Greatest Sci Fi Short Stories

In the decaying super-city of Aethelgard, a desperate gamer accepts a mysterious beta-test offer to escape poverty. But when he discovers his in-game "assassination missions" are actually controlling lethal androids to eliminate the government’s political rivals, he must hack the system from the inside to stop a silent coup before his physical body is deleted.

Loneliness has consumed the mind of Jia Wang every hour for far too long. Broken promises and useless treatments have destroyed her hope that things will ever improve for her, but as the hours of her sad life tick down a stranger appears promising her a healthy life and love. Will a trip to space cure her cancer and liberate her heart from it's prison of sadness?

[Triple Avatars] [Alchemist] [Psychic] [Colossal Beasts] [Grand World-Building] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible-Style] In the vast, boundless Astral Realm, the branches and leaves of the World Tree can shroud countless planes. The fear of the Nightmare Deities spreads like a creeping mist, while the radiance of the Magic Pioneers illuminates all known space and time… The conflict between the Old Gods and the New Gods! The clash of Technology and Magic!

Zhong Xiu was meant to be the next leader of her Father's company. She was Groomed to be a cutthroat businesswoman who would grow her family's wealth and honor. But instead of greatness Xiu gets diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone cancer. Every goal she has ever set for herself has gone up in smoke and she feels like she has dishonored her aging Father by having such a weak body. When an American woman shows up offering a chance at life Xiu decides to walk away from all her Father's lessons. Follow along as Xiu travels across the galaxy to be healed and find love.

Warning: Extremely steamy content ahead, proceed if you love your Daddies dominant and your boys beautifully broken. Surrender to the raw, intoxicating power of older men who know exactly how to break a willing boy… and make him crave every filthy second. This scorching collection of standalone MM short stories thrusts you into the world of commanding Daddies, ruthless CEOs, ex’s powerful fathers, dad’s dominant best friends—who take what they want without apology. These experienced alphas spot a hungry younger man and unleash relentless, possessive desire that leaves no hole untouched and no limit unbroken. Feel the heat as stern Daddies pin eager boys against penthouse windows, bend them over desks, and force them to their knees in corners. Deep-throating commands, rough bareback pounding, choking growls of good boy, and dripping, sweat-soaked submission turn forbidden tension into explosive, body-shaking ecstasy. Every story drips with primal age-gap lust—older men claiming, breeding, and owning younger bodies that beg for more. If you live for dominant Daddies who discipline, degrade, and devour… this collection will ruin you for anything less. A must-read obsession for every MM lover who needs their erotica raw, relentless, and drenched in Daddy dominance. MM erotica MM Romance Gay Romance LGBTQ+ short stories MM anthology Standalone short stories Age gap romance Blackmail romance Daddy kink Forbidden romance Steamy gay romance Daddy kink Age gap Taboo/forbidden Ex’s dad Dad’s best friend Power imbalance Dominant alpha Daddies Rough possession Oral worship Bareback breeding Dirty talk & praise Dub-con to desperate consent High-heat explicit sex Standalone shorts HEA/HFN 18+ only

