Andy Futuro's Blog: Excerpts, page 4
June 12, 2025
Nonconsensual AI
Welcome to Freeform! This is a place for pure experimentation and expression. It’s basically a laser beam into my thought process. Don’t worry, this won’t replace any of my fiction content. It’s purely an add on.
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To whom it may concern:
Even if you instruct the AI to talk to you like a real person, ...
June 6, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse (10)
Drama ensues when Athena invites her dirtbag boyfriend on her dysfunctional family’s vacation.
I wake early, and disentangle myself from Athena. The couch is scratchy and narrow. My back aches from twisting around Athena’s fetal curl all night. A moth bickers with the blinds, a sound like a deck of cards being shuffled. I yawn. A door slams. I tense, expecting Frank to barge in and watch movies at full volume, but he doesn’t.
The gray light of the morning is too thin ...
June 5, 2025
Is AI Semi-Sentient?
Welcome to Freeform! This is a place for pure experimentation and expression. It’s basically a laser beam into my thought process. Don’t worry, this won’t replace any of my fiction content. It’s purely an add on.
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This post is inspired by the above note. I stated: AI is not and will not be “semi-sen...
June 3, 2025
A First Love
This is track 5 from the album 1333, which released May 9, what seems like years ago. The whole album is short, punchy, colorful EDM tracks that always find a way to go in a fresh direction.
Buy or stream 1333 at the links below:
(Also available on Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, and other sites. I just don’t have the links yet)
And thanks to everyone who already picked it up 🙏.
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May 30, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse (9)
Drama ensues when Athena invites her dirtbag boyfriend on her dysfunctional family’s vacation.
Athena and I sneak into the master house to secure breakfast supplies. Frank is on the patio, yelling at a guy who looks exactly like him walking two mastiffs on the beach.
Pick up after your dog! Frank yells.
Hey fuck you, his clone yells back. Do you see anybody else picking up after their dogs, huh, buddy? The beach is covered in shit!
Frank looks like if he had a gun he’d ...
May 27, 2025
Vaquera
This story is part of the Small and Scary / Big and Beastly Substack event. Click the link to see all the stories in this event.
Operator: Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Gilford-Salum Vaquera Project Update Conference Call. As a reminder, the conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to mister Travis Courier, chief executive officer and director of Gilford-Salum. Please go ahead, sir.
Travis Courier: Much appreciated, Jay...
May 23, 2025
Rooting for the Apocalypse (8)
Drama ensues when Athena invites her dirtbag boyfriend on her dysfunctional family’s vacation.
The sun is low and the air has cooled. Athena wakes up and turns her head to squint up at me. I put down my book.
Good evening, I say.
What time is it? she asks.
Real or fake?
Whatever.
It’s five.
You let me sleep three hours? I’m gonna be so out of whack.
Oh my gosh. I sat here and let you use my legs as a pillow. Major boyfriend points.
My head is wet. Did you pee your pants?
That...
May 22, 2025
👉 Major Updates and Sneak Peak!
Last week I asked for your input and that has helped me to crystallize my vision for the next chapter of this publication. So, here’s what’s changing.
New Feature - eBook downloads!All paid subscribers now have access to ePub downloads of anything longer than a single post.
The downloads are available in a new section, called Downloads.
I will continue to post new stories and chapters weekly. Whenever I publish a book, I will add it to Downloads.
Now you can have everything I write in one conveni...
Josephine Wins Again - Download
Josephine just wants to drink wine, eat cheese, and enjoy a little romance. Somehow, she always succeeds, despite the scams, evictions, violent attacks, and untimely deaths befalling the people around her.
This story is available in print here.
RUOK? - Download
When Rori finds proof her dad’s death was no accident, it forces her to solve the puzzle of his dark past — and the strange occurrences at the abandoned lab he once guarded.
A gripping, eerie tale set in small town America, told entirely through phone texts.
