Happy, Inc.: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #11

By Craig A. Falconer

Flash your blues away with Happy, Inc — results guaranteed!


In a world where the scourge of emotion has been defeated, Happy Inc's services subtly influence every citizen throughout the day.

The elimination of jealousy and anger has sent crime rates plummeting. But on the other side of the coin, the elimination of ambition and dissatisfaction has rendered creativity a thing of the past.


Gillian Reid, a promising Happy Inc employee, excels without excitement and succeeds without pride.

Like everyone else, she has always been comfortable but never truly happy. Like everyone else's, her Emotional Volatility has always been limited to stay within the bounds of a mediocre middle.


Gillian Reid's life plays out like any other, until one fateful day... when her EV limiter stops working.

And with her eyes truly open for the first time, Gillian Reid does not like what she sees...

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Happy, Inc. is the latest in a new series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223823629

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Happy, Inc.

HAPPY, INC.

CRAIG A. FALCONER

Happy, Inc.

© 2020 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

~ Contact Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

TERRADOX SERIES

Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

~ Worlds Away collection ~

~ Terradox Quadrilogy box set ~

CYBER SEED SERIES

Sycamore

Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

SCI-FI SIZZLERS

Wanderlust

Bound For Glory

Sunset Stays

Arise With Us

Whence They Came

Replica

Megaton Murphy

A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

Happy, Inc.

Pamela 2.0

Funscreen

Pumpkin Splice

When Santa Slays

~ Chasing Tomorrows 15-Book Box Set ~

Seedling

Empty Nesters

A Savage In The Future

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When Gillian Reid turned the final corner towards her designated parking spot outside Happy Inc’s developmental HQ, she had no idea that the unusual weekend she had just completed was set to give way to a positively unprecedented Monday.

After blitzing her way through all of the extra analytics work she’d been assigned with most of Saturday to spare, Gillian spent Sunday brainstorming ways to ensure that her company’s latest product would meet its potential.

It was without doubt the most productive weekend of Gillian’s life, despite the two unusually indulgent seven-hour sleeps that had punctuated her working hours.

Although pride never raised its head for more than a few seconds, Gillian knew that her work was important. No work was more important, in fact, and she was sure her bosses would be delighted with the ideas she was about to bring their way.

For the full six years since Gillian was recruited out of college, Happy Inc had been promising a shift towards a more seamless method of minimizing harmful Emotional Volatility. Playing an integral part in the testing process now put her in a rare position of knowing what the future of the company, and thus the future of society, might entail. All of the early signs were good, and Gillian’s weekend breakthroughs made those good signs even clearer.

While waiting for the automated barrier to rise so she could reach her