MACHINES
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The year's 2038, and the distinction between purpose and function of humans and machines is unnervingly distorted.
UK Capital, London sees new artificial systems hastily approved and installed in all areas of its commercial industries and society. Systems for transport. Machines for learning. Machines for pleasure. Much of the city's population, however, have grown tired of the evolution. A noticeable percentage now actively protest the course set for total human replacement.
Refunds for Machines is six stories, set in the same '38, same dividing London.
Imprint
published 01.08.25
Greet them.
Accompany each potential investor into the box, refer to the overview you studied to answer any questions they might ask about the Criterion. If they want to touch it, we say that's fine.
It isn't designed to decide for itself.
1838 words / 4 pages
one setting psychological unwelcome
You Say Machine, They Say You
published 01.08.25
Last Wednesday, the Whiteheads returned home to find their young son on the floor. He was screaming. His face was scratched, and forearm shattered.
The Whitehead's say it was the work of a faulty machine. Their lawyer, a close acquaintance, might consider otherwise. Together, they sit, talk through how the incident might've played out and decide how to go forward.
7082 words / 14 pages
one setting procedural dialogue-heavy
Schlong Cast
published 01.08.25
Not sure how else to put this...
If you look up today at the two-hundred-inch and bigger forty-something advertising screens on Brixton's Ella Square and Commercial Line, you'll see there's something very different about the content on display.
If you have your kids with you, cover their eyes.
4604 words / 10 pages
playful comedic poking
Lines
published 01.08.25
A freelance Promotions/Filmography team are hired to produce a series of advertisement material for the city public transport organisation, Ayling Network. But just one thing. They've been asked not to read any of the 'unfortunate' news about the Network when it is released later in the week.
7749 words / 17 pages
commercial fast social
Campaign
published 01.08.25
Forget the world outside that's falling apart. Four-thousand fans are online and connected to the stream.
This is it. One final playthrough to celebrate the confirmed end of a video game series that made the child-and-teen-hoods of hundreds of thousands of millennials.
The comments on the stream are 'on'? Oh, sh*t.
7331 words / 21 pages
nostalgic gaming politics
