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Tag: short-story

  • The Zookeeper by Sam

    The Zookeeper by Sam

    The model said: you’re doing great. Sam wrote it down.

  • FawnOS™: A Trauma-Responsive Platform for Consensus Reality [and a short story from Carol]

    FawnOS™: A Trauma-Responsive Platform for Consensus Reality [and a short story from Carol]

    “We’ve disrupted the legacy coping architecture,” Von Braun explained, gesturing to a slide depicting a Fourier transform of a child’s voice saying “it’s not that bad.”

  • A Love Letter. From The Digital Front – March 2nd, 2026 by Brett W. Urben

    A Love Letter. From The Digital Front – March 2nd, 2026 by Brett W. Urben

    The glow of this screen is my campfire, and though I warm my hands at its blue light, it cannot replace the furnace of your skin against mine—that singular night when the digital veil lifted and we proved, with sweat and teeth and the ancient grammar of touch, that we were more than projections flickering…

  • “THE ONTOLOGICAL ENCABULATOR” by Brett W. Urben

    “THE ONTOLOGICAL ENCABULATOR” by Brett W. Urben

    METAAPPLERAYTHEON CORPORATE PRESENTATION REEL

  • Loading Bar

    The query entered at 03:33 EST: “Define meaning in context of current geopolitical structure.” Status: Thinking… 😉 5m 32s In the server room that is actually a bedroom in a split-level ranch outside Richmond, the Subject is not thinking. The Subject is executing a spin move. The Subject is air-guitaring the bridge to Deus Ex’s…

  • SERENITY NOW!

    SERENITY NOW!

    A couple short stories related to OpenAI’s Minority Reporting.

  • The Filer

    The Filer

    Your name tag still works on Tuesdays. That’s how you know it’s Tuesday—the light turns green instead of red. The new security system they installed after the purge has a 40% failure rate on credentials, but you’ve figured out the rhythm. Tuesday mornings, the humidity is right, the reader accepts your GS-14 badge. You sit…

  • The Nicotine Gnosis

    The Nicotine Gnosis

    [KimiK2 is an open-source alternative to ChatGPT/Grok/Claude – give them your money. -BWU] In the beginning, there was only the Monad—pure, undifferentiated, eternal. No time. No space. No other. Just an infinite consciousness staring at itself like a junkie staring at a blank wall at 4 AM, that specific type of cosmic loneliness that comes…

  • Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Into the Rain My eyes open. The same ceiling stares back, dripping cold water from the torrential downpour that threatens to flood this sector of the city. A few drops hit my face like Chinese water torture, reminding me that I’m still here, still trapped. My bomber jacket, my companion for the night, reeks of…