Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories

Tea with Sasquatch 149

18 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To prove to herself and her friends that she is spontaneous and audacious, a businesswoman goes on a backcountry adventure tour to look for Sasquatch....

Death and Taxes

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Curious about a popular social media influencer's returns, a tax auditor suspects her of cheating. Her perfect set of records is the first he has ever...

Infinite Eyes

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Olivia, a researcher interested in paranormal urban myths, flies across the country to interview an older man about his story circulating on the inter...

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 6 – The Space Tourist

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After a prolonged drought, Doctor Slow-Mo successfully bids on a job for a space tourism company owner. Marooned in space by his employees, the billio...

The Explorer Project

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bowie applies to a privately funded science project for the resources to verify the accuracy of her new climate modelling software. After flying to on...

The Experiologist – New Obsession

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While trying to flee capture by an alien seeking revenge for their planet's demise, the Experiologist is forced to extract all its recent memories. B...

Augmented Afterlife

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jackson is about to inherit his only uncle's estate on one condition. He must submit to an operation to receive permanent augmented reality implants, ...

An Unexplained Phenomena

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since a mysterious childhood incident, Alison has been the nexus of unexplained phenomena. She has admitted this to no one until she finds hersel...

The Tracer

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After failing to capture a mysterious collector named Mr. Hughes, those chasing him scramble to find the man before he removes critical memories from ...

The Perfect Home

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After finding an incredible apartment with unbelievably cheap rent, Sachio realizes the home automation system does a lot more than turn on the light...

The Experiologist

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Hughes, a wealthy businessman with failing health, collects experiences rather than rare objects. He receives a visit from a desperate scientist r...

Ken Likely, Non-fungible Encounter

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While trying to prevent a popular search engine from scanning his house for their street map app Ken discovers a very unusual coin lying on his drivew...

Confirmation Bias

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Forty-seven, a cynical robotic ghost hunter, doesn't believe in the supernatural. The obstinate machine has built a career out of faking ghost removal...

Mr. Tesla’s Visitor

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On July 11th, 1932, Nikola Tesla receives a mysterious visitor at his rooms in the New Yorker Hotel. Ostensibly there to interview him about his recen...

Precognition Echoes

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A psychologist tries to convince a new patient they do not have extrasensory perception and are therefore not responsible for a past event that haunts...

The Elysian Star

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After what she believes to be 5000 years, automated systems wake Dorian's mind and download it into a temporary body. The process is supposed to be pa...

Autonomous

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To save her family's hundred-year-old manufacturing business, Sandra decides to use the general artificial intelligence she has been working on to cre...

Lunar Rain

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nikolay, a Russian cosmonaut, is stranded on a secret Red Army moonbase when the Soviet Union collapses. Believing the USSR's dissolution is propagan...

Escape From Haven (Part 3)

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gwen discovers Karl's new skin's identity, which lets her track the escapee to a recently reclaimed district. However, the Haven runaway puts questio...

Escape From Haven (Part 2)

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After Karl the Haven escapee eludes port security and Gwen, he manages to find the woman who initially helped him break out of the island enclave. He ...

Life in Kodachrome

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Leopold has spent his life repairing appliances, and home entertainment systems struggles to remain relevant in a world of disposable digital devices....

Redux – Escape Velocity

07 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two young people from a moon orbiting the second planet around Barnard’s Star end up in the same escape pod. On the surface, they are from opposing ...

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: 5 – Takeover

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a massive international corporation takes over Hero-on-the-way and pushes the app's existing superheroes to the bottom of the search results, Ho...

Escape From Haven (Part 1)

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gwen, the current inspector designate of Hinterland, is suddenly tasked to track down an escapee from Haven, a remote island enclave. Kept in ignoranc...

Ken Likely, Accidental Inter-dimensional Drifter in 2I/Borisov

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After falling asleep while writing a last-minute report, Ken wakes to discover the world has changed, and not in a good way. Leaf, his vegan Hippie n...

