short story

Water: Our Lifelong Friend
Water: Our Lifelong Friend BY:Ubaid Hello friends! You probably already know me. Whenever you feel thirsty, I am the one you turn to. I am there when you wash clothes, clean utensils, and most importantly, when you want to keep yourself clean. Yes, I am your close friend and an essential part of your daily life. You simply cannot live without me, which makes me extremely important to you. Since I am so valuable, you must take good care of me. Never waste me, and never let me get polluted.
By Ubaid 4 months ago in Earth
The Psychology of Storytelling: Why Humans Are Hardwired for Stories
From flickering cave shadows in the distant past to the vibrant universes of the cinema today, storytelling has been at the center of human existence. Across every culture and across every century, human beings have gathered to share stories—myths of beginnings, epic poems of heroes, cautionary tales, and personal histories. Stories are not entertainment alone; they are a way of making sense of the world, of passing knowledge, and of bonding with others. They build societies, convey moral codes, and even guide behavior.
By The Chaos Cabinet4 months ago in Earth
The Beetle That Explodes to Protect Its Friends: The Real Kamikaze Bug. AI-Generated.
When Sacrifice Becomes Strategy In the insect world, survival is usually about self-preservation. Run, fly, hide — do whatever it takes to avoid becoming someone else’s lunch. But there’s one tiny creature that defies that rule completely. When danger comes, it doesn’t run.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Fish That Walks on Its Fins: Meet the Handfish, Nature’s Tiny Crawler. AI-Generated.
A Fish That Forgot How to Swim Most fish swim. It’s what we expect. But not all sea creatures follow the rules — and some seem to break them on purpose. Meet the handfish, one of the ocean’s weirdest little rebels.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Insect That Pretends to Be Bird Poop: The Ultimate Gross Disguise. AI-Generated.
Survival by Looking Disgusting In nature, some animals escape predators by running fast, others by hiding well. But one tiny creature uses a strategy so gross, so simple, and so effective… it just pretends to be bird poop.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Fish With Eyes on Top of Its Head: The Real-Life Peekaboo Predator. AI-Generated.
The Fish That Hides to Kill At the bottom of the ocean, hidden beneath sand and silt, lives a fish that looks like it was drawn by someone with a wild imagination. Its eyes are on top of its head, its mouth is upside down, and it spends most of its life buried, invisible, and waiting.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Worm That Glows From Its Butt to Hunt: How the Greenhead Fly Larva Lights Up Its Lair. AI-Generated.
Glow in the Dark, But Make It Deadly When we think of glow-in-the-dark animals, we often imagine pretty jellyfish or fireflies lighting up a summer night. But deep inside the caves of New Zealand, far from sunlight, there lives a creature that turns glowing into something far more sinister.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Bug With a Hat Made of Trash: The Real-Life ‘Garbage Collector’ of the Insect World. AI-Generated.
The Ultimate Master of Disguise Imagine walking through the forest and seeing a clump of dirt suddenly move. Not from the wind, not because it fell — but because it has legs. You look closer, and the dirt isn’t just dirt. It’s made up of insect parts, dead ants, plant bits, even bird droppings. And under all that filth is… a tiny bug, completely hidden in its own handmade armor.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
The Fish That Sees With Its Butt: How the Brownbanded Bamboo Shark Detects Light in Strange Places. AI-Generated.
A Shark with a Secret In the strange and wonderful world of marine life, sharks often hold the crown for being fierce, fast, and fearsome. But not all sharks fit that mold. Some are small, peaceful, and… extremely weird.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth
"The Last Days of Earth"
The Last Days of Earth by [Muhammad Tauseef] The stars outside the observation window blinked like distant candles, barely visible behind the heavy, swirling clouds of radiation that had choked Earth for decades. The space station, Eden Arc, floated in orbit, a fragile sanctuary for the last remnants of humanity. Inside its metal walls, the air was stale, recycled, and every day felt like a struggle to maintain some semblance of normalcy.
By Muhammad4 months ago in Earth
Hareem and the Secrets of Trees
HAREEM AND THE SECRETS OF TREES BY:Ubaid Saleem Farooqi’s daughter, Hareem, was a bright young girl. Both of her parents were working professionals, so most of her childhood was spent at her maternal grandparents’ home, which was conveniently close to her school. She was now in the ninth grade at a nearby school and adored her grandparents, especially her grandfather, who was a well-educated and thoughtful man.
By Ubaid 4 months ago in Earth
The Bird That Builds Tunnels of Light: How the Vogelkop Bowerbird Designs With Obsession. AI-Generated.
Love, but Make It Architectural In the misty mountains of Papua, where thick forests hide a thousand secrets, there lives a bird whose idea of flirting puts even the flashiest peacocks to shame.
By Secret4 months ago in Earth