The Pleasure Pact
Marisa Kruger was thirty-four years old, and she had spent eleven of those years being the most trustworthy woman in Bracken-Hollow.
Rivals sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged rivals, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Keeper of Clover, Topaz Fiction and Scarlet Reverie. Readers usually start with “The Pleasure Pact” and “Hemlock Hours”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Rivals sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Hemlock Hours
Gabrielle Wentworth stood at the front of the granary and tapped the slate with her stick.
03 Debt of Echoes
Malik Dawkins was thirty-four years old, and he was watching a woman take his sound booth apart with her bare hands.
04 Data Interference
Elle Montgomery was fifty-four years old and had spent thirty of those years turning data into arguments she usually won.
05 Dust Runner's Bet
"You're really going to race that heap of scrap?"
06 The Deadline Loop
Karl Wilkes was thirty-six years old and bored out of his skull.
07 The Data Refinery Favor
My name is Casey Lowenstein, I'm fifty-two years old, and I came to New Ghent colony on Teth to disappear.
08 A Hot Truce in the Cold
Andrea Houston turned fifty-four on a Tuesday, which she considered the most honest of the weekdays.
09 The Glass Wall Interview
The turbines were the first thing you noticed about New Meridian, even before you got inside the mountain proper, because the whole…
10 Gale Lessons
The thing you need to know about me is I don't lose.
11 The Cartographer's Debt
My name is Andi Reyes, I'm twenty-nine years old, and until three days ago my life was so boring it actually hummed.