One wealthy businessman.
A harbor city preparing for war.

Ethan Cole and Marcus Hale walk into the city’s most expensive restaurant with a dangerous plan:

Sell cargo from a stranded ship before time runs out.

The deal is real.
The money is real.
The danger is real.

Only one tiny detail stands between them and fortune.

🎧 The Smartness Paradox
Written by S.K. Rocky

📖 Read the story:
https://skrocky.substack.com/p/the-smartness-paradox

Non-Binary Outcomes

Meet the time traveller my future self sent to save me. He arrived six months too late.

Meet my grandfather who survived World War III.
What he told me will surprise you.

They fought over a bathroom.

Then over a moisturizer.

Neither knew what the other was fighting outside.

He Was Living His Best Life… Until

Meet Gwen, the lawyer fighting tomorrow.

Technology moved fast.

Maybe too fast.

Meet John, a.k.a. Prof. Second Choice.

Have you ever quietly resented your best friend?

He did.