When Does "Shorted" (2025) Take Place?
"Shorted" is a science fiction short story written by Alex Irvine that released July 30th, 2025. So when is "Shorted" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because the narrator tells us right away "It was ninety-six degrees, the coolest it had been in a few weeks. March in Los Angeles, 2059." Later, the narrator continues, "In another time it might have taken him weeks, and some kind of expertise, to piece it all together. But in the year 2059, when privacy was a punch line and AIs could be lightly corrupted"... So presumably it is March of 2059 AD.
2059 AD
We know this because the narrator tells us right away "It was ninety-six degrees, the coolest it had been in a few weeks. March in Los Angeles, 2059." Later, the narrator continues, "In another time it might have taken him weeks, and some kind of expertise, to piece it all together. But in the year 2059, when privacy was a punch line and AIs could be lightly corrupted"... So presumably it is March of 2059 AD.
