After a recent break-up, a young woman navigates a tumultuous friendship with her AI home assistant. As her world becomes more unstable she falls deeper into despair. Convenient and low cost, corporate-created AIs have infiltrated the general populace under the guise of the ubiquitous ‘personal home assistant’. With ownership comes responsibility unchecked; that of forgoing personal privacy for the sake of accessibility, automation, and ease-of-use. The Halo explores the relationship between owner and AI, along with the responsibilities levied by the corporations that manufacture them.

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A history professor scrambles to find a young student who's wandered off during a class field trip.

A young boy builds a time machine in his parent's basement with the hope of rescuing his sister.

A wanderer admires, contemplates, and critiques a variety of apartment buildings during an afternoon stroll. Flâneur; a French term meaning ‘stroller’ or ‘loafer’ used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. This story is a facet of a larger project being developed -- one directed toward the 'movement' of flaneuring, psychogeography, and its practical and impractical designations.

During the turn of the 19th century, in a tiny town nestled somewhere in the Netherlands, a husband and wife had once run a very unsuccessful candy shop. Desperate, broke and starving they had decided to trade their souls to a demon in exchange for a recipe that would teach them how to make the most delicious chocolate in the world. However, the demon tricked them and delivered a young child to their doorstep the next day. This was no ordinary baby though – for it was made of pure chocolate. Upon receiving this odd delivery, the guardians learned that if they raised her correctly, and took proper care of the young girl then she would grow beautiful and strong… and provide them with sweet chocolate, which would provide for them all.