Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories
Episodes
Threat Machine
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With an early snow threatening to destroy her first good crop in years, Harper’s combine breaks down. When the dealer can’t fix it in a timely m...
The Meatspace Hire (Part 1)
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matteo works as a consultant for wealthy collectors, authenticating their purchases to ensure they are not AI-manufactured fakes, until his sister Re...
A Solution, Not a Cure
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While on holiday, Lena shows Erin an old photo of a woman who looks exactly like her. Initially, Erin dismisses the resemblance. However, when Lena r...
The Happiness Variant
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hana Grabowski, a genetic engineer with a failing gene-mod business, takes a secretive contract to restore humanity’s appetite for impulsive behavi...
The Vedika Ray File
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nora, a scientist’s daughter, enlists true-crime host Alan Humphrey to solve the disappearance of her mother’s “deathbot.” At first, Humphrey...
The Klotho Factor
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kenzo Tanaka, a washed-up intellectual property rights enforcer turned PI, takes a “lost dog” case from a woman he believes to be a dazzling biot...
316 Builder of Monsters
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In exchange for the chance to reunite with his family, roboticist Sebit Deng has spent years on an isolated island in the South Pacific, building an a...
Senescence (Part 2)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Surya, a hardware engineer, buys an old NASA computer at a garage sale, she uncovers lost Voyager 2 data. She tracks down a retired scientist nam...
Senescence (Part 1)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surya, a tech historian, buys an old Sun workstation at a garage sale, expecting a working example of a CPU her grandmother designed, not secrets. Acc...
Solitude of the Deep Dark
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During a dive to repair a submersible mining robot, Rohan, a deep-sea specialist, discovers the true cause of the machine's malfunction: the metallic ...
From Wonder Valley to Nowhere
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forced into Wonder Valley, a holding facility for seniors needing care, 83-year-old Ellie resists her cheerful AI handlers and their synthetic paradis...
Anima Incognita
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After living off-grid for forty years, Shane is drawn back into society when his former best friend—now the political leader of the territory—anno...
No I in AI
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Salvini, an out-of-work programmer, uses a hidden backdoor in her former employer's system to create an AI called Bandhu, which hunts for jobs and out...
Utopia Base
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faraday and Quinn arrive at a remote mining site on the far side of the moon that supplies helium-3 to Utopia Base, where they have lived their entire...
Personal Detritus
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liam, a laid-off tech worker turned scavenger, lives a double life—by day, a conscripted worker in a waste recycling plant; by night, Rupert Hudson,...
Scissors Paper Rock App Computer
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 75, Kaber Grewal should be retired in the sun, not taking gigs to pay for his hip replacement. Hired by a mysterious client to analyze communicatio...
A New Star in Aries
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Hollis Cooper, an underground scientist, must pass a daily test to prove her belief in the official facts. But she comes under investigation...
Floor Forty-two
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During a routine license audit at a vertical farm, Carmen, a demoted field agent, discovers that the farmhands, including a man named Salvador, are ge...
The Forever Worm
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a long shift ice mining in Saturn’s rings, Pascoe heads for a drink and the company of fresh faces at the Methane Bar on Titan. When he arrive...
Reality Adjustment (Part 2)
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nickie and her cousin Noah stumble upon a mystery as they plan an adjustment for the Primate Council; someone appears to be following them. The myster...
Reality Adjustment (Part 1)
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nickie Holmes is the best Adjuster in the business, erasing anomalies to align the physical world with the Primate Council’s official digital record...
Return of the Sovereign
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a century on Mars, crypto-trillionaire Devon Smit decides to return to Earth. He wants to be a god among the human masses, which he and his fell...
An Alien Mind
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Dr. Veda Singh arrives at a mining camp to fix the mysterious loss of communications with an AI studying a 12,000-year-old Aspen colony, malfunct...
Escape Across the 60th
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Tremblay, a geneticist, is forced to run after attempting to give away his Alzheimer's cure against his employer’s wishes. To evade the private ...
