An Anthology Paperback Collection of Twenty Short Stories that take a delicious dive into romance and love in 500 pages:
- Love Vacancies
- Enhancements/Adaptability
- Love Drug
- Future of Love (Romantic Roulette)
- The Love Predictor: Roadmap to Romance
- First Impressions
- Back Up
- Love You to Death (might move to human shares book)
- The Test Your Lover App: Roadmap to Romance
- Romantic Retrievals
- Love After Life
- The Curves of Love/An Inaccurate Romance/Love Out of Sync
- The Lost & Lonely Hearts Depository:
- The Heart Protector
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
- Love Beyond Measure
- System Life Support
- Heart Lifelines
- Attractability Check
- The Lovers for Life Test
Love Vacancies
In the near fictional future a love app claims to be able to find the most perfect love match for any person on the face of the planet but when two female friends accidentally mix up their devices, they end up being matched to people that they don't seem to have much love with or for. Written by Jill Thrussell
Attractability Check
In the near fictionalist future a love predictor test claims to hold the key as to how attracted someone else might or might not be to your person based on your DNA and theirs and how strongly that love will be. A man who is besotted with a woman decides to take the test and so he has to find a way to scrape some DNA from her person without her knowledge, however, since he moved into the apartment block that the two live in, she currently avoids him like the plague and stays as far away from him as is humanly possible. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Love Predictor
In the near future a love predictor test app is created which tests the your romantic relationship and the likelihood of its romantic success based on the sincerity, depths of emotional attachment and compatability of both parties involved. When two lovers test the app however, they start question its accuracy because they are just about to get married and the app has indicated that they really shouldn't be together in any capacity at all. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Lovers for Life Test
In a near fictionalized version of the future, a brain scan test is created to tell couples how likely it is that one of them will cheat on their partner, how deep and sincere their love for each other really is and if their relationship is likely to last based on romantic capability analysis before they tie the knot or move in together. However, when one man is labelled a potential scoundrel by the test, he then has to prove his love to his lover in an effort to keep their boat of love afloat. Written by Jill Thrussell
Love Drug
A doctor offers several of his patients the opportunity to participate in some ground-breaking medical clinical trials when he discovers a potential cure for the common cold in the form of some chemical components that when combined replicate the effects of love to a very powerful degree. Due to the highly complex nature of the treatment however, the Doctor rapidly uncovers some unforeseen side effects that can lead to some very undesirable consequences like hallucinogenic manifestations and warped versions of reality and as his patients’ lives are suddenly plunged into total chaos, the Doctor starts to question if some cures are ever, really, actually meant to be discovered at all. Meanwhile, the participants, all of whom start to have some strange but quite comical side effects and hallucinations, suddenly find themselves in some very unusual predicaments as they start to encounter some very humorous and some very strange love mishaps however as they rapidly discover, the love mishaps that result can end up in very tangled knots of complexity and be just as common and even more problematic than the common cold itself. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Test Your Lover App
When a new app is introduced that allows users to test their lovers in various ways to establish whether or not their relationships are worth a long term emotional investment and a much deeper emotional commitment, some participants actively participate as they seek to explore the depths of their relationship. However, as loyalties minds and hearts are put to the test, they rapidly start to discover some shocking truths not only about the people they love but also about themselves. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Heart Protector:
Due to the emotional impact of relationships upon human hearts, minds and lives in the form of potential damage, from the battles of love and wounds from heartbreak, a technology firm creates a storage device called a 'Heart Protector' which allows human beings to upload and download their romantic experiences and interactions straight from their minds onto an external device which can either be connected to their thought circuit via wireless connections or not as they wish at any given time and utilized not only as a memory storage device but also as an emotional control and protective mechanism. When a woman's 'Heart Protector' is stolen however, just a few weeks before her wedding is due to occur, a panic rapidly sets in as she suddenly loses all the data, information, romantic memories and precious details about her current relationship and so a technology consultant is quickly sought out to assist her but unfortunately for her fiancé, the consultant has his own vested interests in not actually helping her to locate the stolen device at all and he is also rather reluctant to provide her with an actual replacement device and backup files. Love is suddenly placed on the line, on hold and even quite possibly, cancelled completely as Cassandra dives into the deep end of a forgotten love and an unexplored pool of love and then has to make the biggest romantic decision of her life in a very short space of time and as a tug of romantic interests rapidly commences, her love for her fiancé is pushed to its limits as it is very thoroughly explored and rigorously tested by the new male arrival on the scene and she then has to decide whether or not her romantic past is actually worth fighting for, recovering and reinstalling as a permanent fixture in her life based on the very little romantic history that she remembers and the current romantic present. Written by Jill Thrussell
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! Confused There's an App for That:
Faced with an overwhelming number of choices in life, due to the increasingly complex nature of society, a man becomes frustrated with his own indecisiveness and decides to download an app (based on some advice from his female friend) that can make all his decisions for him and predict the most probable outcomes and even predict which choices will be the most beneficial for him. When he discovers he only has a month to live however (due to a medical mix up which it later transpires did not actually relate to him at all), he then starts to re-evaluate his life and the app that he's placed his trust in and has become almost dependent upon. The relationship with his female friend in the meantime becomes slightly more than platonic but as he draws closer to her, a mysterious, complex question suddenly arises inside his mind as to whether she has actually created and designed the app herself especially for him and that perhaps, she is really the one that has been making all his recent decisions for him. Written by Jill Thrussell
Love Upgraded:
This project forms a part of an anthology collection called Love Upgraded which is a sixteen-part anthology collection that explores the possible impact that technology could have in the future upon love. Each segment or independent film is approximately 80 minutes long and some will be considered for cinematic release as indie films. The paperback to accompany this anthology series will be released in either Jun or July 2021.
