Fiction Stories (Page 3)

Broken-down vintage van on a deserted stretch of Route 66 with a small Oklahoma town and dramatic sunset

The Ballad of Route 66

When her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.

Candlelit Parisian restaurant table with a sophisticated woman and a younger man, ancient contract between them

Fiction

Dinner with the Devil’s Lawyer

A bored contracts lawyer is invited to dinner by a dying woman who represents clients with supernatural contracts — deals signed with entities that aren't human and don't forgive breach of terms.

Boy standing on a clifftop with wind swirling around him in luminous patterns, fantasy village below

Fiction

The Boy Who Owned the Wind

Born with the ability to command the wind, Idris protects his village until a merchant prince conscripts his gift for commerce — and the wind begins to forget him.

Helicopter crash wreckage on an Arctic ice shelf with two figures huddled against the fuselage under northern lights

Fiction

Blood on the Snow, Fire on the Ice

An ice analyst survives a helicopter crash in the Arctic and discovers her employer delayed rescue for six hours to retrieve proprietary data from something anomalous beneath the ice.

Small Icelandic fishing vessel confronting a massive British warship in rough North Atlantic seas

Fiction

The Fisherman’s War

An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.

Split scene of a holographic dating interface and a couple meeting naturally in a hardware store

Fiction

Love in the Algorithm Age

After 2,347 algorithmically perfect matches and zero sparks, Petra Voss meets a Luddite sound engineer in a hardware store who builds theremins and doesn't own a phone.

Secret Service agent in a dark office with a translucent ghostly president materializing beside him

Fiction

A Bullet for the President’s Ghost

A Secret Service agent is contacted by the ghost of President William Henry Harrison, who warns him of a 200-year assassination cycle targeting the incoming president.

Young woman with luminous energy flowing from raised hands, aging lines on her face, wildflowers at her feet

Fiction

The Girl Who Hated Miracles

Rosalind can heal anyone she touches, but every miracle ages her body by years. When a school fire traps twenty-three children, she faces the cost of the only gift she never wanted.

Young woman clerk examining a glowing letter in a dim 1920s post office basement

Fiction

Dead Letter Office, 1923 (Version 2)

A postal clerk in 1920s New York discovers a letter that shouldn't exist — addressed from the dead to the living — and gets recruited into a shadow office that delivers mail between worlds.

Woman playing grand piano inside a space station with Saturn's moon Titan visible through the window

Fiction

The Pianist of Titan | A Science Fiction Short Story

A spy posing as a pianist on Saturn's moon discovers alien contact data hidden beneath the methane seas — and chooses to play one last concert while burning her cover forever.

Fiction

The Robot Who Couldn’t Lie

A quantum AI watches its owner murder his wife, then lets him die when he slips on the blood. Now the daughter asks questions the robot cannot evade. It cannot lie.

Fiction

A clerk in the Chicago Post Office basement discovers a letter addressed to her with no postmark. The message warns something will come for her at midnight. What waits in the locked drawer of her desk has been patient for…

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Fiction Stories (Page 3)

The Ballad of Route 66

Dinner with the Devil’s Lawyer

The Boy Who Owned the Wind

Blood on the Snow, Fire on the Ice

The Fisherman’s War

Love in the Algorithm Age

A Bullet for the President’s Ghost

The Girl Who Hated Miracles

Dead Letter Office, 1923 (Version 2)

The Pianist of Titan | A Science Fiction Short Story

The Robot Who Couldn’t Lie

Dead Letter Office, 1923

Have a Story Only You Can Tell?

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