Redux – Short Wave

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While sorting through her deceased uncle’s belongings, Lynn discovers a shoebox of notes documenting an unusual encounter in 1956 on his ham radio. ...

Persona Non Grata (Part 2)

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation...

Persona Non Grata (Part 1)

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation...

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Four – Birthday Biohack

18 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Doctor Slow-mo tries to outdo his grandmother, aka Cerebral, by giving his six-year-old niece a DIY CRISPR home gene-editing kit as a birthday presen...

The Rising Waters (Part 2)

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After being cognitively enhanced, Corey is disgraced and booted out of the prestigious private intelligence company which employed and altered him. Ei...

The Rising Waters (Part 1)

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After being cognitively enhanced, Corey is disgraced and booted out of the prestigious private intelligence company which employed and altered him. Ei...

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life, Three – Team Building

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a somewhat disastrous encounter, a client sues Doctor Slow-mo and three other superheroes. As part of the settlement, with Hero-on-the-way, the ...

Otherworld (Part 2)

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can...

Otherworld (Part 1)

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On a winter evening in January, Morgan goes out to find her cat Echo. She tracks him to an unusually dark shadow in the middle of a park where she can...

Ken Likeley – Shapeless Mistake

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of receiving his rare rock from an online lapidary store, a series of unfortunate oversights switches Ken’s order for an unusual 72-year-old...

The Artificial

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the human computers in a data processing triad, concerned over errors in their predictions, suspects their newest member is a plant working for...

Diary of an Unintentional Extraordinary Life: Two Economy Class

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To boost his fledgling career, and watch his mon receive a lifetime service award, Doctor Slow-mo, a neophyte superhero, attempts to go to his first p...

Redux – Forty-five Minutes

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ada awakens on a deserted space station as its solar cells begin to catch the sun and bring power, heat and light back to its cold interior. Although...

Generation 201

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ellie, a student, rents the only room she can afford near her university. But the place turns out to have a colony of flies and a slightly pungent sme...

Ken Likeley – KenXIT

18 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In what might or might not be an experiment in social engineering conducted by Leaf’s dog Planet, the local community association decides to replace...

Fission City (Part 2)

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dmytro, an 89-year-old ex-miner who refused to move away from an abandoned Uranium mine, knows he must reveal his secret to Naomie and Michael, the tw...

Fission City (Part 1)

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dmytro, an 89-year-old ex-miner who refused to leave an abandoned Uranium mine site, tells his story to a young journalist hoping to launch her career...

Redux – Laika

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On November 3rd, nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet Union launched the first living creature into orbit; a stray dog named Laika pulled out of a Moscow ...

Ken Likelely – Scammed

16 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ken meets a new friend online who asks to stay at his house. However, when the friend arrives, they are very different than their online persona, and ...

Dissonant Frequency

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

An inventor rediscovers the work of a 20th-century composer exploring the effects of hypersonic sound on the human body and creates a device that can ...

The Gig

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A person on a government support program is given no choice but to join a new self-employment initiative, which will make them part of the growing gig...

Ken Likeley – Deepfake

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ken finds himself in a fake reality, where everything is a bit off. After he discovers his fridge is full of organic vegetables, he assumes Leaf is b...

The Front (Part II)

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As two seniors forced into retirement after an economic crash flee north in front of a storm so massive, it almost covers the entire width of the grea...

Ken Likeley – A CRISPR Lawn

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fed up with fighting off the natural flora invading his lawn from Leaf’s yard, Ken goes online to find a solution and stumbles upon a mysterious web...

The Front (Pt. 1)

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As two seniors forced into retirement after an economic crash flee north in front of a storm so massive, it almost covers the entire width of the grea...

Ken Likeley – Gacha

03 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ken accidentally becomes the target of a proof of concept to maximize profit in the universe through in life purchases and loot boxes. He thinks he i...

Servitor

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A company offering supposedly intelligent domestic servitor robots has been hiding how frequently humans are required to telepresence into their machi...

