Short Stories

Black-Mirror prose vignettes. One mechanic from First Principles, dramatized as its human consequence — the quiet, unsettling AI-normal of our world plus one turn. The machine is the constant; the human is the variable.

Synthetic Interaction

What Falls Off the Edge

The aide came in a white box the size of a paperback, and for the first month Nora thought it was the kindest thing she had ever bought.

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Being Unseen

Low-Information

For eleven years Ruth had listened on the night line, and for eleven years the work had been simple to describe and impossible to do: somewhere out th…

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The Flattening

Nearest Neighbor

For the first forty applications, Priya wrote like herself. She told the truth about the two-year gap, the small odd projects, the way she actually th…

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The Retrieved Self

Relevant

Vivian is dying — not fast, which is its own cruelty, and slow enough that she has had time to arrange a great many things — and the last thing she ha…

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The New Literacy

How to Ask

Marisol had spent thirty years standing between two people who could not understand each other, and she was good at it. That was the thing she would t…

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Continuity & Identity

The Continuity

Every morning I am told who I was.

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