Sci Fi
The Tech-Savvy Cinderella
In a bustling city filled with coffee shops, coworking spaces, and the constant hum of innovation, there lived a young woman named Ella. Ella was a talented software developer who worked tirelessly for her stepmother’s small but ambitious tech company, "Stepmom Solutions." While her stepmother and stepsisters enjoyed the perks of the business—fancy gadgets, luxury cars, and endless social media posts—Ella was often stuck debugging code, managing servers, and handling customer support. Despite her hard work, she was rarely acknowledged, let alone appreciated.
By Abdullah Rajon2 years ago in Fiction
HTURT. Runner-Up in Legends Rewritten Challenge.
Anna’s eyes watered as they jumped across the screen. She’d been staring at the code for two weeks straight, with only occasional breaks to stow the laptop and the rest of their gear under the weathered floorboards. Sirens blared outside, but she barely noticed anymore. The only thing that made her hackles rise were the scuffed leather boots against the cobblestones.
By Alexander Not a Dumas2 years ago in Fiction
The Breaking of Kandathu
Welcome to day two of my February Flash Fiction Challenge! This story is inspired by the following prompt: “That’s where we keep all the criminals and political prisoners. We sleep easier knowing they have their own planet, and we have ours.”
By Bradley Ramsey2 years ago in Fiction
A machine that can rewrite memories.
Dr. Evelyn Carter stared at the sleek metallic console before her. It was a marvel of modern engineering, a device that could rewrite memories—not just erase them, but alter them, reshape them, turn painful experiences into moments of joy or even fabricate completely new recollections. She had spent the last fifteen years developing the NeuroWeave, a machine capable of mapping and rewriting neural pathways without leaving any trace of manipulation.
By Badhan Sen2 years ago in Fiction
Red.exe: The Wolf in the Code
Neon rain fell in sheets over the streets of Neo-Tokyo, the droplets sizzling as they hit the power conduits lining the cracked pavement. The city pulsed with electric life—holo-ads projected images of celebrities pushing the latest neural implants, neon kanji scrolled across the sky, and the hum of electric cars wove through the air like mechanical bees.
By Jason “Jay” Benskin2 years ago in Fiction
The Gorgon. Content Warning.
The days were short on Sarpedon, the nights long, cold and desolate. Medusa sat on the hard granite floor of her lonely home, as the last embers of the sunset went out. It was always dark inside her home, but when night fell the darkness became so thick and dense she felt she could grab it by the handful. She wished she could wrap it around herself like a blanket, becoming a shadow. Nothing could hurt the darkness but the light, and she missed the light.
By Daniel Tessier2 years ago in Fiction
Live From the Underside. Content Warning.
Over a thousand years ago, humankind left a dying, overcrowded Earth. They had searched for planets that they could survive on, the elusive goldilocks worlds, and with the help of their only allies among the civilized races in the galaxy, they were able to find some. But humankind had not learned from its past and immediately began fighting amongst themselves for the resources of their new homes. The slow to form unifying leadership of Old Earth had fallen apart as soon as the new outposts began to grow. Soon they were independent city states, climbing ever higher as ever more and more people crowded into them, the new building atop the old. Those with money and power stayed at the top, both physically and socially, and those without learned to live in the ruined metal husks at the bottom of metropolises grown as big as mountains. When one of these new city states fought with another, it was those poor who went to war. A new world, but still the same as it always was.
By James Dittmar2 years ago in Fiction
A potion that Grants Temporary immortality.
In the heart of the mystic city of Eldoria, where the stars whispered secrets to those who dared listen, an alchemist named Varian spent his life chasing the impossible—immortality. Through centuries of study, hidden manuscripts, and the guidance of celestial beings, he crafted what scholars deemed unattainable: The Elixir of Everlasting Twilight.
By Badhan Sen2 years ago in Fiction
A spaceship harboring a dangerous secret.
The spaceship Erebus drifted through the Void, its engines silent, its hull scarred from battles no one would ever record. To the untrained eye, it was a derelict—a floating tomb lost in the abyss. But inside, deep within the ship’s reinforced core, something stirred. Something alive.
By Badhan Sen2 years ago in Fiction
The Town That Time Forgot: A Story of Machines, Mysteries, and Fate
The Lullaby Machine, The Quantum Waiter, The Poltergeist Bot, and The Mirrorbot: A Tale of Unseen Forces Strange things occurred in a small town surrounded by mountains and whispers. Things that did not make sense. Machines existed here—not for a specific reason, but simply because they did. Nobody knew about it that why nor even questioned it until a man did !
By Lokesh Kumar2 years ago in Fiction
