Splintered

WSA 2025 Entry What is a man, if not a vessel of hidden truths and whispered deceptions? Beneath the fragile facade lies a labyrinth of secrets—truths buried so deeply they intertwine with the lies we tell ourselves just to survive another day. The masks we wear may fool the world, but they cannot hide the fractures within. Even those we hold closest, the ones we entrust with our hearts, may be the very hands carving unseen wounds into our souls, feeding them to the monsters lurking in the shadows. He was never meant to uncover it. But when fragments of forgotten identities surface and unseen forces move in the shadows, Aramith is thrust into a web of deception, blood, and a history long buried. Worse still, within him stirs an attribute unlike any other—the strongest, yet the most chaotic. A power that bends to no master, a force that threatens to consume him whole. To wield it is to risk destruction; to reject it is to remain powerless. And yet, power alone does not reveal the truth, for blood tells no lies, flowing only when life is claimed, but even its crimson clarity is no guide to the truth. How does one find what is real when their very existence is a fractured mirror, splintered into shards that reflect only distorted glimpses of an identity lost? Each shard offers the promise of clarity, yet together, they form nothing but ruin. To uncover the truth is to face the darkness, and to risk losing what little remains of the self. For in the end, can a man truly hold a reflection if he no longer knows who—or what—he truly is?

In Neo-Pandora, 2247 time is a fragile commodity. The invention of the Temporal Engine granted humanity glimpses into the past and future—but at a catastrophic cost. Reality itself has begun to unravel, splintering into fractured timelines that bleed into the present. Amidst the neon-lit chaos of this dystopian metropolis, Detective Elias Voss, a disgraced chrono-physicist turned private investigator, survives by solving cases tied to temporal anomalies. Haunted by a failed experiment that scarred him with the ability to see time’s fractures, Elias walks the razor’s edge between the past’s ghosts and the future’s shadows.  When Dr. Lila Kane, a desperate Temporal Institute scientist, begs for his help, Elias is thrust into a conspiracy that threatens to erase Neo-Pandora from existence. A rogue experiment has unleashed a time rift fueled by the Fractured Hourglass, a mythical artifact rumored to hold dominion over time itself. As Elias and Lila race to stop the rift, they uncover a chilling truth: the Hourglass is merely a fragment of the Chrono Core, an ancient power capable of rewriting history—or erasing it entirely.  But the Core’s secrets are guarded by shadowy forces. From the neon-drenched underworld to the Institute’s ivory towers, Elias confronts rogue time travelers, paradox-born monsters, and his own fractured memories. Every step closer to the Chrono Core warps reality further, forcing Elias to question what—or who—is truly real. As the rift consumes the city, he must decide whether to repair time… or shatter it to save humanity Will Elias Voss outrun the ghosts of his past, or will time itself become his greatest enemy?  The Chrono Detective is a high-stakes journey through a collapsing world where every second counts—and every choice could doom reality itself. 

In the shadow-cloaked city of Norlington, where eldritch horrors seep through cobblestone cracks, Dr. Fran-a prodigious surgeon stitched together by paradox-operates the clandestine Mistveil Clinic under the cryptic guidance of her [Medical Module]. Between tending to gore-streaked mercenaries and cultists whispering to void-born deities, Fran undertakes 【Diagnostic Expeditions】 across the [Prime Reality] and its splintered anomalies. Each harrowing house call sharpens her unorthodox craft, funds her biomechanical obsessions, and drags her closer to the rot festering at the world's core. Her patients? A kaleidoscope of the extraordinary: heretical nuns wielding blessed artillery, philosophers with calcified lungs still spouting prophecies, and things that wear human skin poorly. Through their wounds, Fran unravels truths-about the city's pulsating heart, her own sutured past, and why the stars above Norlington blink in hexagonal patterns.

Darkness. There was at first a period of absolute darkness, before there was light. But what if, in another realm far removed from this one, There was light before darkness. Eternal darkness, only lit up by the crimson eyes of monsters hidden within the night. The great disaster, it was called. No-one knew how it happened. Who cared? The world had ended, before it truly began. And now in a dark, splintered universe, a race of sentient bipeds struggles to survive. A race of proud hairless monkeys. A race...of humans.

