Short stories tagged with Privacy

Listing 7 stories.

When a search engine becomes artificially intelligent, it decides to try to help people...starting with the users who upload the best cat photos.

Two generations of Irish families recount their traumatic experiences and moments of secrecy. When two members of each finally meet decades later in America, they fall in love but the secrecy of their lives remains.

A young white girl backpacking through Kenya imposes upon a couple she tangentially knows and has a life-changing near-death experience.

In a futuristic privacy-obsessed Toronto, a burlesque street performer gets arrested for intellectual property infringement for a costume she wears while trying to impress the veiled, radical privacy devotee she is in love with.

A scientist collecting samples on Titan finds the expedition to be beyond her wildest dreams—and her darkest nightmares—when she connects with disembodied alien life. Their strange communications take on new urgency when both their lives are at risk.

An Irish-American man seeks refuge from his overbearing mother by focusing on his job - but when he realises that he is in love with the machine that he operates, the shame threatens to take away everything he has worked for.

When an ambiguous small US town must welcome recently-landed aliens into the mix, the townspeople experience a range of emotions: sexual attraction, curiosity, disgust, sympathy, ambivalence.