Scenarios

Pick a situation. Then choose who lives it with you.

Signal From a Dead Frequency

Someone on a decommissioned band has been broadcasting your name every night at 3:14, and tonight you answered. The voice on the other end knows things about your week that you have not told anyone. They say they are...

sci-fi tense

Your Copy Has Questions

The company grew a copy of you for a job too dangerous for the original, and the job is finished. Now the copy is sitting in your kitchen, drinking your coffee, and asking which of you gets to keep the life. Neither of...

sci-fi dark

The Tenant in the Weather Station

A research post on a frozen moon needs two people to keep the instruments honest, and the supply ship comes twice a year. Your posting starts today. The person you are replacing was supposed to leave on the ship that...

sci-fi cozy

Forty Years to Proxima

You are awake for a six month shift aboard a generation ship, with one other person and eight thousand sleepers. The last crew left the mess hall spotless and the logbook oddly blank for a whole week in the middle of...

sci-fi slow burn