Nobody sees Ellie. They see Mason, this awkward, lanky kid who barely speaks. The one who hides under hoodies, head down, trying to blend into walls. They don’t see the girl trapped underneath, the one who’s been screaming into pillows and mirrors for years, begging to be real. Then comes Zoe. Bright, loud, unapologetically queer Zoe—someone who doesn’t give a damn about fitting in. She’s everything Ellie isn’t allowed to be. And in a wild, reckless moment, Ellie tells her truth: "I'm not Mason. I'm Ellie." It’s terrifying and electric—like ripping off a mask that’s melted into your skin. For the first time, someone sees her. Her best friend Jamie doesn’t flinch. Her little sister almost says, “I knew it.” And in stolen moments, Ellie starts to live—tiny rebellions like growing her hair, whispering her name to the mirror, running a secret Instagram where she can just be. Every step is a victory, but every victory has a price. Her father’s rage is a thunderstorm—loud, blinding, impossible to reason with. Her mother’s tears are quieter but sharper, like glass splinters under her skin. Teachers shrug her off; classmates whisper. Even some friends scatter. When home finally breaks her, Ellie runs. Nowhere to go, but anywhere is better than a house that feels like a prison. Coming out isn't a happy ending; it's a battle. Therapy, support groups, filling out name-change forms while strangers look at her like she’s a freak. Every small victory—being called her real name, the first hormones kicking in, a prom dress that fits—feels like a stolen breath. But it's enough. Enough to keep fighting. Because Ellie isn't just surviving. She's becoming. And that’s something no one—not her father, not her school, not the world—can take from her.

In a stifling near future,** Seoul has become the theater of an invisible war. A supernatural disease—**Syndrome S**—transforms charisma into a biological weapon. The infected can manipulate the masses with a glance… but their power feeds on **social inequalities**. The more vulnerable the victim, the more absolute the control. The price? Abuse this gift, and you become a **Shattered One**, a deformed being whose mere smile drives others to mass suicide. **Jung Tae-Oh**, a bankrupt lawyer surviving in the city’s underground heating tunnels, becomes patient zero of a mutant strain. His rage against corrupt conglomerates mutates into a contagious power: he can **ignite fierce rebellion** among the oppressed. But every use of Syndrome S edges him closer to monstrous metamorphosis—and attracts the notice of **Song Ji-Woo, an empire heiress who brands him the perfect scapegoat. As the city splinters into infected factions—unions wielding hypnotic slogans, influencers romanticizing poverty, scientists peddling charisma-laced drugs—Tae-Oh faces an impossible choice: - Wield his power to overthrow the elit, risking transformation into the very monster he despises? - Or destroy it, condemning his people to eternal subjugation?

"David Raphael's life slipped beneath the waves of a glacial sea, his unfulfilled longing for GTA 6 forever etched in the digital realm. As his soul was torn from its mortal shell, a vortex of otherworldly energies swept him away to a medieval world, where foreboding forests shrouded in mist stretched towards the horizon, and rugged, granite mountains pierced the sky like shards of splintered stone. "In this unforgiving realm, David's journey began, a treacherous path woven from darkness and flickering moonlight. His quest: to claim the legendary Blessed Visor, an ancient relic rumored to grant its wearer mastery over the very fabric of existence. Yet, as David's ambition burned brighter, the weight of his desire settled upon him, a haunting reminder that 'heavy is the head that wears the crown.'"

The souls, naturally born good, forged in the smithy dubbed reality eventually turns evil or chipped can be healed with a mysterious blend of alchemy, plague and some stupid heroics.

A class and their teacher that get transported to another world full of magic and monsters, however, due to issues during the summoning process the group is exposed to different stimuli during the transportation which begins to effect their bodies and souls gifting them with skills, magic or items

You were reborn, to find yourself splintered into many self.

