The Man Who Saw Heat
A speculative story about a neural interface and a different way of seeing.
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Stories
Fiction about choices, places, and the lives they change.
Abundance on Cardboard
When a community garden runs out of water, its most cheerful member has to learn what thanks can and cannot fix.
Self-Reliance stories · Contemporary fiction
Read the story →Five Keys, One Door
At their uncle's funeral, five heirs receive five keys stamped with the same number and one last reason to argue.
Mind & Inner Work stories · Mystery fiction
Read the story →Inventory of a Mirror
A secondhand dealer begins to see her dead husband in a mirror, and notices the price only after customers vanish from her memory.
Mind & Inner Work stories · Supernatural fiction
Read the story →One Clean Voice
When a public hearing changes her brother's testimony on screen, a speech-system engineer has one chance to show the city what it heard.
AI stories · Near-future thriller
Read the story →The Day the River Kept
In a town where the clock controls the river, its keeper is the only person who remembers the day that will not end.
Mind & Inner Work stories · Fantasy
Read the story →The Good Sides Up
Emilia wants a sign of the Holy Spirit. Her neighbor asks for a ride and for her story to remain her own.
Mind & Inner Work stories · Faith fiction
Read the story →The Green Outline
A transit mechanic declines an implant, then finds a fault the new inspection system says is not there.
AI stories · Speculative fiction
Read the story →The Horse in Row Seven
At a circus where every spectator sees a different show, a stagehand has to find one very real missing horse before the grand finale.
AI stories · Comic science fiction
Read the story →The Lost Journal of Grant County
A student checking a family journal before an estate sale finds a treasure map that cannot be as old as its cover claims.
History & Treasure stories · Historical mystery
Read the story →The Overdue Book
A travelling librarian follows a missing repair manual across two quarrelling settlements, with a flood, a secret reader, and a sack of flour at stake.
Self-Reliance stories · Post-collapse adventure
Read the story →The Pump at Eden's Outskirts
Called home to repair a locked water pump, Tessa has to ask her estranged sister for the one thing a tool cannot give her: permission.
AI stories · Speculative fiction
Read the story →The Tin at the Gate
During a winter grid failure, three strangers return a medicine tin to a secluded settlement and ask to stay the night.
Self-Reliance stories · Survival drama
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