Manufactured Memory
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ivan Petrenko has spent his entire life chasing one goal: proving his family’s abduction by extraterrestrials during a 1960 camping trip. When he is...
Aurora’s Self-serve Medical Shop
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aurora Kumar struggles to make ends meet, running her family's self-serve medical shop in a down-and-out neighbourhood. She must rent private medical ...
Robin Hood Mode (Part 2)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Noah, Wil, and the woman who hired Noah attempt to track down the mysterious mastermind behind high-stakes money transfers, they find themselves ...
Robin Hood Mode
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Noah, an elderly gig worker, takes on a lucrative job from a wealthy woman claiming to be giving away her fortune against her family's wishes. After a...
Elixir of Youth
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dakari, an 11-year-old boy, exchanges his blood with an aging billionaire to extend the older man's life. Promised a better future for his family, Dak...
Lagrange Point 4
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An astrophysicist is blackmailed into joining billionaire space entrepreneur Dev Chada on a mission to investigate a mysterious anomaly at Lagrange Po...
Leopold’s Fix All
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leopold clings to the remnants of a bygone era where things could be fixed. His latest find, an old slide projector, holds more than nostalgic value—...
The Wind Rustlers
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beau, a drifter and private investigator, finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. To make enough money to leave, he must solve a mysterious s...
The Genetic Forest
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While searching for her missing dog bot, Loki, Mary discovers fugitive geneticist Ethan camping in a restricted toxic reclamation area. After admittin...
Obsession’s Algorithm
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After discovering his tenant unconscious and his rental unit in disarray, Ralph starts piecing together an unbelievable story. While recovering in the...
The Saturn Clipper
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After recovering from severe injuries, Mateo is recruited to captain a mission to find and protect a rare, supposedly extinct arthropod discovered on ...
The Alien’s Gift
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To reignite interest in an interstellar flight to TRAPPIST 1, mission control has ordered its Captain to host a monthly live public question-and-answe...
Morally Complicit (Part 2)
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After arriving in the crumbling remnants of a once-prosperous city, in pursuit of a fugitive involved in a scheme to steal genetically modified embryo...
Morally Complicit (Part 1)
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agent Kenzo Tanaka arrives in the crumbling remnants of a once-prosperous city in pursuit of Dr. Olivia Morales, a fugitive involved in a scheme to st...
The Test Subject
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tarak, hoping to earn some extra money, joins a telepathy study at the Center for Extrasensory Research. Initially skeptical, he finds the process sim...
Incognito
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra, a skilled con artist, finds herself on a spaceliner en route to Mars, disguised as a lowly steward named Anita. Struggling to keep a low pr...
Quality Assurance
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad, an 80-year-old legally blind ward of the Zone, unwittingly becomes a key player in testing the revolutionary Mobile Assistive Transport Technolo...
Quantum Immortality
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rita, a scientist facing terminal illness, places her trust in an experimental device to transcend death by transferring her consciousness to another ...
The Runaway – Lost in Cascadia
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the gritty urban sprawl of Cascadia, a fugitive android, fleeing its creators, seeks refuge among the people living on the city streets. Forced to ...
Solar Storm (Part 2)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After Mary's pioneering groundbreaking method for forecasting solar flares forewarns of an apocalypse-level catastrophe, she grapples with the dauntin...
Solar Storm (Part 1)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a race against time to rescue her failing space weather enterprise, Mary pioneers a groundbreaking method for forecasting solar flares. But when he...
Poisoned (Part 2)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In pursuit of a lead on his stock market investigation, Wil receives a promising tip that points directly to a suspect. Yet, as he delves deeper, the ...
Poisoned (Part 1)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a neo-noir mystery where AI have taken over most jobs, Wil, a displaced software engineer turned gumshoe, tackles a seemingly routine case—until ...
The Zero-Sum Game
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the Tarron Ka, a generational spaceship veering perilously off course, Lea faces a profound rift with her lifelong friend. Blaming Lea's family bus...
