post-apocalyptic

I've never had the best relationship with sleeping on the floor. Between a bad back from being too reckless when I was younger to being such a light sleeper that vibrations from people walking around would frequently wake me up, sleeping on the floor would usually mean a day of drowsy fatigue...

-x- THE SUN PRIESTESS -x- -x- The old woman jolted awake, sensing with bone-deep certainty that her end was near. She eased back into her rocking chair, her gaze unfocused as she watched distant fireworks blossom across the night sky. "We should have been there, celebrating the Winter's...

The year is 2294, and the world has gone to shit. Towering ruins cast long shadows over cracked highways, while half-machine, half-corpse monsters roam through cities that once bustled with life—now nothing more than crumbling monuments to death and hubris. Humans are reduced to scared...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839430/Dolls_Nest/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJZ-VX4QSw8 So Nitroplus (yes, that Nitroplus) decided to make a mecha action game, and while FromSoft was too busy doing Souls, thought they'd go and make their own take on an Armored Core game, but with...

The bright lights of Lone Star pierced into the night, illuminating the city below as people walked along the streets, with the occasional horse or salvaged vehicle rumbling past them. A lone figure in a wide-brimmed Stetson leaned against the brick wall of a ruined building, observed the...

Right, listen up, meatbags. The world didn't politely end with nukes or zombies. No, reality itself apparently rage-quit, slammed Alt-F4, and now we're living in the cosmic equivalent of a Windows ME crash dump, complete with physics errors, texture glitches spawning monsters made of dial-up...

Part 1 Prologue [ARCHIVED VAULT-TEC PUBLIC BROADCAST — September 2, 2076] Cue triumphant music. A warm narrator's voice speaks over footage of smiling families, vintage Americana, and blue jumpsuits being handed out like golden tickets. NARRATOR: In the heart of West Virginia's majestic...

Wanderer's Diary: Week One Day 1: The Downward Spiral Begins... Okay... where to start... I guess by explaining things. See, Dad just left the vault. By necessity, this also meant I had to leave the vault, because the Overseer and his people were coming after me because of him. I can only...

Prologue: The Brothel worker's tale The sun had long been down and I was putting in my last shift at the whorehouse when the Woman with the Red Right Hand rode into town. She probably entered our "establishment" because it doubled as a hotel, the only hotel given how little town there was to go...

You have died. You are dead. There is no way to deny that simple fact. You have shuffled off your mortal coil, you have kicked the bucket, you have breathed your last, etc. etc., and are floating in an endless void, the same one that awaits most everyone, resigning yourself to your new existence...

You wake in your apartment, the alarm ringing at 0600 as per usual. This is it, the day you leave home. Going into the wasteland, hoping you're the one who makes it back. It seems your family has already made their way to work and school, you're uncertain if you'll see them again in your life.

The beginning of the Dive is always the worst part, because even if my brain knows I can breathe the stuff that Knights dive into, my body never remembers - so it panics and acts like I'm drowning. But then, covered in super-oxygenated goo almost as warm as my skin, I breathe it and don't choke...

The popularity of the Isekai story has made many people desire they could have that amazing experience. Many people have longed for themselves to reincarnate into a different world with abilities so advantageous that it can be viewed as a cheat. Rio is one of them. Rio, a salarywoman who works...

A MIDDLE-AGED MAN IS CHOSEN BY THE COSMIC FORGE AND FOUND HIMSELF ON RIFTS EARTH Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story. Warning! Violence, War, Magic & the Supernatural The fictional worlds of Rifts are violent, deadly, and filled with aliens, war, and supernatural monsters...

Chapter 1: You! Yes, You! This is a story about a strange/sad/frustrating/desperate/crushing series of events all leading up to the moment where a few simple choices are made. Choices that may or may not affect more than just that world and the universes around it. Such choices were the...

The Golden Age of humanity has ended. Only the greatest of fools would think otherwise. What else can a person say when they saw the story of civilisation built throughout 65 millennia turn into a tragedy that was not heard since a deal most foul was made without a word? What could uncounted...

That sound is so annoying. Shrill, repetitive, completely out of sync with the red light that keeps flashing through your closed eyelids, making you wince and groan. What is that? You open your eyes and immediately regret it; pain makes your vision swim, aggravating the pain in your head and in...

=} Broken Shores {= Ruins, Remnants & Mechs IC Thread Discord Link Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon; burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc. Wondrous is the stone of this wall, shattered by fate; The precincts of the city have crumbled and the work of giants is rotting away. A...

"5th Lenzmonat, 1622 I write to you today, sir, to bring you the most excellent news. I have succeeded in forging an alliance that will finally put an end to all our troubles and cement your unquestionable rule of these lands. The Hetman has agreed to support your forces in the march on the...

"Wake up!" A deafening roar and a tug on his leg jolted Draa Stone from the sweet embrace of dreams. The young man yawned as he rose from his bed and walked to the window, ignoring the whitish appendage that disappeared into the crack in the floor. Draa pushed aside the transparent, solid...

Welcome, young Transcend, to our bleak multiverse. You have Transcended at an inopportune period, I'm afraid. I am Enmuuth, your guide in these realities where all are as gods… and yet insects all the same. The roiling bodies of titans both living and dead roam the Void between realities, and if...

Beta'd by circa_cerata and Doomblade187 Gestare 1.1 I looked up. My eyes were wet. So many stars. The universe so vast. We're s- so very small, in the end. The first bullet hit me from behind, where my mask offered no coverage, and I slowly toppled. The second hit me before I could fall...

Phtheironauts Part 1: The Kid, Fated Warrior Chapter 1: Cecmu Othrys hanged in the sky like a corpse from a gibbet, its lifeblood burning a dim glow that by its nearness beat down on Chthon with a miserable sanguine radiance. High in the rust sands between the Umi and the Lacustrine basins...

In a realm beyond mortal comprehension, where the skies shimmered with the light of a thousand dying stars, and the ground pulsed with the energy of forgotten worlds, the gods convened. Here, in the Hall of Forgotten Echoes, time twisted upon itself, and reality folded like fragile parchment. It...

People shouted and screamed as lights danced across the black stage, shifting in a myriad of colors—red, blue, green, yellow, and purple—blurring seamlessly over the exuberant crowd. Tanya, arms crossed and crimson hair falling loosely into her eyes, watched the spectacle. In her opinion, this...