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  • Mindscape

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    Mindscape is a story that explores social anxiety, sensory processing disorder and the effects of transitioning between the hyperreal and the IRL. It is set in the year 2052 during the Headlong Into the Hyperreal period of Starholder. This entry also doubles as a cataloging of the creation process, to see where AI generated storytelling…

  • Devils Town Elegy

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    November’s breath tangles in the brittle skeletons of prairie grass, each frost-filled gust pausing to whisper secrets to the earth before moving on. Here, in the open expanse of the Great Plains, the ranch house sits— an end of the road outpost, weathered wood and memories, half-lost in the cold embrace of the sky. She…

  • Spectral Mischief And Electric Slides

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    The year was 2048, and the air was thick with the intoxicating aroma of love and celebration. In a remote, ancient mansion nestled between the shadows of the forest and the whispers of the sea, a family had gathered like a kaleidoscope of butterflies to witness the union of two souls. They were a motley…

  • Above The Clouds – Chapter 3

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    A Meeting with Guildfather Kara trudged through the camp, carrying a jug that needed to be filled with water for the hut. The evening air was still hot, making the jug feel heavier than it was. The well was not far from her hut and she could see it in the distance. She saw the…

  • Above The Clouds – Chapter 2

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    Someday Kara closes her eyes and tries to remember her mother. She can picture her because she looks soft and brown like all mothers, but the things that made her Kara’s mother are missing. She cannot find her voice, smile, or smell. These memories are missing because Kara was taken from her home younger than…

  • Above The Clouds – Chapter 1

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    Ascent Faithful Jin pads his way across the camp to the balloonists’ quarters. He pushes strips of hanging door aside, feeling the cascade of scales scitter-scatter across his arm. A half dozen boys sleep huddled together inside. He pauses for a moment and when none stir, he steps into the oblong hut. Walking with soft…

  • Above The Clouds

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    Above The Clouds is a novella in the YA genre that follows the story of Kara and Jin as they escape their life in the gas fisher fleet and disappear into the grasslands on a quest to meet Starholder and ascend above the clouds. The work is notable in that it was published in 2043, twenty-five years…

  • Winter Pastorals From The EOE Council

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    In 2042 the EOE Council, a trade group promoting embedded object enchantment, released a series of winter pastoral stories designed to promote their product suite to professional singles. Below are excerpts from the publication. Maria’s Story Maria settled into her chair, a soft hum emanating from its fabric as it adjusted to her preferred comfort settings. Outside,…

  • Stone’s Cloud

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    Editor’s note: this story needs to be rendered again, it’s a decent basis for a tale but has a cliched flatness to it, much like it was written by an AI told to produce a story treatment for Black Mirror which failed to find a true edge. The sun hung low, a brooding orb casting…

  • Warth Of Harmonia

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    The Wrath of Harmonia tells the tale of the wise and diplomacy oriented moon drawn to anger and forced to act against the solar flare Prometheus. The tale is as old as myth coming from the classical age of the metaverse’s history and written in the voice and style of a Greek drama. Act I:…