The Chronology Protectorate Agent
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emile awakens disoriented before an office door, clutching an envelope bearing a name he doesn't recognize. With unsettling memories of a mysterious t...
The Mendela Effect
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 25th anniversary of her grandmother's tragic demise, Alessia embarks on a poignant journey back to the haunting scene of the incident. As she s...
A Mystery Solved
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the relentless pursuit of podcasting stardom, Damon will stop at nothing to propel his enigmatic mystery podcast to the summit of success. When a m...
Recycled
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lumo, a young teen from a small town, heads south to the city to find work but discovers the only jobs available are in an e-waste recycling yard. He ...
Kill Switch
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a twist of fate, a university dropout finds themselves catapulted into the heart of technological intrigue. Seduced by the allure of a data center ...
The Heat Chaser
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In order to gain notoriety, a billionaire becomes obsessed with recording the world's hottest air temperature. As a result of his hubris, he finds him...
Employee 17
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unable to return to Earth, Satya has toiled tirelessly, dreaming of retirement at one of the moon's vibrant new vacation hotels. But fate has other pl...
The Other Side of Time
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Physicist Darius Hussaini is researching the concept of time as an illusion. During a conference, an enigmatic foundation offers to finance his ground...
200 Miles Per Gallon
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an alternate 1977, where the oil embargo has become permanent, a young mechanic with a gambling habit has invented an alternative way to burn fuel ...
The Chronovisor
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An elderly scientist, named Leonardo Moretti, claims he has built a version of a restricted machine that allows him to see into the future and has dis...
Breakwater
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celeste's billionaire mother founded Breakwater as a place to escape the disasters of the late 21st century. Using a gene modification, its population...
Quantified Love
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When two artificial general intelligences working for competing online dating services discover they share more in common than the humans they want to...
Biohack
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A university student makes the desperate and radical decision to alter his brain to enhance his learning ability. During his search, he finds a biohac...
The IP Agent’s Choice
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An intellectual property enforcement agent discovers an unusual, illegally modified person during a routine crowd scan, making him question the fairne...
Nana Beta
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A company offers to digitally preserve Veda's grandmother's personality if she and her mother take part in a beta testing program. Veda loves the simu...
Plausible Deniability
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A well-known business person hires WH27, an artificial general intelligence of dubious character and owner of the world's first AI detective agency, t...
A Night on the Shore of the Salton Sea (Part 2)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After investing his fortune in life extensions, Nimit finds himself alone after losing his last friend to old age. He decides to take a road trip to P...
A Night on the Shore of the Salton Sea (Part 1)
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After investing his fortune in life extensions, Nimit finds himself alone after losing his last friend to old age. He decides to take a road trip to P...
Winner Take All
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an effort to please a potential investor, an entrepreneur cuts corners to develop a new microchip using human neurons. The resulting process does m...
Signal
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To follow up on a thirty-year-old story about a disappearance associated with an alien encounter, a researcher travels to a remote northern town. It s...
The Remote
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Suffering from agoraphobia, Johannes rents bodies when he needs to go outside. Called remoting, it is a way for people with cybernetic implants to tem...
Ocean Drift
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an attempt to escape imprisonment, a genetically modified Orangutan and its human companion flee to a self-declared independent micro-nation. It do...
The 5th World – Final Chapter
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ex Caelo discovers the true nature of the mission to the 5th world after suspecting information is being withheld and refusing to cooperate. An unexpe...
Unlicensed Appearance
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A retired actor, who played a superhero, is inadvertently invited to a comic convention thirty years after her last film. When she arrives at the conv...
Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 7 – Home Invasion
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doctor Slo-Mo wins what he believes is a life-changing job on the Hero-on-the-way app. However, a minor mistake turns it into a costly misunderstandin...
Dark Side
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An augmented reality graffiti artist, who targets corporate ads, suspects she is being watched. She manages to avoid being caught by adhering to a st...