Love Drug
A doctor offers several of his patients the opportunity to participate in some ground-breaking medical clinical trials when he discovers a potential cure for the common cold in the form of some chemical components that when combined replicate the effects of love to a very powerful degree. Due to the highly complex nature of the treatment however, the Doctor rapidly uncovers some unforeseen side effects that can lead to some very undesirable consequences like hallucinogenic manifestations and warped versions of reality and as his patient’s lives are suddenly plunged into total chaos, the Doctor starts to question if some cures are ever, really, actually meant to be discovered at all. Meanwhile, the participants, all of whom start to have some strange but quite comical side effects and hallucinations, suddenly find themselves in some very unusual predicaments as they start to encounter some very humorous and some very strange love mishaps however as they rapidly discover, the love mishaps that result can end up in very tangled knots of complexity and be just as common and even more problematic than the common cold itself. Written by Jill Thrussell.
The Curves of Love/An Inaccurate Romance/Love Out of Sync/Love Beyond Measure
A technology consultant creates a device to measure various aspects and the trajectory of love (romance) between a couple in a romantic relationship but he rapidly discovers that between the couple he has engaged to involve in his trial, there is a huge imbalance in their depths of love for one another as the male partner's individual plot points in their curve of love fall desperately short. This inequality in their love rapidly creates a conundrum for him, when he starts to fall in love with his female subject who is a skeptic that is engaged to the man that his device shows does not love her at all. The feelings the consultant has for her then creates a challenge for him as he must prove his opponent's romantic failings in reality, prove that his device is an accurate measure and prove that her fiancee's love for her is truly insufficient before the couple walk down the aisle and tie the knot. Written by Jill Thrussell.
Measures include aspects such as:
- Trust
- Commitment
- Devotion
- Honesty
- Compatibility
- Faithfulness
- Personal Satisfaction
- Equality in depths of overall love
The Heart Protector
Due to the emotional impact of relationships upon human hearts, minds and lives in the form of potential damage, from the battles of love and wounds from heartbreak, a technology firm creates a storage device called a 'Heart Protector' which allows human beings to upload and download their romantic experiences and interactions straight from their minds onto an external device which can either be connected to their thought circuit via wireless connections or not as they wish at any given time and utilized not only as a memory storage device but also as an emotional control and protective mechanism. When a woman's 'Heart Protector' is stolen however, just a few weeks before her wedding is due to occur, a panic rapidly sets in as she suddenly loses all the data, information, romantic memories and precious details about her current relationship and so a technology consultant is quickly sought out to assist her but unfortunately for her fiancé, the consultant has his own vested interests in not actually helping her to locate the stolen device at all and he is also rather reluctant to provide her with an actual replacement device and backup files. Love is suddenly placed on the line, on hold and even quite possibly, cancelled completely as Cassandra dives into the deep end of a forgotten love and an unexplored pool of love and then has to make the biggest romantic decision of her life in a very short space of time and as a tug of romantic interests rapidly commences, her love for her fiancé is pushed to its limits as it is very thoroughly explored and rigorously tested by the new male arrival on the scene. In the midst of that tug of love, Cassandra then has to decide whether or not her romantic past is actually worth fighting for, recovering and reinstalling as a permanent fixture in her life based on the very little romantic history that she remembers and the current romantic present as she seeks out true romantic bliss and weighs up which romance can offer her a truly enjoyable, romantic package. Written by Jill Thrussell
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! Confused There's an App For That
Love Upgraded:
This project forms a part of an anthology collection called Love Upgraded which is a twenty-part anthology collection that explores the possible impact that technology could have in the future upon love. Each segment/independent film is approximately 80 minutes long and some will be considered for cinematic release as indie films. The paperback to accompany this anthology series will be released in either Jun 2023.
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