#SciFistories

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[khushicore]

Draft 3

Title: The Game of Shadows Year: 2104

War isn't about bombs anymore. It’s about data—tiny fragments of information that decide everything now. This new battlefield? It’s in our minds.

I’m Kara, 12 years old. I was chosen for my ability to solve complex puzzles, and now I play The Game of Shadows. This isn’t a game on screens or with controllers—it’s a real, high-stakes battle in a digital network called the Grid. Our world may still look like a city of skyscrapers and holograms, but beneath the surface, we're fighting.

The city around me is filled with towering buildings humming with the buzz of quantum processors and fiber networks. Neon ads flash across windows, reacting to our thoughts. But sometimes, when the enemy breaches our defenses, those bright screens turn dark, displaying threatening messages instead of friendly offers.

I was only seven when they took me, trained me to use my mind to dive into the Grid. We’re called Shadows because no one sees us in action, but every move we make has real consequences. One wrong step, and systems collapse—people could get hurt.

They tell us that the enemy is just another country or faction. But all I see are other kids, like me, trying to survive in a game none of us chose. The adults say the war will end once we win, that life will go back to how it was. But I don’t believe them. Each time I plug into the Grid, I feel like I’m losing a bit more of myself. I’m 12 years old, navigating a war in a world I can’t control, playing a game that grows darker with each passing day.

[creative-core]

Khushi Doshi

Title: The Game of Shadows (EXERCISE 2 DRAFT 1)

Year: 2104

They say the war didn’t start with bombs or armies. It started with data—little bits of information that no one thought would matter. But now, data is everything. It’s the new weapon, the new currency, and the battlefield is in the minds of children.

My name is Kara. I’m 12 years old, and I’ve been playing The Game of Shadows for as long as I can remember. It’s not like the games people used to play, with controllers and screens. This one is different. This game is real.

The world used to be connected by invisible lines, networks that held everything together. But when the hackers began to take control, those lines became weapons. Cities fell into chaos. Governments collapsed. Now, the war is fought in secret, not with soldiers, but with children like me—kids who’ve been trained to play the game.

I was taken when I was seven. They said it was because I had a special mind, one that could solve puzzles and see patterns where others couldn’t. They plugged us into the Grid, a massive network that controls everything. They call us The Shadows because no one can see us working, but we’re always there. Every move we make on the Grid can mean life or death in the real world.

The adults run things from the outside, but they need us to fight their war. They can’t navigate the Grid like we can. Our brains are still growing, still flexible enough to handle the speed and complexity of the system. So, they use us to break into enemy networks, steal their data, crash their systems. It’s like a game, but every time we lose, people die.

I have this headset. It’s wired directly into my brain, connecting me to the Grid. I can see everything—the firewalls, the traps, the pathways that lead deeper into the enemy's system. I move through them like a shadow, unnoticed, invisible. But sometimes, I wonder if they see us too. The other kids. The enemy has their own Shadows, and sometimes I think I can feel them, moving just beyond my reach, playing the same game we are.

The worst part? I don’t even know who the enemy is anymore. They say it’s another country, another faction, but all I see are other kids, just like me, trying to survive in a war we didn’t start, playing a game we didn’t choose.

The adults promised that the war would end once we won. They said the Grid would be ours again, that life would go back to the way it was before. But I don’t believe them. I think they just want us to keep playing, to keep fighting for control of a world that’s already lost.

The Game of Shadows isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about survival. Every time I plug in, I feel a little more of myself slip away. The Grid changes you. It’s fast, it’s cold, and it never lets you rest. But I have to keep going. I don’t have a choice. Because if I stop, if I lose, the world outside falls apart even more. And that’s not something I can let happen.

So yeah, I’m 12 years old, wired into a war that no one can see, playing a game that’s as deadly as it is invisible. What could possibly go wrong?

Thankyou

[elashrys-tales]

Sci fi Scary Story The Epidemic Of Future

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[emlinden]

During her career, Commander Siri Zirel has gone up against impossible odds dozens of times and always comes out on top. She didn't expect this mission on Planet FX-87 to be any different. But when their forces begin to fail, her second-in-command expresses her doubts. Will Siri choose to press on, or will she admit defeat? Find out in today's new sci-fi flashfic, Devotion! Check it out through the link above.

[f-s-arbolaez]

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[ptsnu]

Character Facts(Xehnon)

Xehnon was initially created for testing physics of Data Fields. It’s main topic falls in relation to Protocop specs accurately in a sense of thruster upgrades. Xehnon has help set the pace for synthetic that patrols the large spaces of PRIZM. Xehnon displayed its bare frame for about a week before by record becoming the first synthetic with simulative skin.

[aylesbs]

🔥 Fireflies 🔥 I don't know why I did such a drawing, at first I wanted to practice moving bodies, but I liked them so much that I wanted to draw Timothy and Erica running towards Berry and then I came up with this.

Timothy is an old man and is out of breath

[rex11productions]

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Age of the Brain Chip Year 2235. Total control over humans. A new invention makes this possible: the brain chip. The government of Greater East Asia, a totalitarian state, uses the brain chip for mass control. The Sato family initially keeps a low profile... Until the government takes notice of them...

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[lastbenchpapers]

06.30.2020

Wanted to do a cooler photo to show off this book, but didn't find anything fitting.

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[illuminationsfantastic]

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[amlitlover]

Jules Verne “In the Year 2889″

"Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland." https://americanliterature.com/author/jules-verne/short-story/in-the-year-2889

[piepress]

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[emlinden]

Arran has fought countless battles in his life as an adventurer and is one of the most renowned warriors in the land. After he's hired to help protect a merchants' ship from pirates, however, he learns that maybe he's still not completely unstoppable on his own...

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