Fragments of a Larger World
What you will read below are not completed works, but rather pages torn from a book that has not yet been fully written. These unfinished tales offer a snapshot of characters in crisis or contemplation, leaving the wider context ambiguous. This absence of resolution is intentional, designed to provoke curiosity about the events preceding and following the excerpt.
This collection is part of an experimental program exploring the convergence of human creativity, interdisciplinary arts, and applied artificial intelligence research. The goal is to investigate how digital tools can support the writing process, offering new methodologies for storytelling and scriptwriting while building essential digital literacy skills.
The genres featured today oscillate between the personal and the systemic, including Romance, Satire, Action-Adventure, Political Thriller, and Post-Apocalyptic fiction. The authors responsible for these short stories are Jamie F. Bell and Eva Suluk.
We invite you to engage with these texts as a co-creator. Allow the unresolved tensions in these stories to spark your own ideas about where the narrative goes next.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
We are committed to advancing digital literacy by merging traditional writing with innovative creative technology. This selection of short stories highlights the versatility of our publishing model, featuring everything from gritty realism in a post-apocalyptic setting to the sharp wit of political thriller satire. By utilizing AI-assisted narrative techniques, we bring a fresh perspective to genres like romance, dark comedy, and Boys Love (BL). Join us as we explore the future of narrative fiction, delivering action-adventure tales that challenge conventions and captivate audiences worldwide.
Currents and Contact
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Boys Love (BL) | Genre: Romance
The ocean was a shifting, indifferent blue, stretching out under a relentless summer sun. Sand, warm and gritty, burrowed between toes still numb from the cold shock of the initial plunge. The air tasted of salt and distant sunscreen, a typical beach day, unremarkable until a flicker of movement caught the eye, pulling at something deep beneath the surface calm.
The Unscheduled Encounter
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Romance | Genre: Satire
The air in the Harmonious Future Collective’s North Wing was thick with the scent of synthetic lemon and the faint, persistent hum of the ‘Wellness Optimisation Grid’. Outside, the summer night pressed in, a humid, heavy blanket over the meticulously manicured lawns. Inside, the corridors gleamed under an unnervingly consistent artificial light, designed, the brochures claimed, to promote ‘optimal mood regulation’. Maggie, however, found it merely oppressive, a constant reminder of the omnipresent surveillance. She was supposed to be in her ‘Personal Reflection Chamber’ by now, completing her ‘Daily Affective Recalibration’, but a strange flicker on her wrist-comm had drawn her here, to this quiet, rarely used stretch of hallway, where the ‘optimal mood regulation’ seemed to be malfunctioning, casting long, wavering shadows.
A Reckoning
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Gritty Realism | Genre: Action-Adventure
The pre-dawn chill of a Winnipeg spring bites at the air, carrying the damp scent of thawing earth and distant river. Two figures move through a neglected urban landscape, the city’s underbelly waking to the rhythmic rumble of passing vehicles, each shadow holding a silent promise or a hidden threat.
The Dead End at Mile Marker 88
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Dark Comedy | Genre: Political Thriller
A quiet, damp gravel patch off a forgotten secondary highway, surrounded by the rotting grandeur of late autumn.
What the Loom Remembers
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Action-Adventure | Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
The air in the root cellar was cool and heavy with the smell of damp earth and potatoes. It was a good smell. A safe smell. It was the smell of the present, the sanctioned reality. The smells Tanya worked with were dangerous: the faint, chemical tang of a piece of pre-collapse denim, the ghost of perfume on a silk scarf, the acrid scent of scorched wool. These were the smells of memory, and memory was treason.
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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