Category: Cyberpunk City Shorts

Short stories about Cyberpunk City

  • Tucked deep within the city’s overgrown arteries lies Verdant Verge — a place the corporations call “lost” and the Naturas call “liberated.” Here, where rusted highways have been choked by vines and glass towers softened by hanging gardens, the last hopeful faction of Cyberpunk City carves out a different kind of future — one not…

  • Klarna-7 was never meant to be public-facing. It wasn’t designed for retail applications or domestic companionship like other AIs on the market. Klarna-7 was born in the black subroutines of NeuroCorp’s neural architecture division, a sentient system developed to interpret and manipulate consciousness. While NeuroBliss was marketed as a neurochemical stabilizer—a miracle for anxiety, trauma,…

  • From the top floor of the NeuroCorp tower, Eron Vex stood motionless, his glowing cybernetic implants pulsing faintly beneath the tailored obsidian suit stitched with neural thread. Outside the panoramic window, Neon Spire shimmered like a circuit board brought to life. Below, a million lives danced in data, unaware they were part of his experiment.…

  • Long before Kira was born, before the city even called itself Cyberpunk City, the elevated walkways were built as a solution to a problem no one could ignore. Street level had become a choke point—a tangle of stalled traffic, black‑market shanties, and industrial runoff that turned every storm drain into a flood. In the early…