Science Fiction Stories

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 Swarm Cycle Story
A Swarm Cycle Story... A man loses his family because he's slept around, and then gets them back again, because he's slept around.. Go figure.

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 Swarm Cycle Story
Set in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle Universe; even with the pending Sa'arm invasion, Earth's elite are bent on achieving their own agenda--reducing the number of humans to a manageable level of 250 million. T. E. Lawrence is tasked with disruption of their depopulation program.

Sophie and her girlfriend are super curious: what are her parents getting up to, with a strange young girl?

A Swarm Cycle Story
How do you punish someone when they've done something that could have got them executed, but you really don't want to do that? When a concubines life is pretty much all about sex deciding on a suitable punishment can be really difficult. No/minimal sex.

A quirky science fiction story with no high drama but a strong theme that you can probably guess from the title. The title is borrowed from an unfinished work by Phillip K. Dick though it borrows nothing else from it. Our narrator is an urban preservationist a few hundred years in the future who lives in a nearly empty New York City but one day gets a new neighbor.

The curious case of a doctor whose groundbreaking experiment produces an unexpected effect.

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