Wattpad - by TheOrangutan

Read My Shorts

TheOrangutan / 6 pages
READ my SHORTS! ('cos eating them isn't very tasty) - A collection of very short stories, micro-fiction, one-shots, drabbles, flash-fiction and other random stuff. Call 'em what you will, they're bite size little morsels from the brain of me. Cros...

The Tree of Dreams

TheOrangutan / 8 pages
Random poetry and the occasional drabble or dribble of other short random thought from the depths my somewhat bemused brain, or possibly Brian if the schizophrenic misspelt pseudo entity that lives up there is up to his old tricks... poems from th...

The Gathering Dark

TheOrangutan / 12 pages
The Kobold are coming... as the tide of Gathering Dark threatens not only the elves, but the dwarves and shattered remnants of the human populace, only a few stand in their way: only they can restore the lost City of Ai. And then there's the dra...

Flights of Fantasy - The Pub Fantasy Smackdown

TheOrangutan / 22 pages
A collection of short fantasy works inspired by the Fantasy smackdown. Each story has a different theme based on whatever the instigators of the competition made us do in each round. Round 1 starts if off with a fantasy / urban crossover as Antar ...

A Gift in the Dark

TheOrangutan / 45 pages
(Paranormal / Horror / Fantasy) There are things in the darkness that you cannot see unless they want to be seen, some legends that linger on despite the modern world and disbelief. A Gift in the Dark is a compilation of short works, many based a...

An Infinity of Stars - SF Smackdown

TheOrangutan / 23 pages
Science Fiction: Evolution never stops, the races of man have changed, have fought bitter wars and built cities on the moon. But where can they go next? The only limit is your own imagination… This short compilation of stories was done for a Sc...

Love's Bitter Flow

TheOrangutan / 2 pages
A collection of verse, including a poem which is also a Drabble (100 words) with Mythic Greek influence, and followed by humour, horror and fantasy in varying doses as my entry for the 2012 Atty Awards

Shattered Worlds

TheOrangutan / 9 pages
Military SciFi: The shattered remnants of the Battle of Antar are drafted back into service and retrained with new weapons, new hope and the chance at a new life. Each given the capability to control a sub-unit of drones, they are thrown into the ...

Day 1

TheOrangutan / 6 pages
An Alien called Angus who emits some serious gas, a psychotic blonde with a fire arms fetish and a drain emitting Shakesperian prose, apparently they've had odder days at the Department of Editors and Auditors, but John's just there for an intervi...

Sycorax Snare

TheOrangutan / 8 pages
Science Fiction: A re-write in short story form of The Tempest by Shakespeare. The Dukes of Houses Milan and Naples find themselves in and uncharted system with the sentient remnants of an ancient technology. Crash landing on a nearby moon, they s...

Skin Deep

TheOrangutan / 6 pages
Science Fiction: A few years into the future and Google has taken over administration of cities leading to a drop in crime. Even the Google police however are struggling to find a piece of equipment stolen from an experimental dermatologist. Detec...

Mindscape

TheOrangutan / 8 pages
Science Fiction: In the future there is the City. A hedonistic world where humankind's every whim and need is catered for by the Mind, the super computer that controls every aspect of day to day life. The human mind is a far more complex thing tha...

Quoth the Raven

TheOrangutan / 7 pages
A steampunk short set in an alternative London. The Tower: a rock around which swirls a broken Empire, where Cloud Pirates rules the skies in their cloudships and power is all. Led by Tower Commander Denalta, can Trooper Seth and his fellow Guards...

Quantum Parenting

TheOrangutan / 12 pages
Facial Hair Confuses Babies. One of a number of random observations from an unprepared, unreliable and probably mentally unstable parent (although a small minority of the mental health board decided in my favour, I have the certificate to prove it...

Spidey

TheOrangutan / 4 pages
Romance / SciFi / Short Story - The Blush, something that happens to Peter Webb every time he meets a girl, but particularly Helen next door. Will she ever take him seriously, or will something unexpected come between them? A short romance with ...

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TheOrangutan / 3 pages
Science Fiction / Alternative History - His life's work complete, Dr Marvin Ledbetter leaves the known universe and journeys backwards through time. But where would you go, what would you want to see? Dinosaurs? Elvis? Who killed JFK? What would h...

The 38th Parallel

TheOrangutan / 7 pages
(Sci Fi / Alternative History ) Lieutenant John Anderson, the last and only hope for a planet torn apart by war. Will he triumph against the might of eastern forces subsumed by an alien race, or will he remain a prisoner of the CIA and American Mi...

Orion's Law

TheOrangutan / 6 pages
A spacewestern short story. All Marek wants is a quiet life in his saloon, but a cocktail of cyborg, drunken criminal lord, the local Sheriff and a few of the Dalton clan turns out to be a volatile mix... A spacewestern based on four photos for...

Skyfall

TheOrangutan / 5 pages
A steampunk short. The age old battle between the Sky Pirates and the Troglodytes comes to a head. Can Talen and Marn finally end the war or will steamtanks, titanic squid and wheeled warriors merely prolong the battle? A steampunk novel based ...

Room 42

TheOrangutan / 11 pages
A small collection of some my odder short stories, in various genres. Paranormal SciFi, horror, humour (allegedly) and historical fiction among others. Call me butterfly brain, it's probably true.

Windblown Saviour

TheOrangutan / 31 pages
(Historical Fiction / Action) - I was born fast, born skilled, and endless practice has made me the best. A brief rush of adrenaline. Noise, the smell of cordite and then one of us crumples to the dust. This time it was him. Gunslinger: I may be f...

Merlin's Gold

TheOrangutan / 112 pages
(Historical Fiction / Adventure) Treachery and intrigue combine with adventure, action and romance in this tale set around the legends of Arthur and Merlin. The court of King Arthur is under threat from Hengist’s Saxons who, lured by the promise...

World War Zed

TheOrangutan / 51 pages
(Horror / Fan Fic) World War Zed : The Survivors' Stories - It is ten years since Britain declared itself free of the Zombie menace. This book compiles the untold stories of survivors across the world, how they survived, how the spread of the Infe...

The Grumpy Guide to Wattpad

TheOrangutan / 6 pages
Does what it says on the tin. Me being grumpy. Wot no TXT I say, is that a spellchecker there? No SHOUTING please, some of us are trying to grumble

The Wheels on the Bus

TheOrangutan / 3 pages
(Thriller) Sometimes the mundanity of life can leave you wondering about your sanity. The Wheels on the Bus go round and round, The Thoughts in my head should not be found.... is this one trip too many?

A Child's Eyes

TheOrangutan / 2 pages
The innocent are often the first to suffer in the face of evil. There is good however in unexpected places, but the consequences of another's actions will haunt the memories of an entire generation...

Larry Jotter and the Order of the Bean Mix

TheOrangutan / 2 pages
(Humour) A parody of a rather well known magician's school life. Will Baldymort triumph at last? Not if the rubber chicken has anything to do with it. Pull my finger...