Bureaucracy Stories

Japan is transferred to the world of Alagaësia just before the start of Eragon. Inspired by Nihonkoku Shoukan.

In the heart of Islamabad, where power flows through whispers and alliances are woven into the very fabric of society, four influential families-the Khans, Maliks, Qures...

A baby? On a battlefield? Marcus is a clerk in the Imperial army. When he finds an abandoned baby on a battlefield, he has no idea what to do with her. His best friend i...

Daisy, a rising junior in Southwest Louisiana, starts planning her college application process, two years before her graduation. But she doesn't realize the tedium of th...

On a bomb-threatened Spaceport hovering above Earth, Dorothea arrives from Mars with an expiring passport. Her credentials are bad, her memory poor, and her cat already...

The Tyris Keystone Council presides over the beating heart of trade in the Lyneth peninsula - the Grand Market. Thousands of people come each day to trade everything fro...

People of Milltown are having sleepless nights while a notorious Dog Thief is at large. This time his target is little schnauzer Melly and her master: a chemical factory...

With officious care, the warden of a group of prisoners checks over the cells and discovers that all is not well.

In a galaxy ruled by logic, order, and hyper-advanced alien civilizations, humanity stands out as the chaotic wildcard of the Galactic Concord. Against all odds-and much...

'My Derailments With Truth' is a gut busting journey of Ravina Shekhar, a beauty-with-brains civil servant in the Department of Railway. Riding on a turbine fuelled trut...

Nobody is powerful enough to be untouchable in Korea. From the presidents to the chaebols to the civil servants to celebrities to common office workers, everyone has a v...

What were Assets? What was Espionage? What was a Committee? (Friday Fictionette for February 9, 2018)

A tale depicting the bureaucratic process of delivering a sex swing from Middlesborough, a small town in the north of England to Russia.

One coffee, two dimensions, multiple republics.

an attempt at reverse engineering a useful story in perseverance through injustice.

In a world grown arid and pale, one out of every ten people will develop vertigo and a taste for rum by the time they reach adulthood. Vincent Black is among that unluc...

This poem was inspired after reading "Just Say No: The Spectator on the 1975 Referendum." The arguments articulated by prominent Leave campaigners helped to co...

Time for the human system to come to an end. They set it up so individuals have no say. Well, let's see what we can do.