Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

Hosted ByAlan V Hare

Journey into the Improbable

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The Great Moon Hoax

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An anonymous letter written in 1899 claims the great moon hoax was perpetrated 65 years earlier by an unknown individual rather than the reporter thought to have done it. The letter writer argues the whole affair was an attempt to distract attention fr…

Siren Song of a Lost Phone

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The friend of a missing adventure tourist begins to receive strange text messages and voice calls from an unknown source. Thinking either the phone or the Telcom is the problem they trade in the phone. But almost immediately,

The Prototype

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Maria, the most efficient employee in a distribution centre for a global online retailer, is voluntold to train an experimental android to do her job. Initially wary, Maria begins to suspect the robot is more than a company automaton.

Tea with Sasquatch 149

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To prove to herself and her friends that she is spontaneous and audacious, a businesswoman goes on a backcountry adventure tour to look for Sasquatch. During a snowstorm, her guides disappear, and she is found by two transdimensional beings who offer h…

Death and Taxes

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Curious about a popular social media influencer’s returns, a tax auditor suspects her of cheating. Her perfect set of records is the first he has ever seen, which makes him more intrigued and curious. As he observes her online and offline lives,

Infinite Eyes

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Olivia, a researcher interested in paranormal urban myths, flies across the country to interview an older man about his story circulating on the internet. The man had two encounters with soleless creatures whose eyes were completely dark and a final me…

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 6 – The Space Tourist

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After a prolonged drought, Doctor Slow-Mo successfully bids on a job for a space tourism company owner. Marooned in space by his employees, the billionaire owner has a simple quick in, quick out solution he wants Doctor Slow-Mo to execute.

The Explorer Project

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Bowie applies to a privately funded science project for the resources to verify the accuracy of her new climate modelling software. After flying to one of the project’s latest floating laboratories, she begins to realize the project’s management is onl…

The Experiologist – New Obsession

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While trying to flee capture by an alien seeking revenge for their planet’s demise, the Experiologist is forced to extract all its recent memories. Being the sum of all the experiences it has stolen, the Experiologist finds itself changed and suddenly…

Augmented Afterlife

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Jackson is about to inherit his only uncle’s estate on one condition. He must submit to an operation to receive permanent augmented reality implants, then live with an avatar based on his uncle’s personality.

An Unexplained Phenomena

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Ever since a mysterious childhood incident, Alison has been the nexus of unexplained phenomena. She has admitted this to no one until she finds herself on board an old freighter surreptitiously carrying the James Webber telescope to its launch site in …

The Tracer

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After failing to capture a mysterious collector named Mr. Hughes, those chasing him scramble to find the man before he removes critical memories from another person.

The Perfect Home

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After finding an incredible apartment with unbelievably cheap rent, Sachio realizes the home automation system does a lot more than turn on the lights. When the smart home begins to run her life, she starts wondering about the owner who designed the …

The Experiologist

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Mr. Hughes, a wealthy businessman with failing health, collects experiences rather than rare objects. He receives a visit from a desperate scientist ready to sell the memory of her world-changing discovery in exchange for enough money to continue her r…

Ken Likely, Non-fungible Encounter

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While trying to prevent a popular search engine from scanning his house for their street map app Ken discovers a very unusual coin lying on his driveway. The coin turns out to be the gateway into an alternative universe where people can create money ou…

Confirmation Bias

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Forty-seven, a cynical robotic ghost hunter, doesn’t believe in the supernatural. The obstinate machine has built a career out of faking ghost removals. However, a new job ends up challenging forty-seven’s beliefs and lands it in a very unusual and thr…

Mr. Tesla’s Visitor

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On July 11th, 1932, Nikola Tesla receives a mysterious visitor at his rooms in the New Yorker Hotel. Ostensibly there to interview him about his recent discoveries for a small newspaper, the reporter is only interested in Tesla’s design for a camera th…

Precognition Echoes

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A psychologist tries to convince a new patient they do not have extrasensory perception and are therefore not responsible for a past event that haunts them in their dreams. However, a test they devise to prove their patient wrong provides entirely une…

The Elysian Star

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After what she believes to be 5000 years, automated systems wake Dorian’s mind and download it into a temporary body. The process is supposed to be part of a maintenance cycle to keep Dorian’s race alive while machines terraform the planet they are orb…

Autonomous

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To save her family’s hundred-year-old manufacturing business, Sandra decides to use the general artificial intelligence she has been working on to create a new product line consisting of autonomous yard maintenance machines. However,