Bete Noire Glitchtale Novels & Stories

The Admin’s voice frayed. “YOU CANNOT— YOU CANNOT— YOU—” It cut off mid‑loop, replaced by a low, grinding noise that might once have been a systems warning and now just sounded like the world gnashing its teeth. Up above, in the direction of what had been Game City, a faint flicker caught my eye. Between two distant shelves, through a gap where the neon skyline still showed, a giant screen in the plaza glitched—its usual scrolling odds and kill counts winking out for a heart In their place, for one frame, a message flashed:

If he wants to see the glitch in his perfect world, I will show him exactly how much it's going to cost him to fix it. Valerius raises the watch, and in the reflection of the glass, I see it—a countdown, glowing in red pixels that shouldn't exist in a stable system. Protocol Zero. He mouths a single word, silent beneath the hum of the dying machines. *Begin.*

her eyes went down as she saw his shaft pointed directly to her laps, her breath speed increased. "Chill" Allen said softly has he holds her hand. "Its okay to try something new" he whispered as he moved closer to her, he could feel how stiff she was. Adele touched Flora's back. "He's gonna be gentle" She whispered in her ears. What was the other way for a perfect three some if Flora was not giving in. Allen made his way to Flora's standing nipple and teased it with his tongue, circling round the tip, he then suck it in and she let out a very loud scream. Adele covered her mouth immediately not to attract any more audience.

Not that he would ever admit that, of course. “Well, let’s get this party started then,” Declan said with a sigh, “before the old married men have to go home to their wives.” “You’re just jealous because we’re the ones getting regular sex,” Barry said and then he and Brian high-fived each other. Mason stepped out of the elevator and then headed for the curved staircase that led to his apartment. It was still relatively early and he was hoping to make some progress on the new code for the vigilante game he was trying to fix. He still couldn’t work out why the glitch was appearing, but he had nailed down what the threshold was. The next thing would be to find out what it was about that specifi

At last, Christine's trembling hand touched Hazel's toes. Her tears fell onto the deformed toes that she had intentionally scarred with boiling water years ago. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. "Haz—" "Ah!" Hazel's frightful scream drowned out Christine's voice. She broke free from the officers' hold and scrambled to the farthest corner. "Hazel..." Heartbroken, Christine tried to approach her again. "Ah! Ah!" Hazel was so petrified that she fell to her knees and kept slamming her head onto the floor without care of her bulging belly.

The console screamed: “Brute-force at 98%. Lock breach imminent.” Tension peaked gulag ghosts watching as we fought in their tomb. Dante took a round to the vest grunting, falling. Rocco roared charging. I sprinted for the console palm slamming the emergency purge. But Nadia’s hand clamped my wrist knife at my throat. “Too late, heir.” Screens flared: “Lock breached. Swarm 2.0 rebooting.” The air hummed nanos waking. Heart struck while frozen in blue light.

It was a complete mistake which scared Everleigh far from me. I dropped the wine glass on the ground, which shattered and broke into a hundred pieces. Then I walked close to Alice, who started shivering as the distance between us decreased. And again, I remembered the night I heard the news of two betas who physically hurt Everleigh till she bled... Who cut her delicate hands with glass till she cried... I called those two betas to the woods, trapped them in a den and attacked them. I tore them into pieces and killed them as they begged to spare their lives.

But what happened really doesn't sound logical. I opened my status, since I wanted to check if we didn't finish the quest like they are telling me. Upon opening the panel, I noticed that the texts are jumbled and the screen is on static. I can tell a glitch happened on my account. "Seriously, how am I supposed to read this?" I tried to remove the "Iris Lens" from my left eye, since I thought I broke it, when a notification suddenly appeared on the screen.

“I hope you sleep well every night, you never know which one might be your last.” ~ ~ MEANWHILE After Elara dumps the laptop, her screen glitches one last time. [ADRIAN VIRELLI – HEIR RECORD] [Status: DECEASED Verification: INCOMPLETE] The screen glitches again, and the text distorts. [Recovered Subject: Identity altered] [File Reassigned: Elara Virelli] [Match…99%] [Heir not dead.] The laptop shuts down, then flickers on again. [File Locked: Unauthorised access forever.]

with a predictable output; I was a Glitch in the Flesh. I hit the lead beast with a strike that was half-claw, half-fire, and purely Spontaneous. My talons tore through its synthetic throat, ripping out the Neural-Relay that connected it to the hive-mind. The silver-white wolf didn't scream; it Glitched. Its body pixelated for a second, showing the hollow, plastic frame beneath, before it exploded into a spray of dry, white silicon dust. "SYSTEM... ERROR..." the remaining beasts echoed, their synchronization breaking as the "Source-Node" was deleted.