Love, Werewolves & Algorithms

By J.M. Perkins

Love, Werewolves & Algorithms is a collection of five love themed, valentines day [in]appropriate short stories intended to be enjoyed in a single afternoon. These stories have previously been featured in print anthologies, podcasts, and on Public Radio International and have gone on to win the Three Minute Futures writing contest.

In Subject: SocialScene Alert! next year’s social network predicts and ‘solves’ your relationship problems before they happen.

In The Taste of Soured Causality the desire for romantic second chances in a modern, magic rich world is complicated by scheming D’Jinn.

In Little Blue Pills transhumanism meets ‘natural male enhancement.’

In Sponsor a 12 step support group for werewolves collides with a marriage.

And finally in Ignoring the Overlay teenage infatuations and networked augmented reality make for an awkward first date.

Praise for J.M. Perkins's work:

"With his restless imagination and incisive intellect, J. M. Perkins brings something almost wholly unique to the table of genre fiction. All of his work, even his fantasy tales and gaming excursions, edge into science fiction of a distinctive stripe -- because his preferred science is the 'dismal science' of economics. His acute perceptions of the transactions and exchanges of everyday existence imbues virtually everything he writes with a revealing new perspective on the complex Über-Game that we call Human Life."

- Steve Dandois - Canyon Design Group

“One of our favorite writers...”

-Robert Heminger - The Avalon Game Company

"J.M. Perkins is superlative."

- Brett Jackson (Creator, BEDTIME FOREVER)

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.M. Perkins
• Release date: Feb 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310449277

J.M. Perkins

Action horror writer and freelance game designer J.M. Perkins is strict vegan alternative health worker by day, carnivorous hard living husband/father by night. (He knows, he confuses himself too.) He's got over 20 short stories and a novel in print and you can learn more about him via his website www.jmperkins.com. You can his writing by buying his novel CHEMO: How I Learned to Kill or paying what you want for his commoner gaming book You're Gonna Die Screaming.

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Love, Werewolves & Algorithms

5 Short Stories

By J.M. Perkins

An Afternoon Reader

Smashwords Edition

5 Short Stories

By J.M. Perkins

Love, Werewolves & Algorithms

© J.M. Perkins 2015

Published by J.M. Perkins

Edited by Dorothy Beaver

Smashwords Edition

Cover design layout by Brett Jackson www.iambrettjackson.com

For more information, or if you have questions, contact J.M. Perkins via email [e-mail]

ISBN 9781310449277

Dedication

To Tammie who –in just a few short months- taught me everything I ever needed to know about horrifically bad relationships.

Table of Contents

Subject: SocialScene Alert!

The Taste of Soured Causality

Little Blue Pills

Sponsor

Ignoring the Overlay

Afterword

About the Author

Excerpt from CHEMO: How I Learned to Kill

Selected Bibliography

Subject: SocialScene Alert!

(Subject: SocialScene Alert! won the Three Minute Futures writing contest and first appeared on the Public Radio International show To the Best of Our Knowledge.)

Hello Sarah Johnson!

As a premium subscriber of the SocialScene community, your account comes with several *Gold Level* features. We find that some of our subscribers aren't even aware of all the associated benefits of their premium subscription. However, we regret to inform you that one of your advanced features (adultery tracker) has been activated with regards to [Mark Johnson].

You are receiving this letter because the person you are currently listed as being in a relationship [Marriage] with [Mark Johnson] has a [HIGH] (>75%) chance of beginning an (affair) with one of your first tier friends [Eunice Peggwell] within the next three months. This has been determined through a number of tracking points analyzed through SocialScene's proprietary algorithms: most notably profile view history, comment keyword tracking, and 'liking' behavior (click here to view a non-proprietary version of the associated data with human-readable explanation). Due to a lack of corroborating message data, we estimate a [HIGH] (>75%) probability that [Mark Johnson] and [Eunice Peggwell] will primarily use another communication vehicle to extend their relationship.*

Also, based on previous collected correlating data of couples in similar circumstances this (affair) has a: [LOW] (<50%) chance of being kept a secret between the two of them, a [MEDIUM] (>50%) chance of placing serious strain on your relationship, a [LOW] (<50%) chance of ending with a divorce where [Mark Johnson] does not begin a successful relationship with [Eunice Peggwell] and a [POOR] (<25%) chance of ending your relationship [Marriage] to [Mark Johnson] wherein he will begin a successful relationship with [Eunice Peggwell].

Moreover, due to your and [Mark Johnson]'s personal data, renegotiating your relationship into a polyamorous arrangement has a [LOW] (<25%) probability of success.*

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