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.
Tag: Ambiguity (Page 14)
AILove 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.
AmbiguityA 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.
AmbiguityThe 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.
AmbiguityDead 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.
AmbiguityThe Dragon on Her Arm
A first date takes an unexpected turn when Marcus discovers his date's tattoo moves, breathes, and judges character better than any background check.
AIThe 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.
AmbiguityMurder at the Monastery Gate
A murdered stranger at the monastery gate. A wool merchant with secrets. And an old monk whose fifty-year penance is about to be undone by sins long buried.
AmbiguityDetective Biscuit: The Neighborhood Sleuth
Lost glasses. Missing toys. One detective dog. One insufferable cat. A suburban mystery comedy told entirely from the Golden Retriever's point of view.
AmbiguityA Bear or a Man
A solo hiker answers the viral question on camera. Two hours later, the wilderness answers it for her. Flash fiction by Richard Lowe.
AmbiguityQuantum Widow
Six months after her physicist husband's death, Dr. Elena Vasquez discovers something impossible in the quantum data from his lab accident: the signature is too elegant, too controlled to be random destruction. Marcus didn't die—he jumped to a parallel dimension.…