Surreal Stories

[This story is now FREE] Florette moves to Versailles, only to discover a group of Fae are destroying France. Allying with the battled-scarred Destan, she has to save the kingdom. ***** Florette, a painter's apprentice, is finally welcomed to the palace of Versailles. Ready to work, she notices that several of the courtiers are too beautiful to be human. Soon a battle-scarred warrior, Destan, tells her the truth: a faction of Fae have left the faerie and are slowly destroying the French monarchy. Determined that France must not fall, Florette is forced to use her skill to smuggle messages about the Fae inside her own paintings. Can she trust the rugged warrior at her side? And can Florette save France from creatures beyond mortal control?

Medkit quits his job and starts a new job at a corporation called "Catalyst Corp", but doesn't know who his new coworkers will be...

Gina Wagner lives in a quiet small town, where everything seems normal-except for the vivid dreams that make her question her own mind. Struggling with high school, family, and the constant shadow of the seemingly perfect Vivian Hart, Gina once believed she was broken or mentally unstable. But one day, everything changed. With the help of her mischievous friend Jackie, she begins to navigate her complicated mind, finding humor, insight, and hope in unexpected places. The Dream of Lives is a darkly humorous and introspective story about loneliness, self-discovery, and the blurred line between reality and imagination. But... is this a dream, a memory, or something that's real, yet not?

Adventure, friendship, explosive action (and diarrhea), this book has it all! Blending surreal comedy with soft, psychological sci‑fi, "Local NPC discovers dreams" feels like Inception meeting meme culture. The result? Dream travel gone wrong. Two strangers accidentally meet in a shared dream and get stuck there - one a sarcastic girl who never asked for a sidekick, the other a lost NPC-like guy who doesn't even know how he got here. Their differences in character aren't even the worse things they'll have to overcome... « Do you see it? - What? - There. Right behind that tree. He squinted at the green uniform mass of bushes. Nothing particularly shocking around them, except perhaps a bald head poorly hidden between two shrubs. Great, another bald head. But this one was probably trying to put them back in jail.» Welcome to the nightmare they never asked for.

Some dreams are just dreams. Some dreams are deadly. And for Somnio, dreams are annoying pieces of shit. Especially when they affect everyone around him.

Chetna exists in a surveillance-run quarantine where memory is a fragile construct. Navigating the fractured geometry of her world, she defies the simulations that bind her. In this psychological sci-fi odyssey where reality falls into an abyss of code, doubt becomes the only bridge across the void. NOTE: This is a preview of the first five chapters. Details are at the end of chapter 5 to join my beta reader program if you are interested in reading the whole story!

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This is a book containing stories revolving around the world of The Amazing Digital Circus! In this one-shot book, you'll find: 1. Ships 2. Reader inserts 3. Fandom crossovers With all that being said, I hope you enjoy these little scenarios!

LIMINAL Some places do not break. They hold. In a quiet rural region, a child is born who should not have survived. A midwife senses the balance shift, but says nothing. A case is closed by an institution that believes closure prevents suffering. Reality does not tear open. Nothing crosses over. Instead, the world begins to behave differently. Numbers settle where they should not. Animals pause at thresholds. Dreams arrange themselves into incomplete shapes. LIMINAL is a grounded, atmospheric work of speculative fiction where inexplicable phenomena are approached as consequences rather than miracles-events that arrive too early, or too late. Told through braided points of view and interludes of false documentation, the novel explores: - inherited anomalies mistaken for myth - institutions built to preserve reality at any cost - the quiet horror of stability that is not healing If you enjoy slow-burn, intellectually unsettling fiction in the vein of Annihilation, Solaris, or Le Guin's later work, this story lives at the edge where explanation begins to fail.

When all of the faith left in humanity disappears, the dark night comes, where the power-seekers come to rise. In a world, where nothing else exists, other than a metropolis, gathering all of the living there is only one thing left - to survive. The meteorite turned the Earth's shell inside out, leaving only the strongest to wander. Asha, a soul born to riot and rebel, tries not to perish in the world of rot. But one day, she comes across people who seem to stand above the inhuman laws - bearers of mysterious abilities, wanted by the governors. When the spark of hope rises to the dream of getting free, the other, tainted by blood, side of the coins shines as well. Can the ruthless murderers be truly the saviors of her world? Can she accept herself as one of them? "If I was entitled to choose, I would rather stay normal than turn into someone you are." With mysteries behind the metropolis messing with Asha's fate, she seems to be connected to it more than she thought. Unknown powers rising, an endless pursuit of peace begins, with an obstacle that seems to be ruining all - the twisted fate itself.

