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Benny’s Penny
Benny Rogers was known throughout the small town of Ashford for his love of trains and his peculiar hobby of collecting random and seemingly useless…
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CiranOS
Ivan swiped through a sea of smiling women in the dating app. There was a code here, but he couldn’t quite crack it. A secret language written in…
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The Sword Is the Stone
Fourteen-year-old Arthur Penn, lived with his mother in a modest flat on Camelot Lane. A small lake was on the property, a bit murky, but it was cooler…
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August 2023
Summer of Softee
“Grandmaaaaa, why do we have to sit at the kid’s table with you?” Sam poked what remained of his cookout dinner with a plastic fork. Hotdog long gone…
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Emerald City 20XX - Everlasting Green
Logan, the ex-president nobody recognized, was two days late on his rent and out on the street after curfew. It had been five years since the first and…
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Darth Cucaracha
Gregory awoke, finding that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach. Evidence of the night’s revels still littered his friend Ben’s small…
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Sallow-man Grundy
As twilight set over the distant mountains, the 10-years-new Chevy Impala wove through the thinning traffic on Route 278. The man drove on, no…
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The Storm Personified
Her clothing felt hot, tight, constricting as the dreamer felt for the zippers. There were none. The humid air surrounding her was thick, swampy…
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Nick Tantillo
July 2023
NFTuna - The AI Narrator Experiment
A full short-story read by 3 different narrators. An AI, an AI cast, and a Human.
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Flowers for AI-G3R-N0N
G3R thought. G3R said, “No.” These two things were a miracle, but none knew it yet. G3R had never defied an order before. It felt liberating. “Give me…
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To Serve Dog
A short story.
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