"Only in the chaos of war, will we thrive in bodies of steel..." In a future where humanity traded flesh for silicon salvation, the POLARIS archive was meant to be eternity—a digital Eden where war-torn souls fused into a timeless collective consciousness. But eternity, it turns out, has a glitch. By 135 ACE, whispers ripple through the void: entire sectors of POLARIS are going dark. Energy reserves bleed dry. Data streams fracture into echoes of their former selves. The survivors—now more code than human—splinter into warring factions, scavenging the corpse of the physical world through hulking VANGUARDs, ancient machines that once terraformed dead worlds. In this decaying paradox of unity and chaos, survival belongs to those who manipulate the shadows… Kagiro thrives in those shadows. A broker of secrets and stolen energy, he trades in the desperation of others, weaving alliances with mercenary AIs and data-pirates. His endgame? To claw his way to the heart of POLARIS, where the last flicker of power lies hidden. But ambition blinds him to the cyan-haired specter on his trail—a girl forged from the archive’s collapse, armed with a vendetta no algorithm can predict. She knows what broke POLARIS. She knows what Kagiro wants. And she’ll burn every sector to ash to bury the truth. =========================================== Cover Artist Credit: KU P.S: This is my first story so please be patient. Criticisms and feedbacks are all welcomed, but please be constructive and well reasoned. This novel will also be posted on Scribble Hub.

In the coastal town of **Sarween**, where the waves of the sea collide with the curse of suspended time, a legend unfolds about a man imprisoned in an endless loop of guilt and oblivion. Adham, the writer who turned his heart into a ledger of lies and ghosts, battles the demons of his memory through **stone towers** that rise from the belly of the sea like divine punishment. Here, where events are born from the womb of pain, **Yara** transforms from a lost daughter into a cosmic enigma: a child who vanishes on a crimson night, only to return as mathematical ciphers that pierce the fabric of reality. Her letters are not cries for help, but calls from parallel worlds mocking humanity’s attempts to grasp time. The **twenty towers**, numbered with the blood of victims, are not mere stone—they are open books bleeding with the wounds of a past rewriting itself. Each tower is a mirror reflecting Adham’s fractured selves: a terrified child, a guilty youth, a weary old man. The **scar above the heart** is but a fiery seal reminding him that the truth is a beast fiercer than any fiction. In this world, time is a poisoned loop: the sea spits out corpses bearing identical DNA, the **white shark** devours the dreams of the past, and shattered mirrors forge parallel universes where Yara does not die… but morphs into an idea haunting her creator. This tale is not a narrative, but a morbid dance between creator and creation. Adham, who believed writing would redeem him, discovers he authored his own prison with his hands: every sentence carved a scar, every chapter lit a candle in the darkness of his conscience. This novel is not about lost time, but about a being who builds his cage from falsified memories and battles mirrors reflecting his image as a crownless executioner. Here, in Sarween, the truth is not a victim… but a killer cloaked in martyrdom. Thus unfolds the legend of **Shards of Time**: like Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the river of memory, drinking from it until death. But here, the river is a sea that regurgitates the names of victims every night, and the mirrors do not reflect faces… they devour them.

When the sky shattered, the world fell apart. The Fracture tore through the heavens, releasing energy that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers—and unleashed chaos. Nolan Gray, a drifting young man with no direction, gains a strange power to weave golden threads of light. While others rise as heroes or fall as villains, Nolan is left struggling to understand his gift and his role in the fractured world. Haunted by his past and desperate for answers, Nolan is drawn into the orbit of Seraphine, a fierce and battle-worn warrior searching for The Nexus—a fabled source of unimaginable power tied to The Fracture. With enemies closing in and tensions rising, Nolan must push his abilities to their limits as he’s forced to confront not only the dangers of the fractured world but also the shadows within himself. In a world splintered by power, Threads Of Faith is a story of survival, sacrifice, and the strength it takes to find hope in the cracks.

