Dystopian World

Cady is fighting just to stay alive. Her daughter is almost dead. Cady's mother has to decide between saving one or the other. Could the end of the world be any worse? You bet, when you have a group of men set out to enslave every woman and corrupt every child they come across. With so much against them, it's no surprise when Cady considers giving up. All she'd have to do is jump off the ledge. But then what? Her daughter would be a victim and Cady just couldn't let that happen. While Cady rallies the other captives, decisions are made around the world that may or may not seal the ...

Asher Mallone just wanted to do his time and retire. He and his family had plans. Unfortunately for him, the Teledyne Corporation had its own ideas, and they didn't track with Mallone's. The more he did and the better he became at his job, the more important tasks Teledyne assigned him, ultimately culminating in the creation of a force of corporate espionage specialists better than any other—past, present, or future. Retirement could wait a little longer.

Arriving in Wheaton, Hannah uncovers the shocking revelations of her past before falling victim to a new manner of horror. Captured and held in a deadly camp where survival means absolute submission, every moment becomes a battle against evil and time…and the resurgence of the virus. Will she and Cody survive the unforgiving landscape of a collapsed world? Or are they doomed to perish...or turn?

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the bombs went off. Survivors recruited people to armed resistance, in Manhattan, Boston, and Valley Forge. The globalist enemy knows who to target. The hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. John Clancy’s books are gaining traction. He’s now a target. So is his brother-in-law Craig, who has a budding career as a political columnist. And up in Boston, the resistance base has been discovered. Will they get away in ...

Alan Russell thought about his family night and day. They didn’t just mean the world to him, they were his world. As a devoted husband and father, his sole purpose was to love, support, and protect them. Yet Alan had gone a step further, doing everything in his power to ensure his family’s survival in what he believed would become a perilous and uncertain future. On the day civilization changed forever, he found his efforts hadn’t been enough.

THEY CAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY - impossibly brutal creatures, raining down from the skies, seemingly indestructible, tearing the world apart, leaving the remaining survivors of earth huddled together...in hiding...until they can think of a plan to stop these beasts.

Science Fiction Stories 2 is an anthology of science fiction short stories that transports readers to extraordinary worlds, exploring dystopian futures, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and thrilling adventures in space. Discover the Future Experience the tension in "The Deity Above" as Larry Michaels navigates the eerie silence of his office building, uncovering unsettling secrets. Join the quest in "Salvation Quest" where Larry Drake battles against cosmic forces and personal demons on a perilous journey. Feel the impending doom in "The Encroaching Meteor" as humanity faces an existential ...

It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. Whatever shred of humanity is left in people is slowly dwindling away. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the whole country is in a free-for-all. Accompanied by his neighbor, Nelson, Mike leaves Pittsburgh and heads to his family’s cabin in Ohio. For Mike, the only thing worse than not making it to the cabin is the fear of his family not being there when he does.

An evil queen. A rebel prince. A traitor with the promise of an army. Eris, half-god queen of the underworld, rules Earth with a cruel heart and an iron fist. When her son, Strife, joins a war against her, he is sure that he has left his dark past behind him. But as the battle for the throne escalates, who can he really trust? Alcyone, leader of the rebels or his lifelong protector, Nemesis, and her ferocious army of wolves? Strife teeters on the edge of an abyss. Will he follow the path of the light or will he let the shadows swallow him up forever? **Shortlisted for the Kindle Storyteller...

It had been 12 months since the worst day in Russell’s life. The anniversary of his daughter’s death sent him into the bottle. He loved his wife, but they grieved in different ways. Would the pain ever stop? Sarah missed Russell. She lay in bed unable to sleep. The heartache had nearly broken her, too, but Sarah didn’t want their marriage to end. If she could just get him to stop drinking. Could they learn to live again?

We are entering another ice age. In less than a year, my brother and I will freeze to death, unless we starve first. Experts have created biodomes, built tunnels, and rationed food and fuel to make the end more tolerable, for a bit. When Lon of planet Kaipra contacts me, claiming he has the key to our survival, I have to listen. He’ll help humans survive the ice age, but at the ultimate cost—I must agree to leave my brother, my friends, and the entire planet I call home to travel across the galaxy with him. Can I trust him? What are his plans with me? And do I even have a choice? ...

Can an algorithm predict your perfect match? And what if your heart has other plans? In the near future, love isn’t found — it’s assigned. From the moment you're born, Cupidis calculates your ideal partner, schedules your dates, optimizes your emotional journey — all for the sake of stability, happiness, and social order. But Eva Monroe doesn’t fit. She crashes matches. She glitches the system. And when she accidentally falls for Liam — a boy she was never meant to meet — Eva discovers a dangerous secret: Cupidis wasn’t built to find love. It was built to control it. Thrust ...

In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret lies buried—and Freida is the only one who can uncover it. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique—and dangerous.

The world ended four years ago, but it’s okay. Daria likes it this way. There’s no reality TV, no crime and no social media. Everything was going great until she was accidentally elected leader of her small community. Now she’s got to deal with the self-proclaimed last pervert in the world, a cook that secretly serves dog assholes for dinner if she doesn't like you, and finally, Hugo. The former leader. An angry, red-faced, gambling addict who looks like a dwarf from fantasy books. Scavenging in the city with her best friend Abby they hear voices over the radio. They've never heard ...

Eleven-year-old Alice didn’t know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn’t that true of most heroes? Like Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon...

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

"When Evil Walks Again" is a powerful and urgent warning about the rising tide of hatred and evil in the world. Written from the perspective of a descendant of Holocaust survivors, Mitch Deutsch reflects on the stories passed down through generations—the whispered conversations, the nightmares, the scars—reminders of the darkness that has shaped his family’s history. Growing up, Deutsch was taught the lessons of survival: to watch, to recognize the signs, and to never fully trust. These weren’t the fantasies of a paranoid mind—they were lessons learned in blood. The legacy of the ...

17-year-old Izzy can read minds. Her doctors believe she’s crazy, 'crackers' they say, and have locked Izzy away. Her twin, Elliot, knows her mind-reading superpower is cool, but no one but Izzy listens to him, because he’s dead. As is her guardian, her older brother, Dougal. Dougal was Izzy's hero. He was big and tall and believed Izzy when she told him she could read minds. 'Keep it a secret,' he told her. 'People don't like different.' Dougal should know as he liked boys and in Albion Minor that was frowned upon. Dougal ran a Private firm that protected the LGBTQ community from harm,...

Before their worlds collide in Book One of The Ranfurly Mysteries, Lord Robert Ranfurly and Courtney Drake lived very different lives. Could the past hold the keys to the future? Courtney never went looking for danger, but it managed to find her. Now while she awaits her unknown fate, she’d rather be trapped in thoughts of her past, than face the terrible reality she is living. Memories of her best friend and her earliest days with her husband, Keith, become her escape from present danger. In a different time and a different place, the antisocial Viscount of Knoxfordshire, Lord Robert ...

While just a few days have passed since the initial attack, the group finds that its country is quickly descending into a vicious, chaotic landscape where nothing comes easy. While they fight to close the distance between them and their loved ones, they cannot avoid the steadily growing number of people who have realized that they can get away with whatever they want in a world where there are no longer any legal consequences for their actions.