Unveiling Worlds Mid-Sentence
This collection invites readers into a unique format of storytelling. Here, tales are presented not as complete works, but as incomplete narrative fragments, moments captured mid-scene, or pages seemingly torn from a larger book. Each piece offers a beginning or a middle, evoking a sense of mystery and inviting the reader’s imagination to consider what came before and what happens next.
This project explores the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. It stands as an experiment in how digital tools can act as a partner in the writing process, shaping new forms of storytelling and enhancing digital literacy. The goal is to observe new possibilities when a creative concept is given a fresh, algorithmic perspective.
This collection spans genres from the familiar Contemporary Fiction to the distinctive Western Style BL, the unsettling Suburban Gothic, and the intense Dystopian Thriller. These varied unfinished tales were brought to life by Eva Suluk, Jamie F. Bell, and Tony Eetak.
We offer these short stories not just as something to read, but as an invitation. Engage with these narratives, not merely as an audience, but as a co-creator, completing the journeys in your own mind and envisioning their ultimate directions.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
Explore the fascinating intersections of Contemporary Fiction, Western Style BL, Suburban Gothic, Dystopian Thriller, Slice of Life, Paranormal Romance, Poetic / Lyrical, Dark Comedy, and Surreal / Absurdist within our collection of short stories. This platform is dedicated to advancing digital literacy by showcasing innovative approaches to publishing, specifically by exploring how creative technology and AI-assisted narrative are shaping the future of digital publishing and storytelling.
Winter Data, Spring Plans
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Slice of Life | Genre: Contemporary Fiction
The server room, usually a sterile, hushed space, vibrated with a low, rhythmic hum that was almost a comfort in the deep winter cold. Outside, the world was a dull expanse of grey snow and bare branches, but inside, against the pale green glow of status lights, Unit 734 and Unit 902 were meticulously weaving the data threads of Melgund Township’s past year into a comprehensive tapestry. Kyle, the community coordinator, leaned against a rack, the warmth of his chipped ceramic mug a small comfort against the chill that seemed to seep through the building’s old foundations. He watched the bots’ projected interfaces dance across the wall, a silent ballet of statistics and summaries.
A Confluence of Golden Ruin
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Paranormal Romance | Genre: Contemporary Fiction
The air bites, carrying the metallic tang of damp earth and decaying leaves. A park, stripped bare by the encroaching winter, hums with a quiet, brittle energy. Piles of russet and gold leaves lie abandoned, whispering secrets with every gust of wind, while the skeletal branches above claw at a sky heavy with grey. A solitary figure sits hunched on a bench, a study in quiet contemplation amidst the season’s beautiful, yet somber, farewell.
The Current’s Bearing
Author: Tony Eetak | Category: Poetic / Lyrical | Genre: Western Style BL
The river, swollen with spring melt, surged with a relentless, cold power. Its sound, a low, continuous growl, swallowed all lesser noises, forcing Owen’s world into a contained pocket of damp air and the rhythmic crunch of shale under his boots. The sky above was a bruised lavender, pregnant with the promise of more rain, and the skeletal branches of the cottonwoods lining the bank seemed to reach, almost pleadingly, towards the coming deluge.
The Hum of the Substation at Dusk
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Dark Comedy | Genre: Suburban Gothic
The new subdivision was a ghost town of good intentions. Skeletons of half-built houses stood against the bruised purple sky, their windows empty sockets. The only finished things were the roads, perfect black ribbons of tarmac that went nowhere, and the electrical substation, a huge, caged beast crouched at the edge of it all, humming its single, monotonous note into the thick, humid air of the last night of August.
The Grey Silence
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Surreal / Absurdist | Genre: Dystopian Thriller
Linda navigates the desolate, surveillance-choked alleys of a frozen city, her senses heightened by the constant threat of discovery, before meeting with an old contact who gives her a perilous new directive.
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.
