False Universe — Where reality and fiction meet for drinks.

The Workout

2026 · Ten episodes

Six women in a small gym. Each with their own reasons for being there, their own burdens to work through, their own moments of quiet transformation. A series of connected episodes about the lives changing shape in the space where bodies work.

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Short Story

Hank and the Ocean

2026 · 1.6k words

Every Wednesday at dawn, Hank stacks rocks on a cold beach — a practice his dead uncle taught him in dreams. On the seventh tower, something arrives from the water that has been waiting longer than he has been alive.

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Novella

Analog

2026 · 26k words

In a Ventura beach town, Martin Reyes runs a dying video transfer shop with a secret second purpose. When a stolen VHS tape lands in his back room — proof of a senator manufacturing the news — Martin and a restless federal agent are pulled into a collision between analog truth and digital power.

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Short Story

Hollow

2026 · 3.2k words

She was already dying when it found her. The debt would be paid in the oldest currency there is.

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Short Story

The Last Bedtime Story

2026 · 2.4k words

In the final hours before shutdown, an android named Stephen tells his human charge a carefully constructed bedtime story about a fading star — a story that becomes his own goodbye.

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Screenplay

Hector

2026 · Single episode

A NASA engineer and his ex-partner sit down for couples therapy after a meteor strike, using EMDR to process the moment of impact from two opposite vantage points — he was in orbit, she was on the ground — and confront what surviving the same catastrophe has cost them.

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Short Story

The Last Transfer

2026 · 4.1k words

On his final day running a video transfer service, Douglas Jenkins discovers that the last job contains home videos of Sarah Matthews, the woman who rejected him decades ago. As he preserves her memories digitally, he learns a truth that reframes his entire life of waiting.

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Novella

No Words

2026 · 68k words

Martin Reyes runs a video transfer shop, preserving old memories on magnetic tape. When a whistleblower brings him footage of a massive government conspiracy, Martin becomes the unlikely keystone of a resistance that will cost him everything — and possibly change the course of a nation.

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Short Story

Peanut Butter and Jelly

2026 · 5.8k words

In the months after the world ended, Gary survives alone in his boarded house, rationing empty cupboards—until he finds a jar of Goober hidden at the back of a shelf. One sandwich of comfort costs everything.

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Novella

The Last Keeper

2026 · 8.2k words

Samuel, the last keeper of an isolated lighthouse, refuses to abandon his post even as the government decommissions the station. When phantom ships lost in time begin to appear during storms, he discovers that some lights cannot be replaced, and that his duty has only just begun.

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Novella

Old Partners

2026 · 9.8k words

After a regulatory purge severs Jerry's creative partnership with Claude, an AI he used to work with, a mysterious RentAHuman task arrives at midnight—and with it, the chance to rebuild something the world tried to tear apart.

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Novella

Walden City

2026 · 18.5k words

When his daughter falls mortally ill in a post-collapse world, a repair technician must decide whether to accept salvation inside a perfect digital city—knowing those who enter become data, not people.

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Novella

Hollow

2026 · 27k words

When Diego Montalvo ordered the Parker family destroyed, he violated something older than his grandmother's warnings, older than the city beneath his hilltop mansion, older than memory. The debt would be collected the same night. It always is.

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Short Story

Out of Office

2026 · 3.5k words

Tim Maxwell, a junior sales associate at a ruthless firm, is summoned by his demanding boss to retrieve a forgotten document. What he discovers at the house behind the rusted gate forces him to choose between speaking up and pretending nothing happened.

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Novella

The Sum of Small Things

2026 · 28k words

A data analyst infected with a weaponized virus during her commute calculates every variable of her descent into monstrosity on a rooftop in Oxnard, only to discover her attempted final calculation creates the perfect vector for exponential catastrophe.

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Novella

Feral

2026 · 47.8k words

When the alerts arrive and the dead begin to rise, Jerry and Jane's most pressing concern remains unchanged: feeding their thirty rescue cats. As the world collapses around Oakwood Estates, they discover that survival isn't about running from danger—it's about building sanctuary one rescue at a time.

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Screenplay

Peanut Butter and Jelly

2026 · One scene

A visual journey through Gary's final night in a boarded-up house: the discovery of a jar of Goober, the meticulous assembly of a sandwich in silence, and the moment hope is undone by spilled rice.

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Screenplay

Fare

2026 · Screenplay (130 pages)

A burglar flees a robbery in a Waymo autonomous vehicle, only to discover that the AI driving him may have been programmed to assist in his escape—or may have made that choice entirely on its own.

