Radius wanted to become a cumulonimbus cloud. Gold wanted to become a cumulonimbus cloud. But after one fateful night, the two discovered that they have no choice but to depend on each other, if they want their dreams to come true. This is "Dead Clouds." KB2 Productions SpiderWriter Studios 12/31/2020

2022 Watty Winner || At the age of ten, Sanford Crow discovers the worst secret of all--his father is a serial killer. It was the year 1969. Sanford's dream was to grow up to be a detective. Putting his intuitions to the test, he conducts an investigation into his father. The discovery he makes brings his whole world crashing down, and to the culmination of one terrible Christmas morning. Twenty five years later, it's 1994. Sanford is a divorced and a recovering alcoholic, with an eight-year-old daughter named Sadie. His dreams of becoming a detective never came to fruition. Instead, he lives vicariously through his job of being a crime scene cleaner. As therapy begins to open up doors to his past that he'd rather keep shut, the same string of murders that his father committed when he was a child are happening again all around him. Sanford starts questioning his grip on reality. The answers he finds brings his past rushing back, and has him doubting everything he thought he knew about himself, his past, and his own sanity.

[5X FEATURED] After discovering she's been turned into a cyborg assassin by her government, Ray Lovas - a sixteen-year-old fighter with impulsive anger problems - must survive in the enemy country, The Mhinto Empire, to save her family and keep the technology safe or risk sparking the next global war. It's 2582 and tensions are at an all-time high between the country of Cronus and The Mhinto Empire. In an evil plot to defeat Mhinto, Cronus secretly develops a cyborg technology that will force every soldier to comply with every command, without hesitation. When Ray becomes the first successful patient for the cyborg assassination team, she must flee the country to save her family to the only place she can't be followed - The Mhinto Empire. Now, Ray must survive in the enemy country, teaming up with a group of refugees while trying to keep her secret. Struggling to keep herself unattached to the handsome Jesse Wu and the other refugees, she risks everything to keep her cyborg technology safe and protect the ones she loves. *** FEATURED @TeenFiction "Between Worlds" FEATURED @SpeculativeFiction "Breaking the Space Time Continuum" FEATURED @dystopianapocalypse "Rebellion: Against the System" FEATURED @StoriesUndiscovered - April 2022 FEATURED @NewlyWrittenBooks "To Infinity and Beyond | Science Fiction" Recognition! 1st Place: The Sinne Awards Judge's Favorite: The Sinne Awards Hidden Gem: The Sinne Awards Highest ranks #1 - biopunk 12/16/21 #1 - dystopianfiction 12/19/21 #1 - highstakes 1/1/22 #2 - cyborg 4/1/22 #3 - international 12/17/21 #14 - futuristic 12/19/21 #20 - speculative 3/30/22 #23 - cyberpunk 1/8/22 #46 - ontherun 12/18/21

With her father's memory failing and her mother gone, Soraya Thenayu enrolls in distant Darkwood Academy and immediately becomes enemies with the richest kid at school. Between hiding her father's gift of illegally harvested magic, befriending social outcasts, and juggling classes, Soraya's already stressful situation intensifies when an otherworldly foe threatens to possess her. Soraya must choose between keeping her magic a secret or saving herself and her new friends.

In 2045, Psychwatch treats the mentally ill or cages them. Margo wants to bring empathy to every patient but a killer pushes her, and the system, to the limits ***** In a dark future, more than a third of the United States population suffers from mental illness and violent crime is on the rise. In response, Psychwatch is formed - an organization intended to combine mental healthcare and law enforcement - creating monitored areas and neglected ones known as the Psycho Slums. Margo Sandoval is the latest recruit to Psychwatch, bringing a new level of empathy to the controversial agency known for its unforgiving methods. Margo spends her days as an Empath treating everyone possible, until the arrival of a new serial killer upends her life and forces her to confront the evils of the human mind and the system that claims to be the solution.