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…