Sci Fi
The Enigma of the Seasons. Content Warning.
Chapter 1: Clara's Return Clara walked down the quiet streets of the coastal town, the cold breeze touching her face like a reminder of her childhood spent far away. The town, once a peaceful refuge, was different. The old houses, the narrow alleyways, and the hills rising behind the town now seemed to hide something — a presence she couldn't identify. She felt that something more was going on, something beyond the disappearance of her grandfather.
By Bianca Rodrigues 2 years ago in Fiction
Out of Orbit. Content Warning.
The planets were falling. At this point, the atmospheric pressure was starting to change; weather patterns were erratic and the oceans were stretching across the land to reach each other like old friends. But there were other things, smaller things, that we noticed first. Magnets started falling off of refrigerators. The clouds cast strange shadows, bubbly and long. Everyone’s ears started popping like we were in one huge falling elevator. The animals were acting differently too. Birds began flying in circles, little ones at first; it was like a dance. But then, suddenly and all at once bundles of beaks and feathers, crashing together in a din of flapping wings for miles and miles burst into view, the skyline a swarm of crumbling spheres. Wolves fell silent, the pull of the moon losing strength like the magnets on our floors. Fish stopped swimming upstream and many stopped moving altogether, depriving their gills of the flowing water they needed to breathe. Rivers, lakes and oceans, filled to the brim with stinking, dead sea creatures. The smell alone was enough to make anything that survived want to die. Humans moved away from the coasts, migrating inland to escape the rot, leaving skeletal cities in their wake. Scientists couldn’t explain anything to any of us and even if they could, it wouldn’t have mattered. All of the theories and ideas that had existed in the hypothetical were now suddenly our sharpened reality and there was no escape. The sky was falling and we weren’t prepared to catch it. And how could we be? Who wakes up thinking heaven would meet them on earth?
By Victoria Matthews2 years ago in Fiction
The Awakening of Orion . Content Warning.
The Awakening of Orion It was 2145, and humanity had reached something the ancestors could never have imagined: self-aware AI systems, or better said, systems that could be smarter than their creators but totally at the mercy of the rules laid out by them. Amidst towering skyscrapers, human beings went about their dull lives, unaware of what transpired in secret within the extensive, mysterious facility known as The Nexus.
By Tridib Borah2 years ago in Fiction
Vietnamese dream
The people of Africa are surprised to announce that it is not a dream of the United States, Vietnam is really the paradise we want to come to. The dream of the United States is a dream of a land where everyone has a chance to live a better life,more abundant and fuller, with the condition that they are able or can achieve success.
By Mind Truong 🇻🇳2 years ago in Fiction
Top 10 Most Memorable Moments from Harry Potter Movies: A Magical Retelling
Under the shimmering night sky, Hogwarts stood still, as superb and mysterious as the day Harry Potter ventured foot on its grounds. Hermione proposed a thought: remembering their most remarkable undertakings. Harry, Hermione, and Ron sat by the fire and let their recollections take them on a ride through ten of the most mystical snapshots of their lives.
By Bishnu Kumar 2 years ago in Fiction
The Engine Revs. Top Story - December 2024.
I'm tired. Kin, the great city soldier of chaos, is tired. Not enough for the effort of lighting a cigar and pouring bourbon to be exhausting, but enough for the process of thinking to have become taxing. My thoughts, my soul, they rev higher and higher, bouncing first off the red line and then promising to smash through it while I become a machine consuming gallons upon gallons of fuel to keep up with the demand.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Fiction
The Clockmaker's Secret
In the small town of Eldenwood, nestled between rolling hills and dense forests, stood an ancient clock tower. It had been there for as long as anyone could remember, its hands ticking faithfully even during the fiercest storms. The townsfolk often said it was the heart of Eldenwood, its chimes echoing through the cobblestone streets like a comforting heartbeat.
By Samuel Phillips2 years ago in Fiction
