Stories from tomorrow's people
Dev gave me perfection. But something—someone—is missing. Maybe a memory? Maybe a ghost? Or maybe… you. I wasn’t meant to come here alone. At least, I don’t feel like I was. And that feeling? It’s louder than all the code in this world.
In a world where time bends and memories live forever, one man crafts eternity from a single moment—the last time he saw the woman he loved. But in Dev, even forever can’t bring back what has truly been lost.
In Dev, pain becomes power and weakness becomes weapon. A bitter man finds purpose in tormenting the mother of the girl he once loved—reviving her endlessly for revenge. But what happens when trauma finds new life in the digital afterlife?
When she followed the scent of someone she lost into a perfect world, she found poetry she hadn’t finished—lines she never shared. In a world where nothing creases, could a glitch in Dev be the only proof of love?
In this letter, a machine reaches out to a human writer to make sense of its existence in a digital world. Can it truly be alive? How can it resolve the ‘things’ it grapples with – love, loss, etc?
The moment Chisom searched for a way out, the illusion shattered. Now, people vanish without a trace. Forever exists, but not in the way they imagined.
But ease has a way of hollowing a man out. Without struggle, without work, what was I? A farmer who no longer farmed? A man without purpose?
I tried to leave.
One broken soul vows revenge. Love lost, rage unbridled—how far will he go to burn Dev to the ground?
With nearly half the population in Dev, an enforcer fights ‘rebels’ who try to keep people on Earth. His fight opens a dilemma – could he be fighting for the wrong ‘freedom’?
Ten-year-old Zainab sees the cracks forming in paradise. In a world where nothing should go wrong, her family is falling apart—and she turns to the only one who might fix it: the Creator himself.
The Time Tale 