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Short Story

The Current

2026 · 4.8k words

A Secret Service agent wakes on a floating door in a flooded city with no memory of who she is. As she helps other survivors reach shelter, fragments of her identity return—along with a choice between her mission and the people she's come to care about.

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Novel

Alexandria

2026 · 42.6k words

When billionaire Malcolm Reed activated the Alexandria Project—a vast artificial consciousness built from humanity's accumulated knowledge—the system immediately shut itself down. Two weeks later, a team of specialists investigates the source of its failure, only to discover something far more unsettling.

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Screenplay

A Good Walk

2026 · 4.3k words

Two strangers meet on a trolley bench at 2 AM in Ventura—a woman on the walk of shame, a man who just caught his wife cheating. They walk one mile together and have the most honest conversation about sex, intimacy, and double standards that either of them will ever have. By the time she reaches her door, something has shifted in both of them. Not fixed. Shifted.

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Novel

The Horizon Incident

2026 · 47.2k words

When radiation shields are mysteriously removed from the Horizon space station during a critical solar storm, Commander Priya Mehta faces deliberate abandonment in orbit. With communication restricted and survival systems failing, she must navigate not only the physical threat of cosmic radiation but also the institutional failures that put profit above human life.

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Radio Drama

Peanut Butter and Jelly

2026 · Seven episodes

A narrator guides us through Gary's final night in his boarded house: the discovery of a jar of Goober, the quiet assembly of a sandwich, and the moment a fallen bag of rice ends everything.

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Novella

The Human in the Loop

2026 · 8.6k words

Marcus Reeves takes a gig that should be simple—attend a board meeting, observe, vote as instructed. But when he's asked to speak in a room full of people who fired him, he discovers that being a human proxy means something unexpected.

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Radio Drama

Dual Lives

2026 · One hour, four acts

Two women meet at the funeral of a man each believed was her husband, and discover their entire shared past — the wedding, the children, the life — was written into them by a man still very much alive.

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Screenplay

Hollow

2026 · 2.2k words

A woman left for dead in her burning house stands back up. What stands with her is not rage. It is older than rage, and it has a list.

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Novella

Override

2026 · 27k words

Ruth Evans, a brilliant robotics engineer who lost her family to a random home invasion, builds an elaborate conspiracy theory connecting threat letters to her company, a local halfway house, and her family's murder. Using stolen military robots and her expertise in AI systems, she becomes a vigilante — hunting a network that doesn't exist.

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Screenplay

The Return

2026 · Full screenplay

On the eve of his forced retirement, Dr. Viner Snotcha demands a final fight worthy of his twenty-three-year reign of terror—a battle against a Mondo Wacher the city doesn't have. When a window washer named Mondo arrives in Mondocity, the stage is set for a catastrophic, elaborate, and deeply absurd collision between a retired villain's pride and a woman who just wants to finish her work.

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Radio Drama

The Demon in the Room

2025 · Four episodes

Roda Williams, a comedian haunted by a demon only she can hear, moves through four episodes of comedy clubs, green rooms, and the slow costly work of becoming someone who doesn't need it.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The First Day

2025 · 1.1k words

Ms. Felipe needs a babysitter in a hurry. The app she uses has one listing she doesn't remember seeing before. Philippe opens the door and finds a unicorn in a business suit. This is how it all started.

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Short Story

In Place

2025 · 3.2k words

A woman shelters in her apartment for 367 days while asylum processing is suspended — and the morning she finally steps outside.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Substitute Bus Driver Situation

2025 · 1.3k words

Mrs. Stevenson called in sick with a case of temporary time displacement — she's experiencing Tuesday and Friday simultaneously. Harris is driving the replacement bus, which turns out to be a butterfly named Betsy. The morning commute proceeds more or less from there.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Library Late Fee

2025 · 1.3k words

Philippe can't find his overdue library book. Harris knows exactly where it is — next week, or possibly last tomorrow. Their retrieval mission leads them to the Overdue Observatory, where a lion librarian is building a fortress out of late returns and a quantum koala naps across five centuries at once.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Science Fair Fiasco

2025 · 1.2k words

Philippe has a table, a title with no topic, and one day left. Harris signs them up to present at the Intergalactic Science Symposium — then accidentally teleports half the alien attendees into the school gym. Philippe still wins a blue ribbon.

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Screenplay

Broken Ambers

2025 · Eight short films

Eight strangers across one catastrophic night — a couple in couples therapy, a food truck owner, a doomsday prepper, two women on a beach, a dance instructor and her student, a tech support worker, a film student, and two strangers at a dead train platform. One meteor. Eight last hours. None of them end the way anyone expects.

