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Most recently published stories in Chapters.
Hue and The Discovery of Manipo (Chapter 2). AI-Generated.
Dreams have a strange way of persuading you. Not with logic, but with longing. With the quiet conviction that what you see behind closed eyes could be real — if only reality would cooperate. People say that if you speak your desire boldly enough, if you pray with enough hunger, the universe eventually yields. Manifestation. God‑consciousness. Wishcraft. I’ve never fully believed in any of it.
By Lorenzo Bland12 days ago in Chapters
VENGEANCE BOUND . Content Warning.
Book 2 THE FIRST WRONG MOVE Nyx didn’t go back to the apartment. She didn’t go back to the house either. Both were compromised in different ways, and right now, she wasn’t interested in revisiting spaces that someone else had already touched, studied, or mapped.
By Dakota Denise 12 days ago in Chapters
Twisting by the Pool, Chapter Four
Mini-Flash Juniper wasn’t having much luck with the camp amenities. First the roller-skating rink and now the outdoor swimming pool, in as many days. It was enough to make her wonder if there’d be anywhere she wasn’t barred from when check-out time came around. The one bit of good news was that the lifeguards had had to give her short shrift in both senses of the word, as they’d then needed to dash off and get some ladders to rescue the stranded children with.
By Doc Sherwood12 days ago in Chapters
Twisting by the Pool, Chapter Two
Hot, thought Flashsatsumas to himself as he neared the newsagents. A little too hot for his comfort. He didn’t know very much Earth-vernacular so what he meant was that on a corporeal planet which conformed to standard meteorological laws you’d expect a heatwave like this to end around midweek, but that wasn’t to say the weather was the only subject on his mind.
By Doc Sherwood12 days ago in Chapters
VENGEANCE BOUND . Content Warning.
The house sat far enough off the road that most people would miss it. That was the point. No mailbox. No visible address. Just a long stretch of gravel cutting through trees that had grown wild enough to look like they’d been there longer than memory. The kind of place people didn’t stumble onto.
By Dakota Denise 13 days ago in Chapters
Breach Protocol . Content Warning.
Chapter 3 – Post-Mission Debrief The lights in the debrief room buzzed low, harsh fluorescent cutting across the table where Rhea sat at the head, arms folded, watching the others filter in. The air smelled faintly of coffee, sweat, and the remnants of adrenaline. It wasn’t just a room—it was a crucible, a place where decisions, mistakes, and survival hung in the balance.
By Dakota Denise 13 days ago in Chapters
Breach Protocol. Content Warning.
Breach Protocol – Part 2: First Mission The city never sleeps. It doesn’t pause for the sound of sirens or the flash of emergency lights. It hums, vibrates, and breathes in uneven rhythms: car horns, distant shouts, the low groan of trains under the streets. A million lives moving simultaneously, none of them stopping for anyone—not for police, not for SWAT, not for those who risk themselves to keep it from spinning out entirely.
By Dakota Denise 13 days ago in Chapters
