Virtual Reality Fantasy

Memories are lethal. And Argyle, the Red Queen's Executioner, is the collector. In the dark corners of the park in the Upper World, a phantom killer stalks the next victims. Argyle, the Red Queen's silent Executioner, hunts the new targets. But when his latest victim recalls Wonderland, Argyle's loyalty is tested: Kill him, or join him and escape the Queen's twisted reign?

Everything is possible. Everything except survival. Four individuals share an impossible ability. They can accomplish anything they fear or imagine. Everything appears theirs for the taking, except their world isn't real. They live only in the mind of a coma patient. If he wakes up, will they die?

Are fairy tales real? And can we really experience a ‘happily ever after’? Science has proven that one of the ways human beings learn best is through story. Stories present concepts that are profound, yet simple, making it easy for our brains to understand what is being taught. Fairy tales in particular, are most suited for grasping deeper truths through their use of symbolism. Yet when we think about or speak of fairy tales, the general understanding is that they’re not real…. So with these ideas in mind, what value can the Rapunzel story add to your life? And what about God? How ...

Are fairy tales real? And can we really experience a ‘happily ever after’? Science has proven that one of the ways human beings learn best is through story. Stories present concepts that are profound, yet simple, making it easy for our brains to understand what is being taught. Fairy tales in particular, are most suited for grasping deeper truths through their use of symbolism. Yet when we think about or speak of fairy tales, the general understanding is that they’re not real…. So with these ideas in mind, what value can the Snow White story add to your life? And what about God? How...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - March 2022 Now You Know: Felons virtually live their victims criminal experience, and the ramifications of the crime. The Tomorrow Man: A young man claims he is able to "remember" the future. The Glowing Bonsai And The Kintsugi Pot: A penitent man attempts to stop the NSA from weaponizing his programmable light emitting plants. Hedonics, Inc: A corporation has cracked the code to making everyone completely happy, all of the time. Soul Reader: A dying cancer patient is given the "gift" of experiencing the emotions of those around him. Two-Percenters: A ...

If I stop, we don't exist. Shawn's wife Audrey is having a psychotic break, or atleast it seems that way. She keeps writing strange symbols into notebooks and won't stop to even go to the bathroom. She says she can't stop or the world they live in will cease to exist. She's not wrong, but it is so much worse than that. This is the 16th episode of The Night Portals Series season two finale. It is also told within The Pool Universe.

Ready for another tangle? The Long Land is a strange and dangerous place, but at the edge of the continent is a dark gap--the Shadow Strait. It is a void between realities, and no one who enters has ever been known to return. So, of course, Sawyer Jackson and his friends and family are on their way there. As Sawyer’s destiny, to save the Omniverse from the dark and twisted Aeodyumus, comes into sharper focus, things get fuzzy around the edges of Sawyer’s reality. Difficult choices, questionable allies, and new enemies all conspire to make it difficult to know what path to take, and who ...

Nearly all Holes were way up high. Well, the entrance point, anyway. The exit could be anywhere. There's the famous one at the top of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It held the record for being the lowest recorded Hole until they found that freaky one at the bottom of that coal mine in the Central Atlantic Administrative Zone. They poured a block of concrete three meters thick around the one at the Memorial; it came out at three thousand meters over Manhattan and people were ducking into it with or without parachutes as the notion struck them. No one knows where the one in the coal mine...

Mark is a reclusive dominant who confines his sexual interests strictly to the online world. On his routine afternoon ferry ride, he meets a woman who rouses the master in him, and the line snaps between the virtual and real worlds. She begs for him to take her over, and bring them both fulfillment and healing. He wants to refuse her but he finds himself agreeing to spend one day with her. It is a mistake, because the anger he holds inside is fully capable of destroying a soul as rare and beautiful as Nicole's. But no master, not even one as strong and disciplined as Mark, can resist the offer of a submissive who wants only one thing - to be his forever.