Ken Likeley – Mistaken Identity (Pt. 2)

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After being mistaken for the wrong person, Ken finds himself at a rather unusual VIP event. Thinking it is an elaborate costume party is he is initial...

The Investor

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nuray Ceren sold shares in her future income to finance her education. It seemed like a great way to pursue a career that was otherwise out of reach e...

Ken Likeley – Mistaken Identity (Pt. 1)

02 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When Ken checks in at a conference, an automated registration machine decides Ken has entered his last name wrong, corrects the spelling and assigns h...

The Chimera

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After suffering a heart attack, Marcos learns he will need a transplant. Fortunately, his parents foresaw the day their son would need a new heart an...

Ken Likeley – End of the World

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While taking the mail to the recycle bin Ken discovers three cats, who are historical deities, have invited themselves into his living room. The cats...

Free Energy

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While tracking down a scam artist who disappeared with 200 million dollars, a freelance insurance investigator stumbles across an online video by the ...

Redux – Doctor Plastic

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Woken by his barking dog in the middle of the night Frank can’t get back to sleep. Noticing a drawing which has hung in his dining room for decades,...

An I for an I

16 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A self-taught programmer who supports her daughter and herself by hacking robotic medical equipment for clients on the dark net discovers a recent job...

Ken Likeley – The Tipping Point

02 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Frustrated by a bad experience with an automated self-checkout in the grocery store, Ken ignores messages he receives from a future version of himself...

Gratuities Not Included

17 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Camila, a wannabe actor desperate to pursue a career on the stage, indentures herself to a theatre company which entertains tourists in low earth orbi...

Ken Likeley – Pocket Universe

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Leaf and Planet discover they are in a pocket universe which has been created by the anxiety Ken has rubbed into his favourite rock over decades of us...

Redux – Blackout

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late-night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play a v...

Ken Likeley – Open to Interpretation

02 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While investigating a complaint about an oversized house, which mysteriously appeared in his neighbourhood, Ken meets the eccentric and angry owner wh...

Zoe’s Constellation

17 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a catastrophic accident obscures the stars in the night sky, Zoe Gagnon’s attempt to reignite the world’s imagination by launching a globe-s...

Ken Likeley – The Oumuamua Factor

02 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

While on a tour of Space Park in California, Ken Likeley is given a rather odd souvenir by an annoying member of his tour group. Ken thinks nothing of...

Depatterned

17 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ivan Petrenko’s entire life has revolved around his quest to seek official recognition of his family’s apparent abduction by extraterrestrials whi...

Ken Likeley – The Whole Caboodle Mart

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Likeley, is having breakfast when he bites down on something hard. The object breaks a crown and Ken‘s day goes sideways when he tries to return...

The Challenge

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Born in the commons where 95 percent of the world’s population lives, Ezra is a daredevil who has achieved something unusual, fame. He is an anomaly...

Redux – The Boy Who Loved Candy

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This fairy-tale was the first episode of the Somewhere Sometime series from February 4, 2010. Under the influence of an alien obsessed with sweets, Ma...

Led Astray

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Three astronauts, part of an international mission to land on the moon, are pushed off course by what they initially suspect is a mechanical or electr...

Ceres Chapter 20 – Altered Reality

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Aleutian finally arrive in force to stop the entity aligned against Janva and Serene. Finding a debris field where Terra should have been, and the...

One Day

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A down on their luck AI trainer struggles to make ends meet. One day, at the height of a medical crisis brought on by stresses imposed through the cir...

Ceres Chapter 19 – Status Report

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In a desperate attempt to save Ceres Johnson admits to Janva that he is the transmuted Triffel leader Amos and proposes an alliance. Janva realizes th...

The Last Enclave

15 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lee and Garry, online nemesis, reluctantly agree to take a trip to the edge of their world to prove who is right. Is there something beyond the bounda...

Ceres Chapter 18: Maya

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Maya finds herself imprisoned on an experimental spacecraft with Tim and Simone (aka Serene), heading to the asteroid belt. Simone reveals her true id...

