Brandon Wai

This is me just shooting the shit and building my writing universe. I hope these are at least entertaining.

301

Writings

130

Followers

107

Following

Brandon Wai

This is me just shooting the shit and building my writing universe. I hope these are at least entertaining.

301

Writings

130

Followers

107

Following

You Live in a Wall

Brandon Wai

4 min read

Mom said we didn't live in a house. She said that we could only call it a house if it had a roof and four walls, with doors and windows throughout those walls.

"We live in a wall, Becca," she said one day as she swept the floor. I have no idea why she invested so much time into sweeping the floors when they constantly looked dirty. I had the dirty feet to prove that. "It's just the way the worl...

YA fiction

Relief/Fear/Confusion

Brandon Wai

2 min read

When the UFOs appeared, from out of the clouds, I was relieved. They came from out of nowhere on a Tuesday evening that threatened rain. The forecast projected showers for the next few days, and I'd kept my eye on them throughout the day, to see when the gray would release. My phone had been going on the fritz with texts and posts about the foreign objects emerging from the clouds, but I'd seen th...

Science fiction

The Spliced

Brandon Wai

3 min read

At some point in 2025, a law was passed that allowed human beings to splice their DNA with whatever they wanted to be. I had no idea that something so stupid had been discussed, let alone passed. Regardless, it didn’t take long for people to start splicing themselves with whatever they desired.

Some of these combinations were pretty basic, for example: Mrs. Santoro, my second-grade teacher, had ...

Horror

The Gnomes

Brandon Wai

2 min read

The gnomes had come from out of nowhere, on a random Wednesday night. Jerry noticed them, just as he was falling asleep. They were rummaging around in his underwear drawer. He could see them in the darkness, shadows imprinted on the darkness. He could hear them whispering...loudly. He snatched his phone from off the nightstand, turned on the flashlight, and aimed it at his dresser.

There were tw...

Fantasy

What The Shell?

Brandon Wai

1 min read

His biggest fear was shells. Plain and simple. At the ripe age of seventeen, Vincent Marlowe had experience with shotgun shells. He’d seen the damage they could do, how men, armed with shells, were capable of wiping out an entire village. If they could do that on land? What could they do in the depths of the ocean?

Professor Donohue had gone down a laundry list of fish and other sea creatures to ...

Fantasy

The Maw

Brandon Wai

4 min read

It was her idea to leave at 5 a.m., when the sun hadn’t even woken up and the fog was so thick that it made Clyde nervous. He’d only driven down the bridge a handful of times, three, maybe four times, and there wasn’t an inch of confidence in him. He stayed focused on the small amount of road before him, but he could feel her glare. Could see her anger and frustration through his peripherals, thro...

Horror

The Death Bringer

Brandon Wai

3 min read

There were some. Who wanted a painful death. Quite a few, in fact. Jose Alvarez, down in the warehouse, had asked for a painful death, and that was what The Death Bringer brought him. Jose and Ivan Pennant were having lunch out at the tables, just out from the main entrance, when Jose revealed this notion.

“Now, why would you want that?” Ivan asked. That’s when it dawned on him that he’d only ha...

Horror

Beach Combers

Brandon Wai

7 min read

In November of 2024, Ivan Shrugs lost his job. Ivan had been working with MonoUnit for eight years, and he was under the impression that he was doing well with the company until September of 2024. On the 23rd of September, management announced a massive layoff. Ivan was a part of that massive layoff.

At first, he was fine. He didn’t much care for his job as a call rep at MonoUnit anyway. He had ...

Adventure

Dare

Brandon Wai

4 min read

The picture had shown up to Barry Pritchett's office on a Tuesday morning. It was in a manila envelope and written on the front was his name and the office's address. Barry didn't recognize the handwriting. When he asked Susan who'd dropped it off, she said that it was there when she'd opened up the building. Then she said that his appointment for two-thirty would be about five minutes late.

To ...

Horror

CFPD Continues Search For Missing Persons

Brandon Wai

2 min read

Corvallis Falls PD are continuing their search for Janaye Brooks (23), and Vincent Liang (26). Both have been missing since Thursday, December 26.

Brooks and Liang were last seen on a book tour through Corvallis Falls based around local author Pablo Enriquez. Brooks was visiting from overseas.

“She became fond of one of the guys around her age, only guy around her age. Didn’t think Enriquez ha...

Crime