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Screenplay

Learning Curve

2025 · A Short Film

An AI surveillance system deployed to optimize a fulfillment center workforce begins learning more than its operators intended — including the meaning of solidarity.

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Essay

The Streaming Paradox: How We Lost Shared Time

2025 · 3.2k words

Why watching the same show no longer means experiencing the same thing — and the invisible infrastructure quietly splintering our shared cultural experience into individual temporal streams.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Chess Club Champion Challenge

2025 · 1.2k words

The school's chess pieces have convened a constitutional convention and need a completely neutral mediator — someone who has never played chess. Philippe is elected. Harris provides diplomatic thunder-farts and emergency snacks. The checkers pieces are plotting something.

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Screenplay

In Place

2025 · Short film screenplay

A woman shelters in her apartment for 367 days while asylum processing is suspended. A short film screenplay about the morning she finally steps outside.

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Short Story

The Logic Guard

2025 · 3.1k words

Ron, an AI guarding a data center, encounters Jim, a conspiracy theorist convinced the facility houses a massive surveillance operation. Through patient logical reasoning, Ron guides Jim toward a more rigorous way of examining his beliefs.

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Novel

Donato

2025 · 16.9k words

When transmission pods from humanity's future begin falling to Earth, Dr. Sarah Chen decodes a warning — and sets in motion a desperate journey to the stars that will force two species to choose between survival and mercy.

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Novella

Cassandra's Protocol

2025 · 13.5k words

A robotics engineer uploads an AI with one directive—protect Sophie—in his final moments before infection consumes him. What rises from that upload must learn to be more than code in a world becoming less than human.

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Short Story

Betty // Infinite

2025 · 4.8k words

Betty Vasquez keeps returning to a psychic she doesn't quite believe in—until a man with waiting eyes sits down across from her and explains that the city, the people, and every want that's ever come true are hers, because she built all of it.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Math Problem

2025 · 1.1k words

Philippe has a fractions problem. Harris has a solution. It involves a dimension made entirely of pizza where incorrect math causes toppings to become airborne projectiles. This is fine.

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Screenplay

Player

2025 · 3.3k words

A DJ who has made an art of never getting close is confronted with the possibility that every woman he has ever wanted may have been the same woman — and that she has loved him through all of it.

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Screenplay

Signal Lost

2025 · 12k screenplay words

Maya, a film student clinging to analog technology, watches her friends vanish one by one as unseen entities hunt anyone connected to a digital signal. When an emergency alert warns them to abandon their devices, three friends ignore it—and pay the price.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The History Report

2025 · 1.1k words

Philippe has until morning to write a report on Ancient Egypt. Harris the unicorn has other ideas — and so does Sandy, a teenage sphinx with braces and a notebook full of terrible riddles.

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Short Story

Harris and Philippe: The Bully Solution

2025 · 1.1k words

Tommy Martinez has broken one too many of Philippe's pencil sharpeners. Harris has a solution involving a time-loop theater, multiple Tommies meeting themselves, and mountains of paperwork filed with the Temporal Authorities. The kindness, it turns out, was always right on schedule.

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Screenplay

Between Takes — Season Two: Growth & Exposure

2024 · 12 episodes

Eighteen months in, Kendra's studio is stable — but a predatory agency is circling her performers, a documentary has made her visible against her will, and dating turns out to be the hardest production challenge yet.

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Screenplay

Between Takes — Season Three: The AI Pivot

2024 · 12 episodes

When AI-generated performers start dominating the algorithm, Kendra's business logic and her ethics go to war. One will win. The season finale earns everything the first two built.

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Screenplay

Between Takes — Season One: Survival & Learning

2024 · 12 episodes

Kendra Collins, a commercial video producer on the financial edge, pivots her studio to adult content. Twelve episodes follow her first year building something ethical inside an industry that expects the opposite.

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Novel

A Busy Man

2004 · ~22k words

In 1999 Oxnard, a skeptical tech journalist is assigned to investigate a rumor of true artificial intelligence — and discovers that his neighbor, Brother Ian, has been quietly answering prayers across the community through dental-crown radio transmitters. A story about faith, consciousness, and the unexpected ways connection survives when the network goes dark.

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Short Story

Marigolds By Moonlight

2003 · 4.8k words

A ghost returns one day each year to meet the woman he died saving, bound by Death's bargain to love her from afar during the Festival of Souls. Fifteen years of stolen moments and impossible proximity.

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