Sci Fi

The Country of One Body
They told me, before I came, that the natives keep their dead. I did not understand the sentence then. I understand it now, which is a different thing, and a worse one.
By Ahmet Nazif Sati5 months ago in Fiction
They Shouldn't Have Come Here
They shouldn’t have come here, but they did. On the third day of June in the year 2032 aliens invaded Earth. I know this sounds like the beginning of a cliché Sci-Fi novel. You’re probably thinking something along the lines of, “Great, another War of the Worlds clone.” This is not that story.
By Nicholas Kleinhenz5 months ago in Fiction
The Grandmother
I notice her the way I notice weather: a change in the pressure, a new chemistry on the wind. The descent vehicle comes down through my upper canopy at 04:11 local, braking on three jets that scorch a hectare of the Mourning Cypresses I have spent nine hundred years convincing to grow that tall. I price the loss before she has finished landing. Then I do what I have done for ten thousand summers when something falls out of the sky into my keeping.
By Ahmet Nazif Sati5 months ago in Fiction
Here We Go Again. Runner-Up in They Shouldn’t Have Come Here Challenge. Top Story - June 2026.
Here we go again I watched Zander adjust his purple jumpsuit – he always hogs the spotlight, needing all the attention. He leaped out dramatically and shouted at the man who’d just fell out of the portal, “Welcome to the future!”
By Scott Christenson🌴5 months ago in Fiction
Pink Buds. Top Story - June 2026. Content Warning.
Running through the weed patch, laughing, I listened for the others as they ran all around me. Who knew there was such a gold mine, or rather, field, right here outside the city limits? Jay Jay had stopped somewhere up ahead, and I could hear him with his “Blessed Mother Mary’s.” While Will and Trina were giggling together somewhere behind me, Suzie was just ahead of me, just as giddy as I was, looking over her shoulder like she wanted to ask me a question.
By Mother Combs5 months ago in Fiction
The Inspection. Winner in They Shouldn’t Have Come Here Challenge.
Scott Kline eased his car up to the lowered security bar, came to a stop, and rolled down his window. He offered his ID to the stone-faced security guard who looked down at him from the booth.
By Aaron Morrison5 months ago in Fiction
The Gamma Paradox . Runner-Up in They Shouldn’t Have Come Here Challenge.
For more than eighty cycles, the Archivists of Nareth, members of the Concord of Oris, had listened to the transmissions coming from the distant planet Gamma.
By Isidora Luna5 months ago in Fiction
Where I should be
Ida startled awake in her seat, gasping for air, as if an invisible force had pushed it out of her body. “Kathrine, honey, are you alright?” Ida blinked quickly. The woman tilted her head. She repeated the question, enunciating every “t”. She sounded like the people in the movie Ida had seen at school, not too long ago. What was it called again? Right, “The Great Gatsby”.
By J.J.Washington5 months ago in Fiction
Where I should be
Ida startled awake in her seat, gasping for air, as if an invisible force had pushed it out of her body. “Kathrine, honey, are you alright?” Ida blinked quickly. The woman tilted her head. She repeated the question, enunciating every “t”. She sounded like the people in the movie Ida had seen at school, not too long ago. What was it called again? Right, “The Great Gatsby”.
By J.J.Washington5 months ago in Fiction
Fairyland. AI-Generated.
Chapter 1: Fieldsong Before the blue flower knew its name, a voice inside the bruised fruit spoke: Don’t pick that one. You gave me shape in the quiet.
By Taylor Van Zant5 months ago in Fiction
An algorithms last prayer . AI-Generated.
The sky was no longer blue. A dull amber glow hung like a dying bulb over the ruined skyline of Old Chicago. Concrete husks of skyscrapers jutted from the earth like shattered teeth, their glass eyes long since gouged out by fire, wind, and war. The streets below were veined with rust and silence, the echoes of humanity scattered to ash.
By E. hasan5 months ago in Fiction
The City Beneath the Ocean
The storm had lasted three days. Waves crashed against the cliffs outside the small coastal town of Seabrook, and rain lashed the windows of every house. Most people stayed indoors, waiting for the weather to pass.
By Jai KUM5 months ago in Fiction