Sci Fi

The Sacrifice- Prologue . Content Warning.
Everything is in order. I've checked and double-checked with everyone. All the players know their place and what to do. I glance around the room, and every tribe on Atija is here. The royal family of the Juerfea just showed. The Illurian Chief and her tribe and the Empress of the Uskiu, Lumeria, and her people are hosting. This is perfect. All the plans are falling into place, and everyone will be present for this year's spectacle. It takes months of preparation for The Sol Festival. Every three years, we come together on the Deep of Portia to celebrate the convergence of our suns. The festival is always so lively and exuberant, and this year will be no different. We will make this sol festival one to remember.
By Umbele Ink2 years ago in Fiction
The Locket of Lies
Margaret shivered as she stepped through the gates of her grandmother’s mansion for the first time in years. The sprawling house had once been beautiful, but now it was a husk of its former self, covered in layers of dust and shadow. Her grandmother had passed a few months back, leaving Margaret the mansion, along with one simple request: to find the family locket that had been lost somewhere within the house.
By Parth Bharatvanshi2 years ago in Fiction
The Endless Stairs
Callum had heard of the old Bellamy Building for years—a forgotten office complex deep in the city’s industrial zone. Abandoned in the 80s, it was rumored to be haunted, cursed even, with a strange architectural anomaly: a staircase that supposedly had no end.
By Parth Bharatvanshi2 years ago in Fiction
The Last Echo of Orion
Captain Eli Navarro was a man of few words and even fewer fears. He’d piloted ships through asteroid storms, explored uncharted planets, and braved the volatile moons of Titan, but nothing had prepared him for the vast, empty silence of deep space. On the tenth month of his mission, he and his ship, The Orion, drifted toward the farthest edges of the galaxy—a dark, undiscovered region known only by rumor.
By Parth Bharatvanshi2 years ago in Fiction
Heavensent
Heavensent By K. R. King Part 1: A Gift from the Sky Marta’s fingers brushed against the leather of her father’s old journal. She hadn’t seen it in years—since he disappeared without a trace. The journal had been the only thing left behind, a cryptic record of his last days. It was in this journal that she had found a description of a strange bracelet, mentioned in passing but with an unmistakable sense of urgency. The bracelet was described as an ancient artifact, linked to powers that went beyond understanding. Her father had searched for it for years, and now, Marta was holding it in her hands.
By Kat King2 years ago in Fiction
The Queen Pelalandorus Incident
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. I remember it faintly. To others she was the Queen. To me, in halls unseen, she was just mother. Oh, my beautiful mother. How I miss her so.
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Fiction
Humans are Living Weapons tol
The term "Living Weapon" are given to the most dangerous and troublesome species. The ones with deadly claws and fangs, with poisons that can melt through super alloys and densely packed muscles that allow organisms to lift close to three hundred times their weight. Living weapons is the term used for biologically superior organisms within the Galactic Federation... And Humans.
By sagar dhital2 years ago in Fiction
I Found Love in a Witch
Chapter One: The Bookstore Encounter Eliott Griffin had never been one for the mystical or strange. Raised in a world of spreadsheets, data, and logic, he had spent his adult life immersed in the rational world of architecture. Magic, if it existed, was something for books, movies, and those who didn’t want to face reality.
By mitchel marc2 years ago in Fiction
Lost Crown and Love
Chapter One: The Prophecy The storm raged across the kingdom of Aeloria, its winds howling through the mountain passes and driving rain against the stone walls of the royal castle. Within the castle, behind its thick, towering doors, Princess Elara sat in the cold stone room that had once been a sanctuary of warmth and joy. Her heart felt heavy, as if the weight of a thousand years of royal history pressed against her chest.
By mitchel marc2 years ago in Fiction
Departure from Solitude. Top Story - November 2024.
Fourteen months have passed since humanity cast me adrift. My waking hours are divided between tending to the equipment that keeps me alive, roaming the lunar landscape, and staring into space. Living on a massive rock that lacks atmosphere offers me a vista that no other living human has experienced. Of course, I’m not alive according to those in control of the government that abandoned me. All of us living on Moon Base Alpha were reported killed by an asteroid strike to avoid the cost of returning the two remaining explorer’s home. It was a lie they told to everyone who would listen, but it was only one of hundreds of lies the population was fed.
By Mark Gagnon2 years ago in Fiction
The Forgotten Date
In this world, you are born knowing the day you die. Marcus knew that he would die on October 14th, 2024. It was the day etched in his mind, and he knew it as deeply as he knew his name. It was as if there was an invisible string attached in his mind pulling him to this date. The certainty of it had shaped his life.
By Supreeth Nagella2 years ago in Fiction
SPACEBORN TO EARTH
Dizzying spirals of light glowed blue and silver through the cruiser’s side windows, dappling the wrinkled faces of its passengers. In the soft glow, they all looked eager, waiting with bated breath to catch a glimpse of Planet Earth, their home.
By Gabriella 2 years ago in Fiction