Category: Fiction

New short story: “Spoils of War”

He remembered being high on B-77 with the distant clarity with which we remember familiar strangers we know very well….

Not a story but fifty-three: “Viral Fixpoint – The Adversarial Metanoia archives (2019-2020)”

I’ve put together most of the stories published on Adversarial Metanoia during 2019-2020 in a single pdf file. Viral Fixpoint…

New short story: “Revelation Engineering”

None of the machine-makers prayed to the would-be gods they trained. Some of them wouldn’t worship anything but themselves and…

New short story: “Offerings”

When you were twelve years old you had a Revelation: Everything looks at you with a million eyes, weighs you…

New short story: “Truth-seeking Sessions”

The bioengineer cleared his throat, looked at nowhere, and said “I’m having nightmares again.” The therapist nodded. “Still dreaming of…

New short story: “Deep Inside the Glitch Forest”

In hindsight, shrugging his shoulders and not spending as much as he could have on a software contract checker had…

New short story: “Of Children and Other Summonses”

Sometimes Asami feels like she’s in a horror story. Not usually: most of her life is company politics and relatively…

New short story: “Professional Integrity”

Some of your coworkers seem to look forward to the mandatory therapy sessions. You wonder what they talk about with…

New short story: “NPC Encounters”

The first time you saw John after his funeral was as an anonymous ghoul in a melee fight you really…

New short story: “The Former Frontier”

It was good for the stock price. It was great for the brand. It was insanely good for corporate governance….