GameLit Stories

Welcome to your Personal Artificial Intelligence Generated Environment - PAIGE. Your ability to create your wildest virtual reality fantasies, all in the comfort and privacy of your own home. To Kylie, it's a chance to save her struggling marriage to Rob. To Rob, it's a chance to own the latest virtual reality toy. Kylie gets far more than she bargained for as her journey through multiple artificial worlds throws her at the mercy of lusty strangers and experiences she never thought possible.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Four years ago, Kes Marrow's only flagged stat moved for half a second — long enough to mark him, not long enough to mean anything. The Integration has been waiting on him ever since: Reassess upon measurable engagement. Tonight he's slipping past the colony fence with his two best friends, hiking three klicks to a Flux rift that pulses teal in the dark. He's spent four years calling it a defect. He has no idea what's actually waiting for him in that light. He's done waiting to find out. / (Reviews)

A Country Boy, City Girl Story
Pete and Mandy are sent a submission by Brad. It is for a new adventure written by somebody else, but he wants to get Pete's impression of it before he agrees to publish it.

2 couples play strip tennis in front of a club crowd. They're caught, then...

A story in the Immortality Curse Universe
If an NPC in a Gamelit story falls in the forest where no one can hear, do they make a sound? For Nora Smith, it depends. This is the story of Nora's metamind, there to make sure she has a back story by the time she needs it--a story of AIs and love. A companion to my Phoenix Rising story, but if you like AIs and gamelit world building, you can start here.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Petra Osei has spent eleven years doing excellent work. Eleven years of insights credited to colleagues, three short-lists that became someone else's promotions. When the Integration levels her up mid-presentation and she finally opens her stat screen, she finds twenty-one banked points. Seven levels of accumulation, never spent. The system had been watching the whole time. She just hadn't looked.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
A Purist's whole life is the discipline of not looking. Unread is the day that discipline meets the one thing he can't afford to miss.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
The overlay arrived when she was twenty-nine. Three months later her son was born, and she had known since his first hour that the system would eventually find him. She had twenty-two months. In the heavy autumn light, his hands stilled over an unfinished block tower and she watched the Integration open his file: Drive 4, two empty skill slots, Designation Pending, Monitoring. She sat down on the floor and told him about things the system has no notation for.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Five operators extract a neural-suppressed Vethari from a corporate station. When the route collapses, Dex holds a junction alone while the team transits through occupied sections with the asset. The system tracks every hit, every point of stamina, every second. Frame 34 advances to 35—not because he spent points, but because the system recognized what holding that line cost. Resonance: 74 to 76. The team comes out together.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Naleth is fourteen months into a military research contract studying why civilians stall in the Integration system. She's found the answer. Sixty-nine percent of civilian designations are combat roles. All six attributes optimize for warfare. The progression track exists for soldiers alone. She was hired to find a gap in the design. She found the design. The system, it turns out, found her first.