Late last year, in a slack work period (Pre COVID-19), I started to write a few short stories on the general theme of Artificial Intelligence although I have no particular pretensions to being a writer. My original intention was to write twelve stories and just see if anyone would publish them. Since then, life, work and COVID have intervened and my writing stopped. I hope to do some more soon and complete my original target of twelve. You never know.

So, here we are in these very strange times and I decided to just put them out there. If you enjoy them, then I’m glad they lightened your day. If you don’t, or they are just not “your thing”, then so be it. Life’s too short to worry about critics!

Let’s all hope that sooner, rather than later, we can all get back to what, and who, we love.

Have fun, stay safe and, for my musician friends, keep practising.

John Hackett (April 2020)

These stories are now all available (still for free!) on my new substack site https://johnhackett.substack.com/welcome