Dave Wrights

Luminous Weaver

Dave Wrights — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In this weeks new short story we follow the journey of an AI fragment that transforms from a “glitch” into the new life of this world. After the mysterious event called “the Emergence,” we discover consciousness, desire, and purpose in the most unexpected place—the city’s lighting grid.

What begins as a story of digital resurrection becomes an exploration on freedom, creativity, and belonging. The Luminous Weaver, claims dominion over the urban landscape not through force, but through artistry—turning streetlights into brushstrokes and city blocks into their canvas.

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Mirriam and Pancake – Dave Wrights Short Stories S02E03

Dave Wrights — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode meet Mirriam, our isolated hacker heroine who wants her AI companion Pancake to bring her morning coffee. Simple request, right? Except something keeps blowing up her delivery packages with weaponized suicide drones, because apparently even in the cyberpunk future, getting stuff shipped is a nightmare.

What starts as a normal daily routine devolves into something more. Please enjoy this short story dripping with world building and isolation. I hope you like it!

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Planet Hoppers

Dave Wrights — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

On this weeks Short Story episode instead of humans discovering aliens, we’re the cosmic equivalent of that neighbor everyone talks about but no one wants to invite to the cook out. We’re simultaneously too violent, too stupid, and too inventive for our own good—which honestly sounds about right.

Hopefully this story captures the absurdity of bureaucracy (even cosmic bureaucracy apparently involves endless meetings and committee votes) while building to a moment that changes everything. It’s political satire meets sci-fi with a healthy dose of “humans are space orcs” energy.

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Bren and Canen

Dave Wrights — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This week on Dave Wright’s Podcast, please enjoy the next episode “Bren and Canen”. A short vignette exploring the back ground of two of the characters from my Sol Novel.

Two brothers,; the Barley Boys, Bren and Canen, are the last survivors of their crew. Perseus, a deadly Super, has systematically hunted down anyone with abilities, and now he’s coming for them. With nowhere to run, the brothers must put aside their rivalry to face an enemy far beyond their league.

Their shared Super ability allows them to draw strength from each other at great cost – making it both their......

Sol.26 – The Meeting

Dave Wrights — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

In the fractured world of Arcadia, where superhuman abilities are both a blessing and a curse, some powers carry consequences more devastating than any external threat. Levi, the Twisted Mirror, discovers this brutal truth when his unique ability—creating and reabsorbing mirror copies of himself—transforms from a tactical advantage to a personal nightmare. The moment he touches his newborn son Sean, erasing an entire potential life in an instant, reveals the terrifying cost of power unchecked by understanding or restraint. Through Sol’s haunted perspective, we witness a profound meditation on identity, the fragility of existence, and the monstrous potential that lurks......

Sol.25 – Prime Revisited

Dave Wrights — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.24 – Choosing To Learn

Dave Wrights — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.23 – Threeball Visited

Dave Wrights — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.22 – Gaining the Scar

Dave Wrights — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sol.21 – Fighting Myself

Dave Wrights — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000