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We Who Survived The Sky

They say, although you never really know how reliable 'they' are, that over five million people go missing every year and are never heard from again. Is that worldwide? America only? I never cared enough to pay attention, because as far as I was concerned, it had nothing to do with me. No one I know has ever disappeared, and the odds say that no one I ever know ever will. There's more people who live in New York City than that, and I've never even been to New York City, much less lived there. I don't know anyone who has. Besides. There's so many more pressing matters to think about. I never have the sort of free time I need to think that, really, I'm playing a lottery with crappy odds I didn't ask to play in. Every single person I know is another entry every year, and first prize is ending up among those people that lose someone who never reappears. Sooner or later, there's a lot of people who win the grand prize jackpot they didn't know they were competing for. At seventeen the state of Oregon doesn't think I'm ready for the cut-throat world of scratch tickets and guessing lottery numbers. Turns out there's some lotteries out there that you don't need to play to win. Some people see their numbers on the television, some people have to wrestle them back from enthusiastic shop owners, and then some people take the scenic route from the bus stop and run into a wall of light and weightlessness halfway home. I grew up in a little town in the Pacific Northwest that's never been in any movies, and I hit the jackpot at seventeen years old.
Amesaya · 100.3k Views

Claimed by the Prince of Darkness

Eighteen-year-old Ruelle Belmont has learned to be useful and grateful, because in her family love is given only to those who earn it. When her father’s debts grow beyond saving, she is sent to Sexton, a prestigious vampire institution that accepts one human from every household. But Sexton is no place for a human. Inside its halls, humans are not students. They are Groundlings, valued for their blood and how easily they can be broken. Favour is currency and cruelty is entertainment. And failure means being sold. Ruelle soon discovers that the cold and dangerous pureblood she once crossed paths with is here as well. Worse, she is forced to share a room with him when she is hunted by a couple of vampiresses.  Lucian Slater watches her too closely for a man who claims to despise humans. Yet when Sexton’s predators begin to circle, he is the one who steps in to help her. And for the first time in her life, Ruelle is learning something she was never meant to believe. That she may be worth wanting. And in Sexton, being wanted is the most dangerous thing of all. ——————— The clock struck midnight when Ruelle heard the echo of footsteps. She tensed, the fine hairs on the back of her neck standing on end in the cool night air. "You shouldn't be here," Ruelle whispered, her voice a breathless murmur. The silhouette finally came to stand under the moonlight, his dark red eyes watching her and his inky black hair ruffling. "Shouldn't I?" His voice was a dark caress, and she stood there captivated by the danger he exuded like perfume. "I haven’t seen you for the last two days," his tone low. His hand reached out, fingers brushing against the silk of her nightgown, tracing the trembling outline of her collarbone. "Tell me, were you avoiding me, or perhaps... entertaining other offers?" Ruelle’s heart raced, her breaths shallow. She declared, "I don't belong to anyone.” "A bold claim," he murmured, his breath a tantalising chill against her skin as he leaned in. "Yet here you are, pulse racing, your body tensed as if in anticipation of my touch." His fingers gripped her chin, tilting her face towards his. The moonlight caught his eyes, revealing a glint of predatory intent. "Or must I remind you whose touch you truly crave?"
ash_knight17 · 1.8m Views

FUTURE INBOX

Amara is a poor student struggling through an ordinary life until she finds a mysterious phone that doesn’t belong to any known system. At first, it seems like a simple anomaly: the phone sends messages from the future. But the messages are not warnings. They are instructions… and corrections. When Amara follows them, reality changes. When she ignores them, reality punishes outcomes she hasn’t even caused yet. Soon, she discovers the truth: The phone is not a device. It is a terminal into a hidden system governing timelines. A system maintained by unseen entities known as the Watchers. And something even higher: A logic engine called AEIL (Anti-Exploit Intelligence Layer) a mechanism designed to prevent reality from being “abused” by awareness. But Amara is not a normal user. She begins to: rewrite system rules mid-action exploit instability gaps in reality convert glitches into survival windows and eventually… stabilize a fragmented survivor who once tried to escape the system That survivor reveals a terrifying truth: Those who are “erased” by the system are not killed. They are fragmented into system law itself, becoming invisible functions that shape reality from within. Now Amara is no longer just surviving. She is: a perception anomaly a target of Watcher pursuit and the only known user capable of forcing the system to acknowledge contradictions As AEIL escalates containment protocols, reality itself begins to shift around her: Watchers evolve into adaptive hunters perception is edited in real time connections between people and existence begin to break down and “safe zones” turn out to be engineered traps left by an unknown original creator But the deeper Amara goes, the more disturbing the truth becomes: Someone else existed before her. Someone who created blind zones inside the system. And they may still be alive… somewhere inside the timeline architecture. Now Amara must survive a system that is no longer trying to kill her but trying to stop her from understanding what reality actually is. Because once she sees too much… the system will no longer be able to ignore her.
Moonlitheart · 1.2k Views