Stories by @silmarils

Primordial Deep

When a long extinct sea creature washes up on the shores of Coney Island, marine biologist Dr. Marella Morgan is contacted by a secret organization to investigate the origins of the creature’s sudden and unnatural resurgence. Soon, she and a team of experts find themselves living on the research station The Tiamat, traveling along the abyssal plains as they search for answers far below the waves. But there are dangers in these ancient waters. Reawakened, prehistoric monsters are rising from the deep -- jaws wide and waiting, and in the darkness, something is stirring.

My Dead Wife, The Robot Car

When Matt signed on to be one of the first testers of the self-driving robot cars, he was not aware the AI personality of the operating system was his dead ex-wife. It's like the film "Her"...except he hated her and she hated him.

Visionaries

In the year 2185, the world is distinguished by two races – the Visionaries and the Dead-eye slaves. The Visionary race is the next step in human evolution. They have unique eyes which endows them with special abilities. Humans unable to evolve are slaves to the Visionaries because of their powerless eyes. These Dead-eye slaves open rebellion against the Visionaries.

The Piper

When strange music makes a girl vanish, a detective and her daughter uncover a terrifying force.

The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles

The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles is a sitcom that follows the adventures of a wanna-be actress and influencer as she navigates her way through Hollywood. Carlötta possesses all the ambition but zero the talent needed to make it in La La Land. However, what she lacks in ability, she makes up for in heart. With the help of her talent manager/landlord Dave, she plans to take on Hollywood. If she can achieve a fraction of what her hero and personal Jesus Khloé Kardashian has achieved, Carlötta will die a happy Instagram model..

Moonbase Theta Out

It is 2098. The Moonbase program has been determined unprofitable. The last base, Theta, is twenty weeks from being decommissioned. Most of the crew is in stasis awaiting retrieval. Five remain – Roger Bragado-Fischer, Nessa Cheong, Ashwini Ray, Michell L’Anglois, and Wilder. Join the crew of Moonbase Theta as they reach out to share the beauty, the isolation and frustration, the love and enmity, the humour, and the tragedy, as all count down to the operation’s end.

The Subjective Truth

Secrets exist in the wilderness just outside Taos, New Mexico. A strange land of cryptid encounters, UFO Sightings, enigmatic vibrations, hidden treasures, missing persons, and dark shadows hiding just behind your back... waiting for their moment and when it comes... your family and your friends will never see you again. An amateur podcaster disappears while searching for the legendary Forrest Fenn Treasure. A disgraced former sportscaster attempts to uncover the truth only to find that everyone has their own story to tell. The Subjective Truth is part treasure hunt, part paranormal docudrama, and part True Crime satire.

Mylo Xyloto

In the world of Silencia, a species known as the Irdoks rule over the Silencians in a dystopian police state. They have a military police force recruited from Silencians known as the Silencers, which are taught to enforce the Irdok's rule of law, which is known as Chromatic and Acoustic Level Management (CALM). The Irdoks defend their policy of CALM by talking about a "Great War of Colour" which brought about a species known as the Eaters which the Irdoks protect the Silencians from. To make up for the lack of colour and sound in their world, the Silencians use a tool known as the Hypnofeed, which constantly feeds them with visual and (ostensibly) audio stimulation. Major Minus, however, has a problem involving continued rebellion by a section of the populace known as the Sparkers, who create Sparks (which are colourful musical graffiti) in an effort to wake the populace up from the Hypnofeed.

The Amory Wars

A family in pieces. 78 worlds in peril. Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon's lives are in shambles. They've been faced with making the inconceivable decision of devastating their family and everything they love ... or saving the world and millions of innocents along with it. Join them as the resulting chaos takes the Kilgannons to the farthest reaches of Heaven's Fence, a collection of 78 planets held together by the mysterious blue energy of the Keywork, where the unlikely heroes must challenge the deadly Wilhelm Ryan himself and, ultimately, the unchangeable blueprint of their own fate.

Margaret's Garden

In the aftermath of WWII, Ernie and Eddie Everett feel the world has become unsafe, more had changed than stayed the same. Ernie wanted to create a suburban paradise, while Eddie had a mysterious tome that promised safety and the return to civility. Together, they created Everton, a town laid out in nonsensical turns, roads lined with “energy siphons” instead of streetlights, and then, everyone vanished in the night. Everton turned into a bed of conspiracy theories and mystery, but that was seventy years ago. Now, two agents are sent to investigate the abandoned town after a strange blackout, but they find themselves transported to another world entirely, where they’ll find out what actually happened to the townsfolk of Everton. Cosmonauts, Dishonored Kings, Strange Creatures and more await Agents Washington and Harris, as they venture into Margaret’s Garden.

What's the Frequency?

Recently radio broadcasts in the city have been reduced to static, leaving a popular radio serial as the only remaining show on the air. Even then the show finds itself continuously interrupted by a mysterious broadcast. A lone distorted voice reaching out for help. Follow Walter “Troubles” Mix and his partner Whitney as they search for a missing writer and navigate through a city quickly falling into madness. Could the mysterious voice be the culprit? Will anyone be able to stop the madness from spreading? And… What’s The Frequency?

Liminal Apocalypse

It's the end of the world... Or is it? Five people retreat into an underground doomsday bunker fearing nuclear fallout, and when they get there they start receiving radio transmissions from the outside. But the information they're receiving, just doesn't quite add up.

Girl in Space

Abandoned on a dying ship in the farthest reaches of known space, a young scientist fights for survival (and patience with the on-board A.I.). Who is she? No one knows. But a lot of dangerous entities really want to find out.

Tunnels

The Tunnels is a horror show about the mysterious tunnels that can be found underneath a small town in Georgia. What are they? What is their history? What are those mysterious sounds heard within them? Find out what's just below the surface of the town, because if you look underneath, there is so much more.

Ghost Tape

When Tessa Dixon finds a tape of her grandfather’s labeled ‘Ghost Tape’ and plays the haunting audio, she unknowingly unleashes a deadly manifestation of her own family’s horrible misdeeds.

It Makes a Sound

A cassette tape from 1992 has been found in a dusty attic within Rosemary Hills Golf Course Community, containing the only known recording of the first concert of Wim Faros. Only Deirdre Gardner knows the extraordinary treasure this tape holds. Join her quest to restore what is missing, to revive the voice of a generation, and to stir her hometown back to life with the sound of music. Deirdre Gardner remembers. Do you remember Wim Faros?

Marvels

Based on the graphic novel by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, Marvels takes place in the aftermath of the Fantastic Four’s battle with Galactus, high above New York City, for the fate of the world. One intrepid photographer, an ambitious college student, and a cynical journalist embark on an investigation to confirm or debunk one of the most super-powered conspiracy theories of all time.

Civilized

Humanity’s final hope lies in terraforming a new world. A fleet of engineering ships are sent in advance of the colony ships sure to follow in their wake. But one lone ship becomes separated from the fleet and crash lands on an alien planet.

Station Blue

Desperate to find meaning in his life, troubled Matthew Leads takes a job as the caretaker of an Antarctic Research Facility. An atmospheric isolation horror following his struggles with mental illness, a broken heart and the suffocating presence of Station Blue.

Next Stop

When longtime roommates Cam and Ally search for someone to replace their newly engaged former roommate, they stumble upon the iconoclast and ridiculous Samuel Clemens.