Category: Fiction
New short story: “Blue Collar”
You woke up to the news that the company running your gut microbiota had been acquired by a private equity…
New short story: “Wordless Prayers of the Small Ones”
People thought it was a new, epidemic form of infantile agoraphobia, or at least it was good for advertising revenue…
New short story: “The Poisonous Song of the Skies”
We saw it by accident. It wasn’t the sort of extraterrestrial signal we had been looking for, nor the type…
New short story: “Noontime Dawns”
You wait until the only sounds come from the environmental systems before using the stolen codes to leave your room….
New short story: “War Drone”
There’s nothing so primitive as a point of view in a swarm. The rest on Adversarial Metanoia.
New short story: “Blue, Grey, Red”
You don’t switch off the union’s AI overlay in your glasses because you’re a bad cop. You’re every bit as…
New short story: “The Last Words of the Hero of the Heatwave Wars”
The five stages of ecological grief were climate denial, ethno-nationalistic anger, economic depression, and then bargaining with Alison Brun’s company…
New short story – and short SF newsletter
As an experiment, I’ve started a very stochastically scheduled short SF email newsletter, Adversarial Metanoia. The first short posted, The…
Digital anamnesis and other crimes [short story]
A database is a tool for forgetting; it decays on command, faster than nightmares and more thoroughly than graves. That’s…
Short story: “On Agile Management as a Mechanism of Social Control”
No, for God’s sake, it’s not the Turing Police. They don’t look for superhuman AIs, much less the sort that…