#existential

A self-aware, meta-fictional story where the Author wrestles with his creation Tam and an irritated Audience before anything actually happens.

After a bonding ceremony on an alien world, a man and his android wife share a firelit evening with friends while their alien creator reveals troubling truths about humanity's role in galactic reproduction.

A young man haunted by a terminal illness finds solace in a mysterious, otherworldly woman who appears in his dreams each morning.

A bio-sentient computer assistant on a distant asteroid mining station takes out her frustration with her tedious job through a very public display of self-pleasure.