Aburt's Fiction Online

You can read most of the stories below right online; just click on the title.

Privacy Most Public

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In the future, the Minuteman software system listens to all phone calls, reads all messages, watches everything, to keep Americans safe... but what happens when it mis-hears what someone says? Who's watching the watchers? Read Privacy Most Public

Congestion

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Take a ride in the 2032 IDITEROC Race of Champions. Sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination. Then again, sometimes it's not...

A Sailor on the Sea of Humanity

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If you had a terrible secret, perhaps you'd find time dilation has it's uses...

Δ π Delta Pi

Whoever says Pi is a constant simply hasn't checked it precisely enough — which may be a good thing!

The Last Flight of the Sarah Mae (First published at Neverworlds, now online at iFiction)

A Bird in Hand     (Read at Fictionwise.com - Epub/Palm/Sony/Kindle/etc.)

Every proper story has its heroes, not all of them necessarily human in this brave near future. Hard-driving businesswoman Miss Kim faces the most difficult choice of her life. Birds and humans have finally, reluctantly, buried some of their mutual hostility. (One might even say, abirdheid is a thing of the past.) Chimps and dolphins may be as intelligent, but birds have a great advantage in numbers, and (with or without redistricting) that has propelled them into the forefront of politics and rights issues. Humans are often on the defensive. In this particular story, human and avian meet at the painful crossroads of self-sacrifice and mutual recognition after a horrific car accident.

Ode to a Bod, in Beyond the Last Star

I've still got a few author's copies of my cyberwarfare thriller, Noontide Night, I ordinarily wouldn't plug my own book so much, but this one is for a good cause: I'm donating all the profits from Noontide Night to the American Red Cross.

Aburt's Non-fiction Online

Curing Bad Customer Service — Just a Dollar a Minute

Say No to the Feeconomy

Hello, Corruption, My Old Friend — How Craigslist is Killing Democracy

Thoughts on Abolishing the Electoral College and the Impact on the Two Party System

Thoughts on Teaching Creationism Alongside Evolution in Science Classes

Necessity is the Assassin of Invention — How Moderation in the Name of "Spam" is Stifling Innovation

Thoughts on "Checks & Balances" Bi-Partisan voting