Spanning Galaxies and Generations
The stories presented here are open doors to expansive worlds. By offering them as unfinished tales, we invite the reader to step inside without a guided tour. The lack of a conclusion transforms the reading experience into a collaborative act, where the audience must supply the context and the consequences for the scenes depicted.
This initiative serves as an experimental platform combining human creativity with applied artificial intelligence research. We are studying how digital tools can integrate into the writing process to support storytelling and scriptwriting. The objective is to refine workflows and expand the definition of digital literacy in the arts.
Today’s collection is particularly eclectic, spanning the distant futures of Sci-Fi to the grounded history of Family Sagas, interspersed with Satire and Noir. The authors featured in this post are Jamie F. Bell, Eva Suluk, and Tony Eetak. This combination of voices ensures a varied and engaging reading experience.
We encourage you to explore these narratives and supply your own ending. Read the text, understand the stakes, and decide where the path leads next.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
Spanning genres from sci-fi and family sagas to satire and noir, this collection offers a diverse range of short stories that blend comedy, romance, and Boys Love (BL). We are at the vanguard of the future of publishing, using creative technology to explore complex human relationships within slice of life frameworks. By focusing on AI-assisted narrative, our goal is to promote digital literacy while delivering engaging contemporary fiction that pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling.
The Sterile Bloom
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Comedy | Genre: Sci-Fi
The pavement in front of the Exchange District’s oldest bank building still bled melting snow, grey rivulets snaking towards overwhelmed drains. It was a Saturday morning, but the usual early buzz of delivery trucks and coffee-scented activity was replaced by a rigid cordon of police tape and the brittle crackle of walkie-talkies. Something impossible had happened here, something that Anette, seventy-two and having seen too much, found herself staring at with a familiar, weary disbelief that went beyond mere crime scenes.
Northern Spark, Dusty Corners
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Noir | Genre: Family Saga
Parker pressed his forehead against the cold windowpane of the community hall, leaving a damp smear. Outside, the world was still waking up from winter, hesitant and muddy. Grey puddles shimmered like spilled mercury on the gravel, reflecting the equally grey sky. A lone robin, plump and confused, pecked at a patch of brown grass that stubbornly refused to turn green. It was supposed to be spring, Aunt Donna had declared, but the air still carried a bite, a damp, earthy smell that seeped right into his bones, reminding him of old boots left out in the rain.
The Biodegradable Blight
Author: Tony Eetak | Category: Romance | Genre: Satire
The morning had started, as most spring mornings did, with a deceptive promise of renewal. The air, though crisp with the lingering chill of winter’s grudges, carried the scent of wet earth and burgeoning hyacinths. A robin chirped, annoyingly optimistic, from a branch heavy with pink magnolia blossoms. But this was not to be a morning of quiet contemplation for Evelyn ‘Evy’ Holloway, nor for Andy Finch. Instead, the sky above their neighbourhood of tidy brick duplexes and meticulously tended window boxes, a sky usually reserved for the mundane flight paths of pigeons and the occasional jet contrail, was violently interrupted by a contraption of municipal folly.
The Long Drift North
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Boys Love (BL) | Genre: Noir
The long, tired highway stretched itself thin across the autumn plains, a frayed thread leading back to a town Casey had tried to forget. The air, already sharp with the scent of damp earth and coming frost, seemed to carry the weight of old choices, pressing in on the quiet hum of his worn-out truck. Every mile brought the past closer, a past tangled with the one person he both longed for and dreaded to see.
The Geometry of Leaving
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Slice of Life | Genre: Contemporary Fiction
This part of the city doesn’t have the curated history of the Exchange. This is where the past hasn’t been sandblasted and repurposed for loft apartments. The ghost signs on Sargent Avenue are for bakeries run by families whose names I can’t pronounce, for delis that sold pickles out of a barrel, for little cinemas with sticky floors. It feels more honest, somehow. Less like a museum piece and more like a well-read book with a broken spine.
About the Project
By design, these stories have no beginning and no end. Many stories are fictional, but many others are not. They are snapshots from worlds that never fully exist, inviting you to imagine what comes before and what happens next. We had fun exploring this project, and hope you will too.
The Unfinished Tales and Short Stories collection is part of an experimental, creative arts and research program by The Arts Incubator Winnipeg and the Art Borups Corners collectives. Each chapter is an interdisciplinary arts and narrative storytelling experiment focused on two key areas: AI-Assisted Scriptwriting, where researchers explore using AI to generate story ideas, plot structures, and alternative story arcs to enhance creative development; and Talent Development and Training, where the project studies the necessary skills for creative professionals to manage AI and immersive technologies in production, helping to inform future training curricula. The project was made possible with funding and support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects program and the Government of Ontario. We thank them for supporting the arts, digital transformation research and innovation in Ontario.
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