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Fertility-Collapse Apocalypse Stories

A fertility-collapse apocalypse is a future in which reproduction fails, birth rates crash, pregnancies become impossible, children disappear, or future generations become the central contested resource. These stories turn the end of the world into a demographic and emotional crisis, where politics, medicine, gender, family, hope, and control gather around the terrifying possibility that humanity may simply stop continuing.

Read original fertility-collapse apocalypse short stories on this page from world-class authors, selected from the Ash Tales archive.

Stars above mountain silhouettes and a luminous horizon, interrupted by broad digital fragments and small coloured blocks.

The Chosen Ones

As we wake up, our first glance is towards the giant floor to ceiling window. We anxiously rake the blackness until we spot it, still there, hanging on.