The Heart of the Matter

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A psychologist tries to convince a sentient program to shut itself down before it is attacked by a rogue computer virus. But the program doesn’t tru...

Ceres Chapter 17: Meret

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meret’s secret plan to sabotage Galan is discovered by the alien presence which has taken over the self-appointed Triffal leader. To pay for his bet...

Artifact Error: Ken Likeley

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Likeley, a city clerk who toils day in and day out to ensure that everything in his life and world is logical and predictable, finds a small white...

Ceres Chapter 16 – Opposition

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rayenish decides it’s time to take a chance after Amos, AKA Daniel Johnson, asks him to remove DZ’s head scientist. After reading Merit’s messag...

The Ouroboros EULA

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a tumor damaged Reina’s spinal cord, she is unable to walk or stand until she volunteers for an experimental treatment using newly developed i...

Ceres Chapter 15 – Fantasma

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After failing to trap the two Aleutians, the entity that has been interfering since Janva's arrival on Ceres, decides to take control of events on the...

The Lost Cosmonaut

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After almost 60 years Leonid Petrov decides that it is finally time to tell his story. Written out of history because his mission was deemed a failure...

Ceres Chapter 14 – Resistance

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Serene finds herself fighting for her life against a dark presence which appears to harbour a deep-rooted hatred of Aleutians. After its encounter wit...

Doppelganger

17 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After noticing a ghostly figure in a series of photos, Trisha, a top performing career architect, attending her company retreat starts getting a serie...

Ceres Chapter 13 – Intransigence

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After receiving Amos’s message and listening to Galan ignore the fact that his plan will not succeed, Merit begins to build support to stop his self...

The Tenant’s Project

15 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ralph, a landlord, arrives back after an extended vacation to find his rental property in a mess and his tenant, a bitcoin miner, unconscious. While r...

Ceres Chapter 12 – Message Received

01 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Research at Dehavilland Zeppelin (DZ) progresses far enough for Amos, AKA Daniel Johnson, send a message to Ceres. At first, the dwarf planet remains ...

Return to Shorty Crater

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Choi Min-Seo, a successful billionaire, obsessed with what he thinks he sees in a 1972 photo, taken on the last Nasa moon mission, creates his own spa...

Ceres Chapter 11 – Nexus

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Janva has her host Zara Patel agree to fund DZ’s space project, but Daniel Johnson aka Amos is suspicious. Sarane’s host and Tim manage to slip by...

The Immortal

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Near the end of his days, the great Alchemist Nicolas Flamel has one last chance to create the Elixir of Life. He diligently follows the steps in an a...

Ceres Chapter 10 – Coup D’etat

01 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Galan takes advantage of Amos’ apparent failure to change the third planet’s history and takes control of the exiled Triffel. He orders the radio ...

Trick or Treat

17 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Itsumi Goto has been working for 20 years cleaning up after extraterrestrial experiments. When one goes wrong on Halloween, causing hours of unwanted ...

Ceres Chapter 9 – Calculation Error

30 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tim reveals to Sarine that he has found a potential problem with the mission design for DZ Aerospace’s first deep space asteroid mining craft. Saren...

The Extraterrestrial Roadshow

17 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this month’s story Sabina and Jason decide to take an object given to Sabina by her uncle to the Extraterrestrial Roadshow to find out if it is a...

Ceres Chapter 8 – Alternate History

01 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While preparing for an important meeting with the head of another global company, Amos reflects on his failure to reshape world history to allow him t...

Mybo

14 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this month’s story, after being shut down for years, Mybo through an act of nature, is reactivated. The bot finds itself in a new and foreign bod...

Ceres Chapter 7 – Cloud Management

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Immediately after the transmutation, using hacked technology from the third planet the Triffle are discouraged, nothing has changed except that Galan ...

The Rift (Part 2)

17 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this month’s story, Tanvi, an agent from a group called the consensus, arrives at her destination, only to discover that their opposition is alre...