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

Evader

Evader

I tracked you to Rio de Janeiro, but it turned out to be one of your clever android decoys. I arrived in Seoul minutes too late; my robosniffers found your DNA all over the airport. My team picked up your signal in Vientiane, but after the high-speed car chase, you somehow evaded the entire city’s police force. Yet this is no movie; I’ll still find you someday. You think you’re the good one and I’m the bad one—they all think that. Unless you never really existed at all? But you have to, because my family had better still be alive.