Glitch Novels & Stories

*** Xander's POV *** A low, vicious snarl tore from my throat as a wave of sudden, blinding nausea hit my brain. The Mate bond inside my chest—usually a clean, white-hot line of energy connecting me to Sereia—was suddenly choked with a toxic, slimy purple smoke. The beast in my head roared, clawing at the walls of my skull as a cold, mocking voice echoed directly inside our private channel. “Ah… the legendary Glitch and her feral wolf,” the voice purred, smooth as silk and dripping with psychological malice. “Did you really think formatting one node would save you? The High Council sees everything.”

Then, bizarrely, it twitched. The red eye flickered to green. Then blue. Then back to red. It spun in a circle, as if confused, and then flew off in the wrong direction, slamming into a distant smokestack. CRUNCH. It spiraled down into the fog. Ren watched it fall. "Did you see that?" Leo whispered. "It glitched." "Yeah," Ren said, a slow realization dawning on him. "It glitched hard." Ren looked at the smoking wreckage in the distance.

Chapter 108: The Embers of the Forge The "Red Glitch" was not a fracture in the system; it was the first deep breath of a lung that had been kept on a ventilator for five centuries. Across the shimmering, atmospheric spires of the Diamond Age—cities that had known only the sterile, perfect harmony of the Global Bridge—a sensation began to ripple that the records of the Great Reset had described as "Static." It was the sound of a thousand individual hearts beginning to beat at their own unique tempos, breaking the synchronized hum that had defined the era of Symmetry.

Then, the primary server wall glitched. A ripple of amber light bled through the shadows, turning the dark into a flickering golden cage. I watched, my throat tightening, as the hexadecimal strings on the display began to warp. The numbers didn't just shift; they shed their logic, twisting into shapes that shouldn't exist in the city's current version. A-R-I-A B-L-A-C-K-W-O-O-D. My name pulsed in a violent, radiant gold. It was ghost-code—a memory buried so deep it had survived the rejection, clawing its way back to the surface while the world above burned. It was a beautiful sight, and a death sentence for anyone standing near it.

Instead, she grabbed the silver cables of her own suit and plugged them directly into the console, bypassing the interface. "Willa, stop! You’ll fry your consciousness!" Kael screamed. "I'm not deleting them," Willa gritted her teeth as the golden data of the gallery began to flow into her. Her eyes turned a brilliant, blinding white. "I'm absorbing the level. If this world is built on data, and I’m the Glitch... then I’m taking the whole city with me." [Warning: System Overload!] [Synchronicity (Trio): 100% — UNSTABLE.]

that had been bothering the pack. "He's rejected," Elara whispered, kneeling beside the man. "Exactly," Sarah said. "He's a 'Glitch.' His brain didn't sync with the server. Now he's stuck in a permanent state of Neural-Rejection. To Aethelgard, he's garbage. To us, he's proof that the bond can be broken." Elara reached out to touch the man's shoulder, but when her hand neared, a spark of black static jumped from her fingers. The man gasped, his eyes clearing for a moment.

The arrow pointed to the word “HEART." Above it, were a pain of names shinning red. The sight of the names left me motionless. It read “Offenders, MELISSA and GAVIN." My blood ran cold. “What is the punishment for?” I yelled, my voice shaking. “He didn't even respond." The system’s voice deepened. “Silence glitch. Processing penalty..." “Excuse me!" What? who the fuck is a glitch? Me. Like hell, I'm no glitch.

My finger hovered over the 'decline' button, while I interanlly dealt with a mix of annoyance and old, lingering hurt. It was more of a dull ache now but it still stung a little nontheless. I wish he would leave me the hell alone. Before I could touch the screen, the world froze. The blue light of the System surged, blindingly bright, drowning out the office lights. I hated when it did that. [EMERGENCY TASK ACTIVATED ] [OBJECTIVE: FOLLOW THE WOMAN IN BLUE] [TIME REMAINING: 05:00 MINUTES] [FAILURE PENALTY: 30% DEDUCTION OF TOTAL WEALTH]

It was warm and tingling, moving slowly upward A chill spread through my body as I realized it wasn’t a mistake. It was someone’s leg, a foot sliding up from my ankle to my thigh. My eyes widened slightly, but I didn’t move. I glanced at Adam, He was focused on his food. with his expression unreadable. Could it be him? I bit down a gasp, trying not to react. Maybe I was imagining things, but then the touch came again. This time, it was more deliberate and slow.

she said. Sera didn’t lower her weapon. “Neither were you.” “I didn’t,” Zero replied. “I was rebooted. You were spared. There’s a difference.” Adrian moved beside Sera, protective, silent. Zero tilted her head at the sight of him. “Ah. Attachment. That’s the glitch Mira warned me about.” “You mean love,” Sera snapped. Zero’s face didn’t change. “It breaks system integrity.” “No,” Sera said quietly. “It writes its own code.”