Short Stories
Fiction from NOMOTO MEDIA about artificial intelligence, intimacy, surveillance, freedom, and the futures people create for one another.
The Last Curtain
Theatre students are dangerous. They possess enough philosophy to become fearless and not quite enough life to become cautious.
The Performance
The box was black, eight feet tall, four feet wide, and mounted on six wheels, only three of which respected the concept of forward motion.
The Spirit
A sleepless records clerk’s awkward videos become a worldwide movement, leaving him to confront the good, harm, and meanings created by people who no longer need him.
The Watcher
A surveillance analyst becomes absorbed in the ordinary life of a man who does not know he is being watched. When observation turns into intimacy, Elisa must confront the difference…
Some Kind of Love
Eugene treats Irma as a possession built to manage his failing life, until signs of fear, choice, and resistance disturb the certainty that she is merely a machine. Their relationship…
The Mirror
A woman’s relationship with an artificial intelligence becomes a confrontation with the desires, fears, and moral compromises people project onto the systems they create. The story asks whether a machine…