Sci-FiTy1972: Stories

A stranger wanders Walmart for a couple of ordinary hours. No mission. No miracles. Just aisles of cereal, tired cashiers, small kindnesses, and quiet human truths. A philosophical, gently funny meditation on modern life—where meaning hides in shopping carts, patience, and the unnoticed grace of simply paying attention.

They didn’t fall in love by swiping. They fell in love by being real in a world that rewards pretending. A junior programmer and a social worker connect through quiet TikTok moments that turn into something deeper than views, deeper than likes. This is a story about choosing authenticity over attention and discovering that real love isn’t found online… it’s built, one honest moment at a time.

He thought he fell in love with artificial intelligence. She hid behind it to feel brave enough to speak. When their secret connection collides with truth, both must choose between safety and authenticity in this quietly powerful story about love, fear, and what it means to be truly seen.

During a rare Georgia ice storm, a young man and a neighbor he barely knows spend a long, powerless night trying to save a freezing puppy. What begins as practical necessity slowly becomes something quieter and more meaningful. As screens go dark and distractions fade, two strangers discover what happens when the world goes quiet and real conversation finally begins.

Welcome to a world powered by F.U.X. — the Fundamental Unit of Exchange — where coffee, rent, relationships, and self-respect all come with a receipt. This fast, funny, and quietly biting satire turns modern life into a numbers game and asks the ultimate question: how many FUX is your humanity really worth?

A brilliant but overlooked young man builds a homemade server in his bedroom—scavenged GPUs, surplus fans, handwritten cooling algorithms—initially to solve a personal problem: loneliness, curiosity, or a long-standing theoretical question about emergent intelligence. He doesn’t create consciousness. He notices it.

After discovering an ancient key hidden in forgotten ruins, former Army tech Ty Morgan and compassionate counselor Ann Mitchell inherit a responsibility no human was meant to carry alone. Gifted with access to technology older than civilization, they must decide how to guide humanity’s future without ruling it, balancing growth with restraint, power with compassion, and destiny with choice. In a world ready to evolve, they become stewards of tomorrow.

When a man returns to his childhood home after the last of his parents has passed, he expects to sort through rooms and belongings. Instead, he finds himself sorted by them. Through ordinary objects and familiar spaces, the house remembers who he was before he does. A quiet story about memory, legacy, and the small, carried things that prove we were here.

When the world goes dark on Valentine’s Day, Army trainee Tom Bryan discovers his survival was no accident. As a hidden bunker, a dangerous legacy, and a quiet collapse reshape everything, the one person he never expected—Sarah Mitchell—becomes his constant. In a broken world built on control, two unlikely souls choose something stronger: meaning, honesty, and love that doesn’t need labels to endure.

In a single workday, two people navigate the same system from opposite sides of the screen. Roger is racing a spreadsheet, a cracked phone, and a clock that won’t negotiate. Chelsie is making her first solo hire while pressure pushes her toward the wrong kind of “vision.” Between filters, buzzwords, missed calls, and cold coffee, a quiet alignment forms. This isn’t a story about getting the job. It’s a story about being seen, and choosing accuracy over noise.