Shorted

Alex Irvine Reactor 07/30/25 2025

Novelette 11,530 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

Damon’s UBI royalties just crashed. His social capital went up in smoke. His girlfriend left him. Now he finds out he’s going to die. What to do? Solve his own murder, for starters…and maybe, just maybe, strike it rich along the way.

Social Satire Corporate Power Satirical

More tags 15

Sardonic Dystopia Class Inequality Tense Fast Paced Urban Wry Survival Near Future Close Third Person Grief And Loss Identity Voice Driven Character Driven Science Fiction

Content warnings 3

deathsubstance-useviolence

Quasar links out; the story lives on Reactor, where the author gets the click.

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