Tag "Dystopia" - Works and Original stories

I am an oak beside a river, watching centuries pass as clear water turns dark and a village rises, fades, and forgets itself. I stand still while children play, machines tremble through my roots, and silence returns. In the end, desperate hands come for me, and what happens after my fall is carried off by the river’s dark current.

Aren is taken to the Lamentarium, a place where sorrow hums through stone and something unseen listens from the depths. Guided by a woman who speaks in half‑truths, he meets a glowing being meant to claim his grief—until a voice not his own warns him that the walls remember more than they reveal.

Finally, he had arrived at St. Ebonac's Academy of Excellence; it was finally his time to shine and make up for where his brother had lacked. However, Willifrid will find himself and his ideals challenged despite being in the very heart of Atlas' upper class. Not everything is as shiny and sparkly as it appears on the surface. He'll discover how rotten and decrepit Atlas is at its core, but it will take time...

The year is 2095 in a Corpocratic Texas. Noah is a transgender lab rat bred and raised by the ruling company to be the perfect soldier. Felix is a young trans man from an autonomous community just outside of civilization. When Felix's home is destroyed for corporate greed, Noah meets the first person to make him feel human and forms a connection that can only end in tragedy.

He would give anything to turn back time. And someone heard him. Now the Frontman wakes up several days earlier — at a point where everything can still be changed. To save Gi-Hun. To save himself. To use his second chance.

One well-known Old man decided to go to the store one day, not knowing it’ll be the last trek for the groceries for him…

Henry 38 is a Shepherd in Haven, a desert community on the outskirts of a ruined city, abandoned centuries ago. His main job is enforcing God's laws on his fellow flock, but everything changes for Henry when, during a catastrophic earthquake, he crosses paths with a mysterious young woman named Evelyn.

16-year-old Mikey finds himself in a nightmare world after a tragedy, haunted by monsters and ghosts. He seeks solace, but the past and guilt won't let him go. During a picnic, he finds an artifact that turns his life upside down, forcing him to become trapped between worlds. Now Mikey must uncover the secrets and find a way out of this sinister world.

Among the garbage towers and ruined skyscrapers, a girl wandered, who was going to fulfill her directive. The name Carolina is written on the badge. There are no souls around her. But one day, Caroline finds something that stood out strongly against the background of garbage and waste. Green, small, alive. It seemed so fragile, like porcelain or glass, that it could break in half from a puff of wind, but so painfully important. Something to look after. Something that also needed care and attenti

Even the brightest mind can eventually be swallowed up by hatred. Everyone hated and despised Inwa, no matter how hard he tried, everyone was indifferent to him. After all the suffering, he became a maniac. It's a story about pain, psychological issues, and how the characters try to deal with their inner demons. Can Inv find a happy ending?

Henry 38 is a Shepherd in Haven, a desert settlement on the outskirts of a ruined city abandoned centuries ago. As a Shepherd, his main job is to enforce the laws of their God, whom they all worship absolutely. But a series of strange events soon reveal that not all is as Henry was led to believe in Haven. It all begins when a catastrophic earthquake has him crossing paths with a mysterious young woman named Evelyn.

A rich imagination is not always capable of bringing benefits to a person. Sometimes he slowly goes crazy, even stopping communicating with other people for a long time. The guy understands this, but, nevertheless, he is not able to contain his fantasies. That is why he suffers from them.

Rapidly unfolding events perplexed the two friends, but companions have not given up before the difficulties! It could seem that Sunshine and Ace Gambit seen enough, but that is not all of Equestria to say the least. And there, after its borders, wonders no less miraculous await as well..

So, what do we have here? We have: dystopia from a Korean game; secret monster containment facility where daily fatal incidents considered normal; local analogue of GLaDOS, which only difference from original is she doesn't try to poison people with a neurotoxin (due to its absence); insane Scenario that must be strictly followed; time loop, getting out of which is extremely problematic; and I somehow got into the body of mad scientist, and my only trump card is knowledge of plot. How I get out?

Little pony named Sunshine and her trusted companion Ace Gambit set off to a far away city in search of a magical artefact. However, their path appeared to contain many surprises right from the start, not to mention the adventure's length..

The heart stops at the moment of touching, Eva shrinks even more, pulls in, tries her best not to cry; not now, not in front of her; and pounding furiously when the door of the Commander's room knocks. — The project that you have been told so much about on your favorite CCTV is not at all what it seems. If it's very rude," the Fifth says, thrusting her hands into the pockets of her hoodie, still trying to drive away the inner trembling, the frightened eared hare that has settled inside.

World War II, Nazi-occupied Russia. A partisan girl Yaroslava takes refuge in a village when the germans come to carry out the punitive operation "Eisbär". Yaroslava survives, but the Wehrmacht officer who saved her life wants information from her. Yaroslava cannot betray her homeland, but one day the officer begins to feel something for her that will come at a terrible price.

◆ Mages, covered by their blood-stained banners from the clear sky, did not expect to see the blinding flash of the Lodestar right above their heads, but the world was plunged back into darkness as its light turned scarlet. ◆ The young guy's colorful adventures came to an end as abruptly as they had begun. Caught in a vicious cycle of war and loss, the mage decides to seek help from an ambiguous historical figure, with equally ambiguous consequences for the lives of many thousands of mages.