Fiction with its safety off
Characters with bad instincts, impossible premises, and stories that were probably better left in the drafts.
August 8, 2025
Characters: Paul and Lisa sit across from each other at a candlelit table. Paul is already on edge because Lisa has been acting strange all night. Tony is, of course, slumped against Paul’s side, wrapped in a tasteful dinner jacket. The waiter…
August 8, 2025
The resurrection chamber smelled like ozone and overconfidence. In the center, surrounded by chrome machinery and humming plasma coils, lay Lucius Aemilius Scipio—dead two thousand years, dressed in a tunic that looked like it had been stolen from…
August 6, 2025
In the year 2271, a mom named Emily sat in her plush armchair, nervously twirling a glass of wine in her hand. Her 23-year-old son, Hector, was sprawled on the couch, lazily flipping through a history textbook. “Hector, dear, we need to have a…