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This is an entry for the Springfield Writers Guild Spring Writing Contest 2025. The contest rules: * Your entry must include the following words: timepiece, ancient, shadow, and family. * Must include all four words listed above * No more than 750 words total (not including the title) * You… Read More
Episode 3: Items gets stolen and Griftin seeks out to find the perpetrator only to discover a surprise. Read

Reads: 5

A mysterious object enters the solar system Read

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It was a bi-annual conference to determine conservation policy, share research findings, network, debate ideology and experience the environment directly. Read
The future of humanity hinges on birthing a hybrid on an alien planet. Read
Episode 9: Gavin hears something that brings back his past and as he investigates it, he discovers something he never thought he would see. Read
Episode 2: Now that the festivities are over, the station displays multiple malfunctions leaving Lieutenant Borus Maad to figure out what is going on. Read

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when a mysterious stranger arrives at a meeting of a small town’s community council, the council does it’s best to help him in his requests. but the stranger is more than he seems. a violent storm hits the town and the council members are plunged into a dangerous world of… Read

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an aging man undergoes a body restoration procedure to extend his life, only to awaken in a nightmarish reality where sanity is an illusion and madness is the only truth. Read

Reads: 13

A group of mercenaries are forced to fight their way to an outpost while under attack by strange humanoid like insects. Read
Episode 1: As Earth and others celebrate the opening of Earth's new space station, Earth Station, they are attacked and receive aid from an unexpected source. Read

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sci-fi mystery Read

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Episode 8: On the way home from a mission, Beatrix receives a distress call coming from a pre-space civilization. Investigating, Buck does not like what she see. Read

Reads: 38

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Mr. Bobiel, the loneliest man in the galaxy, spent 245 years working at a black hole lighthouse, isolated from the world. dreaming of a family, he left his job and found a new life on a distant planet, where he lived alone for decades before starting a family. Years later,… Read
A lone astronaut, adrift in the vast emptiness of space, encounters a mysterious signal that leads them to a derelict ship. What they find aboard challenges their understanding of reality and the very nature of existence. Read
The Gears of Karma: A Tale of the Valley is a story of betrayal, rebirth, and redemption set against the vibrant backdrop of the Kathmandu Valley. Abhi, a gifted inventor, is betrayed and poisoned by his own family, who envy his revolutionary wind-powered irrigation system. As he dies, he is… Read
Episode 7: As Buck and Sarah are on their honeymoon, Wilma get's called to the paradise planet of Eden to pick up a couple of human criminals. While there, Eden experiences cataclysmic events and Wilma chooses to help. Buck and Sarah relieves and an amazing gift. Read
Episode 6: While Buck's life is hanging by threads, Buck finds herself back at home, at least she thinks she is. Coming face to face with a choice that many would not want to be faced with, Buck realizes that she must choose to either be with Mira again, or… Read
Episode 5: After two unexpected guests arrive, the Earth Defense Directorate picks up an unusual signal coming from somewhere in New Chicago. Having a familiarity to it, Buck can't get the signal out of her head. Buck is faced with something she would much rather not deal with. Read
Episode 4: As the court date of a well known drug lord creeps closer, Buck races against time to complete the mission she started before she was shot down. Pretending to be a prisoner, Buck must locate a woman and break her out of prison. As a special witness in… Read
Episode 3: Accepting a dangerous mission that only Buck's unique situation could be considered, Her shuttle is shot down over a planet that she has never been to. Lost in the forest, a man from the local species befriends her. While learning each others languages, Buck learns the ways of… Read
Episode 2: Buck begins having nightmares that haunt her sleep and waking hours. Discovering the source of these nightmares, Buck must hunt down an alien woman from only a description and either convince this alien to release her or to kill the alien woman before the nightmares kill her. Read

Reads: 24

**summary blurb for *fatal fish bones*** adam’s father died in what they called a factory accident. but adam knows better. a hidden notebook, half-burned research, and a whispered warning lead him to a shocking discovery—cuttlefish bones that absorb co?. his father’s secret could change the world… or get him killed.… Read
Episode 1: Three astronauts, Captain Buck Rogers, Lieutenant Sarah Gibbons and Lieutenant Gavin Galloway are frozen in time and awoken in the year 2491 to a future they weren't expecting. As the crew get familiar with their new lives, Buck is asked to help with a situation that has been… Read
I’m worried about Wioletta. She’s only small. I haven’t seen her since bedtime last night. That’s cool. Wioletta likes to hide and play. But she hasn’t come up for air or joined me at table since. Read
A short story fanfiction of some of the factions within the Warhammer 40k universe. Read

Reads: 38

Comments: 1

Sleep can become a very tricky thing when we begin to dream. The line between dreams and reality start to blur until it's hard to tell what's real and what's imagined. The stories you will read here are just such stories. Are they accounts of reality - or are they… Read

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Sometimes the world seems to be spinning out of control and there doesn't seem to be any way out. Read
Dreams can be very powerful experiences. But, when you're awakened by an actual event that is occurring only a short time after dreaming that very thing, that's when dreams can be just a bit too unnerving. Read
Steven Carters normal day was quickly turned around and his life changed forever when he arrived at his adopted parents Law Firm. Read

Short Story / Science Fiction

January 29, 2025

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please see the previous story at https://www.booksie.com/747862-tadyans-2 Read

Reads: 24

Comments: 1

It’s five-sixteen, rush hour, Poet’s Day, Friday 20th July 2029. Time, for Stretch Class,from my darkest anthology, predatory out now on Amazon. Sensational LIVE version starring Isla: www.isittodayhjfurl.com my unique, free audiovisual website of 50 LIVE stories, and rising! Read

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This narrative explores the journey of early human ancestors, the Tsol'ka, set in Eastern Africa millions of years ago. The plot follows Teta, a brave warrior, and her companion Elu as they discover the transformative effects of psilocybin mushrooms, which expand their consciousness and deepen their connection to the universe.… Read
In a post-apocalyptic Lagos, a torrential downpour gives rise to towering mountains of waste made from the city’s discarded trash. These grotesque piles of garbage block sunlight, disrupt daily life, and force the city into chaos. As the government fails to act, the mountains transform into sentient, colossal beings, moving… Read
The silent depths harbored more than the cutting-edge menace of trident missles aand mark 48 torpedoes. here, the past and present collided, and the unseen shadows beneath the keel bore witness to clash. as the submarine, glided forward, its crew blissfully unaware of the ghosts that stirred, the stage was… Read