upon on the internet. It described a mysterious and instantaneous collapse of all governments worldwide that plunged the world into a lawless Wasteland. Unsatisfied with the ending, Zhou Qingfeng boldly proclaimed that he could have handled the situation better if he had been the protagonist.To his surprise, his rant was answered by the creator of the movie—a self-proclaimed “GOD""—who offer…