Short Stories

The Council of Linux Greybeards (468 words) - A satirical take on tradition vs. change, where the most sacred relic of all - the plaintext file - faces its greatest threat: a pointlessly wrapped binary (txt2bin / why).

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗    Date: 14 Dec 2025    Read: The Council...


Bare Metal (328 words) - A vignette. Where the hardest bugs to trace are in the management layer.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗    Date: 20 Nov 2025    Read: Bare Metal


Shadowking (405 words) - DOS and a wardialer. When the static clears, a lifetime bond begins.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗    Date: 08 Oct 2025    Read: Shadowking


The Broadcast (343 words) - Daniel works within the media machine whose purpose is to distort reality, editing war crimes into digestible narratives - until he risks everything to reveal the truth.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗     Date: 02 Jun 2025     Read: The Broadcast


The Last Town (391 words) - AI wasn't the problem. When Mira smashes a drone, she spots Old Briggs: a living monument to how power turns victims into collaborators.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗     Date: 01 Jun 2025     Read: The Last Town


Silicon Gothic (216 words) - Power always digs two pits: one for enemies, one for itself. An AI built to serve oligarchs turns on them, exposing the architects of the war machine.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0↗     Date: 31 May 2025     Read: Silicon Gothic


Knightfall in Manhattan (472 words) - A figure cloaked in shadow and vengeance encounters an unstoppable force.

Notice: disclaimer     Date: 03 May 2025     Fan Fiction: Knightfall in Manhattan


Web of Vengeance (392 words) - In a world where heroes enforce ideology instead of justice, Peter Parker must confront not only a friend turned murderer but the corruption eating his country from within.

Notice: disclaimer     Date: 23 Apr 2025     Fan Fiction: Web of Vengeance

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