• English - Science Fiction

    The Last Memory Vault

    Arjun Devran Episode 1: The Price of Happiness They called it a gala because the word auction had acquired a bitter aftertaste. The broadcast opened on velvet—digital, of course—spilling across a stage whose edge glowed with the phosphor-blue logo of the Vault. A presenter in a silver suit moved like a dart of light from one podium to the next. Behind him: columns of data cascading in ribbons, small squares of people’s faces suspended in pastel halos. Above all of it, the city’s night leaned against glass, and rain threaded itself down the sides of towers as if it were…

  • English - Science Fiction

    The Lattice Horizon

    Arjun Malhotra The night the universe confessed its scaffolding, drizzle worried the windows of Aanya’s lab and every monitor hummed like a beehive of distant stars. She had asked the building to forget the hour; the automated lights obeyed, settling into an amber dusk. On the wall, the microwave background unfurled as a field of noise, speckled and stubborn, a fossil of the first light—except she could not ignore the cadence hiding in it anymore. Noise refused rhythm; this wasn’t noise. It was the third week of revisiting old sky maps compiled by instruments long retired. Aanya’s code, stitched from…

  • English - Science Fiction

    The Last Colony

    Arjun Sen On the midnight shift aboard the survey ship Asterion, Mira Basu listened for trouble the way a violinist listens for a string going flat. Engines purred, monitors sighed, and the hull ticked as heat bled into space. She drank coffee and watched the interferometer graphs crawl. At 01:17 ship time, the graph hiccuped. Nine pulses rose from the noise: three short, three long, three short. Mira set the cup down. Not radio. Not laser. A gravitational ripple—faint but structured. SOS, stitched into spacetime. She paged the bridge. “Basu. Interferometer anomaly, band G-seven. Structured, repeating.” Captain Volkov’s voice arrived…

  • Hindi - कल्पविज्ञान

    विकृति की छाया

    आकाश देशमुख  “नई शुरुआत” पृथ्वी, साल 2085। जलवायु परिवर्तन ने संसार को नष्ट करने की कगार पर ला खड़ा किया था। ग्लेशियरों के पिघलने और महासागरों के बढ़ते जल स्तर ने समस्त मानवता को एक अपार संकट में डाल दिया था। कुछ ही सालों में, बड़े-बड़े शहरों में जीवन जीना लगभग असंभव हो चुका था। प्रदूषण, जलवायु परिवर्तन, और अत्यधिक जनसंख्या के दबाव ने मनुष्य की जीवित रहने की क्षमता को बहुत ही कठिन बना दिया था। यह दुनिया एक अनिश्चितता से घिरी हुई थी, जहाँ हर कोई अपनी सुरक्षा और अस्तित्व की तलाश में था। इन सभी संकटों के…

  • English - Fiction

    The Sky Below Us

    Kiaan Ray 1 They said the Earth was dead. No roots stirred beneath the dust, no rivers flowed with memory, and no horizon ever changed. In the Loftworlds, that was the gospel. Up here, above the clouds, survival didn’t depend on soil or sun, but on filters, floating engines, and fear. Aira Sen had never seen the ground—not really. But she dreamed of it, in colors her eyes had never known. The dreams weren’t hers. That much she was sure of. The day the drone fell was the day the sky cracked. Aira was lying belly-flat on a rusted support…