**A FEATURED STORY ON WATTPAD** Her New Year's Eve was supposed to be a depressing evening alone with a bowl of salsa and a plate of microwaved nachos, but a powerful force had different plans for the unconventional princess. If you like sweet romances and hilarious tales of personal growth & self-discovery, then your...
Darkness festers behind a veil of age-old tradition setting the scene for a horrific murder that will wreak havoc on the Skyean Kingdom and send a young technopath on an adventure to bring back sentience to the machines. Set in our far distant future, this is space opera!.. technopaths, alchemists, death squad 8, auge...
A 20-something-year old gets his dream job at the local radio station. It isn't what he thought it would be.
A collection of tales featuring monsters and angels, though not all appear as they truly are. Includes the story Strawberry Pickers ... There were monsters in cages on the lowest floor of the Genieworks building. Other monsters held the keys. Lina was grateful to have a job as one of the strawberry pickers, to see th...
A year after an alien race's first devastating appearance in Beijing, young people all over the world are being abducted for a grotesque rite. Alice, taken by the Serpe from her Toronto office, has tested for the Cage. They have opened her third eye. And now there's a slim chance Alice may have a way out of their deat...
"When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me...
The first rule of being a Necromancer is: never bring back to life someone you love. You’ll end up having to kill them. And killing undead is not easy, especially when the one before you is the man you were going to spend the rest of your life with. Enjoy this short story. It's got love and action... and of course, a...
If you were a sentient gadget, what would you do? Travel? See the world? After overhearing one warehouse worker tell another that 'Green Bay is better than San Francisco', a newly conscious handheld device decides to re-route its shipping destination. Along the way its talent for personality recording and playback lea...
"This item discontinued." - Challenge No. 6 Farina is just your ordinary M-pad user, living in one of the many districts that the A.I. District controls. Yes, life is good... Until Farina realizes that something is off.
It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire.
Ten very short science fiction stories by Deborah Walker. Now a featured collection on Wattpad. First Foot: What will the New Year bring when you're a very long way from home? Aunty Merkel: Aunty Merkel never brings a present to a wedding; she brings something better Glass Future: How do you live when you know the f...
Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds ... this is just a few of my flash stories. Each write around 1000 words from a range of science fiction, fantasy and horror genres (22 SF, 2 F, 1 H).
Lily was an accident. That’s what Mom and Dad said, when they broke the news to me and the brothers over second-time-around meatloaf and corn on the cob. An accident, as if they were apologizing for puncturing holes in the inflatable pool with the lawnmower...