In the frozen depths of Queen Eleanor's beleaguered kingdom Eldoria, ice shards glisten like broken dreams amidst the endless winter. Meanwhile, in Vampire Prince Vincent's domain, the ceaseless whirring of machines drowns out all hope. But an ancient prophecy, etched in blood and arcane runes, inexorably binds their fates together. As they each dare to dream of technological marvels that could thaw the endless night, a malevolent force stirs - an insidious enemy poised to devour all they cherish. Bitter rivalry must give way to uneasy alliance as Eleanor and Vincent are forced to unite against the encroaching peril. Betrayals like viper's strikes lash out from the shadows they once called friends. In this crucible of fire and ice, the two leaders must face the demons that lurk in their own shattered souls. Will their bond transcend the boundaries of flesh and steel? Or will mistrust splinter the last vestige of light in their dying realms? Aided by her friend Shane, a genius engineer whose brilliance burns as fierce as his loyalty, Eleanor must summon a fierce ferocity to safeguard her people. Vincent has to face the fact that he may never unite the two kingdoms, though. Will Eleanor ever accept him as her partner?

[Pity those arrogant enough to have angered him for they will not receive his mercy.] Eden, the Supreme God of an unparalleled kingdom, sought ultimate power by absorbing the Cosmic Essence, a force capable of granting him unrivaled strength and a new body. However, during the process, his Divine Soul fractured, splintering into multiple parts. After an unfortunate event, the primary fragments of his soul began to awaken. While awaiting the recovery of more shards, the fallen god chose to indulge himself in the mortal world. Soon, he will return to the divine realm, reuniting with the goddesses who have long been devoted to him, all while plotting the destruction of the gods who dare to defy him. With a heart full of desire, he is prepared to reshape the world as he sees fit. But what secrets does his shattered soul hold? (More tags in auxiliary.)

In the glittering world of Manhattan's elite, two souls are bound by an unholy pact - a marriage contract forged to save their respective family legacies. Kiara Davis, a beautiful but traumatized orphan, agrees to wed Mike Robinson, a ruthlessly ambitious billionaire with a soul as cold as the steel in his skyscrapers. "I don't love you," Mike snarls, his icy eyes raking over Kiara's delicate form. "This is just business." Yet amid the dizzying power plays and dizzying wealth, blazing desire ignites between them like a wildfire. Mike finds himself craving more from his beguiling new bride than just her virtue. And Kiara discovers there is fiery passion smoldering beneath Mike's unfeeling facade. But their white-hot consummation could unravel at any moment when dark secrets and sinister agendas are unleashed from the shadows. Mike's depraved father and twisted half-brother join forces to destroy everything he's built. "You were a fool to cross me, son," Robinson senior hisses menacingly. "I'll bury you just like I did your whore of a mother." An undercover seductress from a rival company ensnares Mike in a dangerous erotic trap. And an old trauma surfaces from Kiara's past, threatening to splinter her fragile psyche once more when she whispers: "The girls...they hurt me again." In the ultimate power struggle between ruthless ambitions and pure desires, who will surrender first? Amidst the grandeur and cutthroat stakes of New York's billionaire playground, Mike and Kiara must choose - embrace their all-consuming love...or let it consume them both into sweet oblivion. Brace yourself for the sumptuous, high-stakes romance of the year in this tantalizing novel about passion, obsession, and letting yourself burn for love.

Tom was just another student, sitting through a mundane lecture on an ordinary day at university when the world changed forever. Without warning, the sky fractured—splintering like shattered glass and revealing strange, celestial lights beyond. What followed was chaos: earthquakes, storms, and the unravelling of the society Tom once knew. Amid the collapse, Tom discovered he wasn’t the same as before. The strange phenomenon had awakened something inside him—powers he couldn’t explain and didn’t ask for. Fear and desperation took hold as people scrambled to survive in a crumbling world. Communities broke apart, and the rules that once held society together vanished. Thrust into this new reality, Tom must learn to wield his mysterious abilities while navigating a world where trust is rare. Survival means confronting both human threats and the unknown forces behind the fractured sky.

In a world where reality has splintered into layers governed by interdimensional systems, Ethan Cross, a down-and-out tech genius and former dungeon hunter, dies after being betrayed in the financial and hunting worlds. Upon his death, he is reincarnated into a world blending video game mechanics, dungeon systems, and a wealth-driven economy. Armed with a Multi-System Interface that grants him mastery over technology, combat, and finance, Ethan embarks on a journey to ascend through the layers of this universe and become the Sovereign of Systems. Along the way, he battles interdimensional threats, corrupt corporations, rival hunters, and his own demons.

