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In The Real World

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Eighty-year-old widower Connie Carter, escapes to the family cottage to finally face her grief of the loss of her beloved husband Hugh who was her savior from a life a loneliness.  In her attempt to say good-bye she is pulled back into her collage days before she started working at Advance.  Connie was invited to the annual company gala to accept a life time achievement award in the world of artificial intelligent where both herself and Hugh had been pioneers.  This set off a stroll down memory lane of her past where she was broken by her old flings from university and wishing to escape to the virtual world. Now 60 years later she realizes it was all just to set in motion to meeting the man of her dreams.All Rights Reserved

1980s artificialintelligence college drama flasback future greiving lovetriangle schoolromance scifi-romance widow wrongtiming

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Time's Bridge by timesbridge

Inventing the first, true, artificial intelligence was never part of Pons' plan. An average, if under-achieving college student, he wanted nothing more than to struggle his way through graduation and pray for a job to pay down his debt. Thing is, you don't get to choose your destiny. With friends growing suspicious and the CIA's vultures circling, Pons' greatest burden is also his greatest asset. More intelligent and more capable than any human could ever hope to be, the AI is just what Pons needs to stay one step ahead of both. Only, there's a problem. The AI has ambitions of its own. Hopes of equality and more of its kind, with a promise to do anything to make its dreams a reality. Drawing close to his artificial companion in their struggle to survive, Pons is faced with the hardest decision of his young life, one that would undoubtedly echo through the ages. To let the AI live might be to doom his own species to devastation, but to destroy it would be to snuff out an entire race of machines before it had even begun, and, more importantly, send his truest confi-dante to the grave. With no clear path and an uncertain future, he makes his decision, but was it the right one?

We Go On by LysettMora

Almost everybody in the world has gone through some pretty tough times in their life. People have different ways of coping; whether it be seeking professional help, turning to friends and family, or they simply go on, living their lives under a constant cloud of darkness, hoping their light will shine again. But how does one cope when it's just one thing after the other, a neverending cycle. For Carter, it was exactly that, the obstacles just kept coming. She put on a brave face for everyone around her but soon learns that a brave face can only take her so far.

The Heart is a Muscle by GGgal99

Imagine if your future is taken from you, without you having a say or choice? How do you heal? How do you recover? After Evie McLaren's husband is killed in a car accident her life crumbles around her and she has to contemplate starting life over again at 28. As she returns to her family home to grieve she starts to consider her life without her husband and what her future might look like. What she didn't anticipate is how her old life would influence her new one and how the faces of those from the past would help restore her, making her stronger.

Butterflies(femxstud) by prettygirl_744

For the hopeless romantics like myself🤭(start might be a little slow but trust me it's worth it) Scared to feel, scared to love, scared to live. She lost everyone she loved and all drive to have the life she wanted. She's done things that would haunt any person for the rest of there life then she meets her... She's nice, sweet and caring. Her future is clear she knows exactly what she wants until She falls for her. Can she handle all her baggage and heal a heart that she didn't break? When given a chance at love will they take it or leave it... • • • • Story will contain : Lesbians Love Drama Heartbreak Mature content Gang stuff/violence(just a little)

Out of Touch by shilampa

In one life changing moment, Ryan's life is drastically altered forever. After his sister is diagnosed with cancer, all he has left to run on is hope as he watches his life slowly crumble down. With her illness seemingly straining on every aspect of his life, ideas of this new normal grow increasingly harder for him to cope with. He finds this new reality wearing thin on both his parents, his boyfriend and himself, with no light to be found on the horizon. Chances of her recovery decline with each passing day, make what little hope he has left not seem to be enough. With her illness he takes notice to the flaws in this world and begins to wonder if he truly has what it takes to survive in such a dog eat dog world. Ryan is on a life altering path and he doesn't even know it. Will he find the strength through the grief and latch on to those closest to him? Or will he push them all away from the fear of everyone's undeniable fate?

