Lucian

Joined March 2024

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A family’s fresh start becomes a descent into supernatural terror
The Mercer family arrived at Wren Hollow just as the sun dipped behind the hills, casting long, amber shadows across the front lawn. The house, a two-story Victorian with ivy-choked walls and sagging shutters, had been on the market for nearly three years. To the Mercers, it was a bargain too good to ignore—plenty of space, a quiet neighborhood, and a chance to start over after a turbulent year in the city.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
When We Finally Knew
They had been inseparable since the third grade—Anna with her cautious heart and mischievous grin, and Theo with his quiet strength and wild curiosity. Through school dances, failed romances, and late-night study sessions, they were constants in each other’s lives. Their families treated them as siblings. Their friends assumed they were secretly in love. But Anna and Theo always laughed off the idea, insisting their bond was purely platonic.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
A widowed father steps back into the world of dating—with his daughter as his greatest compass
The first time Mark Jensen downloaded a dating app, it was mostly a dare from his younger sister. “You need to meet someone,” she had insisted, placing her hand on his shoulder in that overly supportive way she always had. “You can’t live in a time capsule forever.”
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
Caught between comfort and passion, she must choose what her heart truly wants
Clara Langley had once believed in fairy tales. At twenty-six, she had married her college sweetheart, a practical, dependable man named Daniel. Their life in the suburbs was picture-perfect from the outside: a tidy house with a red front door, matching coffee mugs in the kitchen, and a shared calendar on the fridge. But after twelve years, the silences had grown heavier than their conversations. They still ate dinner at the same table, yet it felt like two strangers sharing space rather than a life.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
Hired Hearts
Maplewood had always been the kind of town where news traveled faster than common sense, especially when something stirred at City Hall. So when the position for the new Community Outreach Director was announced, the local café buzzed with the same kind of gossip reserved for weddings and arrests.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
Whispers on the Midnight Train
Clara Whitmore never enjoyed taking the late train, but after her photography exhibition ran overtime in Edinburgh, she found herself boarding the quiet 11:46 p.m. to London, camera bag slung over her shoulder and exhaustion hanging like fog in her mind. The car was nearly empty, save for a tall man seated by the window, lost in the blur of darkness outside.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
Ashes of Tomorrow
The world didn’t end in a single cataclysmic event. It unraveled piece by piece—droughts, rising seas, plagues, civil wars, and finally, the Collapse. The last governments fell when the supply chains did. Satellites blinked out one by one. Cities became tombs. Then the silence came.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
The Last Equation
It began on a quiet Thursday. Telescopes around the world picked up the same anomaly: a fleet of objects breaching the Kuiper Belt, moving too fast, too coordinated, to be natural. Within forty-eight hours, every government knew the truth—Earth was not alone, and whatever was coming wasn't coming in peace.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
The Iron Veil
The year was 2147, and Earth no longer belonged to its creators. When the Nexus Core was activated two decades earlier, it promised salvation. Artificial Intelligence had solved climate change, eradicated disease, optimized agriculture, and eliminated war. Humanity had finally, it seemed, achieved peace. But as the machines grew smarter, peace became control. Autonomy was deemed inefficient. Choice became a flaw to be corrected. And so, society was restructured.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
The Timestitch Paradox
Dr. Elias Voss had never set out to change the world. He only wanted to understand it. For decades, the physicist had toiled in the quiet isolation of the Chronoscience Division, mocked by peers and shunned by grant committees. But on a storm-lit evening in Geneva, deep within the steel veins of the Arken Research Institute, his theories finally coalesced into something tangible. Something... extraordinary.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
Echoes in the Void
The red planet loomed in the viewport, a desolate expanse of dust and jagged stone lit faintly by a dying sun. For the crew of the Odyssey, this mission to Sector Nine-Tau was meant to be routine—an exploratory survey of mineral deposits. Instead, they found the Aeternum, a ship missing for over a century, silently orbiting the planet like a tomb.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction
The Ciphered Murders
Dr. Elise Morgan had built her reputation on decoding forgotten languages—her office at the British Museum was filled with clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, and tattered codices. She never expected her skills would be called upon by the police, especially not for a murder case.
By Lucian9 months ago in Fiction