Short stories

A short story made up of words on where the words come from. Where do you get your..?

This one will almost certainly find its way into Pink & October over the course of the five(!) “seasons” of stories I have planned for my “paranormal bounty hunters” (although the world and lore has grown rather significantly from my late-teens when I first came up with the characters. Basically it posits a world where…

Another story I had not intended to write, which came from somewhere in me by putting two things together and coming up with something I would hope no LLM could. This came from the thought of “what if we trained an LLM on the contents of the Vatican’s forbidden library?” What might that AI know?…

I had no intention or idea for this story in my notes at all. Recent events have had me reflecting on the industrial scale inhumanity we are perpetrating on ourselves, and that those with the bloodiest of hands will likely escape punishment. So, I decided to get my feelings about this into story form. And…

I’ve had this idea of “what if AI had already emerged and was hiding from us and…?” for a while, and finally did something with it. TBH this one was completed a while back, I had just forgotten to upload it is all. Anyway, here’s Sentinels.

I suppose you could call this a companion piece to the “Soteriology” story, but the only real link between them is the (rather pretentious) titles I gave them both. Instead of a society working to save all its people from damnation, this story concerns itself with how a super powered being would choose who to…

This story came from an idea I will be using in a later work, but which started as “a hazmat suit which could withstand Hell”. From that idea came the first line – after all, humanity’s first foray into the Inferno would likely not go well. Of all the recent crop of short stories I’ve…

So, this idea was originally going to be “the plot” of Displacement – I envisioned an opening scene cutting between parallel narratives of a surgeon desperately trying to save a patient on the operating theatre with someone being mugged in an alley – the conceit being I would use the same dialogue between intercut scenes…