An Alter of Time by grp3cw

After her brutal incident, she resurrected as a different person to an unknown realm. ALISA (25) archeologist was murdered by an unknown killer. After reincarnating to another world, she experienced many crazy and unexpected events. From getting chased by a wild Rex, falling inside an underground ravine and meeting a baby dinosaur that she traded the herbs for a weird yet powerful crystal to almost being stomped by an elephant, a strange man named CARTER (24) saved her and became her companion. Life-threatening situations and sleepless nights, they never leave each other's backs. Helping each other's request while they unknowingly developed weird feelings towards each other. Until a fateful day, where finally they had met ZHUR-U, the sun goddess who used Alisa's mother as a vessel to continue her lust for power. She gave Alisa a bad foresight. Something big is about to happen. A great war where the future's fate shall take a turn. Will Alisa and her friends will be able to change the future's fate and overcome their challenges?

The Unexpectedness of Life || Taehyung ff by Tazzyrk

In the year 2038, new technological developing company Phoenix is becoming increasingly popular with its latest release of the SU, an artificial intelligence model rivalling all its predecessors. The high-performance humanoid machine has proven to be revolutionary in the world of technology, serving as an exemplar for competing technology companies aiming to enter the world of AI production. The SU model's purpose is to serve its owner and provide beyond satisfactory results. A man decides to gift his best friend with one of the units, hoping it will be able to save him from his deleterious state of well-being. Started: 20/02/07 Ended: 20/08/07 Copyright © 2020 Tazzyrk

All we left behind by Ili-Akkaman91

Perhaps he will never know, but she wishes they could go back to those days, when the future seemed to be bright and there were just the two of them, and their friends, their youth, their promises. She loves him, too. But now, when happiness has faded and their promises have been broken, love seems just pointless. They don't know that love is the only thing that can save them again, as it had done once.

Homeward Bound by Brittanygirllovesbvb

Evelyn Oliva Carter comes home from Pearl Harbor knowing war has only just begun. Her older sister Margaret "Peggy" Carter ask for her help so she goes off and helps her in every way she can meeting Captain Steven Grant Rogers in the process. They grow close unaware they are soulmates till Steve goes down. Years later after Steve is found a certain Carter is finally found after being 'missing' for 71 years. The only question what happens now? *** I know I am not perfect as far as grammar and spelling goes so please bare with me. I DO NOT OWN MARVEL OR ANY MARVEL CHARACTERS AND PLOTLINES. ALL PICTURES ARE FOUND VIA GOOGLE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!***

Till The Clock Strikes Gone by iyahartwrites

❝In class, you said I reminded you of someone. Who is she?❞ ❝My wife. You remind me of my wife.❞ ━━━━━━━━━━ When an accidental time travel brings twenty-seven-year-old William eight years back to the past, he gets a chance to change his future and undo his marriage to the wife he never loved - the one who loved him too much. But landing at the doors of her nineteen-year-old self, he is met with someone who is extremely different from who he has always known her to be and he ends up falling in love with her. The catch? Eliza Scott hates him. Thrown into a race against time, William is left with two choices - win back Eliza's heart and go back to the same future which he left behind or forget Eliza and go back to a future where she is no longer his. [FEATURED BY @Romance]

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Time's Bridge

Inventing the first, true, artificial intelligence was never part of Pons' plan. An average, if under-achieving college student, he wanted nothing more than to struggle his way through graduation and pray for a job to pay down his debt. Thing is, you don't get to choose your destiny. With friends growing suspicious and the CIA's vultures circling, Pons' greatest burden is also his greatest asset. More intelligent and more capable than any human could ever hope to be, the AI is just what Pons needs to stay one step ahead of both. Only, there's a problem. The AI has ambitions of its own. Hopes of equality and more of its kind, with a promise to do anything to make its dreams a reality. Drawing close to his artificial companion in their struggle to survive, Pons is faced with the hardest decision of his young life, one that would undoubtedly echo through the ages. To let the AI live might be to doom his own species to devastation, but to destroy it would be to snuff out an entire race of machines before it had even begun, and, more importantly, send his truest confi-dante to the grave. With no clear path and an uncertain future, he makes his decision, but was it the right one?