System Apocalypse Stories
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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 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 Cauterized Sky
Author:Franklin Lucas
For three generations, Jebediah Stone's family has read the language of their Texas ranch. But when the world falls unnaturally silent, a new language is written across his land in scorched flesh and impossible geometry. A silent, triangular craft hunts in his pastures, and men in black sedans patrol his fences. Caught between a cosmic horror that doesn't bleed and a conspiracy that wants him buried, Jeb must unravel the terrifying truth before his entire world is harvested.
The Phobos System: I Level Up By Facing My Fears
Author:Melissa Peters
When a comet shattered the night sky, it awoke a System within Kaelen Vance, turning his deepest anxieties into world-breaking power. Dragged into a brutal academy where failure means death, he must confront literal nightmares to level up. But the academy's gruesome training hides a darker secret: they aren't preparing for a test. They're forging human weapons for a war against entities that feed on fear itself. To survive, Kael must master his terror or be consumed by it.
The Terminus Night Shift
Author:Tristan Moreno
After losing her family in a storm of blood and betrayal, Valentine Cross takes the only job she can find: a night shift at a remote truck stop. But when the sun sets, the real customers arrive. Armed with a gun she can't explain and a set of impossible rules, she discovers the diner is a sanctuary in a war against humanity. The worst part? The creature that butchered her sister is on the menu, and it remembers the taste of her family's blood.
The Aethelburg Anomaly
Author:Cole Vance
For Officer Kaelen Vance, the world was a predictable grind of bad coffee and worse criminals. But a routine welfare check on a remote farm shatters his reality. Instead of a missing person, he finds a blood-soaked nightmare and a creature of bone and shadow that shrugs off bullets. His first kill in this new world brings not relief, but a shimmering blue screen congratulating him. The System has arrived. Now, monsters crawl from tears in the sky, the city is a warzone, and Kael's only law is the level-up. He’s not a hero, just a cop with a new, impossible power, and his beat is the apocalypse.
Arcane Compliance: The Glimmer Protocol
Author:Krin Berry
In a world where magic is managed by a soul-crushing cosmic Interface, Kaelen Vance is just another low-level Arcane Technician. His first job? A simple magical pest problem. But when the mana-sucking 'Glimmers' prove too much for his by-the-book spells, he's saddled with Lyra Thorne, a cynical, overpowered veteran who hates rookies more than paperwork. Together, they uncover a glitch in reality itself—a conspiracy that weaponizes the System's own code. To save the city, they'll have to break every rule they swore to uphold.
BaneHunt: The Glitchwraith's Debt
Author:Aster Glitch
Five stars. That's all Kae wanted. A perfect rating on the BaneHunt app to prove she was a competent monster hunter and, more importantly, to pay her rent. But when a simple 'Gremlin cleanup' gig unleashes a cataclysmic digital phantom, her rating plummets to zero and she's saddled with an apocalyptic debt. Now, hunted by the very system she works for, Kae must forge an unholy alliance with the 'monster' she freed. To survive, she'll have to trade her gig-worker ethics for forbidden power and become the glitch that crashes the whole damn system.
Void-Touched: My Power is Fear
Author:Dustin Davis
One night, a comet gifts Kaelen a strange System that turns his deepest fears into unimaginable power. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden city and brutal death academy, he must learn to master his unique terror—the fear of oblivion itself. In a world where failure means being erased and cosmic horrors lurk in the shadows, Kaelen's chaotic ability to unmake reality is both his only hope for survival and a threat to everyone around him. Can he control the void within before it consumes him whole?
Flight to Nwe York
Author:Willard Lynch
To escape his small town, Marin boards a flight to New York. But a single typo on the departure screen is the first sign that his destination is not on any known map. Onboard, the passengers are silent, unblinking mannequins, and a set of bizarre, deadly rules are the only thing keeping him alive. Every mistake erases a passenger from existence. Now, having landed in a twisted mimicry of his destination, Marin must navigate a world where one wrong move, one flicker of genuine emotion, could be his last. He's not just a visitor; he's the system's next target for assimilation.
Echoes of the Flesh
Author:Audra Lament
In a town that has fallen silent, the only sounds left are the desperate cries for help. But they are not human anymore. Scott, a pizza delivery driver, discovers the horrifying truth: a monstrous entity hunts from the shadows, wearing the bodies of its victims like puppets and using their voices as bait. To survive the night, he must learn the first and only rule of this new, terrifying world: if you hear a call for help, you must not listen. For the voices belong to the echoes of the flesh, and they are hungry.
The Six O'Clock Signal
Author:Silas Vance
For freelance analyst Elias Thorne, the 6 PM news is a sacred ritual. But when the broadcast's minor stories begin to manifest in his life with terrifying accuracy—a blighted garden, a freak accident, a saved life—he uncovers a horrifying truth. The news isn't predicting the future; it's broadcasting it into existence. Now, a final, whispered report from the terrified anchor speaks of a planet-killing asteroid. Elias is the only one who knows the apocalypse is scheduled for tomorrow. He must fight the signal itself to rewrite the world's final headline.