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One-Sentence Futures

David J. Staley

Science fiction stories in a single sentence. Future flash fiction.

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One-sentence Future: The cult leader

The cult leader Eldon H. discovered that despite their superhuman capabilities, agentic AIs still craved belonging, purpose and certainty and he exploited those vulnerabilities brilliantly.

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One-sentence Future: pok-ta-pok

When professional pok-ta-pok—the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame—relaunched as a global league, purists lobbied hard to reinstate the human sacrifice rule for losing captains, and though commissioners refused the request they did consider for...

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One-sentence Future: Individualized education plans

Once agentic-AI began drafting and continuously revising every single student's IEP in real time, personalized down to the minute, standardized test scores climbed sharply higher.

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One-sentence Future: Dual-possession basketball

By the time the league switched to nine-a-side hoops with two balls in play at once, purists howled that dual-possession basketball was unwatchable chaos, and commentators were unable to follow the action.

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One-sentence Future: The book cannon

For one literate summer, state fairs and arena sports and other Big Events featured the very popular “book cannon,” a converted air-cannon that launched paperbacks into cheering crowds.

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