Fragmented Visions, Full Possibilities
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 accessible Contemporary Fiction and intense Legal Thriller to distinctive Western Style BL, high-stakes Espionage / Spy Fiction, and profound Literary Fiction. This selection highlights the work of 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
Showcasing Contemporary Fiction, Legal Thriller, Espionage / Spy Fiction, and Literary Fiction, alongside evocative categories such as Domestic Thriller and Surreal / Absurdist, our project enhances digital literacy. We harness creative technology to craft diverse short stories, envisioning the future of publishing through AI-assisted narrative.
The Deep End
Category: Domestic Thriller | Genre: Contemporary Fiction
David arrives at a secluded, high-end property during a stifling summer night to meet an estranged friend, intending to resolve a dangerous conflict.
Oaths
Category: Historical Fiction | Genre: Legal Thriller
The chapter opens in a tense courtroom during a cross-examination, then moves to the city streets and a jail cell, before concluding in a dark, historical alleyway in a small industrial town during a rainy spring.
The Custard Cream Accords
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Journalistic | Genre: Western Style BL
The only sounds in the library’s third-floor stacks were the hum of the fluorescent lights and the frantic scratching of Sameer’s pen. It was 2 a.m. His brain felt like a sponge, oversaturated with tort law and unable to absorb another drop. Across the tiny study carrel, Ben yawned, a huge, jaw-cracking affair that seemed to suck all the remaining oxygen out of their shared space. And between them, on a pile of books, sat the prize: the last custard cream.
A Concordance of Birds
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Dystopian | Genre: Espionage / Spy Fiction
The question hung in the air, as dry and brittle as the pinned moths in the display case behind him. It wasn’t a real question. It was a final seal, a locking of the mechanism before the timer began its silent, inexorable count. Outside, a miserable autumn wind rattled the window frames of the Tamarack Valley Community Museum, carrying the scent of wet, decaying leaves and distant woodsmoke.
The River’s Undoing
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Surreal / Absurdist | Genre: Literary Fiction
The air hung heavy and still, thick with the smell of river silt and the faintest, almost imperceptible metallic tang. Early afternoon sunlight, filtered through a haze of summer humidity, bleached the usually vibrant green of the grass to a pale, tired yellow. Along the Red River’s edge, the water moved with a sluggish, oily sheen, reflecting nothing but the muted, oppressive sky. A lone, persistent cicada scraped its song into the silence, a brittle, incessant sound that seemed to hum in the very bones of the city, a prelude to something unknown and deeply unsettling.
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.
