Short Stories/Novellas

Meet Sonny, the most popular and professional nurse's aide at Brookside Nursing Home. Always willing to listen or to put a smile on a resident's face. Sonny is also an AI-powered robot. When one of the residents bequeaths her entire estate to Sonny, her distant relations contest the will, and the resulting trial becomes a media circus that tests the boundaries of business, AI, and human compassion.

A darkly humorous and satirical tale of a not-too-distant future where only the very rich can afford to have children. For everyone else, there's posthumous parenthood technology, which makes it possible to have a child on the lay-away plan. With luck—and the right long-term investment portfolio—a bright future still awaits those of modest means. Though most parents will be long dead by the time their child can afford to be born, reliable life services providers can deliver childhood plans to fit (almost) every budget. But if the money ever runs out...well, there's a plan for that, too.