Future Tech and Family Secrets
Presented here are segments of stories that have no defined beginning or end, existing only as the middle chapters of an unwritten book. These unfinished tales offer texture and dialogue without the constraints of a closed plot. This openness invites the reader to project their own logic onto the scene, deciding for themselves what the stakes truly are.
This initiative is an experimental program established at the intersection of human creativity, interdisciplinary arts, and applied artificial intelligence research. It investigates the capacity for digital tools to act as a partner in the writing process. The project aims to discover new forms of storytelling and scriptwriting, providing insights that enhance digital literacy skills and creative workflows.
Merging high-tech Cyberpunk environments with the traditional structures of a Family Saga and Mystery, this selection offers a varied reading experience. The authors featured in this post include Leaf Richards, Jamie F. Bell, and Eva Suluk. Their combined efforts produce a collection that is both futuristic and deeply personal.
Take a moment to explore these incomplete narratives. We invite you to become a co-creator by envisioning the resolution to these mysteries and the future of the families depicted within.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
Featuring a diverse array of genres from cyberpunk mystery to allegorical family sagas, this post examines the intersection of sci-fi and sports fiction. We are dedicated to advancing digital literacy and the future of publishing through the use of creative technology. These short stories exemplify our mission to utilize AI-assisted narrative tools, offering poetic and lyrical insights into horror and slice of life themes for a contemporary audience.
The Carol
Author: Leaf Richards | Category: Horror | Genre: Cyberpunk
The frost-patterned window served as a temporary scrim, separating Mandy from the manufactured joy below. Outside, Neo-London pulsed with an electric, artificial cheer, its towering structures draped in light-strands of impossible colours. Synthetic snow, churned by rooftop dispensers, drifted lazily, clinging to the grimy ledges and the cyber-trees lining the promenade. It was a spectacle designed to soothe, to distract, to make the ceaseless churn of corporate life bearable, even for a moment. But Mandy knew the true nature of the city, and the delicate balance that held it all together felt as precarious as a snowflake on a live wire.
A Chill in the Timberline
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Boys Love (BL) | Genre: Mystery
The wind howled a hollow, endless note, scrubbing the low hills of their remaining colour. A bitter, deep freeze had gripped the valley, turning the world into a study in whites and greys. Snow, fine as flour, coated everything in a thick, uncompromising blanket, piling high against the skeletal timber of spruce trees that clung desperately to the ridge lines. The air itself seemed to splinter on each breath, sharp and metallic, carrying the distant, indistinguishable scent of burning pine and something else, something acrid and old. Smoke, perhaps, from a fire long extinguished but never truly forgotten by the land.
A Frosty Agenda
Author: Leaf Richards | Category: Allegorical | Genre: Slice of Life
The air in the community hall hung heavy with the scent of old coffee, damp wool, and the faint, metallic tang of a furnace straining against the sub-zero temperatures outside. Four young adults, bundled in parkas and scarves, sat around a scratched laminate table, the low hum of the fluorescent lights a persistent companion to the sparse winter light filtering through the high, grimy windows.
The Drowning of August
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Poetic / Lyrical | Genre: Sci-Fi
The air over Port Blossom had that specific late August smell—a mix of salt rot, diesel from the fishing boats, and the cloying sweetness of the last of the wild roses clinging to the dunes. Leo sat on the breakwater, the rough concrete cold against his thighs, and turned the thing over and over in his hands. It was heavy, like a fossilised heart, its surface pocked with tiny holes that whistled faintly when the wind hit them just right.
Beneath the Glass
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Sports Fiction | Genre: Family Saga
The air in the old office felt like a poorly insulated refrigerator, carrying the faint, cloying scent of damp athletic tape and stale coffee. Outside, the night pressed in, a black velvet canvas dotted with the electric jewels of Christmas, promising a warmth the thin walls of the O’Connell rink could never truly deliver. Here, amidst the yellowing photographs of forgotten triumphs, the future felt less like a promise and more like a gamble.
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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