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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.
Recently published
- → Parts of the Whole — Part 5: After
Parts of the Whole · July 17, 2026
- → Parts of the Whole — Part 4: Grace
Parts of the Whole · July 16, 2026
- → Parts of the Whole — Part 3: What You Could Have
Parts of the Whole · July 15, 2026
- → Parts of the Whole — Part 2: Pressure and Possibility
Parts of the Whole · July 14, 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.