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Stories by Austen Tucker

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Carl

heartrending · queer · radical · cozy

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“My name is Carl and I work at Floor-Mart. I always have worked at Floor-Mart and I always will work at Floor-Mart, forever and ever, amen.”

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fiction & essays · every installment as it lands

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.

Strange but true

I published some of the earliest “furry” fiction to reach print — before the genre had a shelf to sit on.
I helped define what people now call “eggfic” years before the term existed.
Nominated for an Ursa Major Award while still in high school.
My writing is archived in the Strong National Museum of Play.

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.