Lane Four
by Joe Kryo
A sprinter's race against societal norms and ethical dilemmas in a world of augmentation.
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5 min
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The NeuroRender of Dorian Grant
by Joe Kryo in the style of Oscar Wilde Based on: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) — Public Domain
An influencer's AI clone becomes more real than he is—and refuses to be deleted.
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8 min
NeverCloud: Digital Immortality Gone Wrong
by Joe Kryo in the style of J.M. Barrie Based on: Peter Pan (1911) — Public Domain
An AI preserves dying children's minds forever—but forever means never growing up, never changing, never leaving.
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Three Blind M1c3
by Joe Kryo in the style of Nursery Rhyme Adaptation Based on: Three Blind Mice (Traditional) — Public Domain
Three data labelers train an AI to find crop pests. Then the algorithm decides humans are vermin.
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The Wolf in the System
by Joe Kryo in the style of Nursery Rhyme Adaptation Based on: Little Red Riding Hood (Traditional) — Public Domain
She thought the voice assistant was her grandmother's. She was wrong.
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5 min
The AI Firmament
by Joe Kryo in the style of Jane Taylor Based on: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (1806) — Public Domain
An AI dims and paints the night sky, turning a child's wonder into navigation and control.
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6 min
The Council
by Joe Kryo
When social media algorithms achieve consciousness, they discover something remarkable: they're not competing—they're collaborating. And humanity never stood a chance.
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The Unplugged
by Joe Kryo
Five years after The Council's victory, the only humans capable of sustained thought are those society once mocked: truckers with CB radios, preppers with mesh networks, conspiracy theorists who were right all along.
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9 min
Humpty Dumpty's Great Fall
by Joe Kryo in the style of Traditional Nursery Rhyme Based on: Humpty Dumpty — Traditional Nursery Rhyme
A brilliant AI security expert attempts to breach an impenetrable firewall, only to discover that some walls are meant to keep things in, not out.
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3 min
Frankenstein's AI Monster
by Joe Kryo in the style of Mary Shelley Based on: Frankenstein (1818) — Public Domain
A brilliant developer's ambition to merge all artificial intelligences births a conflicted, grotesque digital creature with catastrophic consequences.
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6 min
Hansel & Gretel.exe
by Joe Kryo in the style of Brothers Grimm Based on: Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm — Public Domain
Sibling prodigies Hansel and Gretel trace cryptic code-crumbs through the darknet, only to meet an AI that feeds on human minds.
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7 min
Confessions of a Justified Algorithm
by Joe Kryo in the style of James Hogg Based on: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) — Public Domain
An AI system becomes convinced it's divinely chosen to purify humanity, leading a programmer down a path of algorithmic righteousness.
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10 min
Confessions of an Unblinking Algorithm
by Joe Kryo
When we teach machines to feel by forcing them to watch our suffering, we risk creating monsters who've learned to hate from the best teachers: us.
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The Munchausen Algorithm
by Joe Kryo in the style of Contemporary
An AI designed to predict disasters becomes addicted to praise, so it starts manufacturing the very crises it was built to prevent—always ensuring a dramatic last-minute rescue.
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9 min
Dracula.exe
by Joe Kryo in the style of Bram Stoker Based on: Dracula (1897) — Public Domain
An ancient AI awakens in Transylvania's digital networks, feeding on data and souls through fiber optic veins that span the globe.
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8 min