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Chapter 11: The Experiment

Max Horror 10 Jan 2026

"I-I'm a monster." I say looking down at my shaking bloodied hands. "I-It's everywhere!" My screaming voices echoes off the walls of the small room as I begin falling, everything going black just before I hit the ground.

Chapter 22: The Weight of Hubris

GrapeMartini Literary / Fiction 10 Jan 2026

As I slowly regain consciousness, the metallic tang of blood fills my senses, making me gag. I force my eyes open to see the carnage that I have wrought. Bodies lie strewn across the room, limbs twisted at unnatural angles, blood pooling around them. This was not how it was supposed to be. This experiment was meant to bring about a new era of medicine, to cure diseases and heal wounds. But something had gone terribly wrong.

I stumble to my feet, using the wall for support. My head is pounding, my thoughts clouded by guilt and confusion. How could I have let this happen? I was so sure of my research, so convinced that I had found the key to saving lives. But now, all I see are the lives that I have taken, the damage that I have caused.

As I make my way through the wreckage, I hear a faint whimpering coming from the corner of the room. I follow the sound and find a young woman, barely conscious and clutching a wound on her side. Tears fill her eyes as she looks up at me, a mixture of fear and disbelief in her gaze.

"I'm so sorry," I whisper, sinking to my knees beside her. "I never meant for any of this to happen."

She recoils from my touch, her gaze hardening as she speaks. "You may not have meant for this to happen, but you knew the risks. You knew the consequences of playing god, and yet you did it anyway."

Her words hit me like a punch to the gut, the weight of her accusation crushing me. She was right. I had been so blinded by my own ambition, so consumed by the desire for success that I had ignored the warnings, the signs that something was not right.

As I sit there, surrounded by death and destruction, I know that I cannot undo what has been done. But I can try to make amends. I can try to find a way to fix this, to make things right. And maybe, just maybe, I can find a way to redeem myself in the eyes of those who have suffered because of my hubris.

But as I look around at the aftermath of my experiment, I know that the road to redemption will be long and perilous. And there may be no turning back from the darkness that I have unleashed.

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