Short Fiction

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Reckoning

Life According to Tabeeb

To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.

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Near Future Inequality Climate X Machine Sentience
Cover of Reckoning: It Was Paradise, featuring an intricate, symmetrical illustration of a horned, green, and white mythological monster mask with striking red eyes and an open mouth on a plain white background.
Gavagai

Son of the Sea

Amid the ruins of a world all but submerged under surging oceans, a community of gritty survivors rediscover hope.

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Near Future Family Climate X
A black-and-white photograph of the silhouette of a pregnant person standing against a bright, cloudy sky, looking down and gently cradling their stomach.
Cast Of Wonders

Life According to Tabeeb

To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.

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Near Future Inequality Climate X Machine Sentience
A cropped section of the header artwork for Cast of Wonders 654, featuring an abstract illustration composed of ink-sketch lines, a prominent vibrant red shape speckled with white splatters, and the outline of a stylized human face.
Robots Past & Future (Flame Tree Press)

Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896

Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?

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Near Future Machine Sentience Climate X Family
Cover of Gothic Fantasy: Robots Past & Future Short Stories, featuring an ornate turquoise-and-black illustration surrounding the title.
Learning to be Human (Flame Tree Press)

Life According to Tabeeb

To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.

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Near Future Inequality Climate X Machine Sentience
Cover of Gothic Fantasy: Learning to be Human Short Stories, featuring a highly ornate, glowing teal filigree border surrounding a central text frame, below which a small, pixelated green digital face is visible.
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896

Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?

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Near Future Machine Sentience Climate X Family
Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Issue 80, September 2020, featuring a purple-haired woman writing at a desk surrounded by books and papers.
Little Blue Marble

In the Teeth of the Gale

What would you sacrifice for a lifelong dream? What wouldn't you?

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Near Future Utopia Climate X Family
Cover of Little Blue Marble 2019, featuring a landscape image that juxtaposes rolling sand dunes in the foreground with a massive wall of white glaciers under a clear blue sky.