Category: Fiction

Stochastic

You ask the app and it tells you to skip breakfast. It does tell you — sometimes it gives instructions…

New short story: “Sanity Economics”

There used to be special drugs for those who worked in the city’s biodesign labs. There is only so much…

New short story: “Generation Gap”

Every night Francesca’s room continued its methodical process of killing her. The how had been easy enough to find in…

New short story: “When he himself might his quietus make”

Romanticism hadn’t made Jason’s boyfriend suicidal — that was an stereotype — but it was what was going to get…

New short story: “The Traveler and the Goddess”

Beyond the orbit of Mars there was nobody but Asra and the goddess who lived in her spaceship. (And a…

New short story: “Elective”

Your new knee isn’t as good as the old one except for the fact that it will become upgradeable rather…

New short story: “The Secret Conclave of 2039”

It wasn’t the dustiest room in the Vatican nor the most forbidding; it wasn’t frequented but it was near the…

New short story: “A Voice in the Crowd”

Richard’s statistical models for violent deaths were the best. They did not predict individual murders — even for the data-dense…

New short story: “River Crossings”

The last medical bill was usually around twenty grand – the cost of moving your dead body to wherever it…

New short story: “The Festivals of Winter”

When a data leak showed the Cryogenics Lab had never gotten nearly as close to killing anybody as people had…