Virtual Reality Fantasy

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay. Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence. “You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.” Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. “You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, ...

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.

"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 ...

Bill has just stepped off the path of life to find himself caught up in some kind of experience that touches to his very soul. In this unexplainable realm Bill will make life changing decisions. Can he believe the mysterious person or the moment that he is in? The situation comes upon him quickly. Can Bill cope, and what kind of person will he be when he exits? Bill has just stepped off the road of reality and entered a realm far from the comprehension of the mind; he has entered an unimaginable place, a realm where rational thinking is sweep aside, where the mind is set free to explore the...

"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.

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 ...

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?

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.

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?