Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

After finding an incredible apartment with unbelievably cheap rent, Sachio realizes the home automation system does a lot more than […]

Mr. Hughes, a wealthy businessman with failing health, collects experiences rather than rare objects. He receives a visit from a […]

While trying to prevent a popular search engine from scanning his house for their street map app Ken discovers a […]

Forty-seven, a cynical robotic ghost hunter, doesn’t believe in the supernatural. The obstinate machine has built a career out of […]

On July 11th, 1932, Nikola Tesla receives a mysterious visitor at his rooms in the New Yorker Hotel. Ostensibly there […]

A psychologist tries to convince a new patient they do not have extrasensory perception and are therefore not responsible for […]

After what she believes to be 5000 years, automated systems wake Dorian’s mind and download it into a temporary body. […]

To save her family’s hundred-year-old manufacturing business, Sandra decides to use the general artificial intelligence she has been working on […]

Nikolay, a Russian cosmonaut, is stranded on a secret Red Army moonbase when the Soviet Union collapses. Believing the USSR’s […]

Gwen discovers Karl’s new skin’s identity, which lets her track the escapee to a recently reclaimed district. However, the Haven […]

After Karl the Haven escapee eludes port security and Gwen, he manages to find the woman who initially helped him break out of the island enclave. He pressures her into again providing him with the means to change identities. By the time Gwen, the inspector designate, tracks Karl’s reluctant collaborator down, the fugitive is long...

Leopold has spent his life repairing appliances, and home entertainment systems struggles to remain relevant in a world of disposable digital devices. When he attempts to fix an old slide projector he found in the garbage; the vintage machine turns out to be more than an obsolete appliance. Makeshift Stories is a proud member of...

Two young people from a moon orbiting the second planet around Barnard’s Star end up in the same escape pod. On the surface, they are from opposing political systems but soon discover they are more alike than different. Unfortunately, their unplanned encounter puts them in jeopardy Makeshift Stories is a proud member of the Alberta...

After a massive international corporation takes over Hero-on-the-way and pushes the app’s existing superheroes to the bottom of the search results, Honcho and Ephemera decide to fight back. They enlist Doctor Slow-mo and several other heroes to protest at one of the corporation’s other businesses. However, when things don’t go as planned, Doctor Slow-mo, Synapse...

Gwen, the current inspector designate of Hinterland, is suddenly tasked to track down an escapee from Haven, a remote island enclave. Kept in ignorance of their captivity, no one from Haven has managed to escape before. However, even one individual from the enclave, free in the general population, could disrupt the world. Makeshift Stories is...

After falling asleep while writing a last-minute report, Ken wakes to discover the world has changed, and not in a good way. Leaf, his vegan Hippie neighbour, does not notice the weird transformation, so it is up to Ken and Leaf’s dog Planet to figure out. They soon discover the world has been shortchanged by...

While sorting through her deceased uncle’s belongings, Lynn discovers a shoebox of notes documenting an unusual encounter in 1956 on his ham radio. If true, the incident would change the history of spaceflight, but without tangible proof, Lynn discounts the notes as a failed attempt to write a novel until she receives an unexpected text...

Lauren, a rising online video star, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation has taken over her channel after successfully claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice. She tries desperately to untangle how she lost the rights to her identity, which leads to...

Lauren, a budding online video streamer, is about to celebrate her two-millionth subscriber when things go unexpected sideways. She discovers a corporation has taken over her channel after successfully claiming they own the copyright to her face and voice. She tries desperately to untangle how she lost the rights to her identity, which leads to...

Doctor Slow-mo tries to outdo his grandmother, aka Cerebral, by giving his six-year-old niece a DIY CRISPR home gene-editing kit as a birthday present. But neither anticipates the incredibly smart little girl, who desperately wants...