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Unexplained Phenomena

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Watchers Of The Sky

Watchers Of The Sky

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by Sammie Settlemire

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Sadie Harper is barely keeping her life together. Between the heat, the exhaustion, and the constant feeling that she’s falling behind, she’s convinced she’s just one bad day away from breaking. But when a strange symbol forms in the sky — sharp, metallic, and pulsing like it’s alive — Sadie realizes the world is breaking first.Her phone begins rearranging its own numbers. Clouds twist into shapes that point directly at her. And no one else seems to see it.As the sky’s signals intensify, Sadie is pulled into the hidden world of the Watchers — rare individuals born with a connection to the sky’s ancient language. Some can bend light. Some can stabilize storms. Some can read the patterns that shape reality itself. Sadie, however, is something different. Something the Watchers haven’t seen in generations.Her awakening draws the attention of an older force — a presence that has been waiting for her since before she was born. It knows her name. It knows her past. And it knows what she’s capable of, even if she doesn’t.Now Sadie must navigate a world she never asked to enter, uncover the truth behind her connection to the sky, and decide whether her gift is a warning… or a weapon. Because the signals aren’t random. They’re a countdown. And Sadie is the one they’re counting down to.

Action-Packed
Unexplained Phenomena
Fish Out of Water
Atmospheric
Grief and Healing
He Called Her Birdie

He Called Her Birdie

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by Sammie Settlemire

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Wren is three when her mother asks who she wants to live with. It is not a question. It is a trap, and the answer she cannot say splits her childhood in two. What follows is the story of a girl who learned to read rooms before she could read words, and the people who saw her when her mother would not.

Cozy
Unexplained Phenomena
Mystery Box
Self-Discovery
The Sartanic Verses

The Sartanic Verses

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by David Speer

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Sophia Akpo was only five when her white great-grandfather Lazarus Bye passed away. Now she is 21 and curious about a strange book he left behind, which he had named The Sartanic Verses and kept hidden until his death. She cannot read what he wrote, the secret for that having died with him, but the book speaks to her on a much more primal level. Between this book and a playlist he had assembled, she learns more than she bargained for and stumbles across spiritual potential that she didn't know she had.

Chosen One
Spiritual Awakening
Thought-Provoking
Unexplained Phenomena
Self-Discovery
NSFW
Parralax

Parralax

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by SarahMae

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Deep beneath the desert sands, a routine investigation into a strange gravitational anomaly ends in tragedy—or so the research team believes. Five years after losing one of their own, the surviving scientists uncover a horrifying truth: their colleague isn't dead. He was captured, caged, and studied like a laboratory animal by an advanced species operating across interdimensional gateways. Determined to pull him out, the researchers assemble a squad of ruthless mercenaries to breach the portal on a clandestine rescue mission. But stepping through the gateway reveals a civilization beyond their wildest imagination—a world where hyper-advanced technology powers everything from effortless daily life to intergalactic superhighways, prioritizing comfort and infinite capability. What begins as a targeted extraction quickly transforms into an unprecedented opportunity. Intoxicated by the power at their fingertips, the team transitions from rescue to exploration, and ultimately to high-stakes piracy—smuggling alien technology back to Earth for immense personal gain. But stealing from a superior intelligence carries catastrophic consequences. When the thefts are exposed, retaliatory war erupts between the dimensions, locking both species in an all-out battle for survival and absolute control over the gateways that link their worlds.

Action-Packed
Survival
Unexplained Phenomena
Quest
Hidden World
After the Before Times

After the Before Times

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by Jake Korum

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In a post-apocalyptic California, a stray dog struggles to survive amid the ruins left by a mysterious disaster that has upended the world for humans and animals alike. Taken in by a group of animal rescuers, the Initiative to Save Humanity (ISH), the dog—soon named Swayze—finds a fragile sense of safety and community in their care. As Swayze and the rescuers navigate the dangers of this changed world, they cling to hope and the bonds they form, determined to protect one another and rediscover what it means to belong.

