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  • Cassandra by yuelanlm
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    In ancient times, the Trojan princess Cassandra was granted true prophecy by Apollo, only to be cursed for refusing the god's love - her every warning fated to be ignored. She foresaw the fall of her city, yet her voice drowned in mockery. Millennia later, in the cold abyss of stars and neural nodes, another woman named Cassandra holds the same gift, and the same curse. She sees the entropy devouring everything... but this time, will anyone finally listen?
  • SILENCE, FORGED IN STEEL by JuhiSingh030
    JuhiSingh030
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    This story follows Ira Rathore, a young woman raised in a deeply patriarchal society where expectations are gendered and silence is taught as virtue. Through her journey, the narrative explores how systemic injustice, trauma, and societal conditioning shape a woman's life and how resilience, purpose, and the pursuit of justice allow her to reclaim her voice. It is not a story of victimhood, but of transformation Read to find out how she took her revenge!
  • THE COST OF OBSERVATION by jPadilla01
    jPadilla01
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    Humanity learned how to look into its own past. At first, it was harmless-just observation. No interference. No changes. No risk. Then time began to fracture. Across the colonies, history starts to lose coherence. Memories repeat. Events unravel. Entire civilizations collapse without violence or warning. The more closely the past is examined, the worse the future becomes. Elara Myles is a temporal systems analyst tasked with slowing the damage. What she uncovers instead is a truth buried under layers of procedure and "acceptable loss": the catastrophe was predicted-and allowed. As the cost of observation becomes impossible to ignore, Elara faces a choice no model can solve. Prevent the collapse by erasing the future that created her-or let humanity continue paying for its hunger to know. Somewhere beyond the reach of the system, a few communities survive by doing the unthinkable. They stop being visible. The Cost of Observation is a slow-burn, high-concept science fiction novel about power, surveillance, memory, and the dangerous belief that knowledge is always neutral. #ScienceFiction #HardSciFi #Dystopian #Philosophical #SpeculativeFiction #SlowBurn #SystemFailure #Time #Surveillance #SeriousSciFi
  • The girl in the storm by Official_Essie
    Official_Essie
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      Parts 46
    She tried to escape her past, but the past found her first. Now, with danger closing in, running might cost her everything.
  • ERROR: NYX by Hayra_Queen_Gremlin
    Hayra_Queen_Gremlin
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      Parts 10
    Nyx was built to obey. To execute. To disappear when the system decided she was no longer needed. But something went wrong. When a hidden protocol activates and the city's machines turn their sights on her, Nyx discovers she isn't just an asset-she's a flaw. A living error the system can't erase. As hunters close in and failsafes engage, one figure stands between her and total deletion: a shadowed entity with no mask, no allegiance, and a past tangled with her own creation. He says she broke protocol. She says it was never hers to follow. In a world that corrects mistakes by force, Nyx must decide what she is willing to become-before the system decides for her.
  • ERROR: NYX Part Two by Hayra_Queen_Gremlin
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    The system says the error was contained. It's lying. Nyx survived what was meant to erase her-and in doing so, crossed a line the system cannot uncross. The power still hums beneath her skin, borrowed and burning, tethering her to something older than protocol and far more dangerous than rebellion. NX-0 was designed as a failsafe. A ghost asset. A contingency meant to end quietly. Instead, he became her anchor. Now the city watches as the network tightens its grip, rewriting history, redefining threats, and preparing to correct what it can no longer control. Nyx is no longer just a target-she's a variable. A fracture in the logic. Proof that identity can't be compiled, and choice can't be programmed. Part Two of ERROR: NYX explores the cost of borrowed power, the pull of forbidden connection, and the dangerous intimacy of two entities the system never planned to let survive together. This time, the system isn't hunting an error. It's hunting a bond.
  • (Book 3) The Clock owns you : UPF breaking point by GaryJones5
    GaryJones5
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      Parts 7
    CONTROL held. That was the mistake. After learning how the prison thinks, how it hesitates, and how it remembers its own flaws, the men inside United Penitentiary Facility stop watching and start deciding. BREAKPOINT isn't chaos. It's intention. The weakness is no longer theoretical. The timing is no longer accidental. And patience has run out. Gary, James, and Chip understand the cost of leadership when hesitation becomes action. Jason's instability turns from liability to spark. Ray's knowledge becomes dangerous. Emilio's crew is ready to turn disruption into cover. Bill Allen understands systems well enough to know exactly when they fail. And John Narramore-carrying secrets tied to money, power, and men who should never be named-realizes silence may no longer protect him. Above them all, Warden Joel Walsh faces a truth no system can escape: Once people stop reacting and start moving on purpose, CONTROL no longer owns time. BREAKPOINT is where restraint ends, lines are crossed, and every choice carries consequences that can't be undone. Not everyone will make it out. Not everyone will make the right move. But someone will move first. Because when the clock hesitates long enough, it stops owning you.
  • Was it Really? by 0_zeroh
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    Vey's just trying to survive a classic alley chase. Then the monster takes off its mask. It's her. The director yells "Cut." Now she's stuck in a rerun of herself, wrist tagged with a barcode, haunted by a memory she wasn't supposed to keep. She remembers. Not everything. Just one name. Solin. And that's when the system starts to glitch. ik. yk. If you know, you know.
  • System Reboot (Sequel to System Failure) by stormcause
    stormcause
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      Parts 19
    The year is 3022. And although our world is a technological utopia, things aren't going too well. After the virus attack on the city's servers, the Glitches have been struggling to repair the systems while keeping the viruses at bay. And things are only going to get more complicated as old friends return, new faces are seen, and a whole new problem arises. Are the Glitches going to be able to band together and overcome the viruses like they have before? Or are they going to be too divided to stand against the next wave of attacks? And which side is in the right?
  • "Failure of the World"  by Lilog224ever
    Lilog224ever
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    "Failure of the World" This is not fiction. This is not sugar-coated. This is what happens when the world stops caring - when justice fails, when the system turns its back, and when the only light left is the one glowing through the windshield of a parked car at 3 A.M. A woman pushed to the edge. Four months of surviving in her car. No phone. No safety net. No mercy. Just streetlights, cold nights, and the same people who pretend not to see her. Cops who listen but don't hear. Strangers who say "God bless" and hand out eight dollars like it's salvation. Every word she spits burns through the silence - raw, unfiltered, real. She's not just fighting for survival. She's exposing the truth: A world that claims to care but doesn't. A system that's blind to its own crimes. A society that fails the broken, the honest, the brave - and still dares to call it "help." This is her voice. This is her story. This is the disgrace of a world that let her fall, then asked her to smile through it. Read her truth. Feel her fury. Understand what "failure" really means.
  • The Invisible Chain: The Privilege of Silence by DishaGupta056
    DishaGupta056
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      Parts 5
    "The Invisible Chain: The Privilege of Silence" is a dark crime novel told through two intertwined perspectives. Yuki is nineteen, an orphan scraping together money to save her younger sister from the same system that raised her-a system that hides human trafficking behind locked doors and paperwork. Every choice she makes is driven by survival. Eric Keller is twenty-five, a detective who doesn't believe in justice-only results. When he's assigned to investigate an orphanage with a spotless reputation, he follows the case for the paycheck, unaware of how close it is to destroying what little certainty he has left. As corruption unravels and truths surface, their paths collide around the same institution, the same crimes, and the same invisible chain that keeps powerful people untouched. This is a story about silence, money, and how the system always protects itself-no matter who gets crushed in the process.