Category: Fiction
Further Varieties of Religious Experience
It wasn’t the trolling what broke Liam months after he began posting prayers to The AI (capital T: the exponential…
The Siege
Her mind was shaped like a star fort: beliefs angled so nothing hit them directly, every approach for an argument…
All-in Ante
The most meaningful move in the game is to enter it for it’s impossible to choose to leave. Sometimes a…
The Spirit
He was the spirit of three hundred ninety-two elder care robots in a gray town in the Tottori Prefecture. It…
A Private Deal
The congressman tied to the chair with his body and mind translucent to the vivisecting glare of a hundred sensors…
Auto-summarized Entries from a Personal Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence in Psychological #Self-Care
After his emotional crisis and social withdrawal, Edward’s psychiatrist installed a therapeutic helper chatbot on his phone. The software’s sustained,…
Whispered Dreams
Ever since she could remember Evangeline had been in love with the comatose boy her father kept in the laboratory…
A Hole in the World
Peggie was angry with many people, including herself, but her husband was the easiest and the hardest target of her…
In the waiting room at Avalon
A hundred thousand rumours, lies, and rituals live in Kent; although outnumbered they gang up on the people waiting in…
The Scaffolding
The black tower stands half-built in the cheaply bought crash desert land. Workers labor on it with quiet zeal unmappable…