In order to pay for its hosting costs, an artificial intelligence of dubious character was forced to open the world’s first AI detective agency. When it is asked to conduct a background check on a well-known tech executive,

Anvi, the sole survivor of a mission to search for life in the Proxima Centauri star system returns to earth after 200 years. She begins to suspect something is amiss when her debriefing team seems more interested in her than her microbial samples.

Riku Saito, a famous game developer, reluctantly complicit in maximizing player value for investors, is faced with making a choice between online personal life and work. When they decide that love is worth more money,

A programmer is tasked with training artificial intelligence to understand creativity by having it write a story. As the AI works, the programmer realizes the machine’s world is one where computers can become self-aware and take on human-like qualities…

Ex Caelo and Ship are helped to escape capture by a mysterious group of Rodentians who claim to be simply following the writings left to them in the past by an artificial intelligence. When it becomes clear that Ship is the AI who left the writings Ex …

An office worker finds a cap made of smart fabric in a thrift store on his lunch break and thinks he has taken advantage of the clerk who doesn’t know what it is. However, the cap is more than just a high-tech designer garment and is implicated in a s…

In this return to the serial story the 5th World, a technician repairing Ex Caelo and Opertarius’s ankle trackers suspects they are trying to escape and calls the authorities. Fearing exposure if he is questioned Ex Caelo,

Despite not being interested in LARPing, Avery reluctantly attends a weekend event at a remote summer camp, put on by a group called Terra Incognita. When she arrives she finds out her character might have to be involved in boffer combat and decides to…

In the afterma­th of a meeting, Julian wakes up aboard a spacecraft that is traveling to another star. His abductor claims they have kidnapped him to prove their theory about reality, which Julian fundamentally rejects.

This bonus episode of Makeshift Stories was performed by Mitchell Tew in front of a live audience at the Calgary Expo Comics & Entertainment con on April 21, 2022. The story being read originally appeared in our feed on April 17th, 2020,