System Stories
Explore our collection of 80 amazing stories tagged with system. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Glitch in the Terminus
Author:Duane Chapman
A late-night dare turns into a descent into madness when two teenagers play a mysterious online ritual called "The Subway Game." One vanishes, erased from time itself. The other is thrown into a world where reality is a half-finished canvas, painted by a god-like entity of impossible geometry. Now, he's back in his own world, but it's changing, becoming the nightmare he escaped. And the Game isn't finished with him yet.
The Lucent
Author:Eleanor Abernathy
Four years ago, my neighbor's botched demon summoning banished our entire luxury apartment building into a cosmic void. We survived on magically-refilling fast food and the fragile sanity of our neighbors. We had weirdos, cults, and a janitor's closet with seven eyes. Life was predictable horror. Then, a new woman appeared in the food court. She was perfectly normal, eating her orange chicken like it was Tuesday. And in a place like this, nothing is more terrifying than normal.
The End of the Line
Author:Carrie Moreno
When Elara dials a suicide hotline, she isn't met with a voice of comfort, but an invitation to a digital hell. A mysterious van, a network that traps broken souls, and a smiling doppelgänger on a screen reveal a nightmare she can't wake up from. Now marked by the system and haunted by a shadowy echo of herself, Elara must fight the monster that feeds on despair—a monster that has decided she is its next permanent resident. The call was a mistake. Answering was a death sentence.
The Silent Trail
Author:Corvus Shade
For two years, my Sunday hike was a sanctuary of perfect, predictable silence. But one day, the trail changed. The trees grew too close, the birds fell quiet, and the woods began to watch with a thousand bark-skinned eyes. I ran from the impossible, looping labyrinth, and thought I had escaped. But I was wrong. The forest followed me home, and now its suffocating silence is everywhere, waiting in every shadow, calling me back to the path where the world ends.
The Sixth Feed
Author:Derrick Garza
Desperate for cash, Liam takes a high-paying job monitoring inmates in a secret underground facility. The only catch? A list of impossible, reality-bending rules. He soon discovers the prisoners are the least of his worries. The cameras aren't just one-way, the sixth monitor shows a feed of him, and the walls themselves whisper his name. He's not just the guard; he's the next subject in a horrific, endless loop where observation is a cage and escape means being rewritten.
The Sanguine Chorus
Author:Blaise Grimm
A bloody number is counting down on Alex's hand. Each day, it changes, and a monstrous power grows within him. He's escaped a clandestine lab, leaving a trail of death, his only thought to find the woman he loves, Cassandra. But the whispers in his blood have their own agenda, urging him toward a gruesome reunion. To save her, he must embrace the monster he's becoming, before the countdown hits zero and unleashes the Sanguine Chorus upon the world.
The Awakening of Steinwald
Author:Daryl Gomez
A freelance translator, Maxwell, takes a high-paying job in the isolated Alpine village of Steinwald, thinking it's his lucky break. But on his first night, he's dragged into a chilling local ritual to 'awaken' a corpse. The rite works too well. Now marked by the dead man's touch and trapped by a sudden blizzard, Maxwell must decipher the town's murderous secrets hidden in ancient texts before the vengeful spirit claims him as its voice, and the sinister villagers silence him forever.
The Tarps of Whisper Creek
Author:Marion Sanchez
In a forgotten desert town, the children are given one rule: never enter the fields. When Leo takes his little sister through the forbidden expanse to escape a local threat, she vanishes into thin air. He runs home for help, only to be met with his mother's chillingly calm question: 'Where is she?' Leo quickly learns his sister's disappearance was no accident. It was a sacrifice. Now, he must unravel the town's horrific pact with the entity that dwells in the fields, before it comes to claim him next.
Black Halo Over Grimwood
Author:Ian Sutton
When a chemical storm locks down the city of Grimwood, Elias Thorne believes the real danger is outside. He's wrong. The L-7 Black Halo isn't just a chemical; it's a psychoactive contagion that feeds on memory and regret. Now, phantoms from his past are knocking at his door, led by a little girl with black teeth who calls him 'Dad.' Trapped in his home, Elias must confront the ghosts he buried long ago, or be consumed by a horror that knows his name, his secrets, and his deepest fears.
The Umbral Plate
Author:Caleb Shade
Pressured to be the perfect son, Li Wei discovers the horrifying secret behind his flawless rival's success: a strange artifact that can shatter a soul into infinite reflections. He seizes this power for himself, creating duplicates to live his life for him. But as his true body withers away in darkness, he learns that the price of perfection is his own humanity, and that some secrets are not just buried, but waiting to wear your skin.
The Final Pin
Author:M.R. Kaine
To fit in, high school student Alex lets his friends play a dark game on his computer. They pin his apartment on a mysterious website mapping real-life suicides. When a ghostly girl appears outside his 14th-floor window demanding his death, Alex discovers the horrifying truth: he can't delete the pin, only move it. To save his family, he must choose who dies in their place. Now, trapped in a deadly digital game of cat-and-mouse, Alex must become a monster to survive the curse of The Final Pin.
The Dharma Key
Author:Bodhi Steele
A master thief steals the fabled Buddha's Tooth for a multi-million dollar score, only to unlock a hidden reality. Now, glowing Sanskrit menus fill his vision, and cosmic guardians want him dead. He's become a 'Warlock,' the holder of a Key that can rewrite the laws of the universe. Hunted by ancient factions and reality-bending enforcers, he must master a divine system and journey from the neon streets of Singapore to the mystical peaks of Tibet, transforming from a common criminal into a player in a war for creation itself.