Di kota futuristik Singapura, Ayesha, seorang ahli perkembangbiakan serangga, menjalani hidupnya dengan tenang hingga cintanya dihancurkan oleh pengkhianatan Daren, kekasihnya yang ambisius. Demi memenangkan pemilihan walikota, Daren meninggalkan Ayesha untuk menikahi wanita dari keluarga terpandang. Hati yang hancur membawa Ayesha ke jalan gelap—jalan yang mempertemukannya dengan Alexei, presdir dari salah satu perusahaan kriminal paling ditakuti. Ayesha dan Alexei menjalin persekutuan berbahaya untuk menggulingkan Daren. Mereka menciptakan “Operasi Vespa”, sebuah proyek rahasia yang melibatkan tawon raksasa Asia (Vespa mandarinia), serangga agresif dan mematikan yang dimodifikasi untuk bertahan dari insektisida. Ketika wabah serangga mulai melumpuhkan distrik-distrik di bawah kepemimpinan Daren, kota Singapura berubah menjadi medan pertempuran antara politik, kekuasaan, dan balas dendam. Namun, konflik terbesar terjadi di hati Ayesha. Sementara dendam mendorongnya untuk melanjutkan kehancuran, kerja sama dengan Alexei membangkitkan perasaan yang tak pernah ia duga. Alexei, yang dikenal sebagai pria kejam dan tak pernah dekat dengan wanita, mulai terobsesi dengan Ayesha. Di tengah ambisi Alexei dan kebrutalan rencana mereka, Ayesha dihadapkan pada pilihan sulit: apakah ia akan membiarkan dunia terbakar demi balas dendam, atau menghentikan kekacauan ini dengan risiko mengkhianati rekan yang telah jatuh hati padanya? “Operasi Vespa” menjadi permainan takdir yang penuh intrik dan drama, di mana cinta, kekuasaan, dan pengkhianatan terjalin dalam alur yang rumit. Apakah hati yang terluka seperti milik Ayesha dapat menemukan cinta sejati di tengah ambisi dan kehancuran? Ataukah semuanya akan berakhir dalam kehancuran total?

Eliza Ward does not fall through time. Time bends toward her. Pulled from the present into Revolutionary America, Eliza becomes trapped in a landscape where history repeats unevenly, battles restart with variations, and memory functions as both anchor and weapon. She is not a chosen heroine, but a constant: a woman whose awareness destabilizes the moment itself. She meets Mercy Hale, a midwife and witch who understands time as a negotiation rather than a force to command. Mercy aids Eliza’s survival while refusing the role of savior, having already learned the cost of standing too close to history’s center. During a looping battle, Eliza saves Thomas Reed, a Continental soldier who does not shift when time does. Thomas is an anchor: steady, observant, unchanged across iterations. Their bond deepens in an almost-normal village where time briefly behaves. Eliza’s intervention triggers time’s response. Rather than immediate destruction, time collects interest. Mercy bargains to spare Eliza and Thomas, sacrificing her own future to stabilize the present. Time extracts payment from Eliza as well, stripping away her voice, the very tool she uses to name and hold moments in place. Silenced and unmoored, Eliza is violently displaced back into the original battle. Unable to anchor the moment, she watches Thomas die in the version of history that was always waiting beneath her defiance. Told in rotating perspectives between Eliza, Thomas, and Mercy, The Hours That Refused to Behave is a lyrical time-travel novel about revolution, restraint, and consequence, asking not whether history can be changed, but who pays when it is.

The book is the first-person account of a young biracial Mexican and African American woman, Evelyn Rosalyn Amiss. She repeatedly transports in time between her home in Texas and then Newark, New Jersey to different time periods. She meets and helps some of her ancestors along the way. This is my first journey into a fantasy, time travel novel. I hope you stick around for each riveting, historical and spicy page turner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living, or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Dans un futur où tout semble parfait, l’humanité vit plongée dans une réalité artificielle qui lui offre une vie paisible et sans peur. Mais derrière cette illusion se cache un système bien plus sombre, dont personne n’a conscience. Lorsque Riley commence à percevoir des anomalies, son monde bascule. Sa rencontre avec Nash, un autre éveillé, va les entraîner au cœur d’un secret capable de bouleverser le destin de toute l’humanité. Entre illusion et vérité, ils devront faire un choix… sans savoir s’ils sont encore libres de le faire.

When a child mysteriously disappears from a small town and even his mother seems indifferent, it’s time for the new sheriff to step in. Meet Chris Baker, the new sheriff of the quiet Adirondack town of Clifton Heights. As one inexplicable case after another forces him to confront the townsfolk in The Skylark Diner, it’s the furtive Gavin Patchett that hands Chris a collection of not-so-fictional short stories that tumbles him into a world of monsters, ageless demons, and vengeful citizens. As Chris reads through the stories the veil starts to lift, and he soon questions what is real and what’s not, and whether he really wants to know. Nothing will ever be the same again. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing