Fractured Realities

Fractured Realities collects the first three years of published works by Addison Smith into a single volume for the first time. In this tome you will find stories of cyberpunk, alien invasion, strange infections, and stories of himanity's very end.

In Sounds for Crustaceans, originally published in Fantasy Magazine, the protagonist discovers they are turning into a crab and seeks acceptance and understanding from their partner in a painful story about finding ourselves and treating the world with kindness.

In Hard Memory, our protagonist is a detective in search of a hacker who spreads depression throughout the city with electrical emotional manipulation, but finds something much darker in the process.

In Mycelium Dreams, the sole survivor of a shuttle’s alien fungal infection converses with the thing which killed his crew and tries to understand the motivations of something which has a different understanding of life itself.

In Spill-Free and Sparkling, a shipboard cleaning system deals with a dire situation while unaware of the realities facing the crew, all in the name of perfect cleanliness.

In A Golem Made of You, our protagonist encounters failure, disgust, and desire as a parasite overtakes his ship, leading him to question his humanity and the unbearable burden of loneliness.

In Aspiration Extermination, we view a robot apocalypse through the optics of the mundane and the workers who clear the earth of humanity, despite the tedium of the task.

To the Plains of Etherea is the story of an adventurer facing the loss of his companion who has been by his side through all of their struggles. It's a heart-rending tale of perseverance and deepest caring.

Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands, is a story of utmost decadence in the form of a magazine interview, shining a light on the depravity that hides in ignoring the truth.

Their Hands Will Carry You Home asks what we would be willing to give for the return of the one we love, and how much sacrifice is too much. The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets. Inside you will find:

1. Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common
2. Hard Memory
3. Reflection
4. Fancy and Fish Hearts
5. I Grow
6. Sounds for Crustaceans
7. Memory and Steel
8. Hope for Enthos
9. The Psychic Fish Hates You
10. The Legend of Johnny C
11. To the Water Goes My Pain
12. Mycelium Dreams
13. To Fly on Gentle Wings
14. Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves
15. A Mark Deeper Than Flesh
16. Spill-Free and Sparkling
17. His Monstrous Cloaca
18. A Golem Made of You
19. By Moonlight Guided
20. Containment
21. The Devil's in the Details
22. Aspiration Extermination
23. My Ship to the Depths
24. The Locked Prophet
25. The Oathtaker, Servant of Draghtai the Undying
26. A Mind Not My Own
27. Not Good Enough
28. With Hands Unstilled
29. For You I Return
30. To the Plains of Etherea
31. An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions
32. With Dreams in Her Hair
33. Interview with Julie Fairweather, Star of Lawnmower Hands
34. A Drink to Return to the Sea
35. How to Build a Sexbot to Love and Cherish You
36. Their Hands Will Carry You Home
37. And Two Shall Take Its Place
38. To Worlds Within
39. Your Robot Horoscope for the Day of Reclamation
40. Unfleshed
41. Vessel
42. Witness for the Dead
43. Ships Rise over Apple Valley
44. Sweet Words from Acid Lips

And much more!