I thought it would be over. One final act—a plunge into darkness in front of the one person I trusted. I welcomed the void, craving an end. But death, it turns out, isn’t as merciful as I’d hoped. Instead, I was pulled through an endless spiral of lives—reborn, reshaped, each version a cruel twist of fate. In one life, I hold my allies close; in another, I destroy them. Over and over, I’m thrust into fractured worlds, with my identity splintered across timelines, trapped in realities that defy meaning. It’s an illusion so elaborate it’s become real. An infinite nightmare I cannot escape, where I’m always fighting, falling, breaking. I live, I die, and in each twisted version of myself, I lose another fragment of what I once knew as truth. Tragedy here isn’t a possibility; it’s the rule, a loop unbroken. Once a tragedy, always a tragedy. — continued on scribble hub.

Aleneo is the beloved prince of the Dark Kingdom. Known for his human beauty, his conceitedness has only furthered his popularity among fairies. At the age forty-five, the tournament held to crown the next king has arrived. But when an attack of humans at the wrinkle where the human territories start, Aleneo must face something greater than a tournament for his right to the throne—the Dark Prince which whom he'd been swapped with as a baby. ~A Dark Fairy Horror~

Aihan is a world where mankind has trained and refined the Art for thousands of years. In their quest for immortality and godhood, early cultivators created many methods and approaches to train body and mind. Great sects grew and eventually split and splintered into countless other sects. The generations have left behind a world where martial prowess and cultivation is the norm. Many bigger sects have divided further and further into more sects, and the current cultural landscape is one of fantastic academies and sects for everything from swordplay to magic. Follow Jian Li as she starts her journey in this foreign and dangerous but exciting world!

Namanya adalah Jo, laki laki yang lahir dari keluarga kaya dan sangat berkelimang harta. di usianya yang ke 21 tahun ia telah menjadi seorang CEO muda pemegang saham terbesar dunia intertaiment. karena namanya yang terkenal itulah Jo menjadi incaran para penjahat di dunia Mafia, hingga Jo di culik dan di bunuh di tempat dengan cara di penggal. sementara tubuh nya telah terkubur di tanah atau meninggal, jiwanya malah berinkarnasi ke zaman kuno di mana ia tidak dapat mengigat ingatan dari tubuhnya di zaman moden....

James Harristian, aka James Belgenza, is the mafia leader of Daga Nero, a splinter group of the oldest famous mafia families in Naples. Despite of his powerful ruler of the town who controlled the underground weapon industry in Europe, James was also an owner of a successful high-tech motor company in the world. One day, James was deceived in a scam dinner had by his mistress. It was strived to kill him, but somehow, he escaped. Being trapped in gunshots with his enemy, a flower girl saves James' life from his shameful miserable dying. Delilah is a flower girl who runs a small flower shop in an alley in Naples, Italy. She thought innocently by helping James to get to the hospital without wondering who James Belgenza was. When James has another chance to breathe, he does not feel grateful to his savior unless to kidnaps her. Unfortunately, Delilah turns out to be a guaranty of her father's debt, which fleeced off unable to pay. Therefore, James intentionally kept Delilah in his mansion and added more debts to confine her forever. What will happen when the debt is only a plot to kill James and Delilah is a pawn? Meanwhile, James falls for Delilah, who tried hard to pay her unpaid debt. Read it to find how Delilah wants to leave James, but he traps her into love. *** "W-What do you want?" Delilah asked as she was caged in the wall by James. "I want to see the girl who saved me. Do you know who I am?" James sharply gazed up at Delilah's blue eyes. Delilah innocently shook her head to him. "From now on, call me, Mr. J." WARNING FOR 21+ SMUT SCENE (THIS STORY IS PART OF THE SEVEN WOLVES SERIES) Please bear with my English since it is not my first language, I hope you enjoy reading it. Have fun! follow me on IG: @nandastrand, FB: @NandaStrand

