Where Narratives Pause and Await
This collection offers a unique journey into the heart of storytelling. Each piece is an incomplete narrative fragment, a moment captured mid-scene, or a page torn from a larger book. They invite your imagination to fill in the gaps, pondering what came before and envisioning what might happen next.
This project stands as an experiment at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. It explores how digital tools can act as a partner in the writing process, shaping new forms of storytelling and enhancing digital literacy in a collaborative environment.
This collection spans genres from profound Literary Fiction and emotional Drama to unique Western Style BL, shadowy Noir Mystery, and insightful Slice of Life. This installment features the collaborative work of Tony Eetak and Jamie F. Bell.
We invite you to explore these unfinished tales not just as a reader, but as a co-creator, completing the narrative in your own mind and shaping its ultimate direction.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
From Literary Fiction and Drama to Western Style BL and Noir Mystery, encompassing categories like High Fantasy and Dystopian, this platform is committed to digital literacy. We embrace creative technology to innovate short stories, pioneering AI-assisted narrative and charting the course for the future of publishing.
The River’s Green Scrawl
Author: Tony Eetak | Category: High Fantasy | Genre: Literary Fiction
Along the industrial banks of the Red River in inner-city Winnipeg, as spring thaws the last of winter’s grip, two teenagers, Patti and Mateo, encounter a shimmering, impossibly green light that defies explanation and subtly alters their perception of the mundane.
The Unflattering Light of the A&E
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Dystopian | Genre: Drama
The clock on the wall of the Accident & Emergency waiting room had a dead battery. It was stuck at 2:43, which felt appropriate. Time had stopped for me, too. I was suspended in this beige room, under the hum of fluorescent lights that made everyone’s skin look grey and sickly. The air smelled of antiseptic and fear.
The Gospel of Ordnance Survey
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Journalistic | Genre: Western Style BL
The fog wasn’t just fog; it was a presence. A cold, damp entity that swallowed sound and shrunk the vastness of the Highlands down to a fifty-metre bubble of visibility. Inside this bubble were Ewan, Rhys, and a disagreement. The air, already heavy with moisture, was now thick with the tension of two competing navigational philosophies.
A Nickel-Plated Souvenir
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Swashbuckling Romance | Genre: Noir Mystery
The bus smelled of wet wool and despair. Beaton stared at his own reflection in the grime-streaked window, a ghost of a man in a cheap suit, superimposed over a landscape of dead-looking trees and snow-dusted rock. He hadn’t slept in two days, and his thoughts felt like grinding gears. He was going over the case, the same way a tongue worries a sore tooth. It was a nasty piece of work, and the worst part was, he hadn’t solved a damn thing.
The Render Farm
Category: Slice of Life | Genre: Slice of Life
A cluttered, repurposed room in a community centre near Borups Corners, filled with the hum of computer fans and the smell of stale coffee and fall dampness.
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 an experimental, creative research project by The Arts Incubator Winnipeg and the Art Borups Corners Storytelling clubs. Each chapter is a unique interdisciplinary arts and narrative storytelling experiment, born from a collaboration between artists and applied AI researchers, designed to explore the boundaries of creative writing, automation, and storytelling. 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.
