Ivan is an anti-social outcast who has spent the early years of his adult life alone. Out of desperation he commits to buying an realistic female AI to serve as a companion. Even through shame of what he had to resort to, the AI has some promise to become what he was looking for...but is it real...

Christmas, a festival that brought families together for some, started tearing apart families for others. Since four years ago, several orphaned children mysteriously began disappearing around Christmas. Nobody has ever been able to solve this mystery. Until one day, a group of friends come toget...

In a distant future, humanity managed to find a new home, on this new planet society lives in the nostalgia of ancient times, it has developed well, until a threat attacks this new civilization, Ghosts are creatures with dark blue bodies almost snatched the world, but Holdfighters appear as a sil...

This is a short story the first half of which (the 'symbolic' part) I wrote quite a few years ago. About a month ago I roughly doubled it in word count, adding the 'sci-fi' part. They are divided by a *** . In the second part I basically describe 'paradise' itself the way I have imagined it. ...