The Grand Erewhon Palace
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After winning a dream vacation in an online contest, the winner finds themself at an exclusive luxury resort with an odd and unsettlingly familiar nam...
Island Three
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disguised as an indentured worker, Seda infiltrates a space habitat for the wealthy with the intent of making its citizens pay for the exploitation of...
The Counterfactual Detective Agency
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In order to pay for its hosting costs, an artificial intelligence of dubious character was forced to open the world's first AI detective agency. When...
Baseline Human
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anvi, the sole survivor of a mission to search for life in the Proxima Centauri star system returns to earth after 200 years. She begins to suspect so...
Virtual Love
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Riku Saito, a famous game developer, reluctantly complicit in maximizing player value for investors, is faced with making a choice between online pers...
The AI’s First Story
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A programmer is tasked with training artificial intelligence to understand creativity by having it write a story. As the AI works, the programmer real...
The 5th World – Chapter 6
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ex Caelo and Ship are helped to escape capture by a mysterious group of Rodentians who claim to be simply following the writings left to them in the p...
Transient Memory
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An office worker finds a cap made of smart fabric in a thrift store on his lunch break and thinks he has taken advantage of the clerk who doesn't know...
The 5th World – Chapter 5
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this return to the serial story the 5th World, a technician repairing Ex Caelo and Opertarius’s ankle trackers suspects they are trying to escape...
Incident at Lone Point
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite not being interested in LARPing, Avery reluctantly attends a weekend event at a remote summer camp, put on by a group called Terra Incognita. ...
The Upper Limit
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of a meeting, Julian wakes up aboard a spacecraft that is traveling to another star. His abductor claims they have kidnapped him to...
Bonus Episode Live at Calgary Expo
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus episode of Makeshift Stories was performed by Mitchell Tew in front of a live audience at the Calgary Expo Comics & Entertainment con on Ap...
The Stand-in
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A rogue android, hiding from capture in Tokyo by posing as a stand-in, begins to feel the need to develop friendships. Risking detection, it lets its ...
Erasure
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After reading his rediscovered diary Emilio, an indentured farm labourer, begins to suspect an entire year is missing from the world’s collective me...
Ken Likelely, Supreme Ruler
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While taking time away from a protest he and Mrs. Green started to prevent Boardwalk Estates from adopting a new landscaping bylaw, Ken finds a myster...
Simulation
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a successful operation to regain her sight, Annisa starts to suspect people around her are lying. When she catches her reflection in a window an...
The House of Veracity
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After trying to upgrade his memory to compete with colleagues at work, Matteo discovers the alteration to his DNA is causing him to go blind. Desperat...
The 5th World – Chapter 4
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lighting forces the artificial intelligence which brought Ex Caelo to the fifth world to use Opertarius as a temporary host. It is not until Ex Caelo ...
Lifeblood
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A billionaire wants to live until the technological singularity appears so that he can upload his consciousness to it. He plans to extend his life by ...
The 5th World – Chapter 3
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While working in the fields, Ex Caelo and Opertarius are caught in a freak storm. The deluge causes a flood that traps them as they run for safety. Me...
The 5th World – Chapter 2
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After recovering from the crash landing, the visitor is indentured to the landowner who discovered them and named them Ex Caelo. Ex Caelo finds Ship's...
Xenobot
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Avery, hired to help launch a new immersive social media platform called Locus, begins to experience headaches after using the system's VR headset. Fo...
Dispatches From the 5th World – Chapter 1
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An entity sent to the 5th planet of a small star system to investigate a newly discovered civilization finds a world in distress. Upon crashing on its...
The Great Moon Hoax
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An anonymous letter written in 1899 claims the great moon hoax was perpetrated 65 years earlier by an unknown individual rather than the reporter thou...
Siren Song of a Lost Phone
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The friend of a missing adventure tourist begins to receive strange text messages and voice calls from an unknown source. Thinking either the phone or...
The Prototype
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria, the most efficient employee in a distribution centre for a global online retailer, is voluntold to train an experimental android to do her job....