25-year old Lee still hasn't figured out why they could not form any long-lasting relationships, even friendships for that matter. Aside from family members, which they are obligated to talk to, there is no one else Lee had even come close to calling a friend. Well, maybe except for one. -------- Submitted for ONC 2026 @OpenNovellaContest Using the following prompts : 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints in your heart. 104. While wandering in the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all. 106. After waking at 3AM to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth. All rights reserved by @J. Lee Kennedy, except for images contained in this book. Crayon drawing "Wander XIX" by @Clara Lieu. Copyright of images, including cover art, belong to their rightful owners, and are attributed accordingly, or used in accordance with the rules of Creative Commons licensing as "fair use." Altered, filtered, or edited images are copyrighted by the author in its final form.

Every morning, Papanti wakes to smoke, brew coffee, and feed a hungry dragon-calf. Between fog, dreams, and absurd conversations, the line between reality and story grows dangerously thin. ☕ A daily, poetic slice-of-life fantasy - whimsical, warm, and quietly strange. -After finally cobbling together a couple of half-baked, supposedly eco-friendly solutions-still in need of plenty of testing before they could truly earn that label-the group reconvenes at base camp to plan their next decisive "strike."-

Mind is flexible, for it can either strangle or inspire. It is an iceberg. And only questions can reach its bottom, lighting the darkest spots. However, these question marks are deemed to be rhetorical. Like the Penrose stairs, they form an infinite loop, descending or ascending inside the iceberg, being trapped and bewildered.

"Stupid Samuel and Other Stories" is a literary collection of stories, mostly satirical, commenting on social, political and other issues. This book also contains Interrogative pieces that explore the human condition, including but not limited to, debilitating phobias, alternative reality, and cultural beliefs. #1 in Literature stories (02.08.2026) ----- All rights reserved by @J. Lee Kennedy, except for images contained in this book. Copyright of images, including cover art, belong to their rightful owners, and are attributed accordingly, or used in accordance with the rules of Creative Commons licensing as "fair use." Altered, filtered, or edited images are copyrighted by the author in its final form

After loss tore her world apart, Raine Dyer vanished into the forest living in a forgotten cottage. There, beneath the canopy's twilight glow, she stumbles upon an ancient clay statue hidden among the roots. From that moment on, dreams bleed into reality. Whispers follow her. Shadows shift. And the forest remembers more than it should. A haunting tale of loss, isolation, and the secrets buried beneath moonlit soil.

A backrooms style multi series/book story so if you like horror and the backrooms and of course psychological horror you will prolly like this ps: this is my first book ever and im young so yeah idk still give it a chance and i know i yap a lot inspired by Kane pixels backrooms

A collection of Horror Stories

On Harry Renard's fifty-fifth Birthday he awakes to find that his face has been encased in a black cloud, which he thinks is odd because it had not been there the night before. On inspecting this strange phenomenon, Harry realises that he can just about see out through the dark mist, but his face is completely obscured from the outside. Unsure of what to do but worried that if he is late for work again, on yet another gloomy Monday morning, his juvenile boss Tarquin Stark will finally have a reason to dismiss him. On arriving at the office Harry is surprised to find the cloud has expanded to engulf his whole head, but why does no one else in the office seem to notice? UNDERBELLY [n.] singular The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal. An area vulnerable to attack. A dark, hidden part of society. Trigger Warning, This story contains themes of Bullying, Suicide and Self-harm

Abandoned by the famous novelist who gave birth to her, Evangeline grows up near an abandoned theme park where ballet is taught from the ballroom of a crumbling castle. The teen years of a misunderstood artistic genius are tough. Early experiences quash her dreams of becoming a writer, and she only manages to earn a few crumbs of approval after she pivots to ballet. Too bad they come from her smart-ass competitor, Miskomin. On her rise from mediocrity, Evangeline is thrilled when Magda, the artistic director of a company in need of a sixth dancer, lays claim to the park. But things go awry as Magda attempts to rewrite Evangeline's entire world. To further complicate things, Evangeline's sporadic forays into story writing bring her inner demons to life. Literally. While contending with her monstrous off-spring; navigating an ever-shifting relationship with her frenemy, Miskomin; and adjusting to life under the power of a vampiric task-master, Evangeline gains the self-knowledge and confidence she needs to face the final boss: Herself. Will she learn to look beyond the artist she wants to be and accept the person she is?

She thought she was looking for something hidden. She was wrong. She was meant to notice what should never have been there at all.