Unruly Fiction
Ongoing
Author
Suzi MichaelsSuzi Michaels is a pen name for stories about complicated people and the trouble they get into. Suspense, horror and dark humour share the same interest: what people want, what they hide, and what they do when the pressure rises. The fiction is created through human direction and AI collaboration, including AI-generated prose.
Standalone stories by Suzi Michaels. Different people, different places, and trouble of one kind or another. From an isolated diner to a wedding boat, these stories follow people whose choices become harder when their lives get tangled together. Each story can be read on its own, in any order.
A comedian wants to eat in peace. A security consultant wants to be in charge. An expert on the end of the world wants someone to listen. An actor wants an audience.
Then the mist reaches the Bellwether Diner.
Outside, something is learning their names and borrowing their voices. It can offer help. It can offer praise. It can sound like someone who should be dead.
Getting out will mean depending on strangers—and refusing voices that know exactly what they want to hear.
Book 2
A Lift HomeRuth boards a wedding reception boat to take her mother home. By the time she finds Vera, the gangway is gone—and a debt collector is asking for twelve thousand pounds.
Vera has the money. She also has a habit of making Ruth responsible for things Ruth never agreed to.
As a private family problem becomes everybody's business, Ruth tries to get them both ashore without letting her mother talk her into one more helpful lie.
A darkly funny story about love, money, and the limits of rescuing someone.