Dystopian Short

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

She signed a contract to save her body—he claimed it to own her soul. Jasmine Cole didn’t come to Azurea Moon to find love, she came to fix what was broken. Infertility. A ruined career. A betrayal she’d never forgive. Trading her womb to the Syndicate for a second chance seemed like a cold, clinical transaction. But when she’s genetically matched with Korran Vey—a scarred Orran warlord with a stare like fire and hands built for ruin—everything changes. There’s no sterile lab, no medical insertion. Just primal rituals, voyeur lounges, oil-drenched bonding pools, and the slow, ...

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity.

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister had been dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. This women's romance fiction book will have you wondering what could possibly happen next. Keep some tissues on hand and tag along on a...

A riveting new post-apocalyptic EMP box set that keeps you guessing until the end! EMP masterminds Alexandria Clarke, author of Black Out, and James Hunt, author of Static and Surviving the Collapse, come together in this super box set for the first time! In Blackout, after an EMP bomb detonates over the United States, frying the entire electrical grid, Georgie Fitz decides to take refuge at her estranged father’s cabin in the Rocky Mountains with her boyfriend and his family.

She came to carry his child, not bare her soul. But now that he’s touched it, she doesn’t know if she’ll ever get it back. Librarian. Surrogate. Survivor. Isabella Greene didn’t plan to fall for the alien warlord assigned to her. She only came aboard the Starliner Amour to escape Earth’s crushing debt and repair her broken body. What she didn’t expect was to be matched with Drex Xarn—a battle-scarred Velkari warlord who sees her as more than a vessel. He sees her as his. Her contract is clear: carry his child, receive a fertility cure, walk away free. But Drex doesn’t do ...

A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.

In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired—no one can. In “One More Kiss, Dear,” a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents.

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

She signed up to offer up her womb, but she never expected to be claimed. Selina Alvarez was done with hope. Her womb was broken, her bank account worse—and her options? Nonexistent. Signing with the Alien Seed Syndicate was supposed to be a cold transaction: carry a warlord’s heir, get her fertility restored, and walk away free. But nothing about Xylos—the crystalline meteor teeming with primal energy—feels cold. And nothing about Torvak Renn, the towering, scarred Zeroxian Warlord with molten gold eyes and hands built for ruin, is transactional. The contract says natural ...

Featuring thirteen fast-paced stories with twists and turns you won't see coming. Contains thought-provoking content, deceptive storytelling, and a shed load of laugh-out-loud moments. This book contains dystopian, alien-abduction, invasion, and robotic themes.

Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where you were before. All you have is the disconnected voice of an attentive caretaker. Dr. Kuhn is there to help you - physically, emotionally, and psychologically. She’ll help you remember everything. She’ll make sure you reclaim your lost identity. Now answer one question: Are you sure you want to?

Anthology of sci fi and horror by some of the world’s most exciting authors. Alexander Semenyuk Kathrine Elaine Alison Bull Merissa Nicole Nevena Pascaleva Luke Belmont Jashae Slaughter Bretigne Shaffer James Kenwood Grace Anderson Rolando Andrade Danielle Minnaar Mercedes de Santiago Kathy Enriquez Brie-Anna Willey Allison Riney

A reluctant hero. Dick aka Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Devil Dog becomes the reluctant savior of women and children from the worst of the gangs that now rule topside. Doing the right thing makes him new enemies, driving him ever deeper into the tunnels that keep his charges safe - until he runs across a young woman who might be his daughter.

Rise of the Gender Clones in a World With Only Men Jon Berringer is your typical male in the year 2240 – smart, comfortable, and very confused by the sudden announcement that females will be returning. After females stopped being born in 2042, the world quickly became dominated by the male population. At some point, someone realized no new women were being born, and that's when the New World Order Initiative began. After the last female on the planet died in 2173 at the age of 131, the program to fix the problem took off in earnest as it was realized that with no women on the planet, the ...

Dystopian Threads In a Future Where Humanity Is Just Another Commodity, What Remains of the Human Spirit? Set in the bleak year of 2350, Dystopian Threads unveils a world where Earth has fallen under the iron grip of corporate overlords. Society is fractured, and humanity itself has become a product—bought, sold, and controlled by those who view people as little more than assets on a balance sheet. In this thought-provoking short story, the boundaries of freedom, identity, and self-worth are pushed to their limits. As the narrative unfolds, the story plunges readers into a harrowing ...

William and his friends have battled scores of the diseased and left communities behind them on their journey to find what lies south of the wall bisecting the country. They’ve lost loved ones and overcame many challenges, but they’ve never faced an obstacle as great as the one before them: the wall, steel, sheer, and 200 feet tall—an insurmountable barrier designed to separate the north and south. Their dream should stop here, but the group has a plan to get to the other side, and it might just work.

Chronicles From The Fringe is a chilling anthology of dystopian and supernatural tales, where society crumbles under the weight of its own horrors and the supernatural lurks in the shadows of human despair. Each story explores a different nightmare—whether it’s a future where memories are bought and sold, a town where the dead refuse to stay buried, or a society where emotions are outlawed in favor of cold logic. From the remnants of civilization after a devastating war to the eerie presence of ghosts whispering through abandoned cities, these tales weave together themes of survival, ...

In the 12 unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: A group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman.

The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague.