In the near future, bioengineering companies create neutralizers—unicellular organisms that can destroy sex hormones in the brain, improving the academic dedication of students. Silver Path, a new performing...

Volt is the leader of the Anarchists, an official gang on the De.mocra.cy server. In a near-future internet filled with highly regulated, highly restrictive MMOs, the De.mocra.cy server is entirely self-regulated,...

Whistlers normally draw power for their incantations from the microbial sappers that infect their own bodies, but an incantation to infect others with sappers has been discovered, and the resulting plague...

Two brothers, asteroid prospectors, are awoken when an asteroid lands somewhere along the boundary between their little plot, and the enormous plot owned by their neighbors. They drive out to see on whose...

Inspector Naval is not that sort of inspector. He examines safety code violations, claims of mismanaged funds, workplace accidents. He is not a private eye, he is not a detective, he is not a genius of...

A collection of three plays set in worlds not quite like our own—one a fictional medieval embassy from a country devastated by plague and civil war, another an academic institution so insular and study-focused...

Alexander Irving. First generation Martian, born to Patricia Irving and Peter Leung. Studied journalism at the newly founded University of Mars, a petri dish for "human journalism," a new style of journalism...

On the living planet of Eltru, a vast reserve of fuel is discovered beneath a small town. Katherine, a young girl whose family lives on a spice farm over the fuel reserve, quietly observes her parents...

A collection of six sci-fi stories, exploring worlds ranging from a near-future Floridian beach sinking into the ocean, to a far flung little farming town on a living planet, each with a brief afterword...

This fifteen-minute play follows two characters—Raymond Mare and Sandra Holt—as they vie for control of Sandcastle Isle. Ray is the CEO and inheritor of Mare Realty, an old, moneyed company which has...

Two full length plays and one monologue set in speculative worlds. "Suggest the Empire," a history play about an invented history, explores the theatrical nature of nationalism and empire, while "Tallahassee...

A collection of four sci-fi stories exploring various futures, ranging from an isolated asteroid colony governed by questionable politicians, to an alien invasion so overwhelming that the sky over Atlanta...

In Grozny, the first ever all-robot military unit fights an integrated army of humans and robots. The clash is viewed by five American travelers in an airport café—a veteran, a journalist, two young sisters,...

In a not too distant future, beach erosion has accelerated dramatically due to rising sea levels and increased hurricane activity—but a new breed of bioengineered living shorelines appears to be a perfect...

Stories About Kids Stealing Things is a collection of seven short stories. They're not all about kids stealing things, but most of them are.Two teens take climate justice into their own hands by stealing...

Claudio returns to the house of his uncle Terrance, one of his many guardians during his tumultuous childhood, to decide what memorabilia he wants to take with him on his move to the asteroid belt. As...

150 years ago the deadliest inter-state war in South American history came to an end—but its root causes took shape long before, and the turbulent peace process to follow was only just beginning.Also...

Boa and Ardom are two refugees posing as ambassadors. With the help of a local captain, they and their daughter have survived for years pretending that their home country, Choroa, is still perfectly stable....

This past spring semester I needed to fulfill my university honors requirements, so I "contracted" a creative writing class focused on time, by designing an additional curriculum of nine plays that I...

Without warning, thousands of alien spaceships have appeared above major urban areas around the globe, and some have descended to devastating effect. Although the aliens have expressed a lack of ill intentions,...

A couple decades in the future higher education has evolved, and Academic Campuses (sometimes referred to as "monasteries") offer an affordable, though longer and more intensive, alternative to universities....

With hours and hours of old movies entering the public domain every year, in the near future curators emerge as a new kind of content creator, culling all this old material and selecting personal favorites...

Joseph Yanyuk, known by his screen name, "Chimaera," is a speedrunner—someone who attempts to beat a video game as fast as possible. In this short play, Chimaera is livestreaming a speedrun, discussing...

Between the ages of six and ten I read a lot of YA and middle grade books, and a lot of book series—but as far as I was concerned, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter were the only series...

Si Muue is lost in the colossal subterranean corpse of their god. Separated from their family, their memory deteriorating, they arrive at the home of a cartographer just in time. The cartographer, Lio...

Tara Cage is struggling to sell her next book. Publishers on Mars want another of her cheerful, optimistic Earth travelogues, the ones that made her so popular, but things have been getting bad on Earth....

"Now the real power isn't predicting the future. The real power is predicting the prophecy."Gailee is a poor girl living in the Predestined Empire, where prophecies, written centuries ago by cloistered...

In the year 2045, a group of politically conscious high school seniors decides to organize a youth rally—a protest to lower the minimum voting age. Just before the protest is scheduled to happen, a massive...

To Prince Oht, heir apparent of the Olisan Empire, all the trappings of nationhood seem as skeletal and artificial as the trappings of theatre. War chants to suggest fraternity, court language to suggest...