This is a short story the first half of which (the 'symbolic' part) I wrote quite a few years ago. About a month ago I roughly doubled it in word count, adding the 'sci-fi' part. They are divided by a *** . In the second part I basically describe 'paradise' itself the way I have imagined it. ...

In a hyper-regulated future controlled by AI, middle school teacher Kristie and her best friend, Elias, find escape in their shared fascination with conspiracy theories. Life under constant surveillance feels suffocating, but they've learned to live with it—until the unthinkable happens. When ...

When I was younger, my grandfather told me stories of myth and monster. Of creatures atop the mountain that descended to the villages at nightfall, preying on the innocent. It’s been 10 years since a Hawthorne ventured up the mountain, the last time, they didn’t return at all. Now, it’s my ...

Do you believe in coincidence? What if it was a message from fate, for something bigger? David Taylor transfers to Tokyo for his final year of university. Determined to study there for reasons he had long forgotten. He fails to remember his childhood and large parts of his past due an accident su...

After sharing his deepest desires with his best friend, Koike Aito finds himself trying to date not one, or two, but as many as three girls. Maybe even four, depending on how you count. Somehow Aito convinces one of his friends to go along with his own stupid scheme and introduce him to sever...

Alex is one step closer to living out her dreams of being in the glittery, glamorous world of fashion, having finally moved to the big city on top of getting a job at her favorite fashion magazine. No longer will she be known as just another farmer's son from some poor, unknown town! This is her ...

It has been 100 years since the bombs fell. The world has been irreparably harmed but life continues on. In this world, pockets of what we would know as society try to survive this harsh environment. Two girls from different paths are about to intersect, but can love find a way like life?

Loafnir thought he'd been transported to another world—swept up in a grand cosmic event and deposited in a land of strange people, open fields, and unexplained cheese nips. Turns out... he was just in a remote village with no Wi-Fi. In this heartwarming, laugh-out-loud Christian fantasy, fo...

From birth, citizens in Japan are implanted with the Dominion chip—a miniaturized computer that uses augmented-reality to assist in daily life. Eighteen-year old Daichi Ayanami, a conspiracy theorist, distrusts the tech but has learned to live alongside it thanks to his wholesome friends. One...

Eighteen-year-old Natalia’s plans for a normal summer are shattered when she's dragged through a portal into the ruthless kingdom of Ruen. She’s not just a captive; she’s a prophesied queen, fated to save its tyrannical ruler, King Viktor, from a violent end. But the cold-hearted King sees her...