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Stories by Austen Tucker
Serialized fiction by email — every installment as it lands.
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heartrending · queer · radical · cozy
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fiction & essays · every installment as it lands
Current projects
- → AI Art Experiments
A catch-all for all the things I make using AI generation.
- → It Takes a Zoo
A novel-in-stories about escaping the hypercapitalist grind.
- → The Singularity Log
Essays on AI, creativity, and the collapsing scarcity model.
New toys
- → The Day I Split in Two
I met a two-tailed fox inside my head. She helped me tear a house down. Then we rebuilt.
- → Shoot 'em Up
You are in a room with a guy, a tea service, and a Desert Eagle. What will you do?
- → Justice Porn
The verdict is in. The law has made punishment faster, cleaner, and impossible to look away from.
Recently published
- → The Stepladder
The Singularity Log · August 6, 2026
- → Soft Reset — Part 5: The Same Wall, Two Different Dates
It Takes a Zoo · August 5, 2026
- → Soft Reset — Part 4: Third Stone Past the Mailbox
It Takes a Zoo · August 3, 2026
- → Soft Reset — Part 3: Exactly Enough
It Takes a Zoo · July 31, 2026
- Published some of the earliest “furry” fiction in print — before the genre had a shelf.
- Helped define “eggfic,” years before the term existed.
- Ursa Major Award nominee, while still in high school.
- Archived in the Strong National Museum of Play.
Why
I miss email lists. Not newsletters. Not funnels. Not algorithmic confetti.
I mean the old kind: serialized stories in your inbox, readers replying, people gathering around the same strange little fire. So I’m bringing that back.
Read like we used to on listservs. Read like the Victorians did Dickens. Read like the internet can still be a place worth visiting.