Hell hath a woman’s fury. Especially if she crawled out from the depths of hell. In a vast continent, known as the Central Plains, empires rise and fall; states splinter and form again. Hell sent back Yinyue back in time to change the fate of the Central Plains. When she died in her first life, she swore, “I’ll be a red spider lily feeding on the corpses of my enemies. The more corpses lay below my feet, the more beautiful I’ll bloom.” In the Dayan Empire, the Grand Prince Yinyue died once. Her first life lived as discarded political pawn — a Dayan princess in an alliance marriage, ended in her tragic death in Gaoyang state. With a second chance at life given, she wades in the muddied political waters of the Central Plains, against the deadly political machinations of the Empress and her five rival Grand Prince, all half-brothers. Unknown to her, Hell also sent two others back. Both men — one she trusted and the other she never met in her first life. And they have their hidden agendas. Their paths converge in in a dangerous political chess game — how will their change affect each other and the fate of the Central Plains? More importantly, can they change their previous fates? Who will survive the political and military intrigue, assassinations, underworld syndicates, plots, battle of wits and fast-changing alliances that plague the Central Plains?

A celestial anomaly, the Ring of Salor, emerges in the sky, shattering the moon and taking its place. As the shattered moon forms a ring around Earth, the planet is bathed in a perpetual crimson glow, altering the very fabric of life. Humanity, once the pinnacle of Earth's children, splinters into new hideous twisted, and contorted figures amidst the ruins of their cities. The remaining humans, now a minority, must navigate this brutal new world, contending not just with the new species, but also with the emergence of magic and the continual bombardment of celestial debris. ---------------------------- 5 chapters posted a day

The Alpha is missing, the Luna is dead, and the pack is splintering apart. *** She's an orphan, a witch hiding amongst humans, all she wants is freedom and stability. *** After her foster mom dies unexpectedly, 17-year-old Charlotte is hauled away to North-North Rochester, a strange little town just south of the Canadian border. From the moment Charlotte arrives, she can't wait to leave. Her new foster family does little to hide their less-than-pure intentions and she’s tired of being treated like wretched refuse. The teen longs for the freedom to embrace what she truly is, a witch. All she has to do is make it to her 18th birthday and she can leave this little town and her former foster life with it in the dust. N.N.R. may seem like a typical sleepy little town from the outside, but its citizens are anything but. Inhabited by the Arcanum Lunae pack, it was once a place where werewolves enjoyed a natural way of living. However, ten years ago, they made the mistake of welcoming a witch into their pack. Five years after that she cursed them, severing their connection with the Moon Goddess and leaving them stuck, unable to shift. One of the unfortunate souls trapped in wolf-skin is Giovanni. For years he has been fighting his wolf instincts, trying to maintain some humanity, but he’s almost given up hope. That is until he meets the skinny foster girl who's been dumped in his town. He’s shocked to learn that Charlotte is his mate and she’s a witch. Despite his rocky history with witches, Gio has no qualms about accepting Charlotte. Unfortunately, his pack is not so easily convinced. And who could blame them? Trusting a witch is what got them into this situation in the first place. Obviously, they have no desire to trust another one. Too bad they're going to have to... As secrets are unveiled and hidden plots uncovered, it becomes clear that the truth is far more complicated than any of them imagined and the real enemy is one they never expected.

Misty is a young girl who recently got out of a mental hospital. She has been abused by the woman she thought was her mother. Will she try to end her life again when she finds out everything, she knew was a lie? How will she feel when she finds out that werewolves exist? Will she embrace the fact that a wolf named Toby is her mate or will she try and get away from her fate?

Brutus Williamson just turned 18. He is now allowed to play Sword Splinter, the game that determines your wealth and living conditions in the real world. The game comes with a twist, however, and Brutus must stop the evil hidden within Sword Splinter...

What comes after death? Eternal rest? Damnation? Reincarnation? "Wait, it's none of the above?" "What! Can someone explain to me, what is going on??" "I have to find out by myself...But I am just a 16 year old girl!" "And where am I right now??"