speculative

**Winner of the 2017 Watty Storysmith award** The President created an underground safe-haven for the survivors of the alien invasion. He built it to save them all from...

[wattys longlist 2018] Hollis King has been wrongfully accused of a crime - but nobody believes him. Because of this, he's been imprisoned for months waiting for the sta...

☆2018 THE WATTYS LONG-LISTED☆ | A girl with a peculiar pedigree is dumped on a stranger's doorstep during the worst snowstorm the hamlet Myst has ever known. Selectively...

In the Republic of January, there are two types of people: the Azure, who treasure bravery and strength, and the Rose, who treasure beauty and kindness. Each acts a cert...

Vincent is your average college kid who no one bothers to get to know. Always felt out of place, never belonged anywhere. An outcast of thee outcastes. So why did a guy...

A shape against the night, in the light of a highway construction sign, is a young man in trouble. An artist in an artless place, he must fit into Strand's machine, or b...

***The Corner Booth Contest Runner-Up*** WARNING: contains one blue-eyed stranger, one fast-talking heroine, and a couple of scenes steamier than a mirage at noon. Throw...

It's tomorrow and Artificial Intelligence is a quantum catchphrase: At once terrifying, coveted, revolutionary and mundane. But it's not the menace we have nightmares ab...

In the not-so-distant future . . . and if a cult could rule what remains of the world . . . While Portsmith is undergoing its annual Delinquency Purge, Herald and his te...

Dani was a supposedly typical twenty-something movie critic when she befriended Toru, a man claiming to be from the future. Toru said he was skipping through time to fin...

When the shameless world she lives in scared her, she decided to change it. The Company says her name is Nicole Eyre, but that could be one of their lies, an...

Unsung. A series based on the award-winning short Escaping Endlosung. It follows the young men and women known as "Creatives" who live in a tumultuous time of...

What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird...

"MUNE'STAHR and PYLOTT: HELLMARROW" is an epic tale of interstellar/cross-dimensional adventure featuring RIKTONN MUNE'STAHR and KESHURA PYLOTT, former Territo...

A new artificial intelligence escapes from the lab. Could its creator have ever predicted the ultimate outcome of its programming? This is a SHORT story, split into five...

A speculative interpretation of what Star Wars Episode 9 could be. Based on canon events as presented in the Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. Please feel free to comme...

I have forgotten what it feels like to be free. To have a voice. I can't say anything, or else they might catch me. My parents would never forgive me. I'll be arrested...

He left heaven to save her. But can she save him now? The Bible story you never heard in Sunday School, 'The Descent of the Gods' is based on real legends and stories fr...

A couple walking exploring a remote beach make a bizarre discovery that shakes their world. This story is a possibly chilling view of the future, a fresh look at the con...

In a decayed and dying alien world that was once center of a vast planetary empire, an embittered rogue knight, soldier to the fallen empire, traverses a bizarre landsca...