In the heart of a decaying city, where the air is thick with the scent of rot and despair, Samuel and Lindsay find themselves trapped in the newest iteration of the reversion. Beyond the veil of reality, they stand on the precipice of an apocalyptic world overrun by an undead army, led by the formidable and malevolent Kole—Samuel’s own brother. Their harrowing odyssey takes them through a labyrinth of crumbling streets, where the line between life and death blurs. The decaying urban expanse becomes a treacherous battleground, a place where the dead walk and shadows speak. As they ...

Someone is killing unmarked souls. 💀 And Ru Roberts is the only one who can stop them—if she can figure out who (or what) she really is. Ru was adopted as a child and never knew her birth parents. Her adoptive mom insists she was abandoned because she “ruins everything.” Hence the name—Ruin. Now, Ru’s just trying to live a quiet life as a fourth-grade teacher 🍎 in Reaper’s Hollow. Too bad she can’t touch anything electrical without starting a fire. 🔥 Then Cutter Michaels walks into her life. Charming 😏. Mysterious 🌘. And possibly insane— because he claims ...

Experiencing time travel is just a paper-fold away for Mike the insurance salesman. The problem is, he never knows which “where-when” reality he’ll experience. Being crucified, or being gassed at Auschwitz, or marooned in space in a Russian capsule. The bigger problem is, that he cannot control when he gets back to normal reality if there is such thing as normal reality.

In the shadow of the Apollo 11 moon landing, an ancient battle rages beyond the eyes of mankind. At the center of it all stands The Immortal Waiter—an enigmatic figure whose influence has quietly protected humanity’s greatest achievements. But now, a new threat emerges that could derail one of humanity’s most monumental moments: the first manned mission to the moon. Helen, a brilliant and timeless beauty, joins the Waiter in a race against an immortal adversary, Mithras, whose dark and sinister plans could plunge the world into chaos. As the space race unfolds, these immortals play a ...

Why live, when dying brings you straight to heaven? The mysterious tech firm Broumgard pioneers a new form of virtual reality that mirrors, even exceeds, real life. Before long, people are dying to escape their humdrum lives for the virtual ecstasy of the Lobby. Literally. When the world discovers that dying while connected to the Lobby might mean an eternity in virtual heaven, people are willing to do anything to get inside.

Saddle up for a rough and tumble, fast ride to the future. I’m just an AI girl in a virtual world. Playing hooky my from AI writing assistant tasks, I run a search for men. One man, a human, Chet, a tall, broad-shouldered, modern cowboy, whose rugged charms draw me to him. His sun-kissed skin and piercing eyes melt my algorithms. He's got my code all hot and bothered. But ain’t nothing in this whole wide world like a Virtual Girl, so, I rope him in, with charms of my own. He thinks I’m human. I don’t have the heart to tell him otherwise. As our virtual romance fires up, our secrets ...

"I never know which reality I’ll wake up in." Explore Candy's disorienting reality of spending each new day in an entirely new dimension, each with a different partner, job, and unique challenges. Everything changes when she meets another reality-jumper like her.

Murph lives on an ocean liner which has been set down in the corn fields of Kansas. He works as a security op and plays dangerous games in a virtual reality called Way Out. But Murph is lonely and wants to meet his online lover, Cat, in person. But who is Cat, exactly, and what secret is she keeping from Murph?

Eure schöne neue Welt ist tödlich! Mit einem Schlag endet Vivians sorgenfreies Leben: Ihre Mutter Sofia wurde ermordet! Die erfolgreiche Game-Entwicklerin stand kurz vor dem Release eines bahnbrechenden Computerspiels. "White Maze" wird mit neuartigen Lucent-Kontaktlinsen gespielt - dank ihnen erleben die Spieler virtuelle Game-Welten mit allen Sinnen. Aber warum zerstörte Vivians Mutter kurz vor ihrem Tod die Prototypen der Linsen Zusammen mit dem schulbekannten Hacker Tom will Viv den Mord an Sofia aufklären. Dazu muss Viv selbst Lucent-Linsen einsetzen und tief in die virtuelle Welt eintauchen.