Speculative Stories

When back-alley mechanic Elijah Garret is approached by the company who destroyed his family, he has to decide whether to repair and upgrade their androids or let the ma...

The world is ruled by a tyrant King. The Old King was killed and with him the magic that coursed through the world was sealed away. Dawn Rentradie, a human girl, is sen...

(TOP FIVE WINNER!!) Patrick Morgan didn't usually invite strangers home, but when he saw Harlan camping out in the space terminal, he was prepared to make an exception...

An expansion/re-imagining of the worlds of the future seen in Animal Planet's 2002 mockumentary "the future is wild"

[Book 1 of the ARC10 Trilogy] **Winner of the 2017 Watty Storysmith award** The President created an underground safe-haven for the survivors of the alien invasion. He...

a love born out of pain. its freedom paid in kind. ©2025 NICHOLAS BROWN

A cynical Necromancer with a terrible secret. An optimistic Crown Prince crumbling under the pressure. A talented mage living in the shadow of his younger brother. ...

Those who know, need not be told. For those who don't, let me whisper it to you... Newly appointed forensic scientist Vaibhav Roy is sent to a village of 1971 North Beng...

Original draft, check out final published edition here: http://www.amazon.com/author/zenalarsson Makoto had grown up hiding his cat ears and tail. It was easy if he did...

[Wattys 2022 Winner - Wildcard Category] Mereneith is a junior crystal keeper at the Temple of Ptah, the greatest of the temples located within the capital of Memphis. B...

After the events of No Such Luck most of the Loud's are in Jail except for Lori who agrees to become Lincoln Lucy Lana Lola Lily & Lisa's guardian While Rita and Lynn...

Kai Gilling, a transgender wanderer traversing the American West, has to trek hundreds of miles in his beat up Jeep, in order to reach an urban legend rumored to be the...

(HONORABLE MENTION) Rik Sandro is a dimension traveller. Jumping from one version of the world to another was intriguing at first, until he discovered he can never go ho...

LONGLISTED : When Agent Seven Three is sent on his first mission to the past, to sort out a problem with the timeline, he expects to be in and out in a couple of days. I...

ALERT: Credit Score Zero. Initiate Total Asset Recall & Social Exclusion. Thank you!~ One cheerful notification erased Mellow Smith's life. No trial. No appeal. Just ins...

Set in a near-future world where the human brain can be programmed, but perfection comes at the cost of emotion. The unwritten code is told through the eyes of a chaotic...

A secret program in the United States seeks to replace human militaries with artificial intelligence-driven machines, but the machines aren't so willing to play along. *...

Observer's Paradox - a situation in which the phenomenon being observed is unwittingly influenced by the presence of the observer. All Quinn wanted was a quiet reset: ne...

Abducted. Modified. Trapped aboard a dying alien ship. And he's the only one who can fly it. Cyrus finally worked up the nerve to leave his apartment... only to wake up...

In a world where emotion is outlawed, expression is criminal, and the mind is the most feared weapon of all, one girl refuses to go silent. Ruelle has always been told s...