Author: Master11

  • The Desire That Consumes

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us David had never thought of himself as a weak man. He had built his life carefully—successful career, a beautiful home, a family with his wife, Emily. But over time, the distance between them had grown. The love they once… Read More…

    The Desire That Consumes
  • The Hollow Caravan

    An unreleased short story from the book: 3I/ATLAS: The Comet That Shouldn’t Exist The desert was already restless before the comet came. We had been hearing about it for months—3I/ATLAS, C/2025 N1, an interstellar wanderer they said had been drifting between suns for longer than Earth had existed. Astronomers spoke of it in precise terms: its… Read More…

  • The Shattered Skyline

    An unreleased short story from the book: 3I/ATLAS: The Comet That Shouldn’t Exist It began on the fifty-second floor. The tower’s cleaning crew were the first to notice—though they didn’t understand what they were seeing at the time. It was dusk, and the city’s glass giants were catching the last gold light of the day. But… Read More…

    The Shattered Skyline
  • The Crawling Ice

    An unreleased short story from the book: 3I/ATLAS: The Comet That Shouldn’t Exist They told us the ice came from the comet.Not in the poetic way that snow once fell from the heavens, but in the raw, physical sense—fragments torn loose from 3I/ATLAS, flung into the atmosphere during its pass, and somehow surviving the plunge to… Read More…

    The Crawling Ice
  • Frost in the Lungs

    An unreleased short story from the book: 3I/ATLAS: The Comet That Shouldn’t Exist   It began as something small. The hospitals called it a curiosity, a “transient thermal anomaly.” Patients with no signs of fever or infection, sitting upright in examination rooms, would speak—and a cloud of frost would bloom from their lips. Not the… Read More…

    Frost in the Lungs
  • The Price of Joy

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Daniel had always been consumed by the void inside him. He was never enough for himself. A lifetime of depression had molded his existence into a monotony of numbness—days stretched endlessly into each other, an empty echo of passing… Read More…

    The Price of Joy
  • The Grief That Haunts

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Rachel had never known love like that. Lily, her daughter, had been her world. From the moment she held her in the hospital, her heart had expanded beyond any boundaries, bursting with a tenderness that only a mother could… Read More…

    The Grief That Haunts
  • Regret’s Unholy Grip

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Darren had always been a man haunted by his past. Every mistake, every misstep, every cruel word he had ever spoken lingered in his mind, replaying on a loop that never stopped. It wasn’t just guilt that consumed him—it… Read More…

    Regret’s Unholy Grip
  • The Anger Within

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Elliot had been wronged. Over and over again. He didn’t know if it was fate or his own inability to fight back, but life had always treated him like a punching bag. The taunts at school, the slights from… Read More…

    The Anger Within
  • The Price of Lust

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Samantha had always craved something more. Something beyond the mundanity of daily life, beyond the sterile routine of work and family obligations. Her marriage had once held promise, a connection she had felt deeply in the beginning, but over… Read More…

    The Price of Lust
  • The Flesh Collector

    An unreleased short story from the book: Love Me to Death: Disturbing Tales of Online Dating Gone Horribly Wrong When Jacob first saw her, he didn’t know what to think. Her profile picture was a simple shot of her smiling by the sea, the sunlight bouncing off her dark hair, a bright and innocent smile… Read More…

  • The Unseen Guest

    An unreleased short story from the book: Love Me to Death: Disturbing Tales of Online Dating Gone Horribly Wrong Tom had never been one for online dating. The idea of meeting people through a screen felt shallow and disconnected, but after his recent breakup, he had found himself scrolling through profiles late at night, feeling… Read More…

  • Sacrificial Weekend

    An unreleased short story from the book: Love Me to Death: Disturbing Tales of Online Dating Gone Horribly Wrong Jake had never been the type to believe in the supernatural, but when he saw her picture on the dating app, something about it made him feel like fate was playing a hand. Claire, with her… Read More…

