Abused twelve year old Molly must marry Ben to save lives. Adia, a scientist who sees futures for certain people, showed her their lives up to their 40's. They were happy. Molly's healer colony saved people whom healer colonies in other galaxies could not. Earth doesn't know Zheien don't make love a...

Maria, a retired grandmother prone to worry, hasn't seen her neighbor Nance for the past three weeks and decides it's time to check in on her. With so many strange things happening in the world, they have plenty to catch up on....

"The Network" is a sci-fi thriller that propels Niko Tesic (Teshich) from a struggling nanomedicine researcher into the heart of a top-secret government project. Unearthed from a mysterious alien artifact, advanced nanorobots hold the potential to revolutionize medicine. However, it also harbors a m...

Tales from the Crossroads is a series of 17 micro-fiction horror stories set in the Primordial Crossroads Universe. DUTIFUL is about a woman's struggle to fulfil her duty to her family and people by venturing into deep space....

An unexpected phone call at dawn catapults Harlow Bennet and his team of MIT mathematicians into a classified project to decrypt a mysterious message from outer space. It quickly becomes clear the signal is not just a cosmic puzzle, it is an exploration of humanity’s place in the cosmos and how it m...

Aine is on her way to a nursing home placement when her granddaughter gives her a toy goblin, but SETI has other ideas. [Participant in the June 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest]...

Inspired by the legendary analogue horror series by Darian Quilloy, I M P E R I U M follows teenagers Kai and Kate after they make a groundbreaking discovery in their small town.  What they don't realize, however, is that some things are better left undiscovered...  WE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MEAT......

Our protagonist encounters a strange notebook in his school's library. The origin of the book is yet to be found and the book itself doesn't give a single clue on the writer of the author. Yet, he pushes on to get to the root of it....

Our character seeks to find the nature of this world and the universe, and one day gets a chance to finally find it out. However, it will not be easy as everyone in her life turns against her except her girlfriend. It's a journey of transformation....

A BOY REGIT WHO GOT EVERYTHING HE DIDN'T WANTED, THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER FILLED WITH JOY, EVEN WITH HAVING THOSE THINGS STILL END UP BEING DESPISED WHEN SOMEONE IS HATED FOR NO REASON THEY DO BECOME EVIL...

Word of advice: don’t go touching weird alien crystals without first considering the consequences, even if they did fall out of the sky and crush your house.  Hi there, Jack Cobb here, and see this scar on the palm of my hand? Looks like a pair of lips, right? Yeah, that’s no ordinary scar. At one p...

In sleepy Monongahela Valley, a young boy discovers a magical civilization filled with creatures of legend. Lost and bitter, Andy Kessler and his strange new friends now seek retribution against the one responsible for his infection. The boy's unruliness draws unwanted attention, however, and as the...

What begins with a sudden awakening and the discovery of a blackout in his apartment and building will lead our protagonist to explore, accompanied only by a faint candle, the hallways of the building, which has turned into a hellish cage....

Ambitious student Bedelia wants to succeed and Keiley shows her the love they shared, that he died in her arms, twice. He tells her this future can be changed as his people already moved to a new world, but Bedelia is terrified that they can't escape their fate!...

Cover art is from Dorei the Maid's new album: Collection of My Thoughts, Dreams, And Anxieties. It is being used with permission from Dorei.  Short story.  A retelling of a survivor of a galaxy's greatest villain. Very short. Completed....

In a world on the brink of cataclysmic change, a young girl named Gerda finds her simple life shattered by a mysterious celestial event. Thrust into a chaotic and dangerous new reality, she must navigate the ruins of a fallen civilization and confront the unsettling transformations taking place with...

In the distant future, Humanity is still alone among the stars. War ravages the superpowers of the planet in a seemingly never-ending conflict. Technological advancements to aid both sides of the war has pushed humans into the stars, in an effort for resources and colonization. Four planets were cho...

When an eclipse wipes out the worlds children; seven are spared and endowed with wondrous powers beyond human comprehension and become what as known as-- Aberrants. Dashuan, a 24 year old orphaned Aberrant dubbed Titan by the military, must wrestle with his choice to go public during a time of polit...

* A keen young investigative journalist.* An enigmatic message left her by her recently deceased grandfather.* A puzzle to crack.* A fantastic voyage and an out-of-this-world adventure.* A grim future for Earth…but not without hope...  A hard sci-fi adventure and romance loosely inspired by John Wyn...

Paulie was an average man with an average life, a boring job that he hated and no friends or social circles to speak of.  Haunted by childhood trauma, he has always had to keep his emotions in check as his rage boils too close to the surface.  But when a mysterious light sweeps him away to a new lif...