The Empathy Job
*This one came from thinking about how we perform emotions at work, and what it'd be like if someone could literally see through the act.
Coworkers sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged coworkers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 20 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Midnight Porch, Coral Works and Sundown Wanderer. Readers usually start with “The Empathy Job” and “The Eclipse Shift”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Coworkers sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Eclipse Shift
Ella was thirty-four years old and she had been divorced for two years, and she had learned that the best way to get through the weeks was…
03 Last Night on Proxima
Six cycles.
04 Signal and Soil
The ferry dock at Broadhaven still had its old-world bones sticking up out of the water, and every time I came down here with a cart of…
05 The Last Request
Corey Webb was forty-two years old and had spent twenty years drifting from one market town to the next, spinning records for crowds that…
06 The Empathy Rep
I was thirty-two years old, a senior sales representative for Empathy Corp, and I had never actually used the product I sold.
07 The Salt Window
The salt out here never stops.
08 The Resonance of Last Light
I've been a memory archivist on Cerule Station for six years now.
09 Ember to Ash
I was thirty-four that autumn, and I thought I knew every kind of tired.
10 The Missing Key
The sleet started an hour out of Reykjavik and never let up.