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Story Lab

Experimenting with story content, structure, and format
Particularly Sci-fi & Fantasy
Experiment #380

StoryLab Going on Hiatus

02'05'2020
  • Researcher: John Rhea
  • Reading Time: 39 seconds
  • Synopsis: I love you, but I need a break.
    • Method: Prose
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #379

    Awakening Part 2

    10'09'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 1 minute, 38 seconds
  • Synopsis: An archaeologist realizes his place in the world
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Magical Realism
    • Studies: Awakenings
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #378

    Awakening Part 1

    10'02'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 1 minute, 39 seconds
  • Synopsis: An archeologist realizes his place in the world
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Magical Realism
    • Studies: Awakenings
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #377

    Frieeeeendship

    09'25'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 2 minutes, 41 seconds
  • Synopsis: The zombie meets another zombie
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Cat Braaains
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #376

    Meooooowww

    09'18'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 2 minutes, 6 seconds
  • Synopsis: The zombie is followed.
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Cat Braaains
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #375

    Cat Braaains

    09'11'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 2 minutes, 24 seconds
  • Synopsis: A zombie follows
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Cat Braaains
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #374

    Down with the Ship

    09'04'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 31 seconds
  • Synopsis: The ship's about to crash.
    • Method: Drabble
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #373

    The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin

    08'28'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 1 second
  • Synopsis: A man goes out to the edge of the solar system and finds the edge of his mind.
    • Method: Off-site
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #372

    The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells

    08'21'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 1 second
  • Synopsis: A sighted man stumbles onto a village of blind people, but cannot become king.
    • Method: Off-site
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #371

    The Shadow & the Flash by Jack London

    08'14'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 8 seconds
  • Synopsis: Two men compete for the hand of a woman and invisibility
    • Method: Off-site
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #359

    Super Classifieds

    05'22'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 1 minute, 54 seconds
  • Synopsis: Even super heroes need help sometimes
    • Method: Gallimaufry
    • Branch: Heroes?
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #358

    Required Sci-Fi Reading

    05'15'2019
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 6 seconds
  • Synopsis: Great Sci-Fi at your Finger Tips
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #336

    Near Enough Part 6

    12'12'2018
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 3 minutes, 16 seconds
  • Synopsis: In a world where recreational drugs are legal near death experiences are the ultimate high
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Near Enough
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #335

    Near Enough Part 5

    12'05'2018
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 2 minutes, 39 seconds
  • Synopsis: In a world where recreational drugs are legal near death experiences are the ultimate high
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Near Enough
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story
    Experiment #334

    Near Enough Part 4

    11'28'2018
    • Researcher: John Rhea
    • Reading Time: 4 minutes, 13 seconds
  • Synopsis: In a world where recreational drugs are legal near death experiences are the ultimate high
    • Method: Prose
    • Branch: Science Fiction
    • Studies: Near Enough
    • |
    • Feedback: Peer Review this Story

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