‘Stallion’ by Aditi Ashok Kumar, age 16

Mists of icy salt blur my vision, dark pixels emerging from unbridled depths. A glitch. Blink, and now thick smoke undulates from broad muscle, towering shadows cast over my blood-drained complexion. A blip… hind legs seem to jitter, sensing either seismic catastrophe or the mortal buzz of voltage. A hallucination, surely? An enigma of sketches …

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‘The Never Ending Doom’ by Katie and Ruby

We used to do science experiments with prisms, Looking back when everything was real, Now it’s all in the algorithms, And everything looks surreal. The pictures we used to take, Tossed into the past, Are now nothing but fake, Creating a bitter contrast. Our promises began to break, There’s no longer trust, Leaving a silent …

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‘Robots Relm’ by Oscar Redpath

In my world everything is the same routine, same day, same week, same month, same year. Robots are everything. I mean everything; all you need to do is wake up and go to sleep again. However today was different. I woke up and went on my morning walk with my dog. I told the robot …

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‘Are you for real?: The truth’ by Charlie Bentley

The dog ran free. The sprint of its life, into the road, just to end it. That’s how Jimmy Bob died and how a poor child lost his best friend, or so he was led to believe. This simulation has been tricking this poor child, manipulating him but when jimmy bob died, when he started …

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‘The Institute’ by Bella, age 14, Soham Village College

A white room,not empty but not full. A white light, a light I couldn’t escape from even when I closed my eyes. A figure, not human but not fully robot. Writing on its chest ‘The Institute’. Its eerie eyes got closer to me as I tried to scramble out of the cold,hospital-like chair. But I …

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‘Where Truth Still Breathes’ by Anonymous

When someone asks are you for real, it lands like a pebble in the mind— a ripple of disbelief that makes truth feel suddenly fragile. We live inside glowing rectangles now, worlds pressed flat into screens, We scroll through lives that look brighter than ours, sharper, cleaner, as if truth were a thing that could …

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‘Are you for real?’ by Sophia

I was walking down the street on a late, rainy Saturday evening, the streets were eerie and daunting. Not a single living being in sight. A week after the robot apocalypse. Still no humans in sight. After walking the whole day.My legs felt like jelly, I could barely stand up without almost falling over.As soon …

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‘Are you for real’ by Nkosi

1am Saturday. BT and I were having the deepest of conversations. We talked about sports, love life and school BT was truly my best friend. But somehow he knew everything, every question with every answer, everything but I just thought he was a smart person. Then things changed…He knew everything and I mean everything about …

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‘Are you for real?’ by Elysa Thompson, Year 9

On the 15th June 2026, Kier Starmer introduced a new social media ban for all under 16’s, soon to be coming into place in Spring 2027. The government had decided to bring this idea in to minimise access to harmful individuals, improve mental health and wellbeing and encourage children under 16 years old to socialise …

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‘Whose there?’ by Victoria

I was walking down the street on an early Saturday morning, the path was refreshing and scenic. Not a single soul in sight, only nature. Just how I like it. It had been almost a whole month since the robot attack, and still yet still no sign of life… As much as I liked the …

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