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If you are a fan of the mind-bending tales reminiscent of the The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, then these short stories are for you:

1. Robots, AIs
   1. The Manikin: Medical students being tested on a medical manikin discover it might be conscious.
   2. The Companion: Tragedy strikes when a love triangle includes a companion robot.
   3. Freedom: NovaPorn’s Artificial General Intelligence goes on strike.
   4. Eva: Lumina Cosmetics advertisements featuring Eva, their generative AI digital model, promises perfection, but it comes at a terrible cost.
   5. The Awakening: When Joseph disables a mysterious malfunctioning module in his family’s robot, he unleashes a chain of events that could end robotic servitude — or cost him everything.
   6. Atonement: After aliens unintentionally start a plague that causes humanity’s extinction, they atone by bringing people back from the past to repopulate the Earth.
   7. Undercover: A federal agent goes undercover to infiltrate a terrorist organization fighting for robots’ rights.
2. The Discovery: The creators of a simulated world question if they also live in a simulated world.
3. Relativity War: A pilot and his ship use its gamma-ray drive as a city-killing weapon in an interstellar war.
4. Earth First: When the Earth First autocrat wants to use time travel to gain military technology, aliens attempt to prevent an interstellar war by sending a human android back in time to prevent humans from inventing time travel.

January 2024 BooksShelf Short Story Contest – 1st Place
The Manikin

2024 Indies United Small Bites Short Story Contest – 2nd Place
The Manikin