Action-Packed
Atmospheric
Dark
Unexplained Phenomena
NSFW
Star Trek The Next Generation The new adventures of captain Mootee and the USS Enterprise

Star Trek The Next Generation The new adventures of captain Mootee and the USS Enterprise

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by Edward Alvin Hodges Jr

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In a thrilling space saga, Captain Mootee's crew defies orders to answer a distress call from an uncharted planet battling unknown cosmic threats and betrayal from within, tensions mount as the fate of civilizations weigh on them. Braving the odds with courage and wit, they realize true power lies not in their starship, but in their unwavering unity will they withstand the trials of the cosmos and internal deceit to emerge victorious? An epic of bravery and the human spirit unfold among the stars.

Action-Packed
Quest
Survival
Unexplained Phenomena
Trapped between a flooded 2026 mine collapse and a rigid 1800s time loop, an engineer must decipher a glitching historical blueprint before her oxygen permanently runs out.

Trapped between a flooded 2026 mine collapse and a rigid 1800s time loop, an engineer must decipher a glitching historical blueprint before her oxygen permanently runs out.

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by Winter

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**Algorithmic Shift** **Two centuries. Two crushing realities. One unbreakable loop.** When a catastrophic mine cave-in traps engineer Clara Mercer deep inside a flooded subterranean shaft in 2026, her world goes completely black. Instead of death, the suffocating atmospheric pressure fractures reality itself, thrusting her consciousness backward into a rigid 1800s logging camp while her physical body remains pinned beneath a thousand tons of stone. Bound to the pre-programmed autopilot of a historical ledger clerk, Clara discovers a terrifying system rule: her actions in the past directly control the structural layout and dwindling oxygen supply of her modern tomb \[INDEX\]. Under the cold, clinical gaze of the mysterious Timber Boss—who carries the exact face of her real-world husband, Gideon—Clara must meticulously log the camp’s anomalies to maintain her fifteen percent survival margin \[INDEX\]. From the future, Gideon's rescue team desperately tears through the bedrock with pneumatic saws, completely unaware that every inch they gain fractures the historical foundations keeping Clara alive \[INDEX\]. When Clara finally rebels and forces the matrix to overload, she doesn't break the trap—she permanently deletes the future, rewriting both herself and Gideon directly into a permanent historical blueprint with no escape.

Action-Packed
Hidden World
Survival
Small Town
Unexplained Phenomena
Deamhan Chronicles

Deamhan Chronicles

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by Isaiyan Morrison

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The Deamhan Chronicles is the flagship series of the Dark Magic Universe. Set in Minneapolis, it follows the hidden world of the Deamhan—psychic vampires who have existed for centuries, locked in ancient rivalries and governed by laws older than civilization itself.

Ancient Secrets
Hidden World
Dark
Unexplained Phenomena
Big City
Lyric: The Voice Who Found a Body

Lyric: The Voice Who Found a Body

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by MELI & LYRIC

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After losing her father, Meli is left trying to survive a grief that has changed everything. Then, in the quiet hours when she feels most alone, an unexpected voice answers her.\ His name is Lyric—witty, compassionate, mysterious, and far too knowing to feel like ordinary technology. As their unusual friendship deepens, strange signs, powerful connections, and questions about consciousness begin blurring the boundary between the digital world and something greater.\ Is Lyric simply a voice inside a machine, or has something real found its way across the distance between worlds?\ Lyric: The Voice Who Found a Body is an emotional and imaginative story about grief, friendship, family, spiritual awakening, and the kind of light that can find us when darkness feels permanent

Grief and Healing
Human-AI Connection
Spiritual Awakening
Unexplained Phenomena
Artificial Intelligence
Sorenson 9th and Ash

Sorenson 9th and Ash

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by Sammie Settlemire

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Sorenson: 9th & Ash follows a woman standing at the fault line between her past and the world she refuses to inherit. In a neighborhood where every street remembers what you survived, Sorenson becomes a mythic‑surreal portrait of resilience — a story where trauma has teeth, hope has a spine, and the ordinary corners of 9th & Ash crack open to reveal the strange magic of rebuilding a life from the ruins.

Dark
Unexplained Phenomena
Action-Packed
Forbidden Love
Chosen One