Pages from Unwritten Books
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 sharp Satire and Sports Fiction to engaging Contemporary Fiction and Maritime Drama. Featured authors for this selection include Jamie F. Bell, Tony Eetak, and Eva Suluk.
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
Delving into genres like Satire, Sports Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Maritime Drama, and extending to categories such as Journalistic and Hardboiled Noir, we are at the forefront of digital literacy. Our mission is to integrate creative technology for compelling short stories, shaping the future of publishing with AI-assisted narrative innovation.
The Humiliation
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Journalistic | Genre: Satire
The oppressive summer air, thick with the scent of pine and something vaguely chemical, hung heavy over the Arcadian Enclave. Beyond the hand-carved, intricately locked gates that boasted ‘Sanctuary for the Seekers,’ the world outside felt like a fading rumour. Here, a perverse kind of peace reigned, woven from forced smiles and the constant, low thrum of self-congratulatory purpose. Cassidy, perched precariously on a rough-hewn bench in the ‘Communal Harmony Pavilion,’ felt her shirt stick to her back, the polyester chafing against her skin. The humidity was a constant, almost physical presence, pressing down, making every breath a conscious effort. It was a place designed to soothe, yet it humled with an underlying current of frantic energy, a manufactured serenity that felt dangerously close to snapping.
Iron Under Scrutiny
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Hardboiled Noir | Genre: Sports Fiction
The city’s breath hung heavy and grey over the frozen canal, exhaled by a thousand glowing screens and the acrid tang of melting road salt. Lamplight, fractured and weak, struggled to cut through the haze, painting the ice in sick yellows and bruised purples. A low hum vibrated from the temporary generators powering the floodlights, a mechanical heartbeat beneath the hush of anticipation. Tonight, the stakes were etched not in scoreboards, but in the desperate gleam in young men’s eyes.
Where the Bearings Seize
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Military Fiction | Genre: Contemporary Fiction
The rain didn’t fall so much as it moved in horizontal sheets, slamming against the control room’s single pane of reinforced glass with the sound of thrown gravel. Inside, the air was a stale cocktail of hot vacuum tubes, damp wool, and the faint, coppery scent of failing electronics. It was a smell Kenny was coming to associate with his new life: the smell of decay held barely at bay.
The Chakra Harmonizer
Author: Tony Eetak | Category: Romance | Genre: Satire
The ‘Zenith Blossom Summer Equinox Gathering’ had promised enlightenment and inner peace. What it delivered, instead, was an overpowering scent of burnt sage and desperation, trapped within a geodesic dome that vibrated with the low thrum of a ‘Chakra Harmonizer.’ Dorothy, already on her third internal sigh of the morning, felt a distinct unease, like an ill-fitting shoe she couldn’t quite kick off. The air, thick with the humid summer heat and the earnest, if misguided, efforts of fellow attendees, pressed in on her, making her silk scarf cling unpleasantly to her neck.
Horizon’s Soft Blur
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Gritty Realism | Genre: Maritime Drama
On the storm-threatened North Sea, Captain Evans stands on the bridge for the last time, reflecting on forty years dedicated to the unforgiving ocean as he prepares to step ashore into an uncertain retirement.
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.
