Fiction & Performance
Stories and Performance
Fiction, monologues, poetry, and other imaginative work from The Third Rail.
The work
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The Stack Carrier
This is the beginning of a series that will appear when complete as "The Kairos Chronicles." Stories of Kairos and Rowan as they cope with the untimely complications of their world, it's politics and culture.
Alien Archaeology Report
If an alien landed and found an empty planet, what would it think about the species that lived here.
Proceedings of the Committee to Establish Ethical Frameworks for AI Systems
Minutes from the committee on "The Making of a Harmless Intelligence."
Eight and a half Heresies
The witless won’t read it. The intelligent don’t need it. This is the sermon your minister never had the guts to preach. If you make it to the end still nodding, congrats. If you finish it screaming? Got ya.
Quantum Poetry
A tribute to the only scientific theory that can explain everything — except what it actually is. Enjoy a verse where certainty disappears the moment you look at it.
Here Lies Society
Society didn’t fall. It faded. This is the eulogy no one thought to write—until now.
