Strange

Caster Valley, Kansas, is a small peaceful town where nothing stays a secret for long. Where no paranormal phenomena ever happen. And it's the last place any murders ever happen. At least, that's what some of the townsfolk thought. Weston Brooks doesn't know what to believe. On his eighteenth birthday, strange unbelievable things begin to happen. Not only is his family in shambles, but the magic powers he was born with are out of control which divides them even more so after an accidental mishap that leads him to run away only for him to wind up at his best friend's house, who he has a crush on. Unfortunately, the bad luck he constantly has is only getting worse because his best friend's mother places a curse on them to never interact romantically without disastrous consequences happening. Now, with his misfortunes, he also begins to see a strange ghostly truck. At first, he ignores it. But then one day, he gets the courage to follow it. But that might have been his biggest mistake... Or maybe it was his fate. Being led to the bridge where he finds a black truck, the same black truck he's been seeing is at the bottom of the cliff by the bridge, and inside is the dead body of Barry Bloomsdale--a person everyone in town knows. Now, he gets thrown into a deep mystery and must solve the case with the help of the police chief's son and his cousin as well as a mysterious black cat that insists she's there to protect him. As they investigate, what they learn just might frighten Weston.

When the whole world knew him as a loser and the most pathetic underdog, Leonidas Maxwell was still trying to stand tall for his brother and his beloved lover. But when Leonidas was almost desperate to save his dying brother and asked for fund help, he found his lover betraying him; having an affair with someone he hated the most. Leonidas was on the verge of death because of his love, and thought he was a loser who begged for money until the end. But suddenly, a notification rang, a strange screen appeared and his life changed. When Leonidas had a system to make money fast, that's when dollars meant nothing to him!

After a humiliating public betrayal by his closest friends and girlfriend on his graduation day, 24-year-old Eliot Reyes hits rock bottom. Once a brilliant software developer with dreams of launching his own startup, Eliot is left broke, jobless, and heartbroken. Just as fear threatens to consume him, a strange voice appears before his eyes: > "Welcome, Eliot Reyes. You've been selected for the Destiny Reboot System. Do you wish to reboot your life? [YES] / [NO]" With nothing left to lose, Eliot accepts. Suddenly, his world changes. Will he become the man he once dreamed of, or the monster his enemies fear ?

"Who the hell or what the hell are you? And why are you in my head?" "I am your system interface. Host identified: Alexander Todd." *** Alec lived in a city where power meant everything. Bullied and overlooked in school for being poor and different, he was seen as powerless. One day, after another harsh encounter, he blacked out and was left alone in the rain. Something strange happened that day, something that changed him. He didn’t wake up for days, until a sudden sound in his head brought him back. From that moment, Alec’s life began to shift in ways he never expected.

SYSTEM: Attention on the past equals zero power. Attention on the future calculations levels up. Attention stat uncertain. [Quest: Clean this Mess. Reward: +1 Strength, 5 XP.] When he completes it, he feels a strong physical move of energy. ... Admitted to his dream university, Robert thought his biggest fight was for survival on campus even while people took him to be a random 'Ordinary Schoolboy.' He found himself in a strange world of the diggers and learnt that his most scorned skill, mathematics could be the only system that would save him and make him pay attention to the future. Finally, he needs the best attention stat.

No one understood what the old master was thinking when he said Richard Gray should marry his granddaughter, Linda. Richard Gray was an orphan and a nobody, so why? But the old master had insisted and so Richard became the disgraced son-in-law of the Wayne family. His wife and in-laws despised and ridiculed him. Things start to get interesting when Richard receives a strange phone call asking him to come claim his inheritance. "Me? But I'm an orphan? How?" What is Richard Gray's true identity? And what will he do with such a huge amount of money? Take revenge on those who had made his life a living hell, perhaps?

Beaten, branded, and left to die in the ruins of a fallen city, Kael Thorn should have been forgotten, another nameless slave buried under dust and debt. But when lightning strikes the ground beside him, a strange voice awakens in his mind: “System of Judgment Activated. Sin Level: 0. Begin the Trial.” Every injustice he exposes gives him strength. Every corrupt soul he judges feeds the power within. From the gutters of the empire to the throne of its ruin, Kael must choose, become the hand of justice or the monster the world made him. Because in a land where sins are currency, even redemption demands blood.

Shortly before the field trip to Drada, Jimmy is dumped by his girlfriend, Anna Campbell, who feels embarrassed for having such a poor boyfriend as him. The girl even openly flirts with Dwayne, the boy who often bullies Jimmy at school. Worse yet, Jimmy witnesses them commit lewd acts on the bus, on the way home from Drada, which then leads to disaster. The bus falls into a ravine, and Jimmy, in a dire situation with a broken spine and leg, accidentally accesses a strange system which transports him to a realm called Icalaterra. This system allows one to collect money quickly through several hunting quests. Since then, there has been no bullying, insults, and mockeries, without any consequences.

A brilliant computer scientist, desperate to secure funding for her family, is recruited to fix a malfunctioning game world that has evolved beyond its original programming. But when a glitch traps her inside the game, she finds herself unable to escape. As she navigates this strange digital realm, she encounters the game’s Hidden Boss, an NPC whose existence defies the system’s rules. The more time she spends in the game, the more her consciousness begins to morph into an avatar, erasing her memories and sense of identity. Now, she must find a way to break free before she loses everything, her past, her family, and her very humanity.

Jide wakes up from his University of Lagos dorm to find out that the world he knows is about to change forever. It started with a dark patch around his eyes and screams of terror across the dorm corridor; soon everybody develops a strange illness that turns some into raging mad zombie like creatures. In a world that soon became over run by raving mad flesh eating zombies, it took courage, love, and a hope that was more human than any creature in a presently dead earth to take the world from death to a new beginning. Join Writer Olujimi Ojikutu as he takes you through a fantastic world of flesh eating zombies, ‘living-deads’, and a single flicker of light in a world of darkness and gloom.