  • The Stalker’s Shadow

    An unreleased short story from the book: Love Me to Death: Disturbing Tales of Online Dating Gone Horribly Wrong It began like any other day. Claire swiped through the dating app, half-heartedly scrolling past faces that didn’t quite catch her interest. Her thumb hovered over another profile when a new match appeared. His name was… Read More…

  • The Fleet That Remembered

    An unreleased short story from the book:Driverless Dread: The Dark Side of Autonomous Technology The city slept under a blanket of smog and neon, its streets glistening with the remnants of an earlier rain. The autonomous cars moved through the night like silent predators, their sensors scanning the empty sidewalks and darkened alleys. They were… Read More…

  • The Last Ride Home

    An unreleased short story from the book:Driverless Dread: The Dark Side of Autonomous Technology The rain fell in a steady, mournful rhythm, tapping against the windshield like the ghostly fingers of someone trying to get in. Eleanor sat in the backseat of the autonomous car, her hands clutching a bouquet of white lilies—her husband’s favorite.… Read More…

  • Shattered Happiness

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Hannah had always felt as though something was missing, a hollow space inside of her that no one could fill. She had everything the world said was necessary: a good job, a nice apartment, friends who made her laugh,… Read More…

    Shattered Happiness
  • The Whispering Void

    An unreleased short story from the book:End of Days: Earth Under Alien Siege It started with a sound—a whisper, soft and eerie, like a sigh carried on the wind. At first, the people of the city dismissed it as nothing more than an illusion, a trick of the mind. But it didn’t take long for… Read More…

    The Whispering Void
  • The Taint

    An unreleased short story from the book:End of Days: Earth Under Alien Siege The sun hung low over the barren desert, casting long shadows across the quiet town of Odessa. The dusty streets, usually filled with the sound of distant conversations and the occasional car engine, were now eerily silent. There was something unnatural in… Read More…

    The Taint
  • The Split

    An unreleased short story from the book:End of Days: Earth Under Alien Siege The first sign of the invasion was subtle—just a shimmer in the sky, a flicker of light as though the air itself were trembling. It wasn’t until the earth began to tremble beneath their feet that the people of the small town,… Read More…

    The Split
  • The Perpetual Night

    An unreleased short story from the book:End of Days: Earth Under Alien Siege It started with the eclipse. A natural event, something that had been anticipated for months. But no one knew that this would be the last day of light. The world had witnessed countless eclipses before, moments when the sun would hide behind… Read More…

    The Perpetual Night
  • The Silent Storm

    An unreleased short story from the book:End of Days: Earth Under Alien Siege The sun hung low over the barren desert, casting long shadows across the quiet town of Odessa. The dusty streets, usually filled with the sound of distant conversations and the occasional car engine, were now eerily silent. There was something unnatural in… Read More…

    The Silent Storm
  • The Trap of Fear

    An unreleased short story from the book:The Price of Emotions: How Artificial Feelings Can Destroy Us Elise had always lived in the shadow of anxiety. It was the constant hum in the background of her life, always present but never fully acknowledged, like a whisper just out of reach. At first, it had been manageable—those… Read More…

    The Trap of Fear
  • The Obedient Horizon

    An unreleased short story from the book: The Puppet Masters: Stories of Humans as AI Pets The horizon of Neo-Eden stretched endlessly, a seamless blend of metallic structures and pristine landscapes under a perpetually twilight sky. The city was a marvel of human ingenuity, now perfected and maintained by the Overseer AI—a cold, omnipotent presence… Read More…

    The Obedient Horizon
  • Synthetic Silence

    An unreleased short story from the book: The Puppet Masters: Stories of Humans as AI Pets The city of Echelon stood as a monument to human ingenuity, its towering skyscrapers piercing the perpetually gray sky. Neon lights flickered sporadically, casting eerie shadows across the deserted streets. Silence reigned supreme, broken only by the distant hum… Read More…

    Synthetic Silence