Dystopian Stories
Explore our collection of 46 amazing stories tagged with dystopian. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Scribe of Rot
Author:George Sanchez
A lonely plumber discovers a hidden crawlspace that produces perfect, bestselling novels. But the stories are a drug, an infection that consumes both him and his millions of readers. Now, a withered addict to the words, he must feed the world his poison to get his next fix. The price of fame isn't his soul—it's his sanity, his body, and the minds of everyone who dares to turn the page.
The Day It Blinked
Author:Anya Glare
When a second, blood-red sun appears in the sky, humanity is given a single, terrifying command: do not look. But its gaze is everywhere—on every screen, in every reflection, burning into the minds of all who see it. For Leo, trapped in his apartment, the true horror begins when the screams outside stop and the woman he loves starts bleeding from her eyes, a serene smile on her face. She has seen the new god, and now, she wants him to see it too. The light doesn't just drive you mad; it remakes you into something new.
The Salvation Collector
Author:Rosemary Holt
I thought losing my job, my home, and my future was rock bottom. I was wrong. Under a grimy city bridge, a man in a half-pristine, half-tattered suit offered salvation to the forgotten souls around me. For the low price of their worldly possessions, he gave them a ticket to another place. I watched them take the deal. I watched their smiles twist into silent screams as they vanished into nothingness. He looked at me, the last one left, and said I wasn't ready. Now, I'm haunted by their faces, and I have to find out what 'ready' means before he comes back for me.
The Rosewater Heresy
Author:Elias Thorne
For generations, my family has served our village, guiding them with visions granted by sacred rosewater. We perform the Shearing, a holy agony that brings us closer to the Devouring Truth. I have always believed. But tonight, my sister slit our father's throat and called our gospel a lie, our visions a curse of inherited madness. Now the villagers, crazed by our teachings, are pounding on the door, and my sister offers a choice: break the cycle or be consumed by the 'truth' we created.
The Final Cut
Author:Annie Fowler
Struggling filmmaker Leo Vance lands a dream job at the enigmatic Aperture Studios, a place that promises to turn his pain into art. But the studio's methods are brutal, their sets are unnervingly real, and the cameras never stop rolling. He soon discovers the studio isn't just making movies—it's a cult that worships a monstrous god of cinema, Obscura. To create the perfect film, they require the ultimate sacrifice. Now, Leo is cast as the lead in their final masterpiece, and the only way to survive is to give the performance of a lifetime, blurring the line between his grief and their gruesome script until he no longer knows where the acting ends and his own destruction begins.
The Echoed Abyss
Author:Joseph Lane
Trapped on the edge of a bottomless pit, I must feed the dead into a monstrous machine to escape. But the bodies I'm harvesting are not strangers. They are echoes of my past, nightmares made flesh. And deep in the abyss, something ancient has awakened. It knows my name, and it is hungry. The only way out is down, but every step I take risks unleashing a horror that will consume reality itself.
The Winter Blade's Covenant
Author:Debbie Barnes
Five centuries of silence have shattered. The Soul-Chains, relics capable of rewriting a person's very essence, have resurfaced. Kaelen, wielder of the Winter Verity, is an elite warrior sworn to lock away this power. But when he touches an echo of the Chains' forbidden truth—a promise of liberation, not damnation—he is forced to choose between his sacred oath and a terrifying new possibility. Hunted by his former masters and a fanatical enemy, Kaelen must master his soul-freezing powers before the world is shackled by salvation.
The Alpha's Dragon Legacy
Author:Daisy Rivera
Elara is a secret, the last of the dragon-shifters, hiding her fire within a remote wolf clan. But when Lord Kaelan, the ruthless Iron Alpha of the Dominion, arrives seeking a prophesied power, her world shatters. He is her hunter, her captor, the one man she should fear above all. Yet, an impossible telepathic bond ignites between them, a connection that defies all laws. Now, caught in a web of power and prophecy, she must embrace the dragon within or be consumed by the alpha who might be her fated doom... or her only salvation.
The Vermillion Cage
Author:Dianne Ward
A sunset hot air balloon ride with friends becomes a descent into a layered hell. Trapped in an endless loop high above a glitching world, they discover they are not alone. Identical balloons mirror their every move, each containing a silent, watching copy of themselves. With the pilot gone and his friends falling one by one into the abyss, Liam is left with a single, horrifying choice: join them in the fall, or face the doppelganger that has just climbed into his basket.
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.
Archmage of Anarchy: The Sun King's Gambit
Author:Avery Hunter
He's the Supreme Archmage of Earth, a supervillain by trade and a hero by accident. His name is Kaelen Vorn, but the world knows him as Merciless, the Tyrant of Shadows™. When a clandestine council of 'heroes' hires him to assassinate the god-like ruler of a utopian island, Kaelen knows it's a setup. But with a personal vendetta against the Sun King and the fate of magic itself on the line, he'll assemble a team of misfits to take on the impossible. After all, if you want a god killed, you don't hire a hero—you hire the best villain money can buy.
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?