Fiction Archives - sub-Q Magazine

2018-08-14 · 10 minutes

Story: S Dean
Interactivity: sub-Q

Every choice matters, so pick your options carefully.

A convicted murderer must play through a "rehabilitation game" to earn his own release.

10+ min - Milli / Mature / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

The Hidden King

2018-07-17 · 15 minutes

Story: dcsross
Interactivity: dcsross

The city makes kings of wolves, and wolves of kings.

The narrator descends into lycanthropy, only to be further disoriented by life inside a Psychiatric Facility.

10+ min - Milli / Horror / Mature

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home

2018-06-19 · 45 minutes

Story: Andrew Plotkin
Art: Andrew Plotkin
Interactivity: Andrew Plotkin

When you weary of everything in the world...

A solitary pilot sails a starship beyond the boundaries of what is known.

30+ min - Centi / All Ages / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Human Errors

2018-05-15 · 15 minutes

Story: Katherine Morayati

The greatest threat to any system is its users.

A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime.

10+ min - Milli / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Nine Moments In Fairyland

2018-04-17 · 5 minutes

Story: Hannah Powell-Smith

He wanted me to stay.

For nine moments, a catastrophe attracts a creature of shards and splinters.

05+ min - Micro / Horror

Lost Ones

2018-03-20 ·

Story: Jac Colvin

Sometimes even dreams can be dangerous.

The dream’s half-remembered song pulls you towards the river at night. What will you find?

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Fantasy / Horror / Text-Based

Salt

2018-02-20 · 15 minutes

Story: Gareth Damian Martin
Art: Gareth Damian Martin
Sound: Paws Menu

A game about swimming, thinking and the distant possibility of escape.

The beach is a strip of heat. You stand knee deep in the water, facing out to sea. Familiar voices shimmer behind your head. You take a breath, and then begin.

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Horror / Multiple / Text-Based

All Those Parties We Didn’t Cry At

2018-01-16 · 5 minutes

Story: Natalia Theodoridou

Remember when we could cry at every little thing?

When we were younger, before the drought, we used to play a game in which you had 30 seconds to cry. The loser lived happily ever after.

05+ min - Micro / Mature / Single / Text-Based

Tripladin Massacre

2017-12-19 · 8 minutes

Story: Melanie Rees

There's no such thing as fake news, just a well-edited story.

An author attempts to submit an account of an intergalactic massacre only to be thwarted by an overzealous, politically correct editor.

05+ min - Micro / Mature / Sci-Fi

This Is A Picture Book

2017-11-14 · 3 minutes

Story: by A. Merc Rustad

Don't turn the page.

Jo's mountain adventure is not what it seems.

05+ min - Micro / Horror / Mature / Multiple / Sequential Art

Footnotes in Ashes

2017-06-27 · 10 minutes

Story: Jeremy M. Gottwig

In the darkness, we remember...

He is lost at sea with nothing but the ashes of his dead wife.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Text-Based

After the Giant’s War

2017-04-25 · 10 minutes

Story: Emily McCosh
Art: David Demaret
Sound: Epic Score

The war is over, and there are lost things to be found.

A wife will find the husband the stone-metal giants took from her, even if it means sharing the heart beating in her own chest.

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Fantasy / Playable / Sci-Fi / Text-Based