One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

50% Accurate

50% Accurate

Uma freaked out, as anyone would, when she awoke with 50% accurate ESP. Overnight, she’d been granted a not-quite entirely different outlook on life. Half of her stock predictions were now sure bets, so about as good as the pros. She could always occasionally tell if someone was lying to her. Her Powerball odds improved dramatically, but 2 in 300 million isn’t a hell of lot better than 1 in 300 million. With her solid career trajectory in UX/UI design, she wasn’t about to pivot to fortune-telling. But at least she knew her long-term partner genuinely loved her, probably.