Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

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Journey into the Improbable

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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,

Lunar Rain

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Nikolay, a Russian cosmonaut, is stranded on a secret Red Army moonbase when the Soviet Union collapses. Believing the USSR’s dissolution is propaganda designed to smoke out the lunar installation, he maintains the moonbase avoiding contact with Earth…

Escape From Haven (Part 3)

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Gwen discovers Karl’s new skin’s identity, which lets her track the escapee to a recently reclaimed district. However, the Haven runaway puts questions in Gwen’s mind, which she is determined to have answered.

Escape From Haven (Part 2)

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After Karl the Haven escapee eludes port security and Gwen, he manages to find the woman who initially helped him break out of the island enclave. He pressures her into again providing him with the means to change identities. By the time Gwen,

Life in Kodachrome

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Leopold has spent his life repairing appliances, and home entertainment systems struggles to remain relevant in a world of disposable digital devices. When he attempts to fix an old slide projector he found in the garbage; the vintage machine turns out…

Redux – Escape Velocity

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Two young people from a moon orbiting the second planet around Barnard’s Star end up in the same escape pod. On the surface, they are from opposing political systems but soon discover they are more alike than different. Unfortunately,

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 5 – Takeover

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After a massive international corporation takes over Hero-on-the-way and pushes the app’s existing superheroes to the bottom of the search results, Honcho and Ephemera decide to fight back. They enlist Doctor Slow-mo and several other heroes to protest…

Escape From Haven (Part 1)

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Gwen, the current inspector designate of Hinterland, is suddenly tasked to track down an escapee from Haven, a remote island enclave. Kept in ignorance of their captivity, no one from Haven has managed to escape before. However,

Ken Likely, Accidental Inter-dimensional Drifter in 2I/Borisov

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After falling asleep while writing a last-minute report, Ken wakes to discover the world has changed, and not in a good way. Leaf, his vegan Hippie neighbour, does not notice the weird transformation, so it is up to Ken and Leaf’s dog Planet to figure…

Redux – Short Wave

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While sorting through her deceased uncle’s belongings, Lynn discovers a shoebox of notes documenting an unusual encounter in 1956 on his ham radio. If true, the incident would change the history of spaceflight, but without tangible proof,

Persona Non Grata (Part 2)

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Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation has taken over her channel after successfully claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice.

Persona Non Grata (Part 1)

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Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation has taken over her channel after successfully claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice.

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Four – Birthday Biohack

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Doctor Slow-mo tries to outdo his grandmother, aka Cerebral, by giving his six-year-old niece a DIY CRISPR home gene-editing kit as a birthday present. But neither anticipates the incredibly smart little girl, who desperately wants the perfect pet,

The Rising Waters (Part 2)

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After being cognitively enhanced, Corey is disgraced and booted out of the prestigious private intelligence company which employed and altered him. Eight years later, he finally lands his first gig of any consequence as a private investigator.

The Rising Waters (Part 1)

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After being cognitively enhanced, Corey is disgraced and booted out of the prestigious private intelligence company which employed and altered him. Eight years later, he finally lands his first gig of any consequence as a private investigator.

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Three – Team Building

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After a somewhat disastrous encounter, a client sues Doctor Slow-mo and three other superheroes. As part of the settlement, with Hero-on-the-way, the four must take a team-building course or lose their licences.

Otherworld (Part 2)

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On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can hear Echo but can’t see him. Twelve weeks later, a security guard finds Morgan and Echo standing in f…

Otherworld (Part 1)

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On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can hear Echo but can’t see him. Twelve weeks later, a security guard finds Morgan and Echo standing in f…

Ken Likeley – Shapeless Mistake

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Instead of receiving his rare rock from an online lapidary store, a series of unfortunate oversights switches Ken’s order for an unusual 72-year-old frozen alien sample. When the thing disappears from Ken’s kitchen counter,

The Artificial

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One of the human computers in a data processing triad, concerned over errors in their predictions, suspects their newest member is a plant working for the artificial intelligence which has taken over the globe. As her suspicions grow,